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Welcome to My Own Advisor and I look forward to engaging with you. Welcome to my Start Here & Contact page.
From this page I encourage you to check out all my content for the following reasons!
Why follow My Own Advisor?
Well, a few reasons come to mind…
1. This site is free. There is no paywall. No fee-based subscription. No hot-stock tips to pay for. There are no promises of any I always know better than you stuff… It’s your life and your financial journey. I post some of my journey here for you to enjoy and hopefully learn from…
2. I’ve reached Financial Independence. Lots of bloggers, money experts, financial advisors and planners talk about being debt-free, they write/speak about financial independence but they haven’t accomplished those things yet.
I have. You can read more on this page here:
3. I enjoy engaging with other like-minded Do-It-Yourself (DIY) investorsas part of a community. I like staying out of debt. I like investing. I like stocks. I like ETFs. I like doing my own taxes. Odd, I know. 🙂
I also don’t like paying other people money to manage my money!
About Me:
I started investing when I was in my early 20s after reading David Chilton’s The Wealthy Barber. I started my investing journey totally oblivious to the high money management fees my big bank charged me at the time.
Little did I know how much these money management fees would kill my portfolio returns over the years. So, in my very early 30s I got smart. 🙂
I read books.
I read blogs.
I started to pay very close attention to where, how and when to invest my hard-earned dollars. I also learned to be wary of the financial industry. Why?
The way I see it: nobody cares more about my money than I do.
You should feel the same about your hard-earned dollars.
My name is Mark Seed – the founder, editor and owner of My Own Advisor.
I opened my first savings account at age 13.
I opened my RRSP for investing at age 22. I started my RRSP by investing with just $25 per month.
I’ve done my own taxes for decades.
I manage my own insurance needs.
As my own DIY financial advisor, I’ve reached financial independence.
We worked hard. We saved our money. I retired in my early 50s as of 2026!
Personal finance and investing remains a growing passion of mine and I will be using this site to post my thoughts, opinions and journey as an early retiree.
I also have a YouTube channel you can find here!
My Own Advisor was born out of a passion for investing and it’s still going strong some 15+ years later…now in early retirement. 🙂
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