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My Child Made Rich | Bridger Pennington

26 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Bridger Pennington observes a societal trend of postponing marriage and children until financial security is achieved, but shares his personal experience that having his first son actually accelerated his earnings. He describes a phenomenon he calls “nesting,” where expecting a child spurred him to work twice as hard, resulting in the highest‑earning year of his life during the nine months of pregnancy and the first year of his son’s life. Pennington frames this surge in productivity as a sense of duty to provide for his family, emphasizing that thoughtful timing and preparation for parenthood can be a powerful catalyst for personal and financial growth.

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There's a big trend in society to delay getting married and having kids until you're totally set, you're a multimillionaire or something. Actually has made me a ton more money. The year I had my first son, I worked like crazy. They call it a thing called nesting with parents where like you have a kid on the way. And what happens is, at least for me, I worked like twice as hard. It was one of the highest earning years of my entire life was that 9 months and then that first year of my son. I was so like, I gotta build a family, build this. And what happened was it gave me a lot of duty, at least as a man. I gotta provide for my family and my wife and I have a son now. And it pushed me to this greater limit. And it's an amazing thing that I think people should pursue at the right time with thoughtful prep and everything, but it's benefited my life like crazy.