One idea at a time. Money, time, happiness, and what happens when you design your life instead of defaulting into one.
CURRENTLY WRITING ABOUTDesigning your life on purpose — what happens when you stop optimizing for money and start optimizing for time.
PODCAST ARCHIVEThe Wealth In Yourself podcast — a 35-episode catalog of conversations about money, life design, and what it means to build on your own terms. No longer producing new episodes — the full archive is preserved.
July 14, 2026 · 6 min read
It's not therapy about money. It's not financial advice with feelings. It's the missing piece between the spreadsheet and the life — and most advisors have never heard of it.
Read the essay →June 30, 2026 · 5 min read
The wealthiest people I work with didn't get happier when the number went up. They got happier when they figured out what the number was for.
Read the essay →June 16, 2026 · 4 min read
Everyone celebrates leaving corporate. Nobody talks about the identity crisis that follows — or the two years it takes to figure out who you are without the title.
Read the essay →June 2, 2026 · 4 min read
I'm already a CFP, CFT, APFC, and ACC. I'm going back to school again anyway. Here's why — and what it means for the people I serve.
Read the essay →May 19, 2026 · 6 min read
Most people never make an active choice about how they live. They optimize, accumulate, and grind — and wake up at 55 wondering whose life they built.
Read the essay →May 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Every financial plan optimizes for money. Almost none of them optimize for time. That's the most expensive mistake in the industry — and the one nobody talks about.
Read the essay →April 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Most people don't know their financial advisor can legally switch from fiduciary to broker mid-conversation. I watched it happen from the inside. It changed the trajectory of my career.
Read the essay →April 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Everyone celebrates the leap. Nobody talks about what you give up. Here's what walking away from the safest job in finance actually looked like.
Read the essay →April 18, 2026 · 11 min read
Fiduciary In All Things isn't just about financial advice. It's a standard every service relationship should be held to — and a framework for how I build everything.
Read the essay →Weekly. No pitch. Just thinking out loud.