Owen Raszkiewicz

So quite a few, I would say, just for those at the front, maybe 80 or 90% put their hand up for listening to the podcast and only maybe 20% said they've actually done something on the back of it.

We find that's the case with books.

If you write a book, unfortunately, 20% is probably what you can assume people will put into practice.

So you know who I am, that's some stuff about me, but I just never take myself too seriously, that's the only one you need to worry about.

So what is financial independence?

Just as a show of hands again, anyone heard of FIRE?

Great, most of the room say 80% again.

So financial independence, it has this kind of connotation that

It's for hippies.

It's for people who just eat lettuce leaves and white rice.

It's for people who blog and they don't live a life.

They're misers, as we might say.

But that is totally not the case.

And I'm about to tell you some ways to overcome that stigma and probably get on a track towards your own financial independence.

So, as you know, financial independence stands for, FIRE stands for financial independence, retire early.

But the basic idea is, this is a bit of a joke, a bit of a contradiction, but people say, when I get to 67, they're kind of holding out for the next best thing.

The anticipation of retiring one day.

Unfortunately for most of us in the room, and we're all pretty young, I'd say, as wonderful as super is, most of us think that we probably won't retire until 70.

maybe even older.

By the time we get there, and by the time the government gets its little hands on the honeypot, it's probably gonna be pushed further out.