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My guest this week is Kim who runs a blog called TheFrugalEngineers.com. Her mission on the site is to make personal finance easy to understand. Her Engineering background makes her uniquely skilled to understand the world of personal finance through math and how to apply math to optimize for financial stability, financial literacy and financial independence. Her story into FI started when she and her husband diligently paid off 200k in debt with the plan of becoming mortgage-free. She also made the leap from a being a full-time professional to freelancing with a plan to retire early at 35 with her family in Wyoming. She’s also an expert of geoarbitrage having lived in 35 places already.
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Eugene / Host: (00:02)Hello and welcome everyone. I’m Eugene Ting and this is the Financial Independence Forum. This show is an open ended exploration of stories, methods and mindsets. How to better invest your time best in yourself and invest your money. You can learn more and please contribute your voice and story at FinancialIndependenceForum.com My guest this week is Kim who runs a blog with her husband called TheFrugalEngineers.com. Their mission on the site is to make financial, personal finance and financial literacy easy to understand with her engineering background. She is uniquely skilled to understand the world of personal finance through math and how to apply math to optimize for financial stability, financial literacy and financial independence. Her story into FIRE started when her and her husband diligently paid off $200,000 in debt with the plan of becoming mortgage-free. She also made the leap into being a full time professional, do freelancing with a plan to retire at 35 with her family in Wyoming, which she is just on the cusp of being able to do. She’s also an expert in geo arbitrage, having lived in 35 places simply on days with 35 so we’ll talk all about that. So welcome to the Financial Independence Forum, Kim!
Kim: (01:26)Thank you. And nice to be here.
Eugene / Host: (01:27)Yeah, let’s throw, there’s so many different topics that we would love to talk about. I think to arbitrage having lived in various different places. Maybe we’ll start off somewhere in the middle and then we can kind of go backwards and forwards. But maybe we could talk about maybe freelancing, which is I think one aspect that a lot of people thinking about financial independence or FIRE are interested in certainly, you know, maybe you could talk a little bit about why you switched from sort of full time to freelancing and then the benefits of freelancing from that point?
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By Eugene TingMy guest this week is Kim who runs a blog called TheFrugalEngineers.com. Her mission on the site is to make personal finance easy to understand. Her Engineering background makes her uniquely skilled to understand the world of personal finance through math and how to apply math to optimize for financial stability, financial literacy and financial independence. Her story into FI started when she and her husband diligently paid off 200k in debt with the plan of becoming mortgage-free. She also made the leap from a being a full-time professional to freelancing with a plan to retire early at 35 with her family in Wyoming. She’s also an expert of geoarbitrage having lived in 35 places already.
Podcast Transcript
Eugene / Host: (00:02)Hello and welcome everyone. I’m Eugene Ting and this is the Financial Independence Forum. This show is an open ended exploration of stories, methods and mindsets. How to better invest your time best in yourself and invest your money. You can learn more and please contribute your voice and story at FinancialIndependenceForum.com My guest this week is Kim who runs a blog with her husband called TheFrugalEngineers.com. Their mission on the site is to make financial, personal finance and financial literacy easy to understand with her engineering background. She is uniquely skilled to understand the world of personal finance through math and how to apply math to optimize for financial stability, financial literacy and financial independence. Her story into FIRE started when her and her husband diligently paid off $200,000 in debt with the plan of becoming mortgage-free. She also made the leap into being a full time professional, do freelancing with a plan to retire at 35 with her family in Wyoming, which she is just on the cusp of being able to do. She’s also an expert in geo arbitrage, having lived in 35 places simply on days with 35 so we’ll talk all about that. So welcome to the Financial Independence Forum, Kim!
Kim: (01:26)Thank you. And nice to be here.
Eugene / Host: (01:27)Yeah, let’s throw, there’s so many different topics that we would love to talk about. I think to arbitrage having lived in various different places. Maybe we’ll start off somewhere in the middle and then we can kind of go backwards and forwards. But maybe we could talk about maybe freelancing, which is I think one aspect that a lot of people thinking about financial independence or FIRE are interested in certainly, you know, maybe you could talk a little bit about why you switched from sort of full time to freelancing and then the benefits of freelancing from that point?
Kim: (