Ep 165: From A Penny In Savings To A Millionaire In Five Years. Meet Grant Sabatier.

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What's your most limited resource? Money? It might feel that way, but the real answer is time. You can earn more money. You can't get more hours or minutes or seconds...or years. The latter — particularly as it relates to compound interest, giving your money time to grow — is just one of the things we dive into with Grant Sabatier, a leader of the "Financial Independence, Retire Early" (FIRE) movement, and author of “Financial Freedom.” In Mailbag, does going to a more expensive college mean more success? Plus: How to tackle crippling credit card debt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.0	Her money is supported by Fidelity Investments. We want you to demand more from your money,
0:16.5	so start by knowing what you own and what you owe.
0:20.0	We'll help you take the next step at Fidelity.com
0:23.0	slash demand more now.
0:26.0	Her money comes to you today with a very inspiring story the story of a guy who went from
0:47.8	truly broke to having a million dollars in just a little over five years.
0:55.0	His name is Grant Sabadee.
0:57.2	He is a proponent of the fire movement.
1:00.3	If this is the first time hearing about fire for you, well, it stands for Financial Independence,
1:06.2	retire early.
1:08.2	And back in 2010, when he was 24 years old, Grant had $2.26 in his checking account and a penny, one penny
1:19.9	in savings.
1:21.9	A little over five years later he is truly financially independent.
1:26.6	He's out with his first book. It's called Financial Freedom, A Proven Path to All the
1:31.2	Money You Will Ever Need. He's also the founder of proven path to all the money you will ever need.
1:33.4	He's also the founder of millennial money.com
1:36.5	and the host of the Financial Freedom Podcast.
1:39.4	Grant, welcome.
1:40.6	So glad to be here.
1:41.6	You are joining us from your book tour. So where are you?
1:45.0	Yeah, I'm in San Diego. Just had an 80 person event last night.
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