Financial Freedom: My Only Hope
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Many people work hard all their lives scrimping and saving in order to achieve the American dream of financial freedom. The unfortunate reality, however, is that success is fleeting, and debt, loss, and corruption are all too common. Whether unemployed, underemployed, or still trying to climb the corporate ladder, we’re all plagued by money worries—unless we’re in the 1 percent.
The truth is that we’re all players in the “game of money.” Only those who know how to watch the game, identify the levels, and bend the rules can gain the upper hand. In this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll discover how the economic deck is stacked and how to use proven strategies to turn the game in your favor.
You’ll need to review the basic structure of banks and the overall financial system before progressing to formulas that will bolster your personal finances. Many believe finding their revenue niche is the answer. It’s not! This text exposes that myth and reveals the multiple streams of income—ordinary, portfolio, and passive—necessary for economic mobility. Learn how to take on new business ventures like an entrepreneur and protect your assets like a multimillionaire. Master the game, and finally achieve long-lasting wealth!
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Financial Freedom - Jeremiah Brown
Financial Freedom: My Only Hope
The Bestselling Guide to Mastering the 'Game of Money'
Jeremiah J. Brown
Copyright © 2017 Jeremiah J. Brown
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ISBN: 0692942025
ISBN 13: 9780692942024
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017913438
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Dedication
Family can be defined in many ways. I define family as a group of people united by certain convictions or a common fellowship.
This book is dedicated to the people whom I call family. Whether through blood or through love, you all played pivotal roles in my pursuit of financial freedom, and I am forever grateful to have you all in my life. You all know who you are!
To Momentum Education, which taught me the value of purpose and self-actualization. This education has been far superior to any formal education that I or my Ivy League peers ever received. I will continue to live out my contract and operate out of love and abundance.
Lastly, this book is dedicated to you, the reader! You are reading this book because you understand the impact that financial literacy has in shifting a culture. You will be part of a new wave of enlightened people. Passing this knowledge along will certainly shift any economically deprived community and enable it to not only survive but thrive in any economic system.
Financial freedom: making an income while making an impact doing what you love!
At the back of this book you will find my ten keys to success and survival as an entrepreneur
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Why this book?
Introduction: The American Dream Lie?
Chapter 1: You’re in the Game, Like It or Not
Chapter 2: Knowledge Is the New Money
Chapter 3: Print Your Own Money—Legally
Chapter 4: You Can Have It All
Chapter 5: Protect Your Assets like the Rich
Chapter 6: Failure Is the Best Degree
Chapter 7: You Are Not an Island
Chapter 8: How Financial Intelligence Creates Wealth
Chapter 9: So You Want to Be a Millionaire, Huh?
Chapter 10: Silver Rights
Chapter 11: More Than Money
Final Thoughts
For My Fellow Millennials
Bonus Sections
Preface
The time is 4:15 p.m. It is a Thursday afternoon, and my lady and I are boarding a flight heading to Turks and Caicos. She mentions how she experienced an unsettling comment earlier in the day from one of her coworkers when she boasted about taking this exciting trip to the islands.
Her colleague apparently couldn’t comprehend how she was able to make such an expensive trip outside the country. So he began to ask her questions about me and my occupation. He said, Wow, who is this interesting fellow in your life? Is he an athlete?
She replies No, he is not.
Her coworker then responded, Is he a rapper?
No,
said my lady, he is actually in technology.
Technology, huh…is he white?
I share this story because there is a reason for this psychology. We live in a society that struggles to think outside the box. A society that accepts what it hears and sees as truth and cannot comprehend any possibilities or variables outside the realm of what it knows to be. It is these beliefs that paralyze civilizations and stop humanity from moving forward and evolving. These blinders are often found in the world of finance and money. We are told that money is the root of all evil, that wealthy people are greedy and selfish, and that the poor and middle classes are incompetent, lazy moochers who are responsible for their own financial and wealth shortcomings. But the truth is that there is more to the game of money than these simple beliefs and presumptions. There is an insidious and stealthy agenda that is being implemented to keep us dependent on our current monetary system to survive. Unfortunately, it is through this financial system that we determine our value, our dignity, and our self-worth, all based on how many pieces of paper we have. It amazes me how these pieces of paper, derived from trees, have the power to grant power and influence how one is perceived in this world.
The problem is not necessarily what we do not know but what is wired
into our thought processes about money. Many of us have a work hard and spend
mentality and are trained to think emotionally about money and possessions. We feel anxiety when we’re unemployed, fear when we’re underemployed, and even more anxiety as we climb the corporate ladder. When we hear about the markets crashing, rebounding, and then crashing again only to go back up, the anxiety grows. This ambiguity causes us to go shopping for new houses or cars, spend money at the club, or pay for entertainment to avoid this anxiety—only to have the anxiety resurface Monday morning. It is this repetitive cycle that spearheads our dependency on a game that we do not even know we are playing. This is the game of money and financial intelligence.
My path to reaching financial freedom took more than pieces of fiat paper. It took knowledge, failure, and education—real-world education, that is. Some people have many degrees and are well versed in financial theory and the principles of wealth; however, as quoted in The Matrix, there is a significant difference between knowing the path and walking the path. I am walking that path.
In this book, you will learn how to walk the path to financial freedom. You will discover real-world practices and concepts that will help you get a better understanding of how to increase your wealth and become financially educated, because it’s sometimes the things that we don’t know we don’t know that impede our abilities to advance in our lives and achieve our financial goals. So let us begin this financial awakening!
We are free to evade reality…but not free to avoid the abyss we refuse to see.
- Ayn Rand
Why This Book?
You can never have too much financial education!
This is not a book about theory or the philosophy behind becoming rich. This book is about real-world application and proven results. You will get the same real-world financial education that people of affluent backgrounds get from birth. This book will provide the kind of information that creates generational wealth, dynasties, and multimillionaires. As I wrote this book, I wanted to write it for someone like me—an ordinary person who wants to live an extraordinary life! Someone who came from poverty, who struggles to thrive in this economy, and who wants to learn the real truth why 1 percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 99 percent (you and I). I had to retrain my mind to think like the wealthy to begin my journey of wealth building. It is now your turn. If you want to learn how to master the game of money, then this book is for you.
Since your birth, a fairy tale has been recycled, telling you that if you work hard, save money, go to school, and do the right thing, you will be rewarded financially and have a shot at success. However, all we seem to experience is a lifetime of debt, financial losses, and corruption in the system, all while witnessing nepotism rewarding the people who otherwise would not be able to compete without it. We watch athletes, entertainers, hedge-fund managers, college dropouts, and the traditionally uneducated accumulating massive amounts of wealth while standing on our backs to climb the money tree. We work hard to fund their lives and pay them the money we worked hard for so that we can get their disrespect and a slap in the face if we don’t agree with them. Is this fair? I don’t think so, but it is the system we live in. My job is to help you learn the game and play it better than anyone else. Are you up for the challenge?
Introduction
The American Dream Lie?
America is still a land of opportunity, isn’t it? A place where anyone can make it to the top if willing to work hard and aspire to reach greatness. However, imagine that you are playing a game of Monopoly. You arrive to the game only to find out that all the money has already been divided up and all the property has already been bought, but you are told that you have the same opportunity as anyone else to win and it is your fault if you don’t. Will you not be playing in a rigged game?
Economic mobility is terrible in the United States.*
I know many of us want to know what the hell is going on in the world today. All of a sudden, the world doesn’t feel like the one our parents and grandparents grew up in. That was a world in which people could bootstrap their way to wealth without higher education, expensive degrees, financial literacy, or resources. They could achieve the American dream with just good old hard work, ambition, and persistence.
The growing gap between the wealthy and everyone else has been the greatest moral issue of our time. This is more of a crisis of virtues and values than it is a financial one. The introduction of our current debt-based monetary system, along with globalization and racial economic inequality, has been beneficial to one side of our economy, the rich, and has been devastating to the poor and middle class. Globalization and automation have destroyed thousands of blue-collar jobs, all the while cutting costs for the founders of corporations, enriching them, and cutting access to wealth accumulation for the average person. Racial economic inequality has forced a group of people out of this wealth-creation game altogether, making them the lowest income group with the highest unemployment rates and lowest graduation and ownership rates in the world. What makes matters worse is the rise of the gig
economy, in which people are forced to take lower wages due to an influx of workers forced to take this route. Corporations don’t have to hire as many people as they used to anymore; they can just outsource work or even automate their business