59: Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) with Scott Rieckens
BiggerPockets Money Podcast
BiggerPockets
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Bigger Pockets Money Podcast Show, Number 59, where we interview Scott Rickins from |
| 0:05.6 | playing with fire. |
| 0:07.2 | I just thought, let's focus on happiness because I don't think my wife and I are very far |
| 0:11.7 | off as far as what our real goals are and what |
| 0:14.6 | our happiness list is. |
| 0:16.4 | Let's start focusing on that instead of saying, hey, you've got to stop spending money. |
| 0:19.8 | Because that's not fun. |
| 0:21.2 | It's time for a new American dream, one that doesn't involve working in a cubicle |
| 0:25.2 | for 40 years, barely scraping by. Whether you're looking to get your financial house in order, |
| 0:29.7 | invest the money you already have, or discover new paths for wealth creation you're in the right |
| 0:34.9 | place this show is for anyone who has money or wants more this is the bigger |
| 0:39.6 | pockets money podcast how's it going everybody I'm Trench. I'm here with my co-host |
| 0:44.0 | Miss Mindy Jenson. How you do today, Mindy? Scott, I am doing fantastic. I am super |
| 0:49.3 | excited to listen to another Scott. |
| 0:53.0 | It was nice to be one third of the show that isn't Scott on today's episode. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm really excited to hear Scott's story and I'm excited to share it with everybody because as you said just a moment ago his story is so great because it isn't exceptional and that doesn't mean that it's boring that means's relatable. It isn't some random thing that he like won the lottery in order to get to where he's at. |
| 1:19.0 | He did what everybody else has done. Stop spending so much money, start saving more money, and look, |
| 1:26.1 | you can watch your savings grow. You can literally watch your net worth get better and better and bigger and |
| 1:32.2 | bigger simply by doing these same things that are |
| 1:34.6 | relatable and repeatable that Scott shares in this episode today. |
| 1:37.8 | Yeah, I love just how DP goes into his mindset and how his living paycheck to paycheck lifestyle on two, you know, |
| 1:47.6 | median salaries was frustrating for him and he felt like he wasn't getting ahead or getting along in life. |
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