I look forward to this podcast every week! Brad and Jonathan are super passionate about the pursuit of financial inedpendence and highlight ways to help people on their own FI journeys. They do a fantastic job at interviewing and sharing stories from awesome people who are currently pusuing or have already reached FI. Yes, yes, and yes to ChooseFI!!!

I began listening in April of this year (2019) and have listened to almost every single episode. I grew up in American “poverty” - free school lunches, second hand clothes, etc. But what I never seemed to learn was financial literacy. I don’t blame my parents. They were unaware themselves. But now to the point of my itunes-review- I was making all the wrong decisions until I listened. House that stretched my budget, a truck payment that had a rolled over loan from my previous car, personal loan, credit card debt, school debt... all totaling roughly $40,000 excluding my mortgage. I resigned myself to just managing minimum monthly payments and hoping someday this would all be gone. My friend had invited me to the chooseFI Facebook group about a year prior to me listening, but I thought everyone posting was either crazy or lying. “You paid off $120k in student loan debt? Ya right!” I thought. Until this past April I chose to listen to the podcast out of curiosity. After listening to a few episodes that piqued my interest, I got to “Why everyone needs Dave Ramsey (and why you should ignore him)”, that was the moment it all clicked. I then voraciously listened to every episode I could. I found MMM and the “shockingly simple math” article and I was completely and utterly hooked. Now just 3 1/2 months later, I am on track to pay off all my $40,000 of debt I had by the end of next year. With some side hustles I’m looking into and other life hacks, I had cut that number down from 25 months (already way sooner than I ever thought possible) to 18 months. And now maybe sooner! All this with a mere $50k/year GROSS income job. The best part is I don’t feel I am depriving myself! I feel like I have joined a cult, because everyone I meet, I just want to show them the light! The FIRE is spreading!