We explore reasons for pursuing financial independence focusing on work, knowledge and time.

Milestones break your goal into a series of objectives which helps with management and shows progress. They also help fend off our bias of focusing on the present at the expense of the future.

Having a strategic retirement plan is more than a financial plan. According to Rodney Brooks, it's a plan for how you want to spend the rest of your life.

Claire and Ted discuss the value of time vs. money when it comes to pursuing FI and after retirement.

Claire & Ted discuss what is meant by early retirement, adjustment challenges, motivation & is early retirement worth it.

Chris Mamula of Can I Retire Yet shares his experience of achieving FI & retiring early. Chris also describes the advantages late starters have.

Claire and I discuss second act entrepreneurship with Kristen Edens. Kristen offers advice on how to overcome self-limiting beliefs and how to start up a second act business.

We discuss why gratitude and ambition add value when it comes to pursuing financial independence. Also, why you should practice them judiciously.

Claire & I welcome back The Dragons on FIRE who share good news about Dragon Guy's cancer prognosis & how early retirement differs now 3 years into it.

FIRE at the margins can be extreme but don't be put off by those examples. People in the FIRE community are very intentional when it comes to living their lives.