Medical debt is a big financial burden for many people. Brad and Jonathan spoke with Craig and Jerry from RIP Medical Debt to find out more about their solution to this problem.
Medical debt is a big financial burden for many people. Brad and Jonathan spoke with Craig and Jerry from RIP Medical Debt to find out more about their solution to this problem.
Medical debt has the power to seriously hurt your financial future. Many Americans are faced with unavoidable medical debt that has crippled their financial situation. RIP Medical Debt is a nonprofit working to forgive medical debt for pennies on the dollar. They share their background and the amazing progress they’ve
A discussion of what to do with a windfall, a review of turnkey real estate investing, and a meditation for stock market investors when the market is falling. Fincon In Main Stream News In last week’s episode, Brad and Jonathan discussed their experience at Fincon. This week, Brad found two
If you depend on the Health Insurance Marketplace for health coverage, open enrollment is an important time. First, it’s an opportunity for you to preview any planned changes to your coverage or premium. And if you’re unhappy with your current health insurance policy, open enrollment is your chance to shop
A Community member of the ChooseFI Facebook group, Sharah M. shared her method for tracking optimizations and improvements: “Inspired by the weekly Choose FI “What did you do this week” posts, I started a Make Life Better journal last January (could also be called an Aggregation of Marginal Gains tracker).
As members of the FI community, our goals are all similar enough. In order to retire early, we need to have 25x our annual expenses in diversified investments and savings to achieve this. But how and when each one of us achieves it may be completely different based on our
Mr. Refined from Refined by Fire has overcome a staggering amount of debt that accumulated from student loans and medical bills. After finding the FI community, he was able to triple his net worth! Mr. Refined talks openly about his debt, how he negotiated his way out of debt, and why
On February 1st, 2019 I launched my new planning firm, FI-nancial Planner. I want to talk about the inner workings of quitting a full-time job and creating a new company. In contrast to the popular wisdom of starting a side-hustle and making the leap when the new business can support
We all know that we are great at building up our portfolio income in preparation for early retirement. But, most of us are so busy with our eye on the prize of a great retirement that we don’t really know what to do with it when it is finally here.
Health flexible spending accounts (FSA) allow you to pay for out of pocket health care costs with pretax dollars. An FSA is typically a bank account that offers a debit card or checks you can use to make purchases or reimburse yourself for qualified costs. Unfortunately, this benefit has to
Big ERN from Early Retirement Now joins the show to talk about the current market climate: How is it impacting investors, who could benefit, and what markers he uses to evaluate its actual condition? We also share a voicemail from Abby, who provides a few more helpful hints for teaching
A series of suggestions and questions from the ChooseFI community, including HSA funds, capital gains distributions, and Traditional versus Roth IRAs, and follow up from Monday’s episode with Deanna. What we cover in this episode: • Jonathan raves about battery-powered chain saws, and a great bonding experience with his dad.
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