Root of Good – A Million Dollars in 10 Years

Financial Independence Podcast

The Mad Fientist

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Justin from RootofGood.com joins me on the Financial Independence Podcast to talk about how he and his wife saved over a million dollars in under a decade!

Highlights:

The tax benefits and true costs of children
How to have a positive net worth after graduating from college
What is interest rate arbitrage
How to amass a million dollars in ten years without six-figure salaries
Why you should quit your job before you’re actually ready to retire
How to easily get $4,500 in free travel

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm blind to give you a true finance.
0:05.0	Hey, what's up everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Mad Finitist Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast
0:10.0	where I get inside the brains of some of the best and brightest in the personal finance
0:12.5	space to find out how they achieved financial independence. I'm excited to introduce
0:16.0	my guests today but before I do I just wanted to thank everybody out there who left
0:20.3	a iTunes review. There was a lot of great feedback and I really enjoyed reading
0:24.6	through all the comments so thank you very much to everyone who did leave a review.
0:27.8	We haven't reached the 200 review goal yet. We're only about 30 short now which is amazing but yeah if you
0:35.2	haven't left a review yet and you want to have two shows per month for the rest of
0:40.3	the year head ever titunes now and I'll put a link in the show notes and you can leave me a review there and as soon as we get
0:46.7	above 200 reviews I'll start doing two a month.
0:49.6	So anyway, this month's guest is Justin from Root of Good.com.
0:55.0	I actually interviewed him back in February when I was being very productive and I frontloaded all of my interviews for the year.
1:02.0	So this one's taking a while to get out there. I have front loaded all of my interviews for the year.
1:02.7	So this one's taking a while to get out there,
1:04.8	but I'm really excited to release it.
1:07.2	Justin's been blogging over at Root of Good,
1:10.7	just probably almost as long as I have been. I think he came out maybe a year or so later, but he's been retired for a good few years now and his wife is just joined him in retirement which is really exciting because she had
1:23.7	eventually worked herself into a job that she couldn't quit either so I'm excited to
1:27.9	find out about how she was eventually able to pull the trigger and quit her job
1:32.1	so let's get right into it.
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