{
  "id": 9944226,
  "title": "How to achieve time freedom without giving up your career",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/how-to-achieve-time-freedom-without-giving-up-your-career",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-26T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91611161/time-freedom-career-advice"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In his new book \"Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now,\" Brian Herriot shares five key insights that offer a more practical alternative to waiting decades for financial freedom. By combining flexible, meaningful work with smart saving and investing, individuals can gain control over their time much sooner, taking extended breaks without giving up work they enjoy or jeopardizing their financial future.\n\nOne person who has found success with this approach is the author himself. He grew up vacationing at his grandparents' cabin on Big St. Germain Lake in Wisconsin, where he cherished memories of spending extended periods outdoors with his family. This inspired him to create a life that allows for both intense work and long breaks, leading him to coin the term \"freetimer\" - someone who has complete control over their time and works by choice and on their own timeline.\n\nBrian advises that financial freedom is often too slow for most people. When he and his wife faced a significant loss in their investments during the COVID stock market crash, they realized that true financial freedom was still about 20 years away. Instead of waiting for this milestone, he shifted his focus to achieving time freedom first. By optimizing his work and investments, he was able to take summers off and become a freetimer, all while maintaining a lucrative career. He emphasizes that financial freedom is just an interim step to the ultimate goal of time freedom, which is our true desire to have control over how we live and spend our time.",
  "summary": "Below, Brian Herriot shares five key insights from his new book, Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now . Brian is an author, speaker, and financial advisor. After founding three business, he has learned that true success means building a life that works for you. What’s the Big Idea? Time freedom offers a more practical alternative to waiting decades for financial…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}