Welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money Podcast Show Number 38, where we interview Philip Taylor from PT Money and FinCon.

Our baby got to be one years old. We're about to kind of have the birthday party there for the one year old.

And I was assigned to a trip to India three weeks over that whole

time frame so her birthday was gonna be like right in the middle of that and I

begged my boss like you got to get me out of this you know I can't leave the States

while my kids turning one. I really couldn't bring them with me on that trip. And so it was just putting us in a situation where I knew my wife, it was super important for me to be home and so I say well babe

there's only one answer here I need to quit and then I could be home for our daughter's

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How's it going everybody?

I'm Scott Trench and I'm here with my co-host Miss Mindy

How you doing today Mindy? Scott, I'm so fantastic today. How are you today?

I am doing great. It's a very big privilege to interview PT who's one of the you know what are the really early guys in this whole financial dependence and money blogging sphere.

Yes, I didn't realize he had started his blog in 2007.

That's like, he's one of the first.

I think maybe there were some people doing it in 2005,

but it was like two people.

Yeah, I mean, he's a very significant part

of the reason why this whole community around financial independence

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