Radical Personal Finance

I've decided--after many, many requests--to offer paid phone consulting to you, the audience. If you would like to consult with me on any topic of your choice, I'm now available to you! (Just use this link:  https://radicalpersonalfinance.com/phonecall  ) I think you'll be interested in the backstory of why I've gone back and forth on offering this service. A new technology offering is what has ma...

Ever wondered what the actual practice models are for financial advisors? Today, I've invited Sean Kernan on the show to talk about the inside business of financial advice. Sean is a financial advisor who started his career at the large wirehouses and later transitioned to be independent.  Since then, he's started a website and podcast to help other advisors called "How to Go Independent." If you'...

Today on RPF, I answer your questions: How to Lower Work-Culture Costs Without Being Perceived as a Grinch? Should I Take Out a TSP Loan or Student Loans for Grad School? Should I Take a Year Off To Try a Business or Go Directly to Grad School? How To Profitably Invest Paternity Leave? Enjoy the show! Joshua Do you need a financial advisor? Start here! www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/paladin   Supp...

Today on RPF, I answer your questions! How to Sell Whole Life Insurance to Buy Term & Invest the Difference People How to Help People Get Experience So They Know What Kind of Work to Do Joshua's System of Marginalia Savoring Books vs. Gulping Books Enjoy the show! Joshua Support Radical Personal Finance on Patreon: www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron   You Need a Budget! Try the same software I...

My guest today is Chad Carson. Chad is a real estate investor and financial freedom pursuer.  I've invited him on today's show to share his story of how he began investing in real estate with no money and how he's built his empire to a place of financial freedom today. Enjoy! Chad's site: www.coachcarson.com Support RPF on Patreon: www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron  

Today on Radical Personal Finance we dig into the topics of living cheap and well! My guest is quite the radical guy and he's here to share with us what he's learned regarding: figuring out how to live a great life on very little money figuring out how to build an income from selling things through an online shop Enjoy the show! Joshua Support Radical Personal Finance! www.radicalpersonalfinance.c...

Marketplace lending (a.k.a. peer-to-peer lending) is steadilyadvancing in impact and popularity. Although it's certainly not yeta dominant form of cashflow for borrowers nor is it a dominantinvestment choice for investors, it is on the steady growth and itsimpact is being felt. My guest today is a front-seat commentator and active investorin this marketplace. Peter Renton is the founder of LendAca...

On Fridays, we do a live Q&A call. If you'd like to join the call, sign up here: www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron   Today we discuss: The Language of Marginal Tax Deductions Volunteering as an Income Tax Preparer for Low Income People Are Cash Value Life Insurance Policies a Good Place for an Emergency Fund Enjoy! Joshua

Medical expenses represent a large percentage of our lifetime expenditures. But do they need to? My guest today is a practicing physician and he's here to share with us where we can rationally cut back and scrimp and save when it comes to medical expenses. This area of thought is one of the most taboo areas when it comes to frugality. Many people who are otherwise quite frugal have an immediate, v...

Immigrants to the United States are much more likely to become millionaires than are natural-born citizens. And although my guest today lives in Canada, the parallel is clear. Dan Lok had a challenging beginning to his career, not the least of which was that he had to begin with learning and improving his English language skills! His foray into the world of employment came as a 16-year-old earning...

I love to explore interesting financial markets which are accessible to the common person who demonstrates a little bit of interest. Today we dig into one such market: guns. I've invited James Wesley, Rawles onto the show today to discuss how you can intelligently invest in guns as a means to wealth. We cover: Speculative approaches and non-speculative approaches. How to leverage small amounts of...

On Fridays, we do Q&A! Today we cover: How to Invest $1k to 10k? How to Prioritize Competing Goals? Should I Stay in my Current Job Until I'm Vested? What Kind of Retirement Plan Should Middle-Age Hotel Owners Establish? If you'd like to participate in these Friday calls, become a patron of the show at www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron Enjoy! Joshua 

One of our primary charges as parents is to raise our children from dependency to maturity and independence. One major component of this task is to teach them to be economically self-sufficient. How do we do this? Where does it start? Well, I believe we need to tackle this at a very young age. The earlier the better.  In today's show, I'll tell you my ideas on the topic. Enjoy! Joshua Support RPF...

My guest today is Nicole Bryan. Nicole began her career as a schoolteacher with a pile of student loans. Today, she is on track to be financially independent by her 40th birthday. Her story will be incredibly valuable for you as it will demonstrate the feasability of achieving financial freedom for almost all of us! Listen and enjoy! Joshua Nicole's FB group: http://facebook.com/financialfreedomlo...

My guest today is Michael Melissinos. Michael is a trend-following investment manager who has systematically built his own firm over the past few years. Michael's story presents both a case study of entrepreneurship (how to go from jobs that are poorly suited to you to an entrepreneurial venture) as well as insight into various aspects of trading from a trend-following perspective. Enjoy the show!...

RPF is on Spring Break this week so I'm posting some different content than my normal show. This is a speech that I gave to a local podcasting meetup group here in South Florida called "Breaking all the Rules of Podcasting." It contains my advice to a roomful of new and aspiring podcasters. The speech was delivered on 09/12/2015. Here's a link to the PowerPoint presentation I was presenting to my...

(RPF is on Spring Break this week, so I'm sharing some interviews with you where I've been featured on other shows. Enjoy! -Joshua) "I don't think failure is a mark of shame. Failure and mistakes are inevitable." Things Joshua talks about in this episode: Why a "hunch" helped him move into his podcast career Why he had to ignore the advice of people around him to start the podcast Why he had to qu...

(RPF is on Spring Break this week so I'm posting some interviews where I've been featured on other shows. Enjoy my comments on sales in this interview with The Sales Evangelist! -Joshua) How well do you listen to your clients? Well, our guest today illustrates the power of listening! By the end of the show, you'd most likely figure out why it does help to just shh… Our guest on today's Sales From...

RPF is on Spring Break this week so I'm publishing some podcasts where I've been interviewed on other people's shows. This episode is a follow-up appearance on Nick Hazelton's podcast wherein he solicited my advice and comments on his self-education plan. Joshua My original appearance on Nick's show:  http://an-yak.com/?p=193   The original link for this episode:  http://an-yak.com/?p=422  

(I'm on Spring Break this week, so I'm posting an episode of Stacking Benjamins which featured my advice on how to invest to be Dave Ramsey. -Joshua) How do you become Dave Ramsey? You invest a certain way…and it isn't the way Dave Ramsey tells you to invest. We welcome Joshua Sheats to the show from Radical Personal Finance to talk about becoming wealthy. What does it take? What does that mean fo...

Hey Radicals! RPF is on Spring Break for the next few weeks. (I do promise to go to the beach at least once--but no bikini pictures on Facebook for me!) I will release a few sporadic shows including some interviews with me which have appeared on other shows. In the meantime, if you're looking for something to listen to, I encourage you to check out the archives of the show! I do my best not to rep...

On Fridays, we have a live Q&A show. Today we cover these two questions: Should I Switch from Employment to Self-Employment to Save Money? How do I Decide Between Model Portfolio Asset Allocations? If you'd like to join a call like this and have your question appear on the show, simply become a Patron of the show here: www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron   Enjoy! Joshua

For most people, housing decisions are the largest financial decisions that they will make. And the mortgages usually associated with housing are the largest debts most of us will take on. And yet how much time and energy do we actually invest into researching these decisions?  For most of us, the answer is not much. My guest today is Casey Fleming and he's here to help us navigate the waters of t...

I love to discover unique people who embrace an unusual lifestyle. My guests today are a perfect example of such a lifestyle! Shane and Julie Good live part-time in a converted school bus and part-time in a tiny house that they built themselves. That's impressive. But, even more interesting...they do it with their seven young children! Many people let their children get in the way of their adventu...

On Fridays I do a Q&A show for Patrons of Radical Personal Finance. If you'd like me to answer a question for you, go here for information: www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron   Today I answer: Should I Stay At A Job to Get Student Loan Forgiveness? When is the Ideal Age to Buy a Single Premium Immediate Annuity? Enjoy! Joshua