Sep 2024

19m 6s

Valuable Lessons from My Eighth Year of ...

The Mad Fientist

About this episode

In 2021, I decided to stop doing annual updates.

At that time, I thought I had FI figured out and was just living a "normal" life (so no need to talk about it anymore).

Well, a lot has changed since then.

Turns out, I didn't have everything figured out :/

I explain more in today's short podcast episode!

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