Two Sides of the Same Coin: Building Health and Wealth Together

From my perspective, health and wealth are two sides of the same coin. The principles you use to build one are the same you use to build the other.

I arrived at this conclusion watching two parallel lives unfold — my father’s and my own.

My father built a financial planning practice but placed little emphasis on his health. I built a personal training practice that placed enormous value on health but lacked a scalable business plan. Neither of us had the full picture.

I saw in him the sacrifices people make to create financial security — long hours, stress, skipped meals, and little time or energy to move. My business was not financially fit to survive a pandemic.

Neither path produced the necessary resilience to build generational wealth in this day and age.

What’s worse, most people are being cut by both edges of the sword. They sacrifice health to earn a living, then spend their dollars keeping up with the Joneses and pursuing shaky at best financial strategies.

Through pain and suffering, blood, sweat and tears I’ve come to understand: focusing on only one side of the coin means you always come up short. And when you think you are focusing on both without a Longevity Plan leaves both wealth and health span on the table.

The truth is rarely black and white. Life happens in shades of gray. You don’t have to destroy your body to earn a living. And while you’re earning a living, you can still maintain a supple, youthful, vital body — if you apply the right principles.

This is my thesis, my manifesto: there are very specific, time-tested principles you can use to build strength and wealth simultaneously.

First and foremost, you must procure consistent gains. Gains in your physicality, gains in your balance sheet. No major setbacks — just slow, forward progress every day. This is possible in both fitness and finance concurrently.

Once you have a method for growth — your training plan, your investment strategy — you simply make deposits. Consistent, regular, automatic deposits.

This doesn’t mean two-hour marathons at the gym, nor does it mean taking crazy risks in the market. It means establishing a methodology and framework that delivers repeatable, consistent gains over time. Train effectively, safely, consistently. Invest in foundational strategies rather than speculation. In both arenas, slow compounding beats dramatic swings.

I’m not a financial planner or a fitness guru. I’m teaching true longevity in mind, body, spirit and finance — disciplined, long-term focused — but with a twist. I’m part of a new breed of investor emerging now. We are cross-pollinating disciplines, leveraging the availability of information to create a hybrid, more powerful approach.

Can your financial planner deadlift 400 pounds? Probably not. And maybe they don’t need to. But if their priority has always been making money for themselves, their decisions for you will reflect that.

Yes, I make a portion of my income through financial transactions. But my work dovetails with of 25 years of coaching experience and a fiduciary mindset — sitting on the same side of the table with you, helping you conquer obstacles as you walk the path.

When both sides of the coin are harmonized we can see way to true personal freedom and power.

If what I’m saying makes sense to you, let’s connect.