What if everything you believed about wealth was wrong?

A financial advisor with $2.8 million in the bank did the math on a different question: How many hours do I have left? The answer changed everything about how he measured success.

You are spending a non-renewable resource at a fixed rate you cannot change. Every meeting that should have been an email. Every Sunday night is spent dreading Monday. Every vacation you couldn't take because you were "too busy." Gone. Forever. And unlike the money you made during those hours, you will never get them back.

A twenty-year-old with nothing in the bank is wealthier than most billionaires—in the only currency that matters. A ten-year-old is richer still. And a 75-year-old with eight figures in the bank cannot purchase a single additional hour no matter what they liquidate.

This isn't meant to be depressing. It's meant to be clarifying.

In this episode, we follow a Midwest distribution company that asked a dangerous question during a strategic planning session: What are we actually asking people to trade their hours for? Not their labor—their hours. The hours of their lives they will never get back.

The answer changed everything. They stopped competing on compensation and started competing on meaning per hour. They began tracking something called "Dream Velocity"—the rate at which employees made progress on their personal goals while employed there. And over eighteen months, they watched turnover drop by nearly half, productivity climb, and discretionary effort go through the roof.

Not because they paid more. Because they helped people feel like their hours counted.

The Dream Manager methodology recognizes something most employment relationships ignore: People aren't just trading labor for wages. They're trading portions of their finite existence. And they deserve to feel like that trade is worth making.

Your hours are counting down whether you engage with this or not.

Make them count.

🎧 The Dream Dividend Podcast — Season 2, Episode 4 🔔 Subscribe for new episodes every week 💬 Share this with someone trading their hours for the wrong things

CHAPTERS: 00:00 — The $2.8 Million Question 00:45 — Welcome to The Dream Dividend 01:15 — The Currency You Can't Buy More Of 12:00 — What Is a Time Billionaire? 20:00 — The Company That Changed the Equation 35:00 — How to Build a Time-Wealthy Organization 50:00 — Why This Matters 55:00 — Your Hours Are Counting Down

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