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How the FIRE movement is inspiring early retirees

How the FIRE movement is inspiring early retirees
business8/3/2025

Nik and Adinah Johnson, who retired in their forties, are part of FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), a movement that looks at work as a means to an end, and where frugality buys freedom from the rat race.

On a recent Sunday morning, at a Bible camp outside of Gainesville, Florida, Nik Johnson got up to preach, not about hellfire and brimstone, but about a very different fire: Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE). "Ultimately at the end of the d... [4735 chars]