054- How To Take Mini-Retirements & Enjoy Life Now w/ Carl Seidman

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

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

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🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Generally, the goal for most working Americans is to work with a company for several years and eventually retire to enjoy life and explore opportunities that you may not have while working full-time. Today's guest, Carl Seidman explains the concept of ‘mini-retirements’.

A mini-retirement is a lengthy break, months to years, from the normal course of everyday work life intended for personal development and creating new experiences. Carl’s ideas, much like the FIRE movement, challenge the traditional view of retirement and more importantly, his ideas challenge the way that we view career development.

In this episode we discuss:

The concepts of mini-retirements
Carl’s first retirement at 32
Carl’s blog post "Does a college degree matter"
The Mexican Fisherman story
How to fund mini-retirements and still fund your long-term retirement
The structure and planning involved in Carl’s mini-retirements
Things to consider before planning a mini-retirement
Carl’s goals
Carl’s thoughts on the FIRE community and early retirement

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Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:

Does A Degree Matter Anymore Blog Post
Stanford's Article on Reimagining the Undergraduate Experience
The Story of the Mexican Fisherman
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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to episode 54 of the Journey to Launch podcast exploring the idea of many
0:07.0	retirements so that you can live your best life now.
0:10.8	T minus 10 seconds. Welcome to the Journey to Launch. life now. She helps brave journeyers like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well.
0:27.0	Join her on the journey to launch a financial freedom in...
0:31.0	Five, four, three, two, three, three, two, freedom in five four three two one
0:37.0	Hey hey hey journeys welcome back to another episode of the Journey to
0:43.9	launch podcast. This is episode 54. I'm excited about today's episode as I am
0:49.6	about every episode, but that's because we're going to be talking about a different way to look at
0:56.1	your working years, your retirement, and that's because I have Carl Sideman on the podcast as a guest. Now you'll hear how I first found out about Carl in the beginning of
1:07.1	right interview, but just as a quick aside, I saw a TEDx talk that Carl did why I retired at 32 and I was so just enamored by the concept of what he talked about, taking interminute retirements.
1:21.0	And so I wanted to bring him on the podcast to talk more about that. So a little
1:25.4	bit about Carl. Carl is a trusted and disciplined advisor specializing in
1:29.8	financial strategy and business transformation.
1:33.4	He's dedicated his career to guiding healthy companies through strategic growth and
1:38.1	aiding, stagnant, underperforming and distress companies through turnaround or revitalization.
1:44.8	He applies a similar approach to helping individuals achieve their ideas of success.
1:50.2	And this is why I wanted Carl on the podcast, because while he directly deals with businesses
1:55.9	as a consultant and does that through his business,
1:59.4	his idea of how he's working,
2:02.2	how he's crafting and set up his work in general.
2:07.0	So these intermittent retirements and what they mean, I just thought it was just a brilliant way to look at things.
2:12.0	And it's interesting
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