Ramit Sethi

Thank you for having me.

My favorite topic.

The word rich is extremely loaded in our culture.

When we think of rich, we have a very specific vision of what that looks like.

For example, in the 80s and 90s, it was a country club, maybe a fur coat, a private jet.

That's rich.

But it's quite different now.

Rich could be picking up your kids from school every afternoon.

Rich can be traveling for a few months a year or buying a beautiful piece of clothing, but your rich life is yours.

And we see that especially in the last few years as people went through work from home and they realized, hey, I would actually rather do this for the rest of my life.

It might even mean taking a small pay cut, but I want the freedom and the flexibility.

So until now, I hadn't seen people talk about rich in a positive way that fits you like a glove.

I saw it in this kind of richy rich on TV vision and that just didn't connect with me.

I started my entire business from my dorm room.

And I remember at the time reading a ton of books on money.

And the material that I read on personal finance did not connect with me at all.

It was people who didn't look like me lecturing me about all the things I'm not allowed to do with my money.

There was no vision whatsoever.

of what I get.

Like I would literally, you put your hand out.