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Ramit Sethi was one of the earliest bloggers to inspire me when I first started writing Thrilling Heroics and building my online network. He was a graduate of Stanford University who’d studied technology and psychology, co-founded Silicon Valley startup PBworks, and was writing the hugely successful I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog to show college students and young professionals how to take control of their personal finances and get into entrepreneurship.

Although he’s based in the Bay Area, I reached out to him and learned that he’s originally from my hometown in Northern California. The first time I met Ramit in person was one chilly winter day in 2006 when he was in Sacramento to visit his family, and I had the chance to interview him about his education, entrepreneurship experience, and his perspectives on new media.

One of the first bold moves Ramit made in his career was to call up Seth Godin and negotiate a job opportunity with him! He later consulted with Omidyar Network, the philanthropic social innovation firm started by Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar. He got himself featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, ABC News, CNBC, and more, sharing personal finance tips and bolstering his readership at I Will Teach You To Be Rich to over 250,000 visitors per month!

In March, Ramit published his book by the same title, which instantly hit #1 on Amazon and made him a NYT bestselling author. His educational background in social psychology translated well into a book that helps you make real behavioral change:

At last, for a generation that’s materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethi’s 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds. A completely practical approach delivered with a nonjudgmental style that makes readers want to do what Sethi says, it is based around the four pillars of personal finance—banking, saving, budgeting, and investing—and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship.

These days Ramit hangs out with Tim Ferriss (check out his feature on the 4-Hour Workweek blog about the psychology of money and how to set up an automated personal finance system, with great excerpts from Ramit’s book).

How could you ask for a better twentysomething role model for personal finance and entrepreneurship success?

I met up with Ramit a time or two in San Francisco since first meeting him in 2006, but I’ve been wanting to catch up with him for a video interview for a while now to see what has changed in the last three years. Just my luck, this week he’s turning the six-week personal finance program in his best-selling book into a real online bootcamp where he’ll take you by the hand through a step-by-step online curriculum to automate and optimize your finances before the end of 2009, so I offered to help him promote the bootcamp if he’d sit down and answer some questions for you guys here.

Check out the video interview below for the following:

• Learn more about the I Will Teach You To Be Rich 6-Week Personal Finance Bootcamp
• Entrepreneurship, experimentation & failure
• How the things you spend your money on reflect your values
• How Ramit negotiated a book deal from his blog
• How he promoted his book to #1 on Amazon and the New York Times bestseller list
• Personal finance & entrepreneurship tips for travelers & expats
• Learn about the I Will Teach You To Be Rich Scholarship for Social Innovation

Interview with Ramit Sethi of IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com

Want to get your finances in shape for 2010? I highly recommend you sign up for Ramit’s bootcamp.

Stop worrying about your money. If you invest just 6 weeks with Ramit, you can set up an automated system to handle your money so you can focus on starting a side business, living your dream life, traveling, or whatever’s important to you. It won’t be easy…but you can do it with a plan. Ramit will be doing live weekly webcasts to answer your specific questions, and you’ll be surrounded by a huge community of other people like you who can share hacks, tips and suggestions for the problems you face.

The I Will Teach You To Be Rich bootcamp includes:

• Weekly live classes from Ramit where he’ll kick your ass to take action implementing an advanced automation system, and answer your specific questions
• Expert guest speakers on entrepreneurship, finding dream jobs, earning more, and advanced topics—every week
• Curriculum with detailed action steps on saving, earning more, automation, and entrepreneurship—which will let you start 2010 off fresh
• Private community with hundreds of other members who are going through the same thing as you (and are dedicated to taking ACTION)

This is a great chance for young professionals to learn not just the technical answers to your questions, but the psychological side of staying on top of your finances and making forward progress.

The special offer for Thrilling Heroics readers:

Here’s what I’m going to do for you guys if you’re interested in participating in the 6-week program:

• If you sign up through this link here on Thrilling Heroics, you’re going to get $75 cash back from me. So rather than $199 you’ll be getting this 6-week bootcamp for only about 125 bucks. Sign up here before Friday, November 6.
• The first 5 people who sign up through my link in the next 24 hours will get $100 back. That’s effectively 50% off. You have until 8am PST Wednesday, November 4.

Registration is ONLY open from now through Friday, November 6th. If you’re not TOTALLY satisfied, just email Ramit for a no-questions-asked, 100% money-back guarantee any time within 30 days.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Purchase the IWTYTBR bootcamp by clicking this link only. You may want to clear your cache first to make sure my cookie is in place, so you guarantee your discount.
2. After you receive confirmation of your order, email me your receipt with the transaction ID. If you’re one of the first 5 to get $100 back, I’ll let you know, otherwise you’re still guaranteed $75 cash back, plus another goody or two Ramit & I might throw in later.
3. After the 30-days money-back guarantee has passed, you can look forward to receiving a cash payment from me via PayPal (wouldn’t be fair to let you run off with my cash and then cancel the bootcamp).

To learn more about Ramit Sethi, social psychology, technology in business, scrappy startups, and x-man abilities, make sure you also read my 2006 interview with him.

Feature photo from You 2.0