I'm blind, if you're with her, finance.

Hey, everyone to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast that usually gets inside

the brains of the best and brightest in personal finance to find out how they achieved financial

independence, but today is a bit different.

If you listen to Monday's episode, you'll know that it is the two-year anniversary of

when I left my full-time job.

And to commemorate it, I released a recording of a reading of my first year Freedom Post, which

you can check out.

And I decided to record this episode of just me reflecting

on the last year to give you an idea what my second year freedom has been like.

So this episode will likely be shorter than you're used to but hopefully it'll still give you

a sense of what this whole lifestyle is like after you reach your goal and some of the

challenges that you face that you may not expect because I know personally I've not expected a lot of the stuff that's happened so hopefully you can learn from my experiences and then be better prepared when you eventually quit your job as well.

I think a great place to begin is to actually reflect on my first year of Freedom Post,

which you've hopefully read before or if not you listen to being read on Monday in the last episode.

If not, I would suggest go to to that there's a link in the show

notes to that post. The great news is the only time I actually freaked out

about this whole thing was on that first day of freedom which I talked about in the

last post and everything else has been really, really great.

There's been challenges, absolutely.

But overall, the experience has just been incredible.

As I mentioned in that first year post I was experiencing new things a lot more which has

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