I’ve always had a burning desire to be rich so most of the choices that I made were driven by how I could make money. I chose to study computer engineering in college based on it being a high paying career with job security. Student loans, regular consumer debt like credit cards and auto loans put my wife and me in the hole during college. Shortly after graduating I acquired more debt to open Indy's Indoor Bark Park, the first indoor dog park in Indiana. Although it was originally successful, I didn’t manage the business well enough to keep the doors open. The business debt set us back tremendously! 

Together we had a grand total of $170k in debt at our peak. This mountain of debt was a huge wake up call! I had to figure out why I didn’t always make the best financial decisions even though I was pretty money savvy. I listened to hundreds of hours of books and podcasts. I learned more about money but the one book that really stuck with me was Profit First by Micahel Michalowicz. It teaches entrepreneurs how to manage a business budget using automation. It takes all of the discipline, reasoning, and decision making out of business budgeting. I took the lessons from this book and applied them to my personal finances and I learned the way to GUARANTEE financial success was to remove the choice of doing right or wrong by implementing automation. I used this system to help my wife and I to go from debt of -$170k in 2019 to a positive net worth of $90k in under 3 years! Now I teach automation strategies to other employed high earners like me.