269 | Let's make Lemonade with a Twist

<div class= "elementor-element elementor-element-15da9379 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="15da9379" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type= "theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul> <li>ChooseFI Facebook Community Manager recently posted a meme that hit home with <strong>Brad</strong>. It said, “<em>Plot twist: 2020 has actually been the best year of your life. You faced challenge after challenge, you've adapted, and you've overcome. 2020 has forced you to grow exponentially. Don't take that for granted.</em>“</li> <li>2020 had been <strong>Jonathan's</strong> best year ever. Instead of giving in to fear, doubt, and insecurity, he decided to lean in. By being more intentional with the things that were important to him, like his health, <strong>Jonathan</strong> has lost 20 to 30 pounds and is in the best shape of his life.</li> <li><strong>Jonathan</strong> also sought to build his personal talent stack and built two new businesses. He is feeling more agency and is more fulfilled than at any other point in his life.</li> <li>Previously, <strong>Jonathan</strong>‘s beliefs about himself were all based on external validation. But as he began to get more freedom and autonomy in his life, he began to question those beliefs and reclaim his identity statement.</li> <li>Learning that things such as student loan debt is good debt and you'll have to work until retirement age, just aren't true allowed him the space to challenge the status quo in other areas of his life.</li> <li>Initially, he even questioned whether the success of ChooseFI was the result of a random lightning strike of luck. However, he's taken his interest-led learning and skills he's learned, applied them to two new business models, and achieved success with them.</li> <li>The interest-led learning <strong>Brad</strong> and <strong>Jonathan</strong> frequently discuss on the show helped <strong>Jonathan</strong> lean in March, and it also lead <strong>Brad</strong>‘s eight-year-old dau