Early retirement

Your headphones can make you wealthy. If you want to achieve financial independence, you need to level up your financial literacy. But who has time to find and read all the personal finance content out there? As a busy working mom with two tiny humans, I certainly don’t have the time or energy to open […]

To achieve financial freedom, you can earn more money with a side hustle, or you can forget and relearn everything you think you know about money. Canadians have questions, and they turn to places like Reddit or personal finance blogs for advice built for life in Canada. FIRE, which is the acronym for Financial Independence, Retire […]

Fuck You Money is the amount of cash you need to walk away from a toxic or undesirable situation without worrying about the financial fallout. And in my experience, having enough Fuck You Money on is one of the best things you can do for your mental health. Why? Because it means you can’t be […]

Celestian Rince and Stephanie Williams are the Vancouver millennial couple who have uncoupled from the materialistic, consumer driven rat race. Instead, they’re devoted to building a life of elegant simplicity – one lean on luxuries but rich in experience. A life clear from the clutter of stuff can leave room for only one thing – […]

Have you ever caught yourself staring at the clock and praying for the workday to be over? Do you fantasize during the workday about the next vacation you’re going to take when your work gives you more days off? What about tossing and turning on a Sunday night in dread of returning to your workplace […]

Sam Dogen is the creator of Financial Samurai, an American personal finance blog, on which he was chronicling his life as an early retiree… until he decided to go back to work. Before he launched his blog in 2009, Sam worked in finance for over a decade. Sam started the blog to “help make sense of […]

If you’ve followed the FIRE movement in recent years, you may have heard the story of Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung. If you haven’t, this young Canadian couple made headlines in 2016 when they managed to save a million dollars and quit their jobs in the Toronto tech sector to pursue early retirement. Since then, […]

Most people start to think about retirement with they hit the big 50. But for Justin McCurry, a former engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina, retiring at 33 means freedom. Every day for him is like a Sunday – no chores and a lot of free time to do whatever he wants. Justin quit his full-time […]

On his blog, ThinkSaveRetire, Steve Adcock admits that he wasn’t always frugal. Like most people his age, he wanted to live “the American dream – own a big house in a suburb, drive fast cars and buy expensive things. While he earned a decent income as an IT expert, Steve only stashed away the bare minimum […]

The alias Mr. Money Moustache refers to 46 years old Peter Adeney, a charismatic financial blogger born in Ontario who is best known for retiring at 30. When you get to understand the financial journey of Peter Adeney and the current situation that the world is in right now, retiring at 30 or even living […]

In April, I began to tell you about the FIRE movement, which is on the rise. Just because it’s synonymous with freedom and financial independence doesn’t mean it brings opulent wealth, but rather strong (financial) health. So what is the starting point for good financial health, with or without fire?  Your spending! The pandemic will […]

Bob Lai’s father retired at 43, and following his footsteps, Bob Lai is now well on the way to an early retirement by the time he reached 42 years old. Based out of Vancouver, Bob Lai is Canadian blogger who writes about FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early), dividend investing and personal finance on his blog […]