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Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/pTJq2VPbWAY In this episode of Redefine Retirement, host Ryan Wheless sits down with Kristy and Bryce — the husband and wife team behind Millennial Revolution and the book Quit Like a Millionaire — for one of the most genuinely eye opening conversations the show has produced on what financial independence actually looks like when you pursue it with intention and without following the conventional script. Kristy and Bryce are former computer engineers who retired at around 31 to 33 years old after building a one million dollar portfolio in Toronto — one of the most expensive cities in North America — not by earning enormous salaries but by making a deliberate decision to invest in index funds rather than buy a house when the Toronto housing market kept running away from them no matter how much they saved. They walk Ryan through the core mathematics of the FIRE movement — Financial Independence Retire Early — including the 4 percent rule the rule of 25 and why savings rate is a far more powerful lever than income level in determining how quickly someone can reach financial independence. The conversation gets particularly compelling when Kristy shares her own story of growing up in poverty in China living on 44 cents a day and how that background did not prevent her from building a seven figure portfolio — a point she uses to dismantle the common assumption that FIRE is only for high earners. Ryan and the guests cover sequence of returns risk and the specific three part strategy Kristy and Bryce use to protect against it including a three year cash cushion geographic arbitrage as a cost reduction tool and the passive income generated by dividends and interest that reduces the need to sell assets during a downturn. The episode also touches on nomadic life with a toddler the shift from 100 percent equity during accumulation to a more balanced 60 40 allocation approaching retirement and the critically important five year dang

Added 6 Jun 2026