Denzel RodriguezFinancial Coach & Kingdom Builder

Stop Buying Stocks Before You Invest in Your Own Skills

6 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

1:11

In this monologue, Denzel Rodriguez challenges viewers to prioritize investing in their own skills, businesses, and cash flow before allocating money to external assets like stocks, upcoming IPOs, or Bitcoin. He argues that using business cash flow to acquire assets not only builds personal wealth but also reduces tax liability. After meeting personal and operational expenses, he advises reinvesting any surplus back into the business to claim deductions, or, if that isn’t feasible, placing the funds into retirement accounts for tax‑advantaged growth. The overall message is that self‑investment and strategic tax planning provide a more reliable and powerful wealth‑building formula than speculative market bets.

Chapters

I double dog, triple dog dare you to invest in yourself before you buy that stock you were looking at, before you buy Elon Musk's IPO that's coming out soon, before you buy the Bitcoin, because I promise you this formula is way better. And you know what's so awesome about the 1 that turns into 382? You could care less what Bitcoin costs 10 years from now. I don't care what Bitcoin goes for right now. Or any stock. If I'm interested, I use the cash flow to purchase the asset because then what? I lower my tax liability. You see, I made all this money that puts me in a high tax bracket. Now I have to offset it. So after I've taken care of my personal obligations, my business operations, what's left over Now you invest that, if you can, back into the business to get that deduction. If you can, if you can't, like the tax is like, dude, throw it in the retirement account. Okay, now that's money I can tuck away. That's money I can now put away.