Honest, practical thinking on building wealth, planning your exit, and designing the next chapter on your own terms. No fluff. No sales. Just clear thinking from lived experience.
Fortnightly. Around 500 words. One topic, one perspective. Written for people who've built something real and are working out what comes next.
Ten years of running a business teaches EBITDA multiples, deal structures, and completion mechanics down to the letter, but none of it answers the number that actually lets money stop deciding everything. This issue is about the gap between what a valuation says and what enough actually means.
Read this issue →Everyone facing a financial transition can quote their number to the penny, the sale price, the payout, the balance. Almost nobody can tell you what "enough" actually means until long after the moment that needed the answer. This issue is about asking it before the pressure that would distort the answer arrives.
Read this issue →After selling a business, the financial picture doesn't simplify. It fragments. Liabilities, timing dependencies, tax considerations that interact in ways nobody maps for you. This issue is about building the frame that holds it all together.
Read this issue →Nobody warns you about this part. A decade of pressure doesn't just exhaust you. It changes who you are. This issue is about recognising that, and starting to find your way back.
Read this issue →There's a point in most careers and businesses where the thing that got you here stops working. Not because you've failed. Because you've changed. This issue is about recognising that point before it costs you another five years.
Read this issue →Most people who've built a financial life over twenty years have never seen it whole. Not because they don't know how. Because looking feels dangerous. This issue is about what happens when you finally do.
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