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The $50
Field Guide to Family Freedom

The resource for families to and reclaim their time and create their own financial independence. Transform your financial future for less than the cost of a dinner out.

It's not about being wealthy, it's about being strategic.

Relaxing At Home

Calculate Your Freedom Date

Free FIRE Tool

Planning for your future should be simple and stress-free.  Our free FIREstarter Calculator helps you estimate your freedom date based on your unique goals.  Simply enter your details to see your path to retirement.

Beyond the Blueprint

Check out our latest stories and tips once you’ve secured your guide for ongoing tips and success stories.

How Is Success Defined for You?

Free AI Goal Prompt Tool

Dump your goals, rank what matters most, set your timeline — and walk away with a personalized AI prompt that gives you real, tangible steps to build the life you actually want.

Hi, we're the founders of FIREstarter

FIREStarter Finance is founded after years of figuring it out the hard way — budgeting for our wedding, losing parents, navigating probate, having kids, and pivoting our financial strategy through every chapter of life. We read the books, broke down our cash flow month after month, and built a system out of everything that actually worked.

Our goal is simple: to hand you the playbook we wish we had. Real systems, honest takes, and tools built for people who are done winging it and ready to build a financial life that works for their actual life.

The Firestarter Field Guide: Your Resource to Freedom

The strategies and hot takes that actually move the needle

Curated tools and AI prompts so you're not starting from scratch

The real cost — financial and emotional — of the big life decisions nobody does the math on

cassie L.

I have been meaning to 'get my finances together' for years. This guide actually made me do it. The chapter on knowing whose name is on what alone was worth every penny — I had no idea how much I was missing. I did the vision exercise with my husband on a Sunday afternoon and we had the most honest money conversation we have ever had. Genuinely life changing for $37.

ashley p.

The savings rate calculation and FIRE number breakdown finally made early retirement feel real and not just a fantasy. I plugged my numbers into the FIREStarter calculator and found out I am closer to Coast FIRE than I thought. That one realization paid for this guide about a thousand times over. Buy it.

Leo s. 

I almost did not buy this because I have read every personal finance book out there. I bought it anyway and I am glad I did. This is not a book. The Goal Generator is something I haven't seen before and gave both me and my wife a new perspective on how we can align and support each other for our future.

Jenn P.

I am single, no kids, and was not sure this was for me. It absolutely was. The section on knowing whose name is where and naming a beneficiary hit me hard... I had never thought about any of it. I named my best friend as my beneficiary the same day I finished reading. Simple, practical, and written like a real person not a robot.

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