On board today is Michael Quan, author of the book The Fire Planner, and the man behind the popular Financially Alert blog and the Breakthrough Millionaire Podcast. Michael reached FIRE in his early thirties and It was actually only after he sold his IT company to a larger provider and inadvertently found himself back in a nine-to-five corporate job that he decided he was going to pull the pin and FIRE at age 36, which is pretty impressive. Post FIRE, these days, Michael is a stay-at-home dad in...
Jan 14, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Today, I have the absolute pleasure to be chatting to Liz from her awesome blog and amazing book that she wrote, Meet the Frugal Woods! Anyone who's been on the Captain FI blog knows that I'm a big fan of Liz and Nate, the Frugal Woods and they are literally living my dream! They have an acreage in rural Vermont, which they call the Frugalwoods. There, they're raising their two beautiful daughters and they participate in a whole bunch of wholesome things. They're always gardening...
Dec 31, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 66
On board today is Phil Muscatello, the host and producer of the awesome podcasts, Shares for Beginners, Stocks for Beginners, ETFs for Beginners and Talking Companies. Phil is not from a finance background, but he wants to learn more about becoming a better investor. So he hopes that his listeners come along for the ride and don't make the same mistakes that he has. Phil actually has degrees in Media Production and Literary Studies. He played in some awesome, psychedelic, heavy rock cabaret ...
Dec 17, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 65
On board today is Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung from Canada, also known from their popular blog, Millennial Revolution. Here's a quote from our guests, 'Money is the most important thing in the world'. Maybe a bit of a controversial take. Whilst having money is certainly no guarantee of happiness, poverty is sure to make you miserable, and no one knows this better than Kristy, who has seen both ends of the wealth spectrum. Despite growing up in poverty and, at one point, living with he...
Dec 03, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 64
On board today is Louise Howard, a Sydney-based executive who I met through the FIRE community. Louise is an incredibly talented, dedicated and successful person who has held executive roles in infrastructure projects in the public sector, as well as management and consulting in the private sector. She recently decided to take a break from her government job and launched her own advisory business called Louise Howard Advisory, where she advises and speaks publicly, all over the world on topics s...
Nov 19, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 63
On board today is Dev Raga, a practicing clinician from Melbourne with a passion for personal finance. Dev is a fellow podcaster and currently hosts the My Millennial Money Professional Podcast, which is a podcast that makes money concepts simple for busy professionals. Dev began podcasting because he wanted to leave a blueprint for his children and family in the rare event that he wasn't around to explain the basics of personal finance and investing. He's a husband, father, doctor, podc...
Nov 05, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 62
On board today is Michelle from Making Sense of Cents. Michelle reached financial independence through her online businesses and has enjoyed living a variety of interesting lifestyles post FI, including, but not limited to van life. Now, Michelle and her family even live part-time on a sailboat, and get to travel the world via the seven seas, which is pretty bloody cool. Michelle used to work as a financial analyst and documented her journey towards FI through her blog, Making Sense of Cents, wh...
Oct 22, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 61
On board today are Jess and Corey, better known online as The Fioneers. Jess and Corey both spent the majority of their careers working in mission driven non-profit organizations. But in 2018, Jess experienced really bad burnout, which led to some anxiety and really needing to take a step back. So Jess had a six month career break to really focus on her mental health, returning the following year to part-time work. This gave her time to rest, reset, focus, and plan. When researching and planning...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 60
On board today is Dr. Jordan Grumet, better known as Doc G from the DiverseFI blog and the host of the incredibly popular Earn and Invest podcast, but he's also the author of the blog, In My Humble Opinion. Doc G specializes in palliative care and despite reaching FI continues to work in the hospice part-time where he compassionately helps people through the final stages of their lives. Unlike most doctors I know, Doc G is pretty amazing when it comes to money. He sees it as a tool that we c...
Oct 08, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 59
On board the podcast I welcome Queenie Tan, a Sydney-based personal finance content creator who you might recognise from her incredibly popular channel and profile, Invest with Queenie, where she has amassed nearly 400,000 followers across social media channels such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook. Queenie creates helpful, relevant content centered around money-saving hacks and investing to help your money go further and also shares how she's building her wealth through earning, s...
Oct 01, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 58
On the pod today I interviewed Nicole Martin, owner of Martin & Fortuin, teaching Financial Literacy Australia. Nicole began her career as an accountant in Cape Town, South Africa. After 4 years of training, she made the move into finance, working firstly for a Listed Investment Company, and then as the assistant accountant to the financial director in a manufacturing business. When Nicole and her family moved to Australia, they settled in Coffs Harbour and she worked as a financial accounta...
Sep 24, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 57
I'm tickled pink to welcome to the podcast Canna Campbell, the founder and director of the financial media platform, Sugar Mamma TV! Canna is also the bestselling author of The $1000 Project, and Mindful Money, and has been working as a licensed financial planner for nearly two decades. Canna runs the popular podcast Sugar Mamma's FirePlay which has seen more than 1.3 million downloads, as well as runs the podcast How Do They Afford That, with Michael Thompson. Canna lives with her husba...
Sep 17, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 56
On the pod today from Austin, Texas is Corwin, a fellow aerospace engineer and FIRE blogger from 'Engineering your FI' with a Bachelor's, Masters and PhD in aerospace engineering, as well as over a decade of engineering industry experience. He definitely fits the engineering bill, which we often see here in the FIRE community. Corwin and his partner reached financial independence at ages 35 and 33 respectively, which he puts down to a lot of hard work and some good fortune. Corwin ha...
Sep 10, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 55
On board the podcast today is Mr Nomad Numbers. Mr and Mrs Nomad Numbers sold everything they owned and began slow travelling the world. They've documented their travels and their journey on NomadNumbers.com where they blog anonymously and share their travel destinations, itineraries and meticulously document their costs of travel and living. They came to the conclusion that the cost of slow traveling the world can actually be much cheaper than staying at home and working. They have been abl...
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 54
On board the pod today is Dom who runs the popular blog Gen Y Finance Guy, where Dom's been blogging about his journey to financial independence and posting net wealth updates for the past decade. Dom is from California, where he lives with his wife and 2 kids. He faced some immense challenges early on in life, growing up below the poverty line, and eventually having to be raised by his grandparents after his parents ended up in jail. Dom refers to this as humble financial beginnings. Dom...
Aug 27, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 53
On board today we welcome Jonathan Clements, the founder and editor of The Humble Dollar blog. Jonathan is also the author of 9 books, with the most recent being 'My Money Journey' which includes money journeys from not only himself, but from 30 others who have found financial freedom. Jonathan was born in London and has moved over to the USA, he was hired by Forbes magazine as a junior reporter and was then hired by the Wall Street Journal where he was the newspaper's personal finan...
Aug 20, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 52
We welcome back Matt Raad from the E-Business Institute for Part THREE of our Q and A Session! Matt and his wife Liz, teach and mentor their students on how to create online business (websites) for passive income. This podcast is the third in a series of three pods where we unpack a huge series of listener Q and A's. So tune in for Part Three of our Q and A session and make sure to catch Parts One and Two if you missed them, with even more listener questions answered!...
Aug 13, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 51
On board the pod today is Karsten from Early Retirement Now. Sometimes he's affectionately referred to as Big Ern due to his massive 6'6" stature, but Ern isn't just any old blogger. He's originally from Germany, and he moved to the USA as an exchange student where he stayed after graduating to proceed on his finance career. He has a PhD in economics and has dozens of journal articles published in prestigious academic journals. Karsten has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank ...
Aug 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Today on the pod, all the way from London, I welcome Barney Whiter, The Escape Artist, to discuss his journey to financial independence and escaping the cubicle. Barney is not just your average blogger, he has a degree in economics and has worked for over 2 decades as a qualified charter accountant in corporate finance. He was able to retire at the age of 43, about a decade ago, never having won the lottery or inheriting a fortune, but all while paying off the family mortgage and raising 3 young...
Jul 30, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 49
On board the pod today is JMoney from Budgets are Sexy. JMoney is probably one of the most recognizable names, or should that be Mohawks in the fire community. After a somewhat impulsive purchase of a home in his early twenties, J became focused on improving his finances and became inspired by what he read online, causing him to start what eventually came to be the incredibly popular blog, Budgets are Sexy. J became a millionaire in just 10 short years reaching financial independence before the ...
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 48
For today's podcast, I welcome Deacon Hayes from Well Kept Wallet who went from over $50,000 in debt, to financial independence and who actually became a financial planner along the way. Deacon paid off his debt in just over a year and a half and became so excited about the process. He studied finance, became a financial planner and founded Well Kept Wallet, advising high net worth clients as a way to share his experience with money and to help others. He wrote the book, 'You can retire ...
Jul 16, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 47
Today I welcome on board Jeremy Schneider from Personal Finance Club! Jeremy joins us from sunny California and chats to us about building his successful business Rent Links, where he was always famously the lowest paid employee, and which he worked bloody hard to build over a 10 year period! He went on to build several other successful businesses and has always maintained simplicity when it comes to money and investing - living by and spreading the message to live below your means and invest ea...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Today I'm chatting to one of my all-time favourite authors and an idol in the FIRE community - JL Collins. JL is the author of the bestselling personal finance book, 'The Simple Path to Wealth' and his online blog - jlcollinsnh.com features his stock series. JL has been investing for nearly 50 years, has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to investing and money, he has had diverse career roles, and travelled the world extensively. He is a loving husband and father and his blog posts...
Jul 02, 2023•2 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 45
On the pod today we welcome back Matt Raad from the E-Business Institute. Matt and his wife Liz, teach and mentor their students on how to create online business (websites) for passive income. This podcast is the second in a series of three pods where we unpack a huge series of listener Q and A's. So tune in for Part Two of our Q and A session and make sure to catch Parts One and Three with even more listener questions answered!
Jun 20, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 43
In this podcast, I chat to Amy Minkley who created FI Freedom Retreats in Bali. Amy shares her journey of working hard, travelling abroad, maintaining a high savings rate for a long period and then getting burned out. She talks about her money fears and where they came from, and how it took hitting rock bottom for her to realise she needed a change. She discovered the FIRE movement, moved her life to Bali and is passionate about helping others discover FIRE. She created FI Freedom Retreats and l...
Jun 19, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 44
This podcast is an update about my FIRE Journey - one year after leaving my flying job, essentially one year of early retirement, which has also been a very busy year. There has been some traveling, the loss of my dear mum, some family drama, working on some personal projects including the website business, lots of reading and prioritising my own health, as well as setting goals for the short term and the long term.
Jun 06, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 42
On the pod today we welcome back Matt Raad from the E-Business Institute. Matt and his wife Liz, teach and mentor their students on how to create online business (websites) for passive income. This podcast is the first in a series of three pods where we unpack a huge series of listener Q and A's. So tune in for Part One of our Q and A session and watch this space for the following two pods with even more listener questions answered!
May 10, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 41
On board today is Andy Darroch. Andy runs Independent Wealth Advice , an independent financial advice firm that provides fixed upfront fees for a statement of financial advice. He has a degree in accounting and is a CFP. He's also worked in wealth management for over a decade, including at Macquarie Bank and at one of Australia's oldest stockbroking firms, Wilson's Advisory and Stockbroking. Suffice to say he's got a bit of experience. He also calls himself a self-loathing financ...
Apr 01, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 40
This podcast features Captain Fi! I am interviewed by Jesse from The Money Pal. We discuss making money from website businesses, how I started my financal independence journey, and what inspired me along the way, including the OG Mr Money Mustache and the various personal finance books that have helped build my knowledge. I talk about some financial struggles I experienced, especially when starting out studying aviation and early on in my flying career, and how my amazing mother sacrificed so mu...
Feb 03, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 39
In this episode I chatted to Ana Kresina who works in Fintech under product management. She is also obsessed with personal finance and has a blog under her name - AnaKresina.com, where she writes about career advancement, personal finance topics and travel. Ana moved to Australia from Canada, has a young family here in Australia and is navigating how to move forward in her career and work towards financial independence as her family grows. She shares her journey and what she has learned about pe...
Jan 06, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 38
