Ep. 544: Using Financial Independence to Fuel a Life of Adventure - Chris Mamula
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
With any adventure, finances have to be part of the planning. That planning can begin months or years before the adventure even begins. Some folks decide to put it all on a credit card. Others knock on the door of hundreds of potential sponsors to pay for their trips while others just decide to suffer immensely on the adventure because of lack of funds (been there, done that).
Doesn't it make more sense to build a frugal and thoughtful lifestyle that allows adventures to be more realistic, more often? Chris Mamula joins us today to talk about some very easy and key steps that anyone can do to help make adventures more possible in their lives.
Chris is an avid adventurer and has achieved financial independence and decided to retire from physical therapy at age 41, giving him years of possible adventures for him and his family.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of times when you get to retirement, you don't retire anyway because then you kind of just |
| 0:03.8 | have this freedom to say, well, what do I want to really do with my life? Like a lot of my desire |
| 0:07.5 | to get in the outdoors was just escaping from this life that you don't necessarily like. So I |
| 0:12.2 | related a lot to that. And I think a lot of people will relate to that particular story. |
| 0:18.5 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:32.2 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. I remember I was bi a cross country one time, and I met this guy who was, |
| 0:45.6 | who said he took like two to three multi-month trips a year, adventures. |
| 0:53.1 | And the first question I had was like like how the heck do you pay for that |
| 0:56.1 | he said well I'm married to a doctor who doesn't care what I do with my time wants me to pursue |
| 1:03.1 | adventure full time and I thought holy cow I got to find a situation like that when I get married |
| 1:09.1 | well that didn't happen and it's probably get married. Well, that didn't happen. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's probably pretty safe to say that it didn't happen for a lot of you, too. And you talk to |
| 1:16.8 | anyone on this show, finances are a huge part of whether people can do or not do this trip. And it takes |
| 1:23.4 | up a huge amount of time figuring out how to pay for adventures. Talk to anybody on this show. |
| 1:30.2 | Most people can't just take six months off, even two weeks off, to do something that usually |
| 1:36.5 | involves flying somewhere really far away, carrying a lot of equipment and gear, doing something |
| 1:42.3 | really challenging. So how people pay for adventures |
| 1:44.9 | has always fascinated me and always been really a puzzle to figure out for myself. And I didn't |
| 1:49.2 | realize it was just not, it wasn't only just saving money, but it was also building a life |
| 1:55.3 | that allows adventure to be possible. So that when you do get the inspiration, you do get an idea, |
| 2:01.9 | you have the freedom and flexibility to pursue it you might have heard of the acronym financial independence and retire early |
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