62: Q2 Investing Updates + Early Retirement
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Sam Marks and Johnny FD share their investing updates from the past three months. Listen as Sam explains why he exchanged a half million USD into RMB and how Johnny's Forex account has developed. You'll find out if early retirement is right for you including how Sam and Johnny strive to balance wealth, time, and happiness.
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Where are we:
Johnny FD - Ukraine
Sam - Asia
Discussed:
ILAB 03 – Foreign Exchange Trading with Brian from Art of FX
ILAB 06 – Invest in Yourself to Startup an Award Winning Brewery
ILAB 07 – Building Hong Kong’s Biggest Self Storage Business
Book:
Start Here – Recommended Reading
Time Stamps:
08:11 - Sam’s new investments
12:39 - Johnny’s investment update
15:41 - Half million exchanged to RMB
24:01 - Forex trading account growth
30:11 - Black Hops Brewery investment
32:39 - Hong Kong self-storage units
36:25 - Early retirement ups and downs
55:45 - What is happiness?
1:00:45 - Current bucket list projects
1:04:51 - The happiest we’ve ever been
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| 0:00.0 | Big, big thanks to FreshBooks, the super easy to use cloud accounting software. |
| 0:05.1 | FreshBooks is offering a 30-day unrestricted free trial to our listeners. |
| 0:08.5 | To claim it, just go to freshbooks.com slash invest and enter Invest Like a Boss in the |
| 0:13.4 | How Did You Hear About Us section? |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Marks and I'm Johnny FD. |
| 0:19.5 | We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money |
| 0:21.5 | and use modern technology to invest like a boss. Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our |
| 0:25.9 | network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our |
| 0:30.5 | hard-earned cash. Hey guys, this is Johnny and welcome to episode 62 of the Invest Like a Boss podcast. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm here Sam Marks. |
| 0:38.5 | Not here, but we are together virtually, remotely, whatever you want to say. And Johnny, |
| 0:44.1 | this is always my favorite episode, man. Updates, nice and informal. Talk about life. Talk about |
| 0:49.3 | investments. What's changed? What's happening? I'm excited. Yeah, and we've been putting this off for a long time, |
| 0:55.4 | but we've been meeting to do an early retirement episode because technically both Sam and I are |
| 1:00.9 | now retired. Woo-hoo. Good job, buddy. Boo-hoo. Yep. Well, it's more boo-hoo because I don't, I don't know if it's |
| 1:08.1 | as, you know, fabulous as some people might be thinking it is. |
| 1:12.7 | So let's kind of dive into what has changed, what our finances look like. |
| 1:18.2 | And then let's talk about what we think about early retirement. |
| 1:22.4 | I like it. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm looking forward to diving into it. |
| 1:24.7 | We, you know, we chatted about this a little bit on the James |
| 1:27.5 | Alter episode, and there's just so much to it. And unfortunately, there's not a lot of people |
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