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Welcome to the Retirement Answerman Show.

If you're new to the show, my name is Roger Whitney, and I am a practicing retirement planner

for over 25 years, founder of the Rock Retirement Club, and each week we noodle on how to empower you to not just simply survive retirement but have the

confidence to lean in and rock retirement.

We got a lot going on today.

We're going to have Kevin Sebastian join us for our second in four segments on fire,

financial independent retirement early movement and what you and I can learn and perhaps integrate into our retirement

planning. Today we're going to talk about some of the opportunities that the

fire movement presents that we might be able to integrate in our life.

In addition to that, in our rock life segment,

we're gonna have Kevin Liles, coach in the rock retirement club,

come on and talk about unretirement and legacy and if that wasn't enough.

Then we're going to have Taylor Schulte from Define Financial come on to answer some of

your questions.

So much going on so let's just get started.

So in today's segment on five financial independence retire early we're going to talk about the benefits of

Fire with Kevin Sebastian. Kevin, one thing I was thinking about last week when we were talking

or since we were talking is the idea of thinking as life as a journey,

like a hike, a hike that meanders different directions rather than a mountain climb that you need to struggle to summit,

which is that could be traditional retirement, sacrifice your life for the payoff at the end, versus enjoying life and having more

balanced throughout life. That's sort of how I've been framing this fire movement

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