What Financial Freedom Actually Costs

It’s firstly maths, followed by mindset. Or mindset first, then maths. In this essay, I focus first on the maths/arithmetic part of it. Most people treat financial freedom like a feeling they’re waiting to arrive โ€” a someday, a vibe, a number so large it stays abstract. It isn’t a feeling. It’s one equation, and … Read more

I Didn’t Save to Retire. I Saved to Build AND Live.

People hear the numbers and assume the goal was to stop working. It wasn’t. I saved hard so I could build freely โ€” and those are two completely different lives. Here are the numbers, plainly. From 2008 to 2017, my wife and I averaged around $10,000 a month combined. Over ten years, roughly $1.2 million … Read more