Buy This, Not That – Sam Dogen

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Win the Retirement Game - Now Available Saving and investing for retirement takes discipline and sacrifice. But Sam Dogen, creator of the Financial Samurai website, points out that you also need to spend money to make money. He’s taught over 90 million readers how to invest wisely, not just financially, but in all facets of life. He joins us to discuss his Wall Street Journal bestseller, Buy This, Not That, and his lessons from more than a decade into a very early retirement. San Dogen joins us from San Francisco. __________________________ Bio Sam Dogen is the author of Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth & Freedom  and the mastermind behind FinancialSamurai.com, one of the largest independently-run personal finance sites with roughly one million organic visitors a month. He launched Financial Samurai in 2009 when the world was falling apart and his net worth was taking a beating. His inspiration was to help himself and others make sense of the chaos. As a finance veteran since 1999, Dogen writes from firsthand experience to provide the most helpful insights possible. He spent 13 years working at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, holds a BA in Economics from The College of William & Mary, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. In 2012, he left his day job in finance at age 34 to be permanently free and pursue being a writer. He has lived in seven countries and has traveled to over 60 countries so far. Dogen’s writing delves deeper into investing, real estate, retirement planning, career strategies, and more, so we can all achieve financial independence sooner, rather than later. Financial Samurai is also proud to be one of the pioneers of the modern-day FIRE movement. Since the financial crisis, more than 80 million visitors have stopped by FinancialSamurai.com to learn, share, and grow. In addition, Dogen’s work has been highlighted in major publications such as CNBC, MarketWatch, Forbes, The Consumerist, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and many more. Dogen is also known for The Financial Samurai Podcast and the one-of-a-kind eBook, How To Engineer Your Layoff, which teaches employees how to negotiate a severance package and be free. When not writing or podcasting, Sam can often be found on the playground taking care of his two young children or on the softball field or tennis court. __________________________ For More on Sam Dogen Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth & Freedom Financial Samurai website Weekly Newsletter __________________________ Wise Quotes On Purpose and Meaning in Retirement  "It's definitely a learning process because you don't know how you will feel in retirement until you get there, until you no longer have that steady paycheck. And so for the first year, I thought 'Ok, I want to play a lot of tennis golf and travel the world.' So, that's what I did. I went to 20 countries. [I] saw nine Gothic churches. But after about the fifth church, they all started looking the same. And after about eight months, I started getting really bored of this early retirement lifestyle. So in my mind I stopped saying I'm an early retiree. I just said I'm a writer, because I wanted to spend time writing on Financial Samurai which was, and still is, my passion hobby, the thing that I love to do every single day. And I found that the ideal amount of work - purposeful work - to do is about 20 hours a week. Now if you think about it, before in the olden days, when we had to go to the office for work, maybe let's say we're there for 9 hours. We would spend maybe three or four hours doing, at least for me, deep work and then three or four hours of so-so work, and then one to two hours of  lunch - and then just water cooler and chitchat....

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