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I love talking about increasing your net worth. This is our barometer for wealth-building success. Today,

we're going to speak with an investor who has grown his family's net worth to $2.8 million

by 35 years old.

Justin Taylor is our guest today.

He lives in Texas with his wife Leslie and is the co-host of the popular The Financial

Independence Show.

And when he's not focused on building his family's wealth, he enjoys cooking and traveling.

Welcome to the show, Justin.

Hey, Annie, thanks for having me.

Absolutely, man. Glad to have you here.

And we just had a chat on your show recently, and I really appreciate you having me on.

So glad to return the favor here and have a great conversation about this impressive net worth story.

Let's look back a little bit.

What was your motivation for building your wealth in the first place?

Yeah. So this one, like just for getting into personal finance in general and starting to

think about like, you know, how do I take control over this? It really came from when I moved to

Colorado, because which I grew up like on the lower end of, you know, like finances, like we grew up fairly poor. Like scarcity was always there. So like the saving part wasn't too hard. Like I wasn't used to spending much. The saving wasn't hard. But like, okay, what am I going to do next? Like, what's kind of the next thing? It really happened when I moved to Colorado after graduate in college because, you know, I got my degree. I got the job that I wanted in the Air Force as an Air Force officer, got the location I wanted in Colorado, loved the mountains. And that was the first time of my life that I actually woke up depressed, because I had kind of checked every box. I had everything done and I didn't know what was next. And it made me start doing like a lot of self-reflection around,

okay, what actually makes me happy? And, you know, as you start to do that kind of, I was an engineer and I started like reverse engineering my happiness. And it kept coming back to like, I need time. Like if I, if what makes me happy is being with family, being with friends, like being out in nature. How do I get there? Well, I need time. And to get that time, you know, I needed some way to fund my

lifestyle. with family, being with friends, like being out in nature, how do I get there? Well, I need time.

And to get that time, you know, I needed some way to fund my lifestyle. And that got me down

the rabbit hole of investing and growing my net worth and early retirement and, you know,

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