For the 1st anniversary show, we welcome one of the "Godfathers of Personal Finance Blogging," Get Rich Slowly founder JD Roth! We get into Star Wars, living in an RV, and turning a website into a full-time income. Resources Mentioned MarketPlace Money I Will Teach You to Be Rich Mr. Money Moustache Zenhabits Money Boss ProBlogger J.D. Roth Full Transcript Eric Rosenberg: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, welcome back to the Personal Profitability Podcast. As always, I’m your host, Eric Rosenberg. And today we are recording a very, very special episode - the One Year Anniversary of the Personal Profitability Podcast. We started on the first Thursday of January 2015, now it’s the first Thursday of 2016, so episode number 25. And for this episode I was thinking, ‘How can I do something really special?’ I want to make it pop, as what Vanilla Ice would say on his Real Estate show. So to make it pop, I thought, ‘I want one of the best guests if not the best guest we have had ever so far on the podcast.’ And this is someone I’m gonna tell you a little bit about, and if you haven’t read who he is yet and how we met. So I think it’s kind of a funny story. So a long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away in Chicago, Illinois or actually a suburb called Schaumburg, was the first ever FinCon, the first ever Finance Blogger Conference. It wasn’t even called FinCon yet then. And I went alone, I knew I was gonna have a roommate, someone I have met through the Yakezie group that I’ve talked about before. But I didn’t really knew anybody, I never met anybody in person that I was going to see at this conference. And at the time there were a few bloggers who were, we now refer to them kind of as the ‘Godfathers of Personal Finance Blogging’, they were around at the beginning and they’ve built up these huge audiences and ended up selling their blogs to a big company. We’ll talk a little bit about that later. So this person who we have on right now is listening to me talk. It’s kind of funny to have him listen while I’m talking. We met the first time, I walked in the hotel and I walked into the lobby, checked in and I turned and saw him sitting there. I recognized him and I knew who he was, because of his name badge partially, but also because I was a big fan of his site, Get Rich Slowly, which was at the time, maybe the biggest or definitely the top few biggest personal finance blogs there are. And I very quickly introduced myself and I was actually kind of nervous. I didn’t know, I was like, this guy is a huge deal, who am I. I felt I was like meeting Michael Jackson in the 80’s or something, but the blogging celebrity equivalent. And the next morning, he did the opening key note for the conference and he came out and introduced himself in Klingon. So he came out and started speaking Klingon or his friend was speaking Klingon on stage. JD Roth: He was dressed up as a Klingon. Eric: Yes, dressed up as a Klingon and spoke Klingon. And I thought, ‘Man, this guy’s a bigger nerd than me. I only speak Klingon in private with my friends. This guy’s doing it in public.’ No, I don’t actually speak Klingon. I don’t know if you do. But I’m really excited to introduce, after that very long drawn-out intro, JD Roth, who is on with us. So give everyone a big hello. JD Roth: Hello. Thanks, Eric. That’s awesome. And what you don’t mention is now, when we are both actually home, we’re pretty much neighbors in Portland, Oregon. Eric: Yeah. So I really got to know JD about two years ago when I moved to Portland from Denver. And at that point we met at a few more conferences, so I definitely knew more of who JD was and I think he recognized or knew who I was. So when we got together, we do regular finance blogger happy hours here, we call them FinCon locals. And I got to really know JD,
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