Episode 618 | How to Achieve Financial Freedom
Episode 618 | How to Achieve Financial Freedom  
Podcast: Startups For the Rest of Us
Published On: Tue Aug 30 2022
Description: 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  If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher