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There are WAY more demands on our money now than ever before.  

Grandma didn't have a cell-phone bill, an internet bill, or streaming service subscriptions.  And she also didn't have as high of costs - the weekly groceries were $20 and a gallon of gas was 20 cents.  No wonder Grandma was able to save more and pay off her debt faster.  

Are we doomed to stay in debt, to keep renting, to work extra jobs?  How did it get this way anyway?  What's needed to change?

The big question for today is this: "How to get through the transition and come out better on the other side?"

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

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Source/Inspiration: The Creature from Jekyll Island (pages 512-514), https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/1970s-great-inflation.asp#:~:text=The%201970s%20saw%20some%20of,this%20decade%20of%20high%20inflation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United_States#Post-World_War_II_prosperity:_1945%E2%80%931973

A friend recommended a book to me so I got it on Audible and started it while I went out for a walk.  As I was listening to the introduction I heard the words, "new normal."  At first I was like, "OMG, so overplayed and I'm over it." 

But then, I thought about it and was like, "Wait, when was this book written?" Turns out is was published in 2011.  So I re-listened to the section with fresh ears.  

On the repeat, I was blown away.  I thought, "This guy is a genius and well ahead of his time. He saw this new normal thing coming by almost a decade."  

I tore through the rest of the book and it's been a huge inspiration to me.  

Today, I want to give you the author's take on "new normal" so you might be as blown away as I was and ready to get excited whenever you hear those words.

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

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Source/Inspiration: Sacred Economics (XX), Elizabeth from Wonder Play Coaching

Diversity and Inclusion are the buzz words of the day.  Every major business has an initiative around diversity and inclusion.

Join us for our take on economic diversity and inclusion and how you can participate in economic justice!

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

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Source/Inspiration: Sacred Economics (37), storybolt.com

As great of a musical as Hamilton is and how much it speaks to America's history and current events, there is a big part of Alexander Hamilton's legacy that isn't included. It's winked at but there's so much more to the story than can fit in a musical... even one as awesome as this one.

Warning: The story is controversial and requires some angst about our monetary system.  But I think it's crucial for a new approach to FI.

Don't throw away your shot.  Listen now!

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

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Source/Inspiration: The Creature from Jekyll Island (315-317, 329-340), Hamilton (the musical)

Debt is a four letter word.  But could debt be moral or is it always immoral?  Should debt be avoided at all costs or used wisely?  

This a much debated question. Mr. Ramsey says to get out of all debt as quickly as possible.  Mr. Kiyokasi is more about leveraging debt to grow your wealth.  

Wherever you land on debt, I think you need to hear today's story.

As G. Edward Griffin says it, "What we think is money is but a grand illusion. The reality is debt."

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

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Source/Inspiration: The Creature from Jekyll Island (187-189), https://www.infogristle.com/federal-reserve/two-faces-of-debt/index.htm, and the Wikipedia pages of Wright Patman and Merriner Eccles

Many of us have a love/hate relationship with money.  

It's our enemy because it blocks us from doing more good like "moral people" do. We can't help our neighbor because we can't afford it.  We can't create art because we have to make a living.  We can't have social justice reforms because money is in the wrong hands.  We're destroying the planet because a few have a greed that knows no bounds.

I also share my counter-intuitive approach to making sure money isn't my god.

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

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Source/Inspiration: Sacred Economics (Introduction)

More and more of us aren't willing to slave away for The Man for even 8 years so that we can achieve FI.

We're choosing to start our entrepreneurial paths earlier and earlier.

I think that's a beautiful thing.

Even for those who are willing to work for The Man, they may soon find themselves needing to think entrepreneurially.

Listen in for our take on the question: What is an entrepreneurial approach to FI?

We also share 5 different FIs.  Listen close to catch them all!

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

If you're not familiar, Mr. Money Mustache is THE FI guy. 

Today, I want to tell you why I do NOT think we need a Ms. Money Stash and why I do think we need an alternative to "mustachians" as his followers are called.

From a self-proclaimed tomboy, accept the invitation to embrace and help shape the fiercely feminine story of money.

The future is female. Let's align with it and make it happen faster, together!

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

Fe FI Fo Fum, WiFi, Semper Fi, Google Fi.  What the FI??? 

Direct from Wikipedia: "Financial independence is the status of having enough income (from investments, passive businesses, real estate, etc.) to pay for one's reasonable living expenses for the rest of one's life without having to rely on formal employment." 

The typical way to achieve FI is to focus on your savings rate and lower spending while increasing income. 

BUT is that what FI really is???

What if FI does not mean I have enough money to meet all my needs? 

What if FI = I don't need money to live my life well. 

That's hard to believe... not needing money to live life well. full stop.  

Explore that idea in today's episode!

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!

So many human lives consist of all work and nothing to show for it.  We toil day after day and never seem to get ahead.  

But there is a way out of the overwhelm, stress and being sick and tired of life in general.  

At its core, that's what this podcast is all about and it stems from finding a way out myself. 

What I discovered is that the way out is the way in.  

When we go through 1 door, countless doors open.

Listen to the show for how to find your door out AND in!

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Our generation needs to create a unique path to Financial Independence. The FIFE Movement explores and promotes an entrepreneurial and feminine approach to freedom for us and for the entire world.

Wealth is coming our way… lets prepare to use it well!