Hey, Stackers, one of my favorite reasons, and there's so many reasons why I love greatest hits week, is that I, ahead of time, get to share with you what to look for in these episodes and why we actually are calling it a greatest hit.

So the primary interview today is with a gentleman named Ken Honda. And Ken has this philosophy called Happy Money.

And here's how happy money affected me when I first read about it.

And then I got to interview Ken.

I not only had this amazing interview with him,

but later that day I was chatting with my friend Paula Pant

from Afford Anything. And I went on for over an hour about why, in my opinion, this is all

the best parts of the fire movement without what I see as the nasty downside. And it was a great conversation. And I've had so many conversations around

this idea of happy money and why this philosophy works for me. So you're probably wondering,

A, maybe what is the fire movement? Well, that's financial independence retire early. People

trying to be

financially independent as quickly as possible and maybe retire as soon as they can. And when I don't like

the fire movement, generally, of course, I believe financial independence is great when we get

it earlier. But I don't like it when it's takey.

How do I make more for me?

How do I get more for me?

How do I, you know, not tip people as much?

How do I cheapen stuff?

It just, it has this ick quality, ugly underbelly. And when it's not like that,

it's fantastic. Because truly it is about us, isn't it? I mean, I feel fantastic when I could

help somebody else get ahead and it helps me at the same time.

And there truly is no us or them. It's totally us. So when today you hear Ken talk so much about gratitude, this is what I believe is the key to being human and financially independent, all wrapped

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