by Adam Preston | Nov 25, 2022 | Podcast
Summary
Today my guest is city planner and urban designer Jeff Speck. Originally trained as an architect, Jeff is most famous within the FIRE community for his award-winning 2012 book: ‘Walkable City: How Downtown Saves America, One Step at a Time’.
It’s amazing how such a small detail like walkability can touch on so many tenants within the FIRE ethos. The economy, health benefits and sustainability are all areas that are impacted greatly by our poorly designed cities which are where the majority of humans on earth live.
Some of the topics we cover in today’s episode are:
- How Jeff became an expert in city planning. (00:03:25)
- What is urban design and city planning? (00:09:02)
- City development before the great depression and world war 2 (00:13:43)
- How do we solve this problem of a car-centric environment? (00:36:25)
- Health benefits of a walkable city (00:41:14)
- How we can change our roads to benefit pedestrians and reduce traffic (00:52:09)
- Different ways to make a city more walkable (00:57:48)
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by Adam Preston | Nov 18, 2022 | Podcast
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Today I’m talking with financial educator and podcast host Kate Campbell. Kate grew up in country Victoria and joined the defence force as a teenager before changing careers to finance and investing later on. She’s probably best known in the FIRE community as a co-host for many of the very popular podcasts that Rask Australia produces.
Some of the topics we cover in today’s episode are:
- How Kate got started in finance and investing (00:03:30)
- The importance of taking risks and just giving it a go (00:08:52)
- What does Kate’s portfolio look like? (00:23:12)
- Kate’s blog and podcast (00:32:04)
- How Kate came to work with Owen at Rask Australia (00:38:03)
- Common roadblocks people face with their finances (00:43:22)
- Financial hurdles women have to face (00:44:56)
- Money and psychology (00:54:04)
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by Adam Preston | Nov 11, 2022 | Podcast
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Today we welcome back Dave Gow who retired at the ripe old age of 28. He’s better known online as Strong Money Australia where he blogs about early retirement and how to live a happier life. It’s a really light-hearted chat today where we mainly talk about Dave’s new book which will be available on the 1st of December 2022 which is very exciting.
But we also cover a range of other topics such as:
- Updates on early retirement (05:32)
- Strong Money Australia book (06:53)
- Publishing rights (12:58)
- Audiobook difficulties (18:23)
- Updates on the FIRE and Chill podcast comeback (34:15)
- Elon Musk buying Twitter (43:20)
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by Adam Preston | Nov 4, 2022 | Podcast
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Today is a very special episode because if you had told me 10 years ago that I would be chatting to Steve McKnight on my own podcast, I would have never believed you.
Steve is a professional investor, media commentator and online entrepreneur. But he’s probably most famous in the FIRE community for his book “From 0 to 130 Properties in 3.5 Years”.
This was actually the second book about financial independence that I ever read and completely changed my life. Steve is one of three people who I’d consider as the most influential figures for me to come across throughout my investing journey so as you could imagine, this was a special episode for me personally.
Some of the topics we cover in today’s episode are:
- Burnout and seeking an alternative path (00:06:15)
- Investing in property (00:17:37)
- Vendor financing (00:20:51)
- Australia’s housing market is a Ponzi scheme (00:27:44)
- Online entrepreneurship (00:46:30)
- Finding meaning beyond financial independence (01:11:37)
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by Adam Preston | Oct 28, 2022 | Podcast
Summary
Today I’m talking with Brad Smith. Brad is an entrepreneur and former young Australian of the year for Tasmania who founded a motorcycle company Braaap in 2005 at the ripe old age of 18. Entrepreneurship is sometimes popularised as a quicker way to reach FIRE with the added benefit of doing something that you love. But it doesn’t always work out this way.
Some of the topics we cover in today’s episode are:
- Brad’s background and family upbringing (00:05:53)
- What made Brad start a company so young? (00:15:11)
- Finding a manufacturing factory in China (00:25:28)
- The importance of separating personal finances from the companies (00:30:55)
- Dealing with adversity (00:34:20)
- Marketing vs engineering (00:39:09)
- Electric motorcycles (00:43:36)
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