My good friend Marla Taner joined me on the Financial Independence Podcast to go deep into some early-retirement topics that aren’t often discussed.

Marla and I met in 2014 at Camp Mustache and we’ve had a lot of fun (and sometimes heavy) conversations over the years so I thought it’d be great to record one for the podcast!

Highlights:

• How to deal with a sudden early retirement
• Rethinking travel after leaving work
• Finding happiness from within
• Dealing with losing career identity and external validation
• How to care less about “success”
• The effort of happiness
• Focusing on progress rather than the end goal
• Doing the work to figure yourself out
• Justifying the decision to retire early