Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung

Kristy and Bryce are world-traveling early retirees. They used to live in one of the most expensive cities in Canada, but instead of drowning in debt, they rejected home ownership. What resulted was a 7-figure portfolio, which has allowed them to retire in their 30s and travel the world. Their story has been featured in media outlets all over the world, including New York Times, CBC, CNBC, Women’s Health Magazine Australia, Germany’s Handelsblatt, GQ Russia, and the UK Independent. They now spend time helping people with their finances and realizing their travel dreams on www.millennial-revolution.com.

PARENT LIKE A MILLIONAIRE (WITHOUT BEING ONE)

Tarcher/Penguin, 2026

From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement and the internationally bestselling book, QUIT LIKE A MILLIONAIRE, an essential guide to the finances of having and raising kids no matter the size of your budget

New parents are often stressed about their finances. Even Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung—who both retired at age 30 with over a million dollars in the bank—worried about the cost of becoming parents. Leaders of the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement, Kristy and Bryce may not be experts at parenting, but they are experts at saving.

In this book, they reveal how to:

Make your money work harder than you do
Avoid the pressure to buy baby gear you don’t need
Find your nest, optimize transportation, and hack childcare
Go on unlimited family vacations
Give your child a world-class education

Each chapter in this book is filled with money-saving tips—and more money means less stress, which leads to happier families. The financial advice in this book is tailored to help you reduce your stress so that your family can thrive.

“Full of smarts, love, sass, and clever strategies, Parent Like a Millionaire should be the first purchase of your pregnancy. It will save you thousands as your infant outgrows or rejects ninety percent of those must-have products. Kristy and her husband Bryce are ‘Financial Independence Retire Early’ super-stars so of course they’d bring us this very useful manual for financial hacks for parenting.”
—Vicki Robin, New York Times bestselling co-author of Your Money or Your Life

“Parent Like a Millionaire is filled with the practical strategies all parents need to navigate the financial stressors of expanding their family. This book will keep you from making those knee-jerk decisions that feel reasonable in the moment, but could hurt your finances long term.”
—Erin Lowry, author of the Broke Millennial series

“This book reminds us that when parents feel supported and financially at ease, the whole family can breathe. It’s honest, funny, and beautifully raw—a hopeful, empowering guide to building a joyful home with less financial pressure and more peace.”
—Ken and Mary Okoroafor, Sunday Times bestselling authors of Financial Joy and The Wealth Habit.

“As educators who’ve helped tens of thousands of people with their finances (but haven’t had to change a diaper at 3 a.m.), we can tell you: this is the book we’d give to every parent we know. Kristy and Bryce are some of the smartest people we have ever met and they have taken their engineering mindset and created a parenting and money manual that’s fun to read and genuinely life-changing. Read this book if you want to buy back your time, stress less, and raise happier kids (without needing a millionaire’s bank account).”
—Katie and Alan Donegan, BEM, founders of Rebel Finance School

“Kristy and Bryce are your fun, intelligent friends who figured out that society was lying to us with the fear mongering that ‘babies are so expensive.’ Using the principles of the Financial Independence Movement, they show you step-by-step how you can save money on every aspect of raising your child and live a happier, less stressful life in the process. This book is a must-read for new parents or anyone even thinking about having a kid in the next few years!”
—Brad Barrett, co-founder and host of the Choose FI Podcast

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QUIT LIKE A MILLIONAIRE: NO GIMMICKS, LUCK, OR TRUST FUND REQUIRED

TarcherPerigee/Penguin, 2019

From the vanguard of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independence–no gimmick, luck, or trust fund required.

Quit Like a Millionaire is a bull***t-free guide to growing your wealth, retiring early, and living the life you’ve always dreamed of.

As The New York Times recently noted, FIRE is “a growing movement of young professionals who are intently focused on quitting their jobs forever.” Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of thirty-one, and she did it without hitting a home run on the stock market, starting the next Snapchat in her garage, or investing in hot real estate. In Quit Like a Millionaire, learn how to cut down on spending without decreasing your quality of life, build a million-dollar portfolio, fortify your investments to survive bear markets and black-swan events, and use the 4 percent rule and the Yield Shield–so you can quit the rat race forever. It may sound complicated, but Shen is here to tell us that if she did it, anyone can. Not everyone can become an entrepreneur or a real estate baron; the rest of us need her mathematically proven approach to retire decades before sixty-five.

Shen is not your typical investment guru. She grew up in abject poverty in rural China, worked for a decade as a middle-class immigrant professional in Canada, and now travels the world as a retired millionaire. In short, she really walks the walk, and here she shares the mindsets she developed at each income level that launched her to the next.