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I turned 39 today and I failed my financial journey miserably so far. But I’m working on changing that 😊 thanks for your amazing videos!

@OurRichJourney

3 ай бұрын

No fails - just lessons learned! Continue to learn and take action. Happy Birthday!!!!🎂

@Leisure3389

3 ай бұрын

Never too late. I had nothing saved at 30. Now net worth 1.8 million. Enough saved to send my 15 year old and 4 yr old to college. Retiring in 11 years. Keep after it.

@Msnanamac

3 ай бұрын

@@OurRichJourney I'm 40. Any tips on how to catch up on investing for retirement?

@blokheadburley8363

3 ай бұрын

I started the financial journey at age 43 first by getting rid of all of my liabilities ( debt). At 45 in 2020, I started investing by watching Our Rich Journey. Now myself, wife and kids have joined the journey🎊🫱🏾‍🫲🏼

@traceytheisen8067

3 ай бұрын

@@OurRichJourney FANTASTIC REPLY! I've seen it happen to so many people, totally unexpected situations happen and plans get derailed, at all ages. Many have had to come back from nothing, and some, multiple times. It can be so discouraging when others criticize without walking in that person's shoes. You guys are a total class act. Keep inspiring everyone and take care of that beautiful family of yours. Have a blessed day!

Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult

@OurRichJourney

3 ай бұрын

Yes! Know where you are and where you want to go!!! And plan for how you’re going to get where you want to go! 😀

You, Christina and your family are an inspiration!

Great video! That’s why many Americans are retiring abroad.

Great video as usual! Thrilled that you covered this topic and explained in a digestible way!

Thank you so much for your encouragement!! Wish all the young people are open to the idea and possibilities as well ..

Thank you for this video. I appreciate your transparency about your life story.

Outstanding content! Thank you!

Great video, Among. This's a very important topic, and thank you for sharing your SS figures.

Extremely important subject 👌 very well explained 🙏

Another JAM video. Thank you 🙏 keep them coming.

Hello from Miami Great job Thank you my brother . I Wish you wonderful happy healthy life with your family Best Benjay

Thanks a lot of sharing this video. It’s so inspiring and keeps the motivation alive.

Quite inspiring!! Thanks so much for sharing.🙏

Just found your channel and learned a few things. Great video!!

This video was really helpful. Thank you!

Thank you for that awesome video. It was very educational.

Great video. I would have never thought to go that in depth on the SS site.

Absolute gold Ahmad (sorry if incorrect). Thank you for educating those of us that are financially illiterate. You and Christina are a blessing to many.

I have been thinking about this topic lately. Thanks for the video!

This video gave me much food for thought n I’m going to review my statement as well 😊🙏🏿

Love the sharing and inspiration once again

Checking in from the DMV.

This is soooo timely. I just pulled this SS doc the other day. I am astonished by how much I will get after ALLLLL those years of working. Thank you for planting a seed via YT & (ORJ FIRE Courses) Amon&Christina. #compoundinterest 💝💝💝💝

Awesome video!!!! Great nuggets to consider for sure! Thanks for being so transparent❤

Very transparent. Quality content!!

Great job! Congratulations! You girls did so many things right 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you very much for this very important video

Great video bro! I learned some new things. Thanks for sharing.

This was really helpful... Thanks!

Loved this video! As someone who just turned 30 with no kids, I have been intentional over the last 4 years and you all have been a great inspiration for me. Thank you for your transparency and always being willing to be thorough in explaining things.

thank you for this video!

Great video! Maybe you can do another one on pros and cons of taking SS early vs later.

Such great information... thank you!!!!

Such a great video, I sure have family living soley off of SS and cannot keep up with all the inflation increases. Especially with increased housing costs, food, and even utilities bills. Let’s all keep working hard!

Great video and info!

Thank you for your inspiration and transparency, your information is very helpful

Thanks for sharing….and for the tip on if you retire early!

Thanks for sharing.

Good example that jobs don't usually provide independence or wealth. Our own actions have much more impact!

@OurRichJourney

3 ай бұрын

Well said! Thanks for sharing Alex!

Definitely food for thought!

Great video! Looks like we FIREd the same year 😊 Very timely video! My partner and I were looking at that website this week and wondering what to do with our very small payments when they start coming in…please share when you decide what to do with yours. Love your work! ❤

Great explanation. Ty

Man i love you guys so much! So inspirational... You guys are really an amazing family. Your transparency just made me realize I'm doing soooo much better than i thought

Thank you for all this great information

@OurRichJourney

3 ай бұрын

Aww, thank you so much!!! Glad you liked it!!!!😀

Excellent information

Excellent content as usual! . 🙏😊

Thank you for always giving us the enlightenment. Your story is very inspirational and knowledgeable comforting knowing that financial independence and being able to retire early is possible. Your the evidence. This is far from circle park. 💯🙏🏿👍🏾

Thank you! I’m 43, my husband wants me to retire now. Just found this site a month or so ago, so I didn’t factor in the 0% if I stop working so early. I am a vet, so I’ll be getting my VA & reserve retirement, real estate rents + I’ll be hitting RMD from my 401k. Working on my ROTH now. This info is just good to know…

Inspirational!

This video was great! ❤

Great info

Hi Amon!! So grateful you are sharing your journey and wealth of knowledge in such a genuine and thoughtful way. You mentioned a video in it's self about if the pension/super funds will exist in the future and VERY curious about your thoughts on that topic. Wishing you a wonderful day!

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Thank you Amon and Christina. Many blessing to you and your family. I have been following/on this journey with you both since 2020 . Thank you for the push bc a sister needed it. My goal is to leave the country also, one day soon. 🙏🏽🤗💫

Well done! Congrats to you and your wife on your successful financial journey, Your transparency is much appreciated. Would luv to see another video on the ETFs you're invested in. Have you stayed the course or are you changing the ETFs you originally started with and why. Blessings.

Wow, that's impressive planning! I have considered consulting a financial advisor to maximize my retirement benefits

Thank you.

I want to say Thank you. I started thinking about fire after listening to you and I believe I am on track. Preparing myself for fire in the next couple of years by diversifying the stock market and real estate. Thank you for your guidance through regular videos.

This video is AWESOME!!! Thanks Amon for your transparency and sharing with us your social security report. It's right there in black and white. Proof again that folks can achieve FI and go on to achieve FIRE, making under 100k. Thank you for the encouragement as always. I will keep pushing. Thanks again for all you and Christina do for us. 😇✨️😁 🔥.

Thank you for the video, can you guys talk about your pension plan in a future video. I’m a calpers pension member it will be helpful. Thank you in advance

Thank you for the in-depth explanation 😊

@OurRichJourney

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Thank you for watching!!!

Thanks

You're 1,000% correct about compounding of interest. It's a tremendous way to grow wealth. Reinvest dividends and capital gains!!

Thanks for sharing with us! It’ll encourage a lot of people to pursue Fire.

Hello, thank you for the great vids you post me and my wife live in England and will be starting our retirement soon on the Silver Coast and wondered if you new of any great rental agents to help us ? Many thanks Steve

I hope that you and your wife are wildly successful in your dreams and aspirations, and that your children become the strong, self-determining, and wise people you hope they become. Blessings from America.

Real estate is the best way to become financially wealthy.

Great video, very informative, thank you for amazing video! I am glad to hear we can get social security abroad. We are planning on moving to Europe next year from the US. Are there any US banks you recommend to have when you live abroad? Right now we have ally bank.

@user-dr1ct5uy8c

3 ай бұрын

Ally is a good bank (no fees), relatively good APY for savings. Consider also getting a credit union account, as well.

Thanks for the insight video and how the social security calculates the retirement. Question, can you tells us in what department of the government you used to work for?

Hi Amon, thank you so much for everything that you and Christina share on this channel. I've been following your journey since right before you retired and have been very inspired. I hope you get a chance to answer my question and maybe it'll even inspire a video. "How much of your $2.5m portfolio was outside retirement accounts like a 401k or IRA? I ask because right now, I am only investing in retirement accounts trying to max them out but I'm afraid that if I get to 40 and want to retire, I won't be able to access any of that money without penalties. Please advise" Thank you again

Whew this was soo good! I hope everyone sees this video. Thank you for sharing 👍🏾

Thank you for sharing! I am 34 and earn the same as you in NYC it gives me hope that I can get to FI RE with my husband one day

Thank you so much for sharing. Super insightful. Did you and Christina qualify for US Government pension? If so do you have any videos on how that will tie into your retirement strategy? Or how will a government pension impact social security?

You also will get a Gov't pension too!. 1985.00 and Pension will be pretty good. Great job!

Great breakdown. But you missed the fine print explaining the potential 20% benefit cut in the year 2034.

Hi Amon! Thank you so much for the valuable content! My husband and I have built wealth through our investments and are now exploring options to preserve it (not paying $$$$ in taxes). Could you please post a video on the "rich man Roth"? I'd like to know more about this topic and if it is worth pursuing to minimize taxes in retirement. Congratulations to you and Christina for your achievements! May God bless you all.

Relatively new to the channel. Great stuff. How is one house covering your monthly cost of living for the entire family assuming you also rent in Portugal. Does the difference in rent cover 4 people ?

Really interesting video Bro. Can I ask - was your initial 2.5m your entire NW at that point ? Were you renting or own other housing outright?

😊😊😊 thank u

@OurRichJourney

3 ай бұрын

Hi Dionne!!! Thank YOU for watching and commenting!!!!❤️

Nice summary for a young one! You sound like you have a pretty good handle on this. Not sure if I heard you right, but the amount shown on your statement are in current dollars, (with the adjustment for future earnings)Wages are adjusted by the average wage index(AWI). Staring at age 62 it is adjusted by COLA. Another fun fact is that Social Security payments are ‘progressive’, there are two “bend points”. The first portion of wages gets the most replaced, the second less, and the last not very much. We retired in our early 60’s, Social Security for the both of us will approach $7000/month when I claim at 70. So actually quite a bit of money. For people in your generation, count on some cuts!

Wow, thank you for this video! Question, do you think early retiring with 2.5 million in the stock market would have been enough without your real estate passive income? I'm hardcore saving 60-70% my income and it's all stock market and I have zero time to research other asset classes because I work multiple jobs. The monte carlo calculator says I'll have enough, but you got me thinking, maybe I need to do more?

You and ur wife inspire me to earn money that I can never spend and my child❤❤❤❤❤

Buenos días ☀️

@OurRichJourney

3 ай бұрын

Buenos dias!

Hi ! when i see your video, i am extremely impressed by your journey ! I try to educate myself with your videos and i am thinking to enroll in yourmasterclass but for now i am blocked with a strong feeling of fear. I don't have a lot of money, a meaningless job with a very low salary and the world of financial tool seems so complicated ! what is you very first investissement and which tools/software you use to invest ? thank you and best wishes !

What was the main investment into the stock market in a brokerage account? I don’t see how you could have managed to build up a 401k or ira to that amount that quickly

Hi there! I would love to know your thoughts on annuities and other possible wealth preservation vehicles. I'm older, but still working, investing and hoping to retire early, but I'm concerned about wealth protection and long-term care. Single, no kids.

@OurRichJourney

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! We haven’t done a video on annuities yet. Thanks for the suggestion!

@jenniferjones8558

3 ай бұрын

​@@OurRichJourneyThank you! Love your videos.

Amon always says that the income outside his governmental work was the tipping point to rech financial freedom. In which videos does he talk in detail about what he did besides his work. Like houseflipping and such

Honestly, you are a business owner who works for yourself now. You were able to give yourself the freedom to leave your jobs to free yourself from those confines. Your family is a great inspiration. I miss your videos when you both first started and shared the growth every month. Also, glad you are going over this because we are looking at that and found that that rule that you have to have worked within 5 years of claiming it without your amount changing for the worse. Many F.I.R.E enthusiast don't mention that. That made us think about what age we would start to withdraw from our SS and figured with the time we are going to F.I.R.E we would take ours at 62 yrs old. Then, we found we can only get income from 401K, Roth, Dividends, Interest, or annuity. That meant we couldn't sell off stocks without it being considered income and Social Security would be reduced until we are 67 years old if we decided to sell our stocks. We were so happy we were getting income from our dividend stocks and ETFs.

Can you share your thoughts on whether you will be taking SSI at age 62 or delay until 67? Per my calculation my break even point is age 78.

Can you talk about the safety of using banks in other countries. Are deposits insured like in the USA? Do you keep money mostly in US banks or Portugal?

Amon can you do a video regarding whether you should take SS at 62 or delay it to 70? Also since 6pm may have 22 mil what are you thinking about the tax impact?

trying to get my VYM shares up so ill have more income during retirement

Just started out investing got sick of looking at my ssi account and not having nothing to show for it. Now account is at 5 grand and climbing

Thanks for the video. Question if u are prior military but u got medical disability and discharge and didn't go back to work how much u can be able to get? Since u didn't go back to work

Would it make sense to get social security early and invest it if u don't need it?

where and how do i start?

Thanks for sharing and being transparent. I hope everyone checks those projections for social security I'm 42 and if I retire at (62) I'm looking at $1,870 (67)$2,784 (70)$3460 One think I have learn is that just by working I won't be able to grow wealth. So my approach was to invest in real state 4 years ago. I can say that was the best decision I could of made. Now that was my approach, what will yours be?

At 37 what approach should I take for retirement.