{"id":12134,"date":"2026-01-04T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/how-these-kenyan-entrepreneurs-achieved-financial-freedom-by-their-forties\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:24:59","slug":"how-these-kenyan-entrepreneurs-achieved-financial-freedom-by-their-forties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/how-these-kenyan-entrepreneurs-achieved-financial-freedom-by-their-forties\/","title":{"rendered":"How these Kenyan entrepreneurs achieved financial freedom by their forties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_183560\" style=\"width: 814px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-183560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonard and Emily Mcharo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Kenyan entrepreneurs Leonard and Emily Mcharo spent years living far below their means. There were no holidays, no weekend road trips, and no bikes for their children. While their peers were upgrading their lifestyles, the Mcharos\u2019 home remained devoid of luxuries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their frugal lifestyle wasn\u2019t born of necessity, but of intent. The couple had set themselves a clear goal: to achieve financial independence \u2013 a point where their basic living expenses could be covered entirely by passive income. Their target figure was 500,000 Kenyan shillings&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howwemadeitinafrica.com\/how-these-kenyan-entrepreneurs-achieved-financial-freedom-by-their-forties\/183559\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard and Emily Mcharo Kenyan entrepreneurs Leonard and Emily Mcharo spent years living far below their means. There were no holidays, no&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3454,3507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}