Books

Full disclosure, I listen. I don't read as much as I'd like.

"Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018" by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez

"Lifeonaire: An Uncommon Approach to Wealth, Success, and Prosperity" by Steve Cook and Shaun McClosky

"The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy" by Thomas Stanley and William Danko

"Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!" by Robert Kyosaki

"Living Well Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life" by Ruth Soukup

"Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" by Greg McKeown

"I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works" by Ramit Sethi

"Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money" by Rabbi Daniel Lapin

"Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would You Go for Financial Freedom?" by Scott Rieckens

"Set for Life: Dominate Life, Money, and the American Dream" by Scott Trench

"The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life" by J.L Collins

Websites & Blogs

Funny, informational and encouraging, these sites will get you excited about what's next.

BiggerPockets.com - great fora ll things real estate investing. They have a blog and forum with very active community. Any questions you have will be answered there. 

MadFientist.com - This guy is a genius. He retired in 2016 at an age much younger than the traditional retiree. He is a wealth of knowledge on tax optimization. 

1500days.com - The blog chronicles Carl's journey to reaching financial independence in 1500 days, and his life after traditional employment. He has a family, which I really appreciate. He was not a high earning single guy sleeping on a couch and saving all of his high income. It makes the journey feel more attainable. 

Rootofgood.com - This is another family man that was able to retire early. Justin was able to retire at 33 in 2013. On the blog, Justin shares how he did it and what he is doing now. 

Mrmoneymustache.com - Pete was one of the first personal finance blogs that many people in the financial independence community found. He's funny, practical and insightful. He shares everything from his investing philosophy to how he installed solar himself. 

Financialsamurai.com - Sam shares how he was able to retire AND how to negotiate a pay raise and/or generous severance package when you leave a job. Wherever you are in your journey, he can help!

Getrichslowly.com - J.D. Roth has a lot of useful information and resources on his site.  

Podcasts

Perfect free education from people a few steps ahead of us