Welcome to The Financial Freedom Spotlight Series – the newest feature on MyMoneyWizard.com! My uncreative title might have spoiled the surprise, but this series will look at real stories of real people reaching financial independence. Really! And in the spirit of early retirement, doing it in your 60s doesn’t count! Instead, we’ll be highlighting people […]
Early Retirement
Choose Your Money Adventure: The 4 Paths to Financial Independence
When I was a kid, I used to love those “Choose Your Own Ending” books. In the books, the plot would occasionally branch off, and you as the reader were asked to make a decisions for the main character. Different decisions had you flipping to different pages to continue the story. The beauty of the […]
Get Rich by Building Your Own Nuclear Triad of Income
If you haven’t been following the news, you may have missed the recent escalation of 70 years’ worth of tensions between the USA and North Korea, which has us all in danger of getting nuked. I’m no expert in political current events, but the cliff notes version goes something like this: On July 28, North […]
These Three Famous Early Retirees Will Surprise You
Blame it on the “retirement” part of the name, but early retirement tends to get a bad rap. The common vision of early retirement involves a 40 year old cheap bastard sitting around all day playing video games. That’s not exactly what I have in mind. Early retirement is far from an excuse to be […]
How Much Money Do You Actually Need to Retire?
Step too far outside the realm of Money Wizards, and you’re bound to hear plenty of “alternative facts” about how much money you need to retire. The unfortunate truth is that most of this misinformation simply comes from people still stuck in an early stage of retirement planning. The even more unfortunate truth is that […]
