A very warm welcome to the early retirement show, the show dedicated to helping you navigate

the nuances of an early retirement, a non-traditional retirement. Now let's get right into the episode

so we can learn how to retire early. Welcome back to the early retirement podcast. I am your

host, Ari Taoblieb, and today's a fun one.

We are going to be talking about the five most important parts of building a successful financial

plan. What can you think about so that by the end of this podcast episode, you go, I am ready

to build myself a financial plan. So we're going to also focus on what you should be avoiding,

because sometimes people

spend so much energy on things that just don't play a big role and I want you to spend your

time that you do choose on your financial life on things that matter most. Before we hop into

today's episode, I am going to highlight a recent review and if you have not left a review yet on

iTunes,

please go ahead and do so. It is so helpful to see your feedback, and it helps more people find

the show. So I truly appreciate it. I love doing these podcasts. So this one is by Ben Silbar,

who says retirement advice. Early retirement is stressful. This is the best podcast around to create a stress-free early

retirement. Thank you, Ben. I hope that it has certainly been helpful. And if you have not either

submitted a review or left a note to me personally on my website, early retirement podcast.com

slash submit your question, then I would be happy to see that because I want

to know what do you want to hear about. I make these episodes based off of what clients tell me,

based off of the questions that you submit, and the more that you do that, the more that I get to

help you all. So thank you for allowing me to do that. This is a true pleasure of mine.

So let's hop right into today and what I want

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