Janine Bolon was born in California but spent her youth in Japan and the Bahamas before her father retired from the Navy to southern Missouri. She worked her way through college (B.S., University of Missouri) before spending 10 years in academic and industrial laboratories. Janine is a veteran entrepreneur, having founded and sold several successful companies. Her current business venture is teaching fundamental principles of financial independence as a lecturer and writer. She recently earned an M.A. in Education (George Wythe College). Her hobbies are a penchant for theoretical physics, mathematics and homeschooling her four children with her husband, Brad.