Steve Stewart Recently, Steve Stewart from MoneyPlan SOS contacted Kraig from Young Cheap Living and me to see if we would do a podcast interview on the thought process behind retiring early, the different methods one can take on the path to financial independence and some of the challenges someone who’s aiming for early retirement […]

This is a first! My fellow blogging buddy and good friend Kraig over at Young Cheap Living and I have started a podcast titled: The Chasing Financial Freedom Podcast. What you’ll see represented below is Episodes 1-3! We’re pretty excited about this. This podcast is basically a new way of delivering content to you readers. […]

While some of you may not have heard of Derek Foster before, he’s fairly well known in Canadian circles as someone who escaped the rat race extremely early in life, and became “Canada’s Youngest Retiree” by retiring at 34 years old. He then went on to write a number of books that showcase his early […]

Hey everyone! I was recently interviewed by Tom over at Long Term Investments. It was a great opportunity for me to pass along some inspiration to Tom’s readers and I greatly appreciate it! If you’re interested in the piece, you can click below: Interview: How You Can Retire At The Age Of 40 I hope […]

This weekend, Dividend Mantra hit 1,000,000 pageviews! Simply amazing. I started this blog back in March, 2011 never anticipating any kind of readership at all. I thought I would put my information out there and hopefully a couple people would find some inspiration and I could start some kind of dialogue with like-minded investors. I’m […]

A little while back, Kraig from Young Cheap Living reached out to me by email to say hi and strike up a conversation. It seemed that we have a lot in common – we both save over half of our net income, invest regularly in the stock market (he through index investing), we’re both young […]

I turned 31 over the past week! Yikes. I’m now closer to 40 than I am 20. Sigh… I’m getting older. But I’m also getting wiser, and as such I’m getting better in almost all facets of being a human being. I find that with age comes the wisdom and patience necessary to face many […]

  Well, the secret is already out.  I was featured as part of a story on retiring before 40 years old this morning on Today. If you haven’t already seen the feature, please check it out below: My story on Today! Pretty awesome! I’m so excited that the fact that it’s quite possible for a […]

Recently, I was asked by Matt Alden, the man behind Dividend Monk, to take part in an interview for his investment newsletter. Of course I jumped at the opportunity! The interview focuses on my journey to financial independence before 40 years old, the methods and strategies I use, frugality as leverage and some stocks that […]

Do you like the new look? I’m getting ready to fly home to Michigan tomorrow morning for my Uncle/Dad’s 50th birthday. I took Friday and Monday off work to make time for the short trip. I’m pretty excited! You think I’d be spending time checking-in my flight online, packing or otherwise preparing for the trip. […]