What is Financial Independence, Retire Early?
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Today is the last Friday of the month and my regular listeners know that on the last Friday of the month, I host the happy hour on the podcast where I gather great friends with me to drink cheap drinks and talk about money topics. Since the beginning of this podcast, which now dates back over 8 years, we always had a set group of people who joined me for Happy Hour.\\xa0
Starting in 2023, we\\u2019re going to test out a rotating one or two seats for Happy Hour. This decision has come because of a few reasons, first of all, the monthly commitment required to co-host the happy hour is difficult for people to make when they have other businesses and interests as these seats are voluntary and there is no financial payment provided for the happy hour guests. Secondly, I\\u2019ve heard for years many of you wanting to join a happy hour and share your thoughts and honestly, I\\u2019d love to hear them because I have shared drinks with many of you in person and would love to also do it virtually and finally, this is a great way for us to amplify many of the voices in this community and discuss topics that you\\u2019re passionate about.\\xa0
Joining us for this month\\u2019s happy hour is long time listener, Liana. Liana joins us today to talk about her pursuit of FIRE or Financial Independence, Retire Early, and the various types of FIRE movement now. I love how the FI movement has grown to welcome many different paths and we discuss which FI path we\\u2019re on during the show.\\xa0
For more information, visit the show notes at https://www.martinisandyourmoney.com/show-notes/episode466-what-is-fire
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