John Christensen grew up in a Nebraska town of 390 people, graduated in a class of 12, and spent a summer slinging 75 pound tent stakes for a party rental company in Annapolis before he ever set foot in a law school. Now he runs Story One Financial, a multifamily office in Kansas City that serves families worth between 20 and 200 million dollars. The path from farm kid to specialist in estate and tax planning sounds random until John walks Sam through it, and then it sounds like a series of conversations he was paying attention to.