How to financially prepare for starting a family with Kevin Mahoney

#38: With all the ways your budget can explode after you start having kids, what can you do in advance to better prepare financially to reduce the financial stress that comes with starting a family? 👶 In this week’s podcast, I deep dive on this with Kevin Mahoney, founder of Illumint, a financial planning company focused on helping millennials in their 20s-30s navigate family finances. We discuss: Why money so often causes marital strain and conflictThe big money-related questions to ask that...

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As a lawyer / engineer / MBA, how can you achieve FIRE (financial independence, retire early) rapidly to quit the rat race, pursue your passions, and live life on your own terms? Andrew Chen – founder of the Hack Your Wealth Blog and lawyer, financial expert (CFA graduate), and tech industry veteran – shows you strategies and tactics to (1) earn, (2) save, (3) invest, and (4) protect as a high earner so that you can build massive wealth and create a portfolio that’s a FIRE machine. Through solo lessons, expert interviews, and side hustle profiles, you’ll learn about tax strategies, retirement account optimization, asset allocation & rebalancing, passive income (real estate investing, side hustling, online business, digital nomading), family finances (e.g., strategizing college education costs), travel hacking, estate planning, and career transitions. Andrew podcasts about the big picture concepts, then adds step-by-step implementation guides downloadable from the Hack Your Wealth website to help you FIRE strategically, methodically, and rapidly.