The podcast starts with a brief history of the growth of the Merriman Financial Literacy Foundation. From it’s small beginning in December 2012, it has produced over 1000 videos, articles and podcasts, published 6 books, spoken at many national conferences, underwritten a university class on investing for non finance majors at Western Washington University, produced portfolios for do it yourself investors, produced recommended mutual funds and ETFs to build the portfolios. Most recently there is a new effort to give every Western student a meaningful exposure to personal finance. This is being done under the Merriman Financial Literacy Program at Western.

Two years ago we introduced the Merriman Boot Camp. The purpose of the project is to help investors make the best financial decisions. In the podcast Paul discusses 14 of those decisions and how we are enlarging our educational efforts. He also notes that the Boot Camp pages will also contain a new Q&A section on each topic as well as additional information from our list of Truth Tellers.