What can a radical personal finance 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 guess today is John, you told me that you've done that, right?

You have built financial freedom in 10 years or less, right?

So we're going to hear your story.

Definitely, and it's not 10 years or less less maybe that's because I chose to live in an

expensive part of the country that is Silicon Valley so it took me a lot longer and of

course I was not as frugal as I could be in the initial days and I still am not so it

took me slightly longer 12 years but I think it would be an interesting

episode for your listeners. So you were born and raised in India. That is correct.

So tell us your story of how you ended up in the United States and

then tell us a little bit about your financial freedom journey. Sure. So I was born in India and I think

the advantage of being born in India is the fact that it has a pretty good demographic

in terms of the urban area speaking English so at least that outlet is there.

But I think also in the fact that I was born in a stable family where my parents were always focused on education

Ensure the fact that I was always keeping up with my grades making sure that while the other kids were out parting or having fun, I was like, oh, let me do my homework,

let me keep up with the studies, because I think with India and most of other Asian countries which are highly

populated, you either need to be at the top 10 or 20 person if you want to be somewhere in life, or you just like stagnate and kind of like live along.

So are you the doctor or are you the lawyer which one are you

oh neither actually I'm the engineer oh you're the engineer and your brother's the doctor

no actually the weird part is he took science as well and then he came along into the similar kind of fields but yeah I think yeah those are the similar

Kind of areas which you can go a doctor a lawyer and engineer and those are kind of the respected professions because way

back when I was in India growing up it was a very close economy I would say and these were the professions

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