You know something isn’t working when every financial advisor shows you the same exponential growth chart…

…and you still don’t feel motivated to invest lol.

When you think about it…

It’s because these charts always show future returns.

While you’re dealing with present problems.

And that means you’re being sold on “later” when you need solutions for “now”…

Yet here we are still not investing because the advice feels disconnected from our reality.

Scott Yamamura discovered why these “future-returns” charts often fail:

They’re designed for “later-minded” outcomes but shown to “now-minded” people.

So he flipped the entire approach.

Instead of showing how money grows over decades, Scott shows people what they’re losing every year they wait.

A 22-year-old who invests $1,000 ends up with $16,000 by retirement.

But wait until 32?

That same $1,000 only becomes $8,000.

Wait until 42? Just $4,000.

Every decade you delay cuts your returns in half.

Once you understand this, investing becomes urgent instead of optional.

The moment you start thinking about your current multiplying power rather than future account balances, everything changes.

But here’s the elephant in the room that financial advisors don’t want to address:

What if you don’t have money to invest?

The truth is that no amount of budgeting or “cutting coffee expenses” will solve a low-income problem.

You can’t save your way to wealth when you’re barely covering expenses.

Within the first 24 hours of accepting this reality, you’ll realize the smartest investment isn’t always in stocks or real estate…

…it’s in your ability to generate more income.

Remember when you first started your career and focused on building skills?

That same principle applies now, just with different stakes.

Soon you’ll be able to invest your “dry powder” in assets that compound.

But only after you’ve invested in yourself to create that dry powder in the first place.

The good news?

In this newsletter I will show you a few fast-“er” paths that don’t require waiting decades for compound interest to work its magic.

Smart entrepreneurs figured out how to compress timelines by focusing on the one investment that pays immediate dividends.

=> Themselves.

And I’m about to show you exactly how two people turned their existing knowledge into income streams.

Let’s dive in

One of my recent guests, Ann Carden, cracked the code on the fastest path from employee to entrepreneur:

Skip starting from scratch and package what you already know into a coaching or consulting business.

Here’s what makes this different from traditional business advice…

You’re not learning a new industry, you’re leveraging existing expertise.

Ann went from manufacturing craft dolls (yea, craft dolls) to business consulting…

Proving that entrepreneurial skills transfer across any field.

One of my guests last week was Paul Moore.

Paul runs Wellings Capital exactly like Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway.

They don’t operate anything themselves, they just invest in handpicked operators across multiple properties and markets.

This lets them leverage other people’s expertise while diversifying risk.

The genius is in the approach is instead of trying to master every aspect of real estate…

They focus on identifying great operators and letting them handle execution.

Paul’s team has placed over $180 million using this strategy.

Here’s where Paul’s philosophy gets interesting…

He values relationships over transactions.