How the School of Wealth Creation Was Born

I'm going to be real with you from the jump — I didn't start this because I had some grand calling to change the world. That sounds good on a poster. But it's not quite right.

What I had was something more personal than that. Since I was young, I wanted to figure out the key to life — not one part of it, all of it. Relationships. Health. Money. Purpose. Career. I genuinely did not believe in settling for one area being great while the others fell apart. I wanted to know what it actually took to win at the whole thing. Balance is hard — I'll be the first to say it — but that desire has never gone away.

And running alongside that was something else. Something that made me genuinely angry, and still does. I cannot stand watching people feel trapped. I cannot stand seeing someone with real gifts, real potential, a real calling — stuck. Stuck in a cycle they didn't choose. Stuck surviving when they were built to thrive.

Myles Munroe once said you can find your purpose by finding the one problem in the world that gets you the most riled up. For me, that was always it.

The injustice of wasted potential. People living entire lives putting out fires, going from one crisis to the next, with a weekend in between to numb the pain before doing it all over again. Broken relationships. Declining health. Untouched gifts sitting dormant in someone who never got the right door opened for them. That irked my soul. It still does. And I decided a long time ago that if I ever figured out a way through — I was going to show people.

Let me set the scene: it's 2021. COVID has just spent a year dismantling everything. The economy is in shambles. People who had solid footing lost it overnight. And I was no exception — except my footing was already shaky going in.

I went broke. And when I say broke, I mean broke broke. Rent overdue. Government relief programs literally covering my housing. There were stretches where food was scarce enough that stealing water from a roommate felt like a rational decision. I'm not saying that for sympathy. I'm saying it because it was real, and I think people need to hear the real.

I was never supposed to be in finance. I had visions of becoming a scientist or working in government — honest ambitions, just not the path I ended up on. But the economy didn't care about my plans. And that rock bottom forced me to ask different questions.

When you have nothing left to lose, you finally start listening. Really listening.

With the last money I had — the very last — I bought The Richest Man in Babylon. Not because I had a strategy. Because I needed hope and it was all I could afford. What I found inside wasn't just financial principles. It was proof that the rules for building wealth are timeless. They worked in ancient Babylon. They work right now. They work for anyone, anywhere — even someone sitting in a near-empty apartment wondering how they got here.

Rich Dad Poor Dad followed. Then more books. Then the slow, unsexy work of actually applying what I was learning — saving, making better decisions, beginning to move with intention. I didn't get rich. Not even close. But I got momentum. And momentum, I discovered, is its own kind of currency.

Before any of this had a name, I spent close to a year working at a startup AI hedge fund. Not watching from the outside — inside it. Selling investment memberships, doing fundraising, working alongside professional Wall Street traders and software developers, pushing toward Series B. That environment taught me how money moves at a level most people never get close to. Real capital. Real stakes. Real market intelligence. It sharpened something in me that books alone couldn't give.

Then everything stopped. In the final stretch of completing my Master's thesis, I got sick. Two surgeries. More hospital visits in three months than most people have in a decade. I finished the thesis anyway — after one failed attempt before any of that — and graduated that summer. Not because it was easy. Because that's what you do.

That fall I acquired my insurance and financial licenses and moved into selling life and health products, while simultaneously working as a data consultant. Multiple streams at once. Learning digital marketing out of necessity. Studying systems because I couldn't afford to guess. And at some point I made a decision that a lot of people talk about but very few actually do.

I quit all of it. The W-2 jobs. The stable income. The comfortable paychecks. I walked away from money most people would have held onto — because I believed there was something more important to build. To fund the gap, I drove Uber. Tens of thousands of miles. All-nighters. Fell asleep at the wheel more than once. Bills went unpaid. Credit cards carried balances they weren't supposed to carry. Family obligations stretched further than they should have.

I ran Uber all night and built a business all day. That's not a detail — that's the whole story of what it actually takes.

I'm not telling you that to make it sound romantic. There's nothing romantic about trying to stay awake on the highway at 3am knowing you have a meeting at 9. I'm telling you because that step — the one where you actually commit, where you stop hedging and go all in on what you're building — that's the step most people never take. And everything that came after came because I took it.

I was doing B2B outreach one afternoon, driving through traffic, when I felt a pull: go knock those doors in that plaza. My logical mind ran through its usual checklist of reasons not to. But I've learned to move before I overthink. So I went.

First five doors: nothing. Sixth door: everything changed.

I walked in, introduced myself. The person inside mentioned he'd just gotten off the phone with a woman who was looking for someone to teach financial education for her book club. He asked if I'd be interested.

My first instinct was to pass it to my mentor. Surely she could find someone more polished for this. My mentor had more years in the game. But I knew how he operated — he would have turned it into a product pitch, not an education session. And these people weren't looking for a sales presentation. They were looking for something real.

So I did it myself. I taught The Richest Man in Babylon over three months. No fancy setup. Just knowledge, genuine conversation, and a room full of people who were hungry for something they hadn't quite been able to name. They loved it. Word spread. More workshops followed. More consultations. And slowly — through real work, real relationships, and what I can only describe as the hand of God making a path where there wasn't one — the School of Wealth Creation took shape.

It wasn't launched. It was built. The way most real things are.

We have taken businesses with zero recurring revenue and built the systems that create it. We have built acquisition engines that bring in consistent business instead of leaving owners hoping the phone rings. We have restructured operations, cleared financial chaos, and installed habits and frameworks that kept producing results long after our engagement ended. The work is real. The results show up in the numbers.

And we're only getting started. The vision from here is larger than consulting — scholarships, investment infrastructure, global platforms, advisory access for people regardless of their country, their background, or their bank balance. Because the principles that build wealth are not exclusive. They never have been. They just haven't always been accessible. That's what we're changing.

Because I think the world has enough people who only tell their story once they're already comfortable, already successful, already safe from judgment. I'm telling mine now — while I'm still building — because the people I most want to reach are also still building.

Here's something nobody talks about: the hard things don't stop when you start winning. They just change shape. You might be worried about your car note right now. The person running a company with fifty employees is losing sleep over whether payroll clears on Friday — a weight that would crush most people. The difference isn't that successful people stopped dealing with hard things. It's that they got so good at navigating them that it became second nature. That skill didn't arrive overnight. It was built, the same way everything else was.

And the biggest lie keeping most people stuck isn't that the opportunity doesn't exist. It's that they're in the wrong country, the wrong city, the wrong tax bracket, the wrong whatever. The truth is simpler and harder than that: it's a mindset. The path presents itself to those who know what to look for and do what needs to be done. Every principle I teach, I lived. Every framework we use, I built from experience — from books, from prayer, from failure, from the compounding of years of doing the work when nobody was watching.

“And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth.”
— Deuteronomy 8:18

Purpose precedes wealth. Figure out the thing God put in you. Build the right structure around it. Execute with discipline and integrity. Wealth becomes a natural result — not a desperate chase. That is the foundation of everything we do at the School of Wealth Creation.