Conversation with Jon Chevreau - Author of Findependence Day - Part 1
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Monty Loree: Hey folks, this is Monty Loree for Canadian Money Adviser and I'm pretty excited. I've got Jon Chevreau who's the author of Findependence Day and I'm just going to read an intro here. Jonathan Chevreau joined Financial Post in 1993 and took over the personal finance column in 1996 which continued in the Financial Post. He has authored several financial books on mutual funds and stock market including the Wealthy Boomer: Life After Mutual Funds and now a financial novel, Findependence Day which we're going to talk about today. He has a Bachelor of Science and MA in Journalism. What is an MA?
Jon Chevreau: Master of Arts.
Monty Loree: Okay, Master of Arts.
Jon Chevreau: In the University West of Ontario.
Monty Loree: Alright, okay. He blogs at wealthybloomer.ca. He lives with his wife and 17-year old daughter in a paid-for home in Long Beach, Ontario.
Jon Chevreau: It's still paid for, but she's 18 now. She's off to the university.
Monty Loree: The daughter's paid for it?
Jon Chevreau: No, she stopped paying for it. Four more years and she's paid for.
Monty Loree: Well thank you Jon - I appreciate you taking time and I know our visitors are going to enjoy this as well. But your book is FIndependence Day, one couple's turbulent journey to financial independence and it's a story about Jamie and Sheena, looks like in over a 22-year period. So tell me how that got going?
Jon Chevreau: Well I guess it started with the name. I don't know why, I was sort of doodling about, thinking about the American Independence Day and Financial Independence Day. Findependence Day - well that's not a bad title, why don't I write a book to go with it? It turned out that the website is findependenceday.ca where available so I kind of grabbed them off. Actually, originally the concept was to be sort of a non-fiction book like I've written The Wealthy Bloomer: Life After Mutual Funds was non-fiction and the Smart Funds Guy I've written were non-fiction. But I would've been too much like my day job, so I thought it'd be more fun to kind of try what David Chilton did with the Wealthy Barber and numerous other people, like Richard's State of Mind. There’s a lot of people who followed David’s footsteps, of course none of us would’ve sold 3 million copies that the pioneer David did, but we tried.
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The following personal finance podcast with Jon Chevreau has been brought to you by Canadian Money Advisor. You can find us at www.cma1.ca/1.
Monty Loree: Hey folks, this is Monty Loree for Canadian Money Adviser and I'm pretty excited. I've got Jon Chevreau who's the author of Findependence Day and I'm just going to read an intro here. Jonathan Chevreau joined Financial Post in 1993 and took over the personal finance column in 1996 which continued in the Financial Post. He has authored several financial books on mutual funds and stock market including the Wealthy Boomer: Life After Mutual Funds and now a financial novel, Findependence Day which we're going to talk about today. He has a Bachelor of Science and MA in Journalism. What is an MA?
Jon Chevreau: Master of Arts.
Monty Loree: Okay, Master of Arts.
Jon Chevreau: In the University West of Ontario.
Monty Loree: Alright, okay. He blogs at wealthybloomer.ca. He lives with his wife and 17-year old daughter in a paid-for home in Long Beach, Ontario.
Jon Chevreau: It's still paid for, but she's 18 now. She's off to the university.
Monty Loree: The daughter's paid for it?
Jon Chevreau: No, she stopped paying for it. Four more years and she's paid for.
Monty Loree: Well thank you Jon - I appreciate you taking time and I know our visitors are going to enjoy this as well. But your book is FIndependence Day, one couple's turbulent journey to financial independence and it's a story about Jamie and Sheena, looks like in over a 22-year period. So tell me how that got going?
Jon Chevreau: Well I guess it started with the name. I don't know why, I was sort of doodling about, thinking about the American Independence Day and Financial Independence Day. Findependence Day - well that's not a bad title, why don't I write a book to go with it? It turned out that the website is findependenceday.ca where available so I kind of grabbed them off. Actually, originally the concept was to be sort of a non-fiction book like I've written The Wealthy Bloomer: Life After Mutual Funds was non-fiction and the Smart Funds Guy I've written were non-fiction. But I would've been too much like my day job, so I thought it'd be more fun to kind of try what David Chilton did with the Wealthy Barber and numerous other people, like Richard's State of Mind. There’s a lot of people who followed David’s footsteps, of course none of us would’ve sold 3 million copies that the pioneer David did, but we tried.
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