A very warm welcome to the early retirement show, the show dedicated to helping you navigate

the nuances of an early retirement, a non-traditional retirement. Now, let's get right into the

episode so we can learn how to retire early. Welcome back to the early retirement podcast. I'm

your host, R.E. Taoblieb, and today's episode is reframing the way you view safe money. Now, the emergency fund

is a phrase you've probably heard of before, which is, how do I make sure I have money on the side

in case anything happens? Well, I'm going to reframe the way that you view that and also

invite you to think a little bit differently when it comes to what is safe money and how do we

make sure that our money

one is really working as hard as possible but two is that it it really changes based on your

situation and i don't love the phrase of it depends because yes it does depend but sometimes

stopping at it depends causes people to go okay well if it depends then why even look into? And the reason we look into this is because odds are, if you're listening to this podcast, you are already on track in the sense of, hey, you're on top of it. You're thinking about retirement. You're thinking about an early retirement. You're thinking about how can I get ahead? And what I tell people is you're probably fine, but you don't want to reach out in terms of

listening to this podcast or reaching out to work with a planner or reaching out to YouTube

videos or whatever it is of your source of education. You're not reaching out because you want

fine. You're reaching out because you want to optimize what it is you work so hard for.

And that's what I love helping to do. So I'm going to be

talking about how to think about this a little differently today, and my hope is that it's helpful.

And if any of these episodes have been helpful, I do kindly ask that you do rate and review the show.

I don't put any ads on these episodes because I don't want you to get interrupted. I want to make

sure that you can

continue to receive this content without those interruptions. And I hope above all else that if you

learn anything from this, it's really how you can maximize your return on your life. It's simply

money that we use to do that. At the end of the day, money is just a tool. It's not money that we

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