Interviews

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Derek the blogger behind the awesome blog Engineer My Freedom.

Derek is a relatively new blogger and his blog covers my favorite topic, dividend investing!  So I invited him to share his investing knowledge and experience with us.

Kanwal: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.

Derek: My Name is Derek and I am from a small city called Waterford in the Republic of Ireland. I have two main passions which are personal finance and technology.…

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the blogger behind the awesome blog Dividend Power

Dividend Power has been blogging since 2019 (but started writing about investing in 2006) and his blog covers my favorite topic, dividend investing!  So I invited him to share his investing knowledge and experience with us.

Kanwal: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.

Dividend Power: I am a U.S. based blogger that focuses on dividend growth investing or ‘DGI’ for small investors. I hav…

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the blogger behind the awesome blog Zero to Freedom!

Georgi at ZerotoFreedom has been blogging since 2018 and his blog covers my favorite topic, dividend investing!  So I invited him to share his investing knowledge and experience with us.

Kanwal: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.

Georgi: My name is Georgi, and I am originally from a small country in the Balkans called Bulgaria. I have been living in the UK for the most part of the …

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the blogger behind the awesome blog Dividends Diversify!

Tom at Dividends Diversify has been blogging since 2017 and his blog covers my favorite topic, dividend investing!  So I invited him to share his investing knowledge and experience with us.

Kanwal: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.

Dividends Diversify:  As a youth, I developed an interest in money, investing, and business. I started mowing lows around my neighborhood at age 10…

A recently had the honor of interviewing the blogger behind the awesome blog Roadmap2Retire!

Roadmap2Retire has been blogging since 2013 and his blog covers my favorite topic, dividend investing! So I invited him to share his investing knowledge and experience with us.

Kanwal: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.

Roadmap2Retire: I am a mid-30s software engineer living in Ottawa Canada that is passionate about finance and investing. In my spare time, I am mostly consumed by readi…

 A recently had the honor of interviewing the blogger behind the awesome blog DivGro!

FerdiS at DivGro has been blogging since 2013 and his blog covers my favorite topic, dividend investing! So I invited him to share his investing knowledge and experience with us.

Kanwal: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.

DivGro: Our family moved to the United States in 2002 when I was offered a position at a well-known animation studio in the Bay Area. A small part of my compensation package…

Most investor buy a stock and then hope for the price to go up. You can hope all you want, but at the end of the day what really matters is the dividend (the money paid to you the shareholder).

Last year Globe & Mail interviewed 12 investors, from Bay Street to Wall Street to Silicon Valley, about how to make money now. Here’s what Geraldine Weiss had to say about about dividends:

What about the way investors approach dividend stocks?

I look at dividends not necessarily as an income factor, b…

I've often heard the phrase "You can't beat large institutional investors, they have access to more information!" I disagree, an individual investor has the advantage of being small, and being able to hold a long-term perspective.

Here's what Motley Fool had to say about the advantage of being a small investor:

"While Buffett has buying power and access to deals ordinary investors can only dream of, there's one area where Buffett himself concedes that the small investors have the advantage.

B…

A recently had the honour of interviewing the blogger behind the awesome blog Passive Income Pursuit!

Passive Income Pursuit has been blogging since 2011 and his blog covers my favorite topic, dividend investing! So I invited him to share his investing knowledge and experience with us.

Kanwal: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.

Passive Income Pursuit: I was laid off in January 2009, and while it was frustrating at the time, as my unemployment period continued on I realized the…

A recently had the honour of interviewing the blogger behind the awesome blog Financially Integrated!

Financially Integrated has been blogging since 2012 and his blog covers a range of issues from budgeting and saving your money to investing. On his blog there's a focus on dividend investing so I invited him to share his investing knowledge and experience with us.

Kanwal: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.

Financially Integrated: I’m really a finance guy through and through. I…