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What Does a Semi-Retired Life Look Like?

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What If You Didn’t Have to Wait Until 65 to Start Living?


You’re building wealth. You’re making progress. But have you actually designed the life that wealth is for?

Most physicians haven’t. The default plan is to grind for 20 or 30 more years, retire, and then finally start doing the things you’ve been dreaming about. But what if that plan has a flaw you can’t see until you get there?

We found out the hard way. And what we discovered completely changed how we think about work, freedom, and what it means to be semi-retired.

In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on what the semi-retired life actually looks like, live from Japan, where we’re spending three months with our four kids through a slow travel program. This isn’t theory. This is the real thing: the daily schedule, the cultural moments, the logistics, the hard parts, and why we keep doing it.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL DISCOVER:

  • What happened five months into our year of full-time travel that changed how we think about retirement forever
  • The day-to-day moments in Japan that no vacation could ever give you, and what our kids are learning from them
  • Why traveling with kids as part of a community is a completely different experience than doing it on your own
  • The real logistics: packing for months, managing your home while you’re away, negotiating with your kids’ school, and handling time zone challenges
  • How we run our businesses and real estate portfolio remotely, and what our typical day looks like from the other side of the world
  • Creative ways full-time doctors in our community are finding ways to take month-long trips, even with clinical schedules

The life you’re building wealth for is available to you right now, in smaller doses, if you’re willing to get creative and ask for what you want. Listen now and start making it happen.

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Semi-Retired M.D. and its owners, presenters, and employees are not in the business of providing personal, financial, tax, legal or investment advice and specifically disclaims any liability, loss or risk, which is incurred as a consequence, either directly or indirectly, by the use of any of the information contained in this blog. Semi-Retired M.D., its website, this blog and any online tools, if any, do NOT provide ANY legal, accounting, securities, investment, tax or other professional services advice and are not intended to be a substitute for meeting with professional advisors. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of competent, licensed and certified professionals should be sought. In addition, Semi-Retired M.D. does not endorse ANY specific investments, investment strategies, advisors, or financial service firms.

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Hi, we’re Kenji and Leti

we provide coaching and mentorship
for doctors and high-income earners

We’re former full-time hospitalists who achieved financial freedom in under five years through strategic real estate investing, generating six-figure rental cashflow while paying zero taxes. We run Semi-Retired MD, teaching thousands of physicians and high-income professionals how to build wealth through real estate with our 
”Fast FIRE System.”

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Do you want to learn how to creatively fund your real estate portfolio and achieve financial freedom? Join the conversation! Follow our Semi-Retired MD  Facebook page and join our Doctors or Professionals  group!

Semi-Retired M.D. and its owners, presenters, and employees are not in the business of providing personal, financial, tax, legal or investment advice and specifically disclaims any liability, loss or risk, which is incurred as a consequence, either directly or indirectly, by the use of any of the information contained in this blog. Semi-Retired M.D., its website, this blog and any online tools, if any, do NOT provide ANY legal, accounting, securities, investment, tax or other professional services advice and are not intended to be a substitute for meeting with professional advisors. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of competent, licensed and certified professionals should be sought. In addition, Semi-Retired M.D. does not endorse ANY specific investments, investment strategies, advisors, or financial service firms.

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Hi, we’re Kenji and Leti

we provide coaching and mentorship for doctors and high-income earners

Several years ago, we were newlyweds working as full-time hospitalists. On paper, it looked like we had everything: the prestigious careers, the happy marriage, the luxurious rental home, the cars, etc.

But in reality? Despite having worked for several years, we had very little savings. Despite our high income, we had very little freedom in terms of time or money.

One thing was clear: we had to do something.

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