#96: Mr. Money Mustache on Purposeful Work & Life After Financial Independence
Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson
Chad Carson
4.9 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Episode #96 - Mr. Money Mustache (aka Pete Adeney) is the guy who retired at 30 to be a full-time parent and then inspire millions of others to ditch their job early with his popular blog.
In this candid interview, Pete shares what his life is really like after financial independence. He also shares his philosophy on meaningful work, parenting, emotions, and the latest tips to achieve financial independence sooner.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the real estate and financial independence podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | My name is Chad Carson. |
| 0:12.2 | You can also call me coach. |
| 0:13.7 | This is a show all about real estate investing, financial independence, and doing more |
| 0:18.3 | of what matters. |
| 0:19.7 | Today I've got a special episode for you. I want to |
| 0:22.4 | bring you an interview with none other than the popular blogger, Mr. Money Mustache. We're going to |
| 0:28.4 | talk about what it means to have purposeful work and a life after financial independence. |
| 0:34.3 | You've never heard of Mr. Money Mustash. He's also known as his real name as Pete. He became a |
| 0:38.9 | really popular blogger. One of the early bloggers who talked about financial independence and about |
| 0:43.4 | retiring early. He and his wife at the time retired at 30 to raise their young kid. And he left |
| 0:49.2 | the job in the computer engineering world. And he's just got an interesting philosophy. He's unique. I had a good time. |
| 0:55.5 | We were hanging out at an Airbnb house with a group of friends bringing in the new year 2020 |
| 1:00.8 | and had a lot of fun. We went on some hikes in the mountains and hung out, had some beers. |
| 1:06.1 | And I talked him into doing a video interview, which you can also find on YouTube. But I really |
| 1:10.4 | wanted to bring |
| 1:10.9 | it to you here on the podcast. And here are just some conversations of things that I wanted to know. |
| 1:16.1 | I wanted to talk to them about, including work, parenting, life after financial independence. |
| 1:21.1 | So I hope you enjoy the interview. But before we get to the interview, I want to remind you |
| 1:25.2 | not to miss out on my free real estate investing toolkit over at coachcarson.com forward slash newsletter. Or you can also text the word |
| 1:32.8 | coach to the number 3377. When you subscribe to my email newsletter, I also send you this toolkit, |
| 1:39.2 | which includes practical tools that I use in my own real estate investing business, like a closing checklist |
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