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161. How to RolePlay Your First Year of Retirement

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160. Has Evan Retired in 2023?

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159. How Your Savings Rate Is Your Way to Financial Success

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158. Evan Gives Himself a Retirement Raise Once Again

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157. An Update on Evan and that's One Expensive Automobile

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156. I Owe, I Owe, So It’s Off To Work I Go?

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155. Why Should We Ignore Social Security As Late-In-Life Savers?

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154. Introducing “The Frugal Millionaire”Premiered on YouTube in January 2023

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153. Just a Review of My Operating Budget for 2023

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152. My Favorite Financial Day of the Year: 2022 in Review and Goals for 2023!

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151. Evan's Pillars of Longevity in Life and Finances

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150. The 2020's Look Grand, and Evan Gives Himself a Retirement Raise

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149. People Who Need Paychecks and Simplicity of Saving (SOS) Preview 2023

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148. KISS: Keep It Simple Saver, A Simplicity Study on Paper

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147. A Fascination with Numbers and Thinking Outside of Your Box

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146. Ten (10) Millionaire Habits for Late-in-Life Savers

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145. S&P 500 Month By Month Evan Analysis 2022

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144. Don't Worry Be Happy Especially during Tough Financial Times

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143. Hurricane Ian and an Overall Sense of Vulnerability

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142. Winter is Coming, Relinquishing Financial Control, and a Slightly NEW Financial Plan

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141. Mid-Year Fiscal Review, and a Good Problem to Cultivate

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140. A Fitness and Finance Ramble for Late-in-Life Savers

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139. Storytime: Perspective in Life Can Change Everything (Hint: Think "Rat"Race)

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138. Becoming a Broke Winner as a Late-in-Life Saver

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137. Is there such a thing as Alpha Money for Late-in-Life Savers?

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136. Flash Forward, Opportunity Knocks For Late-in-Life Savers

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135. Four (4) FIRE Words That Have Changed Evan's Financial Life

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134. How Can Diet Coke help Your Financial Life?

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133. Coffee Talk Ramble: Is Your Savings Rate the Equivalent of an Amazon Box on Your Doorstep?

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132. Evan Meets with Michael: To FIRE or Not To FIRE

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131. Friday the 13th: The Day that Stocks Returned to Earth?

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130. The "One Million Dollars to Spend" Story

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129. Evan Reacts: “Can You Live Off of 2 Million in Retirement?”

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128. The "Lottery Factor", Lost Decades and Sequence of Return Risk

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127. Challenging Your Desire for Material Items that Can Seriously Impact Your Financial Goals

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126. The Kindle Cord Story

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125. 70% Chance of Recession in the Next 12 Months?

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124. Evan Completes His Taxes for 2021

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123. What is the #1 Wealth-Building Tool for Late-in-Life Savers?

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122. Countdown to FI: Ten (10) Months to Go? And Closing Fiscal 2021

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121. Inflation Nation / Bette Davis ICE: "Buckle Up, It's Going to be a Bumpy Night"

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120. Nine (9) Questions to Determine Your Late-in-Life Financial Literacy

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119. B2B: Right Size Me, Learning to Leverage Current Economic Conditions for Your Benefit

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118. Stock Market Crash of 2022? Blah Blah Blah And Becoming a PAW, say what?

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117. A Coffee Talk Ramble: MLK Day and Learning to Live Your Own Dreams

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116. Walk and Bike To Basics: Bundle Your Habits for Financial and Fitness Success in 2022

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115. Welcome to Season 4: My Favorite Financial Day of the Year

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114. Dear Dollar Diary, A2D, Episode 6 and Evan Reacts: Jackie's Story and her FIRE Journey

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113. The Power of Acronyms to Define Your Year

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112. Storytime: The Precious Present and The Key to Unlock Your Golden Handcuffs

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111. The Thanksgiving Day 2021 Episode: An Accountant Acquaintance of Mine Named Tom

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110. Six (6) Money Tips in Six (6) Weeks Leading to a Happy, Wealth-Building New Year!

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109. Dear Dollar Diary, A2D Episode 5, Introducing Countdown to Financial Independence 2022

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108. Fifty is Nifty Even at a Net Worth of Zero!

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107. Halloween Eve Special: Paranormal, Abnormal, and Normal Activity, Witch Is Better?

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106. Reflections of Last Week: Evan’s Tried and True Millionaire Rules to Reach Financial Freedom

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105. Evan's Reaction: Sixteen (16) Money Rules Millionaires Swear By

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104. Learning to Redefine Success and the Future of this Podcast

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103. Dear Dollar Diary, A2D Episode 4, Continuing to Kick the FIRE Tires and Condo Redesign 2021 Part 2

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102. Four (4) Categories Where Frugality and a Sustainability Mindset Should Increase with Wealth

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101. How to Create Your “Truth in Spending Act” and Fall Upward in the Second Half of Your Life

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100. Redefine Gratification Before it Defines You!

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99. Evan Remembers 9/11 and How It May Have Been the Catalyst to Break Through Broke

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98. BONUS: The Ultimate Retirement Calculator and Evan Reacts to "The Roaring Twenties" episode

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97. The Roaring Twenties: Be Sure to Own This Decade Regardless of Market Returns

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96. Dear Dollar Diary, A2D Episode 3, Guilty Confessions: It's OK to be Frugal

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95. You Must Remember This: There's Broke on One Hand and You on Another

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94. Logan's Run: What if We Lived in A Utopian Society Where Net Worth is in the Palm of Our Hand?

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93. Dear Dollar Diary: Accumulation to Distribution, Episode 2

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92. Don't Evan Think About It: A $400 Bonus for Opening a WF Checking Account?

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91. Five (5) Late-in-Life Super Saver Tips for Financial Success

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90. The Tree of Your Financial Life

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89. Don't Wait for Perfection to Begin your Journey towards Financial Independence

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88. Introducing Dear Dollar Diary: From Accumulation to Distribution, Episode 1

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87. The Dorothy Story: Follow the Yellow Brick Road, One Financial Brick at a Time

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86. You're Approved to Wake Up! (if you haven't done so already)

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85. Bonus: What if you Won a Million Dollars?

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84. InspirED: Evan Reacts to "The Simple Path to Wealth" by JL Collins

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83. The Spatula Story: Reflecting on Early Thoughts of Independence

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82. Six (6) Ways to Shift Your Financial Mindset from Broke to Brilliant

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81. BONUS: Happy Father's Day: And Men, Please Ask For Financial Directions Before it's Too Late!

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80. Denial is Not a River in Egypt, and Accountability is a Choice

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79. From Thirty to fortySomething: Does Your Financial Life Begin at 40?

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78. The Accidental Tourist: A Long Stable Journey Towards Financial Independence

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77. Where Am I Now: One Year Later. And Remembering My Grandfather on Memorial Day

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76. BONUS: Post-Pandemic Points To Ponder

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75. FIRE Envy: How Sometimes We Have to Accept What We Can Never Have in Life and Money

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74. Cheaper By The Dozen and Striving to be in the Top 12%

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73. Monday Morning Motivation: Coffee Talk Ramble / Keeping it Real / Podcast Labor of Love

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72. Does Evan Believe in the 4% Rule?

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71. A Mid-Week Walk and Ramble about your Journey Towards FI

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70. Can Money Buy Happiness? Will it be Happily Evan After?

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69. ASMR Money Coach Role Play: Broke Opera, “Search for Tomorrow” Part 3 of 3

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68. Why High Paid People are BROKE, but you don't have be be a MISER like me to be a Success with Money

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67. ASMR Money Coach Role Play: Broke Opera, “Search for Tomorrow” Part 2 of 3

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66. BONUS: One Year Anniversary of Broke at 40: Reflections of a Former Self

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65. How and Why You Should Check Your Credit Reports Yearly

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64. ASMR Money Coach Role Play: Broke Opera, “Search for Tomorrow” Part 1 of 3

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63. Four (4) Ways to Manage Your Money Late in Life so it Doesn't Manage You

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62. Case Study / ASMR Role Play “In Honor of Conner”, from Columbus, Ohio