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This week I\\u2019m chatting with a number of people who identify as members of the FIRE movement, which stands for Financial Independence Retire EarlY. The mission is to intensely save and invest \\u2014over half your income\\u2014so you can retire sometime by 40 or sooner. The movement is often associated with white men who have high earning careers in software engineering or finance. And as a result the FIRE saving and investing advice and pursuit of FIRE\\xa0\\xa0can be inapplicable to many..\\xa0\\xa0So this week we\\u2019re speaking to the minority members of the FIRE group that are making the movement more diverse, more inclusive and more relevant.

Today we\\u2019re speaking with Paula Pant, a prominent leader of the Financial Independence Retire Early movement and an enthusiastic investor with a soft spot for spreadsheets. She is the Founder of Afford Anything, a personal finance and financial independence website and host of the award-winning Afford Anything podcast.

Paula\\u2019s core belief that \\u201cyou can afford anything, but not everything\\u201d is the backbone of Afford Anything. Through expert interviews and bi-weekly \\u201cAsk Paula\\u201d episodes, listeners learn to think critically about how they spend limited resources like time, money, and energy.

Paula survived Covid 19 earlier this spring so our conversation starts there\\u2026and we dive into her financial belief systems in this unusual time\\u2026have they changed?\\xa0

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