The 7 steps I used to reach financial independence in my 30s
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The Free Guide
What's inside the FIRE Starter Kit
7 steps, 10 pages, zero fluff. Here's exactly what you'll get when you download the free guide:
Know your numbers
Your net worth, monthly spending, and savings rate — the three numbers that determine everything.
Build a real budget
A 3-bucket system that lets you save aggressively without feeling like you're giving up your life.
Build your safety net
How much emergency fund you actually need, where to put it, and how to automate it.
Maximize your income
Salary negotiation, career pivoting, and why your income is your #1 wealth-building tool.
Open the right accounts
The exact priority order: 401(k) match, Roth IRA, HSA, then taxable — and why the order matters.
The 4% rule & your FIRE number
How much you actually need to retire. The math is simpler than you think — and more reachable.
Start one side income stream
How even $500/month invested consistently turns into $113K+ in 10 years. Pick one, start small.
This guide is a taste of a complete program I'm building — covering advanced tax strategies, business income playbooks, retirement withdrawal planning, and more. Get the guide now, and you'll be the first to know when the full program launches.
The Story
Why I'm building this
My path to financial independence wasn't one straight line. I studied something, pivoted to a completely different career for better opportunities, built side businesses, learned to manage money intentionally without sacrificing my lifestyle, and spent years figuring out the math behind retiring early.
It was the mix of everything — career switching, smart budgeting, maximizing retirement accounts, building income streams, understanding long-term investments and tax strategies — that got me to FIRE in my 30s.
But here's what I realized: most people never learn any of this. Schools don't teach it. Social media is full of noise. And the best information is either behind expensive advisors or buried across thousands of books.
That's why I wrote the free guide — so you can start with the exact same steps I followed. And I'm building a complete program to go even deeper: advanced strategies, real-world playbooks, the stuff that took me years to figure out. The guide is step one.
Completing the Camino de Santiago, Spain 🇪🇸
Lake Louise, Banff, Canada 🇨🇦
Real Talk
I'm not a guru. I'm not a financial advisor.
I'm not here to sell you dreams or promise you'll be a millionaire. I'm not even a multi-millionaire myself. I'm just a regular person who started working as a cashier about 10 years ago and somehow figured out how to get to a point where I never have to work again.
That's still kind of mind-blowing to me, honestly. I didn't have anyone teach me this stuff. No rich parents, no finance degree, no lucky break. I had to piece it all together on my own — the budgeting, the investing, the career moves, the side businesses, the tax strategies. Years of trial and error.
And now that I'm on the other side, living the life I designed — traveling, working on what I love, not worrying about money — the thing that hits me hardest is: I wish someone had just shown me this when I was starting out. It would have saved me years.
That's why I'm doing this. Not to be a finance guru on the internet. Just to share exactly what worked for me, in case it helps you too.
The Journey
Real life, real experience
From building a career in big tech to teaching thousands of students and traveling the world — this is what designing your own path looks like.
Amazon Spheres, Seattle 🇺🇸
Where the journey started
Google, Seattle 🇺🇸
One of many career pivots
El Nido, Philippines 🇵🇭
Working remotely from paradise
Mount Rainier, Washington 🏔️
Summiting a 14,411ft volcano
Students meetup, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Building my education business
Leavenworth, Washington 🇺🇸
Adventures with my mentees
Ragnar Relay, USA 🏃
Running with my dev team
Chișinău, Moldova 🇲🇩
Exploring the world freely
Is This For You?
This is for you if…
The Cost of Waiting
The months will pass whether you start or not
Financial independence isn't something you can catch up on later. Every month you don't start is a month of compound growth you'll never get back.
$560/month
If you invested $500/month starting today at an 8% return, waiting just one year costs you over $6,700 in lost growth. Two years? Over $14,000.
10 years earlier
Someone who starts at 25 instead of 35 can retire with the same amount while investing less than half as much per month. Time is the cheat code.
Every month counts
Every month you put this off, compound interest is working for someone else instead of you. The best time to start was yesterday. The second best is right now.
A year from now, you'll wish you had started today.
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7 steps to start building financial independence — the exact framework I used. Free, no strings attached.
You don't need to figure this out alone. And you definitely don't need to wait.