Can You Become FI After 40? In today’s episode, we will speak to my friend Ben from FI after 40. We connected through Twitter, I read some of his blog posts and listened to some of his podcast episodes and I thought he had a compelling story to tell. Ben discovered the FI (Financial Independence) … More Is It Too Late to Turn Your Financial Life Around in Your 40s? with Ben
Can You Become FI in Belgium? In today’s episode, we will speak to my friend Sébastien Aguilar, he is the community builder behind simplyFI.org, Impactivated, and FIREBelgium. Sébastien is our first Belgian guest and he is coming with quite the story: He went from being broke even borrowing money from his younger brother to become … More The Simple Path to Financial Independence with Sébastien
In today’s episode, we will speak to my friend Andrew Kerr from The House Hacking Podcast. Andrew will share his story with us and give us an introduction to House Hacking: What House hacking means, how it can help you achieve your financial goals, how you can start today regardless of your location and the underlying principles.
This episode is you if you are looking at ways to reduce your housing costs and are willing to make alternative choices.
… More How to Reduce your Housing Costs? An Introduction to House Hacking with Andrew
In today’s episode, we will speak to my friend Derek from Money Health Solutions.
He is a financial therapist helping his clients to identify their financial beliefs (also called “money scripts”) and to improve their relationship with money. You might probably wonder what a financial therapist is and what those money scripts are about.
If you are a regular listener to the show, you will remember that getting the right money mindset is an essential first step to get your finances in order. Something that can for example stand in the way of getting the right mindset could be the negative financial beliefs you have developed throughout childhood.
Derek will explain what his profession consists of and then we will discuss more in detail how we can identify our own money behaviors (negative or positive) and how we can start rewriting our scripts and improving our relationship with money. … More How to Identify your Money Scripts and Improve your Relationship with Money with Derek
Dimitry is a Chartered Financial Consultant and has helped hundreds of families with setting their finances straight.
He will guide us through the right order of organizing our finances, why this approach makes sense compared to some other common advice. We will talk about one of the major mind shift Dimitry has observed with his clients thanks to his program and we will end up with his compelling story on why he became a financial consultant. The interview is great fun and Dimitry shares some great examples to help us digest every key aspect of managing our money. … More The Best Way to Organize Your Finances in The Right Order with Dimitry
This is a quick post to announce that the podcast is starting again from this Thursday the 3rd of September. Every week you can expect a new fresh episode with an interesting guest delivered straight to your favorite podcast app! … More The Joney Talks Podcast Season 2
If you are new to the personal finance world and you want to take control of your finances, a fantastic and rather cheap way to get started is to read books about personal finance and money.
Most personal finance books are written in simple language and do not require an advanced Ph.D. in econometrics. The most influential personal finance books I have read and heard about are accessible to anyone. And with a couple of friends, we came up with this list of 10 accessible books we warmly recommend for any Personal Finance newbies. … More 10 Life-Changing Personal Finance Books For Beginners
When it comes to buying stuff whether I need it or if I simply want the thing, there is something I try to think about: How long will I keep it? How long can this item last? Can I keep it for life?
I am talking about things that I could potentially keep for decades and never have to buy again.
These once in a lifetime purchases will save time and money over the long haul! … More 10 Things You Will Only Need To Buy Once in Your Life
Is investing in art a good investment? You have probably heard of expensive artwork being sold at famous auction houses like Christie´s or Sotheby´s for millions.
And you might think, sure it would be nice to hold a painting from Andy Warhol for several years and make a fortune when reselling it but investing in art is way out of reach for me.
Well, if you are an admirer of fine artwork and are looking at owning a Picasso one day (or at least a fraction of it), your uncle Joney has got the right solution for you.
I interviewed Scott Lynn, the CEO and founder. He gives a brief overview of how Masterworks can help you diversify your investment portfolio, what exactly you are investing in when joining the platform and we also get a short glimpse at the story behind it. … More Should You Invest in Fine Art? An Introduction To Masterworks
… More Should You Invest in Fine Art? An Introduction To Masterworks
I got nominated for the Awesome Blogger Award by my friend Bella. As far as I understood this consists of answering 10 questions and passing them along to a fellow blogger, so here are my answers to Bella’s questions! … More #AwesomeBloggerAward – Joney Talks!