Join me for interesting and informative discussions on investing, real estate, entrepreneurship, and all things related to early retirement and financial independence!
#01 – Mr. Money Mustache – Early Retirement Made Easy
#02 – JL Collins NH – The Importance of F-You Money
#03 – Street Smart Finance – The Real American Dream
#04 – Afford Anything – Dive Into Real Estate Investing
#05 – Lacking Ambition – Three Months After FI
#06 – Retire Early Lifestyle – Perpetual Travel
#07 – Radical Personal Finance – Part One
#08 – Radical Personal Finance – Part Two
#09 – Go Curry Cracker – Ten Years and a Day
#10 – Forever Jobless – Internet Business Investing
#11 – JD Roth – Get Rich Slowly
#12 – Empire Flippers – Buying and Selling Websites
#13 – Millionaire Educator – Financial Independence on Teachers’ Salaries
#14 – 1500 Days – Pulling the Early Retirement Trigger
#15 – Financial Mentor – Hedge Funds, Happiness, & Over 15 Years of Early Retirement
#16 – Frugalwoods – Making Frugality Fun
#17 – Budgets are Sexy – Challenge Everything
#18 – Travel Miles 101 – Travel Hacking and Financial Independence
#19 – Side Hustle Nation – Invest in Yourself
#20 – Mike and Lauren – Medical Tourism, RVs, and Why You Should Question Everything
#21 – JL Collins – The Simple Path to Wealth
#22 – Root of Good – A Million Dollars in 10 Years
#23 – Bigger Pockets – Real Estate, Entrepreneurship, and How to Build an Online Empire
#24 – Camp Mustache – Q&A with Mr. Money Mustache, Afford Anything, & The Military Guide
#25 – The Military Guide – Angel Investing, Market Crashes, & 14 Years of Early Retirement
#26 – Mad Fientist – 1500 Days Podcast Takeover
Why no recent podcasts?
Hey JC, I actually have two really exciting interviews lined up for today so look out for a new episode at the beginning of April!
Looking forward to it! Your podcast was the 1st FI podcast I ever subscribed to, and I blazed through all 9 episodes in 3 days.
You content is steller. Thanks a ton. Keep ’em coming…
Comments like yours really motivate me to produce more episodes so thanks very much for the kind words!
Please post more, I do love listening to them while I work.
I have an interview scheduled for Wednesday so hopefully I’ll get another episode out in early August!
Great to hear you’re still making more podcasts. I’d assumed you must have stopped. I enjoy the podcast a lot. I’ve went back and listened to many of them 2nd or 3rd times. Please keep making more!
That’s very nice to hear, C40, so thanks a lot!
I should hopefully have another episode out within the next week so stay tuned :)
Just listened to the first one and I can tell this will definitely be one of my favorites! Keep up the great content and I can’t wait to watch your journey unfold!!
Glad you enjoyed it, Phoebe! I’m looking forward to spending some time on your blog reading about your European motorcycling adventures :)
MF,
I’m glad to see you put out more podcasts. I found your original podcasts a few months ago and they have turned me on to your blog as well as JL Collins and MMM. You have actually inspired me to start my own blog about my journey to early retirement (about 2 years away) and one of my first posts is a review of your site and a few others I’ve found on my own that have been very helpful. I also plan on writing about using your strategies, particularly relating to taxes in future posts.
I’m including a link if you’d have an interest in checking it out. http://eatthefinancialelephant.com/
Thanks for all of the effort you put into your blog and podcasts!
Cheers!
Chris
Hey Chris, that’s cool to hear I introduced you to MMM and JLC because usually it’s the other way around!
Congratulations on starting your own blog. I just went over and checked it out and it looks good. I look forward to seeing what you do with it in the months to come!
A good friend of mine told me about this podcast and what can I say, I am so glad he did. I already listen to the first 5 episodes in half a day.
So much quality content, its fantastic!!
Please keep at it.
Thank you so much for your excellent work.
I’m glad he did too, Jose!
I’m happy to hear you’ve been enjoying the podcast. I plan to increase the posting frequency in the coming months so stay tuned!
MF,
Thanks for the great content, I have been working my way through your podcasts and articles over the last couple of weeks. A few times you mentioned that you have a savings rate of over 70%. I have been trying to calculate my savings rate, but its a little more complicated that I originally thought (e.g. factoring in 401k, mortgage principal, employee stock purchase program, etc). Do you have a formula or any recommendations on how to calculate savings rate?
Hey Ross, glad you’ve been enjoying everything!
I just add up all of my investments (including employer 401(k) contributions) and then divide that by my income minus taxes. I don’t tend to factor in mortgage principal but that’s only because I’m too lazy to log in to see how much of my monthly payments are going towards principal vs. interest.
I love these podcasts. Sometime you just don’t have time to sit and read but are doing boring work like cleaning. I always try to turn these on, I can’t wait for more!
Thanks, Ginger! Does this mean I can take a small amount of credit for the cleanliness of your house :)
These podcasts are so enjoyable that it has given me some problems. My hobby is keeping my 14 year old diesel Jetta alive by repairing it myself. During two weekends of repairs I played these podcasts back to back and realized that I was so enthralled listening to them that I couldn’t get any work done. Then I took the advice offered in podcast #2 and started reading “How I found freedom in an unfree world”. Now I can’t get anything else done. That book feels like it was written for me!
Thank you Mad Fientist for your effort. These podcasts are amazing.
Haha, sorry to make you less productive. That’s a great compliment though so thanks very much!
Glad to hear you’re enjoying How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. As I mentioned in my interview with JD Roth, that book changed the way I approach life the same way reading Early Retirement Extreme all those years ago changed the way I approached my finances. Great stuff!
Hey MF,
I just wrote a post about what I consider the 4 best podcasts for learning about FI/ER and included yours. It was featured today on Rockstar Finance. Hopefully we’ll send you some traffic and new listeners.
http://rockstarfinance.com/
http://eatthefinancialelephant.com/how-to-earn-a-masters-degree-in-financial-independence/
Cheers!
EE
P.S.–Any new episodes in the pipeline? My only criticism of your podcast is a lack of episodes!
Hey, thanks a lot Chris and congratulations on getting picked up on Rockstar Finance!
Haha, I am definitely the laziest podcaster ever. I actually do have an interview ready to go (surprisingly) so look out for it within the next week or two.
Are you heading to FinCon this year? If so, it’d be great to meet up at some point.
Thanks again!
Hey Man, you have my favorite podcast and I’ve listened to the interviews you’ve done several times. Can we get a new upload soon? I know your busy with the transition but hook a brutha up! :)
Haha, I apologize for being the laziest podcaster ever. I have an interview recorded and edited so I’m going to try to publish it within the next week or two. Stay tuned!
Still waiting for the new podcast episode!
I check every morning. Update soon!
I know, I’m sorry! I’m finally settled in Scotland now so I plan to release an episode early next week!
Hopefully this podcast isn’t dead. I found it and blazed through all the episodes in a week. I really love the content and hope you will release more episodes and more frequently. I have learned some life changing stuff, no lie. Thanks!
Not dead, just slow :(
Glad you’ve been enjoying it! Comments like yours motivate me to put out more shows so thanks for the message!
Thanks for a great podcast! Hoping for more episodes to come.
Trying to arrange two interviews now so hopefully there’ll be another episode soon!
Really enjoyed your shows. It was like a “Who’s Who” of the personal finance world, and I got to hear the real life voices of a couple of favorites, as well as learn about some new blogs, books, and sites to check out.
I’ll add my comment to those who are sad that you have so few shows, but if it’s because you are living out your plan, then more power to you!! I’ve been strictly audio so far; at least I have all of your blog posts and lab stuff to get through when I have the time.
Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed the episodes, Maria!
I’m lining up two interviews now so I’ll hopefully get more podcasts out soon.
Let me know what you think of the blog posts and FI Lab after you check them out!
Yay more podcasts soon! Maybe the Under the Microscope series could be in both Podcast and Blog form?
Possibly! I need to get through all the other interviews I have planned first though.
This is a great way to get another view on different people. I love the series and use it in teh car when commuting. I hope to see more of these.
Thx for making the effort
MF,
I know no one else has bothered you about this on this page and this may come as a surprise, but … I’m almost done getting through your podcast. When they’re gone, who will entertain me while simultaneously educating me about my beautiful future without a job?
– FM
New episode is up now :)
Nice! Thank you!
Hi FI Monkey-
Like you, I also had a great experience listening to all of the FIentist’s podcast, but also like you my rate-of-listening quickly overtook his rate-of-posting. So I’m currently checking out the podast Radical Personal Finance (actually the guy who was in episodes 7 and 8 here) – he has a podcast that he updates a few times a week. I’m not sure how much of it is geared to FI as opposed to general PF topics, but with an output like that, there must be some good nuggets in there.
I’ll keep the FIentist in my RSS feed, but his posting history has shown him to be more focused on “quality” than “quantity”, so I wouldn’t keep holding your breath.
Wanted to say I’ve really been enjoying the podcast, keep it up!
Thanks, Peter! More episodes coming soon!
I also listened and studied from the JD Roth and Mr. Money Mustache, look forward to the rest.
MF,
Thanks for the podcasts. I’ve been listening to a lot of them lately as I have a newborn and pretty much bounce her for 2 hours every night so that my wife can get a head start on sleep. I particularly liked your discussion with Mike from Lacking Ambition. If you need any other ideas, I think it’d be great if you could get Doom from Living a FI or BNL from … Brave New Life.
Thanks for the great podcasts! Inspirational, motivating, and informational! Keep them coming!
Hi!
Just found your podcast today and then checked out your blog. Thanks for doing this for people like us. I am 29/F and would love to retire by the time I am 40. My friends think I am psycho.
I look forward to following you and using the tools you have provided … then, proving everyone wrong.
More! More! I have already listened to all of them at work over the last 2 weeks. Love it.
Is there a way to add your ‘catalog’? I’m not sure what is required but I am thinking of something like an RSS feed that could be added to a podcast app.
I am trying to subscribe to your podcasts on I-tunes to make it easier to find your podcasts and to of course know when a new podcast is posted. I can’t seem to subscribe as the “subscribe” button on your podcast link isn’t working in i-tunes. I don’t have that issue with any other podcast I’m trying to subscribe to.
Any thoughts?
Thank you.
Hey, Mad Fientist, I loved the recent Q&A podcast. Yours is my favorite podcast. Happy about the recent increase two 2x/month! Keep up the good work,