Marla Taner – Striving for Happiness After Early Retirement

Financial Independence Podcast

The Mad Fientist

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🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

My good friend Marla Taner joined me on the Financial Independence Podcast to go deep into some early-retirement topics that aren’t often discussed.

Marla and I met in 2014 at Camp Mustache and we’ve had a lot of fun (and sometimes heavy) conversations over the years so I thought it’d be great to record one for the podcast!

Highlights:

How to deal with a sudden early retirement
Rethinking travel after leaving work
Finding happiness from within
Dealing with losing career identity and external validation
How to care less about “success”
The effort of happiness
Focusing on progress rather than the end goal
Doing the work to figure yourself out
Justifying the decision to retire early

Transcript

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0:00.0	No, we're not going to talk about that.
0:01.6	Oh, we're talking about it.
0:02.6	It's coming up.
0:03.7	Oh, no.
0:05.1	I'll just look like an asshole.
0:07.2	It's quite right.
0:08.8	Quite right.
0:09.8	Nice.
0:10.0	Still haven't recovered from it. Hey what's up everyone.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast where I get inside the brains of some of the
0:21.6	best and brightest and personal
0:22.8	finance to find out how they achieved financial independence.
0:25.1	I'm excited to introduce my guest today but before I do I have something to give you guys.
0:29.2	If you listen to episode 40 of the podcast you'll know that my brother is over here visiting and he was taking a little mini break from work and
0:37.1	Since he was here and didn't have a job I was trying to think of something I could give him mad finest related that I could pay him for so I thought it would be really cool if he went back through all of my old podcast episodes and extracted all of the best advice from those episodes.
0:51.0	As you probably know, at the end of every interview, I always asked my guest,
0:54.4	what's one piece of advice you would give to somebody on the path to financial independence.
0:58.4	So my brother went back through all the episodes since 2012 and he wrote down all those pieces of advice and I put together a nice
1:04.6	PDF and it's free so if you are interested in getting that just head over to madfiantist
1:09.8	com forward slash advice and you can get a copy of that and check out all the great
1:15.6	advice I've received on the Financial Independence Podcast since 2012.
1:20.3	For today's show there's even more good advice to come. I've invited my good friend
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