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Yo Quiero Dinero

How To Pursue FIRE As A Couple With Different Income Levels | G&J of Gay Husbands On FIRE

Yo Quiero Dinero

Jannese Torres

Saving, Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing, Wealth, Personal Finance For Latinas, Personal Finance, Budgeting, Finances, Generational Wealth, Equal Pay, Financial Literacy

4.9607 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Episode 69 is all about how one queer, married couple is pursuing FIRE while earning different salaries. Listen to this episode to hear about a journey to FI/RE, love and money, and a six-figure debt payoff.


For Episode 69, we have G and J, the anonymous married couple behind Gay Husbands on FIRE.


This millennial couple is in their early 30s, living in NYC, and planning for a life of financial independence. J is originally from Colorado and G is originally from Colombia. They met in Philadelphia in 2013 and have been living together since 2015. They’re DINKs (double income no kids) on a journey to reach FIRE within the next decade!


You can follow their journey on Instagram.


Episode Highlights:

  • Inheriting a money mindset based on your country of residence
  • Talking about money in new relationships
  • Finances when you move in with your partner
  • Paying off debt from a place of fear
  • Their rabbit hole towards FIRE

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0:00.0

But the discrepancy in our salaries also made us, I don't know, it kind of taught me.

0:06.2

It was really you who taught me that there was a better way.

0:10.5

I don't, I mean, we talked about, we talk about this very often as a couple, how your

0:15.9

partner's good habits can really rub on, rub off on you and how, you know, if you had also been someone

0:24.7

who spent a lot of money, I don't think I would have ever changed.

0:30.0

You're listening to Yo Quiero Dinoa, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina.

0:35.5

I'm your host, Janice Torres Rodriguez, personal finance expert,

0:39.3

speaker, writer, and business coach. I teach women of color how to build wealth and gain

0:44.2

financial independence through side hustles and investing. On this show, we're serving up

0:49.1

POC-friendly personal finance knowledge, always with a side of SaaS. We're talking about how to make

0:54.6

Dineiro, how to keep it, and how to make it grow. If you're ready to become Foderoza with

0:59.6

your Dineiro, you've come to the right place.

1:06.3

Hello, my gente. Welcome back to another episode of Yo Quiro Dinoido, the podcast. This is your host, Janice. And today's episode is about my favorite topic of all time.

1:15.8

If you've already been here for a while, you know that I'm obsessed with fire.

1:20.9

Financial independence, retire early, or relax early, depending on what you want to define as retirement.

1:27.4

So today we're hosting an anonymous gay couple known as gay husbands on fire on Instagram.

1:34.7

We're going to call them G and J.

1:37.8

And so G and J are on the podcast today to share their journey to financial independence.

1:43.4

And what I love about this conversation

1:44.8

is that we talk about how to pursue financial independence when you're a couple that has very

1:50.3

different income levels, very different views on money, very different money attitudes,

1:56.3

very different ways of spending and saving. And so this conversation is super interesting. I am so

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