Do you consider yourself to be an investor?

If you're anything like I used to be, you might think not. I thought the world of investing was for other people...people with money. I thought it was a world impossible to understand or benefit from due to a lack of knowledge and experience. But one day, out of the blue, I got interested.

I think this was partly due out of necessity. As a Gen Xer, I was doubting whether I would ever see my social security benefits, let alone whether they would amount to enough to live on. I had to do something to change my future and I had to do it quick.

We all invest in something.

So I started learning and what I learned may surprise you. It sure surprised me! I was already an investor; I was just investing in systems I had no say in creating. I was investing in scarcity. I was investing in ignorance. And just like a bad stock pick, I was losing.

Maybe we invest in a poorly paying job that we hate, or a relationship that we know will never fulfill us. Maybe we invest in self-sabotaging thoughts or in an abdication or avoidance of things that are our responsibility. You probably get the picture.

As a deep seeker and spiritually-inclined individual, I was also unfortunately invested in the idea that making money was somehow unspiritual. I was pushing abundance away with one hand while praying for it with the other, especially when it came to promoting myself and my offerings of healing, yoga and meditation.

My Decision to Heal Ancestral Scarcity

Financial investing is one of those things we can easily abdicate or avoid in life, like brushing our teeth, but the consequences of that avoidance leads to eventual decay and loss. I'd seen it again and again within my own family history: generations of end-of-life poverty. I was determined to heal the curse.

It started with a realization that my lack of complete interest in the world of finance was handicapping me. I had to start learning. I became fascinated, not with "winning the game", but with the energy of money itself on both the philosophical and practical level.

I found myself asking lots of questions: Why did people who, unlike me, had so much feel like they never had enough? Why did I always manage to live below the poverty line in relative ease and comfort? What was the point of earning dividends or interest when it was just one more thing that complicated my tax returns? What the heck was money anyway? A mere agreement between people?

It's Rigged

To me, economics seemed like a made-up game created and used to explain away great injustices and inequalities. The more I learned, the more clarity I gained. The more I realized, "Wow, the entire thing is rigged."

It's rigged to keep the poor poor, turn the middle classes poor and keep the rich as rich as possible. That's it. That's the system, all veiled with pretty images of some illusive American Dream. And the worse part is that I was complicit!

Scarcity to Sovereignty

One day, I found myself writing a book about my journey. This came to me as much of a surprise as did my interest in finance in the first place. But I wanted to share what I was learning and realizing. I wanted other people to find their own clarity and maybe even discover their own unique way out of the "no-win" game. Hence, Money Without Fear was born.

This is not a finance-bro manual. Nor is it a book of wishful thinking. It is a practical guide to discovery, a digestible initiation into money, meaning and the new ecomony of our times. And it's going to be available March 1st, 2026.