I'm blind to give you a true finance.

Hey what's up everybody welcome 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's episode is going to be a bit different.

Exactly three years ago I left my job for good and to reflect on the past year I'm just going to release a episode about

my third year of freedom.

You may remember that in the past couple of years I've released my first year freedom my second year freedom

and I figured I might as well keep that going because I've definitely learned a lot

this year and I feel it's been my best yet so I'll share the reasons why it was

better than the first two years and hopefully

you can learn from my experiences and not make the same mistakes I did whenever you eventually

hit financial independence. Just like my first year of freedom episode, this one's probably going to be a lot shorter than usual,

but I have a lot of really good interviews lined up for the rest of the year, so we'll be back to normally scheduled programming in the next episode.

If you haven't listened to my first year freedom episode or second year freedom episode,

I put the links in the show notes so you can check those out first, because I'm going to build

on a lot of the things I talked

about in those episodes but I'm not going to recount everything because there's no use

repeating myself. So I hope this episode is useful to you and let's just get

right into it. So the first thing I have to mention about this year is just how quickly it went by.

It was actually really scary how fast this year's gone.

2019 in particular, I just can't believe it's already August.

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