A leader argues financial independence is essential for effective leadership. Once you're financially secure, you stop relying on others for survival, which frees you to lead impartially. Rick Susie's principle: be the go-to person in your family.
We want to be the go-to people, because listen, if you're not the go-to person in your family, who's going to be? So that's why I took this saying from Rick Susie. It's one of my favorite sayings, and I teach this to all our RVPs. Nothing else matters unless you and your family get totally financially independent. Nothing else matters. And that's where it all starts. And from there you could do all the things you want to do for all the people you want to do. But you know what's the most powerful thing about that? You don't need people anymore. And when you don't need people, you can lead people. There's no— you don't have anything, you don't have any skin in the game in the sense that you need them. No, you don't need them, so you can lead them because you're financially independent.
