270: How Lauren Achieved Early Retirement At Age 29

The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Bola Sokunbi

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On today's podcast episode, Lauren Keys shares how she achieved early retirement alongside her husband before she turned 30. Lauren put herself through college by waiting tables and earning merit scholarships. After graduating college debt-free, she worked in marketing at various small businesses. Throughout her eight-year career, she took time to travel, including a six-month sabbatical in Hawaii. By age 29, Lauren had saved and invested enough to retire. She details her journey to financial independence on her blog, Trip Of A Lifestyle, which is focused on how to have fun while also saving enough money to quit working full time decades before everyone else. Trip Of A Lifestyle is a completely free resource to help more people get rich, work less, and travel whenever they want. WHAT LAUREN DISCUSSED: 1. What the term "retire early" means to her 2. Her detailed roadmap of what she did to retire by age 29 3. Why planning for fun on her savings journey was necessary. 4. Her mindset and how she approaches challenges AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH LAUREN: Via her website: https://www.tripofalifestyle.com/ On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tripofalifestyle On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tripofalifestyle/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TripOfALifestyle/ On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TripOfALifestyle/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/@toalifestyle ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast. This is Boila Schokumbi. I'm the founder and CEO of Clever
0:10.1	Girl Finance. The Clever Girls No Podcast is a podcast for women offering a space
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1:06.4	already follow us on Instagram you can find us at Clever Girl Finance. Okay so let's get into today's episode.
1:15.0	Hi Lauren, welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast.
1:18.0	Hi, thanks for having you.
1:20.0	Thank you so much for being here. You have achieved something really significant, which is retiring early. So I am super excited to have you on here to share your experience and your tips with everyone listening and aspiring to either an early retirement or just creating some solid plans for you know their future self.
1:40.0	So before we dive into your journey,
1:43.3	tell us about yourself and what you do.
1:46.0	I write a blog called Trip of a Lifestyle
1:47.9	about early retirement and how to travel for months at a time,
1:50.7	really cheap.
1:51.5	We also post on social media, little life hack, things like that.
1:54.8	That's awesome. So we'll definitely put the link to your blog in the show notes for folks who want to read the
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