Retiring in your 30’s might seem crazy, but the path is actually well blazed. Save a high percentage of your income, keep expenses low, create some passive income….and then jump. Steve and Courtney from Think Save Retire and A Streamin Life.
We met up in Whitefish Montana to eat some ice cream and talk early retirement. Adam and I hit Work Optional two years ago and it’s been a fun and crazy ride. Steve and Courtney are on the same journey of figuring out what we really want to do with our lives once we no longer have to work for money.
- Finding things you are passionate about before you retire
- Creating some passion income
- Testing out your retirement lifestyle before you start
Show notes:
- 0:47 Steve hates his job
- 1:15 Courtney starts with a sabbatical
- 1:30 Combining passion + passive income
- 2:05 Steve finding some passion income
- 3:00 Making sure passion projects really are fun
- 3:30 How he found a passion projects
- 3:45 Starting your passion project BEFORE you retire
- 4:22 How passion projects helped the transition to retire in your 30’s
- 5:15 What does retirement mean to you?
- 6:00 Test and Scale
- 9:00 I should have asked you to subscribe at this point, but I’m a newbie
- 9:10 This is the point I swear Steve was going to give me a HARD NO….
- 9:18 Ok, he does say NO twice
- 9:45 My fav part of the whole thing!
- 10:24 Steve and I arm wrestle…almost
- 10:30 Steve as a waving cat
Walking Dance? Did you REALLY make Steve do a walking dance? Crushing it!! Great video!
Courtney is clearly more fun that Steve! 😉 So she might have nudged him into it. =) It’s hard to head in the video but at one point Steve say, “Someone is going to call the cops on us!” Which is by far my favorite line of the whole thing.
Wow, that turned out super great! Adam rocked the editing. You’re a great host, Jillian. Me with the dance walking? Ugh… 😉
Your dance walking was the best of the group! And you dancing commentary. I wish I would have had a mic just for all the funny things you were saying. Oh, fun fact….Adam just enrolled in a video editing course at the local college. He’s loving this stuff! =)
Oh, nice! I’d love to do that once we’re in one place long enough. Genius idea.
He did it the first year we left his job as well. That year was welding and electrical, something he had always been a little interested in.
outstanding. dance walking for white people. looks like my special wedding dance. nice video.
Maybe next time I’ll pull some dance moves from my Native American heritage. I do it at home with my two year old and it’s the sweetest/funniest thing. Gotta start um young. =)
Loved the video – especially the walk dancing (hey, no one tripped)!! Great fun! And also great to listen to the conversation with Courtney and Steve.
I love getting the first-hand perspectives and they are a ton of fun to do. =)
Love it! I saw a walk dancing video a few years back and nearly convinced my coworkers to try it with me.
DO IT! It’s so fun. =)
Ok, I was going to post about how great this video was, and then it got SO MUCH BETTER at the end!! 🙂
And by the way, there IS an ice cream shop at the FinCon hotel!!!
That is great news! I was trying to figure out how to pack some in my suit case!
This is so great!!! Love the video and the walking dance! Now i’m going to go find myself some ice cream 🙂
Yes to ice cream! Do a little jig while you’re at it. =) It makes the heart happy.
The video turned out so good! I absolutely loved the ending. You’re such a great host and interviewer, Jillian. And kudos to Adam for a great editing job.
These are so much fun! And I love getting to share the first-hand conversations. I feel like I’m lucky in that I get to have amazing conversations every day with people who are DOING THE THINGS! Now I have a way to share some of that with everyone. =)