069: Farewell

Hello, dear listeners. In the 2.5 years since we started Explore FI Canada, much has changed in the FI community and our own lives. Some of these changes led Chrissy to reevaluate what she values most. And, sadly, it resulted in the topic of this episode: it’s time to say farewell. ?

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Chrissy
Hello, everyone, I am doing something different today… we are doing something different today… I am doing the intro for once. Money Mechanic let me do it. And the reason why is because I am the reason for this recording, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending how you look at it.

Money Mechanic
Don’t make it sound so depressing. Chrissy.

Chrissy
You’re right. It’s not a depressing thing.

Money Mechanic
Rip the band aid off drop the bombshell tell us what’s going on.

Chrissy
Yeah, yeah, I’m not going to let it hang there for the whole episode. So I’ve made the very, very difficult decision to leave the show. I love EFIC. I love the community. I love recording. But the backend work has just become too much for me. And I had to make the tough decision to walk away. It was a really hard decision. And I broke the news to Money Mechanic and we’re going to talk about it today.

Money Mechanic
Yeah, well, hopefully I don’t tear up too much. You know, it’s been a rough week or so since you told me but no, I because he I totally understand your decision. And I know how much how hard you work on your blog as well. And the excellent content you generate over at Eat Sleep Breathe FI and, and the amazing amount of work that you’ve done for this show. And I can’t thank you enough for doing all that backend work. You did so much putting shows together with all the content and generating the talking points and the questions for interviews, keeping in touch of all the wonderful guests that we’ve had on the show, following up with them setting up the dates. You know, I really feel like I haven’t done enough. But… I used to do some of the editing. But we had a wonderful editor, Max, that helped us out with that as well. No one Well, I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there that do understand how much you know, blogging and podcasting, how much time it takes and how much passion you need to have to do it. And Chrissy, you’ve had that. And we’ve both had that. And we’ve really, really loved it.

Chrissy
Yes, I agree. And you know, you’ve been a fantastic partner to work with, we’re so great as partners and on the air. And, you know, we’re in sync in so many ways. So that was also one of the reasons why it’s so hard to walk away. Because we’re friends we get along well, we we work well together. So there were so many factors involved in this decision. And to be honest, I felt overwhelmed for a very long time. But all those good things are what kept me going for the long, you know, all this time for almost, is it two and a half years now that we’ve been doing this? Yeah, and, and, of course, our listeners to you know, all your feedback, all the wonderful comments and messages we get, I’m overwhelmed by the kindness that we receive, and all the happiness that it brings to our lives.

Money Mechanic
Well, one of the things has come out of this that, you know, the audience is definitely, I’d say the most important because like you said, we’ve had the emails, not just ones with positive feedback, but we’ve had some negative feedback. And we’ve had some hard questions that we’ve had to learn more about, learn more about of ourselves and, and our own FI journey. And that’s been super amazing. And, and along with that, as we’ve been able to sort of be invited into or become part of the larger FI community in Canada, which includes all the other content creators. And I have to say it is such a warm and welcoming community, whether it’s you know, the first time listener that just heard about FI, or whether it’s these fantastic people there that are already FIREd, that have joined us on the show, like just being part of that. And hearing the stories from the one extreme to the other has been fascinating. And just I’ve loved it.

Chrissy
Me too. Absolutely. And like I said to you before we started recording, that is my favorite part of doing a podcast, being able to connect with these people. The recording part is the fun part. You know, that’s, that’s where the real magic happens, where we get to meet these people and really get to know them on another level. And that’s what I’ll miss the most out of all this, you know, I won’t miss all the backend stuff. All the stuff you just listed. Unfortunately, you know, it’s just a lot to keep a podcast running. But that magic that happens on the air when we’re recording with a guest. I I’m gonna miss that. So, so much.

Money Mechanic
It’s been a long road because, you know, I look back at, you know, my original podcasts, you know, when I first started and I was terrible. It takes a long time.

Chrissy
I don’t think you were, no!

Money Mechanic
Well, it takes a long time to get good at interviewing people and getting a good conversation. And, you know, it’s I think we you know, unfortunately, we’ve just kind of hit our stride in the last year really is the way I felt. But, you know, the show must go on. And as I mentioned, you’re going to be still writing and online and social media, right with Eat Sleep Breathe FI and I’m still going to be on the FI Garage. And I’m online too so people can find me we’re not going anywhere. But this show will be stopped after this episode.

Chrissy
Yeah, like a time capsule. Seal it up for now.

Money Mechanic
Yeah, it’ll stay live. We’re gonna leave all the episodes up. We’ll still be on iTunes and all the rest of it. So and there’s still a ton of great content for people to go back to. And I think that was one of the nice things is the stories that we had with people, the discussions we had are somewhat timeless, they they really speak to a moment in people’s foi journey. And and we kind of came to the realization during the show is that there’s such a big spectrum, there’s so many different ways to get to FI. And people are at different places. And that was the challenging part about creating content, because we had lots of people saying, we want more detail. And then we had lots of people saying, we want more basic, you know, so it’s so hard to balance that and try and offer as much as we know, and then bring in people that can, can share with us and help us learn to write.

Chrissy
Yeah, yeah. And I know, the experts say when you’re a content creator, that you really need to niche down. And you really need to get specific and only appeal to a very small group. But I think we tried to appeal to a broader variety of people. And I don’t think necessarily that hurt us, I think, even more advanced, people do enjoy listening to the basics again, because sometimes you pick up new tips that you didn’t think of. So I hope that, you know, even though we covered quite a broad spectrum, that it was still helpful to people and from the feedback we got, I think it was,

Money Mechanic
Yeah, totally. I mean, you know, my vision, when we started the show was that we would kind of go across Canada and hear the stories from different locations. Because, you know, I’ve definitely found in this journey that you can end up in a bit of an echo chamber, right? You know, we, either whether it’s because we’re just talking to the people that are in our community, or, you know, our families or friends, and without hearing the stories of, you know, the cost of living or specific things that people do in other towns, other provinces or territories that, you know, you go, Oh, hey, maybe that’ll work where I live, too. Right. So that’s, I thought that was really what our show is going to excel out. I was getting those discussions talking to people. And I’m stumped. Now, I should have done this. Before we got on the show. Did we actually hit everywhere? I think we missed a territory or two, and maybe a province or two.

Chrissy
And we think we did pretty well, though. We should have done a tally. But…

Money Mechanic
If you’re listening to this last episode, and we haven’t represented your province or territory, reach out. Maybe I’ll just do a show and talk to you. Maybe, yeah, yeah. So you know, it’s hard to thank all the people and and we’ve talked about our listeners, we should also say a big thanks to Ryan, because he was here at the beginning when we started the show as well. And he was part of that vision of having that roundtable that we’ve talked to other Canadians.

Chrissy
And he did it right? He did a few actual roundtables.

Money Mechanic
I know. And it’s funny to listen to those because they’re such awkward shows, because you and I know what it’s like trying to have multiple guests, but he did a fantastic job.

Chrissy
He’s good! I was gonna say it was awkward, but he was a really good moderator. He was, it was like, you know, you throw it out. And then that you, you take it back in, he did a great job with that. And I miss Ryan, you know, I miss recording with him. And I, I also want to thank him for that. Whatever he put into the show, it helped get us to a great off to a great start. He had a lot of ideas and feedback. And you know, we did a great thing when we were together.

Money Mechanic
Yeah, no, totally. And I think this is just like, you know, anything else in life? Right? It evolves and it changes. And as sad as today is to let it go. It’s you know, we’ve talked about that, too, is, you know, our lives have changed over the last two and a half years. You know, congratulations again, on, you know, your husband being FIRE. You’re both FIRE family now. That’s fantastic. Right?

Chrissy
Yeah. And that is something we wanted to talk about today is where you and I are each in different phases of our life than when we started the podcast and whether it was expected or not, it has changed our journey. And for me, I’ll speak in particular to my situation, even though this podcast was not, you know, a money maker necessarily. It paid its own bills and a little bit more, and we were able to pay Max. But for me, realizing that I was FIRE, it kind of switched this… something in my brain and it made me realize, you know, there’s nothing I have to do anymore. If I don’t want to, you know, of course I have to do the dishes, I have to do the laundry, stuff like that. But as far as extras, if there’s something that is hard in my life, or really difficult for me, I don’t have to keep doing certain things anymore. And you know, one of those things was all the backend stuff that was starting to unfortunately feel more like work than like a hobby. Again, if I could just do the recording and nothing else then it’d be a different story, but with all the other stuff, that wasn’t fun anymore. And when I reached FIRE, it helped me to just take a step back and look at everything in my life. And you know, what is it that I really want to focus my time on from now on and, of course, that’s my family. And it’s any other interests I have outside of podcasting or outside of FI but you know, really, lead me back to my blog. I love blogging. And that is has always been my number one passion. And, you know, I would love to put more time into that. So you know that that’s where I’ve come, you know, in my journey and my FIRE journey and how it’s affected the show in the end.

Money Mechanic
I’m thinking of a book right now. Has it? What is it called? The Subtle Art of Not Giving an F? Have you read that one? Because you should.

Chrissy
I’ve read a little bit of it but I haven’t read the whole thing.

Money Mechanic
What’s there? Is there another one about something about saying no? Being able learning how to say no?

Chrissy
Yeah, there’s lots of those. Yeah. And I’m, I’m getting better at that. I have to say as they get older.

Money Mechanic
Yeah. Well, and totally. And I think that’s also part of what the FI journey is, is, I think, what we really learned, the more and more we talked about it, the more people we talked, you know, the numbers part is easy. It’s the psychology part. That’s hard. And, you know, interesting what you just told me about the way things switch for you at FIRE. I’ve been trying to get on this Coast FI program, right. And I’ve had some interesting things happen just in the last couple months with the cash flow that I expected to have that I don’t have anymore, that I’m like, Okay, I guess I actually have to go back to work a little bit more than I had planned to, you know, I still achieved the Coast FI. But so much of this is psychological, right? I know that there’s money in the bank, but I can’t not earn money in a way. Do you know what I mean? Like it’s, and, yeah, like, it’s just kind of, I’m sure your husband’s going through it a little bit too, right. As you sure the freedom of work from from work is great. The ability to say no, is great. But it’s a real trans transition process that get your head wrapped around it and be like, Okay, I can say no to whatever I want. I can keep my pajamas on all day today, if that’s what I want to do. And yeah, it’s just it’s been difficult, psychologically difficult. That’s what we found, talking to so many people is this, that becomes the difficult part of the transition, as you get closer to the the journey, the end of the journey if we’ll say that.

Chrissy
You’re so used to earning and accumulating and then to go the completely opposite direction, start withdrawing, or even just stop putting money away. It just feels so foreign, right? So it’s a complete sea change in the way you do things. And understandably, it’s psychologically it’s difficult to wrap your head around.

Money Mechanic
Yep, for sure. And, you know, I think that’s also that brings up a good point there, how I think how FI Garage has evolved over time as well. And I’ve had people reach out to that show and say, Hey, can you do some more basic stuff. And I said, Hey, we’ve got some basic content, and so does EFIC, we’ve got some basic content. And this brings up to sort of what I was saying earlier in this show, is that because my journey has changed my interests of financial independence, by my focus of financial dependence has changed as well and got to thank, you know, some responses, especially Mark Seed for coming on the show and talking about drawdown with Cashflows and Portfolios, because that’s more of where my focus is now and what I really need to learn and pay attention to because, you know, we’re at the age and the part of the journey where we need to transition a little bit, right. So it’s just interesting. And I think that hopefully, we have a broad enough range of content that’s out there and who knows what comes next with other shows. There’s other great podcasts that have started up until two and a half years that we’ve been doing this as well right so there’s still going to be a Canadian FI content and the community out there and and we’re still gonna be a part of it. It just won’t necessarily be on the show.

Chrissy
Yeah, it does break my heart imagining not being part of that community anymore it’s that’s part is really hard. Again, that that’s what’s kept me going all this time as hard as it’s been to do all the work I gladly done it because I know how how much this is needed. FI Garage is awesome, but we need even more than just our two shows even and here Here I am taking this show away but you know again, it’s still going to be there the archives will still be there we’re just not going to be actively creating new content. However, Money Mechanic said Let’s never say never.

Money Mechanic
Well, I think that was a James Bond line that I’m choosing but remember when Sean Connery came back for like the movie after he quit like eight years before and I was like never say never again. So that’s that’s the line Never say never again. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So I think maybe we need to well, we should say a little bit more a couple more thank yous because we have had some wonderful sponsors that have helped us along the show that like you said generate enough money to pay for the hosting and be able to give some money to Max for all his excellent dedicated efforts for making this show sound as good as it has in the last two years has been

Chrissy
Amazing. Yes, Max has been wonderful a huge thank you to him for stepping in because he takes our sometimes horrible audio.

Money Mechanic
Let’s, let’s be quite honest here Chrissy. Basically we spend 10 minutes before every show trying to get your mic set up every time. I’ll download the audio and I’ll be listening to it before we set it off to Max Like, Chrissy’s mic was not set properly again, it’s like you’re like in the corners, like you’re in the closet of the room and we’re having a discussion in the room. I’m like, oh, Max is gonna lose his mind with this one.

Chrissy
Poor Max. I’m sorry, Max! You won’t have to deal with my mic again!

Money Mechanic
Yeah. So if anybody needs to buy some high quality recording equipment, apparently Chrissy won’t need hers anymore.

Chrissy
Yeah, yeah, you’ll, you’ll need Max to give you some training on it. Hopefully, you’ll be better than me.

Money Mechanic
Well, honestly, I know Max is busy with music projects and all sorts of stuff. But podcasters out there in Canada. If you want a professional sounding show, you really do need to reach out to him he is he’s very, very good at what he does.

Chrissy
Yeah, he knows what he’s doing. So I’m, it was my pleasure to work with Max. And I’m sad to no longer be working with him. But we are still friends, we’re still going to keep in touch. So Max will not disappear from our lives, that’s for sure.

Money Mechanic
Well, that’s the thing, too, is, you know, the show, and even the people we’ve met, look at how many of our past guests that we still stay in touch with we FIRE emails back and forth. We’ve never met them in person, but I consider them friends. Like, you know, we can share, it’s so nice to have these people that thinks similarly, yet are different and have different families and different communities. But we can reach out with this FI connection and talk about things that is still not talked about enough in you know, mainstream society. Absolutely. The people all across Canada that we stay in contact with his fantastic. Yeah,

Chrissy
We’re so lucky. I mean, that that’s a lasting gift that this show has given us these friends, a lot of them probably for life that will keep in touch with that, get us and get the journey we’re on and and likewise for them. It is this community that will always have and I cherish that and I will keep that with me for as long as I can.

Money Mechanic
I am gonna hold you to that, though, that when we’re all feel comfortable with traveling again, we you are bringing your family to like a Canadian FI campout or something?

Chrissy
Yes, I’ve been voluntold. We’ve been told many times by many people, we need to show up to one of these things.

Money Mechanic
I know it seems like Alberta has like the best plan one. But maybe we maybe need some people in BC to organize one here.

Chrissy
Yeah, I know, something closer.

Money Mechanic
They just don’t understand. Like we generally don’t cross the Rockies.

Chrissy
I don’t know why that is. We just don’t. It’s just too far.

Money Mechanic
What else do we need to make sure we cover here before we let people go and drown their sorrows?

Chrissy
Well, I want to thank some people, namely our listeners, our listeners have been the lifeblood of the show. And you’ve all been so engaged, so supportive, I can’t thank you all enough for for giving us the motivation, the energy to keep going for the last two and a half years.

Money Mechanic
Well, and let’s be fair, our listeners did a lot of work for us with their great stories, content and their journeys. I mean, that’s what it was about.

Chrissy
Yeah, exactly. You know, I remember our show about pensions was completely driven by our listener. Was it Kay? Yeah, it was amazing the content that she she gave us to, to ask Ed all these questions. And you know, it was wonderful. And it turned out to be a great episode. And it’s something that is going to be evergreen that people can refer to for years and years. And, and indeed, lots of people do refer to it because it was great info.

Money Mechanic
Yeah, that ties into all the amazing experts, Canadian experts. You know, I think we only did to do one show with Diania, Diana.

Chrissy
We also had Jessica from the Fioneers.

Money Mechanic
Oh, you’re right. We did two shows in the US. Okay. We had lots of experts from Canada, Ed Rempel. Shout out to him because I know he’s your advisor, but he’s fantastic. He shared so much knowledge and information with us on the show. Excellent. Right. We had a bunch of Canadian authors on the show. Robinson Smith Robinson for the Smith Manoeuvre was fantastic. Now here’s here’s trivia for you, Chrissy. You look up to to look up before this episode. What our highest, most popular show ever?

Chrissy
I had for months and months. I was watching that, but I think I still know which one is number one. It’s one of our earliest ones right?

Money Mechanic
Are you making me guess?

Chrissy
You don’t know?

Money Mechanic
You do all the work.

Chrissy
You do so I haven’t checked in the last month. But for pretty much the life of our show. Yeah, our episode, our original episode with Megan. Yeah, talking about Smith Manoeuvre. That was our number one episode and it has been basically from when it aired.

Money Mechanic
Interesting. Well, I mean, we’d better thank Megan because she is a ball of energy and wonderful out on the show. She was like our most

Chrissy
She may have been one of our most frequent guests. I think she might have been yeah I think she was and and for good reason. She’s a fantastic guest. So well spoken like you said a ball of energy. We love you, Megan. Yeah, we’re so happy. You could join us as many times as you did.

Money Mechanic
Well, I think we did. We did talk about it a little bit in the past about having other co hosts join us.

Chrissy
Yes. And we kind of did a few times there.

Money Mechanic
We did. Yeah. I mean, shout out to Court from Modern FImily as well. She’s been a wealth of information and great in the community in general. She shares a ton and has an awesome blog at Modern FImily.

Chrissy
Yes, she does. Yeah. Thank you very much, friend, for for coming on so many times to help us out and share your story.

Money Mechanic
Yeah, I think we could probably go on for about another 40 minutes and make this a full show. If we just run through the list of fantasy.

Chrissy
I know. Yeah, I don’t I don’t want to start trying to name it. No, inevitably going to miss someone. So exactly.

Money Mechanic
So let’s, let’s stop there. And say it’s not because we pick those people because they’re our favorites. It’s just a jumped into my head as we’re chatting here. And if we didn’t mention your name, it’s not that we don’t love you.

Chrissy
Yes, yeah. Give me one second, Mika is scratching to get out.

Money Mechanic
I’m not editing this. I’m not letting Max edit this out. I’m gonna get him to release all our bloopers too.

Chrissy
She’s such a brat. She insisted on being in here. And then now my husband just came home from shopping. And she’s like, I want to go out.

Money Mechanic
Well, of course, like my dogs the same ways. He’s got his bed in the office, which is where I’m recording downstairs. But if you don’t let him in while you’re in here, I have glass doors, and they will stand at the door and just like stick his nose on the glass and wait to get let in.

Chrissy
Dogs! They know how to be naughty.

Money Mechanic
So you’re going to keep going with your blog. What else are you going to do now? Do you want to share anything about your future plans?

Chrissy
Right now, the plans are very cloudy. You know, we’re we’re still so new to FIRE. We’re still on our FIRE journey. It’s only been a couple of months or so. I think not even a couple of months yet. So yeah, everything is still quite up in the air. My husband’s just starting to settle into a new routine. He’s loving cooking. He’s always loved cooking. And now he actually has a lot of time. So I’ve been enjoying taking a break from being the chief cook in our house. So that’s been nice. But yeah, for now. That’s what he’s been enjoying. I mean, the weather’s not great. So we’re stuck inside a lot. And you know, the pandemic situation’s not great either. And so I guess it’s a good time to be cocooning and doing indoor things. But as the weather improves, as things improve, we live our lives will change. I don’t know how yet.

Money Mechanic
I’m looking forward to your blog post where you describe the first six months of FIRE because, as I mentioned earlier, I think that transition is really, really hard for people that have been very, very engaged with, you know, very demanding jobs that they’re they put a lot of effort into. And to shut that off. I think it’s really it’s gonna be interesting to hear how that works out for you from reading anybody?

Chrissy
Yeah, definitely. I mean, so far, it’s just felt like a vacation, you know, for my husband. So I don’t know if the reality is fully sunken in yet. So time will tell because, as I said, it’s hasn’t even been two months yet. So it’s still pretty early.

Money Mechanic
So funny story. The Accountant who joins me on the FI Garage, is he’s got, I think, six or seven weeks when, whenever this release is six weeks left of work. But he basically constantly bombards me almost daily, with new business ideas, new plans, new things to do, I’m like, Dude, are you gonna be FIRE or just like, you’re just gonna start your own business. And, you know, that’s like, one of the things that Mark says is like, you know, work work on your own terms. And I think after you do the, you know, the real sort of detox from work, I, we’re all those people that want to be productive in some form, whether it’s just volunteering, whether it’s, you know, coaching your kids, sports teams, we’re doing whatever it is you you don’t have to call it work anymore, but it’s what you want to do. Right? That’s ties exactly what you said about being able to say no, but also about being able to say yes,

Chrissy
Yes, you’re right. Absolutely. You know, I’m so excited to spend more time on my blog, because I always felt like I was juggling too many balls. And the blog, always, you know, fell by the wayside. And I never felt like I could pour enough time. As much time as I poured into the podcast, I still felt like, I wasn’t giving it enough time. And so you reach a point where you realize something’s got to give, right? You can’t do it all and you can’t keep living a sustainable lifestyle. timewise you know, you can’t do everything. And so I had to make a tough decision. And you know, I think FI gives you the options to be able to make those decisions and also the clarity. Cuz, it really forces you to think about what’s important and what you really, really want to do with your time.

Money Mechanic
You know, one of the things that has happened to me over the last year with having more free time, is that I’ve got more things on the go. But I’m kind of less focused at all of them. You know, where you kind of it feels like you have, you just have so many options. You can do whatever you want. So you start doing things. And now I’m almost at the point where like, I needed, like you said, like, what you’re doing is like, get rid of some things and then get some focus on what it is that you really brings you enjoyment, right. And I’ve been thinking more about, you know, the three things that, you know, his autonomy, mastery, and purpose, right. And I’ve been going back doing a little bit of work here in the last month. And I realized if I can get those three things, which I’ve been able to kind of negotiate, that I actually enjoy going in, because, you know, I’ve I’ve got some autonomy right. And that’s this sort of coast by journey has given me that ability to, to be able to, you know, like, we talked to lots of people that kind of step back or like Jessica from the Fioneers is like, the Slow FI, the Coast FI whatever, right? And it’s, it is difficult. And, you know, some people are gonna want to push hard to the finish line, and that’s fine, too, right? But you’re gonna ever think everybody’s gonna find that this whole journey becomes very psychological. And maybe it’s because we’re starting our midlife crisis. Chrissy? I don’t know.

Chrissy
No, don’t say that. I’m not that old yet. I guess I am.

Money Mechanic
Hey, what is it? 40? Is the new 20. How’s that saying go?

Chrissy
It seems like it. Yeah, but what an amazing position you’re in, though, you know, to be able to, really the problems you have are good problems to have, right?

Money Mechanic
Absolutely. Absolutely.

Chrissy
Yeah, you have the options, you have so much, you have too much to too many options that you have to really sit down and consider. What do I really want to do? It’s not that you have to do anything, it’s what do I want to do now?

Money Mechanic
Yeah. And and I need to acknowledge, you know, I think we both do, and a lot of the shows we’ve done. So we really have to acknowledge our privilege and what we have, you know, from being born lucky to be where we were born and where we live now, and the family and friends that we have and the community in general, right. But I also have to acknowledge that, you know, my wife still works. So I’m not FI. But she loves her job and wants to continue doing it as I know, your husband did before he left as well. Right. So, you know, we have to be I think that’s one of the things we need, we need to be very clear. And I think we were with our shows as who we were along the way, right? So yeah, but it’s a it’s a transition. It’s a new thing. And here we are, I told you, this is gonna be less than 30 minutes. So that’s it. You’re up again.

Chrissy
You’re always the fan of the shorter episodes to the point, which you’re good at.

Money Mechanic
Yeah, so I guess we kind of wrapped up everything we want to wrap up, and we will still be out here somewhere. So you listeners reach out to us, you know, let us know what you think. Should EFIC lay down quietly and just exist in the ether online with all its existing content. You know, maybe it’s like, Chrissy maybe there’ll be an outcry for an encore you know how bands do an encore.

Chrissy
I won’t be surprised if there is. I know if FI Garage went off the air, I would. I would feel sad. It feels like this community, right. It’s this community and and, I’m not being egotistical by saying this, but I feel like it is going to be a gap again in this space. And I’m sad to have to create that gap. But again, we’ll still be here we’re still physically here we’re still going to be on all our regular channels. We just won’t be here on the air anymore.

Money Mechanic
I know and it’s hard to stop this recording because that’ll make it feel like the end.

Chrissy
I know.

Money Mechanic
Let’s do it. And final thank you from Money Mechanic for all the fantastic listeners, the guests, the content that we have you have helped us create. Heartfelt thank you from myself.

Chrissy
Me too. Ditto. Bye, everyone.

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10 Replies to “069: Farewell”

  1. Oh no! ? I am so sad to hear the news and see the podcast ending. Although I only found your podcast about 3-4 months ago, your podcast immediately became one of my favorites. I wish you both all the best. I’ll continue to follow your other creative contents. Chrissy and Money Mechanic, you guys are AWESOME ?

    1. Hi Moe—aww, what a nice comment. Thank you for being a listener and for all the encouragement and support. I’ll miss engaging with listeners like you.

      I look forward to following you and your journey on your YouTube channel!

  2. Those darn ninjas cutting onions again.?
    Bye EFIC. You will be missed. Come back for a special encore episode in the future.
    It would be cool to see a “where are they now” show about future Chrissy and MM.

    1. Hi Liquid—LOL, those darned onion-cutting ninjas! We will miss the show and all our listeners too. It was an amazing run while it lasted.

      A “where are they now” episode would be fun to do. I’ll keep that in the back of my mind for the future.

      Thanks for being a listener and such a great guest.

  3. The Financial Diet interview two weeks ago also addressed the idea of closing a chapter and moving on (they aren’t but a guest did it) and how valuable it is to be able to do that and to do it with purpose. I appreciate learning from people who know when it’s time for a new chapter.

    1. Hi Jill—I love that sentiment and will have to check out the interview. Thank you for the supportive words. It was a tough decision, but reading all the understanding messages from everyone has been so soothing.

      Thank you for taking the time to comment and for listening. ❤️

  4. Oh no! No more podcast anymore? I started listening your podcast not too long ago. I feel so sorry for ending now.

  5. Even though I’ve been FIREd for 3 years now, I still looked forward to listening to your shows. I’m a lifelong learner so it’s been fantastic learning from others. I will continue supporting you both on your respective blog sites and wish you all the best that is yet to come! As they say, when one door closes, another one opens…

    1. Hi Anna—I’m so touched that you still listened to EFIC, even though you’d already reached your goal. ?

      Thank you for being a listener and for continuing to follow us. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… we have the best listeners!

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