PODCAST Pursuing financial independence offers may benefits along the journey. In this episode we look at how pursuing financial independence helps with work, personal finance management and time.

PODCAST Show Notes Our topic is Using Milestones to Achieve FI Milestones are important They show progress, growth and profit They help us overcome our bias towards spending today The relationship of goals, milestones and steps to one another Milestones break down a goal into significant steps that mark progress towards achieving the goal. Steps

PODCAST Four Common Self-limiting Beliefs In this episode we discuss some common self-limiting beliefs that hold people back from pursuing FI and how to overcome them. #1 – I don’t make enough money #2 – I don’t want to live a restricted life, one that requires sacrifice #3 – I’m not good with money #4

PODCAST Before Claire and I return in September 2021 I have another archived episode for you – The U Curve of Happiness (studies have shown that unhappiness bottoms out at age 47). This one dates back to September 2018 and was released as an episode of the Retire Hoppy podcast. I love this episode for

PODCAST This is a re-airing of the second podcast I ever did! (The show was called Retirement Journeys back then.)  It features then USA Today retirement columnist Rodney Brooks who today is a contributor for US News. Our topic is strategic retirement plans which include a financial plan and a life plan. Claire and I

PODCAST Show Notes Our Guest is Late Starter FIRE She lives in Melbourne Australia Works in health services Blogs about FIRE for people who are older Late Starter FIRE (LSF) got interested in FIRE 3 years ago when she realized she didn’t know how much she had saved for retirement. She felt overwhelmed! Her search

PODCAST Show Notes It’s About Time: Pursuing FI One of the great things about FIRE is the insights it offers. You discover different ways of thinking about things such as your relationship with money, lifestyle inflation and time which is the subject of today’s show. The pursuit and achievement of FIRE is not about money.

PODCAST Show Notes Our subject is early retirement. What is early retirement? Adjustments Motivation Is it worth it? Claire’s definition of early retirement is any time before reaching for Social Security benefit age. Early Retirement Adjustments Some of the challenges we faced after retiring earlier include: Retirement is a top 10 stressful life event Relocating

PODCAST Show Notes Chris Mamula worked as a physical therapist for 15 years before retiring in 2017 at age 41. Chris holds master’s and doctoral degrees in PT. Shortly after retiring, Chris became a partner on Can I Retire Yet which was founded by Darrow Kirkpatrick. On Can I Retire Yet Chris Mamula writes about

PODCAST Show Notes We equate financial independence (FI) with early retirement. We examine our experience from the non-financial and the financial perspectives. The financial perspective follow 5 of the 6 practices for achieving FI from episode 14. The Non-financial Factors of Pursuing Financial Independence Pursuing financial independence requires making changes to your lifestyle which isn’t

PODCAST Show Notes Our guest is copyrighter writer and blogger Kristen Edens of KristenEdens.com Her blog features life after 50: career, family, personal finance and retirement. You can find Kristen on LinkedIn at Kristen Reed Edens. Her Twitter handle is @scribblerKris. Our Topic is Second Act Entrepreneurship She was formerly an exercise physiologist before starting

PODCAST Show Notes This is our last episode for 2020. Our topic is gratitude and ambition and FIRE Gratitude and Ambition Gratitude is feeling thankful for what you have and not constantly seeking more. When it comes to FIRE, gratitude can help control spending People who practice gratitude are more comfortable with delayed gratification Delaying gratification also helps

PODCAST Show Notes for The Dragons on FIRE Claire and I first met the Dragons on FIRE at FinCon 2019. We recorded our conversation and added it to several others to create a podcast episode: Live from FinCon 2019 They returned as guests on an episode of our previous show FIREwalkers: The Dragons on FIRE Dragon

PODCAST Show Notes for In Defense of FIRE Our topic is inspired by an article from Emily Guy Birkin titled “Don’t Set Your Happiness on FIRE”. Claire and I take up several points in defense of fire. FYI, Emily appeared in episode 29 of the now defunct Retirement Journeys podcast. You can listen to that

PODCAST Show Notes Claire and I catch up with our guest Katie from Along the Camel Ride. We first spoke with Katie back in October 2019, and we want to know what if anything has changed on her journey to FI. If you’d like to listen to that episode, here’s a link: FW004 Katie from

PODCAST Show Notes Our show features 3 topics that we’ve talked about around the house: comparing yourself with others, is it OK to talk about FIRE during the pandemic and Claire’s career break Topic 1 Comparing Yourself With Others This topic is inspired by one of Shaun’s (Project Palm Tree) weekly postcards which is entitled

PODCAST Show Notes for FI After 40 with Ben Reeder Ben’s background From NH, still lives there, about an hour north of Boston Studied communications in college where he worked on the school paper and radio station Works for an online college helping with admissions and financial aid Has also lived and worked in NYC

PODCAST Show Notes We open with several announcements FinCon 2020, Long Beach CA, has been cancelled. The next FinCon will be in 2021 in Austin TX Our podcast is now available on Spotify as well as iTunes, TuneIn and PlayerFM. You can begin the subscription process from the Later2FIRE home page. Speaking of which, our

Podcast Show Notes Travis Luther is a speaker, entrepreneur and author of The Fun Side of the Wall. He is also Director for Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Road Founders College of Business Incubator. He holds a masters degree in sociology from the University of Colorado Denver. His podcast features two stories: 1) overcoming adversity to

Podcast A principle is a fundamental proposition that’s the foundation for a system of belief or a chain of reasoning. You should be comfortable with the principles of Later2FIRE. Show Notes We’re making a subtle change to the meaning of the FIRE acronym from Financial Independence Retire Early to Financial Independence Retire Earlier. This change

Podcast Many people are behind in saving for retirement. Following the practices of FIRE can help you catch up. Show Notes Re-branding the show to Later2FIRE. The target audience is an underrepresented niche of people who are older and can benefit from following the principles and practices of FIRE. We’re inspired to make this change