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231-How You Should Respond to the Recent Stock Market Gyrations Aug 25, 2015

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Over the last few days global securities markets have been rocked with massive losses.

Naturally, times like this should cause us to seriously consider our investment strategy and take a look to see what the appropriate response might be.

Many of us have a significant amount of our life savings invested in public securities markets and it can be frightening to see the impact of the declines in market prices.

But what should we do?

In this episode I share with you some ideas and ways of thinking which you can apply to your situation. Take a few moments to consider the input and assess your personal strategy.

Enjoy!

Joshua

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230-How Being Debt-Free Enables Entrepreneurship: The Financial Journey of the Podcast Answer Man, Cliff Ravenscraft Aug 13, 2015

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I love hearing entrepreneurship stories because they speak to me of people who clarify what they want and pursue it aggressively.

Vision is required for you to be willing to leave the bed of employment where things are comfortable and warm and pursue the rocky world of entrepreneurship.

The road isn't easy. But it can be easier if you will build a financial foundation underneath you before you launch.

My guest today is Cliff Ravenscraft, best known as the Podcast Answer Man. Cliff has an amazing entrepreneurial story and today I get to bring it to you in great detail.

Cliff openly shares where and how he started and the steps that he has taken to bring him to his current level of financial success.

Pay attention: he's experienced the joy of living on the $11,000 of profit he earned in his first year (not easy to live on that amount) and the joy of earning over $500,000 gross income last year.

Learn from his story.

Enjoy!

Joshua

Cliff's primary website and podcast: http://podcastanswerman.com/
Cliff's personal audio journal podcast: "Pursuing a Balanced Life" http://gspn.tv/category/all-shows/mcl/
Cliff's free tutorial on how to set up a podcast: http://learnhowtopodcast.com
Cliff's in-depth four-week course on podcasting: http://podcastingatoz.com
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229-Think Slow, Move Fast, and Prioritize Your Life (a.k.a. Why We're Moving!) Aug 12, 2015

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Effective tomorrow, 8/13/15, the global headquarters of Radical Personal Finance will be moving! I'm about to start unplugging my computers and microphone but I wanted to make sure to ship today's show before doing that.

So, I decided to share with you how I've approcahed this decision to move. I think it will be helpful for you to consider how to Think Slow, Move Fast, and Prioritize Your Life.

Now, time will tell if it worked for me or not! :)

Joshua

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228-How and Why to Buy a Car for Cash: Interview with James Kinson from the Cash Car Convert Podcast Aug 12, 2015

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At the recent Podcast Movement conference in Fort Worth, Texas, I had the opportunity to connect with James Kinson, host of the Cash Car Convert podcast.

James has a fun story to share and some great lessons to teach. He's a long-time car guy who got the debt-free religion and changed his car-buying habits. To his delight, he's wound up a good deal richer than ever before!

He's got some great lessons to share and in this show we discuss:

The impact a cash car can have on your wealth
Leasing vs. buying
Whether the advice to buy a good used car still applies in the modern day of higher repair bills.

Enjoy the show!

Joshua

Cash Car Convert: http://cashcarconvert.com/
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227-The Five Benefits of College and Radical Ways to Exploit Them Aug 11, 2015

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As we head into the back-to-school season in the United States, I've been thinking a lot about the value of college and I've come up with a framework that I think will be useful to you.

I see the 5 major benefits of college as these:

Fun
Personal Growth
Certification
Education
Connections

It's helpful to identify these benefits. But it's more important to understand how to manipulate the system to maximize your opportunities with each of them.

Once you understand, you can design your own radical path to success.

Enjoy the show!

Joshua

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226-Making a Living From Video Games: Interview with Danny Peña, Hall of Fame Podcast Host of Gamertag Radio Aug 07, 2015

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I recently returned from the Podcast Movement Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. While I was there I had the opportunity to interview Danny Peña the day before he was inducted into the Podcasters Hall of Fame.

For the last ten years, Danny has built Gamertag Radio into a major voice of influence in the video game industry. And, he's built a business out of a passion.

Listen to the interview to hear:

How to build a business from a passion
How video games can tremendously
The impact of video games on his own life
Why Joshua is wrong about video games! :)

Enjoy,

Joshua

Links:

Gamertag Radio http://www.gamertagradio.com/
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Book Review: Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time" by Brian Tracy Jul 31, 2015

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"Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time" by Brian Tracy is an absolute goldmine of a book. Without question, this is a 5-star book.

Before you read it though, it's important for you to understand what it is and what it isn't.

It's not a deep-dive treatise of productivity systems; rather, it's an overview of the core principles of productivity that you need in order to organize your life around accomplishing more, meaningful things that will move you toward your goals.

It's short, fast, and pithy.

Tracy begins with the big picture focus of making sure you're doing the right things--planning the things to do that directly tie to your goals and things that are going to have the biggest impact on your achievement of those goals. Then he continues with the practical suggestions to help you actually do those things.

Here's my recommendation: get the audiobook version and listen to it on the first of every month for the next 60 months.

Even if you did nothing else for your personal development and improvement it would be enough to catapult you into the upper tiers of your company and career.

Enjoy!

Joshua

Eat that Frog! on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1gSl8Vz
Get a free copy of the audiobook on Audible: http://radicalaudiobooks.com

Out & About: Pt 2 of Joshua's Interview on "The Voluntary Life" Podcast with Jake Desyllas Jul 30, 2015

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I'm not able to record and release a show for you today so I'm releasing an interview that I gave on the Voluntary Life podcast with Jake Desyllas regarding Tax Strategies and Financial Freedom.

This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. The interview was originally released on June 21, 2015.

Enjoy!

Joshua

Jake's site: http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/2015/06/210-tax-strategies-and-financial.html

Out & About: Pt 1 of Joshua's Interview on "The Voluntary Life" Podcast with Jake Desyllas Jul 29, 2015

Show notes

I'm not able to record and release a show for you today so I'm releasing an interview that I gave on the Voluntary Life podcast with Jake Desyllas regarding Tax Strategies and Financial Freedom.

This is Part 1 of a 2-part series. The interview was originally released on July 14, 2015.

Enjoy!

Joshua

Jake's site: http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/2015/06/209-tax-strategies-and-financial.html

Announcements: Have Breakfast With Me On Friday in Ft. Worth, TX on Friday, 7/31/2015 Jul 29, 2015

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Good morning, Radicals! Two quick announcements for you this morning:

If you are a listener of the show, come have breakfast with me this Friday morning at 7am at the Cast Iron Restaurant at the Omni Hotel in downtown Ft. Worth! I'll be attending the Podcast Movement conference and would love to see you! Please register here: http://bit.ly/RPFatPM15 (If you aren't able to come on Friday but can come on Saturday or Sunday morning, let me know on Twitter and I'll try to be there at 7am for breakfast those days as well. I won't have as much time but I would still like to see you! https://twitter.com/JoshuaSheats
There won't be any new shows this week until I return from Texas. I will be releasing an interview I gave recently but I wasn't able to finish producing the other shows I had planned.

Have a great weekend!

Joshua

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