015- How Justin Retired at 33 Years Old & Lives a $100,000 Lifestyle on a $40,000 Budget
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Is early retirement possible with kids? How is it possible to live a $100,000 lifestyle on a $40,000 budget? Through careful saving and planning, Just McCurry from the popular blog rootofgood.com is showing us how he managed to accumulate enough wealth to retire at age 33. What makes Justin's story especially inspiring and relatable is that he was able to do reach Financial Independence even though he had three kids. Now he and his family travel when they please and live a life not confined to a paycheck.
On today's episode, Justin I talk about the following:
- How he got through college and law school with relatively little to no debt
- When he decided that he wanted to retire early and what steps he took to make sure that it actually happened
- Some of the foundational things anyone can implement to reach Financial Freedom; optimal spouse selection, good job w/ benefits, maximizing savings, not paying taxes, permanent starter home and making smart investments
- How he was able to keep the cost of raising kids relatively low
- How they travel the world for nearly free as a family of 5
- How he makes money in retirement and why his net worth continues to increase plus so much more
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
Justin's Blog: Root of Good
A couple of Justin's blog posts: Early Retirement at 33, Summer Vacation in Europe for $10,000 , Living a $100,000 Lifestyle on $40,000
My One on One Money Coaching Services
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to episode 15 of the Journey to Launch Podcast, |
| 0:04.4 | How Justin retired at 33 years old |
| 0:07.2 | and is living a $100,000 lifestyle on a $40,000 budget. |
| 0:11.8 | T minus 10 seconds. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Janila Sufrant, as a muddy expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:21.1 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 0:28.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:31.0 | Five, four, three, three, two... financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:37.0 | Hey everyone |
| 0:41.0 | everyone welcome to the podcast episode 15. I just want to thank you for |
| 0:46.6 | joining me especially if this is your first time listening. Welcome and if you're |
| 0:52.2 | a returning listener thank you for coming back. |
| 0:55.0 | Must mean you like something here, so that's a good sign. |
| 0:58.0 | As always, I appreciate your support. |
| 1:00.0 | Today's episode is going to be a good one. |
| 1:02.0 | I know I say that about every |
| 1:03.7 | episode but I really do mean it. But today we're going to be talking to Justin |
| 1:08.7 | McCurry from the Root of Good.com and I'm asking these questions is it possible to retire early with |
| 1:18.5 | kids and how is it possible to live a hundred thousand dollar lifestyle on a forty thousand dollar budget and |
| 1:25.1 | we're gonna answer those questions with Justin because he has retired he |
| 1:30.2 | retired at 33 years old with three kids and he is living the life of his dreams and through careful saving and planning he's showing us how he managed to accumulate enough wealth to retire early. And what I really like about |
| 1:45.2 | Justin's story is that he was able to do it with kids. As you know, if you know my story, you |
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