Melanie Allen is the host of the blog Partners in Fire. A blog about helping you become financially independent so that you can live the life of your dreams.

In this episode, we speak about the financial independence dream, is it attainable? Is it possible for anyone to become financially independent or only for a selected few? Also, we speak about the lessons Melanie has learned about blogging during the past 3 years.

Melanie helps you save and invest, but also she gives you permission to live your life now. You don’t have to wait until retirement to start enjoying yourself.

Partners in Fire is about everyone partnering together to achieve financial independence

Melanie got tired of following the social script of working until age 65 and then retire. Instead, she wants to retire in the summer of 2021, while she is still young and has the energy to live of travel, adventures, and gaming.

In 2015 she stumbled on a Financial Independence forum on Reddit, and she realized there are other alternatives to the one indoctrinated on us. She moved from a high-cost city, Los Angeles, Ca, to Savannah, Ga, and then to a small town in Pennsylvania where the cost of living is lower. There she started her FIRE journey.

Melanie Allen started her blog 33 months ago and she has been sharing her blogging experience since the first month on a monthly series called “Blog Strategies” where she shares month by month the progress of the blog.

She wants to share the growth of the blog from its humble beginning of zero readers to now with 4.4K visitors. There are many blogs which only show their growth after many years of struggle. Melanie wants to show the struggle from day one.

We spoke about many systematic problems that regular people face in the U.S. which prevent them from reaching Financial Independence if they wanted to. Some of those problems include:

• Student debt
• Health insurance
• Income inequality
• Racial discrimination
• The incarceration rate
• Access to credit

Techniques to grow a blog

At the beginning social media is important, especially Twitter and Pinterest. But on the long run, it’s SEO the greatest contributor. However, SEO takes time to show results, sometimes it could take up to a year before the search engines start showing your content.

You can find Melanie on Twitter.

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