{"id":129576,"date":"2025-11-11T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129576\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:15:16","slug":"video-money-questions-the-wealthy-barber-still-has-all-the-answers-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129576\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Money questions? The Wealthy Barber still has all the answers you need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight on Village Media&#8217;s new &#8216;Closer Look&#8217; podcast: We talk money (and a lot more) with personal finance guru David Chilton, who just finished rewriting his seminal book for a new generation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"closer look logo\" id=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closer-look-logo-728x90.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ironically enough, David\u00a0Chilton did something he would never advise a client to do: he cashed out his RRSPs early to help fund his dream.<\/p>\n<p>In his case, the dream was to write a book: The Wealthy Barber. Thankfully for him, the risk paid off \u2014 countless times over.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-muted btn-lg title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.closerlookpodcast.ca\/newsletter\" style=\"background: #f2cd00; border-color: #f2cd00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Closer Look in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Released 36 years ago, The Wealthy Barber helped a generation of readers understand money management and sound investing strategies. At last count, the personal-finance guide has sold more than 2.1 million copies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chilton\u2019s iconic book is still on the shelves \u2014 but with a <a href=\"https:\/\/thewealthybarber.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fresh rewrite for a new generation<\/a>. Released Nov. 4, the updated version explores a lot of subjects that simply didn\u2019t exist back in the late-1980s, including TFSAs, FHSAs, and the massive impact of social media on people\u2019s spending decisions.<\/p>\n<p>David\u00a0Chilton is our guest on tonight\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/closerlookpodcast.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Closer Look<\/a>\u00a0podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Village Media\u2019s Michael Friscolanti and Scott Sexsmith, and produced by Derek Turner,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontotoday.ca\/closer-look\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Closer Look<\/a>\u00a0is a new daily podcast that goes way beyond the headlines with insightful, in-depth conversations featuring our reporters and editors, leading experts, key stakeholders and big newsmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh episodes drop every Monday to Friday at 7 p.m. right in your local news feed \u2014 and on the show\u2019s dedicated website: <a href=\"http:\/\/closerlookpodcast.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">closerlookpodcast.ca<\/a>. 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Our email address is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#f1929d9e8294839d9e9e9ab187989d9d9096949c94959890df9290\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"closer_look_shareimage_1200x628_generic\" id=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/closer_look_shareimage_1200x628_generic.jpg;w=960.jpeg\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nPodcast hosts Scott Sexsmith (left) and Michael Friscolanti,\u00a0Editor-in-Chief of Village Media.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight on Village Media&#8217;s new &#8216;Closer Look&#8217; podcast: We talk money (and a lot more) with personal finance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,89658,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-129576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-moneyfinanceretirementsavingrrspscott-sexsmithmichael-friscolanticloser-lookthe-wealthy-barberdavid-chilton","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}