Cody Berman: Why Not Me?

Today we’ll be chatting with a very successful online entrepreneur, Cody Berman.

Cody is a co-founder of Gold City Ventures. He is also a co-founder of The Financial Freedom Summit, owner of Fly to FI and co-host of The FI Show.

He left his corporate banking job at age 22 to pursue entrepreneurship full time and now teaches others how to do the same. When he’s not talking about side hustling and personal finance, Cody enjoys travel, weightlifting and playing sports.

Fun fact: Cody lived in Australia for 6 months, used to rap and sing (quite prolifically) and started his first side hustle when he was just 10!

Why should YOU tune-in?

This guy absolutely LOVES figuring out all of the different ways he can make money online. From disc golf to Etsy printables, Cody has done it all and he hasn’t let failure or fear keep him from success. 

 

What we’re talking about:

Investment properties Corporate banking Frugal living Disc golf Side hustling and online business Etsy eprintables Starting an online business without any experience SEO and ads Sponsors on podcast Networking

 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Cody’s Websites: Gold City Ventures, The FI Show, Financial Freedom Summit, Fly to FI, Arsenal Discs

Cody’s Social: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest

EPrintables Course

 

Minute-by-minute breakdown:

1:17 – How Cody explains to friends and family what he does for a living

6:48 – Why did Cody start a financial blog?

7:48 – How people retire in their early 30s

11:11 – Leaving lucrative corporate banking for side hustling online

14:25 – Cody wanted to retire in his 30s, but now he’s focus on financial freedom

21:18 – How Cody got into eprintables

28:06 – Earning easy passive income and creating an eprintables course

32:35 – The Financial Freedom Summit

41:38 – Aaand It was canceled. So what now?

45:18 – Cody’s one piece of advice