Fair warning: I almost never check this platform. Contact requests are best submitted through www.griggscapitalstrategies.com/contact.***I specialize in showing individuals how to solve for optimal capital accumulation and deployment over their lifetimes. We do this with Nelson Nash's Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) and dividend-paying whole life insurance. The idea of "optimal capital accumulation and deployment" is foreign to the conventional financial advisory community. And of course it is. It is the opposite of (your) Assets Under (their) Management. If you have contractually guaranteed access to and control over your capital to use if and when you want, for whatever you want, to repay if and when you want, then they don't. And folks wonder why they've never heard of this "IBC" business...As Nelson Nash put it, *you should own and control the banking function in your life. If you spend less than you make, you're banking. Period. You're either doing it through an infrastructure that you own and control, which, in turn, profits you, or you're helping third-party organizations (that happen to perpetuate the business cycle) do it. The choice is yours. If that's appealing to you, you should first go to the source: Nelson Nash's book Becoming Your Own Banker. Get the hard copy. The digital versions don't show the illustrations well. And I do mean "first." The encouragement is to build an intellectual foundation in stone, not the sand of YouTube, Facebook, and heaven forbid, TikTok. It's not that there isn't anything worth consuming on those platforms, but there is plenty of noise. Nelson's book is your special pair of decoder glasses. Armed with its lessons, you'll easily discern marketeering from genuine education online. One of those educational online programs that you might enjoy after reading BYOB is my 7-part whole life insurance design lecture series. To my mind, it is the only course of its kind anywhere on the internet, and it's free: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnwdLpKqLf8PXsGkBpmQ5fORb0g7mDyUAnd of course, there's the best IBC education podcast on the internet that I co-host with James Neathery called Banking with Life available everywhere you listen to podcasts, plus YouTube.If, after all that, you think Becoming Your Own Banker might be a good idea for you and yours, consider getting in touch at griggscapitalstrategies.com/contact. I'd be glad to talk with you. "Banks lend money that does not exist, and that is evil." - R. Nelson Nash (1931 - 2019). *Updated 11/2022*