Episode 019: Dr. Jim Dahle, host Rick Ferri

James M. Dahle, M.D., FACEP, is a full-time emergency room doctor, entrepreneur, writer, speaker, father, and is an inspiration to thousands of young doctors, dentists, lawyers, and other professionals who are seeking straight answers to personal finance questions. He started The White Coat Investor in 2011 to help those in the medical profession became the wealthy doctors that people think they are, and it has grown into the most widely-read physician-specific personal finance and investing website in the world.

 

Dr. Dahle published The White Coat Investor, A Doctor’s Guide to Personal Finance and Investing in 2014, and recently published The White Coat Investor’s Financial Boot Camp: A 12-Step High-Yield Guide to Bring Your Finances Up to Speed. His personal finance articles have appeared in numerous online and printed publications, and he writes regular columns for Physicians Money Digest and ACEP NOW. His enterprise also includes a conference, online courses, and social media discussions.

 

This podcast is hosted by Rick Ferri, CFA, a long-time Boglehead and investment adviser. The Bogleheads are a group of like-minded individual investors who follow the general investment and business beliefs of John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Group. It is a conflict-free community where individual investors reach out and provide education, assistance and relevant information to other investors of all experience levels at no cost.

 

The organization's free website is Bogleheads.org and the wiki site is Bogleheads® wiki. Bogleheads sites are operated by volunteers who contribute time and talent. Donations help defray operating costs.

 

Since 2000, the Bogleheads' have held national conferences in major cities around the country and currently meet in Philadelphia in the autumn of each year. There are 56 Local Chapters in the US and three Foreign Chapters that also meet regularly. New Chapters are being added on a regular basis.

 

This podcast is supported by the John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy, a non-profit organization approved by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity on February 6, 2012.