As we welcome another independence week here in the US, freedom is on our minds and for this

podcast of course financial freedom is on my mind. I hope yours too. For many of us, especially Motley Fool members and Rule Breaker listeners, those two words,

Financial Freedom echo like a Liberty Bell. And thanks to the full community, writing in for many places this week you're going to hear echoes of that Liberty Bell coming at you from diverse places and diverse viewpoints all aiming for liberty.

I consider liberty one of America's five core values and it's on display this week

when we share and riff on the dream and for some the reality of the liberty that

comes from financial freedom. I can't wait to share and riff on these tales as

told by you my fellow fools only on this week's

rule breaker investing. It's the rulebreaker investing podcast with

Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.

So yes, friends, on this holiday week I have the privilege of sharing back out your stories, your answers to this prompt question that I

provided in last week's podcast what have you done in the past year to create

financial freedom for yourself and or for others.

And if you like, how do you measure that, which is, by the way, not an easy task.

And one of the things we're not going to go too deep on is measuring things this week.

But it is something rhetorically, I'll ask you to think more about yourself.

How do you measure that step you took toward financial freedom the act of paying off that

final revolving credit card or making that first down payment on a house and what a

house could mean for your financial freedom.

It's not always easy to quantify things,

but I think it's worth asking that question.

How do you measure that?

But really we're not going that direction too much this week.

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