{"id":781925,"date":"2026-07-05T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781925\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:24:09","slug":"video-the-wealthy-barber-is-closing-up-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781925\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The Wealthy Barber is closing up shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Village Media&#8217;s &#8216;Closer Look&#8217; podcast: Bestselling author David Chilton has announced his retirement, not long after releasing a fresh rewrite of his seminal book on personal finance<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"closer look logo\" id=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/closer-look-logo-728x90.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Released nearly four decades years ago, The Wealthy Barber helped countless Canadians understand money management and sound investing strategies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, author David Chilton released a\u00a0<a data-ga-action=\"OutboundLink\" data-ga-category=\"OutboundLink\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/thewealthybarber.com\/book\/\" href=\"https:\/\/thewealthybarber.com\/book\/?utm_source=closer%20look&amp;utm_campaign=closer%20look%3A%20outbound&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">fresh rewrite of his iconic book for a new generation<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontotoday.ca\/closer-look\/video-money-questions-the-wealthy-barber-still-has-all-the-answers-you-need-11470685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stopped by<\/a> our Closer Look podcast for a chat.<\/p>\n<p>Amid news that Chilton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/globe-advisor\/advisor-news\/article-the-wealthy-barber-is-retiring-heres-how-he-plans-to-spend-his-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">is retiring<\/a> at the end of 2026, we decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.closerlookpodcast.ca\/latest\/video-money-questions-the-wealthy-barber-still-has-all-the-answers-you-need-11470685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">revisit some of the sound advice<\/a> he passed our way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on Village Media&#8217;s &#8216;Closer Look&#8217; podcast: Bestselling author David Chilton has announced his retirement, not long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,276758],"class_list":["post-781925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-village-mediascott-sexsmithmichael-friscolanticloser-lookdavid-chiltonthe-wealthy-barber-is-retiring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}