{"podcast":{"title":"Freedom Before FI | Life Design, Purpose, Sabbaticals, Coast FI & Financial Independence (FIRE)","slug":"freedom-before-fi-life-design-purpose-sabbaticals-coast-fi-financial-independence-fire-6883474","podcast_index_feed_id":6883474,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e911d5e8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://freedombeforefi.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/39002602/39002602-1722564190848-f8c69f4d6ca61.jpg","author":"Greg, a Life Design and FI Enthusiast","episode_count":104,"summary":"The road to Financial Independence (FI) can seem long and out of reach. Luckily, there are ways to get freedom way before reaching FI! Using FI strategies and Life Design, we discuss practical tips to help you buy your time back, so you can start enjoying your journey to FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early), instead of delaying your freedom until you retired. Whether you want to be debt free, quit a job, spend more time with family, start a passion project, change career, take a sabbatical, find purpose, do nomadic travel or even geographic arbitrage, we got you covered. Let's do this!","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T00:18:03.559290+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-before-fi-life-design-purpose-sabbaticals-coast-fi-financial-independence-fire-6883474"},"episode":{"title":"How to Quit a High-Paying Toxic Career for Meaningful Work w/ Ben Fox | Ep. 102","slug":"how-to-quit-a-high-paying-toxic-career-for-meaningful-work-w-ben-fox-ep-102","published_at":"2026-05-15T14:59:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-before-fi-life-design-purpose-sabbaticals-coast-fi-financial-independence-fire-6883474/how-to-quit-a-high-paying-toxic-career-for-meaningful-work-w-ben-fox-ep-102","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-before-fi-life-design-purpose-sabbaticals-coast-fi-financial-independence-fire-6883474","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freedombeforefi/episodes/How-to-Quit-a-High-Paying-Toxic-Career-for-Meaningful-Work-w-Ben-Fox--Ep--102-e3jdrkh","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e911d5e8/podcast/play/120040529/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-15%2F7eb12abd-2994-5e55-3dc2-ba1db550b53f.mp3","summary":"One of the ways you can enjoy your path to FI is by finding work you enjoy. That might involve quitting a career thats not serving you, or making some changes in your current work place. Today, we’ve got Ben Fox on the show to talk to us about career transitions. Ben is a career coach - based in New York - and his coaching niche is primarily helping senior software engineers break free from the golden handcuffs and into careers they love Things you’ll learn: Quitting his job and going full time as a solopreneur First year as a solopreneur and struggles experienced The power of joining online community / group programs The power of having the right people around you when starting businesses How he niched down to coaching tech professionals Reasons why people go to him for coaching (their initial career struggles) Coaching clients: example case studies Case study 1: Garth: accountant of 23 years in toxic environment Case study 2: Mel: mid 30s, 2 kids, 15 years in sales, but does not like it Why we find it hard to quit jobs we hate Advice for people struggling to leave the golden handcuffs The risks of staying in a bad job His coaching process outline Creating healthy boundaries in your current job Quick-fire round questions at the end: Something he wished they done 10 years ago His daily habits that helped him in life His most important lesson in life His book recommendations 1-2 small things listeners can do this week to get started Ben Fox (Links): Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfoxcoaching/ Website: https://benfoxcoaching.com/ Reverse Engineering you Job Search Video: https://benfoxcoaching.kit.com/jobsearch Freedom Before FI Links: Free Guides: Download the free ‘Freedom Ideas’ Cheat Sheet and the free ‘Find Your Purpose’ worksheet at: https://freedombefore…","meta_description":"One of the ways you can enjoy your path to FI is by finding work you enjoy. 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