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It was during this time that I kept hearing people mention Rebel Finance School<\/a>, urging others to learn from the free 10-week online finance course run by husband-and-wife team Alan and Katie Donegan.<\/p>\n After reading an interview with the pair <\/a>by one of my colleagues, I knew I desperately needed to do this course and see what all the fuss was about for myself.<\/p>\n Alan and Katie Donegan are a UK couple who retired at the ages of 40 and 35, despite not coming from money themselves and starting their investment journey with basic financial knowledge \u2013 making plenty of mistakes along the way.<\/p>\n But after discovering the benefits of low-cost global index funds \u2013 which allow investors to track world markets \u2013 the pair embarked on a passive investment strategy which saw them become ISA millionaires<\/a> in their pursuit of financial freedom.<\/p>\n Their combined fortune now stands at over \u00a32m and they no longer work and live a nomadic lifestyle<\/a> travelling the world and staying in hotels and Airbnbs.<\/p>\n Not content with simply enjoying their own early retirement<\/a>, Alan and Katie wanted a purpose and decided to share their financial wisdom by launching a free online course. Rebel Finance School is a free online personal finance course, advertised as helping people take control of their money, get out of debt<\/a> and invest for financial independence.<\/p>\n Cynics may say: \u201cBut no one does anything for nothing, there must be something in it for them.\u201d<\/p>\n However, they say running the course actually costs them around \u00a312,000 of their own money, they do not make any profit, and they have simply chosen to do this to help others.<\/p>\n What I learnt during the course<\/p>\n When I first told my husband we were going to spend our evenings watching a 10-week online finance course, he didn\u2019t look particularly enthusiastic, probably because it sounded like it had the potential to be tedious and boring.<\/p>\n However, like me, as soon as we began doing the course, he became gripped as it explained even things we thought we knew about in a refreshingly easy to understand way and made us view our finances differently.<\/p>\n While you can watch the course sessions and bonus episodes live week-by-week when they run them annually on their YouTube channel, there are full replays available for most of the year so you can watch them at your own pace, dipping in and out like we did.<\/p>\n It is often aligned with the Fire movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early<\/a>) but Rebel Finance School is more about taking control of your finances and concentrating on what is important to you.<\/p>\n With episodes looking at everything from increasing your money gap between spending and income, attacking debts, spending on what matters and realising it\u2019s never too late to start tackling your finances, to learning about investing in \u201cboring\u201d index funds which create millionaires, and doing volatility training, there\u2019s a lot of material.<\/p>\n We were taught their strategy \u2013 to invest in a fund which covers lots of companies and then leave it to grow.<\/p>\n One of the core mantras, \u201cWe don\u2019t invest until we retire, we invest until we expire\u201d is about how your investing timeline needs to be viewed as being much longer than simply reaching retirement age. So it\u2019s never too late to start your investment journey.<\/p>\n I love this \u2013 along with their \u201cinvest like a dead person\u201d philosophy. This is based on a famous study by Fidelity which suggested that the best-performing accounts belonged to clients who had either passed away or had forgotten they had an account, because they did not panic-sell during market downturns.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"ALAN](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PRI_167566021.jpg\")
Alan and Katie retired aged 40 and 35 and now run the free online Rebel Finance School<\/p>\n