John runs wealthygardener.com and has a book of the same name as well.  He writes about lessons about prosperity, having reach six-figures in annual passive income himself and teaching others how to achieve their own Financial Independence too.  Financial Independence was modelled by the conversations he has had with his son, who had instilled into him the lessons of prosperity, FIRE, life-long lessons on wealth and the parables that makes wealth creation possible.

Podcast Transcript

Eugene / Host: (00:05)Hello and welcome everyone. I’m Eugene Ting and this is the financial independence forum. This show is an open ended exploration of stories, methods and mindsets. How to better invest your time best in yourself and invest your money. You can learn more and please contribute your voice in story@financialindependenceforum.com my guest this week is John, so Frick, the wealthy Gardner John runs wealthygardner.com and has a book of the same name as well. He writes about lessons about prosperity, having reached six figures in annual passive income himself and teaches others on how to achieve their own financial independence. Financial independence was modeled by the conversation he has had with his son over the years who had instilled into him the lessons of prosperity, fire life on lessons on wealth and the parables that make wealth creation possible. We’re lucky to have John join us today. Welcome to the financial independence farm.

John Soforic: (01:07)Glad to be here, my friend. Thanks for having me.

Eugene / Host: (01:10)I know you’re, you’re a prolific, brighter. It’s, well, you have to have that one book out in audio form, but you also kind of space out the different, different quotes of, of wealth and prosperity in the book. And I’d like to start from lesson one about prosperity. Let’s start there. And what does that, what does that mean to you? What would, what would that word mean to you?

John Soforic: (01:29)Prosperity. Wealth. What does it mean to me? What it means to me is, is the ability to not have to think about money. See, when I were, when I graduated from college, I jumped into the world had first. So I came out of college, I got married right away. I had a $100,000 worth of debt between me and my wife. Within our first year, we had a child. Within three years we had our second. I had my own business. So while all the people were having fun in their twenties I was trying to figure out how to survive. I learned in my twenties that life can be consumed by the worry of money and I did not want that. So for me, a big thing, a big why for me to get prosperity, for me to get wealthy was to overcome any kind of worry, to gain peace of mind and to provide and protect my family. Those were my driving, driving motives for prosperity. So for me, a lot of it was peace of mind and getting away from the edge of [inaudible] vulnerability. Quite frankly, that’s the word.