477 | The Hot Seat: Community Edition
ChooseFI
Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this episode: the wonderful ChooseFI community shares advice by taking the hot seat through listener voicemails.
Ginger joins the podcast this week for a special “Hot Seat” episode to listen to some voicemails set in from our listeners, in which our community answered questions that we typically ask our guests when they take the Hot Seat! From discussing favorite books and podcasts, to learning some new tricks and takeaways that have helped you on your FI Journey, it’s incredible to hear the ways you are taking action and creating habits that are making your journey to FI meaningful and motivational! We often stress that living FI isn’t about chasing a number, but rather building up the life you want in the process of working towards your goals, and while there may be mistakes made, there are many learning opportunities and new perspectives of success that make this journey incredibly rewarding.
Timestamps:
- 1:45 – Introduction
- 2:29 – Ashley and Atomic Habits
- 10:17 – Tyler and Opportunity Cost
- 19:09 – Amanda and Mental Wellbeing
- 25:17 – Caesar and PSLF Forgiveness
- 30:56 – Aaron, House Hacking, and DIY
- 37:17 – Ginger Takes The Hot Seat
- 59:33 – Brad Takes The Hot Seat
- 76:19 – Conclusion
Resources Mentioned In Today’s Episode:
- “Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones” by James Clear
- Atomic Habits | James Clear | ChooseFI Ep 157
- “Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life” by Bill Perkins
- “Just Keep Buying: Proven ways to save money and build your wealth” by Nick Maggiulli
- BitWarden
- “The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative” by Florence Williams
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- Book your custom student loan plan
- “Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It” by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
- “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Risk Parity Radio
- “Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams” by Matt Walker
- The Matt Walker Podcast
- Peter Attia
- Ginger’s New Sheets
- My First Million Podcast
- Prof G Show
- Pivot Podcast
- Todoist
- Dean Turner Training
- Send Us A Voicemail
- Subscribe to The FI Weekly!
More Helpful Links and FI Resources:
- Top 10 Recommended Travel Rewards Credit Cards
- Empower: Free Dashboard to Track Your Finances
- CIT Bank Platinum Savings Account
- M1 Finance: Commission-Free Investing, 1-click rebalancing
- CashFreely: Maximize Your Cash Back Rewards
- Travel Freely: Track all your rewards cards and points
- Emergency Binder: For Your Family’s Essential Info (code ‘CHOOSEFI’ for 20% off)
- Student Loan Planner: Custom Consult (with $100 Discount)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Choose a Fai. |
| 0:01.8 | Today on the show, we have a fun episode. |
| 0:04.0 | This is actually the community hot seat. |
| 0:06.5 | So the hot seat has long been one of our favorite segments |
| 0:10.2 | on the |
| 0:13.3 | very very beginning in 2017 where essentially every single guest we had on |
| 0:18.3 | we would ask this list of five or six questions we kind of jokingly called it the hot seat and it really became a fan favorite and over the years it kind of fell by the wayside a little bit but I've tried to bring it back over the last year and I thought a fun |
| 0:34.0 | experiment would be to throw this out to the community so that you could record |
| 0:38.4 | voicemails and send them into me and we could play them on a hot seat |
| 0:42.0 | episode so I put this out a call for it in |
| 0:44.8 | October of last year on my newsletter and we got a good number of voicemails back and this |
| 0:50.9 | is the episode. So I think this is the first test of hopefully many because if this goes well I think a lot of people like we've always called this the ultimate crowd source personal finance show and we want to hear from you because you have |
| 1:04.1 | amazing things going on in your lives little life hacks that are unique to you you |
| 1:09.4 | think but could be really useful for everyone and that's what an episode like this is all about. |
| 1:14.0 | So with that, welcome to choose a fine. |
| 1:16.0 | In a world, drowning in debt and rampant consumption. |
| 1:21.0 | Trapped by the chains of lifestyle inflation. consumption. Welcome to the Choose F. I Hot Seat. |
| 1:35.0 | All right into to help me with this hot seat episode I have my good friend |
| 1:47.4 | Ginger back on the show. Ginger happy New Year it's good to see you. |
| 1:50.6 | Happy New Year happy to be back I'm excited to do this episode. |
| 1:54.0 | Nice, yeah, there should be a fun one. |
| 1:55.7 | So, okay, you and I are each going to do our own hot seats, but I think we'll save that for |
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