Catching Up to FI

Catching Up to FI

By Bill Yount & Jackie Cummings KoskiBusinessInvesting
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  • Live from Bali! Don't Miss These FI Stories From Around The Globe | Jackie & Captain FI | 176

    50 people (now friends), 9 countries... all in one room, speaking the same language: Financial Independence! This is a special episode recorded live from in beautiful Bali, Indonesia at the FI Freedom Retreat. Australian blogger and podcaster, 'Captain FI', joins Jackie as guest co-host to share the FI stories of three of the extraordinary individuals we met at the retreat:

    • Claire (Dubai via Ireland)- Restarting and living by the philosophy of 'trust your gut'
    • Michael (Seattle)- Newly nomadic, choosing FI-enough over perfection
    • Val (Hong Kong)- Taking a gap year that feels like several lifetimes

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    Captain FI Blog

    Captain FI Podcast

    FI Freedom Retreats

    Next Retreat: Sept 11 - 15, 2026

    - UNITED STATES -

    ChooseFI

    Mr Money Mustache

    BiggerPockets Money

    Jillian Johnsrud

    Mad Fientist

    - INTERNATIONAL -

    PKP Community Centre (Bali, Indonesia)

    Firespark Australia

    Lacey Filipich Ted Talk

    Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape)

    Strong Money Australia (Dave Gow)

    Aussie Firebug

    ⏰ 'Catching Up to FI' Episodes

    Mini Retirements, Sabbaticals, Career Breaks- Yes Please! | Jillian Johnsrud | 153

    International Educator, Bali FIRE | Amy Minkley | 137

    Sustainable FIlosophy with Mr. Money Mustache | Pete Adeney | 073

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    ⚠️Disclaimer: Our content is for general education and information purposes only. We are not providing financial, legal, or tax advice. Always do your own research or consult a professional before making important decisions.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Money Scripts: Don't Get Scrooged! | Brad Klontz | 175

    Dr. Brad Klontz is a leading expert in financial psychology, professor, bestselling author, and, oh yeah — an internet influencer with millions of followers who tune in for his mix of straight talk and practical money wisdom. He joins Bill for a deep dive into why most money problems aren't math problems. Instead, they are about what's going on in our heads and in our habits. In this episode, Brad discusses:

    1. Why smart people still make dumb money mistakes
    2. The difference between poor and broke
    3. The 4 money scripts (avoidance, worship, status, vigilance)
    4. Why he argues that an internal locus of control is the ultimate wealth engine
    5. A no-nonsense roadmap for breaking bad money patterns and building real financial freedom

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    🌐 BradKlontz.com

    🌐The Klontz Money Script Inventory

    📕 Start Thinking Rich

    📗 Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge

    📷 Brad's Facebook

    📷 Brad's TikTok

    📷 Brad's InstaGram

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    1 hr 13 min
  • Hidden Messages In The New Tax Law You May Have Missed | Bill & Jackie | 174

    On July 4th, 2025 an 870-page tax bill called the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' (OBBBA) was signed into to law. Some parts have been heavily discussed and others not so much. So we dug around ourselves and pulled out some hidden messages you may have missed that could have major implications to your FI (Financial Independence) journey.

    👉🏽 Updates to 2017 'Tax Cuts and Jobs Act' Makes permanent the lowered individual tax brackets established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and keeps the larger standard deduction in place. Also makes permanent the higher lifetime estate gift tax exemption and increases it to $15 million for single & $30 million for married couples in 2026 (indexed to Inflation).

    👉🏽 Updates to 2021 'American Rescue Plan' Expiration of the Enhanced ACA premium subsidies (not directly in the bill, it's just not being extended). The lowered premiums will expire and revert back to pre-covid levels. The Subsidy Cliff will be back in play starting 1/1/26. This is a major part of the negotiation with the current federal government shutdown so may be subject to change.

    We cover these topics in the new law:

    1. Increased Standard Deduction
    2. Extra Senior Deduction
    3. SALT (State And Local Tax) Deduction Cap Raised
    4. Changes with HSA (Health Savings Account) qualifications
    5. Child Tax Credit, Dependent Care FSAs, & Dependent Tax Credit
    6. Introduction of Child Savings Accounts
    7. 529 College Savings Plan Enhancements
    8. Deduction for Charitable Contributions Deduction (even if you take the standard deduction)
    9. New Temporary Deductions (2025–2028), Even for those who don't itemize
    10. Overhaul of Student Loans

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    🆕NEW PARTNER: Alloy

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    🌐Full Text of the Bill signed into law on 7/4/25

    Newsletter with OBBBA Tax Law Toolkit Includes additional content from trusted resources & experts)

    IRS Factsheet for OBBBA

    Key Elements: 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' from CFP Board

    Newsletter with OBBBA Tax Law Toolkit (Includes additional content from trusted resources and experts)

    ⏰ 'Catching Up to FI' Episodes

    Banishing The Burden of Student Loan Debt | Travis Hornsby | 122

    A Hero's Journey: Krista & Ed, The Mother of All Case Studies! | Krista and Ed Kim | 97

    Millennial Revolution is in The House! | Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung & Little Matchstick | 93

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    ⚠️Disclaimer: Our content is for general education and information purposes only. We are not providing financial, legal, or tax advice. Always do your own research or consult a professional before making important decisions.

    1 hr 28 min
  • How A Single Mom Reached F.I.R.E. by 49 | Jackie Cummings Koski | 173

    Jackie joins our friends to the north in Canada for a live taping of TD Direct Investing's 'Inside Investing', turning her late-starter playbook into a friendly masterclass for Canadians and Americans alike. Host Rob Moysey tees up her arc—divorce in her 30s with ~$20k in retirement savings, millionaire a decade later, retired at 49. Jackie fills in the human bits: purpose after FI, why 'precision is not required,' and how a BetterInvesting club cured her market fear.

    She also walks through:

    • The simple engine that did the work: Maxing out an employer retirement plan, Roth IRA, and HSA in low-cost index funds
    • The math behind her Financial Independence target (25× annual expenses ≈ $1M on ~$40k/yr)
    • How she kept joy in the journey while saving ~$3k/month

    The kicker: despite five years of withdrawals in retirement, her net worth rose from $1.3M (Dec 2019) to ~$2.1M (July 2025). The message lands like a hug and a nudge—know your numbers, automate the boring stuff, and retire TO something.

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    🌐Jackie's website FInomenalWoman.com

    📕F.I.R.E. For Dummies

    📘Money Letters 2 My Daughter

    📈Jackie's Investment Club through BetterInvesting.org

    📺 TD Direct Investing YouTube

    ⏰ 'Catching Up to FI' Episodes

    From Poverty to Wealth and Early Retirement | Jackie Cummings Koski | 007

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    51 min
  • First Time Ever! The 2 Most Important Women in the Life of JL Collins | Jane & Jess Collins | 172

    Today's episode is something TRULY special— something that's never happened before!

    For the first time ever… we're joined by two remarkable women who've lived alongside one of the most influential voices in the FI community, JL Collins. In this one-of-a-kind episode we introduce you to his wife, Jane Collins and daughter, Jessica Collins. This is their first-ever joint podcast appearance. We're pulling back the curtain to hear their perspectives. What was it like living with someone so passionate about financial independence? How did his philosophy shape their lives, their choices, and their own views on wealth and freedom? This isn't just a conversation about finance—it's about family, legacy, and the ripple effects of good financial education in a household. You're about to hear a side of the story that's never been told before.

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    Charity:

    CHARITY:

    savethechildren.org

    https://www.anelder.org/

    The Adopt-A-Nation-Elder Food Runs are the heart of the organizations program and community. Twice a year they travel to the reservation in service to the Elders whose lives, culture and traditions they cherish. Because of the trust built between the Elders and their families, the staff and volunteers are allowed to travel to the Elders remote homelands and distribute assistance directly to the Elders in their communities. The Food Runs involve hundreds of volunteers transporting hundreds of thousand pounds of food and supplies to the most remote lands in the United State.

    🌐JL Collins Blog

    https://jlcollinsnh.com

    📗 The Simple Path to Wealth (Revised & Expanded 2025 Edition & NYT Best Seller!) https://amzn.to/4kFGdTM

    📕 Pathfinders: Extraordinary Stories of People Like You on the Quest for Financial Independence—and How to Join Them

    https://amzn.to/4kHHKbS

    📘 How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable: A Cautionary Tale

    https://amzn.to/4dVJb3O

    ⏰ 'Catching Up to FI' Episodes referenced

    Pathfinders: Triumphs and Trials on the Road to Financial Independence | JL Collins | 070

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-abgF8nW58c&t=1195s

    Pathfinders: Stories of Success and Financial Independence | JL Collins | 069

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-iKa32_xI8&t=27s

    F-You Money Part 1 & 2 | JL Collins | 023 & 024

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00lWfkBTJ6g&t=29s

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    1 hr 13 min
  • How To Build Your Own Paycheck: From Saver to Spender | Fritz Gilbert & Dana Anspach | 171

    If you're within ten years of retirement (early or traditional age) or just want to get a head start on going from being a saver to a spender, this episode is for you. Decumulation without drama—that's the mission as retirement pros Dana Anspach (Sensible Money) and Fritz Gilbert (The Retirement Manifesto) join the show to turn "build-your-own paycheck" into a repeatable process. Dana lays out why drawdown is a hundred small decisions, not one big leap; and Fritz brings in the field notes. Together they demystify:

    • Tax Pitfalls
    • Timing Social Security
    • Asset Allocation and Location
    • Why Most Retirees Underspend

    The big takeaway: document the plan, automate the paycheck, and give yourself permission to enjoy the "go-go" years—because money's job is to fund a life, not gather dust.

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    Charity: Freedom for Fido

    🌐The Retirement Manifesto

    📘 Keys to a Successful Retirement

    🌐 Sensible Money

    Sensible Money YouTube

    📕 Control Your Retirement Destiny

    📗 Social Security Sense

    📄 Dana's breakdown of OBBBA

    📄 Retirement Red Zone: Rethinking Your Investment Strategy

    ⏰ 'Catching Up to FI' Episodes

    Hard & Soft Sides of Retirement | Fritz Gilbert | 019

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    1 hr 22 min
  • What Would 'Your Money' Look Like In a Simple Sketch? | Carl Richards | 170

    Carl Richards is one of the leading voices when it comes to money and emotions. For over a decade, he was the creator of the Sketch Guy column in The New York Times, where his hand-drawn sketches made financial complexity surprisingly simple—and deeply emotional. He joins us to ask the question that instantly ties our brain in knots: 'What is money, really?' From there, he discusses:

    • Why we unknowingly organize life around money and work
    • Why 'enough' is a way of being (not a number)
    • How we keep handing money jobs it can't do—like self-worth, love, and happiness

    Come for the doodles; leave with a gentler, saner way to align your calendar, your checkbook, and your life.

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    🆕Big changes with student loans in the new budget bill that just passed. Get help from the experts at Student Loan Planner, all CFP®, CFA and CSLP® professionals. They charge a one-time fee for their thorough review. Our listeners receive $100 off a 1:1 consult using the link below. Flat fee is normally $595, but after your $100 off 'Catching Up to FI' discount, it's $495.

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    🌐 BehaviorGap.com

    📗 Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in Simple Sketches

    📕 The Behavior Gap

    📘 The One-Page Financial Plan

    50 Fires Podcast

    ⏰ 'Catching Up to FI' Episodes

    Enoughness: Your Life or Your Money | Vicki Robin | 95

    Doña Quixote, Life Energy, and The Coming of Aging | Vicki Robin | 94

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    ⚠️Disclaimer: Our content is for general education and information purposes only. We are not providing financial, legal, or tax advice. Always do your own research or consult a professional before making important decisions.

    47 min
  • A Richer Retirement: The 4.7% Rule | Bill Bengen | 169

    We are welcoming back the man behind the most debated number in retirement, Bill Bengen- this time with a special appearance from his lovely wife, Barbara. We take a brief detour to hear their love story and how they met, before getting into his new book, 'A Richer Retirement: Supercharging the 4% Rule to Spend More and Enjoy More'. He joins us in this episode to:

    • Break down the primary goals of the book
    • Help you understand what's required to create and manage a successful personal retirement withdrawal plan
    • Step us through all the tools required to make your money last your entire lifetime

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    🆕Big changes with student loans in the new budget bill that just passed. Get help from the experts at Student Loan Planner, all CFP®, CFA and CSLP® professionals. They charge a one-time fee for their thorough review. Our listeners receive $100 off a 1:1 consult using the link below. Flat fee is normally $595, but after your $100 off 'Catching Up to FI' discount, it's $495.

    👉🏼 Be sure to use this link: studentloanplanner.com/catchingup

    For a full list of current deals and discounts from our partners, sponsors and affiliates, click here: catchinguptofi.com/our-partners

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    🌐 Bill Bengen

    📘A Richer Retirement

    Charts and Tables from 'A Richer Retirement'

    ⏰ 'Catching Up to FI' Episodes

    Mr 4% is now Mr 5% | Bill Bengen | 111

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    1 hr 3 min
  • How This Savvy Young Planner is Helping Retirees | Emma Von Weise | 168

    The average financial planner is about 56 years old, but 25-year-old Emma Von Weise got a running start learning about money as a teenager and is now one of the youngest CFP professionals in the US. She shares how she became money savvy so early and what influences impacted her the most. She isn't here to judge the rest of us who started late, but to help us make up for lost time—with humor, heart, and practical advice that meets you exactly where you are. In this episode, we discuss:

    • Emma's money story and early financial literacy
    • The spark that led to a career in financial planning at such a young age
    • Why she is an old soul that just loves working with retirees
    • Modern day Continuing-Care Retirement Communities

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    ===DEALS & DISCOUNTS FROM OUR TRUSTED PARTNERS===

    🆕Big changes with student loans in the new budget bill that just passed. Get help from the experts at Student Loan Planner, all CFP®, CFA and CSLP® professionals. They charge a one-time fee for their thorough review. Our listeners receive $100 off a 1:1 consult using the link below. Flat fee is normally $595, but after your $100 off 'Catching Up to FI' discount, it's $495.

    👉🏼 Be sure to use this link: studentloanplanner.com/catchingup

    For a full list of current deals and discounts from our partners, sponsors and affiliates, click here: catchinguptofi.com/our-partners

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    Charity: 3rd Decade

    🌐 Focus Partners Wealth

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    1 hr 11 min
  • Reached FIRE At 50👉🏻 And Here's Why He Still Keeps Climbing | Darrow Kirkpatrick | 167

    Darrow Kirkpatrick retired from a 29-year career in civil and software engineering in April 2011 at the age of 50 and started the blog 'Can I Retire Yet' that same year. The Blog was one of the first in the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) space and focuses on the personal finance needs of anyone who is thinking about retirement or early retirement. He joins us for a deeply human masterclass on retiring, drawing down without drama, and pursuing hard goals the slow, sane way. In this episode, Darrow shares with us:

    • The origins of his blog 'Can I Retire Yet?'
    • How a nervous breakdown derailed his career
    • His six-year, section-by-section completion of the Colorado Trail on forearm crutches
    • The inspiration behind his new book 'Two Sticks One Path'

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    Charities:

    National Alliance on Mental Illness

    The Colorado Trail

    🌐 Can I Retire Yet?

    🌐Trail Memoir

    📗 Two Sticks, One Path

    📘 Can I Retire Yet?

    📕 Retiring Sooner

    Critique circle (Online Writing Workshop)

    Lessons Learned from Writing a Book

    Pralana- Personal Financial Modeling

    ⏰ 'Catching Up to FI' Episodes

    The Powers of Starting Late, Retirement Calculators, and More | Chris Mamula | 086

    Sustainable FIlosophy with Mr. Money Mustache | Pete Adeney | 073

    ===DEALS & DISCOUNTS FROM OUR TRUSTED PARTNERS===

    📈 Boldin (formerly NewRetirement): Retirement planning software that's like having a financial advisor at your fingertips. You can get started with the free version or choose the premium option (PlannerPlus) and get a 14-day free trial. 👉🏼 Be sure to use this link to get started: Go.boldin.com/catchingup

    Personal Finance Club: Use code CUTOFI to get $30 OFF any course or PFC investing course only

    Nectarine: Advice-Only and Flat-Fee Hourly Fiduciary Financial Advisors (Catching Up to FI will be compensated by Nectarine if you use our affiliate link, which creates an incentive and conflict of interest. We are not current clients or employees of Nectarine.)

    For a full list of current deals and discounts from our partners, sponsors and affiliates, click here: catchinguptofi.com/our-partners

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    1 hr 2 min

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