Short on time and prefer to get inspiring FIRE content from Instagram instead of reading long-winded articles like this one? Then check out early retiree Purple, a fresh young voice in the FIRE community who frequently posts about her travel adventures, monthly expenses and net worth updates on her Instagram page and corresponding blog, A Purple Life.
After grinding it out in Manhattan’s cutthroat advertising industry for four years, Purple discovered FIRE and quickly planned to learn everything she could about investing so she could retire in ten years. She scaled back on expenses, worked super hard to land even higher paying jobs and invested as much as she could in low-cost index funds that tracked the Total US stock market (specifically VTSAX). Sound familiar? Well, what’s incredible about Purple is that she managed to hit her FIRE number in just five years, a record if I’ve ever seen one!