Ep. 119 - Retire Early, Live on Six Figures, and Pay $0 in Federal Taxes - Legally? Sean Mullaney CPA shares how. - Part 1

I'm Kathleen, a former big law litigator turned early retiree.

Here we explore how to reframe our relationships with our time, our money, and our stuff.

Let's hop off the hedonic treadmill, examine all the scripts that we've inherited, and finally design a life on our own terms.

Welcome to The Reframe.

Today, I wanted to really drill down on this early retirement thing.

Early retirement is really alluring to a lot of people, but also remains very much a mystery.

Plenty of you who listen are intrigued by the idea of early retirement, probably are very much on the path towards financial independence, but you find the concepts a little bit intimidating.

So today I wanted to work on demystifying that.

And so I brought on the expert, someone who I think makes the impossible possible.

He makes tax planning and related issues interesting.

Crazy as that sounds, it's true.

Someone who literally wrote the book on early retirement and tax planning.

He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal.

He has been quoted in the New York Times.

Today, I'd like to welcome Sean Mullaney.

the author of Tax Planning to and Through Early Retirement, and just an extraordinary expert on the details of how to get there.

So welcome, Sean.

Welcome.

Kathleen, thanks so much for having me.

Looking forward to this conversation.