A Spirited Life

This week we talk about what happens when life is just kinda meh? Is that really living a spirited life if things are just kind of rolling along? What do we even mean when we say that life is meh? Listen in to hear us talk through some of this and figure what it means when life is meh and what to do about it. Our whiskey of week: One that we just find to be meh - one that is definitely not meh Mus...

This week we talk about determining how to direct money toward prepaying future expenses. We talk about what the criteria was for us to get to the point where we are looking to prepay future expenses, what to consider when it comes to approaching multiple things or a single thing at a time, ways to consider where to direct money and how to evaluate or consider options, and what we ultimately decid...

This week, we talk about day hikes. We talk about how we think about what day hikes are compared to other hikes that we and others might look to do, talk a little bit about why we're interested in day hikes now more than ever, and discuss some of the day hikes we've previously been on, and the things we learned about our day hikes with each of those experiences. Our whiskey of week: One th...

This week, we talk about what we've been up to over the past several weeks while we haven't been producing the podcast. We talk about taking care of ourselves a little, our trip to a whiskey meetup in Iowa, and then an impromtu camping trip that went a little sideways. We wrap up by talking about a couple things that filled our spirit these past few weeks and how we really have been living...

This week, we talk about our having to use our emergency fund for an unexpected expense. We talk about the context around what happened and why we need to use the emergency fund. we talk about how we plan for that emergency fund as a part of our budget, and we talk about building a new budget due to a job change. We go through step by step to build a new budget and talk about some of the choices t...

This week, we talk about spring cleaning. We talk about how it helps us reset as we get ready to head into the warmer months of the year, and remove some of the detritus that has accumulated during our winter months. We talk about the 5S mnemonic and how we can use that to apply to our spring cleaning and then how that in turn contributes to our living a spirited life by allowing us to focus on wh...

This week, we talk about our experiences with money throughout our lives, and how that's shaped our impressions and relationship with money today. We delve into the way back of our youth, our teenage years, and young adult hood to talk about how our current views were shaped by those experiences. Our whiskey of week: the one that calls back to earlier times - Early Times Bottled in Bond Music:...

In this episode we take a look back at the quarter, reflect on how we did on our goals, talk about the experience and our learnings, and talk about how we're going to adjust going forward Whiskey of the week: the one we got while living a spirited life this week - Middlewest Pumpernickel Rye Cast Strength pick Music: - "Glass" by Anno Domini Beats #reflection #planning #goals #goalse...

This week, we talk about camping and how that's connected to us living a spirited life. We talk about why camping fills our spirit, our experience with camping over the years, how we got into camping, and what our experience is like now. We also talk about our favorite parts of camping, and types of camping that are out there that we might explore in the future. Our whiskey of week: the one th...

This week, we're taking a look at a transition that affects us as a part of our lives, and sometimes doesn't get considered or acknowledge in the way that it maybe should. We talk about midlife and impact that can have on our lives, from our sense of self in family and careers and how we might process. We talk about the aspects of midlife, making the transition into late adulthood, and how...

This week, we're reflecting again on how our goals setting and tracking is going. We talked abou what's gone well, and how we are going to experiment with something different to help us redesign and recommit to meet our goals. We wander down a tangent about reading, and reflect a little bit on our time spent with friends at an Irish whiskey tasting event. Our whiskey of week: one we picked...

In this week's episode, we talk about gardening as a way of filling our spirit. We talk about our "on again off again" relationship over the past decade with gardening, and what's different with this most recent effort to get into gardening. We talk about our most recent approach to shaping our backyard to be conducive for gardening and how that is helping to create an oasis. Our...

This week, we talk about the other side of living a spirited life, where we get out and enjoy some travel and our hobby. We talk about going to the Winter Whiskey Warmup in St. Augustine Florida, hosted by Cheech Ardolino and the Whiskey Encore Youtube channel. We talk about meetups in general, and walk through our experience at our most recent whiskey meetup. Our whiskey of week: the one that we...

In this episode, we take a look at a different type of goal. A big goal, that can get hairy at times, that will take some audacious actions over a long period of time to make a reality. We talk about the big, hairy, audacious goal. We talk about what they are, how they are different and still work with our other goal setting, and we talk a little bit about a couple BHAGs that we've established...

This episode, we take a look at how we've been doing on our goals and check in to see what progress we've been making, as well as looking at our monthly spending. We talk about successes and failures in our goals and how we're progress, as well as digging into how the process is going. We talk through some of the adjustments we need to make to help us do better in the future. Then we d...

This week, we talk about the concept of being serial triers and what that even means. How getting out and being open to new experiences helps us live a spirited life and the experiences that we've had as a result of that, including the benefits to us. We'll also talk about how our work toward financial independence connects to being serial triers. Our whiskey of the week: A discovery throu...

This week, we look at how to get started on the journey of financial independence. We talk about our road and how we came to financial independence as a goal, as well as how we have evolved along the way. We'll talke abour various resources you can use to start your financial independence journey, and we'll wrap up with some ideas about how to get started. We'll wrap up talk about how...

This week we'll be talking about initiatives and taking action to make our goals a reality. We talk about how to determine your actions, as well as how to track your progress against your goals and your actions to make sure you are staying on track to get to the outcomes you want. We delve into potential pitfalls with taking action and how to test and adjust what you're doing. We discuss o...

This week we're talking about goalsetting to get ourselves ready to get into 2024. We talk about the what and why of goalsetting, and then we get into how to approach goalsetting with a variety of ways to think about goals, plus things that help shape your goals so that you can be more successful. We talk about how we approached setting our goals and then review our goals for the quarter. Last...

2023 is wrapping up, so let's take a moment to reflect on the year and see what went well, what didn't go well, and how we might learn going into the future. In this episode, we'll be talking about: What is retrospecting and why we do it We'll give some suggestions on how to go about retrospecting We'll also share how we tackled our own 2023 retrospection, complete with lessons...

This week, we take a look at the various activities we are doing to wrap up 2023 and get ourselves ready for 2024. We discuss the general activities and financial based activities we'll be going through to make sure that we're setting ourselves up for success in 2024. Our whiskey of week: the one that "checks all the boxes" -- Wild Turkey 101 Music: - "Glass" by Anno Do...

In this episode we explore the concept of starting with why and being intentional about our actions. We explore our whiskey of the week related to starting intentionally and we also talk about what filled our spirit this week.