Not a coworker, but wasn't worth starting a brand new thread over and I couldn't think of a better place for it:
I called an old college friend last night to wish her a happy birthday, and we spent about an hour catching up since we live in different parts of the country now. As we're talking, she suddenly says, "Pencilthinstash, you're the only person I know who's going to properly appreciate this, but... I've really started getting into minimalism lately." Starts going off on how she's majorly downsized over the past couple months, only spends money on things that add value to her life now, all the wonderful things that I've been lazily advocating for the last few years. She finally gets it. Kickass.
"Even better, now that I'm not buying unnecessary crap all the time, I've been saving SO much money, and it's helping me build my debt snowball even faster. I've paid off my credit cards, my car, now I just have student loans left. Need to start looking into investing soon..." Cool, so she's got the Dave Ramsey lingo/mentality. Not bad for someone who's freshly turned 27.
Now this girl is a badass to begin with (she's a full-time nurse about to finish putting herself through grad school, holy shit), so between her starting to get her financial house in order, and simultaneously discovering minimalism... I see my shot.
"You know, I started with Dave Ramsey too, but what made my finances REALLY come together... there's this blog you should check out. The dude who writes it retired at 30." She immediately starts asking questions about how that's even possible, so I give a 30 second overview, mention my favorite analogy of how Dave Ramsey is Weight Watchers, compared to MMM as a crazy triathlete. She pulled up the blog while we're still talking, and the first words out of her mouth: "Financial freedom through badassity? WHAT?!?!?" I told her to start at the beginning of the archives and just work her way forward...
Y'all, we may have a new convert on our hands soon.