#443: You Don't Have to Wait 15 Years to Retire (Here's the Smarter Way)
Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson
Chad Carson
4.9 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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🎙️ Episode #443 – What if you didn't have to wait until 65 to enjoy life? Coach Carson and Jillian share how mini retirements can help you pause, recharge, and live with purpose – long before full retirement!
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📄 Show Notes: https://www.coachcarson.com/miniretirements/
🎬 Timestamps:
- (00:00) - The Concept of Retiring Often
- (03:53) - Defining Mini Retirements
- (08:03) - Benefits of Mini Retirements
- (15:23) - Addressing Objections for Career Professionals
- (23:41) - Addressing Objections for the Self-Employed
- (24:50) - Facing the Fear of Leaving Your Business
- (25:46) - Steps to Prepare Your Business for Absence
- (30:27) - Personal Experiences with Business Preparation
- (42:45) - How We're Living Abroad For FREE
🔗 Connect with Jillian:
- Her Book: https://amzn.to/4m5VnSL
- Her Website: https://www.jillianjohnsrud.com
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| 0:00.0 | Financial freedom doesn't have to be a faraway goal that you only get to enjoy someday in the distant future. |
| 0:05.0 | There's actually a better way. |
| 0:06.3 | What if we practice this lifestyle that we ultimately want to have in small doses throughout our working career? |
| 0:14.3 | Jillian Johns Rood did something called retiring often while still raising her kids. |
| 0:18.7 | I took a 10-week road trip and a pop-up camper with my kids when they were all itsy-bitsy |
| 0:23.5 | and we went to 10 national parks. |
| 0:25.2 | Jillian's story and lessons in this episode will show you the why and the how of retiring |
| 0:29.4 | often so that you can enjoy the best of life right now during your journey to financial freedom. |
| 0:34.4 | In 20 years, my 20-year-olds are not going to be sleeping all seven of us |
| 0:38.7 | in a pop-up camper for 10 weeks. If you don't do it now, the season might pass you by. And there's |
| 0:45.3 | no opportunity to redo it. So, Jillian, as you know, the whole mission of what I do with this, the show and my whole |
| 1:00.3 | platform at Coach Carson could basically be described as, I want to help people use real estate |
| 1:04.3 | investing to achieve financial freedom so they can spend time doing more of what matters. |
| 1:10.0 | And it's, but there's this idea I think a lot of people have. |
| 1:12.5 | It's kind of binary where they think, well, financial freedom is this thing that I'm going |
| 1:16.0 | to be really intense and I'm going to push towards for the next 10 to 15 years because I don't |
| 1:19.9 | want to work for 40 years and have this regular old job and do that old retirement thing. |
| 1:24.0 | I think they get that part. |
| 1:25.7 | But the typical response is I'm just going to work |
| 1:27.9 | hard for the next 10 to 15 years and sacrifice and build my real estate empire. And then I can like |
| 1:34.1 | start moving into the good life. But but what you say, what you like in you and I on the same |
| 1:39.2 | page, 100% on the same page on this and you wrote a wonderful book about it called retire often is |
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