The One Thing 2018 | End Of Year Episode

ChooseFI | Financial Independence Podcast

Jonathan Mendonsa & Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media, Inc

Careers, Investing, Business

4.8 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Most people think tracking meal costs is about penny-pinching — it's actually the difference between guessing at savings and engineering them. Danny wraps up the year with a practical end-of-year financial checklist, paired with community voicemails celebrating real wins. The episode covers multiple topics, from meal planning systems that quantify exactly what each serving costs, to how frugality creates the safety net for calculated career risks, to listener stories of debt payoffs and travel rewards mastery. Timestamps & Key Takeaways: [00:00:00] Introduction and Community Wins Danny presents the end-of-year financial checklist and community voicemails celebrating their financial wins. [00:01:07] Meal Planning and Cost Tracking Use meal planning apps like Paprika to control costs and track nutrition. Understanding the true cost per serving, not just bulk purchases, enables data-driven decisions. [00:19:34] Frugality and Risk Management "Frugality allows you to take more risk." Minimizing expenses creates opportunities to explore career changes and investments without risking financial stability. [00:22:00] Community Voicemails Community members share their successes influenced by the podcast, including reducing debt and saving for investments. [00:51:44] Year-End Financial Planning Tips Comprehensive wrap-up on financial strategies for the upcoming year, including tax planning and retirement strategies. Key Insights: Meal planning drastically reduces costs when you track per-serving expenses, not just grocery totals. Frugality isn't deprivation — it's creating margin for bigger financial moves. Community support and shared victories motivate others to take action. Action Items: Start using meal planning apps to track costs. [00:04:20] Evaluate and adjust your budgeting strategies based on insights shared. [00:20:34] Related Resources: Paprika Meal Planning App [00:04:20] MyFitnessPal App [00:04:39] Key Mentions: Episode /063 - Set for Life with Scott Trench [00:20:28] Episode /090 - Vegan Path to FI with James [00:36:20]

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0:00.0	Today on the show, Danny shares an incredibly insightful end of year checklist for those of you
0:05.5	pursuing financial independence and our community calls in with voicemails and feedback regarding
0:11.2	their financial wins over the last year. Welcome to the ultimate crowd source personal
0:16.8	financial. This is your Friday roundup. You're listening to Choose Appi Radio.
0:22.8	The blueprint for financial independence lives here.
0:35.7	If you're looking to unlock the secrets to financial independence and early retirement,
0:40.8	you're in the right place. Stay tuned and join a community of like-minded people who are getting
0:46.1	off the answer and taking control of their lives in the pursuit of financial independence.
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1:07.2	All right guys excited to get a chance to talk about this past week's episode with Craig
1:11.2	Atkinson from Greenside Up Landscaping talking about essentially business building and engineering
1:16.2	your life. I mean frankly that episode covered everything that you could hope for and it was just
1:20.1	a wonderful conversation to be a part of and help me with this. I have my co-host Brad here with
1:23.7	me today. How you doing buddy? Hey Jonathan I'm doing quite well. Yeah that was a neat episode and
1:28.6	excited to talk about it just how much of an optimizer he is and also the systems that he's built
1:34.2	into his business. I think that can help people both with business and with life frankly. So yeah
1:39.7	that was a really solid episode. So Jonathan what's going on with you? Well there's two things one
1:44.7	in light of talking about Craig's hardcore optimization. I want to talk about something that I
1:49.2	spoke of briefly a few weeks ago and I think we could tie it to the holidays here. So this is going
1:53.5	out on December 28th and most of us are coming out of our food coma from the holidays that have
1:57.6	been stacked up over the last 30 or some odd days. And I talked about in a relatively recent episode
2:03.3	paprika and how I was getting really all this benefit from this meal planning tool that you can
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