The advice to follow your passion straight out of college gets it backwards. Build a marketable skill first, make money, and passion emerges as you get good at something. The speaker learned this after building a company, nearly losing everything, and eventually finding his way to wealth coaching.
So I think one of the disservices we do for young people especially is tell them like, "Follow your passion," right out of college. Because like, I wouldn't have known that wealth coaching is my passion. I couldn't have found this career until I went through building a company and selling it and then almost losing everything. And like, I had to go through a lot of journey to now be able to create from this. So what I tell people is, "Hey, go out and invest in yourself and build a skill that makes money, that's in demand." And like, You can find passion in honing your craft, and someday that will serve you really well to build something that, you know, is your passion. But trying to have people do that, like, right from the get-go, I think, is just wildly inappropriate.
