Now in June: The Intentional Exit — what it looks like to approach the final season of full-time work with purpose rather than inertia.
The mail boat doesn't wait. Neither does your life. A childhood memory from Lake Geneva, the art of timing the jump, and everything you need to build a well-timed exit from a career that has served you well.
What does a 650-mile run across Europe for a ten-pack of tacos have to do with FI and midlife stagnation? More than you'd think — and the answer might change which direction you're heading.
The strange thing about losing yourself to a career is that it usually happens while you're winning. A story about the identities we choose, the ones we lose without warning, and what the desert, or wherever you go to hear yourself think, has a way of revealing when everything else goes quiet.
Five questions every FI journey eventually forces you to face — not the spreadsheet ones, the harder ones underneath. What I found when I finally tried to answer them honestly.
I sat at the overlook for four hours. Maybe five. I prayed. I ached. I wrestled and reflected. I didn't have a name for what I was working through that day. I do now.