Episode 618 | How to Achieve Financial Freedom

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In episode 618, join Rob Walling as he chats with Sam Dogen, the founder of Financial Samurai, which is one of the longest-running and most popular personal finance blogs. Over the last 13 years, Sam has personally written over 2,500 essays along with a Wall Street Journal Bestselling book. We talk about achieving financial freedom, money mindsets, and relentless execution. Topics we cover: 3:12- The 4% Rule 4:40- Sam’s alternative approach to the 4% Rule 7:25- The FIRE Movement 10:16- How to navigate the US health insurance system as an early retiree 12:10- Sam’s relentless execution when it comes to running Financial Samurai 17:40- How Sam learned about personal finance 18:47- How Sam negotiated a severance package despite quitting his investment banking job 22:47- Why he runs Financial Samurai as a true lifestyle business 26:07- Would Sam sell Financial Samurai for $20 million? 27:35- The premise of Sam’s new book 28:46- Sam’s mental model for allocating financial assets to generate passive income Links from the Show: Sam Dogen (@financialsamura) I Twitter Financial Samurai Buy This, Not That TropicalMBA MicroConf Europe Applications for TinySeed’s Fall 2022 SaaS Accelerators Will Open September 12th MicroConf Youtube Channel If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	We have a time and a place for MicroConf Europe 2022. It's going to be November 15th through
0:06.0	the 17th at the Intercontinental in Malta. This will be a limited capacity event. It's going to be
0:12.7	smaller than previous MicroConf Europe's due to a number of factors. So it's definitely something
0:17.9	that if you want to go to Malta to MicroConf Europe in November,
0:22.0	you're going to want to head to microconf.com slash Europe for more details and to buy your ticket.
0:27.0	In terms of speakers, I, of course, will be speaking per usual.
0:30.2	And we have Guillam Mubesh.
0:32.1	He's the founder and CEO of Lemlist, which is a company that has bootstrapped to eight figures in ARR.
0:39.2	Hope to see you in Malta, November 15th through the 17th. That's microconf.coms.com slash Europe.
0:48.9	Welcome back once again to start up for the rest of us. I'm Rob Walling.
0:54.8	And this week I speak with Sam Dogen.
0:56.9	He's the founder of The Financial Samurai, which is one of the longest running and most popular personal finance blogs or news websites.
1:04.7	He writes all the content himself.
1:06.4	You'll actually hear about that in the interview.
1:08.4	He's written, I believe it's 2,500 essays slash blog posts
1:12.5	in the past 13 years. Just an incredible example of relentless execution. And he's also written a book
1:18.0	called By This, Not That, that that we dig into. And we talk quite a bit about achieving financial
1:23.4	freedom personally, about how to think about money, a lot of really great mindset stuff
1:28.1	in this episode from Sam. Before we dive into that, we get a new review in Apple podcast from
1:33.1	Adarkis, five stars, and they say practical and relatable advice for all entrepreneurs. Start
1:38.3	for the rest of us truly educates and inspires with each topic and guest. The show is a must
1:42.7	listen for anyone considering stepping into the entrepreneurial space.
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