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Brian Preston
These are the money milestones you need to hit for financial independence.
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Bo Hanson
Brian, I am so excited about this because we love giving folks money milestones to track the progress on their wealth building journey. So what we've done is we've taken what we believe are the crucial checkpoints that you need to hit on your way to financial independence and we're going to share them all with you today.
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Brian Preston
These will also help you to know whether you're ahead of the curve, behind the curve, or right where you need to be. But remember the these are not milestones you need to hit by a certain time to be successful. These are goals to hit along the way as you build your great big beautiful tomorrow. Bo milestone number one is going to surprise some people because it's just reaching the simple goal of being at zero.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah. This may seem counterintuitive. You may be thinking, okay, well wait, no, we're talking about financial milestones on my path to financial independence. But you're talking about being dead broke. But what we're actually saying here is reaching zero is kind of exciting because what it means is you are not negative, you are not on the other side of the net worth equation. So just getting to a solid starting point is an amazing milestone for folks to hit.
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Brian Preston
And to make the point, Credit Karma actually did some some research and they found out that 31% of Americans have a net worth of zero or below. And by the way, if you're younger.
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Bo Hanson
If you even worse, yeah, Gen Z's, 41% of Gen Zs have a negative net worth and 38% of millennials. So there are a lot of folks that are following this camp of not actually being at zero that need to work towards this first net worth milestone.
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Brian Preston
Now there's good reasons here. I don't want to because don't think we're throwing shade because I get it. Especially for younger people, there is a why to this. If you think about for younger generations, they just don't have a lot of assets.
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Bo Hanson
That's right.
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Brian Preston
If anything, they've got things working against them with like not having a lot of time as well.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah. The average first time homebuyer now is 38 years old. So a lot of folks who are early in Gen Z or even millennials have not had time to buy the assets that a lot of people use for building wealth. So they don't have those assets. They don't have the time that they've had those assets or their money working for them.
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Brian Preston
So if you want to know how valuable time is to this whole wealth building process, we thought a good case study where we could take young Yolanda, who's 25 years of age. And then we did wise Wanda, who's 45 years of age. But here's the good news. They both started saving and investing at a very young age. $100 a month since age 25. I'd be curious to see what happens.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah. So let's assume that young Yolanda is now age 30.
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Brian Preston
So she started off by five years.
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Bo Hanson
She started saving at 25, and she saved until age 30. And then you have wise Wanda, who started saving at 25 and is now age 45. And let's assume that they both earn the exact same rate of return. They Both earn an 8% rate of return on their investments. Well, what you recognize at each of their ages, young Yolanda has been doing it for five years. She saved about $6,000. Well, wise Wanda, as you would expect, has saved $24,000. She's been saving for longer. But that's only part of the story. The real amazing thing is when you actually look at what their money has done, young Yolanda's portfolio has turned into about $7,300. But wise Wanda, hers has turned into almost $59,000. Even though Wanda had four times the savings, she actually had eight times the portfolio value. Because of time, guys.
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Brian Preston
That's why, if you're young watching this, don't give up in those first five to 10 years, because that's what there's going to be a lot of. You'll notice that for Yolanda, the contribution and the market value are almost combined. You're like, why am I even doing this? Do not give up. Because as wise Wanda shows you, time is your friend. While you're a billionaire of time. Put that money to work and you're going to see that spread of what compounding growth can do for you is really going to build some amazing things.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah. So not only are people not able to build assets at early ages, and not only have they not had a lot of time, but. But they're also another headwind. There is a lot of debt, especially for younger people, millennial generation and Gen Z's, they're coming out with more debt than their older counterparts.
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Brian Preston
Well, this makes sense because, you know, education has gotten expensive, so you got student loan debt. And then for a lot of people, I even fell into this, is that when you're building your first wealth building thing, which is your job, you're going to need transportation and a lot of you don't have cash to go buy a car with cash. So you end up using. Even if you're being responsible, like using 23. 8 in our guidelines, you're going to probably run up some car loan debt as well.
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Bo Hanson
So the math equation is pretty simple. If you have a small amount of assets and you have a lot of liabilities, you're going to have a negative net worth. So if this describes you and you're someone who's in this situation, how do you stay motivated? How do you get excited about actually being negative and working towards zero? Well. Well, the very first thing is give it time. It's okay if your network is negative. What we care about is progression. What we care about is process towards a goal. So even though you might not be where you want to be right now, if you begin making the necessary decisions that you should be making over time, you will begin to watch your financial situation improve also.
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Brian Preston
And this is, this is a heavy one for young people is focus on what you can control. Look, I get it. There is so much social pressure to go out there and live your best life, buy the nicest car you can do because they want you to essentially fake it until you make it. But as I've shared many times on the show, it's so much better to be rich than to look rich. So actually make good decisions. Be very selective on how much debt you're going to take on. If you're not scared when you take on debt, you're using this tool wrong. And then I want you to also optimize, if you can, the decisions you make. If you choose a moderate car, if you, if you make sure when you're in college that you're choosing, you know, a degree or major so that you don't run up student loan debt that exceeds your first year salary. Optimizing these decisions can lead you to not only pay off the debt that much sooner, but hopefully start building wealth that much sooner as well.
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Bo Hanson
And then another thing that you can do that will really help you stay motivated is actually track your net worth. And I know it may, again, it may seem counterintuitive. Guys, I have a negative net worth. Why would I ever want to see that? Well, if you don't know where you are today, how will you be able to assess next year or two years or five years from now if you've made appropriate progress? So if you're not tracking it, start doing it. And what's amazing is this magical thing will happen in your mind where you will awaken the invisible hand. Of sound financial decision making. And you'll be slowly starting to watch. Okay, I'm negative now, okay? But because of the decision I've made, now I'm a little bit less negative and a little bit less negative. A little bit less negative to where then I finally hit zero, and I can start working towards the second milestone.
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Brian Preston
And that leads to milestone number two and this one. Not to steal Bo's thunder in his line. I get so excited about the first hundred thousand dollars. Now, it's not going to be easy. This is actually because, like I said, there's a lot of quit along the road. You see a lot of people who will start saving and investing, they'll get motivated. But then they. This first hundred thousand dollars is hard.
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Bo Hanson
And I want to be clear, we're talking about $100,000 of liquid investment. So this would be like IRAs, 401ks, taxable brokerage account, HSAs, those types of things. We want this first hundred, this milestone to be where you've actually got $100,000 working for you. And so the question may be, okay, well, guys, why is this significant? Why is this important? Well, behaviorally, it shows that you've actually begun to master behavior. No one gets to $100,000 of investable assets by accident. It's not just something that you trip and fall into. It likely took some work to get there.
- [07:59]
Brian Preston
Yeah, it is. And because like I said, this is not. You're not hitting mastery of your money at this point, but you're definitely showing some signs that your behavior and your good things are starting to reach not a critical mass, but a point of where you're getting traction. And, and we actually have a case study or an illustration to make our point on this, on why $100,000 is so important.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah, it's wild. If you think about, okay, if you're someone who's going to save $10,000 a year and you're going to save $833 each month. And again, let's assume that you can make 8%. It will take you about 7.6 years, a little right at seven and a half years to build that first hundred thousand. But if you can stay consistent, you can continue doing that. It'll actually take you about 28 years to build to a million dollars. So again, this is just $833 a month. That first hundred thousand took seven and a half years, 28 years to get to a million. Do you realize that path from 500 to a million took the exact same amount of time that it took you to go from zero to 100,000.
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Brian Preston
That's the part. And this is, this is something from a behavioral as well as getting affirmations that this is all worth it along the way. That 7.6 years is going to feel like a long time. But look at the good news. The second hundred thousand, meaning going from 100 to 200, was 4.7 years. We almost cut it in half, Then it was three, then it was a little under three, then it was two. And that's what the part that just shows the power of compounding growth. And when you do hit some form of critical mass where your money is working harder than you do more to come on that the fact that it can grow from 500,000 to a million in less time than it took to get that first hundred, 100,000. That's the stuff that gets you excited. Just don't fall off the road to success because you get distracted by consumption decisions and all the other things when you're young. That seems like you have so many Americans that fall off.
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Bo Hanson
Now. Wealth building can be a slow process, but there are things that you can actually do to speed it up. And one of the biggest things you can do is your behavior, how you save, how you build. I mean, we already said that if you save $10,000 a year, $833 a month, it'd take you about seven and a half years to get to $100,000. But do you realize if you can save $1,000 a month, you can drop that time to 6.4 years to get to 100,000. If you can save $1500 a month now, you can get to 100,000 in four and a half years. And if you can save $2,000 a month, starting right now, it would only take you three, three and a half years to build up to $100,000. So if you can put in the hard work, you actually have the ability to influence how fast your money grows.
- [10:39]
Brian Preston
Now remember, we've kind of, there's a, there's a theme here. Sticking with it and being consistent is going to be a big part. But then also remembering that your savings rate is more important than even what your rate of return is in the beginning. So if you can focus on once again what you can control, which is your savings rate and your behavior of sticking with it, you'll be that much better for it.
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Bo Hanson
And one of the things that will let you stick with it again is tracking. Are you doing an annual net worth statement? We have a tool that you can use that@learn.moneyguy.com that you can literally fill out for last year, for this year, and for all the years moving forward so that you can track your progress. So you can see, okay, how far am I from that hundred thousand? How quickly can I get there? What things can I change to move there even faster so that once I hit 100,000, then I can move on to milestone?
- [11:27]
Brian Preston
This is one of those. I call it a healthy habit. I'll even say for some of us, it turns into a healthy addiction, is if you actually do these positive behaviors, you're going to see these small wins start to stack, stack, stack. And then one day you're going to look back and go, how the heck did I get here? Trust me, this works. We have a whole client base of people who can give you. And when we do our welt surveys, it shows this stuff works. You just have to stick with it.
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Bo Hanson
All right, so milestone number one was getting to zero. Milestone number two was getting to 100,000. Now let's talk about milestone three. And this isn't a specific dollar figure, but it's more what your money can do, because at milestone number three, your money is actually saving harder than you do. For example, if you save $5,000 this year, but your portfolio makes $6,000, your portfolio has added more to the pot in a given year than you did.
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Brian Preston
Yeah. This is. I'll just tell you from. From a behavioral standpoint, like I said, we know that in the beginning it feels hard because you're just not getting a lot of feedback that what you're doing is actually going to pay off. But there will you do this long enough. It is amazing. You'll get that quarterly statement and you'll say, wait a minute, I just noticed the change in value and the income combined is more than what I saved. It's going to feel really good. And I'm going to even say more to come on this. When you start comparing that then to what you make, and you're like, oh, my gosh, I see how money as a tool can be so valuable. So we want to just kind of give you some feedback on what are the numbers that's going to allow you to kind of have as a goal so that you can replace even what your savings rate is.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah. If you think about this, if you have a portfolio worth $87,500 and you make 8% on that portfolio, you will have made $7,000 a year. That's enough to. To max out your Roth IRA. So an $87,500 portfolio could max out your Roth IRA every year. If you have a portfolio that has $294,000 in it and it makes 8%, well, that's enough to max out your 401K at $23,500. So what's really fun is as you're tracking that net worth statement every year, you know exactly what you're saving, you know what your 25% is. But then when you see that your portfolio starts knocking off some of those big milestones as well, it gets super, super exciting.
- [13:50]
Brian Preston
Also, I think it's important. This doesn't mean you stop. That's the thing. I don't want you getting excited in your 20s when you start to reach some traction and it's exceeding your Roth. And I don't want you to quit when your money is making more than you put in your 401. This is supposed to be almost like a virtual high five where you look at your army of dollars and be like, we're in this together. And it's not just me and my discipline anymore. It's now the traction point where the money is starting to work. And if you want to actually do this for yourself, because it's fun to see these illustrations, but you're like, well, where's that point actually happen? For me, we've got something pretty exciting. We've actually been working really hard behind the scenes. The content team's been working. We have a compound interest calculator. You got to go play with this thing. And what I like about it is it's going to motivate you, because if you go to moneyguy.com resources you're going to put in the variables. But then what's cool is when it comes to gives you the feedback and calculates, it's going to say, hey, but you know, if you do a little bit more, look at what this does for you. Just gives you some little nudges to keep you motivated, to keep you on point so you reach your great big beautiful tomorrow that much sooner.
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Bo Hanson
That's exactly right. Remember, this is a path. This is a journey that you're on. And we're talking about milestones. And so the time between when your money starts saving harder than you do and milestone number four might be a decent chunk of time. So you want to make sure you're doing things to keep yourself motivated, like using the tools@moneyguy.com resources because milestone number four, I think, is the one that gets the most press. This is the One that everyone talks about, this is the one that books have been written about. And it's when your net worth hits 2 comma land when it crosses over $1 million.
- [15:27]
Brian Preston
Now net worth is a big thing because net worth includes your investments, which we get super excited about. But it also includes use assets like your, your home equity. You know, if you think about what your home is worth, subtract out what you have in a mortgage, you probably have some equity there. So it includes, that includes your use assets, like your vehicles, all those type of things. And it is something definitely to be celebrated that you cross into seven figure status. Because this is what's interesting to me. When I saw this stat, only 9% of Americans are millionaires. So if you stack up you with a hundred people, there's only going to be nine people out of that 100 that are likely going to cross into millionaire status.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah, it is pretty elite and pretty prestigious company. But there is something we want to make you aware of because there is something that has happened over these past couple of years. There was some great data that came out from the Federal Reserve that showed, okay, how has net worth increased across from 1989 all the way till 2022? And then what did financial assets. So basically net worth excluding home values, how much did that increase? And what you can see is a lot of the increase that we've seen in the late 2000 teens and early 2000s is from housing prices increasing. It's not so much because people are saving more and building more. A lot of people are now hitting net worth millionaire status simply because the value of their homes have gone up.
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Brian Preston
So I felt like this needed a reminder. I remember when this data point came to me and the headline was the net worth for Americans is up like 35%. And I was like, hot diggity dog, all this hard work is paying off. People are doing what they're supposed to. And then I saw this stat and if you look at the financial assets, that line is actually flat, fairly flat. And I was like, oh my gosh. So people aren't actually saving and investing more. It's just because we went through this inflationary period, their houses went up in value. That's a problem, guys. So we said, hey, we need to kind of educate you on the pros and the consultation cons of your home equity. It's a good thing. Look, I'm proud of you for having that net worth increased because of home equity. But you should go into it with your eyes open so you don't Get a false sense of security.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah. So what are the benefits or the pros? Well, one, if your home equity has caused you to be a millionaire, congratulations, you are a millionaire. It is something worth celebrating. And in reality you could access that equity, maybe you could take out home equity line or you could do some sort of cash out refinance. So it is there and it very well could be a great planning tool if at some point in your financial journey you plan on downsizing. So there are opportunities where you can realize the value of an appreciated primary residence. Those are the benefits. But it's not all benefits. There is a downside to being a net worth millionaire with a majority of that being in your home.
- [18:20]
Brian Preston
Yeah, I mean think, here's the consultation, you get to retirement and your seven figure net worth, but you'd have to sell the house to use the equity in the house. So it turns out that you're now captured by this being a use asset because it doesn't feed you unless you take on debt or all these other bad decisions. And that's why I say, and I've already kind of alluded to this, it's the second con, is that it can give you a false sense of financial security. How many people do I hear in their 30s and 40s, they're like, I'm a millionaire now. You're like, okay, you're great, congratulations. How much of that's in your 401k, your IRA and your brokerage accounts? So that when you retire you can actually have something that pays the bills. If all of that is because your house is appreciated because of this inflationary period, that's something that ought to concern you a little bit. It's great, it's gonna look good on your net worth statement, but it's not necessarily, not necessarily something that's gonna feed the family. So one thing we've learned as business owners, who you work with matters just as much as what you do. You spend a huge chunk of your life with your team, so you better enjoy the people you're surrounded by.
- [19:26]
Bo Hanson
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Brian Preston
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Bo Hanson
Then as you think about moving through your milestones, that's why we want you to move from just being a net worth millionaire to milestone number five where you are actually a liquid millionaire. This means when you add up all of your investment accounts, this is your IRAs, your Roth IRAs, your 401ks, your HSA, your emergency fund, all the liquid assets you have available to you, you add those up and they get into the seven figure point. Now you've done something pretty stinking powerful.
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Brian Preston
As BO just said, this is not your home equity. This is not your business assets. This is how much, how much you have in these liquid investments. And this leads to our favorite thing because I can't say bowling point. We call it the bowling point. God, they sound the exact same. I am, there is a speech problem if you've ever seen one. It had me in elementary school. They pull me aside right now. But look at this. If you had a portfolio with $1,000 and it has a 10% gain, it's going to make a hundred dollars. Now that's, that's great, Cool. But it doesn't really change anything. But if you go into this is why, once again, $100,000, you, you, you make 10% on a hundred thousand. Ten thousand. That's probably replacing a lot of your labor at that point. That's pretty exciting stuff. And then you can imagine you reach six, seven figure status with a million dollars. It makes 10%, $100,000. That's starting to feel really good. And this is what liquid net worth, where assets are growing in the background. You can actually use and consume this to replace your labor. Super exciting stuff.
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Bo Hanson
Now I can already hear the trolls out there saying, hey, guys, guys, guys, guys. No, no, no. A million dollars is not enough. Oh, a million dollars is nothing. Well, you know what? You got to get to 1 million before you get to 2 million, before you get to 3 million, before you get to 4 million. So a million dollars is still something worth celebrating. What I think is so exciting is how aggressively you want to pursue this goal is up to you. Because just like we said, you can influence how quickly you move to $100,000. You can also influence how quickly you move to a million dollars. If you invest $1,000 a month, starting from zero, it'll take you about 25 and a half years you to get to a million dollars. That's a long, steady path to millionaire status. But if you can double that and you save $2,000 a month, you can hit millionaire status in 18.4 years. If you can invest $3,000 a month, you can Hit millionaire status in 14 and a half years. And if you can invest $4,000 a month, even starting at zero, you can actually hit millionaire liquid status in just over 12 years.
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Brian Preston
I think this is a perfect illustration in the fact that we heard historically it takes the typical millionaire 28 years. They reach it around age, 49 years of age. But when we've had generational warfare in our content room, you know, because we do have Gen X represented. I'm not a boomer, guys. I'm Gen X. We've got Millennials. And then of course, we've got Gen Z. Gen Z seems to be really going at it. I mean, for, for being as young as they are, a lot of them want to get there even faster. And I think it's amazing that if you can be as aggressive as saving for four to five thousand dollars a month, you can cut the edge. Instead of it being 28 years, if you're doing $4,000 a month, it's gonna be 12 years. So you are in control. If you are one of those people that's really fortunate. You've made some good decisions, you've landed some great opportunities you can actually exploit. Not only are you young and have time on your side, but you can actually build that bowling point that much faster.
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Bo Hanson
That bowling point. I love it. So, you know, we're. Okay. So some of these milestones we've talked about, some of them have been dollar specific, you know, $0, $100,000, a million dollars. And some of them have been more. Okay, what can your money do? Well, milestone number six is another what can your money do? We've already talked about, in your financial journey, you hit this milestone where your portfolio is actually able to save more than you do. It actually puts more into the pot than you do from your savings behavior. Well, milestone number six gets really, really exciting because this, this is the point where your money actually works harder than you do. It can actually generate more return than you can in income.
- [24:27]
Brian Preston
Now, look, I do want to make sure we clarify, this is not financial independence.
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Bo Hanson
Nope.
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Brian Preston
This is because financial independence means that you're in such a. And we'll cover this in a second means you're in such a good situation, good, bad, you're going to be okay. But it is worth noting that in milestone number six, you're going to go through some periods where you have a good quarter, a good year. Well, all of a sudden you're going to realize, wowzer, this is what these guys are talking about with this critical mass. Point is, I am making more money from my investments than I do from working. And that's something to be celebrated. And we actually want to put together a case study so you can see what we're talking about.
- [25:04]
Bo Hanson
Yeah. Think about these numbers. If you at your job, you earn $60,000 a year. Well, if you had a $750,000 portfolio and over the course of a year that portfolio had an 8% rate of return, your portfolio would have made $60,000 literally while you were sleeping. It earned just as much as you. If you make $90,000 a year, you would need a portfolio of about $1.125 million earning 8% to replace that income. If you make $120,000 a year, once your portfolio hits a million and a half bucks at 8% rate of return, it can grow each year more than you earn in your wages. And you've already said this, Brian. This is not financial independence necessarily, but it's close and it's pretty exciting. You know the way that you're going to know this is happening, you know how you're going to recognize that you've hit this milestone? By tracking your net worth statement every single year, making sure that you actually see what your dollars are doing on your journey to financial independence.
- [26:07]
Brian Preston
Yeah. Just not to be the. I'm the old man on the porch, so it's okay. But sequence of returns, risk is there. Inflation is definitely floating around out there. And look, but I'll say something positive. We used 8%. There are years where you might make 12 to even 15%. And that's why it will come even faster with less portfolio value. But that's why you have to understand what that number is actually showing you when you celebrate it. But then, no, no, there's one more milestone I need to understand because I know that money market returns are not always up. There's definitely going to be some volatility in my future. That's milestone number seven, financial independence. Bo, if we're talking about the whole enchilada here of making sure somebody can actually walk through that threshold of now counting on their portfolio to replace their wages and their work. What does that look like?
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Bo Hanson
This is the point where your portfolio has reached the stage where you no longer have to go out and work anymore. You don't have to use your brain or your hands or your back to go out and generate wealth. You have done the hard work of building a nest egg that can now provide for you not just this year, not just next year, but for the rest of your life. You have a portfolio of assets that can work for you so that you don't have to work anymore. This is the point where you now get to own your time. You get to do what you want, when you want, the way you want, on your terms, because you've reached that critical mass.
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Brian Preston
Well, that's what a lot of people. Because we want to give some benchmarks. It's just fun from a mathematical perspective. Safe withdrawal rate.
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Bo Hanson
Sure.
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Brian Preston
And look, we chose 4%. I know some of you in the comments will be like, we could have done four and a half. You know, there's all kind of variables that you can change. But we felt like it was still a cool exercise, kind of napkin financial planning of saying, hey, what if we use the 4% rule of thumb? Because historically that that's a pretty good indic indicator. You're going to be okay through volatility. If you need $50,000, a 1.2 million dollar portfolio is going to protect you. You'll be okay. $100,000 portfolio, 2.5 million dollars. $150,000 is what you need in retirement. Close to 3.7 million dollars. Pretty incredible stuff.
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Bo Hanson
Yeah, I think it's wild that these numbers, you see them like, okay guys, is it really that easy? Okay, so as soon as I hit 1.25 and I make, that's where I can check out? Well, Maybe, I mean 4% is, is really helpful and it's good back of the napkin math. But when it comes to your personal situation, we would argue that back of the napkin math is not good enough. You need to actually stress test your financial plan. You need to say, okay, how much am I going to have in living expenses and what is my travel budget going to look like and when am I going to take Social Security and what's our Social Security benefit going to look like and how many weddings am I going to have to pay for and how often do I replace my cars and what's going on look like and where am I going to park the rv? And all of these unique financial questions specific to you. 4% withdrawal rate is a Great rule of thumb for generally coming up with an idea of where you ought to be. But when it comes time for you to actually make the assessment. Am I at financial independence? Have I reached the milestone? You will do that once you've actually stress tested your plan and you have a high level of confidence and no matter what, unknown unknowns come my way. I've accounted for all the variables that I can and I've controlled the controllables. And I have a high level of confidence that I can now enter into this phase of life knowing that my portfolio can provide for me for the remainder of my life.
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Brian Preston
Look, finance when it gets to this level is definitely personal finance. Every one of us is going to have different goals, different things. Nobody. It's all like fingerprints. It comes to us and I see everybody has different structures, they have different goals. And that's why I love running a stress test when it because it's a custom plan to you. And here's the other part that even super brilliant because you're financial mutants. We know the threshold is so high for people who are consuming our content is that even if you are brilliant, this is your first retirement. You've only gone through this once. Why wouldn't you get with somebody who's done this hundreds if not thousands of times with success for, for their, for their clients? Because it's just gonna protect you so you don't have that learning curve because you are the CEO of a multiple seven figure enterprise. Is it worth taking the risk that you can run this thing around? You just don't know what you don't know. And that's why I'd encourage you go to moneyguy.com become a client or you just go to moneyguy.com, you'll see all of our resources. You'll see the become a client link. That way you can even watch the video where we kind of walk you through what we think the benefits are. The big thing is, is that I realize that a lot of people get so busy you're successful. I love partnering with because for a lot of times it's not no, it's yes. And what can we help you fulfill on your goals and give you permission, help you feel like you can walk away from because it's so hard to turn go from consistent saver and being so disciplined to now you're going to be a consumer when in your entire life you've been told that's the worst thing to do. So it's hard for mutants to kind of let go we're going to leave the porch light on and help you work through those decisions. So go make sure you take advantage of all the free stuff, but then complete the drill and fulfill the abundance cycle. I'm your host, Brian Preston. Mr. Bo Hanson Money Guy Team out.
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Bo Hanson
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