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FIRE Starter 014: Two Highly Motivated MDs
Today’s FIRE Starter interviewee is a fellow physician financial blogger with a family of four–and sometimes another–early in their career. … Read more
Jorge Sanchez, MD
Which Real Estate Side Hustle is Right for You?
There is no better time than the present to develop a couple of additional income streams to help you on … Read more
My Fifth Year of Early Retirement
Is early retirement as great five years in as it is the first year? That first few months of FIRE … Read more
How Do You Endow a Scholarship and How Much Does It Cost?
One of the cooler and more rewarding ways of giving back is paying it forward. Endowing a scholarship at a … Read more
The Pros and Cons of Being Wealthy
You may have heard the phrase more money, more problems. And it’s true that many of the problems that come … Read more
Post FI Notes 023: Freshly FIREd at Fifty-Seven
He advanced in an engineering career while she put in more than four decades at the local candy store while … Read more
Make Your Own Luck: 16 Ways To Win In Finances And Life
An ancient philosopher from Rome, Seneca, posited, “luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” There’s also the common phrase, … Read more
Post FI Notes 022: 2x FI and Working By Choice
This physician, with four children including two with special needs, retired earlier this year but takes on temporary assignments. With … Read more
Wealth Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
One notion that’s hard for some folks to shake is that someone’s gains, someone’s wins, must come from someone else’s … Read more
FIRE Crossroads 035: Saving $50,000 a Month to Reach FI
Our interviewee today regularly saves mid-five figures every single month into taxable and wants an airplane. Along the way to … Read more
The Honeymoon Phase of Early Retirement
Many newly-wedded couples go out on a honeymoon. It’s a special vacation, usually after the wedding, that features romance, connection, … Read more
Post-FI Notes 021: A Super Successful Surgical Subspecialist
This Northeastern surgical subspecialist has cracked the eight-figure mark in net worth, with the majority of it in index funds. … Read more
The Truth About Bear Markets
We can’t control the market, and we can’t control the overall timing with which we invest. All we can do … Read more
FIRE Crossroads 034: Mid-40s with $4.2 Million Net Worth
We’re excited to present another FIRE Crossroads interview today. In it we find a married couple pulling down about $40,000 … Read more
Best Retirement Savings Plans for the Self-Employed
When you first start working, you probably hear a lot about 401ks and IRAs. But as the saying goes — … Read more
The Broken Clock
We humans would love to be able to see the future. That need naturally makes us gravitate toward experts and … Read more
Retiring into Uncertainty
None of us know the future. We have models and predictions, and we can read the news and sometimes detect … Read more
Financial Advice for “Low-Income” Doctors
One person’s “low-income” profession is another person’s “high-income” profession. It’s all relative, of course. But in medicine, there can be … Read more
10 Lessons Learned Along This FIRE Journey
The one thing that all of us have the same amount of every day is time. No rich person has … Read more
The Different Levels of Wealth Categorized and Explained
It is probably not a surprise to anyone that being “rich” is in the eye of the beholder. It is … Read more