It's one thing to hear about early retirement from me who loves talking about how to retire early with confidence, which if you know me, I don't really want you to retire early if you love your job. I just want you to know when are you in a position to make work optional. And if you love what you do, keep doing it. And if you don't love what you do, go spend your time on what matters most because I hate the thought of you working unnecessarily.

If you don't need to be working because financially you're in a great spot, I want you to know that.

And at the minimum, I want you to know when that will be the case.

When do you enter that recreational employment?

Now, the best way to learn, in my opinion, is from people who have already done it.

So what I'm going to be doing is still continuing my interviews because you guys have

shared amazing feedback with me via email.

I'm just going to read out one of the recent responses and this, I'm going to keep anonymous

of course.

So if you want to email me what you have found most helpful, please do.

It is so fun for me to get to read

your responses. You can email me at ari at rootfinancial.com. And this is a response that says

these interviews have changed the way I look at an early retirement. It's fun to hear about these

different concepts, but when I see them applied in real life and I can hear the joy and freedom

in their voice, It just hits different.

So that is a great example of why I love getting to hold these interviews. So I'm going to continue

to play these interviews. These are all live right now on YouTube. So if you prefer to listen on

YouTube for any reason, I know many of you who listen here on the podcast go, yeah, YouTube is not my thing,

too many ads, it's just annoying. Totally get that. I listen to many history podcasts on my podcast out,

and I recently just did an audiobook with my wife. We just drove up to Carmel from Los Angeles,

and we listened to an audio book called My Husband's Wife.

And that was quite an interesting mystery.

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