13: Achieving FI Before 40 Despite Breaking Every Financial "Rule" with Tanja from Our Next Life

BiggerPockets Money Podcast

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🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Tanja reached financial independence (FI) and retired from her full-time, high-stress job at age 38—despite not being a natural saver, having purchased two brand-new cars in the past, and not maxing out her 401(k) in the beginning—pretty much breaking every FI “rule” out there. Tanja was not focused on early retirement or financial independence when she met Mark, but quickly got on board. Her 60-hour-per-week job took up all her time and "brain space,” and more than 100 plane trips per year made it very easy to increase her savings rate to be able to achieve her goal. Hear how she reached financial independence and parlayed that into early retirement in today’s episode of The BiggerPockets Money Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bigger Packets Money, Show Number 13.
0:04.0	He asked me how much I made on our first date.
0:07.0	You can't do that?
0:10.0	It's time for a new American dream, one that doesn't involve working in a cubicle for 40 years, barely scraping by.
0:17.0	Whether you're looking to get your financial house in order, invest the money you already have, or discover new paths for wealth creation. You're in the right place. This show is for
0:25.9	anyone who has money or wants more. This is the Bigger Pocket's Money Podcast.
0:30.9	How's it going everybody? I'm Scott Trench and I'm here with my co-host
0:33.6	Miss Mindy. You know Scott I'm doing pretty good but today is a very cold day.
0:38.2	It snowed I didn't pay attention to the weather and it snowed like five or six inches up where I live and it was kind of surprising and the drive in today was kind of bad.
0:48.4	There was no bicycling today. No, I don't bicycle anyway.
0:53.0	Nah, but yeah, it was Freeze, it took me forever to defrost by car, a miserable cold day here in Denver.
0:58.0	However, yesterday it was 60 degrees, or two days ago it was 60 degrees.
1:01.0	Yeah, it was like 65.
1:03.6	I love how, and it was super windy.
1:05.5	So you know that there's a big storm blowing in
1:07.6	when there's super wind, but I still didn't put it together.
1:10.4	And then I was surprised when I woke up the next morning.
1:13.0	So enough about the weather.
1:14.0	How-
1:15.0	Weather does not affect our latest guest today though, right?
1:18.0	Which is Tanya from our next life, who has retired and recorded the entire episode in her
1:24.8	pajamas. Her mouse one zee yes it was one o'clock in the afternoon for her
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