Welcome podcast listeners. We have a fantastic episode for you today.

Last year when we published the Best Investment Writing

Volume 2, we offered authors the opportunity to record an audio version of their

chapter to be released as a segment of the podcast and listeners loved it. This year we're bringing you

the entire volume of the best investment writing volume 3 in podcast format.

You'll hear from some of the most respected money managers and

investment researchers all over the world. Enough for me. Let's get to our guests and

let them take over this special episode.

Hi, my name is Scott Bell and I'm the founder of Gross Domestic Product Incorporated.

We're a financial life planning firm serving people across the country to live the life that they value most.

What we do is called financial life planning,

and we believe understanding your why makes us a better guide for what you should

and could do with your money.

Of course the dollars and cents matter.

Your money is here to serve you and

to create a life that brings you and your family true joy and peace of mind and that's

our focus with financial life planning. You can learn more about us at GDPink.com. That's GDPinc.com. Thanks and I hope you enjoy the reading.

The asset of gratitude. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others, Cicero.

The more I learn about sustaining happiness in my own life,

the more I'm convinced that Cicero is right.

Here's the thing. Cicero didn't actually write anything that directly translates into this

quotable. The quote itself comes from his writings in Pro Planico and what most scholars now agree on is is that while this quote is at the heart of what he said, it was actually a bit more nuanced.

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