A PODCAST on FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
🎤 On a mission to get friends to talk about money
🔥 Hosted by friends, Mike + Maggie,Â
who both reached FI before 40Â
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#140 | Maggie’s early retirement “bucket list” plans (part 4 of 5)
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode, Maggie shares a glimpse into how she plans to spend her retirement, or as she describes it, what’s on her early retirement bucket list. She introduces the concept of her Freedom Five and walks through each of her top...
#139 | Medical insurance in early retirement (part 3 of 5)
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode, Maggie shares her plan for medical insurance in early retirement. The reality is insurance is expensive, and either your employer is subsidizing the cost for you, or you’re paying the higher price tag in exchange for...
#138 | How a family of 5 can afford to retire at 41 and 43 (part 2 of 5)
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode, Maggie shares how her family of 5 is retiring at her age of 41 and her husband at the age of 43. She shares how they financially got to the point of retiring early and how they plan to finance the next 40+ years of...
#137 | Maggie quit her job and is early retiring at 41 (part 1 of 5)
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode, Maggie shares some big news that she’s resigned at the age of 41 after 20 years working in Corporate America and is retiring early! And it’s not just Maggie, her husband Greg also quit his job, and they are taking this...
#136 | From financially illiterate in her 20s to retiring from W2 work in her 30s with Diania from EconoMe
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode, we talk about going from financially illiterate in her 20s to retiring from W2 work in her 30s with Diania Merriam. Diania is the host of the Optimal Finance Daily podcast and the creator of the EconoMe conference,...
#135 | How to save money dating
Episode Summary: In this episode, we talk about how to save money while dating. The dating process can get really expensive, yet there are some simple and proactive steps you can take to make dating more affordable and effective. We discuss the various factors that...
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About friends on FIRE
Mike’s a dude who loves #s. He wrote a book. It’s on Amazon. His dad retired at 42, so early retirement is in his blood!
Maggie’s pretty cool. She early-retired at 41 along with her husband! And sometime’s she writes on her blog. It’s on the www.
If you really want to know more about us, we share it all here. Or listen to our podcast and we’ll share more than you ever wanted to know about two people. And most importantly, we hope listening will help you along your own personal finance or financial independence journey.
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