WCI #462: How to Think Clearly About Money Without Obsessing Over It with David Stein
White Coat Investor Podcast
Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this interview, Dr. Jim Dahle is joined by David Stein, host of the Money for the Rest of Us podcast and author of the book Money for the Rest of Us.
David shares his personal story of burnout, how it reshaped his relationship with work and investing, and why many high-income professionals struggle not because they lack information—but because they focus on the wrong details. The conversation explores lessons from institutional investing, how to live well without constantly worrying about money, and why simplicity and clarity often outperform complexity.
This episode is especially relevant for physicians and other high-income professionals who want a thoughtful, disciplined approach to money—without turning investing into a second full-time job.
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The White Coat Investor Podcast launched in January 2017, and since then, millions have downloaded it. Join your fellow physicians and other high income professionals and subscribe today! Host, Dr. Jim Dahle, is a practicing emergency physician and founder of The White Coat Investor blog. Like the blog, The White Coat Investor Podcast is dedicated to educating medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals about personal finance and building wealth, so they can ultimately be their own financial advisor-or at least know enough to not get ripped off by a financial advisor. We tackle the hard topics like the best ways to pay off student loans, how to create your own personal financial plan, retirement planning, how to save money, investing in real estate, side hustles, and how everyone can be a millionaire by living WCI principles.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the White Coat Investor Podcast, where we help those who wear the white coat get a fair shake on Wall Street. |
| 0:06.2 | We've been helping doctors and other high-income professionals stop doing dumb things with their money since 2011. |
| 0:16.0 | This White Coat Investor Podcast number 462. |
| 0:19.5 | One of the most underrated financial moves in medicine is working |
| 0:22.2 | Locum tenants. It pays significantly more on average, and you can work Locum's full time or on the |
| 0:28.0 | side of your full time. When you work with Comp Health, the number one staffing agency, they cover |
| 0:32.3 | your housing and travel costs, which on top of higher pay really adds up. Locums also gives you more control of your career, |
| 0:39.7 | allowing you to go where you want, when you want, with the schedule that works for you. It's the |
| 0:45.2 | perfect way to get ahead financially while getting focused on what you love. Whether it's |
| 0:49.0 | locum tenants or a regular permanent position, visit whitecoatinvestor.com slash comp health, |
| 0:53.9 | build your career your way with |
| 0:55.6 | the power of comp health. All right, welcome back to the podcast. It's wonderful to have you here without |
| 1:01.4 | you. It's not much of a podcast. You not only have to have hosts and production staff, but you |
| 1:06.9 | have to have somebody to listen to it, too too to have a successful long-term podcast like |
| 1:12.1 | the white code investor has been. It's been a wonderful journey. I've met so many awesome people. |
| 1:17.3 | And I love that you all listen to the podcast. The reason why is because when you have this many |
| 1:23.3 | people listening to a podcast, it's big enough that I can get some really great guests |
| 1:30.1 | to come on. And that makes for even more quality and more value for you as a podcast listener. |
| 1:38.5 | So thank you for banding together with us to get all the wonderful guests that we've had on |
| 1:42.4 | the podcast. And we've had a whole bunch this winter and spring. |
| 1:46.0 | And we've got another great one today. |
| 1:47.8 | We're going to be talking with David Stein today. |
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