In the Friday Roundup we discuss our big takeaway from Episode 49: The Aggregation of Marginal Gains. Plus, upcoming plans for the ChooseFI website, a FI Festival and local meetups.
Podcast Episode Summary
- A review of Episode 49 with Alan Donegan and Barney from The Escape Artist
- The growth of the FI community throughout the US and now the world
- Jonathan just returned from his 2 week trip to South Africa with his family
- How did Jonathan fare with his use of electronics on his trip?
- Jonathan used travel rewards points to book his flights for free and he stayed with family so his entire trip was free
- Brad’s upcoming travel for summer 2018 to Europe where he used travel rewards points and then his trip to Santiago, Chile for 2019
- The power of the Aggregation of Marginal Gains and how important it is for the FI journey
- How small examples can make a huge difference over time
- We were voted the #1 most popular Personal Finance Podcast at Rockstar Finance
- The benefits of fasting and why Jonathan does multi-day fasts
- The spreading of the FI message throughout the UK and how we’ve seen a significant number of people in our ChooseFI community
- The important of local groups and how we’re going to do everything we can to facilitate local ChooseFI groups throughout the US
- How we can all benefit from local meetup groups of like-minded people
- How the FIRE really is spreading and how we want to help grow the community
- A future FI Festival as a large-scale FI meetup event
- The Hall of FI idea that Jonathan wants to see as a featured component of a FI Festival
- People connect with stories and that’s what makes a successful blog and podcast
- We are looking for writers to tell their stories at the ChooseFI website as full contributors to the site
- Announcement: Joel from FI 180 is our first ChooseFI blogger
- Voicemail from Joel announcing that he left his job!
- Upcoming episodes on ChooseFI
- Itunes reviews and book giveaways
Links from the show:
- PopUp Business School
- The Escape Artist
- The Aggregation of Marginal Gains
- Rockstar Finance: The Most Popular Financial Podcasts
- Winning Personal Finance
- Local ChooseFI Facebook groups
- Playing With FIRE documentary
