Written By Paula Pant
We cover five pillars: Financial psychology, Increasing your income, Investing, Real estate, and Entrepreneurship. It’s double-ii FIIRE.
Today, we’re diving into Pillar Four: Real Estate.
Pillar IV | Real Estate
Whew. Welp. Where do I begin?
Over the last five years, home prices nationwide have grown at an annualized rate of 8.67 percent, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index.
If […]
Written By Paula Pant
We cover five pillars: Financial psychology, Increasing your income, Investing, Real estate, and Entrepreneurship. It’s double-ii FIIRE.
Today, we’re diving into Pillar Three: Investing.
Pillar III | Investing
This letter “I” could very well be called the letter T right now — tariffs, trade war, and turbulence.
Tariff increases went into effect earlier this month, and the markets treated it like old news. […]
Written By Paula Pant
We cover five pillars: Financial psychology, Increasing your income, Investing, Real estate, and Entrepreneurship. It’s double-ii FiiRE.
Today, we’re diving into pillar two: increasing your income.
Pillar II | Increasing Your Income
Imagine this: You’ve been spending weeks, maybe months, looking for a new job.
You’ve updated your LinkedIn. You’ve refreshed your resume.
You’ve contacted every professional in a related industry that […]
Written By Paula Pant
We cover five pillars: financial psychology, increasing your income, investing, real estate, and entrepreneurship. It’s double-ii FiiRE.
Today, I’m diving deep into the first pillar: financial psychology.
Pillar I | Financial Psychology
Most of us have one of three attitudes towards money: we’re anxious, we’re avoidant, or we’re obsessed.
Those of us who are anxious can sometimes express that in the form of frugality, which […]
Written By Paula Pant
Picture this: It’s 2 a.m. and you’re wide awake, mentally rehearsing tomorrow’s salary conversation for the fifteenth time.
Your stomach tightens at the thought of asking for more.
“There are people who will be up nights on end stressed about asking for a raise,” explains Bob Bordone, who taught negotiation for 21 years at Harvard Law […]
Written By Paula Pant
There are two paths to business ownership.
One path — creating a new company — has a 10 percent success rate.
The other?
When entrepreneurs buy an established, existing business, 75-85 percent succeed.
We don’t hear about this path often.
But maybe we should.
This dramatic difference challenges conventional wisdom. The myth says that buying […]
Written By Paula Pant
In today’s podcast episode, we hear from a listener who wrote in with a problem:
They contributed to a Roth 401(k) while in a 32 percent tax bracket. Later, they realized they could have waited until their income dropped to a 24 percent tax bracket and done a Roth conversion instead.
Now they’re stuck wondering: […]
Written By Paula Pant
Picture this: You’re in your 60s.
You’ve been married for more than 40 years.
You raised six children full-time, while your spouse built their career, earning $200,000 annually.
All those years, you believed you were building a comfortable retirement together.
Then the divorce papers arrive, alongside a devastating revelation — there are no retirement savings.
[…]
Written By Paula Pant
Well, this morning’s inflation report shocked — *checks notes* — absolutely no one who’s been grocery shopping lately.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest inflation report this morning, and it’s the worst report since August 2023.
The consumer price index rose 0.5 percent last month, and the bulk of the rise — 30 percent — comes from […]
Written By Paula Pant
Today, millions will watch the Super Bowl.
But while most eyes are on the field, I’m thinking about the many winners who made their move when opportunity knocked:
The local Airbnb hosts who spotted this opportunity when New Orleans was announced in 2020, learned to analyze properties and secure financing, and turned their preparations into peak-season […]
