[3] She graduated from Brown University in 1967 and initially pursued a career as an actress, appearing as an extra in the soap operas Love of Life and The Secret Storm.
During her travels, she met Joe Dominguez, a former Wall Street financial analyst who in 1969 retired at the age of 31[5] having saved about $100,000 (equivalent to $830,853 in 2023) during his brief career.
They supported themselves financially by investing in long-term treasury bonds and using the interest payments to cover living expenses.
Reflecting on their process, they observed that they took nine steps to reach their financial independence goal – and thus the nine-step program in Your Money or Your Life was born.
[13] She chronicled her experiences in a book titled Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth.