this is useful, inspiring and practical advice. His story about the apple tree is worth the entire cost of the book.
— Seth Godin, bestselling author
No funny stuff, just money stuff
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Scott Pape is the Barefoot Investor.
Since 2002, he's reached millions of Australians through his email newsletter, national weekend newspaper columns, appearances on TV and radio and his bestselling books, The Barefoot Investor (2016) and The Barefoot Investor for Families (2018).
He has worked with the heads of government, schools across the country, AFL and NRL teams, bushfire survivors, and some of the most vulnerable people in our community.
In 2020, Scott was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for ‘service to the community and to financial education’.
Scott gave up his financial services license in 2020 to become a volunteer financial counsellor.
He lives in country Victoria with his wife, Liz, and their four children on their family farm and is often seen belting around in an old ute that doesn't need to be locked.
THE ONLY MONEY GUIDE YOU'LL EVER NEED
SCOTT PAPE
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For Liz.
Home is wherever I'm with you
Date: 12 February 2014
Location: Romsey Emergency Evacuations Centre
The counsellor leaned in, gently put her hand on mine, and said, ‘Honey, I know it will be difficult for you, but you're going to need to let people help you. You've got a young wife, a little baby … and you've just lost everything you own. I'm a financial counsellor. I help people in crisis. Let me help you.’
10 per cent of all author royalties are donated to the not-for-profit financial counselling peak body, Financial Counselling Australia.
Read this first
When I first sat down to write this book, I expected to sell a few thousand copies at best.
(After all, who reads books these days?)
So, I decided to write it the same way I'd talk to a mate if we were at a pub:
I sketched out my simple ‘bucket’ strategy … the exact bank accounts I used … even the pillow I bought that I couldn't shut up about!
Little did I know that what I was writing would become the bestselling Australian book of all time.
In fact, The Barefoot
