Mr. Money Mustache – Early Retirement Made Easy (Rebroadcast)

Financial Independence Podcast

The Mad Fientist

Taxavoidance, Business, Geographicarbitrage, Investing, Tax, Earlyretirement, Travelhacking, Entrepreneurship, Travel, Personalfinance, Stocks, Minimalism, Realestate, Frugality, Retirement, Financialindependence

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🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the 5-year anniversary of launching the Financial Independence Podcast, I've republished the very first interview I recorded back in 2012 with Mr. Money Mustache.

In addition to the original interview, this episode also contains an updated introduction that tells the story behind the interview!

Highlights:

How Mr. Money Mustache and his wife retired in their early 30s
Why he decided to start writing about financial independence
The benefits of raising children after you’ve already retired
What MMM likes most about early retirement
Why you need to ride a bike

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody. Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast.
0:03.0	This episode is a bit different today because I just realized a few days ago that the Financial Independence Podcast actually turned five years old, which is crazy to me. So in celebration of the five-year-old birthday,
0:14.2	I decided to re-release the very first interview
0:16.7	I ever did, which was way back in May of 2012
0:20.0	with Mr. Money Mustache.
0:21.2	So, before we dive into that classic episode episode I figured I'd give you a little
0:24.6	backstory about how it all came about. When I launched my site back in February of 2012 I knew I wanted
0:30.4	to do a podcast at the same time because I wanted to have an excuse to call people who had already achieved financial independence to find out how they did it.
0:38.0	And Mr. Money Mustache was one of the main people I was reading at the time, and since was a software developer like me I figured you know that'd be a great person to talk to
0:47.5	I don't think I realized how big he was at the time and if I had I probably wouldn't have asked him to do it so I guess
0:54.5	being naive is good in some situations so yeah just send him an email and
0:59.3	surprisingly he said yes and we've become good friends over the years and probably about
1:05.0	three years after the interview I actually asked him I was like why did you
1:07.7	even say yes to me because at the time I think I had like three really mediocre
1:12.4	post on my site I had one good one that
1:15.1	was a showed some promise but the rest were pretty mediocre I had no readers
1:19.8	whatsoever because I didn't even tell my mom that I was writing a blog.
1:23.5	So, you know, those early blogs that just their mom reads it, like my mom wasn't even reading it.
1:28.4	So I really had nothing to offer him.
1:31.9	And so it just really surprised me that he said yes but when I asked him he was like
1:37.3	Well, it's because you're the mad scientist so I guess he liked the name or the logo or both and he just decided to take a chance on me which has been
1:46.5	really instrumental in the success of my blog actually because there were so many times throughout the years that I was doubting myself and I was like who am I to write about all these like really complicated tax plans when I'm just a software developer like I have no financial background and you know it's it's a lot of work
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