Live Your Ideal Life Before Retirement with Jessica from the Fioneers

#26: Don’t wait until you retire to start doing things you love. As you save money towards retirement, there are ways to use your incremental financial freedom to start living your ideal lifestyle now. Jessica from the Fioneers shares the concept of SlowFI, and how it allows you to utilize the financial freedom you gain along the way to live a happier and more fulfilling life now. Jessica also shares how she is on a 10-year timeline to financial independence (FI) even though she and her husband both work in the nonprofit sector and live in a high cost of living area. 

In this episode, we talk about:

How to make sure you enjoy the process of achieving FI Why you don’t have to work a job you hate to retire early How working less can actually SAVE you money Going part-time without extending your timeline to FI Why you should pursue meaningful work now

If you want to learn how to start living your ideal life on the journey to financial independence, take a listen to this episode. If you enjoy it, please subscribe and share with a friend. Also, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, I’d really appreciate it.

Want a refresher on the basics of Financial Independence, Retire Early? Listen to Episode 5. 

Listen to the full guide to Lifestyle Design in Episode 7.

Jessica is a previous podcast guest, who shared how to manage stress during a crisis in Episode 15. 

Today’s sponsor is one-on-one coaching with Becky Blake from twentyfree.co and host of this podcast. As a money coach and lifestyle design expert, Becky helps people reach their biggest money goals, like paying off debt, building up savings and using their money to create their ideal life. She provides the proven tools to improve your finances, and accountability to make sure you take the action