This is something I will be doing part-time as well as creating a website where I write about how one can create their own financial plan and as well have my contact info as a means of communicating if my readers ever need one-on-one counseling or help. Do you think this is something that would take well in the community? I am having doubts that this would take well, seeing as a lot of those who are interested in this lifestyle are DIY'ers.
DIY is quite common, at least partly because of the results of trying to have the conversation with financial planners. I've been told, politely, by Chase Private Client (I could have it because my parents have it, they've... not really won me over) that they couldn't give me a mortgage for a trailer house (I much prefer the term "manufactured home," and think it's just as well built as site-built homes), and I've had some entertaining conversations with the occasional free financial planner about my early retirement plans and my path to them (which, mostly, involves being significantly energy and food independent, because that's got an awful lot less risk of market shock, plus is fun), and I just recently got something in the mail about how my estimated retirement account earnings (if I worked to 65) were
only $130k... yellow light, I would probably need more in retirement, call them so I can optimize my retirement plans. I don't expect to spend radically
more in retirement... nor do I actually expect to ever "retire" fully - by normal definitions. It just means I can do other interesting work without worrying about earning a living from it.
But, really, I'm not sure there's a market for it. Anyone on the FIRE path is almost certainly "well advanced" in their financial understandings, and likely wouldn't pay for generic-ish advice they can find themselves.
You'd need some way to really stand out, and I've no idea what that would be.
I'm wondering if creating a blog for the mass audience that needs financial help and sprinkling some FIRE logic into my advising sessions would be a better way of doing it.
The internet has no shortage of personal finance bloggers. One more isn't likely to stand out among the noise.