“In the spring of 2019 I had a moment that change my world forever. To someone else it might have been insignificant, but it apparently was a right moment, right issue, right mindset, right moment alignment to change everything

I got a notice from my company about our 401k plan directly to my email. A 401k was only something they said in the interview at that point in my life.

After 6 years of being there I thought I should take a look. When I logged in it turned out it was the same holding company that my former company 401k had rolled over into. I thought that was convenient, so I looked at both.

What I found was that I had several thousand from my former company sitting in a money fund. Now if you don’t know what that is, it is a relatively safe cash holding that your money is put into when you put it into an account so you can invest. You are NOT going to lose your money no matter what the market does.

The flip side is that it is NOT invested in anything, so it is also not going to make any money, any kind of return or grow. I had no idea I had to do anything with it when it rolled over. Then I started thinking about the fact that I had no idea where any of my other old 401k’s were or what they were doing.

What I didn’t know had cost me 6 years of interest at the very least and quite a bit more if I had known anything about investing. Just putting it into investments made me several hundred in the first few days.

More importantly I had an epiphany; what was ignorance costing me on other fronts?

I spent next several months investing myself into my financial IQ and finding all of my varied assets including helping my wife find hers. It was time to get our finances in order now that I knew I had been neglecting them out of ignorance.

That epiphany was origin point for me, I learned a lot about investing, retirement accounts. I also learned that there were 7 types of income and most of us only utilize one. No one had ever told me that much less taught me about it. What could I change with that knowledge?

What took root was the fact that I could change a lot in a short time with a little research, a little application and tenacity. I had always been a gym guy and knew a little effort went a long ways physically, but had never applied it on a broader scale of my life.

A journey began that colored outside of the lines that we were taught in school; there was more than what most of us were taught was possible.

A journey based on what I had the power to do.

I found out that I had the power and ability to change my life in every facet of my life if I wanted to. I COULD do that; it was my story to write.

My passion for helping other people kicked in hard as I quickly started improving my life, it’s great if I can make the journey but it will be better if I can take people with me. So how can I share this new found possibility with others to make their lives better?

The idea for a book was born and commenced, but ultimately I found my medium in podcasting. Today we continue that journey both personally and walking with others through our podcast, coaching, our conference and more. To change as many lives as possible”