Doug chats with David Gillis about finding meaningful projects after retiring and how identity can be tied to corporate roles. David shares his financial journey from paying off consumer debt to finding FI and eventually testing “semi-retirement”. He also discusses his beginnings as “the quiet kid on the bus”, improving his communication skills over time (via Toastmasters, improv classes, coaching, & involvement with TEDx Omaha) to launching his own conference called “The 1% Better Conference”.
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0:00 Introduction
1:19 Finding FI
6:35 Debt payoff & identifying blind spots
11:52 Building communication skills
18:28 Improv
22:52 Launching a conference
28:03 Keeping it intimate & coordinating speakers
32:35 Future conference plans
37:45 Retirement planning & community
44:18 Soundcheck – Summer plans
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