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so I know a lot of you follow a lot of
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these Finance content creators and they
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always talk about retiring at an earlier
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age sometimes you see people retiring in
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their 50s some of them in their 40s and
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sometimes even in their 30s so the
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natural question for yourself is well
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how can I retire at an early age or some
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of you might ask yourself this very
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popular question how can I actually
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retire in 10 years starting with
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absolutely no money so it really comes
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down to these three steps now I do want
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to preface by saying that if you want to
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retire or become financially in
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independent what really matters the most
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is how much money you're able to save
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contrary to what a lot of people believe
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they think that their income is what's
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important and it is of course in the
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beginning but in the end of it all
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what's really important is how much of
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that money you can keep in your pocket
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the reason I say this is that there are
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so many people in America where they are
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making six figures like $100,000 and
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they're still living paycheck to
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paycheck there are also a lot of people
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making over $200,000 and they are also
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living paycheck to paycheck I actually
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know a lot of people like this where
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they're making around1 to $150,000 a
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year and they basically spend everything
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I also know a lot of teachers who are
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making 70 to $80,000 a year and they're
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able to save 10 20 and sometimes even
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$30,000 a year even though these people
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make less money than these people who
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make A1 or
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$200,000 they are going to be much more
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wealthy in the future because they have
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financial literacy and they know how
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much to keep in their pocket okay so
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let's talk about step number number one
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you want to First find your Fu number so
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what is this Fu number essentially if
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your boss were to come up to you one day
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and were to ask you to do these
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ridiculous things at your job because
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you have a lot of money in your savings
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and in your retirement accounts you're
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able to say to your boss F you and leave
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your job I'm just kidding don't ever say
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that to your boss that's kind of mean
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but you get the point so go ahead and
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take some time right now to think about
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what is the amount of money that you
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feel comfortable having so that you are
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able to finally leave your job right now
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so I'm I'm guessing a lot of you don't
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really know how to calculate that number
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so don't worry I'm going to go through
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some of the math right now first things
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first you have to know what the 4% rule
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is so assuming that you've been
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following me for a while and you finally
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open up your Roth IRA your taxable
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brokerage account and you've been
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investing in something like the S&P 500
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the 4% rule basically states that this
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is the amount of money you can withdraw
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from your account and continue to let
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your accounts grow over time so how does
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this make sense well if you're investing
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in the S&P 500 which typically grows
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around 11 to 12% on average each year
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you should theoretically be able to
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withdraw up to 4% of your portfolio and
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continue to let your accounts grow you
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actually don't have to sell all of your
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assets within your account what you can
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do instead is only sell around 4% of
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your assets in your account and withdraw
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that amount okay so how do we actually
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apply this number to ourselves well
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basically you first want to see how much
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money you need annually and then you're
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going to divide that number by 04 and
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yes I know there's another way to do
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this where you can multiply by 25 but
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essentially mathematically it's still
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the same thing so if you're someone who
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needs around $40,000 per year you can
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divide that number by 04 meaning that
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you need around a million doll to become
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financially independent or retire if
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you're someone who needs around $50,000
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per year you can divide that by 04 which
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means that you need around $1.25 million
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or if you need a little bit more maybe
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around $100,000 per year you can divide
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that by 04 which gives you around $2.5
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million so once we have this Fu number
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we can then move on to step number two
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step number two you want to find your
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essential Baseline I talked about this
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in my other video the other day and
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basically your essential Baseline is the
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amount of money that you need to pay off
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all your bills like your mortgage rent
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internet electricity and even cell phone
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bill you typically want to spend at most
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around 30% of your income towards
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housing like your rent or mortgage
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around 10% of your income for food like
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dining and groceries or up to 10% of
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your income towards bills like internet
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and electricity okay so this is my
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favorite part we can now talk about step
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number three step number three you can
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then put in some of these numbers into a
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retirement calculator so I'm on this
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calculator on networthify and I'm going
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to say that my annual income is
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$50,000 I'm also going to say that I'm
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able to save 10% of my income meaning
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that I'm able to save around $5,000 a
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year I'm going to say that my annual
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return on investment is around 10%
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because that's what the S&P 500
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typically gives and of course of course
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I'm going to type in 4% for my
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withdrawal rate because we're going to
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use a 4% rule I'm then going to click on
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crunch the numbers and see what we get
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if I were to save around 10% of my
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income I can retire in around
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33.1 years this means I'm saving around
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$47 each month but what happens if I
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were to save not 10% of my income but
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20% of my income how long would that
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take me well I'm going to click on
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crunch the numbers and let's find out I
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can basically retire in around
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25.2 years if I were to save 20% of my
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income this means I would be saving
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around
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$833 per month okay so we can be a
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little bit more aggressive now what if
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we were to save 40% of our income let's
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click on crunch the numbers and we can
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find out if I were to save 40% of my
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income it's going to take me around 16.3
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years to retire and lastly let's change
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this number to 60% and see what happens
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if I were to save 60% of my income then
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yes it's going to take me around 10.3
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years to become financially independent
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and if you scroll down all the way down
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to this table right here you can see how
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much of your net worth is going to grow
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over the years and you can see that you
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started from zero and as you are
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contributing money into your brokerage
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accounts you're investing into the S&P
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500 by the time you are on your 11th
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year you're going to have around
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$583,000 and regardless of what your
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income is 50 to 60% savings rate is
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really the magic number if you're
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starting off from zero even if you were
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making $100,000 a year $150,000 a year
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or even $30,000 a year if you can save
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50% of that and be consistent with that
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you should theoretically be able to
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retire within 10 or 11 years the biggest
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problem that I see with a lot of people
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is that as they increase their income
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maybe they get a promotion or maybe they
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get some sort of bonus they go through
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this thing called lifestyle inflation
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and basically what that means is as they
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make more money they typically want to
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spend more money maybe they see their
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neighbors drive a fancier car or maybe
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they see their friend on social media
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maybe get a larger house which kind of
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prompts them and makes them want to also
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upgrade their life but the whole
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takeaway message here is that as you
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increase your income and you can keep
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your expenses low or relatively low the
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margin of how much you make and how much
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you save is going to increase over time
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which gives you more opportunity to use
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that money to invest in the stock market
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which then ultimately leads you to
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becoming financially independent much
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sooner than you thought possible and if
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you want to learn how to start investing
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right now particularly with opening up a
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Roth IRA as a complete beginner I'll put
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a link somewhere on my face right now so
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you can watch this video If this video
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brought a lot of value to you I would
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me a like follow or maybe even a comment
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down below because it really does help
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with the algorithm have a great day and
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I'll see you guys all in the next video
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bye everyone