All right, man, welcome back. Today we're going to be talking about the four financial lessons that I think all men should learn in their 20s.

Recently, I had a friend of mine ask me what I was going to teach my son about finances because my boy is almost two years old.

And we've just been having a lot of conversations with the men in my life because a couple of them have kids.

You know, what are we going to teach them about drugs and women and finances and the world and how do we impart some of the knowledge and the

wisdom that we've gained throughout our lives? How do we teach them these things? And so this

question about finances came up and I realized that I had been taught almost nothing as a child

about financial independence.

And I've learned a lot over the years. I've learned a tremendous amount. I at one point was very

broke and very, very, very in debt, like 100K worth of debt. And, you know, I've been fortunate

enough to earn a good amount of money, whether that was at my time

working for Apple or in my own company, in my own business now that employs a number of people

and pay salaries and et cetera, et cetera. And so it got me thinking about what do we as men need to know

and how do we create a sense of financial independence? And the first thing

that I that I sort of realize is that, and this is more of a comment, and it's not the four pillars,

the first thing I sort of realize is that our structure, our system isn't really designed to teach

you as a man how to be financially successful.

You know, if you look at the education system, it teaches you almost nothing about

economics, about personal finances, about taxes outside of the fact that they just exist.

They don't teach you how to be successful with them in any way, shape, or form.

And so I realized that in many different ways, it is our responsibility to learn these things.

You know, if we haven't been taught them, myself, this was really something that I struggled with

because I didn't feel proficient with finances, I just avoided them all together, right?

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