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🗓️ 9 May 2021
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0:00.0 | This is Optimal Finance Daily, episode 1521, investing, reduced to its core by |
0:07.0 | polypant of affordanything.com. Welcome to another Sunday edition of Optimal Finance Daily. |
0:13.8 | I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Mariam. This is the show where I |
0:19.1 | serenade you with the sweet sounds of personal finance knowledge from some of the best blogs on |
0:23.8 | the planet, with the author's permission of course. My mom listens to the show every day. |
0:29.2 | So I wanted to take this opportunity to say happy mother's day to her and to all the moms |
0:34.2 | listening in. And if you like this idea of reading blogs to you for free, it'd be great if you could |
0:39.6 | share this podcast with someone today, maybe even with your mom. You can email or text her a link |
0:45.2 | to OLDpodcast.com or even better if you're able to subscribe her to the podcast right on her |
0:51.0 | smartphone. That would be greatly appreciated. But for now, let's jump right into today's post |
0:56.7 | and start optimizing your life. Investing, reduced to its core by |
1:05.3 | polypant of affordanything.com Myth, wealth comes from living below your means. Fact, |
1:13.7 | frugality is the first step, not the last. I'd like to tell you about one of the most interesting |
1:19.8 | couples I know. They were apartment dwellers when we met and I don't mean the New York City variety. |
1:26.3 | Their dark, musty apartment festered in an area where land is plentiful and square footage is |
1:31.9 | cheap, where apartments are synonymous with squalor. I'm not sure when their tables turned or how |
1:38.5 | long they toiled behind the scenes building their family empire. I can't pinpoint the year their |
1:44.0 | net worth climbed into seven digits. Their newfound wealth isn't flashy. They drive modest cars |
1:50.8 | and wear nameless brands, though they've upgraded into a nicer home. The main hint that their |
1:56.8 | money, though, isn't reflected in their purchases. It shows in how they spend their time. Neither |
2:03.2 | have jobs outside the home anymore, nor do they have any sense of urgency about getting one. |
2:08.6 | They travel regularly, ski often, kayak on occasion, and hike like it's going out of style. |
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