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Your Money Guide on the Side

The 3-Day Workweek Blueprint: How to Buy Back 104 Days a Year | Andy Hill

Your Money Guide on the Side

Tyler Gardner

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Investing, How To

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

I remember speaking with a hospice doctor about regrets that people had at the end of their lives.

0:05.4

And a lot of the regrets that kept coming back were, I wish I wouldn't have spent so much time working at my job or working in general.

0:15.0

What else is out there besides worker?

0:17.5

Like, let's find it and have some fun while doing it.

0:21.9

Hello, friends. This is Tyler Gardner, welcoming you to another episode of your

0:26.3

Money Guide on the side, where it is my job to simplify what seems complex, add nuance to what

0:32.0

seems simple, and learn from and alongside some of the brightest minds in money, finance, and investing. So let's

0:39.0

get started and get you one step closer to where you need to be. Today's guest is someone I owe

0:46.4

a serious debt of gratitude to, and I don't mean the 22% APR kind. Andy Hill hosts the podcast, Marriage, Kids, and Money.

0:56.7

And, thankfully for me, for people who just are obsessed with reading and love everything

1:00.5

about personal finance, he's got a book coming out January 21st with Wiley called Own Your

1:06.7

Time, which I have read and I think is a must read for everyone. But here's why this conversation

1:12.8

matters to me. Andy was one of the very first people to take me seriously when I was just

1:18.5

starting out in this space. Back when I was creating content in my basement, zero followers,

1:24.1

wondering if anyone would ever care about index funds and compound interest. And he was willing

1:28.7

to completely nerd out with me about personal finance for hours and invited me on his show to

1:34.1

share as much as I could about the finance industry. He didn't have to do that, but he did. And honestly,

1:40.3

I wouldn't be here without conversations like those. So in this conversation, we talk about finding the middle path between retiring at 30

1:48.9

after saving 90% of your income and grinding it out in the corporate world until you're 70.

1:54.7

We explore why it's so important to spend a few minutes each day dreaming about what you

1:59.5

actually want to do with your life,

2:01.7

and why it's equally important to identify as early and as often as possible

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