420-Radical Lifestyle Stories: How This Young Couple Increased Their Savings Rate From 8% to 80% of Their Income
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
My guests today are Joel and Alexis. I met them while hanging out at Camp Mustache SE in Gainesville and was intrigued by their story!
They went from being a fairly typical young couple with a small savings rate to being radical Mustachians, on track to retire in the next few years!
Enjoy learning how they worked through the problems and challenges to make this change!
Joshua
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today in Radical Personal Finance, we have a turnaround story. |
| 0:03.2 | I invite you to tune in and listen to how this couple, Joel and Alexis, |
| 0:06.6 | went from high living, high spending normal lives |
| 0:11.6 | to hardcore savings on track for a very early retirement. |
| 0:18.0 | What's the word? Weirdos? |
| 0:21.0 | The complimentary way. Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, encouragement, and |
| 0:44.1 | examples that you need for how you can live a rich and meaningful life now while |
| 0:48.9 | also crushing your plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. Today my name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your |
| 0:54.4 | host and today we have Joel and Alexis here to tell us their story. I think you'll find a lot of parallels |
| 1:01.1 | that you can use in your own situation. |
| 1:03.2 | I caught up with Joel and Alexis recently at Camp Mustache in Gainesville, Florida a couple |
| 1:14.8 | weeks ago and had a neat chance to hear their story and you're going to hear it in just a moment |
| 1:19.0 | where they talk about how they went through their own personal transformation and it's really |
| 1:24.1 | fantastic because it shows how anybody can change if the motivation is |
| 1:29.2 | strong enough for them to change. That's what I want you to take away from today's show. I'm going to save any more |
| 1:35.9 | preamble and just simply talk about our sponsors and I'll play the interview for you. Sponsored the day number one is |
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| 1:43.3 | way that I've chosen try to help those of you who would like to work with a financial advisor to find a good one. |
| 1:47.9 | It's a screening service, a registry service for financial advisors. |
| 1:51.1 | When you go out and try to find a financial advisor, |
| 1:53.4 | it's hard to know whether you're |
| 1:55.1 | going to be working with somebody that's good or not. |
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