613 | How Do You Know You're Making the Right Financial Decision? | Roundup with Ginger
Every expert sounds convincing until you realize you've collected ten different "right" answers to the same retirement question. Brad Barrett recently found himself overwhelmed by competing FI strateg...
17 Elo 1h 2min
612 | What Actually Happened? | Paige's FI Journey, Nine Years Later
Starting with negative net worth at 47 in Los Angeles on $58,000 a year sounds impossible. Yet Paige reached financial independence by 56, retired early, and now lives exactly the life she designed. T...
12 Elo 54min
611 | ChooseFI Classic: Financial Independence on an Ordinary Income (Paige & Sam)
Paige started her journey to financial independence at 45 with student loans, negative net worth, and an average income in Los Angeles—yet she'll reach FI by 2025. Sam lives on $12,000 per year in the...
10 Elo 1h 10min
610 | Sabbatical Success: Around the World in 367 Days
A 40-year-old physician associate and his wife walked away from their jobs with $50,000 earmarked for a year of world travel. They returned having spent just $30,000—and visited 15+ countries across f...
3 Elo 49min
609 | How to Talk to Your Partner about FI | Jasper Lee
Your spouse shoots down every FI conversation with "we can't afford it" or "retirement at 35 sounds crazy." You respond with better spreadsheets, tighter logic, more compelling numbers—and somehow mak...
27 Heinä 59min
608 | Die With Zero, Revisited
Brad Barrett's daughter just graduated high school. She's heading to college in a few months. The number of times he'll see her for the rest of his life? Already countable. This realization—visceral a...
20 Heinä 1h 12min
607 | Other Mountains I Want to Climb | Diania Merriam
Reaching financial independence is supposed to be the goal—but what if you get there and realize the real skill isn't earning or saving, but learning to spend? And what if the metric for business succ...
13 Heinä 1h 21min
606 | Deep Dive: Target-Date Retirement and Bond Funds | Cody Garrett
Most investors think they're buying the same thing when they choose a target date fund—but two people who bought 2025 target date funds 15 years ago could have 40% different returns today. Same target...
6 Heinä 1h 8min
