MtoM #53 - Dentist Reaches Financial Independence
White Coat Investor Podcast
Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
There is value in persistence. Even if you do not have the highest income, if you persistently save a significant percentage of it and invest it in a reasonable way, eventually it grows to be quite a sum of money, and you will free from the need to work for your money. A typical rule for financial independence is when you can live on 4% of your nest egg. Learn how to reach financial independence and retire early here: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/the-fire-movement/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the White Co-investor podcast, Milestones 2 Millionaire, |
| 0:04.5 | celebrating stories of success along the journey to financial freedom. |
| 0:09.0 | Here is your host, Dr. Jim Dolly. |
| 0:16.2 | Milestones 2 Millionaire podcast number 53, dentist reaches financial independence. |
| 0:21.2 | TLP Capital now offers five funds, giving more options to a wider range of investors, |
| 0:25.5 | two that are brand new to the market, and three existing funds. All funds have the following |
| 0:29.1 | criteria. For Evergreen, they invest in critical workforce housing, |
| 0:33.1 | they are targeted to provide above market returns, and they pay preferred returns before |
| 0:37.0 | DLP takes a management fee. For White Co-investor referrals and minimum investments for all of the |
| 0:41.6 | above funds is only 200,000 compared to the normal minimum of 500,000. Check them out at |
| 0:46.8 | whitecoinvestor.com slash DLP. We've got a great episode today. We've got a dentist we're going |
| 0:53.3 | to bring on and talk about his accomplishments over the last couple of decades. |
| 1:00.4 | Okay, our guest today on the Milestones 2 Millionaire podcast is Dr. G. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:05.2 | Thank you very much. Thanks for having me on the show. |
| 1:08.0 | I understand you recently became financially independent. |
| 1:11.0 | That is correct. Awesome. Congratulations on that. |
| 1:14.3 | Thanks so much. Tell us what's your profession and specialty and how far are you out of your |
| 1:20.0 | schooling and training? I am in general dentistry and I'm about 20 years out of dental school. |
| 1:26.9 | 20 years out of school. And what's your approximate net worth at this point? |
| 1:30.5 | It is about 7 million. Seven million. And what's that divided up into? |
| 1:36.7 | I've got about 5 million in the stock market, about 2 million in real estate, and about 2 million in |
| 1:44.4 | the dental practice. Okay, so 9 total then, huh? Awesome. And what's been your range of income |
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