Financial Independence Resources
A constantly updated list of all the resources I find interesting which is helping me achieve Financial Independence.
Websites
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Mr. Money Moustache - the famous man himself
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Money Saving Expert – UK site with offers, deals and advice on how to save, invest or earn more
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Head for Points – Travel website highlighting membership offers for UK based programmes
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Mad Fientist – Great FIRE calculators
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The Escape Artist - Witty, brutally honest, and UK-centric FIRE blog focused on practical, no-BS steps to financial freedom
Monevator - A go-to UK blog for deep dives on investing, ISAs, SIPPs, and passive portfolio strategies
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FireHub EU - A European FIRE aggregator linking to blogs and resources across the continent, including UK contributors.​
YouTube
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Damien Talks Money – Funny, informative and practical
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Meaningful Money – balanced advice comparing two services, nice and simple advice
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James Slack - A UK Financial planner that uses real life examples
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PensionCraft – Excellent for UK-specific investing advice, from bond funds to asset allocation, demystified by a former investment banker.
Ali Abdaal – great inspiration on ideas and application for side hustles
Beau Miles – amazing microadventures from a guy being productive with his time
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struthless - a wise, honest and creative individual who offers practical life advise to deal with all the worries of the world.
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Mark Tilbury – Entertaining and educational, with a mix of business mindset and investing principles (UK-based with global appeal).
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Coffeezilla - Breaks down some conartists and scammers, and the rubbish you need to look out for. Very entertaining.
Podcasts
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Mad Fientist – this guy has to be top of the list!
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Business Wars – Great narrative and story telling of epic battles in business history
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ChooseFI - US-based but features globally relevant topics, guest interviews, and practical FI paths.
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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist Adam Grant takes you inside the minds of some of the world's most unusual professionals to explore the science of making work not suck, Some great practical ideas to apply to your own work.
What I’m following at the moment that’s blowing my mind:
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This list of resources is what has had a positive impact on my motivation on me in my Financial Independence Journey.
If someone is able to offer an amazing side hustle idea, recommend a new finance book, give me suggestions on how to invest, or most importantly some practical advice on how to bring my Financial Independence Retire Early date sooner- then I have put it on this page.
I hope they can help you as well.
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If you have any suggestions on what I should listen, watch or read next let me know.