{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F93eb286a-f92f-41fe-b606-85af29fdc588","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"FIRE Success Story: Taking the Trip of a Lifestyle at Age 29","description":"Welcome back to Don\u2019t Retire... Graduate! We have two guests today, Steven and Lauren Keys, who did something pretty incredible: retired before they turned 30. They came on the podcast to talk about how they reached financial independence at a young age, how they saved their nest egg without large salaries, and their plan for the rest of their retirement.\u00a0\n In this episode we\u2019ll talk about: \u2022 Cutting expenses to save money and pay off debt \u2022 Living frugally without sacrificing your lifestyle\u00a0 \u2022 Using your passions to bring in extra income\u00a0 \u2022 How to make a full-time income with part-time work\u00a0 \u2022 Dispelling the myth that retirement means not working at all\u00a0 \u2022 Living with an abundance mentality rather than a scarcity mentality\u00a0 \u2022 Employee benefits without an employer \u2022 Insurance considerations when in an early retirement\u00a0 \u2022 How money experiences growing up can affect your perspective on money as an adult \u2022 Gamifying your finances to motivate you towards your goals \u2022 Overconsumption and how to avoid it \u2022 Using money to buy freedom rather than stuff \u2022 The Financial Roadmap\n Steven & Lauren's Financial Roadmap: https://www.tripofalifestyle.com/roadmap/\n Visit dontretiregraduate.com for a full transcript of this episode.\u00a0\n About Lauren ad Steven Keys:\n We\u2019re Lauren and Steven, a middle-class couple who managed to bank enough money to retire from our full-time jobs at age 29. By making a few lifestyle tweaks soon after graduation, we grew a buffer of cash and investments that gave us a ton of flexibility and enabled us to do some really fun stuff too, like taking six months off to explore Hawaii and another seven months to travel to every National Park in the US. Now we\u2019re hoping to help other people (like you!) do something similar.\n TripofaLifestyle.com\n Facebook: Trip Of A Lifestyle\n Twitter: TOALifestyle\n Instagram:\u00a0Trip Of A Lifestyle\n Linked In:\u00a0Trip Of A Lifestyle\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/b4d74938-2122-45a6-85e6-177ddb5746cd/dont-retire-graduate-quote-tile-1600x1600.png"}