Curriculum

The whole course,
laid out plainly.

Eight weeks. Three live hours a week. Money on Mondays, philosophy on Wednesdays, the real world on Fridays — and by week eight, real accounts open and running.

01The shape of it

Twenty-four sessions.
One Showcase.

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It opens with Session Zero — a live orientation for students and parents together, the only session parents attend. It closes with the Showcase, where students present what they built. In between: eight weeks, three live hours each.

02The three days

We meet three times a week:
money, philosophy, practice.

Mondays

Money

How it works, in real accounts. Compounding, paychecks and taxes, the fee-proof bank stack, credit and its traps, how ads get you to spend, index funds and Roth IRAs. By week eight: a money system, built by hand, running on its own.

Real accounts · real numbers
Wednesdays

Philosophy

What it's all for. Attention in the age of the algorithm. Why keeping every option open is its own trap. Commitment, patience, and choosing a life on purpose — built on the book Four Thousand Weeks.

The judgment to use the money
Fridays

In Practice

Where the week meets the real world. The ideas everyone inherits about money get examined line by line — the 401(k) that replaced the pension, the fees that eat a third of a lifetime. Then the part no one teaches: how to play it well anyway.

See it clearly · play it well
03Week by week

Every session,
on the record.

The Friday lines below name each week's headline. The full Friday discipline never changes: two inherited ideas examined, one piece of hidden machinery named, one scam taken apart, and one question answered in writing. Every week, all four.

Session 0The orientationLive, before Week 1. Parents join for the first ten minutes, then the room belongs to the students until the Showcase.
Week 01The head start
  • Money: how compounding actually works — time is the asset
  • Philosophy: four thousand weeks
  • Friday: the 401(k) accident, examined
Week 02The paycheck
  • Money: paychecks, taxes, and asking for more
  • Philosophy: choosing means losing
  • Friday: the productivity-pay gap, examined
Week 03The foundation
  • Money: the fee-proof account stack and the first buffer
  • Philosophy: the efficiency trap
  • Friday: who profits when you're broke, examined
Week 04The traps
  • Money: credit, and the traps built into it
  • Philosophy: attention is your life
  • Friday: the credit machine, examined
Week 05The machine
  • Money: spending, and how companies engineer wanting
  • Philosophy: time is a network good
  • Friday: owning nothing, examined
Week 06The engine
  • Money: index funds and the Roth IRA
  • Philosophy: when do you actually live?
  • Friday: the cost of fees, examined
Week 07The noise
  • Money: risk, noise, and rules written in calm
  • Philosophy: rest, and staying on the bus
  • Friday: the casino in your pocket, examined
Week 08The finish line
  • Money: the whole system, assembled and automated
  • Philosophy: "enough for what?", answered in writing
  • Friday: the golden handcuffs, examined — then the Showcase rehearsal

Every week ends with a checklist done at home, in the student's own real accounts. Bound together, the eight checklists become the workbook they leave with.

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Eight money moves
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A two-page playbook of the moves that make the head start real — free, with one honest note a month behind it. No hustle, no spam.