Ep. 883: Using Financial Independence to Fuel a Life of Adventure - Revisited - Chris Mamula
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Financial independence and adventure: Chris Mamula's path to retiring at 41 from physical therapy, building a frugal lifestyle with simple steps to make adventures more realistic, frequent, and funded without credit cards or heavy sponsorship reliance.
Episode originally aired - July 12, 2019
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 himself and his family.
His blog: www.caniretireyet.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks. Hope you're having a good week so far. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody in the States or everybody that celebrates it at this time. It is Thanksgiving Day. It is a family day for me. I've got my baby I'm holding right now. You probably hear him. He is gnawing away on a waffle. So we're getting ready right now. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm getting this up a little late, but I wanted to revisit this episode with Chris |
| 0:43.7 | talking about financial freedom and how that makes for a more adventurous life and allows |
| 0:48.7 | you to do adventures. |
| 0:49.6 | And I'll say that's one of the biggest reasons I was able to do. |
| 0:52.7 | And I'm still able to do so many adventures is how we structure our finances, living below our means, saving a lot of money, |
| 0:59.6 | staying out of debt, stuff like that. So I hope you enjoy this episode. We got to get some |
| 1:04.2 | cooking done and head off to see some family. So have a great day. And if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving |
| 1:09.6 | this time of year or at all, no worries. |
| 1:12.8 | Hope you still get together with folks you love and eat some food and go on some adventures. |
| 1:17.9 | All right. |
| 1:18.2 | Talk soon. |
| 1:32.7 | Welcome. Welcome everyone to the show. |
| 1:41.9 | Today we're talking something that's, you know, when it comes to adventure, it was always a question in my mind was finances. |
| 1:43.1 | How do people make it work? |
| 1:46.5 | How do people create a lifestyle around doing the things they love and seem to have all this time and money to do things? |
| 1:52.5 | And we're learning from someone who's doing it firsthand, Chris Mamula. He and his family |
| 1:58.0 | adventure all over the place, do all kinds of incredible stuff all |
| 2:04.1 | around the world, but also are very keen on finances. |
| 2:09.0 | So, Chris, welcome to the show. |
| 2:10.8 | It's a pleasure for me to be here and talk to you. |
| 2:12.7 | Yeah, man, I know we were just talking a little bit, but tell us a little bit about yourself. |
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