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Poor Kid, Big Debt
From Debt to Deliberate Freedom: A Rural Kid’s Journey
I grew up milking cows in rural Arkansas, where our family of six lived on $10,000 a year in the 1980s. That Ozark dirt road taught me resilience—but not financial literacy.
After a series of costly decisions and dead-end jobs, I found myself in New York City, homeless and sleeping in my Ford Ranger pickup between shifts. A tech support job led to coding skills and my first startup. When it failed, I came home to an eviction notice.
By 2013, despite working 14-hour days, I was drowning in $110,000 of debt—equal to my entire annual salary. My credit score was so destroyed that even after landing a job at Microsoft, my family had to live in an apartment while I worked for one of the world’s richest companies.
That painful contradiction forced me to create a system. I built Money@—first as my personal salvation, tracking every dollar and methodically eliminating high-interest debt. I’ll never forget the euphoria when my first major card balance hit zero after years in the tens of thousands.
Today, I live with what I call “Deliberate Freedom”—the power to make choices driven by purpose, not desperation. I’ve come full circle, from that dirt road in the Ozarks to searching for rural acreage in New Hampshire, but this time on my own terms.
If you’re talented but trapped, earning but drowning, I built this system for you. Because financial freedom isn’t just about having money; it’s about having choices.
Debt Is Others Living Your Life for You
Alarm goes off. Again, just like it does every morning. Some mornings, it feels like it’s too much. You want to roll over and go back to sleep, maybe take the day off. Maybe quit your job entirely and spend the next month hiking the Appalachian Trail. But you don’t. And not because you’re disciplined…
Fear at 4:30am
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I first remember hearing those terms describing Microsoft’s marketing tactics against Linux back in the early 2000s. Rather than combat it directly with facts, by highlighting its operating systems’ strengths, or with superior product development, Microsoft chose to use emotional tactics to sway people from using the new and rising operating…
Be Who You Are
“Happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.”—Garth Brooks (Other people have said it. Garth just happens to be the first one I heard say it.) I think there are three driving forces in being a happy person: In my life, I’ve failed at all three of those—at times, all at once….
Breaking Free: Building a Life You Love
From Dissatisfaction to Opportunity The thing you hate most about your life is going to become your greatest opportunity. The thing you hate most is not a curse; it’s a compass. That nagging dissatisfaction, the one that turns the colors gray—that’s where your opportunity lies waiting for you. But when you live a full life,…
You Are What You Give
Are you a “highly sensitive person”? Am I? “Highly sensitive people” (HSP) feel emotions more strongly and are more easily affected by the world around them. I read an article that described how a highly sensitive person experiences the world, and I related to much of it. Understanding Sensitivity Sometimes my emotions overwhelm me, leading…
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