064 | Chautauqua | Oh The Places We Will Go

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Chautauqua organizers join us on a call to share what the Chautauqua event is about, the great community that attends, and plans for the future.

On today’s show we cover:

A call with 6 different Chautauqua organizers from around the world
How Chautauqua got started
The single coolest thing about the event
The perspective from Carl’s first Chautauqua
The structure behind the event
Why people make lifelong friends
The benefits of 1 on 1 conversations
How Chautauqua is really all about the community experience
What a regular day at Chautauqua looks like
What brought Alan from participant to organizer
The initial feelings of organizing the event
How Chautauqua is different from other events
How the event brings together so much creativity and skill sets

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Jonathan Mendonsa is the co-founder of the ChooseFI podcast. ChooseFI started in early 2017 out of Jonathan's living room with co-founder Brad Barrett; since then ChooseFI has been downloaded millions of times in over 190 countries and spawned hundreds of ChooseFI local groups with ‘in real life’ meetups in 20+ countries across the globe. ChooseFI blends personal finance, entrepreneurship and personal development as a life optimization strategy that focuses on intentionality, freedom, community and ultimately happiness. Jonathan has a PharmD Degree from VCU and started his career as a pharmacist with $168,000 in student loans. He aggressively paid off the loans in 4.5 years and using the tenets of Financial Independence to cut his life expenses significantly, coupled with his business startup, he left his corporate job to focus on full-time entrepreneurship 9 months after starting the podcast.

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7 thoughts on “064 | Chautauqua | Oh The Places We Will Go”

Mary
February 27, 2018 at 9:42 am | Reply
Great episode! I just finished Jim Collins book Simple Path to Wealth and I only wish I had this when I was in 20’s or 30’s. Choose FI podcast has opened my mind on how to become FI even at the later stage of life I am in. I live in Portland Oregon and to hear that Jim Collins will be here is so exciting the only problem is he’s working on a documentary not giving a presentation. Keep up the great work Jonathan and Brad so I can keep getting 1% better each day.
Alan
March 5, 2018 at 3:03 pm | Reply
I’d be interested in seeing the dolls that enterprising young lady makes. Any links to that?
- Jonathan
  March 5, 2018 at 3:23 pm | Reply
  I will see if I can track it down 🙂
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