Keeping The Topic of “Work” Out of Conversations by Scout
February 4, 2025 I don’t care what your job is. I don’t care what your job title is. I really don’t care to know much about your day-to-day…
The Financial Mistakes We’ve Made by Scout & The Squire
January 28, 2025 Nobody is perfect, especially not us. We’ve all made mistakes in every aspect of our lives and that’s okay. While many people may feel shame,…
What Might Life Be Like At Sixty Five? by The Squire
January 21, 2025 I’m not a great planner, but I do find it helpful to think about my future self. This kind of helps me take a snapshot…
Fighting Through Fear And Anxiety To Take Action by Scout
January 14, 2025 As you know, I’m a HUGE fan of taking action, especially in situations where there is potential for a tremendous positive impact. The Culprits Holding…
Goals And Plans For 2025 by Scout & The Squire
January 7, 2025 Per tradition (at least in American culture), here is a list of goals and/or plans that each of us have made for the upcoming year. …
Top Things We Learned in 2024 by Scout & The Squire
December 31, 2024 Each year that passes is full of numerous experiences that we can learn from and 2024 is no exception. Sometimes these lessons are obvious, but…
Planning For A Joyful Journey To FI by The Squire
December 24, 2024 As fun as it sounds to be financially independent, I’ve got a ways to go. I like my job, and like where I live, and…
Ode to My Car by Scout
December 17, 2024 As I was driving home recently I looked down at my car’s odometer and noticed a very cool milestone (perhaps some would merely call it…
Buying Into The Gaming World by The Squire
December 10, 2024 “No, we’re not going to get you video games” was a comment that my wife and I have repeated hundreds of times over the last…
Selling Stocks is Super Scary, Seriously by Scout
December 3, 2024 Simple Path To Wealth? The high-level FIRE roadmap seems fairly straight-forward: Save & invest as much as possible until one’s portfolio grows large enough to…
What We’re Thankful For in 2024 by Scout & The Squire
November 26, 2024 Both of us have many things to be thankful for this year. While this blog is focused on personal finance & Financial Independence, it may…
A Decade Until Financial Independence by The Squire
November 19, 2024 So I’m closing in on forty four years old and by the looks of it, I probably won’t hit Financial Independence for another decade or…
Musings on the First 1.25 Years of Early Retirement (Part 2) by Scout
November 12, 2024 CONTINUATION OF MUSINGS FROM PART 1… As I mentioned in my first set of musings, there was no huge transition for me into retirement. Because…
Musings on the First 1.25 Years of Early Retirement (Part 1) by Scout
November 5, 2024 With all the summer travel, finally starting up this website, and my current podcasting & parental commitments, I’ve been pretty busy and haven’t had a…
Spending Series Part 4: Spending Extravagantly On Things We Love by Scout & The Squire
October 29, 2024 While frugality is an enduring pillar of Financial Independence, recently there have been some changing attitudes in the community towards spending money. Frivolous or unintentional …
Spending Series Part 3: Purposeful Spending on Non-Essential Items by Scout & The Squire
October 22, 2024 With frugality so ingrained in most of us here in the FI community, it’s sometimes hard to even think about spending money, let alone actually…
Spending Series Part 2: Ridiculously Over-the-Top Frugal Habits by Scout & The Squire
October 15, 2024 While most of us in the FI community treat frugality as a badge of honor, sometimes we can take it TOO far. Of course, deciding…
Spending Series Part 1: Our Frugal Habits by Scout & The Squire
October 8, 2024 Frugality is a cornerstone of Financial Independence. While most of the world may view frugality as foolish, restrictive, or even a fruitless waste of time,…
Learning To Listen to Others: The Squire’s Influence by Scout
October 1, 2024 Although this website is only a few months old, I already feel its impact and how it’s leading to positive change in my life. Case-in-point:…
Celebrating 25 Years of Friendship by Scout & The Squire
September 24, 2024 Band. Marching band tryouts to be exact. That’s where we first met in the fall of 1999 at our local public university. This admittedly sounds…
How I Currently Explain Investing To Others by The Squire
September 17, 2024 Trying to explain the idea of Financial Independence to others has been an interesting endeavor. As I learn more in the world of personal finance…
How I Spent My Summer: The Influence of “Die With Zero” by Scout
September 10, 2024 Spoiler Alert: It was spent with friends & family. Busy, Busy, Busy As a family we traveled to 10 different states, attended 9 concerts (4…
The Downsides of Financial Independence by Scout & The Squire
September 3, 2024 Nothing. Leave your answers or comments below – or email us directly at info@epicfinancialjourney.com
Being Open To Change by The Squire
August 27, 2024 I’ve found that talking with others about topics like music, food, sports, and kids, can really provide a fun opportunity to share and connect with…
Be Yourself; It’s Highly Encouraged by Scout
August 20, 2024 You Want to be Like Who? I’ve always considered myself to be an average person. In all honesty, I would even classify myself as fairly…
Why FI: What Financial Independence Means To Us by Scout & The Squire
August 13, 2024 The term “Financial Independence” or “FI” is confounding – it’s one of those nebulous phrases that has a technical definition, yet there is additional nuance…
The Squire’s Core Belief #3 – Let’s Help Each Other Out by The Squire
August 6, 2024 I find people both interesting and exhausting to talk with. I would consider myself an introvert, and I have a hard time spending large amounts…
Scout’s Core Belief #3 – Community by Scout
July 30, 2024 A Long, Lonely Road As most people already know (and I bet most have experienced first-hand), money is treated as a taboo topic that nobody…
The Squire’s Core Belief #2 – Incremental Changes Add Up by The Squire
July 23, 2024 Saving was something I did when I knew what it was going to be spent on. College, a car, a house, music, and so on….
Scout’s Core Belief #2 – Flexibility by Scout
July 16, 2024 Desire for Certainty As a former engineer with an optimizer/maximizer personality, there is nothing in this world I desire more than absolute certainty. For most…
The Squire’s Core Belief #1 – Happiness Matters by The Squire
July 9, 2024 When we read the United States Declaration Of Independence in school, I found it so interesting that it mentions the right to pursue happiness. In…
Scout’s Core Belief #1 – Take Action by Scout
July 2, 2024 How does anything get done? This may sound like a simple & obvious answer, but things get done by taking action. Will the lawn mow…
My Origin Story & Financial Journey – The Squire by The Squire
June 25, 2024 I grew up in a loving family. As a kid, I enjoyed life and took school seriously. I played sports and stayed busy, and as…
My Origin Story & Financial Journey – Scout (Part 2) by Scout
June 18, 2024 RESUMING THE JOURNEY FROM PART 1… Fortuitous & Life-Altering Financial Moment #3 – Discovering FIRE One of the magazines I started reading long ago, Kiplinger…
My Origin Story & Financial Journey – Scout (Part 1) by Scout
June 11, 2024 TLDR I’ve never experienced any traumatic events in my life, money or otherwise, so I have no heroic stories of courage to share (and for…
This Is It, Don’t Get Scared Now by Scout & The Squire
June 4, 2024 Hello and welcome to Epic Financial Journey; we are your friendly neighborhood personal finance blog. As you can probably see we are the new kids…
I don’t care what your job is. I don’t care what your job title is. I really don’t care to know much about your day-to-day…
Nobody is perfect, especially not us. We’ve all made mistakes in every aspect of our lives and that’s okay. While many people may feel shame,…
I’m not a great planner, but I do find it helpful to think about my future self. This kind of helps me take a snapshot…
As you know, I’m a HUGE fan of taking action, especially in situations where there is potential for a tremendous positive impact. The Culprits Holding…
Per tradition (at least in American culture), here is a list of goals and/or plans that each of us have made for the upcoming year. …
Each year that passes is full of numerous experiences that we can learn from and 2024 is no exception. Sometimes these lessons are obvious, but…
As fun as it sounds to be financially independent, I’ve got a ways to go. I like my job, and like where I live, and…
As I was driving home recently I looked down at my car’s odometer and noticed a very cool milestone (perhaps some would merely call it…
“No, we’re not going to get you video games” was a comment that my wife and I have repeated hundreds of times over the last…
Simple Path To Wealth? The high-level FIRE roadmap seems fairly straight-forward: Save & invest as much as possible until one’s portfolio grows large enough to…
Both of us have many things to be thankful for this year. While this blog is focused on personal finance & Financial Independence, it may…
So I’m closing in on forty four years old and by the looks of it, I probably won’t hit Financial Independence for another decade or…
CONTINUATION OF MUSINGS FROM PART 1… As I mentioned in my first set of musings, there was no huge transition for me into retirement. Because…
With all the summer travel, finally starting up this website, and my current podcasting & parental commitments, I’ve been pretty busy and haven’t had a…
While frugality is an enduring pillar of Financial Independence, recently there have been some changing attitudes in the community towards spending money. Frivolous or unintentional …
With frugality so ingrained in most of us here in the FI community, it’s sometimes hard to even think about spending money, let alone actually…
While most of us in the FI community treat frugality as a badge of honor, sometimes we can take it TOO far. Of course, deciding…
Frugality is a cornerstone of Financial Independence. While most of the world may view frugality as foolish, restrictive, or even a fruitless waste of time,…
Although this website is only a few months old, I already feel its impact and how it’s leading to positive change in my life. Case-in-point:…
Band. Marching band tryouts to be exact. That’s where we first met in the fall of 1999 at our local public university. This admittedly sounds…
Trying to explain the idea of Financial Independence to others has been an interesting endeavor. As I learn more in the world of personal finance…
Spoiler Alert: It was spent with friends & family. Busy, Busy, Busy As a family we traveled to 10 different states, attended 9 concerts (4…
Nothing. Leave your answers or comments below – or email us directly at info@epicfinancialjourney.com
I’ve found that talking with others about topics like music, food, sports, and kids, can really provide a fun opportunity to share and connect with…
You Want to be Like Who? I’ve always considered myself to be an average person. In all honesty, I would even classify myself as fairly…
The term “Financial Independence” or “FI” is confounding – it’s one of those nebulous phrases that has a technical definition, yet there is additional nuance…
I find people both interesting and exhausting to talk with. I would consider myself an introvert, and I have a hard time spending large amounts…
A Long, Lonely Road As most people already know (and I bet most have experienced first-hand), money is treated as a taboo topic that nobody…
Saving was something I did when I knew what it was going to be spent on. College, a car, a house, music, and so on….
Desire for Certainty As a former engineer with an optimizer/maximizer personality, there is nothing in this world I desire more than absolute certainty. For most…
When we read the United States Declaration Of Independence in school, I found it so interesting that it mentions the right to pursue happiness. In…
How does anything get done? This may sound like a simple & obvious answer, but things get done by taking action. Will the lawn mow…
I grew up in a loving family. As a kid, I enjoyed life and took school seriously. I played sports and stayed busy, and as…
RESUMING THE JOURNEY FROM PART 1… Fortuitous & Life-Altering Financial Moment #3 – Discovering FIRE One of the magazines I started reading long ago, Kiplinger…
TLDR I’ve never experienced any traumatic events in my life, money or otherwise, so I have no heroic stories of courage to share (and for…
Hello and welcome to Epic Financial Journey; we are your friendly neighborhood personal finance blog. As you can probably see we are the new kids…