Radical Immediate Retirement: Escape the Soul Crushing Horror of Your Job Right Now? What Could Happen if you Just Chucked it All and Quit? RPF0107
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2014
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is David Downie, an attorney from Australia. David found himself stuck in the middle of his career, frustrated at life and simply decided to quit without much of a backup plan.
Many adventures have ensued!
Since that time, David has:
- Written children's books
- Contributed to the book 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die
- Travelled
- Written a book on Radical Immediate Retirement
The interview is thought-provoking in every way!
Enjoy!
Joshua
Links:
- DavidJDownie.com - David's site about his children's books.
- Radical Immediate Retirement - the site and the book
- InteraliaPublishing.com - David's site on publishing
- AustralianBeers.com - David's beer review project
- The Secret Life of Bosses - story about David in the Sydney Morning Herald
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the show we're going to talk about retirement and I warn you right now if you're an uptight |
| 0:04.8 | obsessive compulsive planner like I am today's show is probably going to make you a little bit uncomfortable |
| 0:10.9 | which probably means it's a show you should listen to. |
| 0:15.0 | We're talking today about radical immediate retirement. |
| 0:19.0 | My guest was an attorney, middle of his career, kind of the height of his career and then just |
| 0:23.8 | decided he was done chucked it all and wandered off without a plan going on walk |
| 0:29.9 | about. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets. |
| 0:50.0 | Thank you for being here. Today is Friday, November 21, 2014. |
| 0:55.2 | And today I'm bringing you an interview with a man named David Downey. |
| 0:59.2 | He's from Australia. |
| 1:00.5 | And he just decided to simply quit. |
| 1:05.0 | Didn't worry too much about the planning or the details, but he just quit. |
| 1:09.0 | Should be fun. My guest today sent me an email and he says, I wrote this book called Radical |
| 1:23.8 | Immediate Retirement. It's kind of like some of the stuff that you talk about, |
| 1:26.9 | check it out and enjoy it. So I take his book and I read it, write his book and I did enjoy it. |
| 1:35.8 | And basically the title says at all he just simply says what if we adjusted our mindset and didn't worry too much about all the technical |
| 1:40.4 | stuff we just adjusted our mindset and if in doing so could we achieve |
| 1:45.7 | something different and so I've got an interview with him today he's a really |
| 1:50.0 | interesting guy was an attorney kind of a high ranking high class attorney living a |
| 1:56.0 | high spending lifestyle and just decided you know what this isn't working and |
| 2:00.2 | decided to change and worked through the process of making some changes, did it fairly quickly. |
| 2:05.0 | I think the radical immediate retirement is probably a little bit of an overstatement. |
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