Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin start the seminar "Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence." That seminar is the basis for the book Your Money or Your Life. Before starting the seminars, Joe Dominguez is a stock analyst on Wall Street until he retires at the age of 31. While he is working, he develops a program that allows him to retire early and live modestly. He later begins to teach his techniques to others. At first he teaches this informally. Vicki Robin is one of his earliest students. For about 20 years, they continue to spread the word together informally about the financial independence program to friends and fellow volunteers on service projects. After their friends apply the techniques to their own finances, they tell others about the program, and Joe and Vicki eventually start a seminar teaching others to do the same...