Jim & Katie Dahle's Financial Journey

There's nothing quite like starting at the beginning, right? If you become financially literate at the beginning and start applying all this stuff very early in your career, it's amazing what can happen. I wouldn't say I was financially illiterate right at the beginning, but certainly by the time I was midway through residency, I was. And so when I became an attending, we hit the ground running, right? We had a high savings rate, we were investing intelligently, we were checking the important boxes when it comes to our financial plan. And it all worked out very well. We became millionaires about seven years out of residency, multimillionaires a few years later and ended up becoming financially independent at about 43 years old. I was 43. Katie's younger than I am. And that's pretty cool because it gives you independence, it gives you financial freedom, gives you the ability to choose what you want to do with your life without having to pay attention to the financial ramifications.