Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My guest today is Sam from Financial Samurai and Sam.

Primarily we're going to talk today about your book.

I want to dig into it as I think this is such a valuable topic. Your book is

is called How to Engineer your layoff, negotiate a severance and be free.

But before we get to that, you have an interesting financial independence

and financial freedom story of your own, which in my opinion

very much fits the tagline of this show.

I'd love for you to share a little bit about your career history and how you moved from the place of an employee through the ranks and ultimately wound up becoming a

financial independent, becoming financially independent to set the context for our conversation today.

Sure, well thanks for having me on the show.

It's good to be here.

Financial Samurai started in 2009 during the depths of the financial crisis.

I was actually working in the financial services industry and

basically I was losing all my money. I thought I did everything right. I had a

diversified net worth, but my net worth was getting pounded just like everybody else by probably

around 35% in a matter of 12 months, really, during the depth of the crisis.

So I started a financial samurai just to try to make sense of all the chaos.

My career started in 1999.

I graduated from college then.

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