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The Financial Conversations Most People Avoid

The Financial Conversations Most People Avoid

My parents sat me down in their formal living room, coffee in china cups, Scotch shortbread on the plate, more uncomfortable than I had ever seen them. What they had to say was smaller than I feared, and far more revealing. It was the moment I understood that the financial conversations most people avoid are not just nice to have. They are often the difference between knowing what to do and being caught completely unprepared. This post is about finding the people who will walk that trail with you.

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Taste It Before You Can Afford It

Taste It Before You Can Afford It

At twenty-six, we ate baguettes on the steps of Montmartre and dreamed of a life we could not yet afford. It turned out that was not a distraction from building toward that life. It was the foundation of it. Most people in the FI community know how to get there. Very few have been specific enough about what they are building toward. This post is about that question.

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