Episode · ChooseFI · 2025-04-20
Books mentioned on Is the Middle-Class Trap Something to Worry About? | Mindy Jensen
The financial independence community recently ignited over a single phrase: "the middle-class trap." Mindy from BiggerPockets Money coined it to describe people who look wealthy on paper—substantial home equity, healthy retirement accounts—yet feel anything but free.
Mindy Jensen discussed The Simple Path to Wealth by Jl Collins.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Simple Path to Wealth
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins is a clear and accessible guide to achieving financial independence through low-cost index fund investing and simple savings habits.
Discussed“One of the things that Scott and I really wanted to bring to everybody's the forefront of everybody's mind is you don't know what you don't know. and you I would hate for somebody to have read the simple path to wealth or worse have heard about the simple path to wealth, throw everything in VTSAX in their retirement accounts,”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Choose FI
“And Chris, as we said earlier, can I retire yet.com? And you are the lead author on Chooseify, your blueprint to financial independence, the book, which is absolutely marvelous. It's amazing how long ago we you wrote that.”
Plugged Financial Independence
“And you are the lead author on Chooseify, your blueprint to financial independence, the book, which is absolutely marvelous.”