Kim Butler is a champion of Prosperity Economics principles who's bringing them back into the mainstream.  She’s revitalizing the traditional way of thinking, condensing age-old wealth principles into the 7 Principles of Prosperity.  She helps people get their money doing more jobs and building wealth outside of Wall Street.She’s the owner of Partners 4 Prosperity, a Registered Investment Advisory firm dedicated to the Prosperity Economics Principles.Additionally, Kim serves as the co-host of the Prosperity Podcast and a best-selling author of 6 books, including Live Your Life Insurance and Busting the Retirement Lies.She’s recommended by financial thought leaders like Robert Kiyosaki and has been listed in Investopedia’s top 100 most influential financial advisors in 2017.

She’s been a tremendous influence on the philosophy and work of The Money Advantage, and we have the utmost respect for her.

In this interview, we discuss her backstory.  You’ll see how she developed her financial wisdom and how her abundance mindset is allowing her to continue her objective to help as many people as possible in as many ways as possible.

Table of contentsWhere Prosperity Economics Principles Fit into the Cash Flow SystemBefore Kim Started Partners 4 ProsperityThe Assumptions of Typical Financial PlanningAn Entrepreneurial Journey That Started in 4th GradeGiving up a Designation to Provide More Guarantees and CertaintyBetter Than Typical Financial PlanningThe 7 Prosperity Economics PrinciplesWhy Savers Are WinnersPrinciples First.  Then Strategy.  Then Products.The Principle TestThe Multiple Facets of True ProsperityFailed Strategies of Typical Financial PlanningThe Three Objectives of MoneyAn Honest Look at Risk ToleranceWin-Win-Win InvestmentsThe Importance of Not Losing MoneyBeyond Building Her BusinessAn Abundance Mindset Expands Your VisionThe Value of Thinking for OurselvesHow to Find out More About Kim ButlerCreate Your Time and Money Freedom

Where Prosperity Economics Principles Fit into the Cash Flow System

At The Money Advantage, we are a community of wealth creators.  We are entrepreneurially-minded business owners who are taking control of our lives and financial destiny.  We have a compass that always points back to the principles of wealth, not just to strategies or products.  You need the right mindset, philosophy, and principles of abundance, expansive thinking, creation, cash flow, and control in place first before any financial tactics can genuinely benefit and serve you.

In the Cash Flow System, you first increase cash flow by keeping more of the money you make. Then you protect your money.  Finally, you increase and make more.

This conversation on the Prosperity Economics principles of wealth creation fits right into the very first step of the first phase.

Here are the interview highlights:

Before Kim Started Partners 4 Prosperity

[3:30] Kim was a “typical” financial planner, with a Series 6 and 7 licenses to sell stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.  She made her living creating and delivering financial plans.

When she became aware of the assumptions that made the plans unreliable the moment they were printed, she became disenfranchised with typical financial planning.  She felt she was subjecting clients’ money to so much risk.

The Assumptions of Typical Financial Planning

[5:25] The client is responsible to project when they’ll want to retire, what exactly they would want to happen if they had died yesterday, what interest rate they expect to achieve, and what inflation rate they presume.

Because the foundation for the plans is complete guesswork, the plans have failed people as the roadmap they were intended to be.

An Entrepreneurial Journey That Started in 4th Grade

[6:53] When Kim was in 4th grade, her parents gifted her the raw materials for a business.

They gave her a milk cow and taught her how to milk by hand.  She sold milk to friends and neighbors,