Vicki and her partner Joe Dominguez wrote the book, Your Money or Your Life – a New York Times Best Seller that many people consider to be the bible of financial independence (the FI-ble?). We weren’t preaching spiritual transformation. I have a solid history of being a “late bloomer.” ;-). And so what does it take to be resourceful in a real community? Mad Fientist: That’s fantastic! I’m still paying attention to what’s it going to take for us to be self-sufficient. It’s part of your financial independence. I was completely disconnected from self-care. What I noticed after years of people doing this program and communicating with me is that the core of the program really is steps #2, #3 and #4. Joe Dominguez died on January 11, 1997. Vicki Robin: It was my generation’s version of the minimalist really. And yeah, I think you’re really going to enjoy it. We’ve already gone over an hour, and I could talk to you for many more hours. Books by Vicki Robin . WWW.YOURMONEYORYOURLIFE.ORG is the official portal for the book, connecting readers to support materials for implementing the 9-Step program and to the … All very inspiring! I grew up fairly privileged. (Oprah) For more than 25 years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Your Money or Your Life is the book I recommend for anyone thinking about early retirement and financial independence. And so, we actually went on this spiritual quest: “What is true? So his methodology, and of course his quest for freedom and spiritual evolution, matched mine perfectly. I loved that she focused on herself for a while instead of trying to convince others to live less consumer driven lives. And I am really interested in hearing how people’s receptibility to financial independence has changed and also if there’s anything in the book that now just doesn’t apply and if there’s anything new that she’s learned over the years that she now plans to add to the next version. And then, I had this come to Jesus moment where I was at the meeting in the late ‘90s with these global leaders and realized, “This is way bigger than I knew.”. And a couple of years later, I got on to the relocalization movement. Life on FIRE – what’s next for me, you and us. I’m a values investor where I’m putting my money—basically, I’m getting 5% of my money free and clear—and a lot more because I built two little apartments on the ground floor of my house, and so I have rental income. She is best known as the author of Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence. Vicki Robin . Just today I realize that Vicky Robin is a woman. And I bought it … Read more "Oprah!" But yeah, you can go to VickiRobin.com or you can go to YourMoneyorYourLife.org. So, I brought that passion back to Joe and the community of people who had formed around us. And I trusted that if we could liberate people to be themselves in their world, to give their gifts, that things would change. I painted, I sang in the choir. is a prolific social innovator, writer and speaker. Very inspiring to listen to Vicky and hear her story. Were you able to correlate that with anything going on like economic booms and busts or anything like that? Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance. And since we were sort of resolutely financially independent—you know, we were financially independent not only as a money reality, but as a stand in the world that you don’t need all these stuff to be happy, there’s something greater than consumerism, we really wanted to change minds and hearts. Let’s call the whole thing off? Vicki Robin: Totally! Well done! And even the core steps that you think haven’t held up? And community is different from relationships. However, given that you asked the question, and I have answered this before, I would say the one thing you can do is track all the money that comes into and out of your life for one month and see what happens. Biographie de l'auteur Vicki Robin is a renowned innovator, writer, and speaker. She is best known as the author of Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your … Oprah's Book Club Vicki Robin Anzeigen in Apple Books. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance. I trust that in people. And then, in 2004, just almost exactly seven years after Joe died, I was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. I had, what I called, cash register mind. But here’s what the traditional was. Aux États-Unis, le 1er mai 1989, une jeune femme de vingt-neuf ans, Vicky Polin, apparaît sur le plateau de télévision de la célèbre animatrice Oprah Winfrey. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/27/us/joe-dominguez-58-championed-a-simple-and-frugal-life-style.html. She is coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Viking Penguin, 1992, 1998, 2008, 2018). And I think that is another transformative step. So, that’s where the energy came for doing what I call The Millennial Makeover, partnering with some millennials to understand what’s the circumstance that people are fledging into now, how are they making it, and how can the Your Money or Your Life program, the classic program, be relevant to people now, people in their 30’s and down. And so, from that realization, from doing the calculation for the real hourly wage, it transforms your sense of consumption from being the prize for a hard work week to being something that’s going to send you into another hard work week. And I learned some of what we need to do here, some of the big missing pieces in our food economy that we need to grow. Thanks for making the full transcripts available and also the PDFs. Your email address will not be published. -Oprah For more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. And so personalizing that definition of money is the transformational heart of this program. And then, S is for your stuff. She has also been featured in People Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Woman's Day, Newsweek, Utne Magazine and the New York Times. It’s fabulous. I have worked with different groups and friends in the years since to build up our local food system. So, there’s an environment now where there can be a spread strategy for financial common sense, freedom, happiness and service, purpose, service to the whole. Vicki Robin: I was nuts! And it may be that we have to work deeply political—we probably do because we’re in the United States, and in Europe. 2018 Blessing the Hands That Feed Us. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance. Could I survive?”. It can really change your life." I connect with so many of Vicki Robin’s values, and I love to hear her speak–I listened to her CD on the Your Money or Your Life book. Oprah understood immediately the transformational power of Your Money or Your Life. This island is my go-bag. In the exercise, some of you will figure out that are you self-denying, self-punishing, hyper-frugaling, you’re so proud of yourself for not spending money that you’re a bore and you’re insufferable to everybody. You know Vicki Robin as the author of Your Money or Your Life, but on today’s show, we dive MUCH deeper into her story and her background.Growing up without a lot of money, she learned how to use her resources to appear as though she had more. When do I get to find out what else is in me? You […] another’s stuff. Anyway, that’s Joe. Your email address will not be published. I’m there. Eckhart Tollle & Oprah 2009 Global Web series ~ Awakening your life purpose 3/3 ... 194 Your Money Or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez - … When I had to live by myself, my monthly expenses tripled. You cut those off—and I live in an earthquake zone, those could get cut off. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance. 31 December, 2018. I’m an avatar for something, and everybody projects on me that I’m—. I don’t know where that extra 25% used to go. Books See All. Vicki Robin is a renowned innovator, writer, and speaker.In addition to coauthoring the bestselling Your Money or Your Life, Robin has been at the forefront of the sustainable living movement.She has received awards from Co-Op America and Sustainable Northwest and was profiled in Utne Magazine’s book Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life. I talk about the index funds, all the varieties of people who are using index funds; and then some people who are using real estate and some people who are active investors. And that’s what made us willing to listen to this agent and write the book. Vicki Robin: Yeah! What would that look like? He was in like PS38 or some ghetto high school or junior high school, I guess, in Spanish Harlem in New York City, having grown up on welfare cheese with his father having TB and being in a TB sanitorium and his mother not being able to speak English and him running the family from the time he was like 2. You’ve been talking about these ideas. I probably got about three hours of writing right now. I want to live among empowered people, people who can do stuff, who are competent, who don’t just flap their arms when anything goes wrong, trying to figure out the person I should call to fix it for me. I’m somebody who learns about life by being in it, by being close to it and having sort of edgy experiences where I have to solve a problem—I have to solve for it in order for me to survive. -Oprah For more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Excellent interview. Spending now aligns better with happiness. Definitely a life-changer. It’s not a budget book pattern. And the idea was, “Is there a way to, together, we can challenge, we can form common cause and challenge these big ideas—write op-eds in the newspapers, not be like individuals who can be picked off one by one, but be a force? She is coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Viking Penguin, 1992, 1998, 2008, 2018). I had no idea what happened. So, a bit about my story is that, number one, I’m very social, I’m verbal, I’m articulate, and I like being out and about and among people. Vicki Robin. You know, just all the lists, all the major shows, all the everything. Join over 100,000 others on the Mad Fientist email list to get access to exclusive content and software! Very inspirational and I look forward to reading Vicki’s updated release! Success! I don’t know what it was, but I wrote the book. We saved your money somehow or another. I don’t think “set for life” works anymore. That’s how we expand our markets.”. And we met as long as the money lasted, then we stopped meeting. And you’ve got electricity that comes right into your house. And so, we organized a group and did a lot of potlucks and working groups. And we kept counting up the audiences like, okay, we’re going to get to, we figured we’d gotten to 50% of the country. Vicki has helped launch many … Spot on! Where are you? Vicki Robin: Well, I mean, financial independence was la-la land. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance. This is one of the best interviews I’ve heard in the FI community! Join the Mad Fientist, Mr. Money Mustache, Paula Pant from Afford Anything, and Doug Nordman from The Military Guide for a live Q&A from Camp Mustache! I have a great faith in individuals that, if you free your mind and your time from doing things—you know, as Will Rogers said, “buying things that you don’t need to impress people that you don’t like”—if you free yourself from that insane process that only surge the industrial growth economy, then you will find, within you, that something that is yours to do. But that story still persists. One of the founders of the financial independence movement, Vicki Robin, joined me for an episode of the Financial Independence Podcast! And that’s distributed through Sounds True. All you had to do was say, “Oh, I went on the road in 1969,” and everybody knows what you were up to. Vicki and Joe had been talking about financial independence way back in the ‘60s and had seminars in the ‘80s and wrote the book and published it in the ‘90s. So I’m trying to find ways to make sure that the highest percentage of my spending is going to happiness as possible, even if that means I have to increase it a little bit. I don’t know how. But it was a New York Times Bestseller. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist.She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011. So, as I say in the year 2000, some place around there, I started to despair. Vicki Robin . 2018 Audiobooks See All. When you become somebody who’s like a public figure and all the […] people project everything on to you, you can lose the sense of anything fresh or new. But having grown up in poverty, he knew how to do that. I think that’s a great exercise to do no matter where you are in the journey to financial independence. We’re going to do this. And we were going to find the leader long enough. […] is all about the toxicity of consumerism. But Your Money or Your Life is I’m asking people to wake up and smell the roses. But I would imagine that a stage III cancer diagnosis would then even force you to look more into those big ideas. Love the underlying reasons of why the movement started. We’re free to explore the world in the way we chose to do it, and I’m still there. You don’t do that. So, I feel like I’m doing this not in a vacuum, but in a context of millennials really. And yes, there are going to be people like you guys who figured it and you become FI and there’s a fascination with how to do it when you do it through a job or through investing. Mad Fientist: Oh, perfect! So, I didn’t find that the idea gained more reception. 2014 Mehr Geld für mehr Leben. Its intuitive, we all know it, Vicki articulates it. But basically, to question people, to question the whole activity of consumerism is not anti-American, it’s deeply American—it’s just anti-corporatism. She graduated cum laude from Pembroke College in Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1967. And so I resigned from world-changing. In Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin shows readers how to gain control of their money and finally begin to make a life, rather than just make a living. And so it’s trying to raise awareness. But the United States wouldn’t have a hearing because this is not—as George Bush Sr. said, “The way Americans consume is not up for discussion. Mad Fientist: I’ll try real quick just to give everybody a sort of like time scale. But I want to go back to the beginning if that’s alright. Vicki has been a driving force in the FI community since the 1960s and has a wealth of knowledge and inspiring stories to share so hope you enjoy the interview! Join over 100,000 others on the Mad Fientist email list and start tracking your progress in the FI Laboratory! That’s really my great joy. So basically, building those skills, whether it’s website design or whatever those Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin's guidance. Vicki Robin: They didn’t have to prove a track record. And I thought, “What kind of society bags its old people to poverty and treats its young people as the next profit center, the next tulip crazy.” This is not okay. Your email address will not be published. Now a whole new generation is taking her advice. You can’t just be a dictator. We’re going to actually live in this world, and we’re going to figure out how one lives in this world and makes a beautiful life in this world. This was Clinton years. Vicki Robin. This is like completely embedded in the American character, this whole idea of minimalism at the material level, so that you could liberate your Spirit for something that’s greater than stuff. Vicki Robin: No, actually. So people become natural savers. I knew there was something more to life. So basically, that’s a piece I want to draw people’s attention to. So I had my own wall that I hit. He also trained as an altar boy. You don’t eat a high fat diet and overeat in sugar and salt and fat and all those stuff in order to keep your neighbor who’s a heart surgeon employed. We failed to notice that “the rich getting rich” hasn’t done squat for the rest of us. [She is] the millenial money whisperer." What Our Readers Are Saying Share your thoughts on this title! But for me, I am now focused on the systemic forces. Two observations: 1) it’s shocking how long shoulderpads and hairteasing persisted into the 90s, and 2) it’s inspiring to see how the seeds of minimalism, frugality and FI were planted in the 90s despite the deep-seated consumerist culture of the time. I’m stuck. I realized, “Oops, maybe I have more to do on this money realm.”, And so, I convened a group at that conference around this question of: “Should I update Your Money or Your Life? You don’t need a new outfit for every occasion. Vicki Robin is an American writer and advocate of the simplified life. I’m excited to see what you come up with. That’s nuts!”. The original seminar was called Transforming Your Relationship with Money & Achieving Financial Independence. This is the turnaround decade.” And I thought, “Yup! Thanks for getting the interview with Vicki. And I was like this little pipsqueak in the back row. About Your Money or Your Life. Vicki’s book changed my life a few years ago. It brought an integrity to the work that made it shine. I can’t wait to meet you soon. Vicki Robin has lectured widely and appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, including "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Good Morning America" and National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition" and "Morning Edition." It’s actually asking you to reflect on what is concrete in terms of what is really valuable. Vicki Robin is a prolific social innovator, writer and speaker. Can we be a political force?”. Vicki Robin: And so, that began the mercurial rise of this book. And of course, the dollar was worth a third of what it is now. And I used to say to audiences, I said like, “Look, this is nuts. Going to buy updated copy asap. What they wanted to know is why we didn’t have to work. Mad Fientist: That’s crazy, absolutely crazy. She held up the book, and she said, “This is a great book. http://traffic.libsyn.com/madfientist/vicki-robin-interview.mp3, Leave a review for the Financial Independence Podcast on iTunes (thanks! Vicki started a movement. Lessons from What Could Possibly Go Right? I know Your Money or Your Life is like the bible of the FI community. I didn’t really know the debt that young people are into. It has worked in it’s own way, in it’s own time – because we are still talking about it and translating it in our own words. How are you responding to Covid-19? It was the right people. They want to get advice for one thing they can do because one thing you can do is something you can wake up in the morning and do. I really enjoyed listening to him. Many people said, “I don’t know what I used to buy. So, this was the first US hearing. It’s on Amazon.co.uk, I purchased it here only a few weeks ago. It’s like every generation discovers this because it’s so obvious, it’s so hidden in plain sight, that you don’t have to over-consume in order to be happy. I don’t know if we have to have people all along the river and have people fish out the little kids and have people who change the laws and religious leaders who awaken people’s conscience. But you know what? There was an error submitting your subscription. And we were a bunch of people who lived in the woods! Step is very shallow with its depth that it feels like the author is trying to sell me something but doesn't want to get the vital information away until you pay. We did a lot of work. I mean, we have to realize that we came out, you know, United States was in a tremendous depression. And I call that “community is currency,” that relational field. I mean, this has been so enshrined that—in the Reagan year, it was the Laffer curve and the trickle-down economy. And you have to go back to 1950 when he was 12 years old. Is it making me happy?”. Loved this interview MF and Vicki! It’s not like you snap your fingers, and it happens, because it’s a real community and not everybody agrees with you. It just has to be… everybody has to do it.”, And I got on fire! -Oprah For more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. So, I developed that one in 2001. Please try again. It’s like tracking and evaluating the flow of resources through a community, a town, an island, a city. An open letter to the FIRE community, Hello FIers . And that’s how you’re going to…”. That is a huge problem with YMOYL. Awesome interview. The world is full of people who think this way. You will notice I’m wearing the same purple dress. I was making a point. But it’s like you’re at one end of the river, and you notice that—this is a terrible image, but this is the story that I used to tell. And I organized (with some friends) one of the early transition town groups. And we formed something called the Simplicity Forum. Thanks for sharing. Wow! Vicki’s one-piece-of-advice on tracking spending for a month is spot on. Filmed in the 80’s and 90’s and just as true and even more urgently important today. There was another 10,000 tape courses that have sold. And so, I got deeply interested in that. Vicki Robin is co-author of the national bestseller Your Money or Your Life with the late Joe Dominguez.Called the prophet of consumption downsizers by the New York Times, Vicki has lectured worldwide and appeared in various print and broadcast media including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal,Newsweek, and more. We were going to form common cause and find that leader. Awesome! I took Vicki’s advice to watch Affluenza on Youtube. I could pay $500 and I live 30 miles outside of town, but if I pay $800 a month, and all $800 of that is contributing to my happiness because I’m able to walk places and spend time in the park and see friends more often and all that sort of stuff, I’m coming at it from that angle, not where I can cut back, but just to make sure that the maximum amount of my spending is going towards happiness as possible. That was like the really rich people. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin's guidance. I’m sitting back there, and I’m going like, “We’ve been teaching this program for nine years now.” We’ve surveyed people who did the program. 11 March, 2020. His goal really was freedom. So keep up the great work with the podcast! I graduated at the top of my high school class. 11 March, 2020. And then, comment and tell us what crazy things you found out about your spending that you probably didn’t know. That piece, if I could just deliver that piece in all its glory, I trust that the rest of it works out. Podcast 59 Andrew’s personal story … school teacher retired at 41 and writer for Globe and Mail, 9 Rules of Wealth You Need to Know, with Andrew Hallam | Afford Anything Podcast (Ep. So, we had utter faith that all we had to do was find the 5%. There was a World Commission on Environmental Development that traveled throughout the 1980s, early ‘80s, through the world, asking this question, holding hearings. And so everybody jumps in to save the little kids who are struggling, they’d fish them out. I don’t go into denial, I go into action. In addition to coauthoring the bestselling Your Money or Your Life, Robin has been at … Notify me of follow-up comments by email. It comes out of the UK. So it’s like the ARK. Vicki got dejected after a decade of trying to change the world with no apparent deep impact. I’d like to just jump back again to the late ‘90s. And I was like panting, “Let me go!” because I really thought we were going to get everybody. Export, at that time, it was like a bigger deal. Are you transforming things that are flows like “I’m going to upgrade my computer every two years?” to things that are your stock pile, things that will last longer than you will? So, I want to say thank you so much for your kindness and your interest. We’re going to lower consumption in North America by 20% to 25%. Wow! I live in another island. Save my name, email, and site URL in my browser for next time I post a comment. Great interview. So, I would say that we were speaking to the 20% of the population who already knew it. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin's guidance. Mad Fientist: Wow! Mad Fientist: Yeah, that’s a fantastic exercise. And so, we went on that quest, and we found answers for ourselves. Obviously, this all started back in the ‘60s. One of which involves money. I actually lived by myself (not in a group home, sharing expenses and everything). Vicki’s appearance begins 11 minutes into the second video and she’s called “Rachel”. I just went through a hip replacement surgery, and I had probably 20 friends take care of me. Yeah! Where are you? This March, we spent ~$1000 less. So, without further delay—I can’t believe I’m saying this—Vicki Robin, welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast. I had to do that after my cancer. Probably some UK/ US privacy laws…agh, Your email address will not be published. I know that I’m the only thing that’s standing in the way of that new version, and I don’t want to take up too much of your time. He and Vicki Robin were founders of the New Road Map Foundation, an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that promotes a human, sustainable future for our world. I talk about those choices. So, for me, I learned my frugal habits early on. To me, Joe sounds like the funny Uncle of the alter ego of Mr. Money Mustache. And then, I heard a lecture where I realized—somebody, one of my old colleagues, talking about some vision for a sane economy. So yeah, Vicki, thank you so much. Thanks, great listen. Ultimately it is a skill to be able to consistently realize that the “things” in life are not what is important! So, this liberating people with things they really, really needed to free up their time like hot water, hot-ready water in the house, that habituated people to that sort of “more is better” mentality. Mad Fientist: Yeah, that’s something I wanted to dive into a little bit more if you don’t mind. 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