Award winning personal finance blogger, consultant, experimenter, and daddy x3. With over 15 years of building communities online, Jay’s projects have reached over 40 million views and are regularly featured in the media. An avid coin collector, skateboarder, and yoga enthusiast, Jay loves connecting the online world with the “real” world, and feels blessed to be a part of this online community. His full story can be found here.

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current projects:

☆ Budgets Are Sexy // a blog about financial independence
☆ Coin Thrill // a blog about coin collecting (it’s cool, dammit!)
☆ I Met You Today  // a tribute to the beautiful people we meet!
☆ Community Fund 🖤 // a project that helps the homeless

services offered:

☆ Blog Coaching // helping bloggers build/brand/monetize better
☆ Blog Brokering // helping people buy and sell blogs
☆ Coin Consulting // helping people evaluate and liquidate coin collections
☆ Fintech Consulting // helping startups build/brand/market better

limited partner (LP):

☆ Outside VC // a pre-seed venture firm investing into outsider founders building a more equitable financial system (ran by the burrito-loving, Ethan Austin)

past projects:

☆ PF Swagger // a curation of the hottest merch in finance
☆ All-Star Money // a curation of the best articles in personal finance
☆ Rockstar Finance // a curation of the best articles in personal finance
☆ Rockstar Money Forums // a (positive) place to chat about money/blogging
☆ Rockstar Community Fund // a philanthropy project that did $20,000 of GOOD
☆ PF Directory // a database of 1,400+ financial blogs and resources
☆ M.O.N.E.Y. // A podcast on personal finance and financial independence
☆ Take Our Stuff // a fun weekly giveaway site
☆ Love Drop // a philanthropy project that did $90,000 of GOOD

accolades:

☆ Winner of 12 industry Plutus awards
☆ 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award
☆ 2012 Financial Blogger of The Year
☆ 5x FinTech competition judge
☆ Dubbed a top “Social Influencer” in personal finance & wealth
☆ One of the 50 most essential people on Twitter to follow via MarketWatch
☆ Featured in a full length spread on Forbes.com
☆ Named best blog for twentysomethings by Kiplinger (Budgets Are Sexy)
☆ Named a best site for money advice by Business Insider (Rockstar Finance)

random facts:

☆ Wakes up at 5 a.m. every day
☆ Was once turned into a comic
☆ Was once turned into currency
☆ Was once turned into a bobblehead!
☆ Once had a project show up in the White House
☆ Once had someone dress up as him for Halloween
☆ Once called “the Miley Cyrus of Finance” (not as a compliment)
☆ Inventor of The Lifetime Wealth Ratio™ (LWR)
☆ Creator of The Financial Empowerment Game
☆ Founder of International Be Proud of Your Money Day! (October 19th)
☆ Maker of silly websites, like whyyourepoor.com

// Last updated: 7/26/2023