Pursuing FI is well and good if you have an established job that pays you well. But what about those fresh out of college? I know when I graduated, I barely had enough in the bank to put a down-payment on an apartment, let alone start pursuing Financial Independence. What
In this episode: Travel Rewards, Credit Cards, and The Value of Rewards Points.
The Simple Path to Wealth JL Collins is our most downloaded podcast guest of all-time, and his book The Simple Path to Wealth is nearly required reading for every member of the Financial Independence community. I saw a great post on Twitter by JRod Money with a curated set of 10 quotes from the
House hacking. You’ve heard about it, and people in the ChooseFI community gush over how awesome it is. So, what the heck is house hacking and how can you do it? House hacking is a term used by both real estate investors and the Choose FI community pretty regularly. Traditionally,
Success and Sharing the FI Love A FI Weekly reader, who goes by the initials SMN, wrote in an amazing story of how they reached early retirement, prioritized their life and have spread the concept of FI to family and friends: “Long overdue update from faithful listener from the beginning…
Have you ever felt like you can’t relate to a lot of the prominent voices or people in the personal finance community? As a young church pastor, I have to admit that I often felt this way. When I heard people who were making six figures talk about all the
Closing out our Ultimate Guide to Travel Reward series, we are going to walk you through the best ways to get access to loyalty programs and other tools that will expedite the process of flying. If you’ve found your way here through a Google rabbit hole, you can rewind and
You’ve made it to part 5 of our 6 part Ultimate Guide to Credit Card Travel Rewards – gold stars all around. Now let’s take a look at flight availability, what to do when your flight isn’t available, and some “on the grind” processes you can score when in a
In part 1 of our Ultimate Guide to Credit Card Travel Rewards series, we laid out the basics of travel rewards, when to apply for travel reward credit cards, and the overall basics of our approach to getting those reward gains.
In part 2 of this series, we’ll tackle the different strategies of using travel points, the best credit cards for travel rewards, and the importance of flexibility.
If you would like to live on half your income, you will need to make some adjustments to how you live, work and stay entertained. I won’t sugarcoat it, living on half of your income will challenge everything about your life, but it will be so worth it. Because living
Four Day Work Week I was fascinated by this Twitter thread from Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow announcing that: “Bolt is now the first tech unicorn to permanently switch to a 4 day work week Our 3 month experiment proved every core thesis: Heightened 1/ Productivity2/ Engagement3/ Wellness” Breslow’s thread is worth a 3-minute
Simple Tips for Online Security I recently chatted with a friend in the cyber security field about some of the common-sense online security practices I follow, and he thought it was a good 80/20 analysis of low-hanging fruit to get the vast majority of the benefits of being safe online without
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