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  • Home
  • Start Here
    • Welcome to My Blog!
    • Why Should You Read My Blog?
    • Guide to the Blog
  • FI Top Tens
    • The Basics of FI
    • Retirement Plans & Accounts, Part 1
    • Retirement Plans & Accounts, Part 2
    • Retirement Plans & Accounts, Part 3
    • Investing
    • Health Insurance
    • Stocks
    • Taxes
  • FI Step by Step
    • Introduction to FI
    • Step 1, Define Your Why?
    • Step 2, Where Am I Now? Determining Your Net Worth
    • Step 3, How Did I Get Here? Tracking Your Income & Expenses
    • Step 4, Where Do I Want to Go? Developing a Financial Plan
    • Step 5, Insuring Against Catastrophe
    • Step 6, Establishing an Emergency Fund
    • Step 7, Maximizing Your Employment Benefits
    • Step 8, Work to Become Debt Free
    • Step 9, Maximize Your Tax Advantaged Accounts
    • Step 10, Paying Off Your Home Mortgage
    • Step 11, Investing in a Taxable Brokerage Account & Alternative Assets
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FI Top Tens, Insurance

Top Ten Terms You Should Know About Health Insurance

October 18, 2019 No Comments T.K. Schiefer

Top Ten Terms You Should Know About Health Insurance Have you ever gotten a medical bill or health insurance statement in the mail and weren’t […]

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Favorite Books, Paying Off Debt

Book Review: The Total Money Makeover

October 4, 2019 No Comments T.K. Schiefer

Book Review: The Total Money Makeover, by Dave Ramsey If you have paid any attention to the who’s who of personal finance authors/experts over the […]

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FI Topics, Increasing Savings, Life Optimization, Retirement

Please Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask First

September 27, 2019 No Comments T.K. Schiefer

Please Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask First You’ve probably heard a phrase similar to this during the safety briefing at the beginning of a flight: […]

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FI Topics, Life Optimization, Maximizing Income

Unlock Your Financial Super Power

September 20, 2019 No Comments T.K. Schiefer

Unlock Your Financial Super Power In case you haven’t noticed, super hero movies are all the rage the last few years.  It seems you can’t […]

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FI Top Tens, Investing Wisely

Top Ten Terms You Should Know About Investing

September 13, 2019 3 Comments T.K. Schiefer

Top Ten Terms You Should Know About Investing The goal of my FI Top Ten series of posts is to increase financial literacy.  It’s difficult […]

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Other, Travel

5 Days In The Boundary Waters

September 6, 2019 No Comments T.K. Schiefer

5 Days In The Boundary Waters Welcome to my first travel blog post.  Freedom Through FI is primarily a personal finance blog where I document […]

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FI Topics, Increasing Savings, Life Optimization, Reducing Expenses

Christmas Is Not An Emergency

August 30, 2019 No Comments T.K. Schiefer

Christmas Is Not An Emergency I borrowed this line from Dave Ramsey and I agree with it wholeheartedly.  Christmas is NOT an emergency.  Yet, every […]

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My Path to FI

My Path to FI: Part 3, Medical School

August 23, 2019 No Comments T.K. Schiefer

My Path to FI: Part 3, Medical School This is my third post in the My Path to FI series.  My goal in this series […]

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FI Topics, Investing Wisely

The 2% That Will Kill You (And It Ain’t Milk!)

August 16, 2019 2 Comments T.K. Schiefer

The 2% That Will Kill You (And It Ain’t Milk!) This post is about two little percentage points that can drastically alter your financial destiny.  […]

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FI Step by Step: Step 4, Where Do I Want to Go? Developing a Financial Plan

August 9, 2019 No Comments T.K. Schiefer

Step 4: Where Do I Want to Go? Developing a Financial Plan Welcome to Step 4: Where Do I Want to Go? Developing a Financial […]

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About Me

T.K. Schiefer

T.K. Schiefer

Personal Finance Blogger

In 2018 I began the pursuit of Freedom through Financial Independence (FI). Follow my journey on this blog and learn how you too can start your own Path to FI!

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  • Hey Dad, I Earned a Penny in Interest! Personal FinanceSeptember 24, 2021

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