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Podcast: The Money with Katie Show
Episode: She Retired at 32. Then Came Guiltâand a Moral Crossroads.
Description: Rebecca Herbst reached financial independence at age 32 during the tenuous early days of the pandemic, and volunteered shortly thereafter to be furloughed from her job in commercial real estateâand so began her (extremely) early retirement.Â
But spending her days exactly as she wanted featured an unexpected side effect: guilt. What do you owe to others when youâve gotten everything you wanted? Rebecca alchemized her sense of duty and founded Yield & Spread. In detail, we cover:
What the âFI-lanthropyâ pledge entails
How she squares the desire to retire early with the idea of âhoarding moneyâ
Where Rebecca...