Ep 87 | Day Trading 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Financial Growth with Erin Thompson
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Wealthy After 40: Retirement Planning and Budgeting for Gen X
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From engineer to day trader to financial freedom architect, my guest Erin Thompson, mom of five, shares how you can learn to invest and day trade on your own to grow your own wealth. Her mission is to help educate women in how they can do this process on their own without a lot of time spent each day to grow that money. welcome to wealthy after 40 where i help you turn retirement uncertainty into a clear actionable plan if you're thinking about retirement but feel unsure whether it's even possible i understand the gap between where you are now and where you want to be can feel overwhelming but it doesn't have to Hi, I'm Daylene Higgins, founder of Elevate Finances and your personal financial coach.
Having retired at the age of 50 and have enjoyed over two years of retirement bliss, I'm here to help you create your retirement dream and make it a reality. No more wondering, no more guessing, just taking action and building a future for yourself. Join me each week as I guide you through essential topics such as budgeting, cash flow, lifestyle planning, debt and savings, insurance, Medicare, and social security. Together, we'll build a strategy to help you achieve the retirement you've always desired. It's time to shift from uncertain to unstoppable and make your retirement dreams a reality. Welcome to today's episode on the Wealthy After 40 podcast. I'm excited to host Erin Thompson. She is a learned about day trader, also a financial coach, and I'm excited for her to share a debt-free story and also how to become a day trader.
So welcome to the show, Erin. Hi. Hello, Dailene.
Who is Erin Thompson and how did she become a financial freedom architect?
How are you? I am so good today. So good.
Good, good. It's really great to be here. Thank you for having me on.
Yes, yes. So for listeners, just share with them who you are, what you do, and how you do it.
So my name is Erin Thompson. I call myself a financial freedom architect because I have an engineering background, and I'm all about designing and building the life that you want. And planning out all the steps that it takes to get there and helping to coach people, not only to put the plan in place, but then working the plan so that they can get there themselves.
I love that. I love that. I also focus on financial freedom, so I can definitely relate to that as an engineer. Nope, I don't do that. I do numbers. So kind of sitting side by side with you, but I love that. So yeah, share with us, I noticed on a post how you talked about getting out of credit card debt twice, how you've done that with your family. So share with us that story. I'd love to learn more and share with listeners so that they can be inspired to do it themselves. Yeah.
So the biggest thing that I can say about monthly finances and getting yourself out of debt is that it's not knowing the right things to do necessarily. It's your habits, honestly. And that really was what got us into trouble the second time. But to kind of back it up, I graduated from college right before that big recession in 2008. So I was out on my own trying to figure out how do I do this adult money stuff like what should I be doing with my money. And oh, by the way, here's a huge recession that's coming and like, ah, what does that mean for my money and student loans and all of that right so as an engineer I had like $100,000 in student loan debt when I graduated so That wasn't nothing, right?
And I did have a couple of credit cards. My husband, at that time, we were just dating, but we ended up getting married. And he also had a little bit of credit card debt and lots of student loans. We met at engineering college. So just pile on the student debt. But we had a plan and we worked the plan and got ourselves out of all of our credit card debt. And we were at the point where we were putting away about 40% of of like a total or bring home every month. And we had a really nice nest egg built up at the end of that. And that was of course, before the children came. Once we started having kids, we actually wanted to move back to Michigan, which is where we're both from.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:02
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Who is Erin Thompson and how did she become a financial freedom architect?
2:02–12:43
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How did Erin and her family overcome credit card debt twice and what habits changed?
12:43–25:53
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What are 'budget parties' (money dates) and how did they help Erin pay off $50,000?
25:53–27:04
Speakers
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