Travis Shakespeare is creating the Playing with FIRE documentary. He talks about discovering FI, how FI has the power to change the world, and how one misinterpretation caused him to reach FI much sooner than he should have.
On today’s show we cover:
- Interview with Travis Shakespeare
- His approach to creating the Playing with FIRE documentary
- What drew him to the media industry
- The power of story
- How he wants to the documentary to create a call to action
- How he discovered FI
- The FI community as a subculture and how it’s like an experiment
- Why the documentary will get FI closer to a mainstream audience
- How FI has the power to change the world
- How Travis came about creating the documentary
- Hotseat questions
Listen to Brad and Jonathan’s thoughts about this episode here.
Links from the show:
- Playing with FIRE documentary
- Mr Money Mustache
- Get Rich Slowly
- Early Retirement Extreme book
- Millionaire Next Door
- Episode 57: Playing with FIRE Documentary
- Rockstar Finance
- Eater Blog
- The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement
- Sealfit Yoga
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