Welcome! 

This website has changed a lot over the years

In 2017 I started this blog as a place to talk about financial freedom, then it quickly became more about real estate investing, along the way I found a deep love and importance for learning philosophy so I shared those thoughts as well. Then I started to meet people who wanted to invest with me and we made/still make money together. In 2021 when the real estate market got stupid I decided to spend a few years traveling the world as a photographer. Currently I am the creative director for the “BetterLife” podcast with Brandon Turner and I live in Maui full time. 

How is any of this useful to you?

I was a professional fuckup for 30 something years before getting my life together, and now live a ridiculously awesome life and the main factor that contributes to all of it is choice. The biggest ones are the choice to learn, the choice of who we spend time with, and the choice to volunteer for difficult things. 

I am not much of an educator, I don’t have any knowledge to sell you. Instead, I try to help by leaving breadcrumbs of what I learned rather than telling people what to do.

From 2017 to 2023 this site was named “Broke is a Choice” and the following dialogue was at the beginning of the site. Though the name is changed now the spirit of it’s meaning remains as true today as it did then.)

This place is called “Broke is a Choice” because it’s brash and straight to the point, like me. Tough love is the only way I know how to help people and in many ways being tough is the only way anyone can really help themselves: to admit and accept our shortcomings and take massive self responsibility for our burden. I was broke and living paycheck to paycheck for 31 years before I finally admitted that it was my own lousy decisions causing my financial stress. Confessing to the world that the faults in my life were my own making was not easy but it was the only real path towards fixing it, I’ve found a natural talent in helping people with this same challenge so when I needed a name for this site I wanted something that would summarize that lesson and my personality: raw, but real.

“The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.” – Neitzsche