Jillian Johnsrud
Writer. Speaker. Coach.Become Financially Independent. Find Work You Love. Design Your Best Life.
Hi, I’m Jillian!
It’s my mission to help people custom build a lifestyle that perfectly reflects their values, passion, and purpose.
All About
Jillian Johnsrud
Jillian Johnsrud, author of Retire Often, never expected to be able to retire early, so she hatched a plan to retire often. Inspired by the idea of sabbatical years, she set out to sprinkle our retirements throughout her working life.
At 40, Jillian and her family have taken over a dozen mini retirements. These allowed them to pursue dreams like living abroad, traveling to 27 countries, adopting four kids (plus two biological kids), investing in real estate, and traveling the U.S. in a camper.
Jillian has taught, coached, and wrote about mini retirements for almost a decade. She hosts the Retire Often podcast and is a popular speaker and consultant for mini retirements. She lives in
Montana, where she spends time in her garden drinking tea.
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Considering a Sabbatical?
These exercises will also help motivate you as you can start to visualize how beneficial your mini-retirement will be. They might even help you decide when the right time is to embark on this adventure.
Plan an Incredible
1-Month Mini-Retirement
In this mini-workbook, you’ll learn how to negotiate a month off in your current job. Need some inspiration for what you can do in a 1-Month Sabbatical, check out this list of ideas.
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Intentional Living Course
You can write your own rules and design a life that reflects the things that matter most to YOU! This course covers 10 simple exercises to get you started on living your one wild and precious life.
Mini Retirement Small Course
Retirement is too far away. Enjoy some of these adventures sooner. Stop pushing things out or missing seasons of your life. Enjoy some time while you are fit and healthy, your parents are young, or your kids are still at home.
Content Strategy Course
Creating a customer journey helps you see what is working well and what needs to be improved when reaching your customers. This course will help you identify where to invest your energy and build content assets to improve the effectiveness of your marketing.
1-on-1 Coaching
Interested in a Coach?
What does a mentor do? I look at your big, long-term goals and dreams. We confront the challenges that have held you back and find solutions. I examine all the details of your current situation. Then we work together to plot out a plan, breaking big goals into small actionable steps and habits.
I specialize in Financial Independence (FI) planning with career transitions, and creating or scaling service based businesses.
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Fire The Haters
Sharing your creative and entrepreneurial ventures online can feel like traversing a rough and uncharted ocean. Full of setbacks and obstacles that might sink your ship.
Unless you have an experienced friend to help you navigate it. Someone who will show you the ropes and share the map. Pulling from the collective wisdom of creatives and entrepreneurs of every strip, Jillian compiled this guide book.