121: Happy, Smart, & Useful by Derek Sivers and A Reminder from the Mexican Fisherman by J. Money of Budgets Are Sexy
Optimal Living Daily: Reading you the best content on personal development, productivity, and minimalism.\nEpisode 121: Happy, Smart, & Useful by Derek Sivers and A Reminder from the Mexican Fisherman by J. Money of Budgets Are Sexy.\nOriginally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education.\nHe is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks.\nSince 2011 he has published 34 books, including \u201cAnything You Want\u201d which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories.\nJ. Money is a 6\u20191, hyperactive, rock a \u2018hawk who loves drinking beer, blaring hip-hop, talking about money, and now playing with his two adorable baby boys. He also has a podcast: M.O.N.E.Y.\nHe tracked his expenses for 3 months, made a budget, read some books, and stumbled into personal finance blogging and idea sharing, randomly turning BudgetsAreSexy.com into his full time \u201creal job\u201d a few short years later--14 million views later!\nThe original posts are located here:\nhttps://sivers.org/hsu\nhttp://www.budgetsaresexy.com/2016/03/mexican-fisherman-parable\nPlease Rate & Review the Show!\nVisit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com\nand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices