In this episode, Michael talks about how he might just be a bad investor! In the last two years, he has been involved in so many investment scams, that he is now looking at ways to change direction when it comes to investing.

He talks about his own definition of what financial independence is for him and announces his new investment plan going forward - as well as a new organisation he is establishing.

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In this episode, Michael shares the story of the Envestio scam, which he unfortunately got caught up in.

He also shares some feedback from the last episode, and gives his advise on how best one should plan their investment portfolio, based on his experience with Envestio.

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In this episode, Michael shares the story of the day he lost €6,000, caused from being over leveraged in his trading account.

The story details how he reacts to some huge mistakes he made when trading the markets and the lessons that he learned from losing such a large amount of money in a short space of time.

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In this episode, Michael explores the energy that one puts into various tasks - from work, personal projects, investing and life in general. He noticed that while he had cut down his working hours to as little as possible, he still found himself without enough time.

Michael then came to the realisation that it wasn't time he was lacking - but energy. Michael discusses the concept of how one needs to manage their energy as well as their time - as there is only so much energy we have in one day.

Michael also gives an update on how life has been going since moving down to semi retirement hours and his goal for 2020.

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Michael makes a big announcement in this episode. Michael has made the decision to start living in a "semi-retired" status. He talks about how the story of "The Mexican Fisherman" inspired him to work towards reducing his working hours as much as possible.

Michael talks about how a couple of his projects which he has been working on are now at a stage where he can step into them more and as a result, is able to cut back on his web development hours and effectively has become semi retired as a result - working around 10 hours per week.

Quotes from the Episode:

"Forever has to start one day. We are so prone to look so far into the distance, we forget we need to make the leap at some point into retirement."

"The FIRE Movement is more of a time independence movement."

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In this episode, Michael explores what can happen when you start to take opportunities, and the long term impact that that has when you start to take opportunities.  He gives examples from his own hockey coaching business, as well as other examples.

In this episode, Michael lists the common errors he sees when it comes to starting a business.  He lists some of the common errors, and then gives his advise on how to start a business quickly and more effectively.

He gives his own examples of how he has been able to start projects quickly.

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In this episode, Michael talks with Robert White. Robert is in his 30's and he and his wife Emma became financially independence in 2015.

Robert is from Romania originally, but worked in Germany for a few years on his path to FI.

In the interview, we talk about how Robert & Emma were able to become financially independent, we talk about how he was able to start side hustles and earn extra income. Robert gives away his secret to how he was able to launch so many side businesses so quickly.

We talk in the interview about what Robert is doing now - and how life is different to him now since he became financially independent.

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In this episode Michael looks at some of the lessons that Robert Kiyosaki teaches and compares them against the FI movement.

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In this episode, Michael talks with Meagan from Mrs Money Hacker.  Meagan covers loads of great information, including:

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