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Barbara is a Chicago teacher who had to start at over at 45 years old. During the divorce, she took on $250,000 of the debt. Over the  course of the next 4 years, she paid everything off and even has 25k invested!

To say she went scorched earth is an understatement! A side hustle, two side jobs and many 80 hour weeks behind her, she's now in a position at 50 to build wealth and will likely have over 500k in investments when she retires.


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Gary and his wife Kim started their teaching careers in Vegas but quickly realized they could earn much more in their native home in Alaska. Because of their hire date, they were able to teach 20 years in AK and immediately draw on their pensions, netting them 6k per month. Retirees before the age of 50, they searched for the perfect retirement home and settled in northern AZ.

In "retirement", Gary is an Alaskan trail guide for a portion of the year and Kim just accepted a job at the local college. The couple just became net worth millionaires (including home) but are working toward 1 million+ in liquid assets.


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Retired after 30 years of teaching in Texas, Chris has a net worth of almost 2 million. Chris was the breadwinner for the majority of his career as his wife dropped in and out of the workforce to stay at home and raise their kids.

In this episode, Chris talks about how he got there and things to do as you prepare for retirement. You won't want to miss his journey, it wasn't always easy!


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Trevor is our first ever teacher guest from
Idaho! He started in outdoor education as a trail guide and mountaineer but has switched to being  an 8th grade science teacher across the border in Wyoming. Because of the flexibility and time off being a teacher, he is still able to side hustle in the outdoors as a mountain guide.





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Throughout our journey on the FIT podcast, we've discovered a theme...many teachers have multiple streams of income. This show highlights some of the side hustles we've heard our teacher guests utilize to get out of debt and supercharge their investments.

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Joel is a teacher and wrestling coach who makes it clear that his family isn't cheap, but they are frugal.  At 36 years old, he negotiated with his school and recently took the year off.  During this time, his wife is stepping away from education which was scary, but that’s about as fearless as it gets! Joel has started two businesses has learned a whole bunch along the way. In school, he switched from the classroom to physical education, which has reduced his grading etc.

They are debt free, mortgage free and are living the dream of financial independence in their 30's!



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Brian Preston is the founder and host of The Money Guy Show and Managing Partner and co-founder of Abound Wealth Management (an RIA with around $1 billion in assets under management). With over 25 years of financial planning experience, he loves helping people implement simple financial strategies that go beyond common sense. He started podcasting as a passion project in 2006 out of pure enthusiasm for this new medium that allowed him to share the good news of financial strategy with the masses. Fast forward to today, and The Money Guy Show is its own enterprise, helping millions of individuals build wealth and own their time through podcasts, YouTube videos, courses, social media posts, and more.

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Ray Tran is the son of immigrant parents and is a financial literacy teacher, wealth/real estate coach, and real estate investor residing in Brooklyn, NY.   After graduating with a degree in Financial Economics, Ray began working at Ernst & Young. Despite his initial enthusiasm, he soon realized that the corporate world did not fulfill him so he quit his corporate job after realizing his true passion was to teach/educate others. 

Ray's life was thrown a major curveball when his father passed away shortly after he graduated from college. Ray saw his father dream of what  retirement would be like when he'd  get to his 60's but never had the change to enjoy it before passing.  Ray is now the founder of RT Invests where he provides wealth coaching/mentoring to students and adults of all ages. His ultimate aim is to inspire others to break free from the rat race and generate income through asset ownership and passive income streams. 

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After HS, Reese joined  the military and learned about retirement planning on accident in Korea. He is now 34 with a net worth of roughly 950k and has taken zero loans to buy anything besides mortgages. Reese made all the silly mistakes as a new teacher such as opening a 403b with Equitable but learned from being burned. From then, he made finances his passion. 

Reese and his wife and alternated their educational pursuits leading to her just finishing her doctorate and Reese working to finish his masters. Reese sayings staying out of debt is a must for middle income earners. In his experiences working with nurses, teachers, military members and many more, the biggest issue being 2 things: Cars and eating out. Life is challenging and to short, but with the right plan and mindset, it can absolutely be rewarding and prosperous.

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Jason and his wife have two young children and are both teachers in Mississippi. Jason has become an expert in the area of benefits and the pension in his home state.  He is now sharing his passion for understanding these benefits will all teachers in his state. Although he knows he could be making more money in the private sector, he says that all of the benefits of teaching, especially early retirement, are way too much to give up.  Jason and his wife both plan on retiring before 50!