Someone left photocopies on the copy machine. My colleague's salary, sitting there for anyone to see. Same job. Same experience. Twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars more than mine. I called my mother, already making excuses for it. She let the pause sit, then asked how I expected anyone else to value me if I would not value myself. Then the right hook: "Besides, I ain't raise no punk asses." She was right. I had been grateful for crumbs while I deserved the meal. I spent twenty-five years in financial services. Wall Street firms, award-winning teams, a title that kept getting fancier while my life kept getting smaller. Three hours of sleep, four if I was lucky. I bragged about it as if exhaustion were an Olympic sport.

Funny how close to dead you can feel while your Apple Watch is still counting your steps. I finally left. Then I was diagnosed with colon cancer. That is when my grandmother's words landed: you can get another title, but you don't get more time. Abundance Unleashed: Redefining Wealth and Success is what I built on the other side of that. Listeners will learn why being excellent at the job gets you more work instead of more freedom, how to tell real goals from inherited ones, what it takes to ask for the number and stop apologizing for it, and how to build wealth your grandchildren will feel without postponing your own life to do it. I already tried hustling harder. It nearly cost me everything. Ten out of ten would recommend the ambition. Zero out of ten would recommend the method. Stop performing. Start living. Narrated by the author.