British blogger Adam Piplica left his job as a marketing analyst to pursue blogging full-time, but then decided to go back into the full-time working world as a certified financial planner to really make a difference in people’s lives. Hear how it all happened in this week’s episode. Resources Mentioned * Magical Penny * Adam Piplica on Twitter * Adam Piplica on Instagram Transcription Eric Rosenberg: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, welcome back to the Personal Profitability Podcast. As always I am your host, Eric Rosenberg. And I’m very excited to have a special guest on. This guest, I’ve recorded now I’m on the West Coast, I’ve recorded with some folks on the East Coast; that’s a 3-hour time difference. This is our biggest time difference yet we’ve recorded. It’s 10:30 in the morning my time but 6:30 on the other side of the pond, in jolly Old England. And my friend, Adam Piplica is on the line with us. Say hello to everyone, Adam Adam Piplica: Hello, I’m really excited to be here. Eric: So before we get into the meat of it, I have to share. A few weeks ago, I was in London, I guess now a month or so ago, and I got to see Adam. He invited me to a finance blogger meetup in London which was so cool. I was the only Yankee allowed on the premises, the only American. Also on that trip I got these really, really cool socks. There’s this store, I always thought it was pronounced ‘Charles Tyrwhitt, but my friend who works on the equivalent of Wall Street for England over on the business district, he’s a lawyer there, he told me it’s actually ‘Charles Tyrwhitt.’ So I apologize for having mispronounced it for so long. But I went to the store. It is one of my absolute favorite stores for men’s clothing. I don’t wear a lot of women’s clothing. I went to the store, I picked up these sweet Union Jack socks. The Union Jack is the logo on the British flag. So I’m wearing my Union Jack socks right now in honor of recording with someone in England. Adam: I loved you’ve got it all on theme. I’m not wearing American socks but… Eric: I don’t own American flag socks so only British flag socks. I don’t know, maybe I need to move over to London or something. I’m kidding. I’m enjoying living on the beach. To get on to what we’re really here to talk about is profitability topics like always. And Adam i met a few years ago in Denver. He came out for FinCon when it was in my hometown; my old hometown now, in Colorado. We’ve stayed in touch over the last four, five years just about. Adam is a really genuine nice guy. He’s very transparent with his journey. And what brought him to FinCon in the beginning was he has a site called Magical Penny but he then went on and created a whole finance career. Early Investments and The Magical Penny Let’s dive in and talk about the genesis of it all. Where did the idea for Magical Penny came from? Adam: Well thanks, Eric for having me on here. I’m quite excited because I started Magical Penny over here in England because I was reading a lot of American websites hearing all about 401(k)s and Roth IRAs and getting excited. And then I went to… Eric: I don’t think many people get all that excited about 401(k)s but there are a few of us. Adam: It was all fancy at first because I first started getting interested in the stock market and investing when I had no money whatsoever when I was at colle...
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