You may not believe this, but there’s a Rich Guy inside of you right now.
There is one in all of us.
I know this because I work with, study, and provide financial advice to people of every age, income, background, and lifestyle, as part of my job. As a fiduciary financial planner and investment manager, it’s my company’s job to help them reach their aspirations and protect what they’ve worked hard to earn.
Hi. My name is Jeremy Torgerson.
I’ve been a fiduciary financial planning and investment advisor for working-income families and small business owners since 2008. Before that, my wife and I were small business owners in northern Colorado. I’ve spent nearly my entire adult life being self-employed, which means lots of ups and downs, and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.
Like most of you, I wasn’t born into wealth or privilege. In fact, my childhood was spent in relative poverty growing up in a single-parent home.
It’s been the honor of my life to help families and small business owners move toward their dreams, which I do every day as the CEO of nVest Advisors in my home city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Our job at nVest is to work with you and your family to set and reach financial goals, learn to master basic money skills, and train yourself to see money the way very wealthy people do.
Most of us, sadly, never fully achieve what we’re capable of, and as Thoreau once said, “lead lives of quiet desperation.” We work hard and play by the rules, but somehow, we never get out from under the oppressive pursuit of just enough money to make ends meet. It’s a financial treadmill that only a lucky few seem to escape.
At least, that’s the way a kid living in government projects in the 1970s and 80s saw the world of money.
Like most of the underpinnings of our personality, our relationship with money began in childhood, as we watched our parents and loved ones either achieve financial success, fall prey to money worries, or live a purgatory of something in between. Sometimes, we witness someone reaching great professional and financial heights, only to lose it all. We’ve all been conned or swindled at one time or another. Other times, we self-sabotage by spending money foolishly, with no thought of the future.
After over 15 years of working with individuals and families to improve their financial lives, I’ve been able to observe many important differences between the way Rich Guys think about money, and how the rest of us do. And that, fundamentally, is what I believe keeps so many hard-working people from achieving more for their families and their futures.
That’s what I’m going to teach you.
It’s time to unlearn old habits about money, and start to think like a Rich Guy.
How will we do this? We’re going to tackle it with three main areas of focus:
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An understanding of economics, investing, and basic money principles. The stuff we should have learned in high school, but didn’t.
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A study of self-made Rich Guys: what they think about success, what’s important in life, what they worry about (and what they don’t worry about).
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Practical steps to apply the knowledge we get from the first two areas. Legitimately, getting up and making progress.
This content will not make you rich. You have to do that. But it is going to try to help you think about the world of business, money, investing, debt, and savings, differently than perhaps you’ve ever thought about it before.
And then you have to apply what you learn. An idea is just an idea until it’s applied, tested, revised, and committed to.
Come along the journey with me. Here’s how:
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