052: Finding Adventure and Happiness on Your Journey to Financial Independence w/ Tanja from Our Next Life

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Finances, Business, Realestateinvesting, Entrepreneurship, Earlyretirement, Investing, Budgeting, Wealth

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🗓️ 4 July 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

One of the best things about the journey to Financial Independence is that while planning for early retirement, it is not always a requirement to forsake your other life goals. Tanja Hester, the blogger behind the Plutus Award-winning early retirement blog, Our Next Life, set out on the journey with her husband Mark to retire at the end of 2017.

Our Next Life, places a huge focus on putting life goals first and then building money goals around them–not the other way around. In fact, Tanja Hester became financially independent at the age of 36 and retired early at the age of 38, all despite never being a super saver or even naturally good with money. Tanja has graced the show with very practical advice for all journeyers at any place on the path to FI.

In this episode we discuss:

What caused her to start the path and how she managed to keep it a secret from her job
What retirement actually means to her
Health considerations for someone looking to retire early
Tanja’s blog post, "What FIRE bloggers owe their readers"
Practical advice for people who want to start or who are on this path
Advice for high earners vs mid-low earners

At the end of the podcast, I also talk about the waitlist to the soft launch of my monthly membership program. Get monthly tips, tools, and classes to help you launch to Financial Freedom. Click here to sign up and be the first to be notified when the doors open in Summer/Fall 2018.

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Our Next Life Blog
The Fire Blogger Manifesto
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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to episode 52 of the Journey to Launch Podcast, finding adventure and
0:07.0	happiness on your way to early retirement with T, T minus 10 seconds. T-minus
0:13.0	minus 10 seconds.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host
0:18.0	Jemila Sufranz as a money expert who walks her talk.
0:21.0	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...
0:32.0	Five, four, three... to launch to financial freedom in five four three two one
0:56.2	Hey hey hey journeys welcome back to another episode of the podcast. So happy to have you here with me and I am excited today to talk to Tanya, Tanya Hester from Our Next Life. So if you're already in the Financial Independence community, if you've been following it for a bit, you might know of Tanya and her story. She's from the blog Our Next Life and her
1:06.1	and her husband became financially independent and have retired early. So she's pretty, for most part well known in this space but I wanted to bring her
1:16.5	on because I know that some of you guys listening the F.I movement is pretty new to you. You might
1:21.9	have never heard of her before, but this is someone you
1:24.6	should get to know and here's why. Tanya became financially independent at the age of 36 and
1:30.6	retired early at the age of 38. And so despite never being a super saver and she wasn't even naturally good with
1:38.3	money she was able to get on track and accomplish such a big feat.
1:44.2	She writes at the award-winning financial independence
1:47.2	and early retirement blog Our Next Life
1:50.0	and it chronicles her and her husband Mark's journey to early retirement and so they did that in 2017.
1:56.8	The blog Our Next Life has quickly grown into to be a fixture in the fire space, earning spots on rock star finance best blogs
2:05.3	lists winning at the 2017 Plutis Awards and it continues to get just high honors
2:11.0	from the personal finance community. In addition to blogging, Tanya also has the Farra Sense
2:16.7	podcast. So if you remember, I actually had her co-host Kara Perez Perez, on episode 49.
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