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Welcome to the Rebel Donegans blog—where financial independence meets lifestyle design, and mini-experiments make money fun.
Here you’ll find practical articles on investing, tracking your spending, designing your dream life, and running your own Monthly Finance Meeting (Donegan style!).
Start exploring, get inspired, and take one step closer to financial freedom.
Alan Donegan
September 3, 2026
Alan Donegan
August 26, 2026
Alan Donegan
July 1, 2026
Rebel Finance School Methodology: The Step-by-Step Framework for Taking Control of Your Money Most people are not failing with money because they are stupid. They are struggling because they were never taught how money actually works. Instead, most of [...]
Alan Donegan
May 30, 2026
Our net worth rose by £211,344 this month. I still can't quite believe it. It is also not the main point of this article. The main point is that if you were terrified on the way down, last month [...]
Alan Donegan
May 5, 2026
Rebel Finance School is free.No catch. No secret upsell. No “wait until the final week when we reveal the £997 platinum freedom accelerator”. No sideways sell, no diagonal sell, no “Alan appears from behind a curtain holding a credit card [...]
Alan Donegan
May 5, 2026
The Ultimate Guide to Rebel Finance School 2026 What’s Happening, What’s Changed and How to Get the Most Out of It If you have ever looked at your money and thought, “I really should sort this out,” but then [...]
Alan Donegan
May 4, 2026
Imagine it's Monday night. You settling on the couch ready to engage with Rebel Finance School, full of good intentions. You have a notebook. You have a cup of tea or an adult beverage of your choice. You have [...]
Alan Donegan
April 22, 2026
After every single Rebel Finance School session in 2025, Katie and I sat down and wrote notes about what we could improve for next time. We had a lot of ideas. But here’s the thing we’ve learned the hard way [...]
Alan Donegan
April 14, 2026
Are You Guilty of Comparing Your Pineapples? Have you ever looked at someone else’s finances and thought, “There’s no point for me, I’ll never have that much”? Or maybe you’ve felt that your situation is so unique, no one [...]
Alan Donegan
April 13, 2026
A Facebook investment scam can look surprisingly real, which is exactly why it works. Recently, someone cloned my personal Facebook account, copied my personal photos, used my name, and started messaging people about fake investment opportunities. Not Rebel Finance [...]
Alan Donegan
April 11, 2026
What if teaching kids about money didn't start with a worksheet, a lecture, or a slightly awkward school assembly? What if it started with LEGO? That is the question Katie and I came back from Denmark with. Last month, [...]
Alan Donegan
April 6, 2026
Our net worth fell by £183,167 this month. Yes you read that right. We, the Donegans, are worth £183,167 less than we were last month. Is that just market volatility? Are our investments crashing? It is a 7.3% drop [...]
Alan Donegan
March 31, 2026
Have you ever had a week where everything feels harder than it should be? Where you are more tired than usual, less patient than you would like to be and the things that matter most to you somehow keep [...]
Alan Donegan
March 15, 2026
People love to tell Katie and me: This FIRE stuff is easy for you. You don’t have kids. And honestly… it gets to us. It feels like people use this as an excuse not to get on top of [...]
Alan Donegan
February 26, 2026
26th Feb 2026 We used to be Premium Bonds people. Not in a “stick £100 in and forget it” way. In a “let’s optimise this” way. We’d check the results. We’d get a ridiculous little dopamine hit when a [...]
Alan Donegan
February 26, 2026
The day I cried outside the office When I first launched my business, I wanted sales, I wanted my business to be successful and I wanted it so badly. I had a list of prospects, a phone in my [...]
Alan Donegan
January 7, 2026
6th Jan 2026 Every December, the financial media makes its stock market predictions for the coming year. There are charts, bold numbers, and confident faces on TV. It’s a circus, and we’re all invited to watch the show. Here [...]
Alan Donegan
January 6, 2026
