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Buy this, not that! (w/ Author Sam Dogen)
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Buy this, not that! (w/ Author Sam Dogen)

Sam Dogen left his job in investment banking at age 34 to start his financial newsletter, Financial Samurai. He's got a new book out this week called Buy This, Not That! How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom.

Sam and I discuss:

  • His one-word definition of 'Happiness'

  • How wearing the right tie helped him get a job at Goldman Sachs

  • How he transitioned out of investment banking to become an independent financial writer

  • How the right plan is the key to surviving inflation and the ups & downs of the stock market

  • Why he advises young adults to forecast their professional misery

  • His best and worst financial investments

  • The return on investment of private vs public school

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