
Trying for FI
Sharing stories and strategies from the daily grind toward our financial independence. We are a Queer blended family of five living in the Bay Area and are "late starters" dedicated to Trying for FI!
Podcasting since 2025 • 13 episodes
Trying for FI
Latest Episodes
AI as a Money Coach? Rascal Debriefs Their First ChatGPT Budget Date
This episode, Rascal went on a financial date — but not with Fetch. With AI. 😏In this playful and surprisingly insightful episode, we explore what happened when one of us fed our real-life budget tracker to ChatGPT and asked it to analyz...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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14:24

Wealth Is More Than Money: Mindset Shifts for FI Families
What is wealth — really? Is it just a number, or something you can practice right now?In this episode, we explore how our definition of wealth is expanding to mean more than our Financial Independence #goals. We talk about movin...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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19:33

Video Games + Investing: How Parents Can Turn In-Game Purchases Into Real Investments
This is a quick update to one of our favorite parenting-money mashups: the video game investing rule we introduced in a previous episode.Here’s the deal: when our kids want to spend their own money on video games or in-game purcha...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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9:14

Quarterly Money Talks: A Simple Practice To Track, Reflect, and Reconnect
In this episode, we introduce one of our favorite new FIRE practices: the quarterly wealth talk — a simple but powerful way to reflect, plan, and feel more connected as budget partners.Here’s what we cover: • What a quarterly mo...
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13:35

Tracking Every Dollar: How a Shared Budget Boosted Our Financial Intimacy
Ready for a serious nerd alert? Want your marriage / partnership to feel more like a financial team? In this episode, we break down our 3-month experiment using a shared daily budget tracker — and how it radically shifted not just our fi...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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29:04
