Today we discuss Episode 37 with Scott Rieckens, the filmmaker behind the FI documentary Playing with FIRE, plus emails and voicemails from the community and a discussion of reaching FI in a high cost of living area.
Podcast Episode Summary
- Discussion of Episode 37 with Scott Rieckens, the documentary filmmaker behind the upcoming FI documentary called Playing With FIRE
- The great American Eclipse and our viewing
- Brad’s vacation and how they spent $0 on hotels for 16 nights
- The value of slow travel and why it makes vacation dramatically better. Vacation doesn’t have to be stressful
- How expectations management is so crucial to life and on vacation
- Time is such a crucial tool
- Scott’s slow travel with his family and the yearlong adventure they are on visiting family and friends while filming the documentary
- There should be creativity and excitement in your future and your decisions
- The list of things that made Scott’s wife happy on a weekly basis and how this was an inspired decision by Scott
- Sell your value first and then grow your network. How Scott did a masterful job at this by creating a network and even leaning on our network
- How Brad connected instantly with Scott and wanted to help him
- This documentary can help take the concept of FI to the mainstream
- Email from Paige on limiting beliefs and how it isn’t “impossible” to live in a high cost of living area for under $50,000 per year
- Paige thinks that you may need to be a “little more intense” to hit FI on a low income, but that it is certainly possible and it is all about savings rate
- How we all have limiting beliefs that we need to work through to “think about a problem a little bit differently”
- Brad’s decision to leave Long Island, and how that helped the path to FI. But could they have been more intense and stayed and still reached FI?
- You can be on the path to FI moving forward no matter where you’ve been or what “bad” decisions you’ve made in the past
- There’s no perfect person or situation for FI – just try to be a little better going forward to make positive changes
- Email from Art Vandelay and how they love the show and have made a lot of positive changes since listening. Should we stop the FIRE from spreading?
- We need local leaders for ChooseFI local meetups so please reach out to us
- Voicemail from James about his successful trip from Nashville to Europe using travel rewards points
- Voicemail from Rachel about how to hack your TSP to save money on your student loans
- Itunes reviews and giveaways for Camp ticket plus books
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