My guest this week is Miss CRNA on FIRE.   She runs the blog https://crnaonfire.blog.  She’s like many of us, woke up to the journey of FIRE by having a deep desire to have the freedom to work when we want to and to refocus on the family.  Her journey wasn’t always one of frugality, but has now turned to focus on debt repayment, with the goal of paying off their entire mortgage in 7 years. Also like some of out there, she has a dream of FIRE but her spouse doesn’t necessarily share the same plans, but she’s very committed to her journey.

Podcast Transcript

Eugene / Host: (00:05)Hello and welcome everyone. I’m Eugene Ting and this is the financial independence forum. This show is an open ended exploration of stories, methods and mindsets, how to better invest your time best in yourself and invest your money. You can learn more and please contribute your voice and story at FinancialIndependenceForum.com my guest this week is Ms. CRNA. She runs the blog CRNAonFIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early).blog. She, like many of us, woke up to the journey of FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) by having a deep desire to find freedom to work when she wants to and to also refocus on her family. Her journey wasn’t always one of frugality, but she has now turned to focus on debt repayment with the goal of paying off her entire mortgage in seven years. Also, like some of us out there, she has a dream of FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), but her spouse doesn’t necessarily share the exact same plans, but she’s very committed to a journey which we’ll talk about more here today on the financial independence forum. Welcome Ms. CRNA to the podcast.

Ms. CRNA: (01:12)Hi, thank you. Thanks for having me. Thank you so much for coming on. You’re relatively new to the blogosphere. I think, you know, in looking back at some of the some of the posts, I think you started around, I think it was an August or summer of 2019.

Eugene / Host: (01:27)Is that right?

Ms. CRNA: (01:27)That’s correct, yes.

Eugene / Host: (01:29)Awesome. And so maybe, maybe walk us through a little bit, like, was it, was it around the same time that you sort of found the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) community or was it well before that and then you just started the blog just because you wanted to document your journey? Well, I sound FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) about two years ago I came across mr money mustache and it’s kind of just, you know, how a lot of people do you start reading his stuff and next thing you know, you’ve consumed, you know, hundreds of articles he’s been writing for a long time and it’s kinda got into that and loved the idea of it. You know, found Vicky Robin, you know, a lot of the stuff that people get the introduction to FIRE (Financial In...