Hello, why knabbers, my name is Jesse Meekam and this is

podcast number 49 for You Need A Budget where we teach you four rules to

help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money. Today I interview

Todd Tresseter with Financial Mentor.com. He saved more money when he had a pretty good job back in the 80s and he just gotten out of school, lived

like he was still in school, saved a ton and became financially free when he was 35.

And this is an interview with him regarding what that was like,

how he got there, and then what the transition was like

once he was retired.

Pretty interesting stuff.

I really like Todd.

You can check out his site and his writings, which are awesome at financial

mentor.com. Without further ado, here is'm here with Todd Tresseter from Financial Mentor.

Thanks for coming on Todd and appreciate it.

All right. Thanks for having me, Jesse.

So I was at FinCon a week ago or so and Todd was on a panel and the panel title was pretty intriguing

because it was something like, what was it Todd, like the new retirement, I think?

It's kind of the...

Yeah, yeah, it was how to retire at any age or have financial independence at any age and retiring the whole idea of retirement.

Yeah and so I attended and I've always you know I put money in my 401k I put money in my Ross or whatever and you know 65 is that age where you're

supposed to retire so I attended this and kind of had my mind expanded so I

wanted to have you give a little bit of background to the

listeners what your life path was and kind of how you shift things up a little bit

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