As a lawyer / engineer / MBA, how can you achieve FIRE (financial independence, retire early) rapidly to quit the rat race, pursue your passions, and live life on your own terms? Andrew Chen – founder of the Hack Your Wealth Blog and lawyer, financial expert (CFA graduate), and tech industry veteran – shows you strategies and tactics to (1) earn, (2) save, (3) invest, and (4) protect as a high earner so that you can build massive wealth and create a portfolio that’s a FIRE machine. Through solo lessons, expert interviews, and side hustle profiles, you’ll learn about tax strategies, retirement account optimization, asset allocation & rebalancing, passive income (real estate investing, side hustling, online business, digital nomading), family finances (e.g., strategizing college education costs), travel hacking, estate planning, and career transitions. Andrew podcasts about the big picture concepts, then adds step-by-step implementation guides downloadable from the Hack Your Wealth website to help you FIRE strategically, methodically, and rapidly.
#82: Are annuities a good investment for retirement?With $250 billion in sales each year, and $2.5 trillion in retirement annuity assets under contrac...
#81: With the market rallying like crazy this past year, you might have significant capital gains on stocks right now.Now might be a good time for som...
#80: Teaching kids about money isn’t easy, but it’s crucial if you want to boot them off your payroll after they graduate from school.But while financ...
#79: This one’s for you parents who have kids in college or soon going to college…In the COVID relief stimulus bill that passed at the end of 2020, th...
#78: For this episode, I polled other influencers in the personal finance community to ask for their best tip on teaching money lessons to kids.I had ...
#77: Teaching financial literacy for kids may seem like a tall order…when considering that financial literacy even for adults is a national deficiency...
#76: Retiring early to travel the world is a common goal for FIRE aspirants.But full-time travel can lose appeal quickly. Churches and temples quickly...
#75: Real estate investing might seem like something only wealthy people can do.It’s expensive, down payments can be high, and you may feel you don’t ...
#74: This week, I chat with Caroline Ceniza-Levine, a career coach now early retired, whose own spouse wasn’t on board with early retirement for many ...
#73: One big reason the tech industry attracts a lot of talent: you get partly compensated in stock, and if you’re early enough at a company that IPOs...