Your Money or Your Life – An Interview with Author Vicki Robin

Financial Independence Podcast

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🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

I can’t believe it…

One of the founders of the financial independence movement, Vicki Robin, joined me for an episode of the Financial Independence Podcast!

Vicki and her partner Joe Dominguez wrote the book, Your Money or Your Life – a New York Times Best Seller that many people consider to be the bible of financial independence (the FI-ble?).

Your Money or Your Life is actually what inspired me to create the FI Laboratory many years ago.

Vicki has been a driving force in the FI community since the 1960s and has a wealth of knowledge and inspiring stories to share so hope you enjoy the interview!

Highlights:

The story behind Your Money or Your Life
How Joe was able to retire at the age of 31 in 1969 with $70,000 in the bank
Why Vicki’s quest to change the world didn’t succeed (yet)
How a stage-3 cancer diagnosis changed her plans
What’s going to be different in the new version of Your Money or Your Life
What she believes are the most important steps in the Your Money or Your Life program
How the book’s investment advice has changed and what she is current investing in

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm blind to give you a minister.
0:03.7	Finance.
0:05.7	Hey what's up everybody.
0:07.1	Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast where I get inside the brains of some of
0:10.6	the best and brightest in the personal finance space to find out how they achieved financial independence.
0:15.0	I can't believe it, but Vicky Robin, the author of Your Money or Your Life, is joining me on today's show.
0:20.0	As you probably know, Vicky and her co-author Joe Dominguez wrote one of the most important and most referenced books on financial independence and she's done so much over the years to further the message of financial independence so it's an incredible
0:35.3	honor to get her on the show and I really can't wait to hear one how the book came about in the first
0:40.5	place and how this whole idea of financial independence emerged and two I want to find out what's changed.
0:46.0	Vicky and Joe had been talking about financial dependence way back in the 60s and had seminars in the 80s and wrote the book and published it in the 90s and you know a lot of
0:56.0	years have gone by and I am really interested in hearing how people's receptability
1:01.2	to financial dependence has changed.
1:03.4	And also, if there's anything in the book that now just doesn't apply,
1:06.8	and if there's anything new that she's learned over the years
1:10.2	that she now plans to add to the next version.
1:12.2	So without further delay, I can't believe I'm saying this, but
1:15.3	Vicky Robin, welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast.
1:17.7	Thank you so much for being here.
1:19.2	It's my pleasure.
1:20.5	So I know you're currently in the process of updating your money or your life, so I really appreciate you taking the time out of that to talk with me.
1:28.0	And also I just wanted to, before we start, just wanted to say a big thank you from the whole community.
1:32.8	I know your money or your life is like the Bible of the Phi community and it's, you know, everything,
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