A 2019 Interview with Jamie Bond Fife

Who is your favorite disney character?
Pocahontas.
What is your favorite disney movie?
Pocahontas?
What is your favorite food?
Greek.
What is your favorite animal?
Seahorse.
What is your favorite color?
Teal.
What is your favorite drink?
Water.
What is your favorite tv show?
Arrested Development.
What’s your top three favorite places you’ve ever traveled?
Haiti, Hawaii, Belgium.
If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
Hawaii.
What does your average day look like?
No answer given.
What do you spend a ridiculous amount of money on?
Things for my children.
If you only had two extra hours per day outside of work, what would you spend it on?
No answer given.
What has become more important for you in the last few years?
Family).
What has become less important for you in the last few years?
Religion.
What would you do/have/be if you had $10 million dollars?
Travel more.
What can you do that will be remembered in 200-400 years?
No answer given.
What assets do you have (not financial)?
No answer given.
When you think of the word successful, who comes to mind?
No answer given.
What is something you believe that other people think is insane?
Salt, fat, acid, heat and/or deadly choices: how the anti vaccine movement threatens us all.
What is the book (or books) that you’ve gifted and/or discussed/referenced the most?
No answer given.
What is your favorite documentary or movie?
No answer given.
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last couple years?
A membership to the Maryland science museum!
What are your morning rituals? What do the first 60minutes of your day look like?
Cleaning the kitchen and then go to the gym.
What obsessions do you explore on the evenings or weekends?
No answer given.
What topic would you speak about if you were asked to give a ted talk on something outside your main area of expertise?
Vaccines.
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think about often?
“Nothing worth having comes easy.”
What is the worst advice you see or hear being dispensed in the world?
“You get what you get and you don't get upset.”
If you could have one gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say?
Vaccinate Your Children!
What is something weird or unsettling that happens to you on a regular basis?
I always look at the clock to check the time and it happens to be 7:01. this is also the Tod on Dad's death certificate.
What have you changed your mind about in the last few years, why?
No answer given.
What do you believe is true, even though you can’t prove it?
No answer given.
What advice would you give to your 20-, 25-, or 30-year-old self? and please place where you were at the time, and what you were doing?
No answer given.
What is the best or most worthwhile investment you’ve made? could be an investment of money, time, energy, or other resource. How did you decide to make the investment?
No answer given.
If you were teaching a ninth grade class, what would you teach?
No answer given.
What do you think financially successful people who are generally unhappy in common?
Thirst for more.
If you had to choose three herbs or spices to cook with for the next year, what would they be?
Salt, Pepper, Garlic.
Do you medidate?
No, I feel nauseous when I’ve tried.
What is the best or most worthwhile investment you’ve made?
The time I invest in my children/marriage.
Who are three people or sources you’ve learned from- or followed closely- in the last year?
No answer given.
What is the worst advice you see or hear given in your tradE?
No answer given.
If you were a billionaire and you could give 2-3 books to every graduating high schooler, what would they be?
No answer given.
What are some of the choices you’ve made that made you who you are?
No answer given.
What’s the best lessons your father ever taught you?
You can't change what's already happened- don't sweat the small stuff.
What’s the best lessons your mother ever taught you?
Because I have been given much I too must give/stand up for the outsiders and little people.
What are you waiting for?
No answer given.
If you were fired from your job today, what would you do to get things together financially?
Things are together financially now.
What do you owe your community?
No answer given.
Is there anything you would die for?
My children.
What is your idea of happiness?
Having well-adjusted children and a carefree life.
What is your idea of wealthy?
Not worrying about money.
How do you ideally see yourself at the age of 75?
Traveling.
What do you always have with you when you leave the house?
Phone.
If you could automatically learn another language or two, what would they be?
Spanish & Arabic.