Hello everyone and welcome back to an all new episode of the financial confessions.

It's me, Chelsea Fagan, your host, founder and CEO of the financial diet and person who loves to talk about money.

And today we are going to be talking about a topic that many of you are interested in, maybe curious about.

Perhaps this is how some of you got into the personal finance

sphere in general.

Or maybe some of you are totally turned off by the concept,

whether because of how unattainable it might seem

or because of some of the voices that typically

represented the movement.

We've talked here recently on the channel

about the fire movement, the fire community, fire as a concept.

For those who don't know, it stands for financial independence slash retiring early.

And I recently did a video about it talking about a little bit my updated views on the subject.

When I first started TFD many years ago, it would be accurate to say that the representation of the fire community on the internet at that time was predominantly not great, Bob.

It was a lot of men who were working as software engineers living in low cost of living areas with out of frame wives who took on all of the domestic labor, it seemed, without ever really being acknowledged

or thought of as contributing to the household

in any meaningful way.

It was a sphere for bros.

And in many ways, there is still a fair amount of that

in the community.

But as I said in my recent video, not only

has the sort of face and voice of this movement changed, I also have

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