Home of the World's Largest Financial Independence Community
Led by Co-Founders and Co-Hosts Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa, ChooseFI has become home to the largest Financial Independence community in the world. Every podcast episode, video, and blog article is packed with relatable, real-life content crowdsourced from the FI community.
Join us each week as we share the best life hacks, strategies, stories, tools, and resources to help you take control of your money and get 1% better each day on your journey to FI.
Testimonial
"The Financial Independence movement has grown to be a movement in large part because of a podcast called ChooseFI."
Jean Chatzky
CEO of HerMoney and Financial Editor of NBC’s TODAY Show
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One of the best!
This is an absolute must-listen podcast for me - I’m always excited to see a new episode pop up each week! Brad and Jonathan (and now just Brad) have provided support for an entire community of people who want to happen to life instead of simply having life happen to them. They’ve helped me gain perspective - and have hope based on math - that I, too, can choose to build a future of FI for our family.
10/12/2022
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Refreshing and useful advice
Enthusiastic and non-dogmatic, Jonathan and Brad introduce the FI community to new techniques and perspectives for achieving financial independence each week. I really enjoy the emphasis on providing a large toolset that you are encouraged to pick what works for you. They don't offer a single path to financial independence, but instead focus on helping you find what works for you through interviews with others in the field, interactions with the community, or simply letting their listeners "lean in" to their conversations.
05/24/2018
Meet Brad and Jonathan
Brad Barrett
Co-Founder & Co-Host
After years in public accounting as a CPA, Brad reached financial independence at the age of 35 through diligent savings and investing. Brad Is passionate about everything from saving money, to living a more healthy lifestyle, to ‘boring’ things like tracking your finances and cutting down on your tax bill. But his favorite topic is leveraging credit card rewards to save more money, and take trips you never would have dreamed possible for pennies on the dollar.
Jonathan Mendonsa
Co-Founder & Co-Host
Jonathan loves simplifying complex financial topics and creating engaging conversations around them for the community. He is a writer, speaker, podcaster, and entrepreneur. Jonathan emphasizes skills over degrees and building your talent stack. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and personal growth. Join him as he navigates and shares his journey to Financial Independence with an emphasis on Talent Stacking.
300 Local Groups Worldwide
We have over 300 local groups around the world where real meetups are happening and communities are forming, all centered around Financial Independence.
70 Million Downloads
Since 2017, our podcast has been downloaded over 70 million times by listeners from all corners of the world, making us a leading voice in the Financial Independence movement.
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300 Local Groups
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Global Reach
Our podcast is listened to in over 50 countries.
70 Million Downloads
Our community continues to grow with each episode.