YOU ARE A HUMAN CORPORATION

Your value is based on the skill set that makes your employer more profitable. You are a walking collection of assets and the more valuab...

The Sleep Routine and Intermittent Fasting

Why are we told to eat three meals a day? Why are we told to get at least eight hours of sleep each night? Why are we told to wash our ha...

The Opportunity Cost of a Beer Gut

Behold! The beer gut. To some, it is an art form. It takes hours and weeks and years of laborious drinking to achieve optimal roundness i...

Outside Magazine Interview

I caught up with Shane Dillon Gidcumb, a former winery executive and author of 'The Franklin Fi' book series who up and quit his job one ...

The Path to Semi-Retirement

Semi-retirement is about breaking away from the rat race to do what you love. It is leaving behind the nine to five world of mindless rou...

What is your true hourly wage?

What is your true hourly wage? Think you know? It might be different than you think. Your hourly wage or your salary can be deceiving. Yo...

Money Tree Podcast Interview

iTunes Spotifiy The Five Transitions to Financial Independence Guest post by Shane Dillon, Author of The Franklin Fi book ser...

My Story

Do you know we have more neurons in our brain than there are stars in the Milky Way Galaxy? If that doesn’t blow your mind, think about t...

Zero to Travel Interview

| iTunes | Spotify | Bending Time For Travel Have you ever thought about bending time for travel? Tu...

The Beginner: How to open your first brokerage account

Are you confused by the stock market or afraid of the risk? Do you want to open a brokerage account, but do not know where to begin? Well...

The Franklin Fi | A Personal Finance Adventure for Next Generation Investors

The Franklin Fi BLOG is written by author Shane Dillon from his present-day perspective. The blog is an accumulation of personal finance lessons that Shane has learned over the last twenty years. Whereas The Franklin Fi book starts from day one of the journey, Shane’s blog picks up twenty years later and explores the ideas of his daily life living abroad in Europe as a writer.