Episode Summary:
In this week’s episode, we interview Jessica from The Fioneers and talk about designing a life you don’t want to retire from. Jess spends a lot of time talking, thinking, and writing about how people can use the financial freedom they are building along the way to Financial Independence (FI) to design a life they don’t want to retire from. We also talk with Jess about changes she’s seen in the FIRE movement over the years, the power of community, how to leverage experimentation to build confidence, and her exciting custom campervan buildout.
Episode Notes:
Jess from the Fioneers is a full-time human being and a part-time writer and lifestyle design coach. She is a Co-Founder of The Fioneers, an AWARD-WINNING financial independence blog focused on the intersection between financial independence and lifestyle design. She also provides coaching, courses, and retreats on career discovery and lifestyle design for people who want to take unconventional paths and design lives they love. In her free time, you can find her spending as much time as possible outside, perfecting her sourdough pizza recipe, and road-tripping in her campervan.
In this discussion with Jess from the Fioneers, we cover many topics, including:
- What the Fioneers have been up to since we last had them on in Episode 42
- Jess quit her job 2+ years ago and is enjoying entrepreneurship
- Corey just quit his job and is spending six months on a sabbatical focused on burnout recovery
- Their camper van experiment and the resulting decision to spend $150K+ on a custom built-out camper van
- Their goal to be location independent
- Definition of SlowFI and CoastFI
- The difference between financial independence and financial freedom
- The shifts Jen has seen in the FIRE movement in the last few years
- The lifestyle design framework that Jess uses with her clients and that her and Corey have used themselves. What, why, and how.
- How they are approaching medical insurance as entrepreneurs
- The power of community when trying to build an extraordinary and unconventional life
- How to leverage experimentation to build your confidence and take bigger steps
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