First, I am so happy I get to tell my story and hope it will enlighten others that can relate to my situation. So let me set the stage for you…I am a single 29-year-old server that makes about $40K who now lives at home with my parents because of the financial situation I created for myself as a very young adult. I have gone through all the lower-level situations when it comes to money. I come from a blue-collar family, and we really did not have much. My dad had little to no money most of the time, and my mom slaved to make things “work” as a single mother. So, in a nutshell – healthy money habits, consistency, and confidence weren’t instilled in my subconscious. And as I grew into an adult, that subconscious mimicked the habits and mindset of my parents. Therefore, I had ZERO control over my money, which meant that I had ZERO control over my life. My life encompassed “the struggle” in both childhood and adulthood…
In my mid 20’s I lived in Los Angeles chasing a dream that turned into a nightmare because of my finances. Sadly, I got used to getting a 3-day notice letter taped onto my apartment door because I was late on rent almost every month. It was embarrassing for everyone to see that walked by, but I just couldn’t figure a way out. During that time, I was also on the verge of getting my car repossessed, constantly had to figure out how to survive on $40 for the week and all my credit cards were maxed out and overdue. At times, I didn’t have enough gas money to get to the various jobs I would book. All because I was in way over my head, living a lifestyle that I couldn’t afford and not knowing how to properly manage money.
In early 2022, understanding I needed help with my life, I went out and hired a so called “life coach” to help guide me and set me up for success. I paid this life coach $2,000 and unfortunately, they did not set me up for success and did not provide solutions to my problems as all they did was say go get a higher paying job.
Then in August of 2022, the restaurant I was working at had to suddenly close for 9 days. The staff was given last minute notice, and I was informed that I would not be getting paid for those 9 days. While I was glad to be given a much-needed break, I started to stress as I begun to worry about money and thought to myself if I had I only saved for rainy days like this. I got upset at myself for not being fiscally prepared for a situation like this. During that time, I mustered up some motivation and bought a few books about money, but once again another resource was of no help as they didn’t really teach me how to properly manage money and how to solve my issues related to my debt. Two different times I sought help and got none, so hope was dwindling.
Then when I got back to work, I ran into one of the regulars at the restaurant and told him about my situation. He told me that he could help me if I wanted his help and was willing to listen to him, so I took him up on his offer.
When I began with Jason in September of 2022, I had all of $200 in my bank account and all 3 of my credit cards were maxed, which was about $7,000. This credit card debt was in addition to the student loans, car loan, and the current and past due taxes I owed. Jason and I went through all my accounts as well as what my life currently looked like on an overall scale. We talked about where I ultimately wanted to be at the end of 2023 and what I needed to do to get there.
After that, Jason sent me the easy-to-use financial workbook that would basically become my financial bible. He showed me exactly how to use the workbook and informed me that tracking everything would be crucial to my future success. He laid out the reality of my situation and helped me understand that sacrifice is where it’s at in life. He stressed that anyone could sacrifice things in the short term, and I learned that once you begin to see progress, the sacrifice just gets easier. Once I finally saw and understood where all my money was going, I began cutting out all the unnecessary expenses and started to aggressively pay down my credit card debt and past due taxes (because the interest I am paying on my credit card debt is INSANE).
The financial tools showed me where all my money was at at any point in time. I also learned to better understand when my money was tight and when I had cushion. I was able to analyze all my spending habits on a 12-month scale and account for all the work I was doing. With the knowledge instilled in me by Jason, in just a three-month period, I took my credit card debt from $7,000 to $2,338, paid off all but $300 of the past due state income taxes I owed and ended the year with $1,770 in my bank account (up from the $200 I started with). By the end of June 2023, I should have all my credit card debt paid off along with all the past due state income taxes, the $2,000 of current taxes due for 2022 and have about $6,000 in my bank account. I know this because the tools he provided me that I use every day show me. So now I don’t stress about money because I know what I currently have and what I plan to have every two weeks.
Also, like most women, I have aspirations of getting married and having kids, so I feel it’s imperative to have my financial house in order as I want to have a successful marriage since money is the #1 cause for divorce, and I do not want my kids to grow up struggling the way I did. In addition, I want to attract a guy that has his financial house in order, and I don’t think I can do that without mine being in order first.
We also began talking about what improvements I want to make to my health as he stressed that is more important than money. I would say I was in decent shape, but I wanted to get back to being toned and sculpted. While I felt I ate healthy in general, I really didn’t know how to eat properly and the effects the foods I was eating were having on me. At the beginning of October, I was 135 lbs so I determined I wanted to get to the weight that made me feel my best and have the most confidence. Therefore, I set my goal to be 128 lbs. Jason inspired me to make that goal by December 31st. He reiterated to me that when I lose weight make sure that it is fat and not to burn through my muscle. He taught me how to eat so that I would minimize any muscle loss. I made my weight goal by cutting to 127 lbs. on the very last day of the year. I now feel and look great, so my goal now is to sculpt and tone a little more and not lose any more weight.
The best part of all this is I accomplished all this success on my own! I just needed the knowledge and the tools. I now feel I have control over my life and where I want to go. My next focus is learning how to create wealth for myself so I will be prepared for retirement and will not have to struggle like my parents have.
Now many of us come from a similar background and have a similar mindset, and I will note now that if you don’t find a way out of these habits, then you’re in for a very difficult time down the line.
I now reflect from time to time that if I had only had the opportunity to have learned all this information when I was just starting out as an adult, I would not have had to endure all the stress, anxiety, and bad experiences my money or lack of money created for me and how much closer I would be to being financially free.
Unfortunately, school doesn’t teach us this information and prepare us for the adult world. I feel Jason is teaching people for the greater good and am very appreciative of the knowledge he has provided me. Anyone who doesn’t understand money truly needs the information in the courses he provides as everyone deserves to know how to manage their money properly, create wealth, stay in good health and have control over their life. And once you start doing the work, your confidence and mindset shifts, rises, and things finally begin to change.
With all that being said, his ability to provide the right tools, the right information and to be able to teach it is truly an amazing gift, which has completely transformed my life!
I’m a 50 year old optometrist who has earned millions of dollars over the past 25 years. However, when I met Jason, I was living paycheck to paycheck and my liquidity and net worth were both at a negative $(35,000). By following Jason’s fiscal tutelage, the past 12 months I have since increased both my liquidity and net worth to $135,000 (a positive change of $170,000) and created a savings plan to buy my last house. Needless to say, he has changed my life as he taught me how to understand my business financially, to manage my money properly, to create wealth, to plan for retirement and how everything flows together. In addition, by following his methodologies and financial advice I was also able to raise my credit score from 620-770! Because of his teachings, I have reduced my anxiety and stress levels and I’m now achieving the financial freedom I desire.
As for the fitness aspect, before I met Jason I was approximately 12% body fat, health conscious, living a high-fitness lifestyle, but I used to eat out every meal. Because of the knowledge bestowed upon me about the effects of food, cooking and food prep that Jason instilled in me, I was able to take my fitness to another level. I learned how food could not only be healthy but could also taste delicious! With my knowledge of understanding my body and understanding how to fuel my body the healthy correct way it has propelled me to be in the best shape in my life at 50 years old! I now eat great tasting meals that are healthy and in effect I reduced my bodyfat to 9%.
After making these changes fiscally and physically, it has impressed upon me to pass this on to my children. My parents, being both physicians, instilled many great values like education and self-determination, but they never taught me the fiscal aspect in order to create wealth. Hence, I wanted to share this knowledge with my children (21 and 24 years old) so that they could start life off in the right direction and not struggle like I did. So, I setup meetings with Jason to mentor them. My son, who accepted Jason’s help, really benefited because he implemented the knowledge and methodologies and is currently thriving in both areas of his life. As for my daughter, who declined his help, she consistently struggles to make her monthly rent and pay her bills. I tried to impress upon her that I have made over $2 million dollars in my life with not much to show for and I wanted her to have this knowledge that I wish that I had when I was younger so she would stop struggling. With that said, as I continue to thrive, hopefully it will inspire her to eventually take her finances seriously and take me up on my offer so she will stop struggling.
Where do I start…I grew up in Brazil very poor, so I moved to NYC for a better life. When I got to NYC my job options were limited so I started dancing in the clubs and have been working in the clubs for over 8 years now. Like a lot of people in my industry, I was irresponsible with my money squandering it on unnecessary extravagant items. In addition, I also made some bad investments in Brazil because of my lack of financial knowledge. All that hard work all those years and I had barely anything to show for it because of those bad decisions. Then a couple years back I was introduced to Jason and my life completely changed!
Since working with Jason (about 2 years now) I now understand how successful I am, how much money I make, how to manage it and how to grow it. He has completely changed my mindset and educated me about money, which has allowed me to strive for more because I now know I can do it. Never would I have thought I would have the net worth I have now and that I would have the ability to obtain my future net worth goal. Knowing that a dancing career has a shelf life, he has helped me start on my next career so when my dancing career ends, I will be able to transition into my next career without any interruptions.
I tell him I wish I had known him 5 years ago because if I did, I would have complete financial freedom at this point in my life. He tells me once he has taught me everything I need to know, and I have mastered the principles of managing my money and creating wealth that his job will be done and I will need to fire him. However, no matter how much I have mastered everything he teaches me I will never fire him because his knowledge and ability to challenge me pushes me harder each day to create a better life for myself.
Hi, I am Christian, I am 47 and I can say I have enjoyed life to the fullest so far. With that said, some of the choices I have made have not exactly been in the best interest of my health. So back in Dec of 2022 I was flipping through some pictures on my phone and came across a recent one. I said no way that is what I look like and then I looked in the mirror and unfortunately that was what I looked like. I sat there for a second to grasp reality and said this is unacceptable. Clearly, at 47 getting into and staying in good shape where I am considered healthy was not going to be as easy as it was when I was 20. However, after seeing that picture I was determined to make a change. The one problem is I didn’t know how I was going to get there. Knowing about Jason and that he lived in the same city as I did, I reached out to him. When we first met, he preached to me remember its not about weight loss it’s about fat loss. No one should want to lose muscle, especially at my age. Unfortunately, too many people and “weight loss” programs focus on weight loss not fat loss.
So, I decided to get on his program of understanding how to eat and work out properly. He taught me the principles in his health and nutrition course and I then applied them. I started my personal challenge to get to a healthy weight and lifestyle in January 2023. For a reference point, I worked out 5 days a week for an hour per day and spent about 2 hours a week food prepping. In addition, I was still able to enjoy the foods I craved most, but just not at the same frequency. When I started this challenge on 1/3/23 I weighed 190.0 lbs at 26.6% bodyfat with 78.9 lbs of muscle mass. And in a little under 4 months of following Jason’s principles I was now at 171.6 lbs at 17.5% bodyfat with a muscle mass of 80.2 lbs. Needless to say, I was extremely happy with the results along with how I looked and how I felt physically overall. The numbers say it all, I dropped my body fat 9.1% and increased my muscle mass by 1.3 lbs. Because of the knowledge Jason bestowed upon me and my determination I was able to make a needed and successful change to my life. Click here to see some before and after photos of my transformation in less than 4 months from following Jason’s guidance.
Before Aga and I met Jason we had over $25,000 in old credit card debt and were living paycheck to paycheck. To say the least we had our fair share of stress and anxiety because of money, which of course added unneeded stress to our marriage. Since we had a newborn, we thought it would be best to get help and get our financial house in order so we reached out to Jason. Through his mentoring and taking us through his Money Management and Wealth Creation course we now understand and practice his principles of how to manage money. Because of this we were able to eliminate all of our credit card debt, build a 6-month emergency fund, and contribute the full amount to our Roth for 2021 ($6,000) so we can start creating more wealth when we feel the time is right to enter the stock market. All of this was accomplished in just 6 months of working with Jason.
Because of the knowledge and practices gained from Jason, my wife and I communicate about our budget and our financial goals better than ever before and we rewarded ourselves with a 10 day financially stress-free vacation to Tulum and Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.
With all that being said, we look forward to continuing our financial journey with him with our monthly calls and learning and implementing more from his Money Management and Wealth Creation course so we can continue to build our liquidity and net worth.
My dad introduced me to Jason back in March of 2022 giving me the opportunity to learn from him as he thought it would be beneficial since Jason coaches people on the skills everyone needs to know that are not taught in school. Being a college student, my dad felt that working with Jason could help me grow and prepare me for life right now and particularly after school when I am on my own. Because I am fortunate to still be supported by my parents, it is allowing me time to master the principles on how to manage money and understand what it takes to create wealth so when I graduate and start my career, I will be educated about how to make money, how to manage it and how to grow it so I will be able to support myself and not struggle with my finances.
He is also helping me understand the effects of food and how to eat as I have a goal of getting my weight up to at least 185 lbs by adding lean muscle (I am 6’3” and weighed 145 lbs when I was introduced to Jason). In the five months I have been working with him, I have added approximately 20 lbs of lean muscle. In addition, he has me thinking about what kind of goals I want to have at this stage in my life (financial, health, and lifestyle) and understanding the various paths I can take to achieve them. While my goals will change over time, the ability to determine my goals and understanding how to determine the path(s) that will allow me to achieve them is the real take away. Lastly, while my parents always share their wisdom to help me, I am grateful that my dad introduced me to Jason as he gives me a different perspective on how to be successful and maximize my life.
After meeting with Jason in 2019, I can say that his perspective and discipline is what made my financial life grow. The mental discipline he instilled in me to proactively create and follow a budget & cash flow was made simple because of the step-by-step process Jason walked through with me. For my income level, I was finally able to save money and live comfortably. He had insight in 2020 that the economy would come down after the Fed began to raise interest rates, which led me to start building my 6-month rainy day fund, which I now have. Because of his course and teachings, I was finally able to understand how to manage money with ease and begin to create wealth, therefore alleviating the anxiety I previously had that was created by money or shall I say the lack thereof.
“Back in my mid 30’s and when Jason lived in Atlanta, we used to hit the gym together frequently. At that time in my life, I was in pretty good shape. Then life happened. I started up a consulting firm, got married, and had two kids. As my life began to change, Jason, in search of bluer skies and limitless golf options, departed for Arizona. Over the years I would work out here and there; you know, I would get on those kicks for a month or so just to see it fade quickly after a couple weekends out of town or a busy summer hauling the kids around—truly a far cry from the times when Jason still lived in Atlanta.
As Jason and I remain friends, after all everyone needs a loyal golf buddy, I recently visited him in Arizona for a golf outing and noticed that he and one of his golf buddies (who is in his 50s) were in pretty good shape for their ages. I was interested in how they maintained their bodies, so we got to talking about their workout routines and what they were eating; which basically amounted to a discussion about Jason’s Food & Fitness Course. As expressed by Jason, while working out was important, he reiterated to me that it was 80% about the food/diet and 20% about the workouts. Since I was staying with him, I got to experience firsthand the diet he incorporated into his life. Instead of going out to eat, he cooked at home to show me that healthy food could taste good and didn’t need to break the bank. This golf trip inspired me to get back to focusing on my health, and thus I asked for his workout routine, general meal plans and a copy of the Simple, Healthy & F*%king Delicious cookbook so that I could start to get back to where I wanted to be physically and more importantly be able to maintain it.
Since I have incorporated Jason’s workouts, focused on my diet, and implemented some of his other advice related to food and fitness, I’ve seen a lot of progress. I think, ultimately, my biggest takeaway is that I feel better and have much more energy than I did before subscribing to Jason’s plan. Now, my next goal is to see if I can kick Jason’s ass at golf like I once used to… and while the new exercise and diet plan will help, I have a sneaky suspicion my only chance would be a move to Arizona.”
