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00:00:00.000 | Today, I'm going to share with you a one-year update of Radical Personal Finance.
00:00:05.320 | I'm going to share with you some changes to the format of the show and the content
00:00:09.220 | coming up in future days.
00:00:11.240 | And then also, I just want to say thank you.
00:00:14.160 | We've officially hit 200 patrons and $2,000 per month of patron support.
00:00:20.920 | I'm going to talk about that and simply say thank you.
00:00:41.200 | Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast.
00:00:43.000 | My name is Josh Weschetz, and I'm your host.
00:00:45.520 | I'm your host.
00:00:46.560 | I'm your guide to financial independence.
00:00:49.000 | I'm your financial planner.
00:00:50.640 | I'm your teacher.
00:00:51.720 | And I'm your fellow journeyer on the pathway of financial independence here with you just
00:00:59.320 | about every day.
00:01:00.320 | We're going to talk about that today.
00:01:02.700 | But journeying with you and guiding you to financial freedom and financial independence
00:01:07.840 | each and every day.
00:01:13.720 | Today I'm going to share with you a little bit of behind-the-scenes stuff on the show,
00:01:17.180 | some things that I want you to be aware of, especially some changes to the content and
00:01:20.360 | the programming and the schedule of Radical Personal Finance coming up in the future.
00:01:24.240 | I'm not going to be teaching you anything about personal finance today.
00:01:27.880 | So if you would like to skip it because of that, feel free to skip.
00:01:31.680 | But I do ask that you give a shot because as soon as I talk for just a moment about
00:01:35.280 | Patreon, then I'm going to talk about the changing format of Radical Personal Finance
00:01:39.600 | going forward.
00:01:40.600 | So I'll try to keep this straight and to the point.
00:01:43.520 | But let's start with Patreon.
00:01:44.520 | I just want to thank you, each and every one of you who have signed up for – with a Patreon
00:01:50.440 | account and supported the show as a patron of Radical Personal Finance.
00:01:55.020 | There are a total of 201 of you.
00:01:57.440 | Actually, it's 200.
00:01:58.440 | Two hundred of you.
00:02:00.300 | I have a fake Patreon account that I use to keep an eye and make sure the content is going
00:02:04.080 | out.
00:02:05.080 | So I'm one of my own patrons.
00:02:06.080 | I guess that's good.
00:02:07.080 | You got to believe in yourself.
00:02:08.080 | So I patronize myself on Patreon.
00:02:09.600 | So you should too.
00:02:10.600 | There are 200 of you who have taken the step to go to RadicalPersonalFinance.com/patron
00:02:15.440 | and sign up to support the show.
00:02:16.720 | And we officially hit the first milestone goal that I really wanted to work towards.
00:02:21.640 | And that first milestone goal is $2,000 per month.
00:02:25.540 | And now that we've hit $2,000 per month, I'm going to be swapping out the new intro
00:02:29.400 | – swapping out the intro to the show and trying to work out a new introduction.
00:02:35.140 | Now I may or may not switch the music.
00:02:37.920 | When I said that I was going to be switching the music, I did that because I got a rash
00:02:41.360 | of emails and comments saying, "Josh, Radical Personal Finance has the worst intro in the
00:02:45.000 | world."
00:02:46.000 | But when I said on the show that I was going to be changing it, I got all kinds of more
00:02:49.320 | emails saying, "I love it.
00:02:50.440 | It gets me piped up.
00:02:51.440 | It gets me in the mood.
00:02:52.440 | I get ready."
00:02:53.440 | And for me personally, it's kind of funny.
00:02:54.440 | It's almost a Pavlovian response where when I hear the music, I go into character and
00:02:58.640 | I'm ready to go and it gets my energy up a little bit and reminds me to be peppy.
00:03:02.840 | I like upbeat Latin music.
00:03:06.040 | I will often – if I'm going to listen to music, one of the choices I'll go to
00:03:09.280 | sometimes is Latin music.
00:03:11.080 | I'll listen to salsa or merengue or bachata, things like that.
00:03:14.840 | So I like that being the intro to the show.
00:03:16.720 | But I may update it.
00:03:17.720 | I may kind of swap it out a little bit.
00:03:19.480 | We'll see.
00:03:20.480 | I'm going to figure that out and try to serve you guys in the best.
00:03:23.160 | So that will give me the opportunity to keep going.
00:03:25.520 | The biggest impact though that you have made on me is not reaching this first milestone
00:03:32.680 | of being able to swap out the music, although it's key.
00:03:38.080 | At the end of this – I'm in the process of finishing out a contract that I've been
00:03:43.800 | working on, which has been how I paid my bills for the last year while building this show.
00:03:48.400 | If it weren't for this Patreon account here, I mean every dollar of it is incredibly valuable.
00:03:54.080 | It's not quite enough for me to live on, so I've got to build some other sources
00:03:57.720 | of income while I'm going.
00:04:00.880 | But if it weren't for Patreon here, then I wouldn't be taking the track that I'm
00:04:05.640 | taking, which is to keep on focusing 100% full time on the show.
00:04:09.640 | Patreon is what has showed me that at least 200 of you believe in what I'm doing here
00:04:15.080 | and believe in the content and have benefited from it.
00:04:18.280 | I mean just think for a moment about how incredible you are, that there's something that's
00:04:22.120 | available for free.
00:04:24.280 | No one is charging you for it.
00:04:25.520 | You can listen to it.
00:04:26.520 | You can do anything you want with it.
00:04:28.160 | And yet you've taken the step to go out voluntarily and say, "I appreciate the
00:04:31.960 | content.
00:04:32.960 | I'm going to reward the content creator."
00:04:34.200 | I want to thank you for that.
00:04:36.120 | It's been quite a journey and an incredible path.
00:04:40.520 | It's what gives me the confidence to know that I'm on the right track and I'm going
00:04:43.960 | to continue going forward and continue building Radical Personal Finance.
00:04:47.520 | We've, like I said, hit a year here.
00:04:50.760 | I launched the show full time on July 1, 2014.
00:04:54.120 | As I record this, it's actually July 22, 2015.
00:04:59.320 | So it's not quite a year, but I was a little busy around July 21.
00:05:01.640 | I had a brand new little baby and she's still a brand new little baby, still settling
00:05:05.840 | into life.
00:05:07.880 | I wasn't really actually ready on July 1 to tell you some of the changes that were
00:05:11.240 | coming.
00:05:12.240 | Now they're clearer in my head and I know what's coming in the future.
00:05:16.360 | So the last year of the show has been awesome.
00:05:19.480 | It's been a lot of work.
00:05:20.480 | I've released – today is episode 223, so I've released 213 episodes of Radical
00:05:26.520 | Personal Finance over the last year.
00:05:29.560 | Some have been good.
00:05:30.560 | Some have been bad.
00:05:31.560 | A lot of them have been mediocre.
00:05:33.000 | That's kind of the normal scenario.
00:05:35.320 | But I've learned a lot all the way through.
00:05:38.480 | I feel that as I've reflected back a lot on the past year and kind of figuring out
00:05:42.720 | what am I going to do, how am I going to build a Radical Personal Finance business, what
00:05:46.240 | are the different areas where I'm strong in, what am I weak in, it's brought me to
00:05:49.800 | the point of realizing that I need to make some changes to the format of the show and
00:05:54.920 | the content of the show.
00:05:56.360 | And I've gone back and done a bit of analysis over which shows seem to resonate with most
00:06:00.520 | people and which shows I got the most feedback on, which were the ideas that really seemed
00:06:07.400 | to resonate.
00:06:08.400 | And it's brought me to the place of realizing what I need to do better going forward in
00:06:13.360 | the future.
00:06:15.160 | And as I've listened to the content and looked through and just kind of considered
00:06:19.800 | the content I've released over the past weeks, one of the things that really has troubled
00:06:24.640 | me is I've felt like some of the content that I've created has been a little bit
00:06:28.560 | me too.
00:06:30.040 | It hasn't really stood out.
00:06:32.040 | It hasn't been super radical.
00:06:35.200 | It hasn't been necessarily playing to my core competencies.
00:06:38.040 | It's just basically been a little bit me too, me kind of just doing similar things
00:06:43.860 | to what many other people are doing.
00:06:46.240 | And for me to fulfill what I believe the unique selling proposition of Radical Personal Finance
00:06:50.960 | is, I need to change that.
00:06:52.960 | And so one of the things that's going to change about that is that the frequency of
00:06:57.240 | the show is going to slightly change.
00:06:59.600 | From the beginning of the last year, I've had the goal of essentially releasing a podcast
00:07:04.960 | episode just about every day.
00:07:07.540 | And at the beginning, I was going on a very strict Monday through Friday format of that
00:07:11.920 | and that really helped me to build the skills.
00:07:13.920 | And I released a show in the past called Why I Podcast Every Day and why you should emulate
00:07:19.160 | me and model me on doing what I'm doing.
00:07:22.920 | But at this point, I believe that the usefulness of my being so focused on creating so much
00:07:27.560 | content and releasing it on a regular schedule has reached its peak.
00:07:33.320 | And I say that for a few reasons.
00:07:34.760 | Number one, because of the pressure of releasing shows consistently and it hasn't happened
00:07:41.440 | in the last few weeks with the birth of Baby Girl and June was pretty spotty.
00:07:45.040 | But because of that pressure, what's happened is that the actual quality of the content
00:07:50.400 | has suffered.
00:07:51.680 | So I've released show topics that were kind of ho-hum or I've released an interview that
00:07:56.600 | was a me-too interview and I just did it because it was convenient and because I didn't have
00:08:00.560 | the time to sit down and pour myself into the outlines that I need for a large show.
00:08:07.520 | The most difficult shows for me to create for you, just so that you know, the most difficult
00:08:11.600 | time-consuming shows are number one, the technical financial planning shows because there I need
00:08:17.360 | to take information, look back through and figure out what have I done in the past and
00:08:22.800 | what is a good way of keeping this at a deep enough level to be useful but to be able to
00:08:27.440 | articulate some of these concepts for you.
00:08:30.700 | So those take a long time.
00:08:31.700 | And then also the Q&A shows take a long time.
00:08:34.440 | Well, what's interesting is the technical financial planning shows are the least popular
00:08:39.000 | of Radical Personal Finance episodes and the Friday Q&A shows are the most popular.
00:08:44.040 | I'm not willing to give up the technical financial planning because I believe that really builds
00:08:47.560 | into the, again, the unique selling proposition of this show.
00:08:50.640 | That's one of the things that I can do very effectively that many other people can't do.
00:08:55.480 | There are many people with a cursory knowledge of finance that can do an interview with somebody
00:08:59.760 | on the basics of personal finance.
00:09:01.600 | There are fewer people who can do a deep dive discussion of a technical financial planning
00:09:07.680 | topic.
00:09:08.840 | And so that content is still underrepresented in the marketplace.
00:09:12.400 | The Q&A is also important because the technical content actually drives the Q&A and oftentimes
00:09:19.960 | the questions that I get that are the most interesting that wind up being the most popular
00:09:23.600 | and the most listened to are questions that came out of your listening to the technical
00:09:28.620 | content of Radical Personal Finance.
00:09:30.980 | So although I've said several times that I am not committed to the five-day-per-week
00:09:37.440 | format, I have said to myself, I've realized just in my own mind I still was working towards
00:09:43.280 | that as an ideal goal.
00:09:46.000 | At this point in time I need to change that.
00:09:48.560 | The reason is if you look at the survey, the marketplace of finance information and finance
00:09:55.960 | podcasts, there's more content out there than ever before.
00:10:01.280 | When I originally tested the show in July of 2013, there were only a few personal finance
00:10:09.880 | podcasts.
00:10:10.880 | From 2013 to 2014 there were many more added.
00:10:14.840 | And from 2014 to 2015 there have been many, many more and much, much more content.
00:10:22.620 | So at this point the point of differentiation for Radical Personal Finance is not the frequency
00:10:28.680 | of the show, but rather my desire is that it's the unique nature of the content.
00:10:35.840 | As I've listened to the feed over the past weeks, I've thought to myself, wait a second,
00:10:41.080 | Josh was kind of straying a little bit from his core message.
00:10:44.400 | And again, just the feeling I've had is this is a little bit me too.
00:10:48.080 | And if it's me too, that's a problem.
00:10:50.520 | So I've learned what I've needed to learn with the five day per week format.
00:10:54.240 | I have gotten efficient as a broadcaster.
00:10:57.200 | I've gotten better as a broadcaster.
00:10:59.800 | I've built much more experience as a broadcaster.
00:11:04.180 | And I believe I feel pretty good about where I have gotten to as far as the skills that
00:11:10.920 | I have built.
00:11:11.920 | I feel like I've become a much better interviewer.
00:11:13.720 | I feel like I've become more coherent.
00:11:17.680 | I feel like I've developed my ability to effectively articulate concepts and content without repeating
00:11:25.280 | myself ad nauseum.
00:11:27.720 | So with that, I feel that I've gained what I need from the five day per week format.
00:11:34.000 | At this point, the big gaping hole that I see out in the marketplace that still is needed
00:11:40.240 | is deeper dive discussions, more technical content, and a deeper, more in-depth discussion
00:11:47.240 | of important topics that are not commonly talked about.
00:11:49.880 | As an example, I've been wanting for months to do a series on things like the origin of
00:11:57.480 | the Federal Reserve System, to do a series on monetary discussions.
00:12:02.880 | There's a big theme that runs around, not in the personal finance space, but in the
00:12:05.880 | economic space.
00:12:06.960 | There's a big theme that runs around about potential inflation, deflation, all of these
00:12:11.880 | macroeconomic issues.
00:12:13.480 | If you watch what's happening in Greece right now with the changes in the Eurozone, these
00:12:18.600 | are very important topics.
00:12:22.520 | There are very few people who are effectively giving some kind of middle tier information,
00:12:27.600 | not just what you see when you're watching the evening newscast and not what you have
00:12:32.000 | to read when you read an economics book.
00:12:34.960 | Not many people are doing a middle of the road discussion.
00:12:38.360 | I'd like to really do that.
00:12:39.360 | I'd like to provide some of that content.
00:12:41.800 | It's time consuming to do it well and to effectively articulate it without getting on the microphone
00:12:45.880 | and saying the same thing over and over again.
00:12:48.680 | It takes a lot of time.
00:12:51.480 | I'm going to be backing off a little bit on the number of shows as far as the deep dive,
00:12:59.280 | hour a day shows that I release on Radical Personal Finance.
00:13:02.320 | I'm also going to be focusing in on the content that seems to be the most popular with you,
00:13:08.960 | the audience, which is Q&A.
00:13:09.960 | I'm going to be doing a lot more Q&A going forward.
00:13:14.240 | I have a whole list of questions from many of you that I have not answered.
00:13:17.680 | I have many questions lined up that I have not answered and I need to start answering
00:13:21.560 | those questions.
00:13:22.560 | I'm going to be doing that in a variety of formats.
00:13:24.600 | The first thing is I'm going to be doing and creating much more video.
00:13:29.120 | I plan to answer some Q&A in the context of video.
00:13:34.360 | Video has a unique place as far as a format.
00:13:37.760 | I love audio podcasting.
00:13:39.840 | However, there's a tremendous value to YouTube and to the video marketplace.
00:13:45.240 | There are some things that you can do in video that you can't do in audio.
00:13:48.840 | I chose to start by focusing on audio because I believe that is my core competency.
00:13:54.800 | That's what I believe has the most benefit.
00:13:57.160 | Much of the information that I share on the show does not effectively articulate over
00:14:00.080 | to video.
00:14:01.080 | With video, many times people are looking for shorter content.
00:14:04.080 | Just frankly with finance, there's not so much that you need to see.
00:14:06.680 | There's a lot that just you need to hear.
00:14:09.120 | I think audio is much more flexible.
00:14:11.140 | It can be released.
00:14:12.140 | It requires less bandwidth.
00:14:13.280 | It can be consumed while you're on the go.
00:14:15.800 | So I've waited on video.
00:14:17.920 | However, there is I believe a really growing hunger for people looking for information
00:14:23.760 | with video.
00:14:24.760 | So I plan to start doing a lot more regular video releases for Radical Personal Finance.
00:14:31.360 | One of the aspects of that is I'm going to be doing Q&A.
00:14:35.120 | So I'm anticipating – I was going to say five minutes but when am I ever going to be
00:14:40.760 | able to answer a question in five minutes?
00:14:42.560 | I don't see that happening.
00:14:43.800 | I'm anticipating 10 to 20-minute videos as far as answering Q&A.
00:14:49.680 | I've thought about should I just release that on YouTube and make all of the podcast
00:14:53.440 | listeners go over to YouTube or should I try to cross that over?
00:14:57.160 | Should I try to start a new channel on audio or what should I do?
00:15:01.280 | What I've decided to do is to simply adjust the format of Radical Personal Finance and
00:15:07.040 | release the audio for shorter format questions into the RSS feed, so into what shows up on
00:15:14.720 | your phone directly whether you're using iTunes or whether you're using my personal Radical
00:15:21.920 | Personal Finance app, however you're listening to it.
00:15:25.080 | The reason is I really want to serve you with some of the content.
00:15:30.480 | Most people don't do this.
00:15:31.480 | I've tried to figure out whether it's a smart thing to do or not.
00:15:34.520 | Most people would split it out into a different channel and try to get people on different
00:15:37.560 | platforms but in my mind what I'm thinking of is how can I serve you, the core audience?
00:15:44.080 | If I'm the listener of a show that I really like and if that show releases some long format
00:15:49.600 | episodes that are an hour long or two hours long or an hour and a half long and then they
00:15:54.860 | also release some 10-minute episodes, I just as soon have them show up in the same place.
00:15:59.120 | The reason is because I'm going to listen when and where I want and my thought is I'm
00:16:03.240 | an adult.
00:16:04.240 | I can look at your podcast feed if you're a podcaster and see, "Okay, here's a 10-minute
00:16:08.040 | one.
00:16:09.040 | Let me listen to the 10-minute one and here's an hour one.
00:16:10.040 | Let me listen to the hour one," and I can just go ahead and consume that.
00:16:14.440 | You should be aware that in the future there's going to be a lot more shorter format content
00:16:19.240 | showing up into your podcast feed.
00:16:22.800 | Some of it may be repetitive to ideas that we've talked about in the past.
00:16:27.440 | There's still going to be long format content released here and you're just going to see
00:16:31.960 | those labeled.
00:16:32.960 | I'll try to label them clearly in the description somehow so you can know, "Okay, this is YouTube
00:16:38.160 | audio that's also showing up as a Q&A," and/or, "This is a normal episode of Radical Personal
00:16:44.040 | Finance."
00:16:46.320 | My hope is that you could just simply choose what's going to be valuable to you.
00:16:50.000 | I will be releasing content on the video feed that I won't release into the audio feed.
00:16:57.840 | That content will be things that are intensely visual.
00:17:00.420 | That's where the breakdown often comes is if I'm speaking to you about something that
00:17:04.960 | is visual and you're listening to the audio only, which is showing up in your phone and
00:17:09.720 | I'm constantly referring to, "Well, look here and look at this and here's a consideration
00:17:14.040 | and look at this illustration," that can be maddening for an audio listener.
00:17:19.400 | So I will be creating a lot of video content going forward in the future that I won't release
00:17:25.440 | as audio.
00:17:26.440 | But if there's something that I believe is easily digested as both, I will release it
00:17:30.720 | as audio and you can just simply look at it and decide, "Do I want to watch the video
00:17:35.000 | of this and actually see Joshua talking or do I just want to listen to this and hear
00:17:40.580 | Joshua talking?"
00:17:41.920 | And I'll just leave that up to you.
00:17:44.240 | I also plan to be releasing a number of shorter format shows, almost like the coaching shows
00:17:48.840 | that I've done the last couple of weeks.
00:17:50.880 | And I believe this is really, really important because this is filling kind of that crossover
00:17:56.740 | niche in personal finance.
00:17:58.760 | There's too much talk in finance on the technical details and not enough talk on some of the
00:18:03.200 | other aspects of finance.
00:18:05.200 | I've worked with some people in an office recently and as I've worked with them, I have
00:18:09.400 | observed that – I just observed the dynamic of their working environment.
00:18:15.600 | I said, "These people aren't going to have a job."
00:18:17.160 | In the next recession, these people are not going to have a job.
00:18:19.560 | If I were the boss – and I know the bosses and I've worked with the bosses – they
00:18:23.160 | would be the first on the chopping block.
00:18:24.720 | It's not a matter of – it's just some simple things, some simple personal development
00:18:31.440 | stuff, some simple things.
00:18:34.800 | That stuff needs to be addressed.
00:18:36.960 | And so I plan to be also releasing to you just some of the shorter format focused ideas
00:18:43.360 | on here's a specific idea.
00:18:44.920 | It doesn't merit a long introduction to the show.
00:18:48.040 | It doesn't merit a long outro to the show.
00:18:49.640 | It's just a specific idea but I think it can be really valuable.
00:18:53.200 | So you're also going to see some of those things show up and a lot of that won't be
00:18:56.900 | video.
00:18:57.900 | It's just going to be adding some different variety to your feed.
00:19:02.240 | So don't expect – the synthesis of all of that is don't expect all of the shows
00:19:07.000 | going forward to be the normal 45 minutes to an hour length of radical personal finance.
00:19:13.600 | Expect the frequency to vary as time goes on and also look to see the labels and you'll
00:19:20.080 | be able to figure out where this is from.
00:19:22.760 | I think that will be really useful to you.
00:19:26.200 | The core idea of radical personal finance is to be your guide and your encouragement
00:19:32.080 | to financial independence.
00:19:33.680 | That's the core idea.
00:19:35.080 | That's it.
00:19:36.080 | That's what I can tell you.
00:19:37.240 | So the other reason why I'm making this change is I really want to do some interviews
00:19:44.940 | on things that aren't often done.
00:19:47.960 | The biggest – one of the bigger frustrations that I've had over the past weeks is I
00:19:52.120 | haven't been able to bring you the interviews that I've wanted to bring you.
00:19:54.960 | It's hard to get some of the people that I want to interview to sit down and do interviews.
00:19:58.840 | But I want to do some really deep dive discussions with people who are – I want to bring you
00:20:06.440 | Jack Bogle on the show.
00:20:07.520 | I want to bring you Mohamed El-Erian.
00:20:14.280 | I want to bring you Bill Gross.
00:20:15.280 | I want to bring you an economist.
00:20:17.840 | I want to bring you some of the billionaires that come to Palm Beach and then live here
00:20:23.360 | during the season.
00:20:25.320 | I simply haven't been able to get that content done because of the amount of time I've
00:20:29.600 | been putting into all the other content.
00:20:31.240 | If I look at basically the 40 to 50 hours a week that I spend creating the five-day
00:20:38.040 | per week show, it doesn't leave enough time for me to do the additional work of figuring
00:20:42.760 | out how to get networked through to some of the billionaires that live here in Palm Beach
00:20:49.640 | or that come down and visit, some of the business tycoons, some of those people.
00:20:54.160 | I really feel that's a market that's not being tapped.
00:20:57.600 | If you want to hear an interview with an internet entrepreneur, there are about a gazillion
00:21:01.160 | of them out there.
00:21:02.160 | If you want to hear – I'm not saying it's bad.
00:21:05.920 | I'm just saying there's other people doing that stuff.
00:21:07.840 | There's no reason for me to waste my time doing things that other people are doing well
00:21:11.280 | and interviewing the same people that go around on every different show.
00:21:14.640 | Rather, I'm going to be bringing you the content that I can bring you that's uniquely
00:21:18.600 | useful and uniquely valuable.
00:21:20.520 | So that's the information going forward.
00:21:23.720 | So what can you do to get connected and what are some of the changes going forward?
00:21:28.320 | I'm also going to ask you for some help and then we'll be done for the day.
00:21:31.040 | Number one, the email newsletter is working again after months of problems.
00:21:36.040 | So sign up for the email newsletter, RadicalPersonalFinance.com.
00:21:39.760 | Sign up, confirm and verify and that would be the best way to keep an eye on all of the
00:21:43.920 | content going forward.
00:21:45.200 | That will be your best outlet.
00:21:47.260 | So sign up for the email newsletter if you will.
00:21:49.240 | I won't spam you but that way I'll try to make sure that I send out – if it's
00:21:52.640 | a YouTube video or if it's show notes or whatever, do that.
00:21:55.640 | I'm also going to be doing more writing.
00:21:56.800 | I've been doing – posting more content on the site, more book reviews.
00:22:01.440 | Oh, that was the other thing I meant to mention, book reviews.
00:22:03.960 | For example, I've got a bunch of audio from some book reviews.
00:22:06.340 | This is three-minute audio, four-minute audio from YouTube that I've been releasing on
00:22:10.760 | the YouTube channel.
00:22:11.760 | I'm just going to go ahead and slide that audio into the RSS feed because many of you
00:22:15.800 | won't want to watch a three-minute video but you'll listen to a quick three-minute
00:22:18.480 | book review and it will say, "Ah, that's a book that would be useful," or, "Oh,
00:22:21.480 | that's a book that I'm going to ignore."
00:22:24.040 | Obviously it's not too repetitive to concepts that I have mentioned before.
00:22:27.680 | I'm not taking the same content and recycling it which is what many people would recommend
00:22:31.800 | that I do.
00:22:32.800 | I'm not just adjusting it and recycling it.
00:22:35.320 | So again, listen on a fast speed and it won't take that much time.
00:22:40.000 | Sign up for the email newsletter.
00:22:41.000 | I've got that working again.
00:22:42.320 | Number two, I'm going to start using the hashtag #AskRPF on Twitter.
00:22:47.520 | If you would like – if you have a question that you would like me to answer, please tag
00:22:53.080 | it with the hashtag #AskRPF.
00:22:56.480 | I'm also going to be starting to do some additional social media discussions.
00:23:00.240 | I'm going to be doing some Twitter chats, #AskRPF on Twitter and also some Periscope
00:23:05.840 | Q&A sessions.
00:23:07.680 | The key is follow me @JoshuaSheets.
00:23:09.000 | I think I'm going to shut down the @RadicalPF Twitter handle.
00:23:12.120 | I don't like running two accounts and it really annoys me to do two accounts.
00:23:15.680 | Just follow me @JoshuaSheets and ask questions there.
00:23:20.760 | Use the hashtag #AskRPF and I'm going to be doing some Twitter chats and Periscope
00:23:26.880 | sessions on video Q&A.
00:23:28.680 | The best way to keep abreast of that is follow me on Periscope @JoshuaSheets and on Twitter.
00:23:35.680 | If you're not familiar with Periscope, it's an app that does real-time live video streaming.
00:23:39.800 | Super easy because you don't have to fire up the computer.
00:23:41.680 | It's all done right from the mobile device.
00:23:42.920 | It's pretty cool.
00:23:43.920 | So I'm going to be doing more of that and I will use those questions and funnel those
00:23:48.700 | into the YouTube content.
00:23:50.840 | I also have some of your other questions that I'll be using as YouTube content as well.
00:23:58.480 | Finally for today, if you want to help, some of you in the past have made offers to help
00:24:03.320 | me with the show.
00:24:05.360 | And so still bootstrapping this thing, kind of a one-man band, I'm going to be reaching
00:24:10.320 | out to some of you who have offered to help me in the past.
00:24:12.920 | But I'll just go ahead and mention it here.
00:24:15.320 | There are some things that I could use some help with.
00:24:17.880 | And these are things that I will hire if I don't have a volunteer.
00:24:21.200 | But it would help me if any of you just want to volunteer to help me with some things,
00:24:25.400 | then here are some things that would be useful.
00:24:27.400 | Number one, if any of you would like to help me with some notes on audio episodes and some
00:24:31.860 | time stamping as far as so I could put in the notes, time stamping, here's what the
00:24:35.280 | conversation was, here's what the conversation was, that would be really useful.
00:24:38.460 | I haven't made the time to make that happen.
00:24:40.520 | I've been focused on creating new content rather than trying to more effectively package
00:24:45.480 | the old content, but that would be useful.
00:24:48.200 | If any of you have skills with graphic design, I could use some help with simple graphic
00:24:52.400 | design.
00:24:53.400 | Again, I can hire that, Don.
00:24:55.120 | I've done it in different ways.
00:24:57.840 | But little things like making a fancy little graphic for the topic of the day, making a
00:25:01.360 | YouTube thumbnail for me, some of those kinds of things would be really useful.
00:25:05.400 | I also could use some simple video editing and some simple audio editing.
00:25:08.640 | So if any of you would like to do that, it's a matter of splicing together some audio bits
00:25:13.660 | and then on the video editing, it's a matter of taking some video from, for example, interviews
00:25:18.960 | that I'm going to do, things like that, and putting that together.
00:25:21.360 | And then just some general help uploading and managing some different things on the
00:25:24.440 | site.
00:25:25.440 | What happens when running a site is all these little things don't take that long in the
00:25:31.560 | individual, but in the aggregate, they take a long time.
00:25:34.640 | So if any of you just like to help me with some of those things on a volunteer basis,
00:25:38.120 | that would be great.
00:25:39.680 | Or if you work in those areas, feel free to let me know and I'd be glad to consider working
00:25:46.240 | with you.
00:25:47.240 | So in summary, I guess, oh, the other thing I'm going to scrap the outro.
00:25:51.760 | I'm tired of it.
00:25:52.760 | I don't know if you're supposed to have a disclaimer or not, but I'm tired of it as
00:25:55.780 | far as the disclaimer that I play at the end.
00:25:57.520 | I'm going to shorten that up.
00:25:59.520 | I think that's those things I wanted to share with you.
00:26:02.320 | So thank you each and every one of you for having been here and for listening to the
00:26:08.120 | show for last year.
00:26:09.360 | It's been awesome.
00:26:12.680 | Without your feedback, who knows, maybe I would have quit.
00:26:15.840 | But each and every one of your pieces of feedback has been awesome.
00:26:19.660 | As we close as far as this week, so next week I will be at Podcast Movement in Texas.
00:26:24.920 | I'll be doing a Radical Personal Finance meetup.
00:26:26.480 | As soon as I get these shows published, then that's one of the things I'm going to be working
00:26:29.660 | on is picking a time and the schedule.
00:26:31.720 | So I'll be at a Podcast Movement.
00:26:32.720 | I think it's in Fort Worth, driving out there.
00:26:36.400 | So I'll share some follow on the social media stuff if you care.
00:26:42.280 | I'll try to do a better job posting.
00:26:44.320 | I don't post as much as I probably should.
00:26:52.440 | The thing that would be really helpful, going into Podcast Movement, I would love to go
00:26:55.480 | out there with Radical Personal Finance in something like the top 10 in the investing
00:27:00.240 | segment of iTunes.
00:27:03.320 | So what would be really cool, if you haven't done it, and a bunch of you have this last
00:27:07.120 | over this weekend, if you haven't done it, please leave an iTunes review or any other
00:27:11.880 | platform as well.
00:27:13.160 | So just take a moment, leave a quick rating and review on iTunes.
00:27:16.080 | That would be super useful.
00:27:17.840 | That'll help push the show up and that would be fun to be at Podcast Movement as a top
00:27:21.120 | 10 podcaster.
00:27:22.540 | That would stroke my ego a little bit and make me feel really good.
00:27:25.080 | So if you haven't left an iTunes review yet, please do that.
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00:27:52.000 | Thank you to each and every one of you who does that.
00:27:54.280 | I appreciate you more than you know.
00:27:56.880 | It's been an awesome ride this last year and I am excited about this next year.
00:28:00.280 | I'm going to take over the world.
00:28:01.680 | Got the plan in my head.
00:28:02.680 | I've just got to get the work done to make it happen.
00:28:06.120 | Thank you all so much.
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