The Roadmap to Financial Freedom: A Millionaire’s Guide to Building Automated Wealth

The Budgetdog story began right before I married my wonderful wife, Erin. At this point, we felt like we had life figured out because we were doing all the things everyone else our age seemed to be doing. We were both college graduates with jobs lined up. We were in the process of building our first home. Our wedding date was booked. The engagement ring was purchased. Pretty normal, right?! By society standards, YES, we were normal 24-year-olds, building our life. But no matter how much I was assured that it was ok, I couldnt shake the oppressive feeling of the mountain of debt we were accumulating. Before we even said, I do, we had a mortgage, student loans, car debt, and consumer debt. We were starting off our adult lives off with over $300,000 in debt!!! Im the numbers guy, and I couldnt live like this. I approached my wife about a plan to aggressively pay off this mountain of debt and after a little back and forth, and me learninghowto say things, which she tells me is way more important than what I say, she was on board. We were then on our journey to what we thought was debt freedom but what turned out to be so much more. Fast forward to today. We have paid off all over $300,000 in debt, have paid off our house, and have entered a new phase of life parenting our beautiful baby girl, Logan Lee, without any of the typical financial burdens to weigh us down. Logan was born with Dravet syndrome which is a severe medical concern that we are dealing with on a daily basis. We were lucky to be able to move across the country from Cincinnati, OH to Dallas, TX in 2023 in order to provide her the best medical treatment in the world. Here is a blog on her medical issue: BLOG. My daughter may not know it yet, but our financial freedom journey had a lot to do with being sure we created a life that would give us the greatest gift of all – TIME. Time with my daughter is truly the result of the work my wife and I put in over the last seven years.During our own journey, it became clear to me that I was meant to help others realize and achieve the same financial success that my wife and I had achieved. I started @budgetdog with the hope of helping people understand and navigate their own financial situations and to educate as many people as I could so they never found themselves making so many normal mistakes.