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Sep 17, 2026
Andy PankoHOST
I'm sort of cheating a little bit.
Andy PankoHOST
today's episode i'm sharing the replay of the audio of a podcast i was on about a month ago or so maybe a little more the catching up to fi podcast which is a great podcast we're catching up to where fi stands for financial independence the catching up to is uh is geared toward people who are kind of late starters with their financial journey and their savings and really getting serious about this stuff And so the gist of it is like, it's never too late to get going on this and catch up to financial independence.
Andy PankoHOST
So great podcast.
Andy PankoHOST
It's been around a while.
Andy PankoHOST
It's hosted by Bill Yount and Jackie Kamenskoski.
Andy PankoHOST
Jackie's been on this show before as one of the Real Person episodes a few months back.
Andy PankoHOST
She also wrote the book, Fire for Dummies, F-I-R-E, Financial Independence, Retire Early.
Andy PankoHOST
Great person, great story.
Frances CookHOST
Love when that happens.
Frances CookHOST
How to start investing, how to get ahead financially when it feels impossible these days, what levers have I pulled to change my own financial situation to be night and day from where I started? Would I sell my fat cat for a million dollars? And how does financial independence work for real people? We're covering a lot, and there's a whole bunch more in there too, so let's go.
Frances CookHOST
Let's not waste any more time.
Frances CookHOST
Welcome to Making Sense.
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Frances CookHOST
You'll give up, and I want you to stay on this train with me and have a really good life, because money itself is not important, but it impacts everything that is.
Frances CookHOST
So let's make some changes in our money lives so that we can have all the other good stuff that is not money.
Frances CookHOST
Next question: Are you aiming for FIRE or Coast FIRE or what? Now, love this question because, um, for anyone who hasn't come across financial independence, retire early, the FIRE movement, and that is also, like, my second book.
Frances CookHOST
I wrote a lot.
Jewel PearsonGUEST
It's been more of rebuilding because there was such an outpouring of finances in the beginning.
Jamila SouffrantHOST
Everything you're describing is the goal of most of us in the FIRE movement and the financially independent retire early movement.
Jamila SouffrantHOST
And I know before I hit record, we're talking a little bit about that.
Jamila SouffrantHOST
And essentially what we all want, I believe, even if you don't know you're on this path of being financially independent, is that you want options and you want to be able to work.
Jamila SouffrantHOST
It's not that you don't ever want to work.
Jamila SouffrantHOST
It's just you want to be able to do the work that you love.
Stephanie DorseyHOST
So before we get started, like we do at this time, this podcast is intended to give you financial education and not financial advice.
Stephanie DorseyHOST
Okay, so I saw this post and this woman said that the FIRE community, so that's the Financial Independence Retire Early community, as well as all of the financial management or financial influencers.
Stephanie DorseyHOST
Basically, these folks have missed the plot.
Stephanie DorseyHOST
They are focusing on extreme capitalism.
Michael ThompsonHOST
I'm an author and the co-host of the business news podcast, Fear and Greed.
Michael ThompsonHOST
As always, I'm with Canna Campbell, financial planner and founder of the financial literacy platform, SugarMammaTV, and my co-author on our new book, 12 Months to Financial Freedom, which is out in shops everywhere at this very moment.
Michael ThompsonHOST
Hello, Canna.
Canna CampbellHOST
Hello.
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Canna CampbellHOST
You can, you know, choose the career path that you love because you don't have to worry about money.
Canna CampbellHOST
But to answer [laughs] your question, it would be invest.
Canna CampbellHOST
Invest to build growing passive income streams, because that is what's going to give you the ultimate financial freedom.
Canna CampbellHOST
You, you know, it's great to build a $10 million portfolio, but if it doesn't pay you any passive income, how helpful is that if you want to be independent? You've gotta sell the whole thing, pay brokerage, pay capital gains tax, and then you're left with less.
Justin MalekHOST
So with that, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
Justin MalekHOST
Happiness Through Subtraction by the Mad Scientist of madscientist.com. Financial independence isn't the answer to all your problems and it won't be the source of all your happiness.
Justin MalekHOST
In fact, financial independence, or FI, is just another shiny object, a new car, the latest smartphone.
Justin MalekHOST
It's all the same.
Justin MalekHOST
We scoff at normal consumers when they try to find happiness by buying things, but are we any better? I know I wasn't.
Justin MalekHOST
We've since spent months visiting friends and family in the States and in Scotland.
Justin MalekHOST
We've met interesting new people while traveling through Southeast Asia, and I'm pleased to report that we're back to being as happy as ever.
Justin MalekHOST
Is FI not worth it? You might be thinking to yourself, MF, why are you talking me out of pursuing financial independence? I'm definitely not.
Cam CathcartHOST
Mm-hmm.
Brandon TurnerHOST
Financial Independence, Retire Early.
Brandon TurnerHOST
It's like, I can cover my bills because my stocks are giving me 4%.
Brandon TurnerHOST
Cool.
Russ MorganGUEST
For most people, when they define financial freedom, on the other side of that is more time doing things that they want to do or spending more time with people that they want to be around.
Russ MorganGUEST
And so I say, okay, well, how do you get there? Like, what are the obstacles? If that's the goal, right? If that could happen tomorrow, what would life be like
Garret WongHOST
for you? I think I'll challenge you a little bit on that because I think most people have a goal to be financially free.
Russ MorganGUEST
So if you want to give me one sentence, that's my mission.
Russ MorganGUEST
That's the goal of Wealth Without Wall Street, what we're striving to achieve.
Russ MorganGUEST
And like you, we think about passive income streams exceeding monthly expenses as defined as financial freedom.
Russ MorganGUEST
The person who is raising a family probably has a kid or two that's maybe exiting the house or already gone, has a lot of regret on things that have passed, right? Because busy entrepreneurs, successful earners, one of the things that we were just talking about before we pressed record is that we have the gift of go, go, go.
Russ MorganGUEST
And that gift has served a lot of people.
Tory RobsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, that is excellent.
Tory RobsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I hope you picked up some great tips from that section of the incredible Financial Freedom program that we have here at Winter's Edge.
Tory RobsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, I wanna go over a few things here like I mentioned I would.
Tory RobsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What is financial freedom? It means you don't have to work anymore.
Tory RobsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It means you have enough that generates enough that it covers all your expenses, and it will cover all of them into the future as your expenses double and then double again.
Tory RobsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Remember now, if your expenses are 20,000 a month right now, in 15 years they will be 40,000 a month, and in 15 years they will be 80,000 a month.
Tory RobsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we have to have the ability to think ahead, which basically nobody does.
Tory RobsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But we want to develop that, and of course, we teach that in our trainings.
David NassiefGUEST
72 years old, and so I am shocked you didn't say, David, are you retired now or are you going to retire? I'm not really shocked, but I'm just like, anyways.
David NassiefGUEST
And my thing is I have a thing in my book called FIGNA, Financial Independence, Graduate to Next Adventure.
David NassiefGUEST
And that's how I look at life as an adventure.
David NassiefGUEST
We live on a beautiful golf course in the back of our yard.
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