Episode 49: Physician on FIRE Shares Secrets of Early Retirement

Leif is well-known in the personal finance space as the Physician on FIRE. He runs a website by the same name to inspire physicians and their patients to live a life of financial independence and early retirement. In this episode, I talk with Leif about his strategy of becoming financially independent and getting the most out of your money.

In today’s episode, you’ll find out:

• The trick physicians can use to create more freedom with locum tenens
• How to leverage your income to retire before traditional retirement age
• How Leif escaped undergrad with no student loan debt
• Leif’s thoughts about pursuing loan forgiveness as an anesthesiologist
• How you can have a better lifestyle with student loan debt
• When it makes sense to consider PSLF as a physician
• The risk of taking over a mom-and-pop medical practice
• What Leif says is the best return on investment of different medical specialties
• The reasons people start to feel “burned out” by practicing medicine
• The two big things Leif chooses to splurge on

Links mentioned: 

• Physician on Fire website
• Physicians on Fire Facebook group
• Physicians on Fire FatFIRE Facebook group
• Private student loan lenders

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