Henri Juttila from WakeUpCloud.com shares about the challenges of following your passion and choosing your own path, the truth about being self-employed, and becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable when you work for yourself.

Sean Ogle took a huge risk and made a big life change. Sean is someone who quit his office job working in finance, and took a huge leap. He moved to Asia and started a new life abroad, experimenting with working as a digital nomad.

Reader Binbin writes in to ask what advice I would share with my 18-year-old self if I could go back in time. If you’re recently out of high school, or any stage in your life really, and you want to break free and explore the world, here is the mindset I would recommend to get started…

Thrilling Heroics was born in 2006 with a different purpose than it serves today, and it has gone through many “evolutions” if you will, but I wanted to take this opportunity to share my personal life philosophy and my hopes for this site with loyal readers and new-comers alike. Why I started this site: By the time I graduated from [...]

As a follow-up to my post the other day, How to Make Friends with Career Columnists and Influence Mainstream News Organizations, I’d like to share some more of the insights from my conversation with ABCnews.com columnist Michelle Goodman. She asked a number of really great questions, and naturally only a very small part of our discussion made it into the [...]

Part three in Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com: Alexandra Levit is the author of They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World, and a regular corporate and university speaker on Gen-Y employees. She is the founder and president of Inspiration@Work career consultancy and also serves as a VP at Edelman public [...]

I’ve been working on a interview series over at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com about women and their relationship with personal finance and business, featuring several successful female entrepreneurs, consultants, and freelancers. The first one-on-one is with Pamela Slim, a great gal from Mesa, AZ. Pam left the corporate world in 1996 to start Ganas Consulting, and she writes a great blog called Escape [...]