E106 - He Built Jet Engines for GE... Now He Teaches Families How to Build Financial Freedom | David Zapata

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In this episode, Hans sits down with David Zapata of Factum Financial, one of their leading agents, for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from David's personal story to the philosophy behind infinite banking and the kind of practice he and Kyle Fuller are building.

They walk through David's path from a Colombian upbringing marked by the early loss of his mother, to a decade as a jet engine engineer at GE, to the coffee shop meeting and the single book that pulled him out of the corporate track. From there they get into why nobody has an incentive to teach you control, why life insurance is a product of privilege, and the four-stage progression from saver to full infinite banking practitioner that shapes how Factum serves its clients.

Chapters:

00:00 – Opening segment

03:30 – Growing up in Colombia and losing his mother at 15

07:35 – Protection as a real transfer of risk you can't control

09:40 – Insuring the non-breadwinner spouse

12:20 – The peace of mind of having already transferred the risk

13:05 – Ten years at GE and the pull toward more purpose

13:40 – Watching layoffs and retirement fear reshape his thinking

18:25 – Financial literacy in Colombia vs. the US

28:10 – Stop being a passenger: becoming your family's CFO

33:05 – Money as the foundation for every other relationship

41:40 – Concentrating capital across four policies

43:00 – Getting licensed and joining Factum

45:05 – "The Waiting List": why delaying kids backfires

47:30 – None of us know how many days we have

49:30 – Inside Factum: 2,300 clients and 99% persistency

54:00 – Why Factum won't do transactional business

59:15 – The Factum model and building leverage as an agent

01:05:20 – Read the book again: you've changed, it hasn't

01:07:25 – Where to find David and Factum

Key Takeaways:

The absence of protection is a risk you can't control. David lost his mother to cancer at 15, and it shaped a lifelong conviction: in the absence of protection, a family falls prey to whatever is left.

Life insurance the way it's used here is a product of privilege. As one of David's CLU professors put it, whole life requires the money, the background, and the health to access it, which is why the top 20% of society uses it meaningfully.

You can earn six figures and still save nothing. David and his wife both earned six figures and couldn't put away $400 a month, and it made him doubt whether he could even afford to have kids.

Don't run a transactional practice, build relationships. Factum services roughly 2,300 active clients with 99%-plus persistency and about a billion dollars of protection across all 50 states.