The Voluntary Life

A review of Peter Breggin's book, Guilt Shame And Anxiety: Understanding And Overcoming Negative Emotions, originally pu... Read more

This episode provides a mind blowing way of thinking about the true cost of your monthly expenses. If you are interested... Read more

This episode is about freeing your mind by decluttering all your mental baggage on a regular basis. Topic covered includ... Read more

An update about how my approach to travel and minimalism has changed since becoming a parent. From an interview on the W... Read more

In his book Stop Acting Rich, author Thomas Stanley explained a way to calculate your relative net worth, taking into ac... Read more

This episode is about a technique for staying on top of all your commitments known as the weekly review. It helps you ge... Read more

This episode is about saving money and it's relationship with freedom. Many people are trapped in a "wage slavery" lifes... Read more

This episode is an interview that Jake did on the Porc Therapy Podcast, recorded live at Porcfest 2012. In the interview... Read more

This episode is about making sense of two important concepts: frugality and minimalism. Frugality means to be economical... Read more

An episode about freedom from stuff. Topics covered include: What I learned living from a backpack for 7+ months Why ow... Read more

Preparing for a life of travel involved getting rid of anything that I could not take with me in one suitcase. One big s... Read more

Brett Veinotte from the School Sucks Podcast and Jake Desyllas from The Voluntary Life discuss the process of upgrading ... Read more

This episode is a chapter from the audiobook of Job Free by Jake Desyllas. This chapter explains extreme saving- a strat... Read more

There are many practical steps required to reach financial independence, but there are also some interesting psychologic... Read more

Part 2 in the short series of podcasts about The Voluntary Life. This episode is all about the podcast itself. The podc... Read more

This episode is about how to diversify your investments for lower risk and higher return. The issues covered include: ... Read more

In this interview, Sarah tells her early retirement story and talks about life after quitting the rat race. We discuss w... Read more

Audio from a presentation given at the 2013 Libertopia conference. The talk explains how I quit the rat race aged 38 and... Read more

An interview with Eduardo Marty, who founded Junior Achievement in Argentina and in many other Latin American countries.... Read more

This week's episode comes from Joshua Sheats, host of the Radical Personal Finance podcast: "Most of us in the Radical ... Read more