By Paula Pant
My co-host Jay used to be a workaholic. He took pride in grueling 70-hour weeks.
But after Jay and his wife started having children, his priorities shifted. He works fewer hours. He earns less money than he used to. He spends more, due to the cost of childcare.
In this episode, he shares specific […]
Written By Paula Pant
If I’ve been conspicuously quiet on this blog lately, there’s a solid reason: I’ve been traveling nearly nonstop.
One of the benefits of no longer Working for the Man is the ability to do whatever the heck I want, and “what I want” usually involves airfare.
Life hasn’t always been this way. There are […]
Written By Paula Pant
My 72-year-old dad just announced that he’s learning to drive a stick-shift. Why? Because he wants to drive – instead of relying on taxis or buses – when he travels to countries that only have manual transmissions.
And he goes to a lot of other countries. Last year he and my 72-year-old […]
Written By Paula Pant
Here’s a recent reader question that grabbed my heart. One reader said:
“I am a single woman with children who believes I can live a great life traveling and making life grand, in spite of the statistics out there. Do you think its possible? Can you offer some saving/investing tips?”
I’m so […]
Written By Paula Pant
Today is the 20th anniversary of the day I learned I was adopted.
On the afternoon I learned the news, I sat in a beige office in a government building.
My dad sat to my right; my mom was perched to my left. An Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) bureaucrat sat on […]
Written By Paula Pant
Time for Answer the Reader’s Mail: “See the World” Edition!
Today’s question comes from Sophia, a 27-year-old financial planner in Minneapolis with a desire to travel the world. Sophia says:
“I’m a world traveler … My husband and I went to Thailand at the beginning of the […]
Written By Paula Pant
Today we have a question from the Reader Mailbag: Travel Edition.
Today’s question comes from Maggie. She asks:
“Please could you give more details on how you were able to afford to travel the world.
“What your planned budget was ahead of time, how you earned money ahead of time, how you saved money while […]
Written By Paula Pant
I just returned from 10 days in the Caribbean, where I was a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding. This wedding felt surreal because the bride and I were together when she met her future husband.
They met three years ago. She and I were trekking in the Himalayas. My bum knee was slowing me down, so she […]
