Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge

skills, insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

Today I am excited to welcome back to Radical Personal Finance, Jacob Lund Fisker, host

or I guess I should say author of one of my favorite books on financial freedom, called

Early Retirement Extreme, author of the blog by the same title.

Jacob, welcome back to Radical Personal Finance.

Yeah, thank you very much.

I mean, it's been, what, six years?

Seven?

It's been a long time.

Last time we had an epic three hour podcast that for quite a while was the most listened

to episode of my show and we really had a great time.

It's been now, how many years since you retired?

Well, first, first time, a second time around, I mean, I don't really think of it as retired

personally, more like the option to do what I want when I want the reason, right?

But I mean, I retired, I stuck with my physics career in 2009 and then I had a stint

in high finance of Wall Street kind of stuff between 2012 and 2015.

So I guess technically it's been five years.

So about about five years since you left the world of finance, yeah.

So what I'd like to begin our conversation with today is just simply to ask you a little

bit about how you view your personal financial philosophy and the path that you've taken

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