Oct. 7, 2025
Episode 312: Wealth Academy Podcast – A Bold New Chapter in Wealth, Leadership & Transformation
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Welcome to a new era of Wealth Academy Podcast, hosted by Paul Lawrence Vann, founder of Wealth Building Academy, LLC. In this milestone 312th episode, Paul reflects on five remarkable years of the podcast’s journey and shares an exciting look at what’s next — from strategic growth to powerful new playlists that will transform how listeners experience Wealth Is More Than Just Money.
Paul discusses the upcoming content transformation designed to help mid-career professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders balance financial success with personal fulfillment. Expect a fresh focus on self-leadership, financial literacy, and holistic wealth — because true wealth goes beyond dollars and cents. It’s about your health, relationships, purpose, and inner power.
You’ll also hear Paul reveal upcoming plans for:
- New guest experts and thought leaders in leadership and finance.
- Exclusive solo episodes on mindset mastery, leadership growth, and economic updates.
- A refreshed studio experience and enhanced production quality.
- Podcast monetization strategies that amplify impact and reach.
As a Certified Financial Manager and retired USAF officer, Paul draws from decades of leadership, finance, and service to empower you to build a legacy of purpose and influence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And grand day to you, I'm your host Paul Lawrence van.
00:15.361 --> 00:17.243
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope that you are doing great.
00:17.523 --> 00:21.986
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to another episode of Wealth Academy podcast.
00:22.306 --> 00:26.029
[SPEAKER_00]: And our mantra is, Wealth is more than just money.
00:26.369 --> 00:35.315
[SPEAKER_00]: So we want to share some things with you here today about the direction and the path that we happen to be going on.
00:35.886 --> 00:42.593
[SPEAKER_00]: and because we have a lot of really amazing things that are taking place as a pertain to this podcast.
00:43.054 --> 00:49.320
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know that I recently celebrated the fifth year anniversary of well for Academy of Podcast.
00:49.961 --> 00:53.765
[SPEAKER_00]: And it started on August in 2020.
00:55.377 --> 01:02.480
[SPEAKER_00]: And today, we're still standing with over 310 episodes of this amazing podcast.
01:03.180 --> 01:08.762
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm going to share with you what is going to be taking place.
01:08.802 --> 01:12.264
[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you so much for being here today.
01:13.264 --> 01:20.767
[SPEAKER_00]: And the number one thing that I want to say is that welfare Academy podcasts will continue into the future.
01:21.754 --> 01:34.784
[SPEAKER_00]: And what I've done, I'm currently working with an amazing, amazing coach that has helped me to really amplify the voice of wealth Academy podcasts even more in the future.
01:35.245 --> 01:47.895
[SPEAKER_00]: So I will be having a playlist that will be coming out based on the topics that will reinforce what we've done in the past, but more so what we're going to do in the future.
01:48.795 --> 02:04.166
[SPEAKER_00]: And so on it to have you all here, I really want you to lean in to a lot of the the checklist and the different episodes that I will be presenting in the near future.
02:04.867 --> 02:26.147
[SPEAKER_00]: I will be bringing on guest as well, but a lot of the folks is going to be a me delivering a different topic surrounding welfare category podcasts, and their emphasis is on wealth, this more than just money, and other words, we know that money is one thing, but we also know that having good health is wonderful.
02:26.707 --> 02:37.315
[SPEAKER_00]: having a good relationships are wonderful, not so much dating relationship, but cordial friends, family, extended family, and people in the community.
02:37.716 --> 02:40.158
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I want to lean into that a lot more.
02:40.438 --> 02:53.268
[SPEAKER_00]: And then also finding some balance because I know a lot of mid-career professionals are struggling, balancing their personal life, a home life with their business life, a professional life.
02:54.589 --> 02:56.473
[SPEAKER_00]: will be talking quite a bit about that.
02:56.874 --> 03:02.067
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to see some wholesale changes come in in terms of the platform itself.
03:02.762 --> 03:08.747
[SPEAKER_00]: and where a broadcast from now and in efforts to make it better than it is.
03:09.307 --> 03:13.831
[SPEAKER_00]: And this particular podcast that I lead is also going to be monetized.
03:13.891 --> 03:18.374
[SPEAKER_00]: So you can expect to be saying a different things there as well.
03:18.895 --> 03:25.180
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's talk about what's taking place today just to give you an idea some of the things I'll be talking about.
03:25.580 --> 03:34.026
[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, we know that interest rate went down half a percent last month in month of September.
03:34.466 --> 03:41.670
[SPEAKER_00]: And likelihood it may go down even more, and this is going to impact the difference what people being able to purchase a house.
03:41.991 --> 03:47.274
[SPEAKER_00]: For example, a purchase a new vehicle, and then other things that they need in life.
03:47.814 --> 03:52.998
[SPEAKER_00]: And we also want to look at and give consideration to the economy itself.
03:53.778 --> 04:19.425
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that the job in the workforce and the workplace jobs is a little bit tougher to come by right now because they're quite a bit of uncertainty especially when we look at the federal employees who have been furloughed and now we know that when we have the fact that the government is closed we have to make different adjustments in life and it's just what we call a part of life.
04:20.443 --> 04:25.607
[SPEAKER_00]: but we need to do something to strengthen that going into the fourth quarter of this year.
04:26.168 --> 04:36.536
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's very important because a lot of the topics I'll be talking about will be focusing directly on some of the items that I just briefly shared with you.
04:37.237 --> 04:43.682
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you can definitely learn more and I'll have you go out there to Apple Podcasts
04:50.492 --> 04:53.333
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'll be sharing that with you.
04:53.833 --> 05:02.356
[SPEAKER_00]: And then when we look at some other things that are coming down the pipe, I really look to find even more amazing guests.
05:02.756 --> 05:10.719
[SPEAKER_00]: And I receive demands for people to get be a guest on my show all the time.
05:10.799 --> 05:15.481
[SPEAKER_00]: But a lot of them, I don't bring them on because I'm really focusing in on you.
05:16.421 --> 05:25.998
[SPEAKER_00]: these subscribers, the viewers, the listeners, and helping you to make a life better for you on this platform.
05:26.963 --> 05:39.566
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's very important, but what I will encourage you to do is to go to apple podcasts, rate, and review, not only this episode, but some in the past.
05:40.286 --> 05:48.388
[SPEAKER_00]: And as I mentioned, my very first three podcasts episodes were put into place on the first day I watched this podcast.
05:48.968 --> 06:02.754
[SPEAKER_00]: and so I had three episodes and then go back to the very first one and see how close I've been coming to live in up to what I said I would be doing as a host as a founder and host of wealth academy podcast.
06:03.174 --> 06:14.399
[SPEAKER_00]: And so just to give you a little bit more background about me, I of course served 22 years in the United States Air Force and my specialty was finance.
06:14.439 --> 06:16.240
[SPEAKER_00]: So by the time I retired,
06:16.687 --> 06:27.991
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a certified financial manager and I've worked in the acquisition arena helping lead and provide a cost estimates for multi-billion dollar acquisition programs for the U.S.
06:28.152 --> 06:36.955
[SPEAKER_00]: Air Force and then source selections where we would actually select a contracted to perform the work that we needed.
06:37.491 --> 06:40.494
[SPEAKER_00]: based on the contract that we had at the time.
06:41.055 --> 06:51.867
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm negotiating in embassies over the years and also with foreign military sales selling different training and equipment to other countries.
06:52.507 --> 06:59.235
[SPEAKER_00]: And that evolved into me working in a Pentagon for 12 of the 22 years I served in the military.
07:00.342 --> 07:17.196
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, in the last two, a couple of years, I spent time working in a legislative arena, and I used to be able to escort general officers to meet members of Congress on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Appropriations Committee.
07:18.297 --> 07:21.019
[SPEAKER_00]: And I did that in both the House and Senate.
07:21.299 --> 07:26.123
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was selected, competitively, selected, and was a capital hill fellow.
07:26.563 --> 07:30.124
[SPEAKER_00]: where I work for a member of Congress for a year, and he happened to be in the U.S.
07:30.144 --> 07:34.485
[SPEAKER_00]: House of Representatives and work for the House on Services Committee.
07:34.525 --> 07:42.968
[SPEAKER_00]: So in many ways, I had a very, very dream-like career working there at the Pentagon and then on Capitol Hill.
07:43.526 --> 07:57.430
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think all of that experience and expertise and I added it with the two years I had working as a professional member of a mobile or company in Texas and the Houston Abomont area and I'm lying that as well.
07:58.050 --> 08:02.972
[SPEAKER_00]: And so now today I still provide expertise in the financial arena.
08:03.852 --> 08:23.985
[SPEAKER_00]: I also in the leadership arena because even though I was a financial specialty with financial management budget estimate and cost estimating leadership was really what I did as a military officer and so I share a lot about leadership and I bring a lot of leadership experts on to the platform with me here as well.
08:24.788 --> 08:44.748
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times I will live stream the episodes and then other times I would record it like I did recently with a transformation expert and so with all of these this amount of experience and all the type of things I've done, whether it was training or education.
08:45.482 --> 08:47.403
[SPEAKER_00]: And I did a speaking of education.
08:47.423 --> 08:48.944
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you about my education.
08:48.984 --> 08:54.208
[SPEAKER_00]: When I went to 10 college graduate from high school, I was the first of 10 children.
08:54.228 --> 08:57.270
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was the first generation high school graduate.
08:57.890 --> 08:59.991
[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't have any money to attend college.
09:00.031 --> 09:02.413
[SPEAKER_00]: And I attended Shaw University at North Carolina.
09:02.473 --> 09:08.837
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was cross and roll at North Carolina State while I attended the F-force ROTC program.
09:09.703 --> 09:20.294
[SPEAKER_00]: But I worked four years for United Possible Service UPS to earn enough money in addition to some grants I would see to complete my college degree.
09:20.634 --> 09:22.235
[SPEAKER_00]: And then on a day, I graduated.
09:22.796 --> 09:26.580
[SPEAKER_00]: I was brought in and sworn into the United States Air Force.
09:27.461 --> 09:29.322
[SPEAKER_00]: And I ended up serving
09:30.964 --> 09:34.525
[SPEAKER_00]: 22 years in the Air Force and it was quite an experience.
09:35.065 --> 09:49.868
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I last but not least, as I stated on October the 16th of this month, I will have been retired for 23 years in the United States Air Force over a year more than I actually serve.
09:49.908 --> 09:52.289
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm really making cement roads here.
09:53.929 --> 09:55.570
[SPEAKER_00]: But what you can expect
09:58.378 --> 10:05.162
[SPEAKER_00]: is content rich information that will help you to make your life better.
10:05.762 --> 10:17.909
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, I really want to focus in on those people who in that mid-professional, mid-career, professional level, who are trying to balance not only their work life, but also their family life.
10:18.469 --> 10:23.372
[SPEAKER_00]: And it shows them ways in which they can become financially literate, how they can
10:24.040 --> 10:32.685
[SPEAKER_00]: a lean into self-leadership to become the best leader they can be, and then ultimately for them to live a legacy for what they are family.
10:33.206 --> 10:40.570
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's very important is what is needed in the world more today than anything is having a strong family structure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is very, very important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as I stated on some clips that I did throughout the month of September because that's my birth month.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And thank you to all of you who celebrated my birthday with me in my birth month.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The understand that you have more power than you would ever know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that power I'm talking about is not physical power, but it's strengthening power from within you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's your mind, your body, your spirit, and your soul.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And how you apply it really matters and that even though there would be external factors that will be making decisions that impact your life, it still doesn't have the type of power that you have within you, so I want to encourage you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and exhort you to continue to move forward going towards that dream that you have for your life and whatever it happens to be your goals and your dreams but never allow anything to stop you and never quit especially, never quit on yourself.
11:44.227 --> 11:51.489
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm making this a very short episode but what I want you to understand is this I'm here to serve you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm here to help you to better understand the importance of being the best person that you can be because you and I both know, wealth is more than just money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just all about the money, but it's also about your health and your well-being, relationships you have in life, your spiritual composition, and who you are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and ensuring that you live not only on purpose, but also with passion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to in this episode, which is episode 312.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't even believe it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go to Apple Podcast right and review this episode along with others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And provide a five-star rating.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really would appreciate if you would do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can expect in the next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Starting next week, I'll start my campaign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: have a playlist of episodes that I'm going to be sharing with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you very much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have a wonderful day and I'll see you on the next episode of Wealth Academy podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have a great day, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See you soon.
00:10.638 --> 00:14.781
[SPEAKER_00]: And grand day to you, I'm your host Paul Lawrence van.
00:15.361 --> 00:17.243
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope that you are doing great.
00:17.523 --> 00:21.986
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to another episode of Wealth Academy podcast.
00:22.306 --> 00:26.029
[SPEAKER_00]: And our mantra is, Wealth is more than just money.
00:26.369 --> 00:35.315
[SPEAKER_00]: So we want to share some things with you here today about the direction and the path that we happen to be going on.
00:35.886 --> 00:42.593
[SPEAKER_00]: and because we have a lot of really amazing things that are taking place as a pertain to this podcast.
00:43.054 --> 00:49.320
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know that I recently celebrated the fifth year anniversary of well for Academy of Podcast.
00:49.961 --> 00:53.765
[SPEAKER_00]: And it started on August in 2020.
00:55.377 --> 01:02.480
[SPEAKER_00]: And today, we're still standing with over 310 episodes of this amazing podcast.
01:03.180 --> 01:08.762
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm going to share with you what is going to be taking place.
01:08.802 --> 01:12.264
[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you so much for being here today.
01:13.264 --> 01:20.767
[SPEAKER_00]: And the number one thing that I want to say is that welfare Academy podcasts will continue into the future.
01:21.754 --> 01:34.784
[SPEAKER_00]: And what I've done, I'm currently working with an amazing, amazing coach that has helped me to really amplify the voice of wealth Academy podcasts even more in the future.
01:35.245 --> 01:47.895
[SPEAKER_00]: So I will be having a playlist that will be coming out based on the topics that will reinforce what we've done in the past, but more so what we're going to do in the future.
01:48.795 --> 02:04.166
[SPEAKER_00]: And so on it to have you all here, I really want you to lean in to a lot of the the checklist and the different episodes that I will be presenting in the near future.
02:04.867 --> 02:26.147
[SPEAKER_00]: I will be bringing on guest as well, but a lot of the folks is going to be a me delivering a different topic surrounding welfare category podcasts, and their emphasis is on wealth, this more than just money, and other words, we know that money is one thing, but we also know that having good health is wonderful.
02:26.707 --> 02:37.315
[SPEAKER_00]: having a good relationships are wonderful, not so much dating relationship, but cordial friends, family, extended family, and people in the community.
02:37.716 --> 02:40.158
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I want to lean into that a lot more.
02:40.438 --> 02:53.268
[SPEAKER_00]: And then also finding some balance because I know a lot of mid-career professionals are struggling, balancing their personal life, a home life with their business life, a professional life.
02:54.589 --> 02:56.473
[SPEAKER_00]: will be talking quite a bit about that.
02:56.874 --> 03:02.067
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to see some wholesale changes come in in terms of the platform itself.
03:02.762 --> 03:08.747
[SPEAKER_00]: and where a broadcast from now and in efforts to make it better than it is.
03:09.307 --> 03:13.831
[SPEAKER_00]: And this particular podcast that I lead is also going to be monetized.
03:13.891 --> 03:18.374
[SPEAKER_00]: So you can expect to be saying a different things there as well.
03:18.895 --> 03:25.180
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's talk about what's taking place today just to give you an idea some of the things I'll be talking about.
03:25.580 --> 03:34.026
[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, we know that interest rate went down half a percent last month in month of September.
03:34.466 --> 03:41.670
[SPEAKER_00]: And likelihood it may go down even more, and this is going to impact the difference what people being able to purchase a house.
03:41.991 --> 03:47.274
[SPEAKER_00]: For example, a purchase a new vehicle, and then other things that they need in life.
03:47.814 --> 03:52.998
[SPEAKER_00]: And we also want to look at and give consideration to the economy itself.
03:53.778 --> 04:19.425
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that the job in the workforce and the workplace jobs is a little bit tougher to come by right now because they're quite a bit of uncertainty especially when we look at the federal employees who have been furloughed and now we know that when we have the fact that the government is closed we have to make different adjustments in life and it's just what we call a part of life.
04:20.443 --> 04:25.607
[SPEAKER_00]: but we need to do something to strengthen that going into the fourth quarter of this year.
04:26.168 --> 04:36.536
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's very important because a lot of the topics I'll be talking about will be focusing directly on some of the items that I just briefly shared with you.
04:37.237 --> 04:43.682
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you can definitely learn more and I'll have you go out there to Apple Podcasts
04:50.492 --> 04:53.333
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'll be sharing that with you.
04:53.833 --> 05:02.356
[SPEAKER_00]: And then when we look at some other things that are coming down the pipe, I really look to find even more amazing guests.
05:02.756 --> 05:10.719
[SPEAKER_00]: And I receive demands for people to get be a guest on my show all the time.
05:10.799 --> 05:15.481
[SPEAKER_00]: But a lot of them, I don't bring them on because I'm really focusing in on you.
05:16.421 --> 05:25.998
[SPEAKER_00]: these subscribers, the viewers, the listeners, and helping you to make a life better for you on this platform.
05:26.963 --> 05:39.566
[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's very important, but what I will encourage you to do is to go to apple podcasts, rate, and review, not only this episode, but some in the past.
05:40.286 --> 05:48.388
[SPEAKER_00]: And as I mentioned, my very first three podcasts episodes were put into place on the first day I watched this podcast.
05:48.968 --> 06:02.754
[SPEAKER_00]: and so I had three episodes and then go back to the very first one and see how close I've been coming to live in up to what I said I would be doing as a host as a founder and host of wealth academy podcast.
06:03.174 --> 06:14.399
[SPEAKER_00]: And so just to give you a little bit more background about me, I of course served 22 years in the United States Air Force and my specialty was finance.
06:14.439 --> 06:16.240
[SPEAKER_00]: So by the time I retired,
06:16.687 --> 06:27.991
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a certified financial manager and I've worked in the acquisition arena helping lead and provide a cost estimates for multi-billion dollar acquisition programs for the U.S.
06:28.152 --> 06:36.955
[SPEAKER_00]: Air Force and then source selections where we would actually select a contracted to perform the work that we needed.
06:37.491 --> 06:40.494
[SPEAKER_00]: based on the contract that we had at the time.
06:41.055 --> 06:51.867
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm negotiating in embassies over the years and also with foreign military sales selling different training and equipment to other countries.
06:52.507 --> 06:59.235
[SPEAKER_00]: And that evolved into me working in a Pentagon for 12 of the 22 years I served in the military.
07:00.342 --> 07:17.196
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, in the last two, a couple of years, I spent time working in a legislative arena, and I used to be able to escort general officers to meet members of Congress on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Appropriations Committee.
07:18.297 --> 07:21.019
[SPEAKER_00]: And I did that in both the House and Senate.
07:21.299 --> 07:26.123
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was selected, competitively, selected, and was a capital hill fellow.
07:26.563 --> 07:30.124
[SPEAKER_00]: where I work for a member of Congress for a year, and he happened to be in the U.S.
07:30.144 --> 07:34.485
[SPEAKER_00]: House of Representatives and work for the House on Services Committee.
07:34.525 --> 07:42.968
[SPEAKER_00]: So in many ways, I had a very, very dream-like career working there at the Pentagon and then on Capitol Hill.
07:43.526 --> 07:57.430
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think all of that experience and expertise and I added it with the two years I had working as a professional member of a mobile or company in Texas and the Houston Abomont area and I'm lying that as well.
07:58.050 --> 08:02.972
[SPEAKER_00]: And so now today I still provide expertise in the financial arena.
08:03.852 --> 08:23.985
[SPEAKER_00]: I also in the leadership arena because even though I was a financial specialty with financial management budget estimate and cost estimating leadership was really what I did as a military officer and so I share a lot about leadership and I bring a lot of leadership experts on to the platform with me here as well.
08:24.788 --> 08:44.748
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times I will live stream the episodes and then other times I would record it like I did recently with a transformation expert and so with all of these this amount of experience and all the type of things I've done, whether it was training or education.
08:45.482 --> 08:47.403
[SPEAKER_00]: And I did a speaking of education.
08:47.423 --> 08:48.944
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you about my education.
08:48.984 --> 08:54.208
[SPEAKER_00]: When I went to 10 college graduate from high school, I was the first of 10 children.
08:54.228 --> 08:57.270
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was the first generation high school graduate.
08:57.890 --> 08:59.991
[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't have any money to attend college.
09:00.031 --> 09:02.413
[SPEAKER_00]: And I attended Shaw University at North Carolina.
09:02.473 --> 09:08.837
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was cross and roll at North Carolina State while I attended the F-force ROTC program.
09:09.703 --> 09:20.294
[SPEAKER_00]: But I worked four years for United Possible Service UPS to earn enough money in addition to some grants I would see to complete my college degree.
09:20.634 --> 09:22.235
[SPEAKER_00]: And then on a day, I graduated.
09:22.796 --> 09:26.580
[SPEAKER_00]: I was brought in and sworn into the United States Air Force.
09:27.461 --> 09:29.322
[SPEAKER_00]: And I ended up serving
09:30.964 --> 09:34.525
[SPEAKER_00]: 22 years in the Air Force and it was quite an experience.
09:35.065 --> 09:49.868
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I last but not least, as I stated on October the 16th of this month, I will have been retired for 23 years in the United States Air Force over a year more than I actually serve.
09:49.908 --> 09:52.289
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm really making cement roads here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what you can expect
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[SPEAKER_00]: is content rich information that will help you to make your life better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, I really want to focus in on those people who in that mid-professional, mid-career, professional level, who are trying to balance not only their work life, but also their family life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it shows them ways in which they can become financially literate, how they can
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[SPEAKER_00]: a lean into self-leadership to become the best leader they can be, and then ultimately for them to live a legacy for what they are family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's very important is what is needed in the world more today than anything is having a strong family structure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is very, very important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as I stated on some clips that I did throughout the month of September because that's my birth month.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And thank you to all of you who celebrated my birthday with me in my birth month.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The understand that you have more power than you would ever know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that power I'm talking about is not physical power, but it's strengthening power from within you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's your mind, your body, your spirit, and your soul.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And how you apply it really matters and that even though there would be external factors that will be making decisions that impact your life, it still doesn't have the type of power that you have within you, so I want to encourage you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and exhort you to continue to move forward going towards that dream that you have for your life and whatever it happens to be your goals and your dreams but never allow anything to stop you and never quit especially, never quit on yourself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm making this a very short episode but what I want you to understand is this I'm here to serve you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm here to help you to better understand the importance of being the best person that you can be because you and I both know, wealth is more than just money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just all about the money, but it's also about your health and your well-being, relationships you have in life, your spiritual composition, and who you are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and ensuring that you live not only on purpose, but also with passion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to in this episode, which is episode 312.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't even believe it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go to Apple Podcast right and review this episode along with others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And provide a five-star rating.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really would appreciate if you would do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can expect in the next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Starting next week, I'll start my campaign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: have a playlist of episodes that I'm going to be sharing with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you very much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have a wonderful day and I'll see you on the next episode of Wealth Academy podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have a great day, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See you soon.
