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      "body": "**The Hedge Investor:  Journey to Finding Freedom**\n\nhttps://steemitimages.com/DQmee6SovMwDrNUd5gbFwemm9ZCJELnSagvk69uSEniEdiV/28685915_10156288920543278_3551236688711778304_o.jpg\nI'm 21 years old, attending college and University, working 2 part time jobs and $30,000 in debt. Most of my hard earned money was spent on student loans, car loans, insurance, gas and maintenance, and the little time I had left is for studying. I basically had little to no social life and dating was out of the question because I was always broke paying off debt.I wasn't passionate about what I was studying in school and thinking about my future career didn't get me excited at all.\n \n\n**If You Seek You Will Find**\n\nFor a while now my dad had been inviting me to attend some 'Business opportunity meeting' I had said no to for years. 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If I was going to live my full potential. I would do it pursuing something I was passionate about.\n\nA few weeks later I quit my jobs, was not in university and going hardcore at a business I had no experience with and bills accumulating fast. None of my friends or family wanted to join me on this business endeavour that was going to set us all up for life.  Lets just say I learnt very quickly what not to do when starting out as an entrepreneur. Following the wisdom of the great late Jim Rohn I looked for a regular day job and worked full-time on my job to pay my bills and part time on my fortune. Something had happened to me that evening I attended that Business opportunity meeting. My mind had expanded and learnt about financial and time freedom. More than making money the possibility of FREEDOM had become everything to me, and even though it turned out being an entrepreneur was far much more challenging  than university courses and I was going to do everything I could to get it!\n\n**5 Years Later**\nI spent the next 5 years learning new skills and changing my philosophies on money and associations. I networked,  met successful people, got mentors who helped me develop the necessary skills to make full time income in my business. Although there are many times I wanted to quit and just fall back on my job I knew I was working for something much much bigger, my freedom. One of the hardest things I had to do was hold on to my job while making a full time income in my business. However it was discipline I had to follow through till I paid off my bad debt.\n\n\nThe biggest change that happened for me was to practice what I really believed in. I was still holding onto a Camaro which I bought using a loan, the maintenance was ridiculous, insurance on it was high, it was only a summer sports car,  which means I needed a second car for the winter and it consumed gas faster than Cookie Monster could consume a box of cookies. I had learnt new philosophies on investing yet I never put them into action. It was during this time that my parents where looking to sell their home and downsize which meant I had to think of a place to live. 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My second year living in this house new business opportunities came my way and I made more money that year than the cost of my house, which I bought for $235,000.00. After a few years of living expense free, I sold the house for $40,000 in profits and went on to buy more real estate and diversify my assets. \n\n\n ![28660541_10156294733613278_4595095620619862016_o.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbGiFXRSsmdev54TucFPW1rtxATkDE6TYGGVmH2hwiJbN/28660541_10156294733613278_4595095620619862016_o.jpg)\n **BOUGHT Appreciating Asset**\n\nFor the next few years my business grew to different countries around the world and I met some incredibly smart and entreprenueral people. 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I am excited to share more on this topic in my future blogs.\n\n![28575818_10156288888748278_6863549268779597824_o.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWATmKBWBtccyCs3HyLLe9TwdYRqdw2GpjVe4rzFRbZRd/28575818_10156288888748278_6863549268779597824_o.jpg)\n(Purchasing Silver has brought me a much higher level of joy compared to the purchase of buying a sports car, there's  something magical about buying precious metals)\n\nIN 2017 another major shift happened for me. I found Crypto Currencies and learnt the power of BlockChain Technology. This is when I knew I had a lot more growing to do financially and so the birth of my brand started \"The Hedge Investor\".  Every entrepreneur knows that the best way to secure your assets to to hedge your investments especially in this fast changed economy. My investments are diversified amongst precious metals, real estate and crypto currency. Being a Hedge Investor keeps me learning. 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Why yes it is to those who are not familiar with the sport and often have graphic images of people plummeting to their death. Can people die? YES! However, its a safe sport when practiced with safety. It is said that you are likely to die driving to the jump zone than in the actual dive. \nI use SkyDiving as an analogy to help me understand business and investing. In sky diving you are given a main parachute and a reserve, just incase your main one doesn't open up. Having only one source of income to me is  like jumping with one parachute. Having 2 or 3 leaves you worry free with a backup plan incase the first one can no longer support you. You never hope to LIVE on your second source of income and have to cut away your main source of income (parachute).\n Your main source of income which is usually a job or a business, is your bread and butter. Your secondary income business  supports your growing assets so you can expand that into  grow into 3 or 4 or more sources of income. 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I assured myself there is no harm in waiting, in the meantime I focused my excitement on the upcoming Cryptopulco event.\n![28467916_10156282131018278_4469136848442097664_n.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaxDtA5CaUYF6ZaA7i4N4TCyNjDoMoEonr7sKBFPEwUfv/28467916_10156282131018278_4469136848442097664_n.jpg)\n(Excited and then.....)\n\nCryptopulco In Acapulco: \n\nGoing to Cryptopulco was one of the best decisions I made this year. Not only did I learn about Steemit’s Ecosystem, I met some amazing people from all over the globe, expanded my views on money and FREEDOM, and most importantly, I was impressed with how much people at this event wanted to see Humanity prosper much more and much faster. I will post more about my experience from this event in my coming blogs and vlogs.  \nI had the great opportunity of hearing from stage speakers perspective on how to use steemit and how its changed people’s lives, there’s a few stories I tock from this event and look forward to sharing it here as well.\nSo here I am, Excited and ready to Steemit in Acapulco, however I decided to wait till I got back home to get on the actual platform and study my purpose before just posting random thoughts and ideas. I can see a bright future with Steemit and this is why after a week of looking into Steemit in depth, today I’m Pumped to make this my  first Introductory Post. What’s really driving me is hearing the stories of how others have used this platform to help others in their community, this really resonates with who I am and why I do what I do. \nThanks to meeting new people and some leaders from the Steemit community. I found out there is an easier way to get started whiteout waiting in line. Of course I jumped on this right away.\n![28378159_10156282137183278_747172271956688896_o.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSvZNpCgykRAYvVkURN5ACskRApcXtCYpzUxcr5Swy24m/28378159_10156282137183278_747172271956688896_o.jpg)\n(Kirill & I attending The Big Event with Photo Bombers in the background) \n\nMy Journey the past year \n\nA year ago I had lunch with a friend and business colleague who shared crypto currency and the blockchain technology to me in depth for the first time. I remember leaving that lunch with a lot of information I didn’t quite understand right away, at the same time very excited about the possibilities Cryptocurrency and block Chain from the little I understood. I have spent the last year digging into videos, pod casts, books, whatever I can get my hands on, to get myself educated on the early adoption of the new Industry of  Crypto Currency Assets & Block Chain Technology. The past year has brought my closest friends and I an increase in wealth and more importantly, an understanding of the times we are living in, its a fact that we are in the era of the greatest transfer of wealth in human history.  \n![28576746_10156281999458278_8161291637473935360_o.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZjpChbTNuC2iWXrBhCrquACZUGWxUjMcFBPSwgdvMooU/28576746_10156281999458278_8161291637473935360_o.jpg)\n(Flew out to Vancouver to mastermind with Dennis  & Jesse, in this photo I've recently just made my first few purchases of Crypto Currency's) \n\nCheers \n\nSo this is it, the start to new beginnings, I look forward to meeting more Steemarians and thank you to all who are welcoming me to this community. Here’s a little fun fact about me: I love living on the edge,  that’s why I love to sky dive & I can’t keep a job, thats why I have been an Entrepreneur for most of my life. I am married and share my life with my best friend who I call my Zambian Queen. We are expecting our first child anytime in March and I can’t wait to introduce you to them, more to come and thank you again for reading my post. looking forward to growing with this community.!\n![28279258_10156282130953278_4905358826812735488_n.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdvVFGzLWeJ6RcxJ1HoAFzQ8ewds8778gpe4bFDSGfV5s/28279258_10156282130953278_4905358826812735488_n.jpg)\n(Cheers Steemarians)\n\n![28279936_10156282134673278_3595343060789100544_o.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaRvFQtyTT5Y6mEFxGkcyDhaV31S12d9MypKFSnjGt4EQ/28279936_10156282134673278_3595343060789100544_o.jpg)\n(Thank you again for reading my post & I look forward to growing with this community)",
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I will post more about my experience from this event in my coming blogs and vlogs.  \nI had the great opportunity of hearing from stage speakers perspective on how to use steemit and how its changed people’s lives, there’s a few stories I tock from this event and look forward to sharing it here as well.\nSo here I am, Excited and ready to Steemit in Acapulco, however I decided to wait till I got back home to get on the actual platform and study my purpose before just posting random thoughts and ideas. I can see a bright future with Steemit and this is why after a week of looking into Steemit in depth, today I’m Pumped to make this my  first Introductory Post. What’s really driving me is hearing the stories of how others have used this platform to help others in their community, this really resonates with who I am and why I do what I do. \nThanks to meeting new people and some leaders from the Steemit community. I found out there is an easier way to get started whiteout waiting in line. Of course I jumped on this right away.\n![28378159_10156282137183278_747172271956688896_o.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSvZNpCgykRAYvVkURN5ACskRApcXtCYpzUxcr5Swy24m/28378159_10156282137183278_747172271956688896_o.jpg)\n(Kirill & I attending The Big Event with Photo Bombers in the background) \n\nMy Journey the past year \n\nA year ago I had lunch with a friend and business colleague who shared crypto currency and the blockchain technology to me in depth for the first time. I remember leaving that lunch with a lot of information I didn’t quite understand right away, at the same time very excited about the possibilities Cryptocurrency and block Chain from the little I understood. I have spent the last year digging into videos, pod casts, books, whatever I can get my hands on, to get myself educated on the early adoption of the new Industry of  Crypto Currency Assets & Block Chain Technology. 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