Little Known History of the ER Movement: Interview with Doug "Nords" Nordman RPF0114
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2014
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Doug Nordman is a really neat guy who has made an incredible contribution to the Early Retirement (ER) community. Known affectionately in various forums as "Nords," he contributes a rational, learned perspective on financial topics.
He and his wife both retired from the US Navy. Doug was 41 and has somehow managed to stay retired for the last decade. ;)
Join us today for a really neat discussion of the history of the early retirement movement and some of the contributions from its early leaders.
(It's not all fun and games...we do get into some technical details on early retirement as well!)
Joshua
Links:
- Doug's website: The Military Guide
- Cashing In On The American Dream by Paul Terhorst
- Early-Retirement.org
- RetireEarlyHomepage.com
- Yahoo article on Anton Ivanov (who lied about financial independence plan)
- "The Millionaire Liar" - Article from the original PF blogger who publicized his story
- The Hapless Y2K Retiree
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's really not every day that you actually get to interact with a patriarch or a godfather of an industry. |
| 0:08.0 | But today we have that chance and even better you will like and appreciate the fact that not only is today's guest, an early retiree, but he's somehow figured out how to actually stay retired and not earn any money or do any work. |
| 0:28.0 | Well, okay, he does do work. |
| 0:31.0 | But at least he doesn't earn money doing it. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcasts. |
| 0:53.6 | My name is Joshua Sheets, and today is Monday, December 8, 2014. |
| 0:58.4 | I've got a good one for you today. |
| 0:59.7 | My guest is a man named Doug Nordman. |
| 1:03.2 | If you've ever interacted at all |
| 1:05.0 | in just about any early retirement forum or online discussion |
| 1:08.4 | about money, I bet you've seen him. |
| 1:10.4 | He goes by the handle of Nord's. Well, if he didn't see Nord, I'm sure you saw one of his Hawaiian shirts. |
| 1:17.0 | He is known for having a pair of jeans, a fair of flip flops and a Hawaiian shirt on |
| 1:28.0 | just about any time you meet him. |
| 1:29.8 | And I think that's awesome. |
| 1:31.0 | These are some of the perks that you get when you are actually a financially |
| 1:36.4 | independent early retiree. Also one of the perks that you get when you leave the military and after however many years of keeping your hair short, you get to grow it out. |
| 1:46.4 | And to a very nice ponytail. |
| 1:48.9 | So my guest today, as I mentioned, is a man named Doug Norman. |
| 1:51.6 | Doug is a really awesome guy he and his wife both retired |
| 1:55.2 | early and he has gone on and well he and his wife they live in Hawaii and the cool |
| 2:00.6 | thing is is that they've actually stayed retired. |
| 2:03.0 | They actually don't do anything for money. |
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