My Life - 3/26 - Joshua Kennon

Nov202016

Grandma Kathryn visiting Joshua and Aaron

Epiphany Moments that Change Your Worldview

Life Strategy, My Day In PicturesBy Joshua Kennon November 20, 2016 47 Comments

Epiphany moments are powerful things that can change the way you manage your life, the direction of your career, or how you look at the world.

May152016

The Secrets of Highly Productive People

My Day In PicturesBy Joshua Kennon May 15, 2016 35 Comments

Highly productive people tend to have several characteristics and traits in common, including focus, drive, and ambition. What causes them?

May12016

Where We Are On Launching the Global Asset Management Firm

My Businesses, Value InvestingBy Joshua Kennon May 1, 2016 47 Comments

After being away for more than a month, I wanted to give you a behind-the-scenes look at where we are in launching the asset management business.

Mar162016

Our Personal Project for 2016 – Addition Through Subtraction

Food and Beverages, My Day In Pictures, My LifeBy Joshua Kennon March 16, 2016 63 Comments

Our Personal Project for 2016 – Addition Through Subtraction A few years ago, one of our projects involved focusing our pantry on the bare essentials; raw ingredients that could be used to make almost any recipe imaginable. At the time, I posted pictures of the early stages, which included different types of flour (bread flour,…

Jan92016

Sobahn Kansas City Joshua Kennon and Aaron Green Dinner

A Night of Delicious Korean Food at Sobahn in Kansas City

Food and Beverages, My Day In PicturesBy Joshua Kennon January 9, 2016 11 Comments

A Night of Delicious Korean Food at Sobahn in Kansas City My youngest sister flew back from the East Coast tonight after being out there for roughly three weeks. My parents, Aaron, and I met her at the airport and then went out to a place called Sobahn, a well-rated Korean restaurant in Kansas City.…

Sep182015

Starting a Global Value Asset Management Firm Kennon Green

Thoughts on Starting the Global Asset Management Firm

My Businesses, Value InvestingBy Joshua Kennon September 18, 2015 127 Comments

A few of you have expressed interest in the behind-the-scenes process of launching the global asset management business Aaron and I are establishing to provide a mechanism to take on outside funds alongside our own; a natural extension of what we’ve been doing for so many years privately…

Aug172015

Caleb and Tara White Coat Ceremony Featured

Attending My Brother’s White Coat Ceremony for Medical School

My Day In PicturesBy Joshua Kennon August 17, 2015 12 Comments

My brother’s white coat ceremony for medical school was this past Saturday! We went to cheer him on as he was assigned to his docent, with the internal medicine experience up first. (Though he’s part of the class of 2019, I think he’s graduating in 2018 because of however his particular academic experience and credit history happened to coalesce. I’m not entirely clear on how the mechanics work. Whatever it is, it won’t be long before we’re calling him “Dr. Kennon”.)

Jul22015

Obergefell v Hodges Supreme Court Ruling Marriage Equailty Victory

Marriage Equality Declared a Fundamental, Constitutional Right: My Personal Reaction to Obergefell v. Hodges

My Life, Politics, Religion & CultureBy Joshua Kennon July 2, 2015 59 Comments

Marriage Equality Declared a Fundamental, Constitutional Right: My Personal Reaction to Obergefell v. Hodges It’s been almost a week since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges declaring marriage equality a fundamental right under both the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. I’ve…

Jun92015

Here’s What Happened While I Was Away …

Food and Beverages, Gardening, My Day In Pictures, Video GamesBy Joshua Kennon June 9, 2015 19 Comments

Here’s What Happened While I Was Away … With so much of my time spent away from the site in the past 4-6 weeks, I thought I’d give a “here’s roughly what’s been going on” round-up. I had intended for a lot of this to turn into their own stand-alone posts but this will be faster.…

May312015

Chicago River and Skyscraper Joshua Kennon

Our First Deep Dish Pizza, Shopping on the Magnificent Mile, and Saying Goodbye to Chicago

My Day In PicturesBy Joshua Kennon May 31, 2015 24 Comments

After we said goodbye to Jimmy last night, we made plans to meet up again today for our final full day in Chicago. There was no real plan other than shopping on Michigan Avenue and getting a feel for Chicago. We were going to do a boat tour but the weather was too brutal. Next…

It’s always odd to try and fit your life story into a few lines but here is the short version: My name is Joshua Kennon. I’m 36 years old. My husband, Aaron, and I met and fell in love as teenagers. Neither of us ever even dated anyone else – we knew we were going to spend the rest of our lives together. After graduating from high school, we moved from the Midwest to the East Coast where we studied classical music and a wide range of liberal arts.

Later, we returned to the Kansas City area to be near family. During this period, which spanned nearly thirteen years and lasted from our early twenties into our mid-thirties, we started several Internet companies and spent much of our time semi-retired, managing our own wealth thanks to the financial independence those businesses helped us achieve. I also wrote a lot during those years. In fact, the odds are good that you’ve directly or indirectly encountered me many times without realizing it. For nearly 17 years, I was the Investing for Beginners Expert at what was then known as About.com. I am the co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Investing, 3rd Edition.

Due to requests from family and friends to manage their capital alongside our own wealth, Aaron and I decided to exit retirement and launch Kennon-Green & Co.^®, a fiduciary global asset management firm that specializes in helping affluent and high net worth individuals, families, and institutions invest their capital around the world. In 2018, as part of our journey to have kids through gestational surrogacy, and the spin-up of Kennon-Green & Co., we moved to Newport Beach, California.

These days, we spend our time running and growing the firm, as we plan on it being the institution through which we pass on our own family’s wealth to our future children and grandchildren. The experience, particularly meeting such incredible people, has been one of the most rewarding of our lives. It’s a rare thing to have a career that allows you to not only do what you love for a living, but to do it with people you admire, respect, and like. We feel like two of the most blessed guys in the world.

This personal blog is a place where I talk about some of the things that interest me – cooking, finance, entrepreneurship, politics, history, economics. I’m really proud of the community we’ve built, in no small part because the typical reader around here is exceptional. Please note that in preparation of the launch of the asset management business, and to better protect our family’s privacy, Aaron and I removed thousands of articles, posts, and comments from this blog, reducing it to a fraction of its former size. This means if you are looking for something that existed prior to us coming out of retirement, the odds are good it simply isn’t available anymore.