Erika Jones, CFO, CCTAProfit First Professionals · Certified Fractional CFO and Profit First Professional

Want financial freedom? Stop using the old systems #profitfirst #shorts #money

5 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker asks the audience whether they started their business seeking financial and personal freedom, noting that virtually everyone raises their hand. He then points out the stark reality that most entrepreneurs end up overworked, underpaid, and without the freedom they sought. The speaker reflects on why this paradox exists and concludes that the problem is not with the entrepreneurs themselves but with the prevailing business system that prevents them from achieving true freedom.

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Let me ask you a question. Did you start your business in part to achieve financial freedom? Raise your hand nice and high. Okay. Pretty much every hand went up. Here's another question. Did you start your business in part for personal freedom to do what you want when you want? Raise your hand nice and high. Okay. None of those things happen. You start a business and you absolutely don't have financial freedom and no personal freedom. You work like an animal and you get paid nothing for it. That's what the experience is of most businesses. Now, how can this be? How can it be that we start our business and every entrepreneur seems to do this for personal freedom and financial freedom to be fulfilled, and yet so few achieve it? I asked myself, what's wrong with us? And then I figured out, oh my gosh, there's nothing wrong with us. There's something wrong with this system.