259-What's It Like To Actually Hit Financial Independence at a Shockingly Young Age? Interview with Brandon (the Mad Fientist) and Jill
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Wouldn't it be cool if you could work really hard for a few years, save aggressively, and then quit your job and travel the world?
Today's guest has done just that. Today I have Brandon, the Mad Fientist, and his wife Jill on the show!
Brandon recently hit his Financial Independence number and he and Jill hit the road for some long-term travel.
Enjoy this interview where we dig into what's great about financial independence and what ain't so great.
Enjoy!
Joshua
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One major theme of radical personal finances, |
| 0:01.9 | financial independence and financial freedom. |
| 0:04.8 | And I try to talk about that with a lot of unique variations |
| 0:08.7 | and permutations. |
| 0:10.2 | But I'll tell you what, you can't beat just plain old traditional work a job, save a bunch of money, |
| 0:17.2 | and then stick it to the man and retire, right? |
| 0:19.7 | You can do that. |
| 0:21.0 | And today I'm thrilled to bring back on the show, my friend Brandon, the mad scientist. |
| 0:26.0 | Guess what? He hit his financial independence date recently. |
| 0:30.0 | And today we're going to find out what it's really like and even better. |
| 0:34.3 | It's not just Brandon, but we're going to get the real story from his wife, |
| 0:39.1 | Jill, who's also on the show today. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host. Thank you so much for being with me. |
| 1:03.2 | This is the show where each and every day we try to provide you some useful nuggets of knowledge, |
| 1:08.3 | insight, ideas maybe. Things that are going to help you to build a lifestyle of financial freedom for |
| 1:14.5 | yourself. That is the core theme. And today it's going to be good because we're |
| 1:19.3 | going to talk with somebody who fired, as we say in the financial independence community. |
| 1:24.0 | And we're going to talk about what's great and frankly what's not. |
| 1:28.0 | I was able to catch up with Brandon at the FinCon 2015 conference recently in Charlotte, North Carolina, |
| 1:37.0 | had a good time talking with him and this one is really fun because we talk with Brandon and with Jill. |
| 1:42.0 | Many of you finding your relationships |
| 1:44.6 | with your spouses that there is a unique dynamic. |
| 1:47.9 | Oftentimes, one of you is more focused on the money |
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