Doug and Carl talk to Amy Minkley, founder of FI Freedom Retreats and all around stellar human.
- Discovering FIRE
- How a chaotic childhood shaped Amy’s money views
- Studying History at university
- Moving to Asia to teach ESL
- Overworking to feel worthy
- Job induced depression
- The incredible benefits of mini-retirements
- Two More Year Syndrome
- Traveling with purpose
- FartFIRE
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0:00 Intro
1:03 How Amy discovered FIRE
5:00 Growing up
8:58 University
14:38 Living abroad
17:10 Are gap years mini-retirements?
22:29 Finding community
28:25 Amy’s first FI retreat
30:51 The One Year syndrome
36:16 Amy’s FI Freedom retreat
38:30 Making friends
40:51 The perfect day
43:58 Where you can find Amy
47:19 Soundcheck