What's up, everyone? This is your host, as always, Brian Lubin, bringing you a little bit different

type of content today. What I'm doing is I'm going to find an other podcast that I'm a guest on as

well, and I'm chopping up specific topics of interviews, and I'm going to post them for you guys

to listen to. So that way, you're not listening to an entire interview. You're just listening to a

specific topic. This podcast clip is from the Weekly Juice podcast with my

boys Ryan and Corey, and it's a great podcast. I think you guys would enjoy it as well.

They had me on to talk about the philosophy of money and wealth building, and it was a very

fun conversation. So I hope that you guys get a lot of joy and value out of the next 10 minutes.

I think that you will. Have fun. Let's just talk financial independence in philosophy,

right? What are your thoughts on financial independence and what does it mean to you to attain that?

I guess it's your why, but just your mantra and your thoughts on people being able to do what they want,

when they want, with who they want. Yeah, so I'll give two answers to that. The first answer was my

upbringing. My dad and I were never close. He was there, but he didn't want, he didn't want to be a father. He didn't want to be involved in my life. So when we were growing up, he was an air traffic controller. And so my relationship with money was we never knew how much dad made like that my mom didn't even know how much

my dad made and he was very stingy with his money and he would come home from work and to be so

pissed off that my mom would be like hey don't talk to dad he's in a bad mid from work so he missed

everything there wasn't a single thing that he was at no basketball no sports no anything so

my first thought behind all of this, my first

why was when I'm a father, I don't want my work to ever mess up my life. I want to be there

every single thing for my kids, my spouse, my friends. I want to be there for everything. I want to

be present. So I was never going to let a job do that. The second answer would be the three

levels of freedom

essentially. So you have financial freedom, you have personal freedom, then you have philosophical

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