FI + Choose | Clint Murphy | Episode 518

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

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4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Episode Summary

Clint Murphy returns to ChooseFI, sharing his transformative journey labeled "FI and Choose," emphasizing the importance of choosing a lifestyle that values personal growth and meaningful connections. The hosts discuss their experiences at financial independence events, highlighting how these gatherings foster deep conversations that extend beyond finances. They explore the contrast between accumulating wealth and Pursuing a simpler, more intentional life filled with enriching experiences, including joy from low-cost activities and being present in relationships.

Key Topics Discussed

Connection Through FI
- The importance of community in financial independence events.
- Shared experiences and personal growth discussions among participants.
The Power of Vulnerability
- Opening up in conversations to foster deeper connections.
- Embracing quirks and eccentricities to enhance relationships.
Simplicity and Enjoyment
- Finding joy in low-cost activities, such as playing pickleball.
- The realization that enjoyment doesn’t require significant spending.
FI and Choose Philosophy
- The idea that achieving financial independence offers choices about how to live life.
- Aligning personal ambitions with the simplicity of life.

Actionable Takeaways

Explore Joyful Activities: Engage in activities that bring joy without high costs .
Build Deeper Relationships: Foster relationships through open and vulnerable conversations .

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Choose A V. Today on the show we have my good friend Clint Murphy back for another episode here on Choose of I he joined us previously in a book club episode and him and I have become really great friends in the intervening time and we just have these
0:16.3	amazing conversations in real life and offline and I wanted to bring one of those conversations
0:21.7	here to the podcast.
0:23.4	He's recently undergone some significant changes in his real life and he termed it five plus pivot.
0:30.7	That was originally what we were going to talk about, but interestingly, we coined a new phrase on this
0:36.3	podcast, which is FIE and Choose, or 5 plus Choose. And I think that is going to be an enduring legacy of this podcast episode.
0:45.8	I think not only are we choosing FI, but when you get to some degree of FI, you have choice,
0:52.9	and you have almost unlimited choice.
0:54.8	And yeah, we talk about that, we talk about simplicity,
0:57.6	we talk about whether you actually retire or not
1:00.9	and what a life looks like. This is really, really a wonderful in-depth conversation.
1:05.6	I think you're going to enjoy this.
1:07.1	And with that, welcome to Choose Up-Fi. Clint, it is so good to see you. It's been a couple months, so we spent five plus days together in Breckinridge, Colorado at a retreat, which was just an absolutely amazing time.
1:26.7	And it was just so cool that I knew you from the online world and you flew in from British Columbia.
1:32.7	I fly in from Richmond.
1:34.2	And I think we both maybe struggled a little bit
1:36.9	with the altitude, but man, that was a darn good time.
1:39.7	Amazing trip, good people, the conversations, the activities, it was all an absolute blast and to be able to follow that up and jump on a recording with you today.
1:49.0	I really excited to have this conversation.
1:51.0	Yeah, you and me both, my friend.
1:52.0	And yeah, I think for everybody out there, why we've talked about five events, and this wasn't a five event, obviously this was a group of friends getting together, but it was all people who knew each other through, in essence, through me and through financial independence.
2:08.5	And what's cool about five events generally is when you have this one big thing in common you have so many
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