Jonathan Mendonsa is the co-founder of the ChooseFI podcast. ChooseFI started in early 2017 with co-founder Brad Barrett; since then ChooseFI has been downloaded millions of times in over 190 countries. Mendosa has a PharmD Degree from VCU and started his career as a pharmacist with $168,000 in student loans. He aggressively paid off the loans in 4.5 years and using the tenets of Financial Independence to cut his life expenses significantly, coupled with his business startup, he left his corporate job to focus on full-time entrepreneurship 9 months after starting the podcast.