11 - Digital entrepreneurs Matt and Liz Raad

On board today we have two VIPs in the first class cabin. These entrepreneurs were able to light the afterburners on their own wealth engines through a number of successful business ventures. Coming from humble farming backgrounds, this couple actually met whilst studying at university and managed to spark each other’s fire for financial Independence.

Dropping out of university in pursuit of Financial Independence, they learnt the harsh realities of the business world when they unwittingly invested their entire life savings into a failing manufacturing business! Neither of them being one to admit defeat, through hard work, sheer will power and at times a 90% savings rate they were able to reinvest almost every dollar they made to turn the struggling business around into a profitable venture.

From this trial by FIRE, they educated themselves in due diligence and to prove it to themselves they even began buying and selling small businesses, scaling up as they went. Eventually, they found themselves in the corporate space of Mergers and Acquisitions for High Net Worth investors and business owners.

One day they discovered the power and leverage of online business and how they could use them to escape the corporate world – and began building and buying their very own websites. Fast forward 12 years later to today, they have built an incredible portfolio of online businesses and investments which is now generating a 7 figure passive income!

Being true entrepreneurs, they are absolutely hooked on the game and admit despite being Financially Independent that they will never ‘Retire Early’, and so continue to reinvest almost all of their earnings into a diversified portfolio of business, shares, gold and real estate.

They now live in South East Queensland where they are raising a family, giving back to the community as prominent Angel Investors, and are passionate about educating people on the power of investing and online businesses. When they aren’t buying or selling websites or analysing potential investments, they run training courses teaching people how to do exactly what they did – using online business to transition out of a conventional job and reach financial independence

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