Think Like An Entrepreneur: An Interview with Ramit Sethi (I Will Teach You to Be Rich)
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Jesse sits down with acclaimed finance writer and entrepreneur Ramit Sethi for a long chat about the mindset of financial success, how to think like an entrepreneur, and why the most important question about personal finance you need to be able to answer is... "Why?".
Ramit is the author of the 2009 New York Times Best Seller, I Will Teach You to Be Rich, and the founder of Earnable, a community of entrepreneurs in which he coaches people how to think like entrepreneurs, develop viable business ventures, and market effectively to grow their business.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Wienabbers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 454 for Wienab, where we teach |
| 0:09.8 | you four rules to help you stop them paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:15.3 | We went back and did a little bit of research and asked people what their favorite podcasts were. |
| 0:21.4 | And one podcast that rose to the top was where I interviewed |
| 0:24.7 | Ramid Saatie quite a while ago he's the author of I will teach you to be |
| 0:28.2 | rich and we I was a couple years ago for sure. |
| 0:32.6 | Well, we are pleased to tell you now that we have had him back. |
| 0:37.3 | And I kind of let loose, instead of having the normal, |
| 0:41.3 | I don't know, maybe 20 minute interview that we do if we have a guest on, |
| 0:44.4 | Ramiet and I went for over an hour. And I kept thinking things like, oh, I gotta wrap this up, |
| 0:49.8 | and then we would get into some new topic anyway it it was an absolute pleasure and |
| 0:53.6 | we could both just kind of kick things back and forth it's a very casual |
| 0:56.2 | conversation I don't interview in this way where we're just kind of lockstep we kind |
| 1:00.9 | of go with the flow and remitet naturally is very good at that. |
| 1:03.7 | So I wanted to read to you Rameet's bio to make sure I get this right. |
| 1:07.6 | I know him very well and we he and I have kind of observed each other over the |
| 1:11.7 | year started our business is about the same time and |
| 1:14.8 | he's given me very good advice over the years. |
| 1:17.6 | But you may not know Ramit. |
| 1:19.0 | So here he is. Ramit Saiti is the author of the New York Times best Seller, I will teach you to be rich. |
| 1:24.0 | I will say, just as an insert, it's very entertaining. |
| 1:28.1 | It's a very entertaining personal finance book, and that is not easy to accomplish. A Rameet has become a financial guru to millions of readers in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. |
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