“The Updated Version of ‘The Wealthy Barber’ is What I’m Most Proud Of”

Dave tells Preet why the updated “The Wealthy Barber” was the toughest but most rewarding project of his career. Plus don’t miss Preet’s review of the new book at the end!

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 I will say that it, the things I’ve been involved with in my career, the updated version of The Wealthy Barber is what I’m most proud of. You know, it really is, like, I, I obviously the first book laid the foundation, but the work that went in through the update and the testing and the rewriting, et cetera, it was, I, I was stressed for the first time in my life.

I’m not a very stressed person. You know me pretty well. Like, I’m a pretty chill guy. I was stressed.

Yeah. Your nickname is Chili!

Yeah, exactly. And I felt the pressure to to, you know, have it live up to the original book, but I wanted to go beyond that. You know, if you’re trying to just live up to it, how do you make it even better?

How do you make it more compelling? And the testing played a big role. And of course it’s trickier now because when I wrote the first book, to your point, there was RRSPs only. Now there’s RRSPs, TFSAs, FHSA, Home Buyers Plan, ETFs. You have to teach all of that. And because Canadians are very tight right now, I mean, it’s very expensive out there.

Not just real estate, but cost of living. We can’t do it all. And so how do you show people how you have to think to prioritize properly, et cetera? All that has to be woven in conversationally and keep it going, not get bogged down. And so, yeah, I’m thrilled that you liked it as much as you did. I really am.

I had the pleasure of getting an advanced copy, and it is amazing. It follows more in the first book’s footprint in terms of the way you present the information and the, the, the choice you make in, you know, having the conversations and picking off where you’re kind of left off. And I think it’s so engaging. It is such a, it’s such a rare gift that you have to make information like this so palatable that you do not actually want to put the book down.

Well, you say, you know, I wanna stay up a little bit later and go onto the next chapter because it’s just so entertaining. Like it’s really, really amazing. And I think you know that this next book is probably gonna sell in the Millions, because if anyone’s listening, this is a great present for stocking stuffers.

You know, you got 20 people on your list for, for the holidays. You can knock ’em all off right now and buy these books in bulk.