NICE TO MEET YOU!

We’re Letizia Alto, MD and Kenji Asakura, MD.

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

But in reality? After years of hard work, we had little to show for it. Even with our high incomes, we had very little freedom in terms of time or money. We were working 80+ hours one week on, one week off, yet we weren’t making financial progress, and we barely saw each other.

We thought “is this it?” We had worked our whole lives to get where we were, to become doctors, but we weren’t living the life we truly wanted.

We decided to take back our freedom. To live life on our terms. But with a twist: we weren’t going to sacrifice our income to do it.

WE REALIZED OUR HOSPITALIST POSITIONS

WOULD NEVER ALLOW US TO ACHIEVE OUR DREAMS WHILE

WE WERE STILL YOUNG.

So we looked to those other tried-and-true financial strategies for achieving FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early). You know,

• Saving money aggressively
• Working even more shifts
• Pouring money into stock market accounts

Those strategies would get us to financial freedom... in 20+ years.

And we just didn’t want to wait that long.