Helping Gen Z Discover FIRE… with Guac
Darcy Guac, Founder and Chief Blogger of We Want Guac, which provides a guide for Gen Z on the path to wealth, supporting young professionals on the best practices for investing, lowering expenses, and earning higher career incomes.
In this episode, Darcy Guac shares her personal journey from growing up in a town voted “Worst Place to Live” in the US to placing herself solidly on the path to early financial independence. Darcy’s experience shows how others can pursue the do-it-yourself approach to personal financial stability and success.
- Movies that are “financially independent-recommended” (Office Space and The Matrix).
- Defining FIRE as Financial Independence and Retiring Early
- The Plutus Award Best Generational Financial Literacy Content for focusing on Gen Z.
- Darcy’s Personal Finance Journey began in the “Worst Place to Live in the United States” and arrived at college without knowing much about managing money.
- After finding a job in Boston in 2016 through a temp agency, Darcy stumbled upon forums for financial education resources.
- Finance 2.0 was very interactive, and people were very open to sharing their experiences and financial decisions.
- Darcy’s plans and experience with student loan debt.
- Darcy recommends reading articles, joining a financial independence subreddit, listening to podcasts, watching YouTube videos, and even watching TikTok videos of people’s tips and stories of financial success.
- How to approach asking questions when you’re hesitant or shy. Darcy read and listened until she kind of knew what she didn’t know so she could more confidently ask informed questions.
- Darcy was always amazed at how many financially successful people were willing to share their time and tips.
- Darcy’s efforts at WeWantGuac and why she chose the name.
- The piece of practical advice Darcy shares has to do with getting comfortable with learning about and talking about finance.
