If you’re in the FIRE sphere or interested in financial independence and haven’t yet heard of the Choose FI podcast, you had better get to downloading and binge-listening now. Since starting their podcast in 2017, Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa have chronicled their own and many others’ journeys to FI. At the same time, they’ve built a nationwide community of like-minded people through an active Facebook group with local spinoffs, many of which hold monthly meetups. Chris Mamula, who …
Compare Yourself to… Your Former Self
We were all at the park the other day, and Aspen quickly slid down the slide that had given her fear months ago. Then she looked over at the pole. It was the type you'd see in an old firehouse - a straight vertical pole of hand-width diameter, extending from an arc off the top floor of the play structure down into the wood chips on the ground. "What's this for?" she said. It's for sliding down. Here, like this, with your legs wrapped around. "I can't," she said, while feebly pointing her …
A Slowly Spreading FIRE
Financial independence and early retirement are noble goals, and for many people, they're quite addictive to chase. It's all about the hustle these days, and with a plethora of FIRE bloggers on the interwebs, there's myriad voices to provide inspiration in whatever way speaks to you. So should you keep your head down and grind toward your FI goals? Not so fast. Oftentimes, a big part of being wealthy is being healthy. And being happy. Wealth is like other individually-determined concepts such …