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About Me
I started my financial journey at 19 with $55,000 of debt. Adam and I didn’t have high-earning jobs, but we still had big dreams. We wanted to be able to Retire Often and take mini-retirements to travel the world, adopt kids, and have financial freedom.
Over 20 years we took a dozen mini-retirement. It took over a decade to pay off our debt, pay cash for our home, adopted 4 kids (and had 2 biological kids), bought rentals, traveled to 27 countries, and lived abroad.
At 32, I became financially independent, and we left our full-time jobs. We live in Kalispell Montana, near Glacier National Park with our 5 kids.
I host the Retire Often podcast, where people share their mini-retirement stories. The motivations, struggles, employment strategy, finances, logistics of their mini-retirement and how they Retire Often.
Latest Content
See what I’m creating on my podcast Retire Often and blog posts
Mini-Retirement as a Half-Time for a Successful CEO
Listen here at Libsyn, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, or your favorite player. Vikaash has always been good at work. Professionally, success came quickly. From Harvard Business School to 40 Under Forty Young Business Leaders award by CNBC, to CEO. But that type of success...
One Mini-Retirement Leads to Many More
Listen here at Libsyn, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, or your favorite player. Jamie and her husband are both self-employed. Walking away from their business for a month seemed overwhelming. But they desperately needed to rest, recover, and focus on family, health, and fun...
Using Rentals to Fund Mini-Retirements
Listen here at Libsyn, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, or your favorite player. Chad (Coach Carson) started his financial journey by investing in real estate. It helped fund his and his wife's first budget mini-retirement. Over the years, as his rentals became more...
Solo Adventure as a Single Mom
Listen here at Libsyn, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, or your favorite player. In her mid 30’s, Rachel decided it was time for a change. She had been working 10 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week, stressed about even asking for a day off. She was ready for a change of pace and...
Mini-retirements Single and then Married with a Baby
Listen here at Libsyn, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, or your favorite player. Growing up in Mexico, Angel never expected to travel the world. If he did well financially, there was an expectation of simply buying nicer stuff. During his 20's, he took an open ended trip to...
Optimize for suffering?
When I worked at REI (an outdoor equipment store), I noticed there were two kinds of hikers. The first kind tried to figure out how much stuff they could fit in their pack. What was the longest they could hike, with as much stuff as possible? How much could they...