Wealth by Design: The Unfiltered Blueprint to Financial Freedom

Ready to break free from financial mediocrity? The wealth landscape has transformed dramatically, and what worked for previous generations won't cut it anymore. In this revealing episode, we pull back the curtain on the unfiltered blueprint to wealth that the 1% leverages but rarely discusses publicly.

The harsh reality we're facing in 2025 demands bold new approaches. AI is replacing jobs at an accelerating pace, inflation continues to devour savings, and the once-reliable 9-to-5 has become nothing more than a "delay button" on your financial freedom. Building real wealth today requires thinking like the truly prosperous – focusing on assets, not just careers.

We dismantle toxic money myths that keep most people financially stagnant: the idea that saving alone creates wealth, that degrees automatically translate to dollars, and that you have the luxury of figuring things out "someday." Instead, we offer a practical blueprint for building wealth through side hustles enhanced by AI tools, digital assets, passive income streams, and strategic networking. The path requires sacrifices – comfort, toxic support systems, and confronting your deepest fears – but the payoff is the financial freedom most only dream about.

This episode isn't just theory – it's part of a movement to empower you with actionable strategies for building sustainable wealth in today's economy. Download our free Blueprint Checklist and join the Rich in 2025 Challenge. Remember, wealth isn't just a distant dream; it's a decision you make every single day through your actions and choices. Are you ready to choose freedom over fear?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello world, welcome back to Not Just Candle Talk,
the podcast where we dive deepinto business, money mindset and
real talk for realentrepreneurs.
I'm your host, tony, and todaywe will be exposing the
unfiltered blueprint to wealththat no one is talking about.

(00:24):
Unfiltered blueprint to wealththat no one is talking about.
So let's just say this isn'tyour average save and budget
episode.
Nope, this is strategy thewealthy are using right now.
Okay, buckle up.
It's about to get bold.
It's nothing better than that,right?
Okay, let's get one thingstraight Okay, 2025 is a.

(00:50):
It's a different beast, it's adifferent animal.
We got, we all acknowledge that.
Right, because, for one, ai istaking over jobs, replacing jobs
.
Okay, um, and and that's a realthing, I mean, it's happening,
it's been happening.
Some companies are moreadvanced than others, and you

(01:12):
know it's there, and it'shappening At a more rapid pace.
Like I said, with somecompanies, they're getting bold,
so you have to get bold as well, right, as entrepreneurs and
small business owners.
Inflation is eating up savings.

(01:33):
Inflation has been eating upsavings for a few years now.
Right, we all.
I mean it's everywhere.
This is not over-exaggeration,this is a real thing.
And the 9 to 5, okay, it's notsecurity anymore, it's not.

(01:53):
You see job layoffs all thetime.
It's a delay button.
It really is button.
It really is Right now.
I think right now I was lookingat a news feed and it's a big
company.

(02:14):
It's laying off like a thousandpeople right now.
A manufacturer company.
So you want to build real wealth, you have to think like the 1%.
Right, they're building assets,not just careers.
I'll repeat you have to thinklike the 1%.

(02:34):
You have to build assets, notjust careers.
Let me give you, uh, two quicklittle stories right, one stayed
in their job, saved every penny, okay, budgeted all the good
stuff, right, never took risk.
And they're barely keeping up.
This is the reality right now.

(02:57):
Another person built a sidehustle, okay, which is you know
what many of us are doing outhere, okay, which is you know
what many of us are doing outhere, invested in themselves,
which is a bold move.
We're talking bold today, right, and is now making money in
their sleep, okay.

(03:24):
So those are.
That's the difference.
One chooses fear, the otherchooses freedom.
So it's all on you.
It's always all on you.
You always have a choice.
Just be bold enough, and you'regonna hear me say bold a lot in
this episode, but that's whatit working in 2025 right now,
currently, right.

(03:44):
Uh, high income skills Okay.
So that's copywriting, um,influencer marketing and AI
tools Again, I've done two orthree episodes and AI has come
up in almost every episode justabout every episode.
Okay, ai has come up in almostevery episode, just about every

(04:06):
episode.
Okay, digital assets eBooks,templates are a big thing.
Subscription content big.
You got to think out of the box, right.
Even this podcast is a digitalasset.
Passive income streams you gotyour dividend stocks.
You got your rental properties,if you're into that.

(04:28):
And then, of course, you gotyour rental print on demand
stores.
Okay, you can't get rich in a ina bubble, right.
So what you?
What do you have to do?
You have to build your circle.
You can join digitalcommunities.
You can host and attendmasterminds right, get into

(04:51):
these courses, build yourcommunity and join a community.
If you don't want to build one,join a community.
But you can't do it standing ina bubble.
Okay, you have to think outsidethe box.
You have to do things.
That makes you uncomfortable,all right.
So let's get into some lies.

(05:12):
All right, let's get into sometoxic lies.
So we're going to say what isthe myth.
The myth is save your money towealth.
Okay, that might have beenworking maybe 50, 60 years ago.
Okay, saving is good, don't getme wrong.
Saving is good, but it's slow,okay, um, and investing is

(05:41):
scaling and it's faster, so youcan save, which is not a bad
thing I'm not, you know but whenyou're investing, it's at a
more faster pace, all right.
Myth number two degrees equaldollars.
That's a good one.
2025, skills, not degrees, aremaking people millionaires.

(06:05):
Okay, degrees are cool, degreesare fine.
Trust me.
Yeah, you know, I'm all abouteducation.
I've said that before in pastepisodes.
Educate yourself, but you knowDoing that, going the college
route Does not always meandollars.
I've ran over the years.

(06:26):
I've ran into people who havedegrees OK and it's working in a
job that has nothing to do withtheir degree OK makes for an
unhappy person.
It can make for an unhappyperson when you, you person,
when you take out student loansand everything just to work in a

(06:47):
job that you don't even went toschool for.
I've seen that in the past alot of times.
Myth number three you have timeto figure it out later.
No, you don't.
You have time to figure it outlater?
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
The game is moving fast.
Everything is moving at a fastrate, right?

(07:15):
Procrastination is the enemyAlways, always, always, always.
I've been like this beforeprocrastinated, and you know it
bites me every time, right, andI'm mad at myself.
You know, I'm mad at myself forbeing, for not following
through on what I know I wassupposed to do.
I'm guilty of procrastination.

(07:36):
I have been before, and it'snot that it's not a bad thing.
It's a learned behavior.
Like all learned behaviors, itcan be changed.
Okay, so here's the actualblueprint.
Okay, you can start a sidehustle with leverage.

(07:56):
Okay, this is the actualblueprint.
Okay, use the AI tools, man, tocut time and cost.
Right, things are moving sofast, right, but, and it takes
time and money, right.
So when you leverage and usethese tools, that's out there
now you're cutting down yourtime and cutting down your costs

(08:19):
.
And cutting down your costs,right.
To me, that's a win-win.
Start a course or a nicheservice okay, this is how you
leverage your side hustle.
Do automated things.
Automate what drains you,what's just really
time-consuming, automate it.

(08:41):
Okay.
Delegate what you're not greatat, like I said, and you can
delegate by hiring people, havea business partner or use your
AI tools.
That's out there.
Delete distractions, man, thisis a big one, because it's so
many distractions when you'retrying to build, so many

(09:01):
distractions, and this is whereyour mindset has to be at its
strongest.
When you're building right,let's invest.
Let's invest smart, even withdollars.
Okay, um, invest in uh crypto,get your online business, invest

(09:27):
in efts efts is the stockmarket.
Okay, um, invest your money.
Okay, we can't say this enough.
Um, I'm going to go back to um,one thing I want to sorry to
skip around, but I want to goback to delete uh distractions.
Um, because to me, this is thisis like, um, the number one

(09:53):
corporate, corporate and anddelaying your process is when
you're you have distractions inyour life and you might think
that, say, like your friends andfamily, for example, you might
think that they cheering you onand you know, but sometimes they

(10:15):
can be a distraction.
Or the noise of you got tohurry, hurry, hurry, hurry,
hurry all the time.
That can be a distraction.
Take your time, educateyourself.
Things are moving fast,correctly, yes, but when you
educate yourself the correct way, this is how you delete

(10:35):
distractions, all right.
So I just I need to go back tothat one, because you know, man,
this can be, this can make itbreak you when you have
distractions in your life.
You have to make up your mind.
Grow a personal brand Okay, growyour personal brand.
Document your journey Okay, alot of people don't do this.

(10:58):
They don't document theirjourney.
They don't document theirjourney.
Uh, I think this is veryimportant because this is
basically, this is your personalblueprint when you document
your journey.
Okay, um, a reference, becausethat can be used as a reference
guide, not only as the blueprint, but a reference guide as well.

(11:20):
How did I get here?
From start to finish?
This is your journey, this isyour story.
Ok, become a go to voice in yourspace.
Become a go I'm going to repeatthat one Become a go to voice
in your space.
You got to have.
You got to have.
You got to stand on yourconviction, on your convictions.
Right, you have to.

(11:40):
This is your voice, this isyour space.
Say what you want and stickwith it.
Okay, this is how you go frombroke to book in 2025.

(12:01):
Okay, those are just a few gemsI wanted to drop, because that
is the blueprint.
All of those I just said it wasfour, four different things.
I just said.
That is the blueprint.
Okay, let's not, let's notsugarcoat it.
Okay, you'll have to sacrificecomfort.

(12:21):
Like I said, stay uncomfortable, that's that's another.
That's how, that's how you move.
Create motion is beinguncomfortable, all right, let go
of toxic support systems.
When I just said sometimes youknow people that's cheering you

(12:42):
on, they could be the problem,okay, they don't, and not
intentionally.
That's not.
It's not intentional, it's not.
It's not saying that it's a badthing.
But when you're building, toxicsupport systems can be a issue
for you.
Okay, face your fear, face yourfears.
Self-doubt, okay.

(13:05):
And imposter syndrome beyourself, be your authentic self
.
That one, I don't know ifthat's hard for people or not.
I haven't talked to enoughpeople to know if, if, if that's
the thing or not.
But being your authentic self,it comes across, it comes.

(13:27):
People can see it right.
When you are, when you're youand you putting out stuff that
matches your personality, um, beyour authentic self all the
time and face your personality.
Be your authentic self all thetime and face your fears, okay,
because that's how you get overthose hurdles, those peaks and
valleys.
But if you want wealth, freedom, wealth, okay, this is the

(13:53):
price you have to take or makedoing those things sacrificing
comfort, letting go of supportsystems that are toxic and not
good for you, Okay, so here'sthe move, here's what we're
going to do.
Here's what we're going to doright now.

(14:13):
We're going to I just wanted totouch on this because and I'm
going to keep like this is likean extension of my last two
podcasts right, because this isit, this is it Like these talks
have to happen.
These podcast episodes have tobe uh, have to have to be, uh,

(14:36):
put out there, and it has to bea thing that people are hearing,
right, cause if you hear itover and over, you're like wait
a minute, this is, this is,she's on to something, right,
she's on to something, um, and Ican do that.
Right, cause the purpose of allof this is to be inspirational
and try to get people thatconfidence that they need to

(15:02):
take that extra step, because Irun into a lot of people who
want to start things and still,to this day, still have no clue,
because it's so muchinformation and it's
overwhelming sometime.
So I'm just I'm trying tocondense these podcast episodes
to where it's understandable, um, and relatable, right, um.

(15:27):
So what I want, what I'm goingto do.
I'm going to um, cut this oneoff right now and cut this one
off right now.
And, and I'm going, I'm goingto make another downloadable PDF
, um, and it's going to be theblueprint checklist, okay, and

(15:50):
you know, it's the rich in 2025challenge.
You could tag me in it, uh, andtag me build your empire.
If you like this episode and youwant me to do more, you would
like to hear more on these typesof topics, give me a review
rate this episode, review me.
Share this with someone who'sready to stop being broke.

(16:15):
That's.
You know, this episode it's amovement.
Right, like I said, I've doneit's my third or fourth episode
in this realm of conversationand this is a movement.
This is right here right now.

(16:35):
This is the movement and, likeI said, I'm going to make
another PDF checklist.
And remember, wealth isn't adream, it's a decision.
All right, I'll say that againWealth isn't a dream, it's a

(17:03):
decision, and you could takethat, that's that phrase, and
and always put that in your back, in your mind, because
everything really is based on adecision being made, a choice
being made at the end of the day, because that's all we have is
choices and decisions and it'sup to us to see those through.

(17:29):
So thank you again for yourtime for listening to my podcast
.
I appreciate it and I will seeyou guys next time.
Thank you, bye.