136- How Anita Paid Off $95,000 of Debt in One Year and Retired Early at 33 Years Old
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week's Journey to Launch podcast episode features Anita Dhake, also known as Thriftygal. Creator of the blog The Power of Thrift, Anita, worked as a corporate attorney for several years. Then, one day she committed to her dream to retire early and live her best life. In one year she paid off $95,000 of student loan debt and started aggressively saving 85 to 95 percent of her income. By age 33, Anita was able to retire with over a half of million dollars in investments.
For the last few years, Anita has been traveling the world and doing what makes her happy. On her blog, she shares stories about crossing items off her bucket list, her latest reads, and her daily successful habits. Previously featured in Forbes, Crain's Chicago Business, and the ABA Journal, Anita's has also been on television twice. Anita's FI story can be found in her book, Operation Enough! How to Retire Remarkably Early.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to accelerate your path to financial freedom and early retirement
- The benefits of applying stoicism to your financial journey
- Several inspiring books you should read now
- It is about how much you make and how much you save
- Where to easily invest your money and watch it grow, and so much more
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
Anita is an avid reader and below are a few great books we mentioned in the podcast episode.
Operation Enough! How to Retire Remarkably Early by Anita Dhake
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger and Gene Stone
The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too) by Gretchen Rubin
The Geometry of Wealth: How To Shape A Life Of Money And Meaning by Brian Portnoy
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
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| 0:15.6 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch podcast, how Anita paid off $95,000 of debt in one year and retired early. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast with your host, Jamila Sufron, as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:35.6 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 0:42.8 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one. |
| 1:14.4 | Hey, hey, hey, juniors. Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast. If you are a returning listener, that means journeyer, welcome back. If you are brand new, welcome. So we're excited to have you in this rocket. With us, we are legit taking off. Now, the premise of Journey to Launch and my platform and what I do is I want to show you what's possible through what I do and then obviously |
| 1:19.6 | bringing on stories and information and motivation from other people. And so while I talk about |
| 1:25.9 | reaching financial independence and retiring early, |
| 1:28.8 | which is essentially having enough money where you can choose what you really want to do. |
| 1:33.7 | And for me, like I always envisioned that even if I had all the money in the world, |
| 1:37.2 | I would still want to work in some capacity. But the dream for a lot of you is, okay, I'm working, |
| 1:43.2 | I'm trying to pay off debt. I'm also going to |
| 1:45.7 | eventually save and invest and have enough money, right? The dream is to have enough money to retire or |
| 1:50.9 | reach financial independence. And then what does that look like, right? Like what will it be like for |
| 1:56.0 | you on the other side? And so I love talking to people who have actually achieved financial independence, |
| 2:01.9 | and especially those who have chosen to retire early, meaning like they're not actively working. |
| 2:07.7 | So I have a wonderful, wonderful conversation to bring you. I'm talking to Anita from the |
| 2:13.6 | power of thrift. Anita has been in the blogging game for a minute, meaning she's had |
| 2:17.9 | her blog for a long time now, and she's someone who's actually retired early. And she just has, |
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