Today Alvar is back with the Podcast after longer break. Together we discuss all FI Meetups we know in Europe. If you have more send us a message at financialindependenceeurope at gmail.com or DM on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram @FiEurope. Feel free to reach out to us also to connect! We talk about What we’ve done in the break Meetups we host Meetups we have visited and like   Don’t forget to subscribe our podcast on Itunes, Android or Spotify. Direct download here. Let us know what you think about the Interview in the comments or our Facebook Group! Sign up for our newsletter fo ..read more

Today Mathias talks with Luke and Rebecca about donating and philanthropy. Luke works for the organisation Giving What we Can” and Rebecca is already retired from her corporate career at WeWork and other companies. She is now teaching people part time about  personal finance at Yield and Spread. Interestingly Rebecca is now giving what she earns in her side business to people in need. Today we want to find out why. Once you achieve a certain wealth, people often experience a strong desire to help others in need. Of course many of you are also giving before hitting that milestone ..read more

Hi FI Europeans, this is Mathias. In this episode I speak with Nick Neuman. He is the CEO of Casa a Startup from Denver in the US. today talk about the different security aspects of holding crypto and here especially Bitcoin as one of the more conservative plays in that field. The one important question you have to ask yourself when holding crypto is. Whom do you trust more: yourself or an exchange. So in the past your choice has been storing crypto on a hardware wallet and potentially losing the device or the password. Or you could have kept your holdings on an Exchange like Binance or Coinba ..read more

Hi Fi Europeans, this is Mathias and today I talk with Toni Vitali. He is a member of our community and a professional Basketball Player transitioning to his post-sports profession. He was growing up in Croatia and recently moved to Sweden. He is also blogging about Financial Independence towards his audience in Croatia. So I’m pretty curious how these sports careers work,  what people in Croatia think about financial independence and money in general and what his approach to build wealth is. I also was slightly surprised when we talked about taxes in Croatia and Sweden. I hope you like t ..read more

In the last episode we covered the basics of the monetary system and history with Daniel, a member of our community. Check out that episode if you haven’t already. Today in the second part we cover the basics of Bitcoin. Still many FI Europeans haven’t gotten their feet wet with crypto. If you like to start experimenting with it or you already started but haven’t thought about the basic concepts behind you might want to continue listening. If you’re already a pro you might want to skip the episode. We also suggesting some simple steps and tools to start investing. Nevertheless I want to emphas ..read more

Hi Fi Europeans, today I talk with Daniel, a member of our community about cryptocurrencies and in particular Bitcoin. While you might not want to employ crypto to achieve your financial independence goals as it’s harder to predict the result compared with a diversified ETF-Portfolio. Some people already made a small fortune with their early crypto adoption and knocking at the doors of family offices asking for help to preserve their new wealth and transition to a more conservative and diversified approach. This is the first part of two episodes that is focusing more on what money is and how b ..read more

Hi FI Europeans, today I had the pleasure to interview Martins Sulte who is founder and CEO of Mintos. It’s  the biggest P2P Lending marketplace in Europe and they started in 2015  and are headquartered in Riga. On mintos platform there are currently around 50 companies that lend out loans in 12 currencies to borrowers in 38 countries worldwide. More than 40k investors fund loans in 9 loan segments. Like car loans, property, agriculture, small business, consumer loans and so forth.. In this episode we talk about how Martins experienced and managed the first real economic crisis due t ..read more

Hi FI Europeans, some people are really good and a natural fit in building up and managing a bunch of properties. They like to interact with people, workers and other local stakeholders of their real estate. They dig deep into the knowledge domain of Real Estate and take the time. So much time that there is not much left to learn about other asset classes. Like me not everybody currently has the time and ambition to dig deep into DIY real estate investing and want a kind of managed solution. For those there are Real Estate ETFs, Property P2P Lending  and local real state agencies availabl ..read more

Hi FI Europeans, have you ever ask yourself how life would be if you haven’t chosen a certain life path? If you would have studied something different If you would have changed job earlier if your husband had taken more parental leave and you could better accelerate your career   While you cannot change the past without a time machine you might want to go into a new direction in the present or future. Today I talk about reversing “wrong” life choices with Silke Rosenbusch. She had a tough time being an actor and was switching  to a career in medicine. She is also side hustling since ..read more

Hi Fi Europeans. It’s Mathias. Today I chat with Gustas from inrento who is a young serial Entrepreneur from Lithuania. He just launched a new Lending platform with buy to let property that – on the face of it – doesn’t provide the insane returns we just got used to from other P2P platforms. So you might ask. Why the heck should I continue listening? Well. It’s about more transparency, lower risk and aligned interest between platform, borrower and investor. We talk about Real Estate Market in Europe post covid eCommerce &  Cargo shipping How commercial property markets are changing a ..read more