Most popular:
- Talks at Google: The Simple Path to Wealth
- JL Collins does the John Goodman Fuck You Money clip from The Gambler (NSFW)
Audio interviews
- The Mad Fientist: The Best Advice from JL Collins
- The Dihedral: Pathfinders and Financial Freedom
- Ed Fulbright Mastering Your Money Radio: JL Collins Your Financial Independence
- Peak Mind: The KEY to Financial Freedom
- Bob Brooks Prudent Money Podcast: The Quest for Financial Independence
- Retire Often: The Art of the Sabbatical
- ChooseFI: Pathfinders & more
- Earn & Invest: Financial Freedom Expeditions: Navigating ‘Pathfinders’
The Long View: Spotlighting the Many Paths to Financial Independence - Journey to Launch: How to Build Wealth & Financial Independence — Wisdom with “The Godfather of FI”
- Catching up to FI: FU Money Part 1
- Catching up to FI: FU Money Part 2
- Captain FI: The Simple Path in Australia
- Earn & Invest: Personal Finance? With Scott Trench, CEO of Bigger Pockets
- Mile High FI: The Simple Path to Wealth
- Mile High FI: When Real Estate Investing goes Terribly Wrong
- Mile High FI: Live Q&A
- The Dihedral: Dirtbag Dreams — Finances and F-you Money
- Invest2FI: Achieving FI through savings, real estate and index funds
- Bogleheads, host Rick Ferri, episode 053: On The Simple Path to Wealth
- Choose FI, episode 19: Stock Series, Part I
- Choose FI, episode 34: Stock Series, Part II and their follow-up conversation about it
- Choose FI, episode 284: The Simple Path to Wealth
- Choose FI, episode 411: The Simple Path to Wealth
- My Millennial Money Medical: Talking with Dev Raga in Australia
- MorningStar’s The Long View: The Case for Simplicity
- Financially Independent Teachers: Reaching Financial Independence
- The Earn & Invest Podcast: Can you teach financial wellness?
- Inspire to FIRE: The Simple Path to Wealth
- SuperbDiamondRange: SPW in Scotland
- Northstar Unplugged: Money and Sleep
- Earn & Invest: Has the FIRE movement evolved?
- New Retirement: JL Collins and The Simple Path to Wealth
- Budgets & Brews: The Simple Path to Wealth Feat
- Marriage, Kids & Money: How to Achieve Financial Independence
- Jillian Johnsrud: Demystifying Index Fund Investing
- The Mindful Millionaire: The Psychology of Investing
- His and Her Money: How to handle your investments in times like these
- The Mindful Millionaire: The 2020 Bear Market
- Earn & Invest: COVID-19: The unvarnished truth from Doc G.
- The Mad Fientist: Coronavirus Market Crash
- BiggerPockets: Coronavirus changes nothing
- Journey to Launch: The Simple Path to Wealth and all you need to know about Index Investing
- Meaningful Money: The Simple Path to Wealth Pete calls this his favorite interview in the 10 years he has been doing them
- What’s Up Next: On not having a Legacy Doc G is a masterful interviewer and in this one we go one-on-one
- What’s Up Next: How to Raise Financially Responsible Children. The episode includes my wife Jane and Doug Nordman of The Military Guide
- NGPF: Tim Ranzetta Talks to JL Collins About Financial Independence and Investing
- Bigger Pockets Money Show: The Simple Path to Wealth
- DoughRoller: Achieving Financial Independence
- So Money with Farnoosh Torabi: The Simple Path to Wealth
- The Mad Fientist: The Importance of F-You Money
- The Mad Fientist: The Simple Path to Wealth
- Afford Anything Podcast with Paula Pant
- Radical Personal Finance: Why your house is a terrible investment
- Create My Independence: F-You Money, Stepping Away, Fear and Investing
- Scavenger Life: How scavengers can achieve financial independence
- Scavenger Life: Running an eBay Store and Airb&b with Jay and Ryanne
- (me interviewing them, my first Podcast as the interviewer!)
Video interviews
- Peak Mind: The KEY to Financial Freedom – The Godfather of FIRE
- Goals on FIRE–Ukraine: JL Collins on Investing, Pathfinders and Staying the Course with Life’s Values
- Savvy Broadcasting: The Path to Wealth – Insights from JL Collins
- Debt Free Millennials: JL says Millennials have it Financially Better
- The David Pakman Show: “Simple” path to wealth
- What Kind of Money: Pathfinders and the quest for FI
- Rich & Regular: Embracing the simple approach to investing
- Brian Feroldi: JL Collins Reveals His Portfolio, Talks on Bonds & Real Estate, and his New Book!
- Trip of a Lifestyle: Beating the Market
- Mini-Chautauqua Q&A
- The Wealthy Nurse: The Simple Path to Wealth
- SuperbDiamondRange: SPW in Scotland
- The Mindful Millionaire
- The Wealthy Educator: The Simple Path to Wealth
- Convene Training + Resilience Community: The Simple Path to Wealth
- New Retirement: JL Collins and The Simple Path to Wealth
- Trip of a Lifestyle: Financial Independence and The Simple Path to Wealth
- The Master Your Money Summit: The Simple Path to Wealth
- LIVE Webinar Q&A hosted by Hahna Kane Latonick
- Even Steven Money: The Simple Path to Wealth and Early Retirement Blueprint
- Mike & Lauren YouTube: Video Series based on the Stock Series
- Mike & Lauren YouTube: Why your house is a terrible investment In the Q&A we also discuss asset allocation, bonds and even dating.
- Mike & Lauren YouTube: Responding to my post on Dollar Cost Averaging, Mike & Lauren explore the emotional side of the question in this video: What is your emotional threshold?
Videos
- JL Collins does the John Goodman Fuck You Money clip from The Gambler
- John Goodman doing it
- A Guided Meditation for when the stock market is dropping
Written interviews
- Reddit Bogleheads: Ask Me Anything
- Reddit Personal Finance: Ask Me Anything
- Financieel Onafhankelijk Blog: JL Collins: reaching financial independence without a clue
- Millennial Revolution: An Interview with the Godfather…of FI
- Physician on FIRE: Christopher Guest Post: JL Collins
- Street Smart Finance: Mr. Money Mustache and Jim Collins: An Interview In this one my daughter Jessica also answers the same questions.
- 27 Good Things: Three Things to Read, Watch and Use
- 1500 Days:
- Johnny Moneyseed: A Man with F-You Money
Articles
- The Dihedral: Pathfinders and Financial Freedom
- Medium, Get Lost Blue: Spend Every Dollar — JL Collins Redefines Luxury
- The Power of Thrift: Pathfinders
- Millennial Revolution: Pathfinders Book Review
- The Netherlands, Cheesyfinance Reaching FI without a Clue
- Mr. Money Mustache: How about that stock market?
- Mr. Money Mustache: Financial Independence…23 Years Later: It has never been about retirement
- Mr. Money Mustache: What to do about this scary stock market
- Street Smart Finance: How to invest money in any economy
- Waves of Wealth: Financial Titans: J. L. Collins
- Eat the Financial Elephant: DIY Investing Resource #1: JL Collins’ “Stock Series”
- 1500 Days: Me and Jimmy C (be sure to read the comments/contest entries. Funny stuff!)
- The Escape Artist: There is a major market crash coming…
How I Lost Money in Real Estate before it was Fashionable
Podcasts:
Bigger Pockets: Lethal Real Estate Mistakes
Posts:
Another sighting in this interview with Bill McNabb 40 years and $3 trillion later: Vanguard’s CEO on what has changed and what hasn’t. Unless there is another Jim Collins running around for him to paraphrase.
Thanks Gene…
But that is indeed a different Jim Collins, and one far more famous than I to boot: http://www.jimcollins.com
He is the reason I go by JL Collins on the blog.
Still, an interesting article….
Jim, loved the book and earned my F-You money at the age of 41 and stayed home to participate in my kids formative years; now they are in or approaching college. That brings me to my comment. In your book in the topic of DEBT (page 29) you say “Here’s the real kicker: Unlike other kinds of debt, as truly awful as they are, you can never walk away from your student loans. They survive bankruptcy…. Your wages, and even Social Security, can be garnished to pay them.” I hear many stories and news reports to the contrary, including government forgiveness plans after making minimum payments for a set period of years. Many “experts” say that our country’s growing student debt that likely will never get paid off and leave tax payers holding the bag suggests that the claws you mention are not true or there are loopholes that escape us readers.
Hi Pat…
Your comment and question would be best as part of this post: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2015/03/26/stocks-part-xxviii-debt-the-unacceptable-burden/
If you move it there, I’ll try to help.
Thanks!
Mr. Collins,
Your book is phenomenally simple & specific. The best financial guidance book I have ever read. I’m 32 now and plan to invest in VTSAX as soon as possible and add more over the upcoming years.
Quick question about the investments apps such as Acorn or Stash – what is your opinion on them?
Warm regards,
Elmir
Thanks Elmir…
That would make a great 5-star review on Amazon if you are so inclined.
I am unfamiliar with Acorn or Stash, but have handled my investments just fine without them in my life. 🙂
Dear Mister Collins,
Greetings from Belgium, and thank you for getting back to me on my twitter post! I was hoping to get in touch with you on behalf of our investment club (10 lovely people putting the Fun in Funds), to possibly arrange for a meetup. Thank you in advance!
Kind regards,
Ann-Sophie
Thanks Ann-Sophie…
I’d be delighted. 🙂
PM sent.
Hi, I’m new to your site but have heard about your writing many times. I’ve clicked on the link above for Personal Capital (also on other pages from other sites) and their website never comes up? can you suggest why this maybe. Just a note I reside in New Zealand, is that a possible reason?
Regards Ivo
Hi Ivo…
It’s probably a problem on your side. Probably an Adblocker. The links seem to be working fine.
Regards
jlcollinsnh.com tech team
So just checked out your blog again after a long hiatus. Political ads on here now – I don’t have any issue with it, but I find it quite interesting who “the algorithms” think I need to see an ad from!
Thank you for your user friendly investment advice! Your blog has been a tremendous source of hope for me to envision retiring next year. Since reading your site a few week ago, I m ready to fire my American Funds broker who’s a good friend but I’d rather he make money off someone else.
So my husband and I were laid off last Feb and have 90k in Fidelity 403B.
We also have 235k in American Funds, 150k in banks.
How would you advise us to invest these?
I am 59, my husband is 51.
Hi there!
Your book was recently featured as the top recommendation in this article: https://mint.intuit.com/blog/early-career/books-on-how-to-become-a-millionaire/.
Congrats! I thought you might like to add it to this page.
Thanks Pia…
I appreciate you pointing this out.
It doesn’t fit on this page, but I’ll Tweet and FB it.
You are a master storyteller!
Have you seen the Index Fund Cheat Sheet out there from Next Level Finance? It looks like it matches up with what you are saying in your book and your site but since I am brand spanking new to all of this, I wanted to make sure. I am afraid of being swindled and don’t want to believe everything I read. Thank you for your time.
Hi JL,
Could you add our podcast interview to this list?
https://www.inspiretofire.com/jl-collins-simple-path/
Thank you!
Done!
Hi JL,
My name is Tim/Carrot. I’m a rock climber who also writes about climbing and talks about climbing on theDIHEDRAL Podcast.
I just finished your book and wish I would have read it years ago. It is so helpful.
After reading it I immediately thought I should get a hold of you to see if you would be willing to chat with us about investing for dirtbags. If you aren’t familiar with the term, it generally refers to folks who work to climb/ski/surf. They usually have no debt but also very little income. Several embrace van life to avoid high rent and house payments. They are used to a minimalist life style.
I am hoping a topic like this would be unique enough to pique your interest, we would love to have you join us for an episode where we can talk about your books and apply some methods to the dirtbag case study.
We are hoping upon hope that you’ll have some interest. Please let us know if you do or if you’d like more info!
Thanks again for all your advice and consideration!
Tim (Carrot)
theDIHEDRAL
Mr. Collins,
My name is Kaiden, I host a podcast called Book Club with Kaiden Kelly where I read and discuss messages and ideas from a different book each week to help listeners find peace, purpose, and meaning in their lives. I read and covered The Simple Path to Wealth and was inspired by your work like so many others.
Would you or anyone from your team be willing to join me in my podcast to discuss your book and work?
Your time is valuable, thank you for reading and responding to this email ahead of time.
Regards,
Kaiden
G’day JL, bloody great list of interviews here. I have been a long time follower and your blog and interviews have been great at shaping my FI journey – I actually retired last year and now living my best (semi retirement) life. I run the Financial Independence podcast here in Australia and if you are ever interested in a chat with an Aussie I would love to have you on any time
Cheers
PK
CaptainFI.com