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Narrated by:
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Chris Mamula
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Brad Barrett
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Jonathan Mendonsa
About this listen
Choose FI: A Blueprint for Financial Independence
A common resolution set at the beginning of a new year is to “get my financial house in order”. But how can you build a house, let alone pour any kind of foundation, without a blueprint? There are dozens of books and gurus trying to push their advice and tell you how to spend and invest your money. And then, there are three suburban dads just trying to make the world a little bit better.
Meet Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa of the award-winning ChooseFI podcast and Chris Mamula of the popular blog Can I Retire Yet? They have walked the talk and now want to share their knowledge with you. Together, these three regular guys will show you how they made the relatively simple choices to reclaim decades of their lives, and how you can too.
Distilling the best of the popular ChooseFI podcast, this audiobook pulls from the collective knowledge of those who have decided to build a lifestyle around their passions instead of allowing their finances to dictate their future. These stories demonstrate universal principles, giving you the opportunity to pick the elements that are the most applicable to your financial situation and “choose your own adventure”.
The audiobook covers a wide range of topics that will help you build a strong financial foundation:
- Developing a growth mindset
- Defining your values and aligning them with your spending
- Cutting years from your estimated retirement date
- Questioning the status quo on “required expenses”
- Cutting travel expenses and putting family vacations within your reach
- Learning how to earn more and live with abundance
- Updating the common accepted wisdom on college education and the debt associated with it
- Cutting through the noise on investing to discover strategies that work
- Showing how to implement investment strategies that enable the lifestyle you desire while controlling downside risk
Whether you have mountains of debt now or are recently debt-free and wondering what to do next, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence will give you the information to guide your next move.
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Terrible advice, had a few good laughs though
- By spin on 03-24-21
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Set for Life, Revised Edition
- An All-Out Approach to Early Financial Freedom
- By: Scott Trench
- Narrated by: Scott Trench
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Scott Trench—real estate investor, co-host of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast, and CEO of BiggerPockets—demonstrates how to accumulate a lifetime of wealth over a short period of time. Even starting with zero savings, you can go from a five-figure income to six figures, from an active job to passive income, then finally to the ultimate goal of financial independence.
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Set for American life
- By Anonymous User on 05-11-17
By: Scott Trench
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The Simple Path to Wealth
- Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
- By: JL Collins
- Narrated by: JL Collins, Peter Adeney
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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This book grew out of a series of letters to my daughter concerning various things - mostly about money and investing - she was not yet quite ready to hear. Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical.
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Misleading, heavily biased
- By Cody Peralta on 07-19-19
By: JL Collins
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F.I.R.E. for Dummies
- By: Jackie Cummings Koski
- Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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The Financial Independence, Retire Early (F.I.R.E.) movement has inspired many to optimize their finances and retire sooner than they ever imagined. F.I.R.E. For Dummies shows you how to make financial freedom and early retirement a reality. You'll learn how to maximize this process and speed up your time to financial independence and retiring early. This is the perfect Dummies guide for anyone looking to move from the basics of their finances to reaching F.I.R.E. and enjoying the time freedom it creates.
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Great breakdown of complex financial topics!
- By Anonymous User on 08-12-24
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Cashing Out
- Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away
- By: Julien Saunders, Kiersten Saunders
- Narrated by: Julien Saunders, Kiersten Saunders
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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When it comes to our finances, we’re told to follow the same script as our white colleagues: work hard, make money, save, and invest. Yet despite putting in twice the effort, you end up making less and are routinely passed up for career opportunities. Here’s the truth: financial freedom is within your reach, but playing by corporate America’s rules will only take you halfway there. To win, you must eventually walk away—and take up an entirely different model of wealth accumulation. Cashing Out is your roadmap to financial freedom despite the broken system.
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A letter to the Black community about financial se
- By Anonymous User on 06-24-22
By: Julien Saunders, and others
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How to Achieve Financial Independence and Retire Early
- By: JD Roth, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: JD Roth
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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In this audiobook, Roth takes you inside the trending world of financial independence and early retirement, giving you the tools both to achieve financial independence and to improve the quality of your everyday life. You'll explore the ins and outs of the "FIRE movement", a collection of ideas and habits that allow people to manage their money so they can quit working while they're young. You'll consider the shockingly simple math behind financial freedom.
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I expected more from a great courses audio book
- By Tony on 03-07-21
By: JD Roth, and others
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Financial Freedom
- A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need
- By: Grant Sabatier, Vicki Robin - foreword
- Narrated by: Grant Sabatier, Vicki Robin
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Financial Freedom is a step-by-step path to make more money in less time, so you have more time for the things you love. It challenges the accepted narrative of spending decades working a traditional nine-to-five job, pinching pennies, and finally earning the right to retirement at age 65, and instead offers listeners an alternative: Forget everything you've ever learned about money so you can actually live the life you want.
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Meh...
- By bobby on 02-10-19
By: Grant Sabatier, and others
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FIRE: Financial Independence Retire Early
- The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Financial Independence so You Can Retire Early
- By: David Jacobs
- Narrated by: Geoff Moonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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What is financial independence? Is it having enough money to live a normal life, or is it having so much money that you just don’t care about expenses? Everyone wants to be independent, but as you've likely experienced, getting there is not as simple as it looks. There are a variety of pitfalls along the way, and a single mistake can set you back by years. Fortunately, there is a blueprint or method for you to follow. It’s quite simple.
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this is all common sense
- By mary k. on 06-30-21
By: David Jacobs
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Millionaire Mission
- A 9-Step System to Level Up Your Finances and Build Wealth
- By: Brian Preston
- Narrated by: Brian Preston
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Brian Preston, host of The Money Guy Show podcast and co-founder of Abound Wealth Management, lays out a nine-step system for building wealth with the money you already have. Millionaire Mission helps you account for your financial blind spots, overcome the fear of making wrong decisions, and take the guesswork out of what to do with your next dollar.
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Great book.
- By Nathan Blowers on 05-31-24
By: Brian Preston
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Work Optional
- Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way
- By: Tanja Hester
- Narrated by: Tanja Hester
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist lifestyle to live their dream life in Lake Tahoe, retiring early from high-stress careers. Now Tanja will help you map out a customized plan for freedom and make it easy to succeed, whether you're good at math and budgeting - or not! Work Optional is more than just a financial plan: it's a plan for your whole life-designed by you, not by an employer or clients.
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This has it all.
- By bobby on 02-22-19
By: Tanja Hester
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Retire Before Mom and Dad
- The Simple Numbers Behind a Lifetime of Financial Freedom
- By: Rob Berger
- Narrated by: Rob Berger
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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It’s time to claim your financial freedom. All you need is a road map to follow, and you can create a life most people only dream about. A life free from financial stress. A life full of what matters most to you. In Retire Before Mom and Dad, you’ll learn how to unlock the superpower inside of you that is capable of transforming almost any income into lasting financial freedom.
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Excellent personal finance book!
- By Chicago on 09-15-19
By: Rob Berger
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Meet the Frugalwoods
- Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
- By: Elizabeth Willard Thames
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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In 2014, Elizabeth and Nate Thames were conventional 9-5 young urban professionals. But the couple had a dream to become modern-day homesteaders in rural Vermont. Determined to retire as early as possible in order to start living each day - as opposed to wishing time away working for the weekends - they enacted a plan to save an enormous amount of money: well over 70 percent of their joint take-home pay. Dubbing themselves the Frugalwoods, Elizabeth began documenting their unconventional frugality and the resulting wholesale lifestyle transformation on their eponymous blog.
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Self-congratulatory, pollyanna garbage
- By Cecelia on 08-06-18
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Just Keep Buying
- Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth
- By: Nick Maggiulli
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Everyone faces big questions when it comes to money. Unfortunately, many of the answers provided by the financial industry have been based on belief and conjecture, rather than data and evidence - until now. The hugely popular finance blogger Nick Maggiulli crunches the numbers to answer your biggest questions, and to provide you with proven ways to build your wealth right away. By following the strategies revealed here, you can act smarter, and live richer, each and every day. It’s time to take the next step in your wealth-building journey!
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Good Framework
- By Oz on 08-05-23
By: Nick Maggiulli
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- Anonymous User
- 07-08-24
very motivating
it outlines very clearly how to get on your Financial Independence journey in a rather uplifting way
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- Andre
- 11-24-20
The perfect college student graduation present
I loved how there were actual clips from the podcast. Very insightful. I can't wait to get started on house hacking next year and I wouldn't even have ever known about it if it wasn't for this book.
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- Asya
- 12-24-19
The best book on FI!
I've read/listened to a lot of books on FI, but this is by far the best one. I read all of the books referenced in here and love how they showed the many different paths to FI and didn't glorify one over the other. They were honest about the benefits and pitfalls and continued to emphasize how every path is different while giving you helpful, easy to follow tops for each one.
I definitely recommend for someone just starting out on the path to FI or someone like myself who has pushed and pulled in many different directions and struggling to figure out what path is best for me and my life. The most important point of this book is that no matter what path you start on in your journey to FI, you can always change down there road. So simple, but just this piece of advice removed so much stress off of me.
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- curtie
- 06-02-22
good book
open your eyes to new ideas. really enjoy the things they Point out in this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-12-20
Wealth Of Knowledge
I appreciated the insight and knowledge especially the chapter about taxes... The sacrifices necessary to achieve Financial Independence outlined in this book won't work for everyone in my opinion but it is still filled with knowledge for those who can find cash to spare after paying all the necessary bills and be happy with mostly the free things in life
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- A7xdad
- 12-24-20
A+
This should be Required reading for ALL! Especially young adults. Giving it to my 7 kids immediately.
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- Maria
- 04-05-25
Best financial book
I’ve read a few of the top recommended financial books. This has been my favorite. I love the black and white facts/numbers/etc.
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- RichRoamer
- 01-12-20
Life changing
I loved this book. Should be required for senior students and their parents. Spread the FIRE.
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- Nicholas Aro
- 09-20-21
Great stories, inspiration, and perspective
Good stories and perspective on FIRE or just FI. I enjoyed the FI ideas that were presented in a different way from what I've heard previously. I also think the duration of this audiobook is perfect to get started on the FI journey. The stories of the authors and others they reference I found inspirational and motivating for people from all different backgrounds that FI is possible and to re-evaluate the value of your time. Great listen!
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- Kia
- 02-10-20
Structured perfectly
I liked that he summarized a lot of the ideas of the Choose FI contributors and his own experiences. It’s a quick listen and the content is easily received and feels easy to implement.
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