MtoM #257: Emergency Medicine Doc Reaches Financial Independence, Cuts Back to Half Time and Bike Rides over 2,000 Miles Across Europe and Financial Boot Camp: How Does PSLF Work?
White Coat Investor Podcast
Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today we are talking to an ER doc who fulfilled her dream of doing an epic bike ride across Europe. She rode 2,500 miles from Italy to Norway with over 500 people from all over the world. She knows that health is never guaranteed and wanted to accomplish this goal while she is still physically strong enough. She has taken care of her financial life and has reached financial independence so she had the freedom to make some changes to achieve her goal. She was willing to quit her job if necessary but ended up going to part time and with the help of great colleagues she was able to take 7 weeks off. She shows us what the point of financial freedom really is - getting to do what you value with your life!
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00:00 MtoM Podcast #257
02:20 EM Doc Reaches Financial Independence
20:14 How Does PSLF Work?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the White Coat Investor podcast, Milestones to Millionaire, celebrating stories of success |
| 0:06.0 | along the journey to financial freedom. |
| 0:13.2 | This is Milestones to Millionaire podcast number 257. Emergency physician becomes financially |
| 0:18.8 | independent, changes work, and spends weeks biking across Europe. |
| 0:23.5 | As a white coat, you have valuable knowledge. |
| 0:26.2 | Various companies want this knowledge, and they're willing to pay you for it. |
| 0:30.2 | That's why we put together a list of recommendations for companies that pay you to take surveys. |
| 0:36.7 | If you're looking for a profitable side gig for not |
| 0:39.4 | too much effort, getting paid for surveys could be the perfect solution for you. You make extra money, |
| 0:45.0 | start a solo 401k, and use your medical knowledge to impact new products. One of the WCI columnists |
| 0:51.0 | makes an extra $30,000 a year just doing these surveys. |
| 0:57.5 | Sign up today and use a fraction of your downtime to make extra cash. |
| 1:00.5 | Go to whitecoatinvestor.com slash MD surveys. |
| 1:04.1 | Don't write into us and say, what's up with the MD thing? |
| 1:07.5 | DO surveys will also get you to the same place. |
| 1:08.9 | You can do this. |
| 1:10.1 | The white code investor can help. All right. We have got a |
| 1:12.8 | recommended list you may or may not know about. If you go to whitecoatinvestor.com |
| 1:16.5 | slash recommended, you know, you'll realize just how much we offer here, right? Whether you need |
| 1:23.2 | help with insurance, help with a mortgage, help with a contract review, help with a financial |
| 1:28.9 | advisor, help with your taxes, whatever it might be. You'd be surprised how many different |
| 1:34.0 | recommended lists we have. And you can see them all, whiteco investor.com slash recommend me. |
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