Graeme Hughes is an accredited Financial Planner with 23 years of experience in the financial services industry. He runs themoneygeek.info is a blog about helping people find financial independence through better financial literacy. During the course of his career he completed hundreds of financial plans and recommended and sold hundreds of millions of dollars of investment products. He believes that financial independence is a goal anyone can aspire to and is passionate about helping others to live life on their own terms.

Eugene / Host: (00:05)Hello and welcome everyone. I’m Eugene Ting and this is the Financial Independence Forum. This show is an open ended exploration of stories, methods and mindsets, how to better invest your time best in yourself and invest your money. You can learn more and please contribute your voice and story to financialindependenceforum.com. I have here today, Graham Hughes.

Eugene / Host: (00:35)He is an accredited financial planner with 23 years experience in the financial services industry. He runs themoneygeek.info and it’s a blog that helps people find financial independence through better financial literacy. During the course of his career, he completed hundreds of financial plans and recommended and sold a hundreds of millions of dollars of investment products. He believes that financial independence is a goal that anyone can inspire to and is passionate about helping others live their life in their own terms. Welcome Graeme to the program. Thanks Eugene. I’m really glad to be here. I know we were chatting a little bit before about you know, just to preamble about different things. You started themoneygeek.info you mentioned about six months ago and you have, so I feel like there’s a lot of depth of the articles and it’s already very filled out, so it’s incredible. Some of the things that you’ve, you’ve talked about, about financial independence and you mentioned something in our preamble about how you arrived at the domain name that you have. Maybe you could share with our audience a little bit about that story too. It sounded like there was something there, so I thought I’d start with that.

Graeme Hughes: (01:40)Well, it’s not, it’s actually interesting just in the fact it’s kind of pathetic. The sign of something that I’ve had on my mind for years and years and years. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but the challenge I had, when you’re, when you’re licensed, you’ve got so many restrictions. So I worked for the charter banks was a financial planner for them, licensed to sell mutual funds, license to sell securities at one point. And all those organizations are very tight rules about what you can and can’t do online. So website just wasn’t ever going to happen. But then when I left the industry, you know, I’d had this thing percolating around in the back of my mind. And so for months, literally months,