Entrepreneur and Owner of Hostel Mate, LLC; Tanner Combias is back on Alone with Peter for part two of his interview. Tanner is a financial advisor with a degree in Finance & Masters in Accountancy. He spent five years working at PwC, one of the largest professional service firms in the world before he decided to quit his job to pursue competitive tennis and travel the world.

In this episode, we will dive deeper into Tanner's tennis journey. As you may imagine it is highly irregular for someone to join a tennis academy after college, even more so if they are not already a pro. In his late 20s, Tanner didn't let that deter him from pursuing his dream. After nearly a year in the competitive camps, Tanner decided to switch focus to travel.

In this episode, we will also discover how he was able to budget for three years of tennis and travel without having a job. The answer might not be as far out of reach as you think! This one is for tennis lovers. It's also for those looking to be smarter with their money and understand how to budget (especially for world travel!)

After his stint in the competitive camps, Tanner visited 16 countries and over 70 hostels from 2019 to 2020. He was able to fund his travels around the world exclusively through savings and investments in index funds. Tanner documented his experience extensively on his blog tennisthentravel.com which I highly recommend you check out!

Stay through to the end for a sneak peak at our third and final interview with Tanner Combias.

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Tanner Combias - Financial Advisor, CPA, Entrepreneur, and Traveler Blogger

Website: hostelmate.app

Travel Blog: tennisthentravel.com

Instagram tennis_then_travel

Please enjoy part 2 of our interview with Entrepreneur and Owner of Hostel Mate, LLC; Tanner Combias

*Transcripts may contain a few typos. With interviews ranging from 1-2 hours, it can be difficult to catch minor errors.

29 Living Off Index Funds - Competitive Tennis and World Travel with Tanner Combias

Peter Kersting: Welcome back to Alone with Peter. This is part two of my interview with Tanner Combias. Last week, we talked about what it was like for him growing up, having big aspirations in small pockets, being a CPA, having a degree in finance and accountancy and how he looks at money, how his experience in Corporate America, working for PWC. One of the big fours helped shape the way that he looks at money. And ultimately how his experience in the big four and in that environment led him to leave Corporate America and to start his own thing.

Peter Kersting: We got a little bit of a tease of tennis and travel. He ultimately went off to spend an entire year just playing tennis for going off to travel. And so welcome back to the show Tanner, and I want to jump straight into this. This is not the typical career move people make from making a $100,000 a year to saying, "I'm going to throw away my job so I can go try to play tennis," when you've never played on a professional level. So walk me through this a little bit, what that looked like for you.

Tanner Combias: Yeah. Yeah. So it's good to be back. It's not a traditional path and it was scary. It was scary suddenly leaving my job, but it wasn'