What Can We Learn About Finance from Dumpster Divers, Freegans, Vagabonds and Hobos? RPF0033

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

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🗓️ 1 August 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Let’s get a bit radical today, eh? How about some finance lessons from homeless people? I’ve been doing some reading lately on the radical side…books written by homeless people and vagabonds to see what I can learn. Today, I share some of the lessons I’ve been learning in hopes of inspiring you with some out-of-the-box […]

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
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0:29.0	Radical Personal Finance episode 33.
0:32.0	Today's show, what can we learn from dumpster divers,
0:37.0	fregans, vagabonds, and hobos. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast for today, Friday, August the 1st, 2014.
1:04.4	I'm thrilled you're here with us.
1:05.8	I'm your host Joshua Sheets, and today's show is going to be properly radical,
1:10.2	I hope, a show befitting the name of the podcast. We're going to talk about living life for free.
1:17.0	Stay with us. Now when I originally started the show I was sitting down and writing out a description of what the show was going to be about
1:37.0	and you know it's the kind of thing you have to do that before you submit your podcast to iTunes and I was just sitting down and I was trying to figure
1:43.2	out what is the stuff that I enjoy and I put in the podcast. We're going to explain, we're going to explore everything
1:48.9	from the financial strategies of the bums and the homeless people everything up to
1:54.3	you know the financial strategies of the multi-billionaires and I kind of just put it in
1:59.6	there jokingly knowing that I'm actually interested in those types of extremes from a personal perspective.
2:09.3	And I kind of put it in there jokingly, and then I realize, no, that's actually a serious thing like we really
2:13.4	are going to do that I am as equally interested in Mitt Romney's hundred
2:17.9	million dollar trust which by the way I promise we'll go through that someday that
2:20.9	was a all the big deal in the last presidential
2:23.2	election cycle and met the man had some brilliant either is brilliant or had some
2:27.5	brilliant financial advisors and I'll talk about how he set that that $100
2:32.0	million IRA and his trusts up.
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