Episode · ChooseFI · 2025-09-28
Books mentioned on 566 | Risk-Based Guardrails for Retirement Drawdown
If you've mentally locked yourself into one rigid FI number and one fixed withdrawal rate for the rest of your life, you're doing it wrong. That's the realization Brad Barrett had after nine years of hosting this podcast — and it came from Aubrey Williams, a financial advisor and longtime ChooseFI community member.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Retire Often
Retire Often by Jillian Johnsrud is a workbook and guide designed to help individuals test drive financial independence through intentional career pauses and mini-retirements.
Discussed“So, it brings to mind Jillian's book, which you see behind me there. It doesn't just have to be retire often.”
Where to get it
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Die with Zero
Die with Zero by Bill Perkins and William O.
Discussed“we talk about books like Die with Zero and we talk about the skill of spending as Mr. money must said which is not only going from the skill of of spending on the front side which is being more frugal being more optimized to now when you have so much money you have to think about spending more”
Where to get it
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The Simple Path to Wealth
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins is a foundational guide to financial independence that advocates for straightforward, low-cost index fund investing over managed funds.
Discussed“even though I talk about having an investor policy statement and I talk about not selling and the simple path to wealth, like I admit I I've done that in small ways when I know that I shouldn't because it's human nature.”
Where to get it
