Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 1h
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Since Aug 2021
Latest Episode Jul 2025

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Funding the adventurous life.

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Time Marches On

Jul 17, 2025 17m

I’ll begin with a secret: I never cared much about the nuts and bolts of personal finance (the means), but I was rather enamored with the idea of a financially secure life (the ends). In 2018,…

Is This Time Different?

Apr 14, 2025 13m

From a market perspective, history has always favored the unfazed, the patient, the forgetful. Drastic action in times of great uncertainty is almost always the wrong move. Time and again—just like…

"I Quit" Is the Wrong Legacy (And Here's a Better Future)

Feb 03, 2025 7m

I’ve made it my goal over the past few years to steer people toward financial independence but away from early retirement. I have many reasons, and I’ve laid those out over numerous blog posts and…

A Midlife Crisis Without the Sports Car

Dec 23, 2024 22m

I’ve drifted in and out of the meritocracy trap over the years, but mostly, I’ve stayed stuck in its sticky web. I quickly learned the value of good grades and securing better jobs. Once I landed a…

Under Gray Skies on a Shipwrecked Coast

Nov 13, 2024 13m

My wife and I stood at the edge of the world—or at least what felt like it—squinting through the murk and sea spray to snap photos of a decommissioned lighthouse. Less like some beacon of hope, its…

The Flat White Chronicles

Oct 21, 2024 13m

Australians, it seems, are utterly smitten with coffee. The beverage of choice appears to be the flat white, a silky yet buttoned-down cousin to the latte or cappuccino. We landed in Sydney at dawn,…

Yonder Goes Little Maggie

Sep 02, 2024 28m

They say that grief comes on like a tsunami, a wave of incredible power and uncontrollable force that washes over us. The metaphors are many—trains and dump trucks, roller coasters and rivers—and…

David Champion: The Psychological Challenge Of Early Retirement

Aug 19, 2024 1h 35m

Retirement is often an ideal detached from reality. When overwhelmed by daily routines, it’s easy to imagine retirement as a stress-free life with a blank calendar and complete freedom. However,…

Cory Richards: The Color of Everything

Jul 01, 2024 2h 3m

Perhaps no one has quit their job like my guest today, Cory Richards. Richards, still a world-renowned photographer, abruptly ended his career as an elite mountaineer in April 2021 at the foot of the…

Life Without Money Scarcity Might Just Make You Lazy

Jun 12, 2024 25m

Recently, I’ve been increasingly conflicted by several dueling experiences and sensations:Reduced Stress: Since departing from the Standard Corporate Office Environment (SCOE), I’ve enjoyed decreased…

The Illusion of Skill and How to Make Better Predictions

May 20, 2024 26m

Imagine being faced with the daunting task of predicting the future with nothing but incomplete information and a handful of hunches. Perhaps you're considering new experiences, like travel or moving…

What Two Writers Taught Me About How to Think

May 06, 2024 24m

In 1949, a college junior named Barbara Beattie wrote a letter for a school journalism assignment. We can only speculate on Beattie’s youthful expectations: Was she so naive to expect a response, or…

Is My Rent Too High?

Apr 22, 2024 30m

In normal times, rent prices, like most everything else, slowly yet surely increase at about 2-3% per year. This is inflation. But in terms of the housing market, these aren’t normal times. In the…

An Emerging Revolution in the Treatment of Chronic Pain

Apr 08, 2024 1h 4m

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chronic pain—pain lasting at or beyond three months—affected over 20% of U.S. adults, or 51.6 million people, in 2021. Symptoms were…

A Therapist on Satisfaction in Sport, Life, and Love

Mar 28, 2024 1h 34m

If you haven’t noticed, the concept of achievement and even competitiveness has weighed heavily on my mind as of late. A gift of the nontraditional life is the opportunity to step back and see the…

All Work and No Play Makes You…Normal

Mar 18, 2024 16m

The concept of play conjures the image of my three-year-old (and blonder) self, plastic shovel in hand, amorphous stains down the front of my pants. And certainly slobber. Lots of slobber. That…

Four Years of Financial Independence: The Slow Growth

Feb 28, 2024 15m

For four years I’ve watched something slowly bloom. In my old life, the “before time” you might call it, I moved from task to task. If I wasn’t working, I unknowingly made a practice of turning…

The Psychology Behind Poor Investments and Other Important Decisions

Feb 12, 2024 22m

When we make important decisions, we are often not as rational or objective as we’d like to believe. The base rate fallacy is the tendency to misjudge the probability of a situation by not accounting…

A Unique Form of Real Estate Investment in a Tough Housing Economy (with Michael Farnsworth)

Jan 29, 2024 1h 42m

If you follow economic news at all, you’ve taken note of the changing conditions of the American housing economy in the last few years. First, high demand, low supply, and cheap debt fueled an…

QA12: Will A Life Of Financial Independence Meet Expectations?

Jan 22, 2024 1h 13m

We’re back to the digital mailbag to answer your questions!For this week:An update on markets and our personal finance situationThe role of dividends in growth and withdrawal assumptionsExpectations…

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