377 | Glide Path to Retirement During Financial Uncertainty

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

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4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Brad and Jonathan discuss different ways to retain a sense of control along the path to retirement during times of uncertainty. While low points in the economy tend to cause worry, focusing on steps that can be taken to continue forward progress is what helps set the FI community apart! Join the guys as they discuss information that could help you navigate the murky waters ahead and continue along with your FI journey!

Timestamps

1:02 - Disney and Travel Rewards
9:52 - Age of Uncertainty
17:41 - Controlling What You Can
20:35 - Returns and Inflation
26:09 - The Glide Path
27:49 - Series I Bonds
39:18 - Controlling Income and Expenses
48:10 - When The Market Turns...
52:47 - Conclusion

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0:00.0	Hello everyone on today's episode. We are going to discuss glide past for financial
0:05.1	independence in a time of inflation in some amount of uncertainty. Welcome to the ultimate
0:11.0	crowdsource personal finance show. This is Choose FI.
0:14.5	You're listening to Choose FI radio. The blueprint for financial independence lives here.
0:30.1	If you're looking to unblocked as secrets to financial independence and early retirement,
0:35.0	you're in the right place. Stay tuned and join a community of like-minded people who are
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0:45.2	independence. Choose FI. You're home for financial independence on live.
0:53.0	Alright guys, very excited to dive into this week's episode and help me with this. I have
1:05.2	my co-host Brad here with me today. How you doing buddy?
1:07.3	Hey Jonathan, I'm doing quite well. Yeah, what's going on in your world?
1:11.4	Well we are recording a couple episodes in batch for this week and next week and the
1:14.9	reason for that is that we are about to go to Disney World.
1:19.1	Oh, that's cool.
1:21.3	And I got to say this is cool. It's actually a confession here. It is my first time going.
1:27.2	Seriously?
1:28.2	I never got to go as a kid. We were relatively low income family growing up and there were
1:34.1	five of us and it's expensive. It was expensive and we didn't know about travel rewards at the
1:41.7	time and I'm not quite, I'm not sure if in the 1980s and 90s they were quite as prevalent
1:46.7	as they were today. So anyways, yeah, we're going to Disney World and we had talked about
1:52.1	Disney a couple of times but when we started this show, I had just had newborn kids. You're
1:56.2	not going to go to Disney World with six month old. But now my kids are at this age where
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