I'm going to kindly ask you to ask yourself, what does your dream early retirement look like for you?

And I know a lot of you are hearing that going, Ari, I'm going to be on this beach and just can't wait to spend time with family and travel.

And those are all wonderful things. But I want you to think even bigger than that. And I want you to dream big and I want you to be honest.

So today, I am going to talk to you about this question that is so important,

what is a successful early retirement? Because so many people have it wrong. And I'm going to go

through my framework on how I think through that today to invite yourself to think through,

okay, how can you make sure that you are truly getting the most out of what you've worked so hard

for? Now, before we hop into today's episode, going over the review of the week, comes in from

K-H-N-L-B, assuming that's Long Beach, but just taking a guess there.

And if you're the listener hearing that going, Ari, that's not Long Beach, that's somewhere

else, let me know.

And it says, much thanks.

Thank you, Ari.

I appreciate all your efforts in providing your listeners with sound financial information. Keep up the good work. You are very welcome and glad that it has been helpful to you.

I'm always trying to think of new ways to come to you guys with content that resonates. And as always,

you can, of course, submit a question to me on my website, early retirement podcast.com. And that's once again,

early retirement podcast.com. that's once again early retirement podcast.com. Now today's

episode is an interesting one because I'm not going to go through my traditional example of a Roth

conversion strategy or an estate planning strategy or gifting or any of these things. I'm going through

what I actually think is most important, which is how do you look back and go, yep, I had a successful early retirement.

Here's the mindset that I have. And this information I'm sharing today is in large part from the clients that I have.

They're saying, Ari, here are the things that I wish I knew before I retired early. If you can speak to the audience about these, I think that they'd feel a lot better.

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