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489 | Freedom Before FIRE | Trip of a Lifestyle

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

Financialindependence, Investing, Firemovement, Passiveincome, Frugalliving, Personalfinancepodcast, Daveramsey, Careers, Business, Earlyretirement, Habits

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: connecting points, the power of FU money, the early retirement era, and enjoying the journey.

This week we are joined by returning guests, Steven and Lauren Keys from Trip of a Lifestyle, to update us on their FI journey and “early retirement era,” as well as discuss the importance of finding the courage and freedom to make radical lifestyle changes in the present. We all know that money can open up new opportunities in your life, whether it’s having the flexibility to leave your job for a better one or even relocating to a dream country, but most of us forget that these opportunities can be achieved sooner than you think! The journey to FI is about taking actionable steps to build and achieve the life you want, and you don’t have to wait until you’re fully retired to do it! While you’re starting to save and spend less, remember that you’re getting closer and closer to your goal, but even still that it’s not a poor decision to spend money on things that are important to you and can improve your life!

Trip of a Lifestyle:

Timestamps:

  • 0:46 – Introduction
  • 3:12 – Connecting Points
  • 6:39 – Taking Money Out of the Equation
  • 13:14 – The Power of FU Money
  • 23:39 – Getting to The Early Retirement Era
  • 33:27 – Investing
  • 44:59 – Paying Yourself Last?
  • 48:39 – Enjoying the Journey/Setting Yourself up for Success
  • 58:13 – Conclusion

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Choose at Fye.

0:02.0

Today on the show we have our good friends, Stephen and Lauren Keys,

0:05.5

back on the podcast after four years.

0:08.0

And man, is their story incredibly interesting.

0:11.1

They have curated and built a life that they truly wanted to live into.

0:16.1

And I love their concept of how money can really provide choices and enable them to feel free enough to make drastic changes in their

0:24.8

lives in every sense from the prototypical FU money story to long-term travel to a mini unretirement. You're really going to enjoy this episode and

0:36.1

with that welcome to to choose-up I. It's good to see you both.

0:48.7

Hey, good to see you.

0:49.9

Good to see you. Yeah, this should be fun. So, okay, we referred to the first time you're on, which is episode 226.

0:57.2

So we called it Trip of a Lifestyle to all U.S. National Parks.

1:01.8

So yeah, you've built this really cool brand trip of a lifestyle and

1:05.8

your long-term travel didn't stop with all 60-plus national parks, right? So since the last time we've spoken to you,

1:14.2

as I understand it, you took three months in Australia

1:17.0

and I'm sure a whole handful of other cool trips.

1:20.2

I think we'll kind of double back to this,

1:22.0

but tell me about Australia. I want to hear a couple minutes like how on earth did you guys pull off a three month trip?

1:27.6

Yeah Australia was super fun. The plane ride to get there a little less so. It's quite long. I think it's like 10 hours just to get from Florida to Hawaii which is halfway and then like another 10 hours from like Hawaii to Sydney. So that was really long, but it was worth it. We were there for three months. We traversed the

1:46.3

entire continent. We went from one coast to the other, a true trip of a lifestyle fashion in a hatchback and it was awesome.

1:54.1

Yeah we bought a car when we got there I think it was 2,800 US dollars if I remember correctly

1:59.3

and we ended up driving it all the way across Australia and back and selling it for more than we paid for it at the end.

2:06.4

That's amazing. I remember your story from Hawaii where I think you did something similar right?

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