Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™


Episode 238: [Client Spotlight] Variable Paychecks to Permanent Lifetime Income with Christian Ward

March 25, 2022

In this episode, we ask:


  • Who is Christian Ward?
  • How did Christian earn his first dollar?
  • How does Christian handle the ups and downs of living on real estate commissions?
  • What is it like starting out as a realtor?
  • What about working on the business of real estate?
  • What about Profit First?
  • How did Mark and Christian meet?
  • What about knowing what you don’t know?
  • What about growing financial savvy?
  • What about growing more peaceful?
  • What about self improvement?
  • What happened in 2011?
  • What about running?
  • What about health?
  • What about planning for longevity?
  • What lessons did Christian learn through caretaking?
  • What about self-reliance?
  • What about not out-living savings?
  • What were Christian’s goals?
  • What problems does a flexible premium annuity solve?
  • What about lifetime income?
  • What happened with the investment advisor in early 2020?
  • What about reducing volatility?
  • Have you read Profit First?
  • How has Christian applied Profit First principles?
  • What are Christian’s current and future goals?
  • How might we pay our future selves?
  • What about being deliberate and thoughtful?
  • What about managing stuff?
  • Would you like to work with Christian?
  • Would you like to visit christianwardhomes.com?
  • Would you like to hear Christian’s podcast, Interesting Humans?
  • Would you like to join our Not Your Average Financial Community?
  • What are people saying?

Christian Ward is a seeker, writer, podcaster who happens to do real estate to make a living.


He has lived in many parts of the country; for the past 31 years Ann Arbor, MI has been his home. He is the podcast host of Interesting Humans a deep dive into the mindset, the philosophy and the achievements of the people around us who have fascinating narratives to share.