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Freedom Before FIRE | Trip of a Lifestyle

ChooseFI

Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

Financialindependence, Investing, Firemovement, Passiveincome, Frugalliving, Personalfinancepodcast, Daveramsey, Careers, Business, Earlyretirement, Habits

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: connecting points, the power of FU money, the early retirement era, and enjoying the journey.

This week we are joined by returning guests, Steven and Lauren Keys from Trip of a Lifestyle, to update us on their FI journey and “early retirement era,” as well as discuss the importance of finding the courage and freedom to make radical lifestyle changes in the present. We all know that money can open up new opportunities in your life, whether it’s having the flexibility to leave your job for a better one or even relocating to a dream country, but most of us forget that these opportunities can be achieved sooner than you think! The journey to FI is about taking actionable steps to build and achieve the life you want, and you don’t have to wait until you’re fully retired to do it! While you’re starting to save and spend less, remember that you’re getting closer and closer to your goal, but even still that it’s not a poor decision to spend money on things that are important to you and can improve your life!

New ChooseFI shirts are now available here!

Trip of a Lifestyle:

Timestamps:

  • 0:46 – Introduction
  • 3:12 – Connecting Points
  • 6:39 – Taking Money Out of the Equation
  • 13:14 – The Power of FU Money
  • 23:39 – Getting to The Early Retirement Era
  • 33:27 – Investing
  • 44:59 – Paying Yourself Last?
  • 48:39 – Enjoying the Journey/Setting Yourself up for Success
  • 58:13 – Conclusion

Resources Mentioned In Today’s Episode:

Transcript

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0:15.8

Hey before we get into the episode I just wanted to make a quick fun announcement for the first time in years we actually have choose a high t-shirts available for sale and I actually even brought back our original logo from way back when in 2016 for a little bit of extra retro fun. As you guys know I've been trying to make my life simpler over the last

0:20.4

couple years which is why we actually went away from selling the shirts in the first place

0:24.1

but I'm working with the company that my crossfit gym uses for their own t-shirts and these guys are

0:29.3

really great to work with their top quality shirts so these are tri- blend shirts, they fit

0:35.1

great, they look great, and I lower the price as much as possible to make this

0:39.1

essentially break even because honestly if you want to show your support for Choose of I I want to make it as

0:44.3

inexpensive as humanly possible for you and the store is actually only open until Friday

0:50.6

May 10th and this is not like a scarcity play or anything like that.

0:54.8

It's the way this company does the ordering.

0:57.2

They basically batch order.

0:58.4

You have to hit a minimum, and once the store closes, then they print it, ship them out,

1:03.1

and we're all good to go.

1:04.3

So I'm probably gonna do this about once a year.

1:07.6

So now's a really good time if you wanna get a choose if I shared.

1:10.5

So we have the link in the show notes or just go to choose

1:13.7

F.com slash shirt and that'll just take you right there it'll redirect you to

1:18.2

their website so choose a vie. Com slash shirt or you'll see the link in your

1:22.2

show notes and now on to the show.

1:25.7

Hello and welcome to Choose Up5. Today on the show we have our good friends Stephen and

1:30.3

Lauren Keys back on the podcast after four years and man is their story incredibly

1:36.0

interesting they have curated and built a life that they truly wanted to live into and

1:41.9

I love their concept of how money can really provide choices

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