100 FIRE'd Up: How I'm Getting Started with "Financial Independence Retire Early" (FIRE)
The Courtney Sanders Podcast
Courtney Sanders
4.8 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Think you have to wait until your 65 to "retire"? Think again! There's a whole community of Millennials and Gen-Xers achieving financial independence in their 30s and 40s...and I want to be one of them!
In this episode, I describe how I discovered the Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) movement, and what steps I'm taking to get started. If you dream of becoming wealthy sooner rather than later, this is the episode for you!
Mentioned in this episode:
"Why this couple believes FIRE will create more black millionaires" (Rich and Regular): https://youtu.be/JW7_ttgF3lw
"How We Retired at 39" (Our Rich Journey): https://youtu.be/KR_eIoIo2vU
"How Kristy Shen & Bryce Leung Saved $1M and Retired at 31 & 32" (Afford Anything Podcast): https://youtu.be/T3AbAv3-U30
Related Episodes:
The Story of a Black Girl and Her Money (Part 1): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/042-the-story-of-a-black-girl-and-her-money-part-1/id1264659520?i=1000415981001
The Story of a Black Girl and Her Money (Part 2):https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/069-the-story-of-a-black-girl-and-her-money-part-2/id1264659520?i=1000441118504
Ballin' on a Budget with Ashley Copeland: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/051-ballin-on-budget-how-to-build-wealth-on-small-salary/id1264659520?i=1000427768646
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| 0:20.0 | Semp Hello, hello, welcome to another episode of the Courtney Sanders show. |
| 0:43.0 | Today I'm fired up because we're talking about something that I'm really excited about called fire. |
| 0:50.7 | So I don't know if you've heard of this but fire stands for financial independence retire early |
| 0:59.0 | and i feel like i've heard of the fire movement just in passing or i've had friends mention it |
| 1:05.3 | but it didn't really hit me the way it's hit me lately in my research so maybe let's take it back from the beginning so if you've been listening way it's hit me lately in my research. So maybe let's take it back from the beginning. |
| 1:13.6 | So if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, then you already know that I am on a |
| 1:19.2 | mission to get back to being quote unquote tight with money. So I'll be the first to admit that |
| 1:25.1 | I was much better with money when I was broke because when I was |
| 1:28.3 | broke, it forced me to be really intentional. And so over the last few years, I've kind of had to |
| 1:33.9 | fight with this more loosey-goosey attitude with money. Not because we're rich, but, you know, we |
| 1:41.1 | ain't broke no more. And so it's a lot easier to be looser with our money because we have the money to be loose with. |
| 1:47.9 | And I remember when I was a broke college student in D.C., and I was literally counting change and |
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