Keeping Up With The Joneses | Bill Yount | 158

Bill hops onto Jesse Cramer's 'Personal Finance for Long-Term Investors' (formally The Best Interest) podcast. Along with some of our favorite content creators, he shares his crazy spending screw ups-- and the life lessons that followed. Stories from: 

• Bill Yount (Catching Up to FI)
• Jesse Cramer (Personal Finance For Long-Term Investors)
• Diania Merriam (EconoMe Conference & Optimal Finance Daily) 
• Justin Peters (FI Minded, formally The Struggle is Real)
• Jordan (Doc G) Grumet (Earn & Invest)
• Joe Saul-Sehy (Stacking Benjamins)
• Jeremy Schneider (Personal Finance Club) 

 

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Catching Up to FI

1. Best New Personal Finance Content Creator - Audio
2. Content Creator of the Year: Audio
3. People's Choice: Audio
4. Best Financial Advisor Content/Jackie Cummings Koski, CFP
5. Plutus Storyteller Award
6. Best Traditional Retirement Content
7. Best Personal Finance Content for Underserved Communities
8. Best Personal Finance Content for Women

 

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1. Best New Personal Finance Content Creator - Written (F.I.R.E. for Dummies)
2. Best New Personal Finance Book (F.I.R.E. for Dummies)
3. Plutus Resilience Award (Jackie Cummings Koski)
4. Best Financial Independence or Retire Early Content (F.I.R.E. for Dummies)
   

 

 

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Bill Yount (Catching Up to FI)

Jesse Cramer (Personal Finance For Long-Term Investors) 

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