From Broke Olympic Athlete to Real Estate Investor & Corporate Finance Professional with Sunitha Rao

01/31/20 • 65 min

#2: Former Olympic athlete Sunitha Rao dropped out of school in 6th grade. Now, she’s a real estate investor and corporate finance professional. We discuss how she went from professional athlete to corporate professional, how her childhood experiences with financial abuse shaped her money mindset, and more – so have a listen!

10 years ago, Sunitha retired from nearly a decade of playing tennis professionally. She was 23, and had a sixth-grade education, quite literally no money, and very little knowledge of how the world worked outside of her sport.

Fast forward to today - she has earned a bachelors in business and finance from Babson College and an MBA from Villanova University (with no student debt!) and has a successful career in corporate finance. She also has a budding real estate business with six doors in her portfolio.

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For more information, visit the show notes at https://www.twentyfree.co/episode2/

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How I got into $100k of debt and back out again: Becky’s journey to freedom

#1: Becky paid off $70,000 in less than 2 years. She went from $100k in debt & living with mom and dad to financially free, location independent entrepreneur in just 5 years. How? By embracing the principles of lifestyle design and financial independence, together.

This is Becky from twentyfree.co, the host of the Find Your Freedom Podcast. I’m sharing my financial freedom and lifestyle design story in today’s episode.

I tell it all: my money mindset and how it evolved, the tactics I used to get myself out of debt, how I achieved an 80% savings rate while still spending on things I care about, what my original financial independence timeline was, and how and why my goals have changed.

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Retire in your 30s! A Purple Life and Financial Mechanic discuss Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE)

#3: Two 20-something women planning to retire in their 30s tell-all: the exact dollars and cents of their FIRE plans, the advice they’d give themselves in their early 20s, aligning your spending and lifestyle with your values, and how to handle the risks of retiring in your 30s.

A Purple Life is striving to retire from her full-time job in September of 2020 to eat her way across the world. She has been able to accelerate this goal by increasing her income through job hopping and decreasing her spending with domestic geo-arbitrage.

Financial Mechanic is mechanical engineer turned programmer with a pretty big DIY project: save enough money to become financially independent. She's saved 380k by the age of 26 by living frugally, increasing her income, and investing the rest.

This episode was recorded live at FinCon 2019! It’s a casual chat, and at one point, my guests even turn the interview around on me!

If you are ready to leave the corporate grind, and don’t want to wait until you’re 65 to start living, give this episode a listen. And if you enjoy it, please subscribe, and leave us a review and rating on Apple Podcasts.

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