Marla Taner Striving for Happiness After Early Retirement

Published: May 9, 2018, 2:30 a.m.

My good friend Marla Taner joined me on the Financial Independence Podcast to go deep into some early-retirement topics that aren\u2019t often discussed.

Marla and I met in 2014 at Camp Mustache\xa0and we\u2019ve had a lot of fun (and sometimes heavy) conversations over the years so I thought it\u2019d be great to record one for the podcast!

Highlights:

  • How to deal with a sudden early retirement
  • Rethinking travel after leaving work
  • Finding happiness from within
  • Dealing with losing career identity and external validation
  • How to care less about \u201csuccess\u201d
  • The effort of happiness
  • Focusing on progress rather than the end goal
  • Doing the work to figure yourself out
  • Justifying the decision to retire early