Building your blueprint to FI starts with the basics. A simple thing like tracking your spending can set you on a path that will change your life forever. Today, we get back to FI 101 and uncover the stark difference between goals and systems. What Will Life After FI Look
Diania Merriam discusses accountability, shifting perspectives, and community. She has a great perspective on building community and life with balance. Diania’s Money Story At an early point in Diania’s life, she aspired to be the highest-paid female CEO. Since then, she has realized this is no longer her goal. It
Jonathan digs deep comparing whole life insurance and term insurance. Laura gets over $130 of clothes from Old Navy for 80 cents! How Laura Broke Old Navy According to Brad, this may be Laura’s best shopping experience of all time. She only paid 80 cents for goods that would normally
House hacking, takeaways from this week’s episode with Andréa Motenko, and the tenents of FI. ChooseFI: Your Blueprint To Financial Independence Our book, ChooseFI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence, launched this week. The plan has taken all of the information from our podcasts and turned it into a linear path to FI.
Roofstock’s mantra is that they offer “radically accessible real estate investing.” And after taking a deep look into what they have to offer for this Roofstock review, that seems to be completely true. Investing in real estate isn’t as simple as other forms of investment. You need to find properties
Andréa Motenko grew up with food and housing insecurity. She’s on the show discussing the psychology of poverty and how it allows us to be resilient and push forward through adversity. Andréa has committed her life to social studies and taking FI information to people experiencing poverty. Andréa’s Position Andréa
If you are like most families, your kids have enough stuff. As members of the FI community, you likely would prefer to have a longer-lasting gift, such as a contribution to your child’s 529, or money towards extracurricular activities. Asking for money can be uncomfortable, no doubt. It’s about setting
Brad and Jonathan discuss this week’s episode with Shannyn Allan, as well as talk to Chuck Jaffe and his thoughts about Financial Independence Retire Early. Brad and Jonathan also discuss skills versus a degree. Building Skills As a part of the path to FI, many decided to learn new skills
Shannyn Allan joins us to discuss “embracing the suck”–when life just doesn’t go as planned. Shannyn’s Story Shannyn’s money story starts when she was a broke graduate student in Chicago. She had started a blog to talk about how broke she was and how impossible it felt to survive in
The job of instilling good money habits and wealth-building tools into our children is no small feat. Society will pressure them into living beyond their means in every way possible. You can provide subtle, yet strong lessons which will help them establish their own money personality. This will then guide
Paula Pant of Afford Anything returns to dive deeper into real estate investing. In this second conversation, Paula covers turnkey, deal syndication, and building a team. Turnkey Real Estate Investing In traditional real estate investing, the investor would buy a house and rent it to tenants after any necessary repairs.
If you’re a student pursuing FI, you know how important saving money is. And you definitely don’t want to miss out on the savings that student discounts can provide you. Many businesses offer varying reductions in price, with some even offering freebies! Sometimes small discounts don’t seem worth it, but
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