Episode 618 | How to Achieve Financial Freedom

Hosted byRob Walling

In episode 618, join Rob Walling as he chats with Sam Dogen, the founder of Financial Samurai, which is one of the longest-running and most popular personal finance blogs. Over the last 13 years, Sam has personally written over 2,500 essays along with a Wall Street Journal Bestselling book. We talk about achieving financial freedom, money mindsets, and relentless execution.

Topics we cover:

• 3:12- The 4% Rule
• 4:40- Sam’s alternative approach to the 4% Rule
• 7:25- The FIRE Movement
• 10:16- How to navigate the US health insurance system as an early retiree
• 12:10- Sam’s relentless execution when it comes to running Financial Samurai
• 17:40- How Sam learned about personal finance
• 18:47- How Sam negotiated a severance package despite quitting his investment banking job
• 22:47- Why he runs Financial Samurai as a true lifestyle business
• 26:07- Would Sam sell Financial Samurai for $20 million?
• 27:35- The premise of Sam’s new book
• 28:46- Sam’s mental model for allocating financial assets to generate passive income

Links from the Show:

• Sam Dogen (@financialsamura) I Twitter
• Financial Samurai
• Buy This, Not That
• TropicalMBA
• MicroConf Europe
• Applications for TinySeed’s Fall 2022 SaaS Accelerators Will Open September 12th
• MicroConf Youtube Channel

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