Financial Independence Podcast
by Captain FI
On the Captain FI podcast I open the cockpit to the Best and Brightest in Personal Finance, and those who've reached or are on their way to Financial Independence. We learn the secrets of their success and explore useful tools, where I also reflect on my own journey to Financial Independence and Retiring Early.
Episodes
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Episode 69 - Is online business still worth it in 2026 with Matt Raad
Is Online Business Still Worth It in 2026? Captain FI sits down with Matt Raad from the eBusiness Institute to answer the big question on every digital entrepreneur's mind: has AI killed the online business model, or is it creating more opportunity than ever? Matt shares why it's now a buyer's...
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68 - Catching up to FI Takeover - FI Freedom Retreat Bali
For Episode 68 of the Captain FI Podcast we are changing things up a bit and hosting a podcast Takeover! I co-host a LIVE episode of the Catching up to FI podcast with Jackie Cumings Koski, recorded during the third annual FI Freedom Retreat in Bali hosted by Amy Minkley. This is an awesome…
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67 - Michael Quan - Financially Alert
On board today is Michael Quan, author of the book The FirePlanner, and the man behind the popular Financially Alert blog and the Breakthrough Millionaire Podcast. Michael reached FIRE in his early thirties and It was actually only after he sold his IT company to a larger provider and…
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66 - Liz - Meet The Frugalwoods
Today, I have the absolute pleasure to be chatting toLiz from her awesome blog and amazing book that she wrote, Meet the Frugal Woods! Anyone who's been on the Captain FI blog knows that I'm a big fan of Liz and Nate, the Frugal Woods and they are literally living my dream! They have an acreage…
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65 - Phil Muscatello - Shares for Beginners
On board today is Phil Muscatello, the host and producer of theawesome podcasts, Shares for Beginners, Stocks for Beginners, ETFs for Beginners and Talking Companies. Phil is not from a finance background, but he wants to learn more about becoming a better investor. So he hopes that his listeners...
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64 - Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung - Millennial Revolution
On board today is Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung from Canada, alsoknown from their popular blog, Millennial Revolution. Here's a quote from our guests, 'Money is the most important thing in the world'. Maybe a bit of a controversial take. Whilst having money is certainly no guarantee of happiness,...
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63 - Louise Howard - The Executive
On board today is Louise Howard, a Sydney-based executive who I met through the FIRE community. Louise is an incredibly talented, dedicated and successful person who has held executive roles in infrastructure projects in the public sector, as well as management and consulting in the private…
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62 - Dev Raga - Personal Finance Doctor
On board today is Dev Raga, a practicing clinician from Melbourne with a passion for personalfinance. Dev is a fellow podcaster and currently hosts the MyMillennial Money Professional Podcast, which is a podcast that makes money concepts simple for busy professionals. Dev began podcasting because...
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61 - Making Sense of Cents - Michelle
On board today is Michelle from Making Sense of Cents. Michellereached financial independence through her online businesses and has enjoyed living a variety of interesting lifestyles post FI, including, but not limited to van life. Now, Michelle and her family even live part-time on a sailboat…
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60 - The Fioneers - Jess & Corey
On board today are Jess and Corey, better known online as The Fioneers. Jess and Corey both spent the majority of their careers workingin mission driven non-profit organizations. But in 2018, Jess experienced really bad burnout,which led to some anxiety and really needing to take a step back. So...
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59 - Doc G - Jordan Grumet - Earn and Invest Podcast
On board today is Dr. Jordan Grumet, better known as Doc G from the DiverseFI blog and the host of the incredibly popular Earn and Invest podcast, but he's also the author of the blog, In My Humble Opinion. Doc G specializes in palliative care and despite reaching FI continues to work in the...
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58 - Queenie Tan - Invest with Queenie
On board the podcast I welcome Queenie Tan, a Sydney-based personal finance content creator who you might recognise from her incredibly popular channel and profile, Invest with Queenie, where she has amassed nearly 400,000 followers across social media channels such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok...
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57 - Nicole Martin - Martin & Fortuin
On the pod today I interviewed Nicole Martin, owner of Martin & Fortuin, teaching Financial Literacy Australia. Nicole began her career as an accountant in Cape Town, South Africa. After 4 years of training, she made the move into finance, working firstly for a Listed Investment Company, and then...
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56 - Canna Campbell - Sugar Mamma TV
I'm tickled pink to welcome to the podcast Canna Campbell, the founder and director of the financial media platform, Sugar Mamma TV! Canna is also the bestselling author of The $1000 Project, and Mindful Money, and has been working as a licensed financial planner for nearly two decades. Canna…
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55 - Corwin - Engineering your FI
On the pod today from Austin, Texas is Corwin, a fellow aerospace engineer and FIRE blogger from 'Engineering your FI' with a Bachelor's, Masters and PhD in aerospace engineering, as well as over a decade of engineering industry experience. He definitely fits the engineering bill, which we often...
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54 - Mr Nomad Numbers on Slow Travel
On board the podcast today is Mr Nomad Numbers. Mr and Mrs Nomad Numbers sold everything they owned and began slow travelling the world. They've documented their travels and their journey on NomadNumbers.com where they blog anonymously and share their travel destinations, itineraries and...
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53 - Dom - Gen Y Finance Guy
On board the pod today is Dom who runs the popular blog Gen Y Finance Guy, where Dom's been blogging about his journey to financial independence and posting net wealth updates for the past decade. Dom is from California, where he lives with his wife and 2 kids. He faced some immense challenges...
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52 - Jonathan Clements - The Humble Dollar
On board today we welcome Jonathan Clements, the founder and editor of The Humble Dollar blog. Jonathan is also the author of 9 books, with the most recent being 'My Money Journey' which includes money journeys from not only himself, but from 30 others who have found financial freedom. Jonathan…
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51 - Q and A Session with Matt Raad - Part THREE
We welcome back Matt Raad from the E-Business Institute for Part THREE of our Q and A Session! Matt and his wife Liz, teach and mentor their students on how to create online business (websites) for passive income. This podcast is the third in a series of three pods where we unpack a huge series…
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50 - Karsten - Early Retirement Now
On board the pod today is Karsten from Early Retirement Now. Sometimes he's affectionately referred to as Big Ern due to his massive 6'6" stature, but Ern isn't just any old blogger. He's originally from Germany, and he moved to the USA as an exchange student where he stayed after graduating to...
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49 - Barney, The Escape Artist
Today on the pod, all the way from London, I welcome Barney Whiter, The Escape Artist, to discuss his journey to financial independence and escaping the cubicle. Barney is not just your average blogger, he has a degree in economics and has worked for over 2 decades as a qualified charter…
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48 - JMoney from Budgets are Sexy
On board the pod today is JMoney from Budgets are Sexy. JMoney is probably one of the most recognizable names, or should that be Mohawks in the fire community. After a somewhat impulsive purchase of a home in his early twenties, J became focused on improving his finances and became inspired by…
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47 - Deacon Hayes - Well Kept Wallet
For today's podcast, I welcome Deacon Hayes from Well Kept Wallet who went from over $50,000 in debt, to financial independence and who actually became a financial planner along the way. Deacon paid off his debt in just over a year and a half and became so excited about the process. He studied...
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46 - Jeremy Schneider - Personal Finance Club
Today I welcome on board Jeremy Schneider from Personal Finance Club! Jeremy joins us from sunny California and chats to us about building his successful business Rent Links, where he was always famously the lowest paid employee, and which he worked bloody hard to build over a 10 year period! He...
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45 - Interview with JL Collins
Today I'm chatting to one of my all-time favourite authors and an idol in the FIRE community - JL Collins. JL is the author of the bestselling personal finance book, 'The Simple Path to Wealth' and his online blog - jlcollinsnh.com features his stock series. JL has been investing for nearly 50...
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44 - Q and A Session with Matt Raad - Part TWO
On the pod today we welcome back Matt Raad from the E-Business Institute. Matt and his wife Liz, teach and mentor their students on how to create online business (websites) for passive income. This podcast is the second in a series of three pods where we unpack a huge series of listener Q and…
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43 - FI Freedom Retreats with Amy Minkley
In this podcast, I chat to Amy Minkley who created FI Freedom Retreats in Bali. Amy shares her journey of working hard, travelling abroad, maintaining a high savings rate for a long period and then getting burned out. She talks about her money fears and where they came from, and how it took…
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42 - This Is Your Captain Speaking #4 - One Year of Early Retirement
This podcast is an update about my FIRE Journey - one year after leaving my flying job, essentially one year of early retirement, which has also been a very busy year. There has been some traveling, the loss of my dear mum, some family drama, working on some personal projects including the…
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41 - Q and A Session with Matt Raad - Part ONE
On the pod today we welcome back Matt Raad from the E-Business Institute. Matt and his wife Liz, teach and mentor their students on how to create online business (websites) for passive income. This podcast is the first in a series of three pods where we unpack a huge series of listener Q and…
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40 - Independent Financial Advisors with Andy Darroch
On board the pod today is Andy Darroch who runs Independent Wealth Advice. Andy calls himself a self-loathing financial advisor and has some controversial views on the financial advice industry.On board today is Andy Darroch. Andy runs Independent Wealth Advice, an independent financial advice…
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39 - Captain FI on The Money Pal
This podcast features Captain Fi! I am interviewed by Jesse from The Money Pal. We discuss making money from website businesses, how I started my financal independence journey, and what inspired me along the way, including the OG Mr Money Mustache and the various personal finance books that have...
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38 - Money with Ana Kresina
In this episode I chatted to Ana Kresina who works in Fintech under product management. She is also obsessed with personal finance and has a blog under her name - AnaKresina.com, where she writes about career advancement, personal finance topics and travel. Ana moved to Australia from Canada, has…
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37 - Online Business with Matt Raad
On board the pod today is Matt Raad, from the eBusiness Institute, who is joining us once again, to discuss changes to the online real estate landscape, to discuss Matt and Liz's business philosophies and to cover some of the Frequently Asked Questions about online businesses and websites that...
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36 - Tax with Minh, a degree qualified accountant
Whilst a lot of people might roll their eyes when they start to think about submitting their tax returns, it's something that everyone has to do. So personally, I used to submit my own tax returns and actually when I was at uni, but I eventually realized that I was actually cutting myself short...
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35 - Pearler investing update with Nic
Pearler is an online investment (brokerage) platform built for those on the path to Financial Independence. Since I joined Pearler in 2020 a lot has changed, so today I have got Nic Nicolaides, one of the cofounders of Pearler, to give us an update on some of the major changes, and some features…
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34 - Geo-Arbitrage to South East Asia with Amber
I first met Amber when I listened to the Money Madams Podcast. Amber and her co-host Katherine run an awesome podcast, sharing their experience with personal finance and interviewing interesting guests – I was lucky enough to be featured! After chatting to these two very knowledgable people, I…
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33 - Lacey Filipich on Life, Money, Mini-retirements and Death
I first heard of Lacey after she gave a TEDx talk at the University of Western Australia in 2018 on the concept of mini-retirements, that is, taking regular sabbaticals throughout a career as part of a genuine commitment to work life balance, and I thought it was brilliant. Lacey was so genuine…
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32 - Sharesight portfolio tracking
An Interview with Prashan Mohan, the Chief Marketing Officer of Sharesight, to discuss what is Sharesight and how investors on the path to Financial Independence can use the Sharesight program to make their portfolio tracking, administration, and tax accounting easier.
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31 - Risk and Insurance with Katherine
On board the podcast today is Katherine Hayes, to talk all about insurances (how to cover your butt!). This is something not often talked about enough in the FI/RE space, so I was really glad to have an expert on board to break down the different types of insurances and what to look for.…
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30 - This is your Captain Speaking #3 - Early Retirement Update
Today I am sharing an update about my FIRE Journey - specifically all about my decision to stop work and leave flying, leave Sydney and move across the country back to my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia. I chat about what I have been up to, latest decisions in the portfolio, my family…
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29 - Digital Marketing with Richard from Paramark
On board today is Richard, a Sydney based digital marketer to talk all about digital marketing and online business, and how he leveraged digital marketing to create a business, reach financial independence and leave his job.Richard actually has had a similar background to me, starting off his...
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28 - Hands off investing with Chris Brycki from Stockspot
Onboard the podcast today is Chris Brycki, founder and CEO of Stockspot investments and three times in a row winner of the ASX share trading game! Chris has over 25 years of investment experience and spent most of his early career as a Portfolio Manager at UBS. Chris has been a member of the ASIC...
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27 - Online Asset management with Pat from Six Park
On board today is Pat Garrett, co founder and CEO of Six Park online asset management. Pat is a financial advisor and member of the FPA, as well asgraduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has worked as a Board member, CEO, CFO, senior level corporate advisor and a private...
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26 - Jade the Student Investor
Onboard today is Jade Johnson, a student who is on track to graduate University debt free. Jade shares her money journey and experience investing as a student, and just how she is graduating debt free through a combination of part time work, scholarships, side hustles and her money coaching...
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25 - Small Business to reach FI with Josh
Josh is a young father on the path to Financial Independence who works in the engineering construction industry. Recently, he sold all of his crypto investments and used the money to start his own small business called 'You Knead Sourdough', which provides customers with complete sourdough kits…
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24 - Playing with FIRE with Scott Rieckens
On board the podcast today is Scott Rieckens, Author of Playing with FIRE and producer and feature of the Playing with FIRE documentary. Happily married in California with a young daughter, Rieckens had his dream life: A luxury car, yacht club membership and a big house. Underneath this façade…
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23 - Entrepreneurship with Liz Raad
Liz Raad is a successful online entrepreneur and educator who's expertise is buying and selling websites and teaching women how to do the same. She is also the co-founder of theeBusiness Institute a private training organisation that provides digital marketing courses designed specifically for...
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22 - FI with Sherry the SaverSpender
On board today is Sherry, better known as the SaverSpender from her instagram channel, and her blog savespendsplurge.comSherry lives in Canada - the northern hemisphere's much colder version of Australia.Today we are talking aboot the reflections from Sherry's journey to financial Independence…
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21 - This is Your Captain Speaking Q&A #2
This is your Captain speaking is a Question and Answer segment where I unpack some of the most popular questions from the Financial Independence community. If you have a question for the Captain, the best place to ask is the CaptainFI Facebook group or by leaving a comment on blog posts. If you...
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20 - Super with Vince Scully the Life Sherpa (Part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of Superannuation with Life Sherpa. Important that you listen to Part 1 first. On board today is Vince Scully, better known as the Life Sherpa and Author of the popular book the Latte Fallacy which aims to dispel many common personal finance myths (like that ordering a latte or smashed...
About this show
On the Captain FI podcast I open the cockpit to the Best and Brightest in Personal Finance, and those who've reached or are on their way to Financial Independence. We learn the secrets of their success and explore useful tools, where I also reflect on my own journey to Financial Independence and Retiring Early.
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