I’m the first to acknowledge that it wouldn’t have happened as fast if I had student loans to pay off, and if I hadn’t worked three jobs in college, received tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships, and had some contributions from my parents. It took me a little over three years to hit my $100,000 mark, but I did it, and by my deadline - I was 25 years old and just a few months. How long did it take you to save the money? It had always been a goal of mine to start saving at a young age in order to achieve more financial security, flexibility, and freedom - but when I read that, I thought, “Maybe I can do one better.” I read an article in 2016 about someone who had a $100,000 net worth at 25. What made you choose $100,000 as your goal? Today, at 27, Dunlap sees herself as an “unabashedly feminist” personal finance expert, and she is passionate about helping women with their finances, both through social media (she has 2.2 million followers on TikTok) and through her company, Her First $100K.ĭunlap clearly sees that first savings goal as a big benchmark in her personal finance journey, given that she named her company after it. And she pulled it off, meeting her goal just a few weeks after her 25th birthday. In her early 20s, Tori Dunlap set a goal for herself: By age 25, she’d have saved $100,000. Bustle’s Personal Best is a series on how to identify - and then unabashedly go after - what you truly want, by learning from people who’ve already done it.
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