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Episode: Work is Not Mandatory: 10 Years of Early Retirement Reflections | Brad Barrett (ChooseFI)
Description: When work becomes optional, a new question appears: who do you want to be now?
Brad Barrett retired in 2015 at age 35 after a 13 year career as an accountant. Since then, he’s spent the last decade experimenting with early retirement, building ChooseFI into one of the largest personal finance podcasts in the world, and refining what a meaningful life actually looks like after financial independence.
In this episode, Brad shares what pushed him toward financial independence, the key financial decisions that accelerated his path, and the surprising lessons he’s learned after 10+ years of optional work...