Tiago Forte: Personal Net Worth Is Zero Due to Mortgage Debt
Tiago Forte · Brainstorming $1M Business Ideas with Tiago Forte · Jan 31, 2024 · at 4:35
Tiago Forte, productivity author and founder of Forte Labs, discusses conducting a comprehensive personal net worth audit with a fee-only financial planner.
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“If you don't include the business, like just include everything else, but the business, our net worth today, my wife and I in our late thirties is a big fat nothing. It's like our debts, which is we have no personal debt or credit card debt. It's just like our house. But we live in, you know, Southern California cancels out every other asset that we have, which essentially means that, that we're, you know, that are the businesses, everything.”
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