So let’s talk a little bit of the journey which led me to creating my own method of financial education. Whilst researching my quest for financial freedom over the years I kept running into challenges from the books, course and other online materials. These are summarized below:

• They were not upfront about what you would learn, how long it would take and most importantly, how much it would cost

• They didn’t show which tools and platforms to get you set up and running

• Undertaking them didn’t feel like a sense of progress

• They were passive learning only and didn’t give you the opportunity to ask questions to improve your understanding

• They were not focused at beginners and already assumed a level of knowledge

• They didn’t talk about free platforms to allow you run trial and error experiments

• They were not specific enough to Australia 

• In some cases their approaches seem contradictory (e.g. credit cards are evil and you should cut them up VS methods of making extra income through the use of credit cards)

• There was an insufficient level of detail on a particular topic 

• Some were biased in their views towards a certain angle or hidden agenda (e.g. selling you a specific product or service that wasn’t necessarily in your best interests)

• Some were just producing content for contents sake to increase their reach and not really solving the problem of financial education and freedom

So as you can see, that’s a pretty comprehensive list of concerns! I decided there had to be a better way from getting people from a point of absolute beginner to a confident investor.