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Every book Jonathan Mendonsa recommended on podcasts
Jonathan Mendonsa’s most recommended books
- The Simple Path to Wealth by Jl Collins
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Freelance to Freedom by Vincent Pugliese
- Make Time by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
- Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen
- Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence by Doug Nordman, Carol Pittner
- Set for Life by Scott Trench
- The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins
- The Simple StartUp by Rob Phelan
- Get Good with Money by Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
Jonathan Mendonsa co-hosted the podcast ChooseFI, where he frequently discussed financial independence alongside practical guides for personal growth, career satisfaction, and life choices. Throughout the episodes, Mendonsa referenced and recommended several books to help listeners navigate their personal and professional journeys. He mentioned Dan Miller and his book 48 Days to the Work You Love to illustrate the concept of finding meaningful work aligned with one's passions. Mendonsa also strongly recommended Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages, describing it as a game-changing book and highlighting how people differ in the ways they show and receive love. Additionally, Mendonsa frequently featured JL Collins's book The Simple Path to Wealth, using it as a central reward item for listener review giveaways and drawing contests on the podcast. He praised the comprehensive nature of the financial advice offered in the book and recommended checking out the author's audiobook version. By regularly incorporating these titles into the podcast format, Mendonsa provided his audience with actionable resources aimed at improving both their financial literacy and their everyday personal relationships.
Books recommended by Jonathan Mendonsa
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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.
Recommended“over the next two weeks we are gonna push that person into a drawing to win a copy a free copy of a simple path to wealth”
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a widely praised guide on habit formation, behavior change, and systems over goals.
Recommended“I've been reading this book by James Clear Atomic habits and I am forcing myself to adopt certain habits”
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Freelance to Freedom
Freelance to Freedom by Vincent Pugliese is an inspiring guide that teaches professionals how to break free from traditional employment models, build sustainable independent businesses, and take control of their time and income.
Recommended“the first book Is JL Collins book The Simple path to well the second book is Dominic cortuccio's book design your future and the third book is freelance to Freedom”
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Make Time
Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky is a practical productivity guide designed to help readers focus on what truly matters each day by stepping away from endless content consumption and intentionally reclaiming their schedules.
Discussed“on today's episode we're gonna be discussing the book make time written by Jake Knapp and John zaratsky”
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Quit Like a Millionaire
Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung is a popular personal finance book that outlines unconventional wealth-building strategies, early retirement principles, and the authors' personal journeys to financial independence.
Discussed“we're going to be speaking with Christy shin and Bryce Le young with their new book quit like a millionaire”
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Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence
Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence by Doug Nordman and Carol Pittner is a practical guide designed to help parents teach children financial literacy and life skills.
Recommended“the last one I have here and this is because I literally went to Doug and Carol and pleaded with them to make this book for the fight Community was raising your money Savvy family and they released this book this past year and Brad it's on the shelf behind you as well for people it is a phenomenal book”
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Set for Life
Set for Life by Scott Trench is an instructional manual created to help beginners navigate their personal finance journeys and achieve financial independence.
Discussed“but his book set for life really defines four or five things that you need to figure out a way to solve and they're achievable”
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The Simple Path to Wealth
The Simple Path to Wealth by J.
Recommended“the first is JL Collins book The Simple path to wealth”
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The Simple StartUp
The Simple StartUp by Rob Phelan is a beginner's guide and student workbook designed to help young people create their very first entrepreneurial venture over the course of a semester.
Discussed“Don's podcast really inspired Rob Phelan who's the author of the simple startup the educational that we're going to be bringing out through chooseify publishing”
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Get Good with Money
Get Good with Money by Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche is a comprehensive personal finance guide focused on achieving financial wholeness.
Discussed“and it just went wild in the book but but you never regardless the results you got basically said all right this works”
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The Five Love Languages
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman is a popular relationship guide that categorizes emotional communication into five distinct styles for giving and receiving affection.
Recommended“and Don said if you haven't I suggest reading the five love languages and he says I'm not going to try and summarize it but some people are very gift based in the way that they show and receive love”
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48 Days to the Work You Love
48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller is a career and personal development guide that helps individuals discover meaningful work aligned with their passions.
Recommended“Dan Miller uh has has a book in in a popular podcast series and it's you know it's 48 days to the to the work you love”
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RetroSuburbia
RetroSuburbia by David Holmgren is a comprehensive practical manual on permaculture that provides actionable strategies for retrofitting existing suburban properties to foster resilient, sustainable, and self-sufficient community lives.
Recommended“the Bible of permaculture is called retro Suburbia and it's about retrofitting the suburbs for resilient Community sufficient life”
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The art of frugal hedonism
The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Annie Raser-Rowland is a lifestyle guide that presents a joyful approach to spending less while radically increasing personal well-being and environmental sustainability.
Recommended“she said the art of frugal Hedonism comes to mind the Bible of permaculture is called retro Suburbia”
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The Gift Of Failure
The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey is a parenting guide written by an educator who argues that parents must allow their children to experience setbacks and make mistakes in order to develop true resilience, autonomy, and lifelong competence.
Recommended“and she said she was inspired by this book called The Gift of failure how parents learn to let go so their children can succeed that's incredible”
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ART FEAR
Discussed“I always love the analogy in uh David Bell's and Ted orland's book art and fear did you read that Brad”
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MONEY Master the Game
MONEY Master the Game by Tony Robbins is a comprehensive personal finance guide that outlines strategies for building wealth and navigating investments, most notably through index and Vanguard funds.
Discussed“said that he was reading the Tony Robbins book money Master the game all right okay after that book I mean he had heard a lot of the same principles”
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Reset : How to Restart Your Life and Get F. U. Money
Reset : How to Restart Your Life and Get F.
Discussed“so the full title is reset how to restart your life and get Fu money the unconventional early retirement plan for midlife careerists who want to be happy”
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Stacked
Discussed“and as I was reading your book I loved the book I basically imagine if Dave Berry could do compound interest you'd probably have a competitor but since he can't or doesn't like this book filled that void absolutely perfectly”
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The 5 Love Languages for Men
The 5 Love Languages for Men by Gary Chapman is a popular relationship guide that outlines different ways individuals express and receive affection.
Discussed“and over the last several months I have heard Brad mention no less than four times the impact of one book The Five Love Languages”
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The other 2 books Jonathan Mendonsa recommended or discussed, ranked
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Books Jonathan Mendonsa wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (27: passing, ad reads, own books)
“so we recorded this episode back in 2017 and in October of 2019 we actually released our book choose fi your blueprint to financial Independence it can be found anywhere the books are found and it actually takes the Big Ideas the concepts that we've been talking about over the past two or three years and bundles them together”
“we have the written book and the audiobook version of JL Collins book The Simple path to wealth and we have a couple copies left of Dominic cortuccio's book design your future”
“well somehow in this group I doubt they will be covering amazing epic titled books like Buford the Little Bighorn how drewfist the dragon lost his head or cowardly Clyde”
“well somehow in this group I doubt they will be covering amazing epic titled books like Buford the Little Bighorn how drewfist the dragon lost his head or cowardly Clyde”
“well somehow in this group I doubt they will be covering amazing epic titled books like Buford the Little Bighorn how drewfist the dragon lost his head or cowardly Clyde”
“Dave Ramsey has a radio show that is a very popular radio show across the country he has a book The Total Money Makeover and he has a course that he sells and that people can teach individuals basically a basic framework of how to get their finances in order”
“you know Brad this is a conversation that I've wanted to have basically since I heard about the topic probably close to five maybe even seven years ago in Tim ferriss's book and I'm trying to remember now which one it was maybe the four hour work week”
“the first book Is JL Collins book The Simple path to wealth”
“the first is JL Collins book The Simple path to wealth”
“Bryce and Christie from Millennial Revolution are joining us on the show to talk about their new book quit like a millionaire”
“the first is JL Collins book The Simple path to wealth”
“the first is JL Collins book The Simple path to wealth”
“and the third book from vinciplesi freelance to Freedom”
“the first is JL Collins book The Simple path to wealth”
“and the third book from Vincent buglesi freelance to Freedom”
“you know if you heard about our book it's actually it's going to be titled choose fi your blueprint to financial Independence if you want to find out more information or put your pre-order in you can just go to chooseify.com book al”
“all right everyone this next segment we are getting the opportunity to speak with Craig curloff about his brand new book the house hacking strategy”
“have you read the five love languages”
“we released the book choosify your blueprint to financial Independence kind of yep right there on your shelf”
“in the very near future she will have interviewed more millionaires than Napoleon Hill from uh yes Think and Grow Rich”
“ranging from some of our old favorites like jail Collins simple Pat the well Dominic cortuccio's design your future Vincent puglisi's freelance to Freedom”
“the first is our book choosify your blueprint to financial Independence and the other one is the simple startup Series”
“and the other one is the simple startup Series this is by Rob Phelan”
“that phrase coin from Scott Adams in his book how to fail at nearly everything and still win big you can check me in the name it's very close to that”
“In fact Warren Buffett as I've quoted a bunch of times here he's mentioned that he plans to leave his estate certainly when he passes to his wife and ninety percent of the funds he's directed to put into a Vanguard S P 500 Index Fund”
“huge thanks to Doug Norman the military guide and co-author of raising the money Savvy family Next Generation Financial Independence”
“we could look at chaos theory and a random walk down wall street I mean we could do a whole history lesson”