ChooseFI | Financial Independence Podcast

Jonathan Mendonsa, Brad Barrett

Booking Overview

Interview-led personal finance and financial independence show featuring practical discussions, firsthand FI journeys, and occasional expert conversations. Agencies could credibly pitch personal finance educators, FI authors, behavioral-finance or relationship-communication experts, and individuals with compelling, well-documented paths to financial independence; booking difficulty is medium because the show accepts accessible practitioners and relatable case studies but maintains a strong subject-matter fit requirement.

Metrics

Episodes: 697

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: >100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 42.6k subscribers

Instagram: 22.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

feedback@choosefi.com

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Host

Jonathan Mendonsa - Co-founder of ChooseFI and a financial independence educator focused on helping people improve their finances, reduce expenses, and pursue greater career and lifestyle flexibility.

Brad Barrett - ChooseFI co-host and financial independence educator who discusses investing, retirement planning, travel rewards, frugality, and practical strategies for reaching financial independence.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Demonstrated experience pursuing or achieving financial independence, personal finance expertise, published work in money or retirement planning, or specialized expertise in the behavioral and relationship dimensions of financial decisions.

Required Achievements:

Achieving or documenting a credible financial independence journey, Publishing books, research, or educational resources about personal finance or retirement, Building recognized expertise in investing, frugality, travel rewards, behavioral finance, or money communication

Recent Guest Discussions

Jasper Lee - How Couples Can Discuss Financial Independence, Money Values, Work-optional Goals, Psychological Resistance, And Motivational Interviewing Techniques

Recent Topics

Financial Independence, Personal Finance, Frugality, Investing, Early Retirement

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

ChooseFI | Financial Independence Podcast

614 | Getting Personal with Personal Finance: Oz Chen

August 24, 2026

Most Americans never truly disconnect from work—even on vacation. After decades of tying your identity, daily rhythm, and sense of worth to a paycheck, stepping away feels less like freedom and more like freefall. Oz Chen spent years financially independent before he could accept it, wrestling with the psychological gap between having enough money and being okay with not working. Key Topics Discussed Oz's Background and FI Journey (00:02:30) Oz shares his introduction to financial independenc...

613 | How Do You Know You're Making the Right Financial Decision? | Roundup with Ginger

August 17, 2026

Every expert sounds convincing until you realize you've collected ten different "right" answers to the same retirement question. Brad Barrett recently found himself overwhelmed by competing FI strategies—from Cody Garrett's bond ladders to Aubrey Williams' risk-based guardrails—and came to a liberating conclusion: sometimes you just need to pick one and move on. Key Topics Discussed Navigating Conflicting Expert Advice (00:02:15) Ginger and Brad discuss the challenge of choosing between diffe...

612 | What Actually Happened? | Paige's FI Journey, Nine Years Later

August 12, 2026

Starting with negative net worth at 47 in Los Angeles on $58,000 a year sounds impossible. Yet Paige reached financial independence by 56, retired early, and now lives exactly the life she designed. This isn't theory — this is what happened nine years after her first ChooseFI appearance. Key Topics Discussed 00:00:00 Introduction and The Alley Will Provide Brad welcomes Paige back nine years later and revisits the famous "alley will provide" philosophy. Paige shares modern examples including ...

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