084- How To Achieve A Work-Optional Life & Retire Early with Tanja Hester
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
How do you create a life where work is optional? Are you interested in early retirement but not a fan of super frugality? On today’s podcast, I have Tanja Hester, creator of the Our Next Blog, who retired early at the age of 38 to talk about her new book, Work Optional, where she answers those questions and more.
In this episode we discuss:
- The three stages of work optional living; full early retirement, semi-retirement & career intermission
- The concept of Hedonic Adaptation and how it impacts the way we spend money
- Why we should all have a money mission statement
- Tanja’s genetic disability and how it impacts her drive to live her best life
- Different options for health care coverage for early retirees plus so much more
I’m also excited because I’m giving away a copy of Tanja’s new book, Work Optional, to lucky listeners of the podcast. You can enter to win by clicking here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Journey to Launch Podcast, |
| 0:03.8 | How to Live a Work Optional Life |
| 0:06.3 | and Retire Early The Non Penny Pinching Way |
| 0:09.4 | with T-T minus 10 seconds. Kenya Hester. walks her talk. She helps brave journeys 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, three, three, to financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:38.8 | hey hey journey. Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. If you are new to the |
| 0:46.8 | podcast, sit back, buckle up, you're in for a treat. If you are returning Jernier |
| 0:52.1 | welcome, thanks for coming back. On this |
| 0:54.8 | episode of the podcast I'm talking to guest Tanya Hester. She was actually on |
| 0:59.2 | episode 52 of the podcast. I've invited her back to talk about her amazing new book, Work Optional, |
| 1:06.8 | retire early, the non-penny-pinching way. Tanya retired at age 38 from her career as a political consultant and journalist. |
| 1:15.5 | She writes at The Amazing Blog Our Next Life. |
| 1:18.6 | She co-host the podcast The Fair Sense, and she's just all around living her best life retired and I thought |
| 1:25.0 | it would be perfect to bring Tanya back on the podcast to talk about the |
| 1:29.8 | subject we all like talking about the most, financial independence. |
| 1:33.0 | But Tanya frames it in a way which makes it more accessible, I believe, to people who maybe are not looking to full out retire early. Now if that's your goal that's fine but I love the |
| 1:45.4 | way Tanya frames the thought process of what early retirement is in her book and you'll hear |
| 1:51.8 | us talk more about that. I think it allows you to be more |
| 1:54.7 | creative with the way in which you retired the way in which you live your best life |
| 2:00.1 | and love your best life so I'm really excited for you to hear the conversation. |
| 2:03.6 | Tanya actually is someone I met at FinCon, so I always talk about FinCon, the |
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