A millennial who's saved enough to take 'mini retirements' shares the mindset shift anyone can use to build wealth
Toronto-based YouTuber Steve Antonioni. Courtesy of Steve Antonioni Steve Antonioni coined "Camp FIRE," a mini version of the financial independence movement. It involves saving a 'war chest" to allow yourself flexibility to make a career change or take a break. His money-saving advice is to treat your personal life like a business, viewing savings as profit. Steve Antonioni stumbled into a miniature version of FIRE — financial independence, retire early — the movement he'd been pursuing throughout his early 20s. After building a $90,000 "war chest," he quit his corporate job and started making YouTube videos about financial independence. A few years into that career pivot, he took another break, stepping away from YouTube to focus on his family and start writing a book. The idea of saving aggressively for a few years to fund a career change or a temporary break resonated so much with him that he gave it a name: Camp FIRE. Unlike traditional FIRE, whi...
