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Wanderer

The Wanderer retired from his engineering job at a major Silicon Valley semiconductor company at the age of 33. He now travels the world, seeking out knowledge from other wealthy people, so that he can teach people how to become Financially Independent themselves.

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• Full Circle - September 11, 2023
• Yield To Maturity Might Be Indicating a Bottom in the Bond Market - August 21, 2023
• Reader Case: Nomadic Superfans! - August 7, 2023

This has been a very difficult few years. At the beginning of 2020, while we were travelling in Bali, I got a call from my mom that nobody ever wants to hear. My dad had gone to see a doctor to check out some dizziness that didn’t seem to go away, and an MRI scan had found the worst possible explanation there could be: a mass in my dad’s head. It was brain cancer. The diagnosis completely upended our lives. In an instant, our days of living nomadically and travelling the globe without a care in the world came crashing […]

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FIRECracker

FIRECracker is a world-travelling early retiree. She used to live in one of the most expensive cities in Canada, but instead of drowning in debt, she rejected home ownership. What resulted was a 7-figure portfolio, which has allowed her and her husband to retire at 31 and travel the world. Their story has been featured on CBC, the Huffington Post, CNBC, BNN, Business Insider, and Yahoo Finance. To date, it is the most shared story in CBC history and their viral video on CBC's On the Money has garnered 4.5 Million views.

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• The Most Epic Babymoon - September 18, 2023
• Let’s Go Exploring! Hobbiton and Auckland, New Zealand: Fangirling over the Lord of the Rings - September 4, 2023
• Are Millennials the New Boomers? - August 28, 2023

In order to be successful, the Boomers said we had to: 1) Get a job 2) Buy a house 3) Be a loyal employee 4) Retire with a pension at 65 And because they were older and wiser, while I was a stupid, naive Millennial girl, I thought it might be a good idea to follow their advice. So I applied their four-step plan and I’m sharing the results with you, so you can see how it turned out. Ready? Here we go!!! 1) Get a job “DON’T BE A WRITER. BE AN ENGINEER.” “But I love writing! And how […]