Interviews
- Couples and money: Lessons from The Queen of Versailles (32 comments)
This post is from staff writer April Dykman. I recently got sick for the first time in almost a decade, and was bed/couch-ridden for a good four days. Since I had some time on my hands, I was able t...Read more »
- Ask the Readers: Is traditional advice killing your job search? (24 comments)
"Vince" was halfway through his MBA program and struggling to find an internship. So, he took his career counselor's advice and blasted his resume and cover letter to 30 companies."I just tried to ...Read more »
- Side Gigs v. Day Jobs (132 comments)
This post is from new staff writer Honey Smith. If you’re in debt -- especially if you’re in significant debt -- frugality will only get you so far. To really make a dent, you have to increase...Read more »
- How to Make Separate Finances Work: An Interview with J.D. and Kris (199 comments)
Every couple has its own way of managing money. Some folks share their finances completely. Some — like my wife and me — keep their finances completely separate. Most couples fall somewher...Read more »
- Estate Planning Done Right: How to Help Your Family from the Great Beyond (48 comments)
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He also has a blog, Twitterin...Read more »
- How to Sell Your Car on eBay Motors (14 comments)
This article is by staff writer Adam Baker. Baker recently released a guide to help people attack and sell their excess clutter entitled "Sell Your Crap". Several weeks ago, I wrote about the early...Read more »
- Dinner with the Diehards: A Chat About Investing (37 comments)
It's been a long time since I wrote about investing at Get Rich Slowly. I haven't abandoned the subject, but my mind has been on other things. Besides, I've been practicing what I preach. I've investe...Read more »
- Art and Entrepreneurship (28 comments)
My pal Chris Guillebeau has a great interview up over at his blog, The Art of Non-Conformity. He recently profiled artist Tsilli Pines (who also happens to be a loyal GRS reader and a customer of my f...Read more »
- Personal Finance on Film: The Up Series (28 comments)
"Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man." — attributed to Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order Though there are many fine books about money available for the...Read more »
- Extreme Personal Finance: Daniel Suelo, The Man Without Money (82 comments)
Previously in my semi-regular Extreme Personal Finance series, I've highlighted: A couple who paid off their $220,000 mortgage in three years People who live on $12,000 a year Don Schrader, the...Read more »
- Lower Your Expectations, Increase Your Happiness (87 comments)
"Did you listen to Rick Steves this afternoon?" Kris asked me on Sunday. I shook my head. "That's too bad," she said. "It was about the relationship between money and happiness. I think you would have...Read more »
- The Secrets of Financial Freedom: An Interview with the Millionaire Next Door (141 comments)
Today is the last day of Financial Literacy Month. To tie everything together, I thought it would be fun to share an interview my real millionaire next door, a man we'll call John. He used the basic t...Read more »
- Tune in Tonight: Nightly Business Report Interviews Warren Buffett (20 comments)
As part of its 30th anniversary, Public Broadcasting's Nightly Business Report is airing an interview with Warren Buffett tonight (Thursday, January 22nd). Susie Gharib spoke with "the oracle of Omaha...Read more »
- Interview: The Motley Fool’s David Gardner Talks About Stock-Market Investing (19 comments)
Earlier today, I reviewed the new book from The Motley Fool, Million Dollar Portfolio. I had the pleasure to interview author David Gardner at the end of December. This post contains excerpts from tha...Read more »
- Warren Buffett’s Ten Secrets to Wealth and Life (43 comments)
Warren Buffett is the richest man in the world, yet his reputation for frugality, folksy wisdom, and straight talk make him seem like just a regular guy, like he might be the billionaire next door. He...Read more »
- Leverage, Luck, and Living Well: A Conversation with Financial Columnist Scott Burns (16 comments)
During the first week of July, I had the privilege to chat with financial author Scott Burns. What was intended to be a brief interview about his new book, Spend 'til the End [my review] lasted for ne...Read more »
- All I Really Need to Know About Stocks I Learned in the Sixth Grade (An Interview with David Gardner) (28 comments)
This is a guest post from Jericho Hill (a.k.a. Stephen), Get Rich Slowly forum administrator and resident economist. I recently attended a focus group at The Motley Fool, a website about financial ...Read more »
- Tim Ferriss on the Power of Personal Entrepreneurship (16 comments)
I write a lot about saving money. Like many of you, I've found frugality an excellent way to widen the gap between what I earn and what I spend. Frugality helped me get out of debt, increase my monthl...Read more »
- How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks from Timothy Ferriss (51 comments)
In his book, The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss proposes that we shift our focus from end-of-life "macro" retirements to more frequent mini-retirements, which might be spaced throughout a working career...Read more »
- Using Mini-Retirements to Get More Out of Life: An Interview with Timothy Ferriss (45 comments)
On a cool Thursday morning last July, I woke early to walk into the hills outside Wells in Somerset County, England. After three-quarters of an hour, I reached a point with a broad vista of the surrou...Read more »
- An Interview with Rich Rogers, Cheesemonger (16 comments)
I'm in Trader Joe's with Rich Rogers. I'm looking for bread. He's looking at cheese. Rich is in the process of opening an artisan cheese shop in Dallas, Texas, and he never misses a chance to check fo...Read more »
- Uncommon Lifestyles and the Truth About the 4-Hour Workweek: An Interview with Tim Ferriss (40 comments)
One of the fundamental premises of the Get Rich Slowly philosophy is that by making sacrifices and smart moves now, you can create a better life in the future. It's a philosophy of deferred gratificat...Read more »
- Scratch Beginnings: An Interview with Adam Shepard (151 comments)
I just finished reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America for the third time. In this book, the author chronicles three one-month stints working as one of the Ameri...Read more »
- Does the Financial Industry Subtract Value from the Economy? (23 comments)
Vintek pointed me to a Bill Moyers interview with John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and patron saint of index funds. (He's also one of my financial heroes.) Mostly, the conversation revolves a...Read more »
- Personal Finance Chat Today at 1pm Pacific (0 comment)
This just in! The Los Angeles Times web site has a blurb on many of its pages this morning announcing that personal finance columnist Kathy Kristof will be answering questions in an online chat tod...Read more »
- Casey Serin: $2 Million in Debt in Two Years (60 comments)
Casey Serin of I Am Facing Foreclosure recently held a two-hour conference call to take questions from readers and to explain his situation. I didn't hear the call, but I did read the entire transcrip...Read more »
- Golden Goals Interviews at Zen Habits (5 comments)
Leo at Zen Habits is conducting a series of blogger interviews this week, learning "how they achieve their goals, their most important habits, their productivity systems and more." I'm honored to have...Read more »
- Money Interviews: Imagination Movers, part four (2 comments)
This is the last installment of an interview with Scott Durbin. Durbin has made an entrepreneurial leap of faith, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream, starting a rock band for kids. In the fir...Read more »
- A Brief Conversation About Money (12 comments)
10:58 AM Sparky: are you truly making boxes? J.D.: No, we're bitching about stuff. 11:00 AM Sparky: gotta get back to rewiring 11:10 AM Sparky: i made my own mutual fund last night and backed te...Read more »
- The Billionaire Next Door: The Wisdom of Warren Buffett (33 comments)
Warren Buffett is one of my heroes. He's the second-richest man in the world, yet he lives more frugally than I do. CNBC recently broadcast an interview with Buffett. Naturally, it's been posted to Yo...Read more »
- Money Interviews: Imagination Movers, part three (1 comment)
This is the third part of an interview with Scott Durbin, one member of Imagination Movers, a rock band for kids. Durbin is taking an entrepreneurial leap, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream....Read more »
- Money Interviews: Imagination Movers, part two (1 comment)
A couple of weeks ago, I shared the first part of an interview with Scott Durbin. Durbin is taking an entrepreneurial leap, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream, starting a rock band for kids. ...Read more »
- Money Interviews: Imagination Movers, part one (2 comments)
This is the first of a planned series in which I interview friends and family about their attitudes toward money. Most of these will be anonymized (and much shorter). Some will not. This first intervi...Read more »
