Gwen Merz on Fiery Millennials, financial independence and saving $200 by age 30 – MAF193

On the show this week, I chat to Gwen Merz, the founder of Fiery Millennials, a blog site dedicated to making sense of finances for young people.

We talk about how Gwen saved $200,000 whilst in her twenties and how she built her blog to help others achieve financial independence.

Welcome to episode 193 of the Marketing and Finance Podcast.

We chat about:

• How Gwen saved rather than spent her money
• Why Gwen set up the Fiery Millennials blog
• How she built her website by not following "the rules"
• Making financial advice less complicated
• How to make financial services an enticing career option
• Gwen’s advice to millennials seeking financial independence

 Who is Gwen?

Gwen started her blog three and a half years ago after finding a ‘Financially Independent Retiring Early’ (FIRE) community during college. While it provided value, there was no-one young, female and starting out on their financial journey to relate to.

Realising that most bloggers were at a different life stage, Gwen created the blog she wanted to read. It helps her make connections, find new ideas and understand how others live.

She worked for a large, globally-recognised corporation and intended to retire at 35. By age 27 she’d saved $200,000, which over the next 30 years will compound to $1.5m without additional contributions.

Links and Show Notes.

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I’m Roger Edwards, a marketing guy and keynote speaker from Edinburgh. Talk to me if you want to cut the BS and complexity from your marketing strategy.

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We talk about:

• How you can grow your business using content marketing and social media
• How you can keep your Marketing strategy and communications simple
• Topics, issues, products and business models from the world of finance

You’ll take away one or two big ideas that you can apply to your business. So, you can keep marketing your business to keep growing your business.

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