Don't Retire...Graduate! FIRE Success Story: Taking the Trip of a Lifestyle at Age 29
Welcome back to Don’t Retire... Graduate! We have two guests today, Steven and Lauren Keys, who did something pretty incredible: retired before they turned 30. They came on the podcast to talk about how they reached financial independence at a young age, how they saved their nest egg without large salaries, and their plan for the rest of their retirement.
In this episode we’ll talk about:
• Cutting expenses to save money and pay off debt
• Living frugally without sacrificing your lifestyle
• Using your passions to bring in extra income
• How to make a full-time income with part-time work
• Dispelling the myth that retirement means not working at all
• Living with an abundance mentality rather than a scarcity mentality
• Employee benefits without an employer
• Insurance considerations when in an early retirement
• How money experiences growing up can affect your perspective on money as an adult
• Gamifying your finances to motivate you towards your goals
• Overconsumption and how to avoid it
• Using money to buy freedom rather than stuff
• The Financial Roadmap
Steven & Lauren's Financial Roadmap: https://www.tripofalifestyle.com/roadmap/
Visit dontretiregraduate.com for a full transcript of this episode.
About Lauren ad Steven Keys:
We’re Lauren and Steven, a middle-class couple who managed to bank enough money to retire from our full-time jobs at age 29. By making a few lifestyle tweaks soon after graduation, we grew a buffer of cash and investments that gave us a ton of flexibility and enabled us to do some really fun stuff too, like taking six months off to explore Hawaii and another seven months to travel to every National Park in the US. Now we’re hoping to help other people (like you!) do something similar.
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