Then from homelessness to finally figuring it out...
So the big question is this, how do you become financially free in today's world where you can do what you love doing, spend time with the ones you love and provide for your family without being chained and selling your soul to a nine to five corporate America job without having to sacrifice going out to eat so you can pay off debt faster for the question isn't.
How do you save for? The question is how do you make more without spending more time?
That is the question and this podcast has the answers. My name is Ryan Enk and this is Cash Flow Dad Life...
Hey, what's up everyone? Welcome to cash flow. This is episode one you are getting in at the ground breaking event here and today I want to give you my big why I'm doing this podcast for you. I'm so excited to be doing this for you guys because I can't wait to share with you different strategies to freeing yourself financially by developing different passive income streams.
OK, so just to give you an idea of where I'm coming from, but most importantly, how I can help you. I want to give you a little bit of my backstory...
So I live in the New Orleans area. I've kind of moved all over the place as a kid, but I live in the New Orleans area now because I married a girl from New Orleans. And when you do that, you gotta move there forever.
So I'm married and I've got five kids myself...
They're all boys. I do not know how to make girls...
I've tried everything that's permissible. Uh, but I, uh, I can't seem to figure it out, but the good news is I'm not a quitter.
So we'll see what happens in the future...
If anybody's got any, uh, suggestions, please just keep them to yourself because, you know, when I get these suggestions, they're just weird. Um, had any rate, I've got what I call my two epic binges in life right after college.
When was this epic binge of bad things happen to me slash failure slash doing stupid things.
And then the second epic Benj was this epic badge of success. And so, uh, I started right out of college, first of all, I went to college, that was a bad decision to begin with, a because it's paid about $16,000 a year.
The cause I went to, I think it went up to 20,000 by the time I graduated and I got massive amounts of college debt, which were told that if you go to college you'll get a good job or a high paying job.
Like the first job I got like barely paid for two years worth of college. And of course it's not like you're paying college with that money, you're trying to live off of it. So the first job I got was a teaching job actually making $24,500 a year. I kind of embellish that a little bit because they actually did pay me an extra $5,000.
But the caveat was I had to drive a bus. I had a coach, two sports, and I had a moderate three clubs...
So with that extra money, that extra $5,000, what I was able to do was actually eat ramen noodles every single meal because that's all that I could afford. And of course, you know, when I'm starting out I decided to, uh, you know, not having any money. We got married and uh, and got pregnant right away and eight months later we lost our house to Hurricane Katrina.
That's when, I don't know if you guys remember Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
It completely smoked us...