Welcome back to the early retirement podcast. Now, if you've been listening for a while, you know that I

believe a good retirement plan is important. But the truth is, I believe it's even more important if you

want to retire early. Now, when I say retire early, I'm really talking about before age 65. So if you

want to retire early, the reason a plan is so important instead of just kind of important

is that you're going to be cutting a few more years of saving and you're going to be adding a few more

years of spending to your nest egg. So to really make this early retirement work, and I don't even

love the word work, but really optimize it, you're going to need to have a lot more money saved up

to reach that, what I'll say, ambitious target. For many people, it is ambitious. For other people,

less so, but you need a disciplined plan of how am I going to save money, how am I going to invest that

wisely, knowing I'm not on the same path as call it a traditional retiree.

So just really important to understand that when we're creating this, there's more that

goes into it as opposed to just normal retirement planning because we want to retire early.

So I'm going to be talking about that during today's episode, but want to always say thank you to all of those

who continue to rate and review the show. It helps the show grow and it helps me let more

people retire early. I want people to know when they are in a position where work is now

truly optional. So I want to start by just highlighting a quick recent review. And once again,

the podcast is on YouTube.

For some of you who have been submitting questions going, the podcast, I hear you talk about it.

Is it on the podcast apps? Is it on YouTube? It's available everywhere, but it's now also

on YouTube in case that's helpful for your listening purposes. So the review was by someone under the username of E-Token, and he says

fantastic level of specificity and detail in many different aspects of retirement, financial management,

so one can apply to their specific situation. Thank you, E-Token. I appreciate that five-star review. And once again,

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