Is the all-out pursuit of financial independence really the best approach today?

Or is CoastFi a better evolution?

Today is going to be a fun discussion, and hopefully you'll walk away with a better understanding

of which might be the best for you when we contrast my all-out pursuit of financial independence

at age 25 compared to Evans' pursuit of Coast-Fi at age 25.

Hello. pursuit of CoastFi at age 25. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast.

My name is Scott Trench, and not with me as always, with me for the first time, is Evan

Lawler from the Financial Foundation.

He's working towards CoastFi, and he is the perfect person to beat up,

or at least contrast, my approach, my all-out approach to financial independence at an early

age. When I was 25, I was doing things a little differently than Evan. There's overlap and

there's differences. And I think Evan has a really, really healthy evolution of the approach

I was taking 10 years ago now towards my version

of financial independence. So without further ado, Evan, welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast.

I couldn't be more excited to have you guest host today with me and hear your story and your

tweaks to financial independence.

Thank you so much for having me on, Scott. I am extremely excited to be here and jump into

the details and see how our different approaches have evolved over time. Awesome. Well, hopefully

this episode is applicable to everybody and anybody, but CoastFi, I think, is most impactful for

people who start out early in their careers. The earlier you get started, the sooner you can

coast, of course.

But before we get into that, can you maybe define what CoastFi is for us, Evan?

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