Chris Hutchins – Why You Should “Retire” Before You Hit Your Number

Financial Independence Podcast

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Taxavoidance, Business, Geographicarbitrage, Investing, Tax, Earlyretirement, Travelhacking, Entrepreneurship, Travel, Personalfinance, Stocks, Minimalism, Realestate, Frugality, Retirement, Financialindependence

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🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, I interview a serial entrepreneur who has achieved financial independence three different ways!

You’d think that selling a company to Google or buying San Francisco real estate before prices went crazy would be the best way to reach financial independence but that’s not been the case for today’s guest, Chris Hutchins from Grove.

Although he’s done all of those things, Chris shares how consistent saving actually impacted his net worth more than anything else.

This episode is packed full of useful information, especially if plan to start your own business or want to do something meaningful after early retirement, so hope you enjoy it!

Highlights:

What it’s like being an investment banker
How to get a job you really love
Biggest business lessons learned from working at Google Ventures
Why you should always say “Yes”
The benefits of doing something interesting every month
How aggressive saving can impact your net worth more than selling a company to Google or investing in San Francisco real estate
Why you should “retire” before you hit your FI number
My new favorite definition of retirement

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm blind.
0:02.0	I'm blind if you can be with through finance.
0:05.0	Hey, welcome everybody to the Financial Independence Podcast,
0:09.0	the podcast where I get inside the brains of some of the best and brightest in the personal finance
0:12.0	space to find out how they achieved financial independence.
0:14.0	Before we get into today's show, I have a little holiday giveaway for you.
0:18.0	Jim Collins from J.L Collins andH.com kindly donated a few audio book codes for the simple path to wealth which is his book
0:26.0	that he released this year that's been an absolutely huge success so if you want the chance to
0:29.7	win one of those codes then just go to madfiantist.com slash iTunes leave a review for the show and then shoot
0:36.4	me an email just to say that you did it and then I will pick a couple winners from all
0:39.8	the iTunes reviews that are received in December Including my most recent review from Swarty 24
0:44.9	who says I'm the Oprah Financial Independence.
0:47.1	So that was a very cool review,
0:49.2	and I enjoyed reading that, so thanks for that.
0:50.9	Anyway, on to today's show.
0:52.8	I'm excited to introduce my guest,
0:55.0	and he's a bit different than my other guest.
0:57.6	He's not a writer, he's not a blogger.
1:00.3	He's a guy I met recently when I was in Dallas, Texas, and he has an incredibly interesting story.
1:05.0	So this is a guy who has sold a company to Google, has invested in San Francisco real estate before it was crazy, like it is now and despite all of
1:15.0	that he said that the thing that impacted his savings the most was saving so
1:19.7	just flat-out boring saving is what contributed most to his financial independence.
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