At age 12, I immigrated to the US from Taiwan.  My parents sacrificed a great life to move their family to the US so their kids could have a better life and pursue the American dream.

As a kid, I took the traditional immigrant path of studying hard, get good grades, go to a good school, and find a good paying job; that’s all I knew. I earned a bachelors & masters in chemical engineering from Cornell. I then worked for NPX Semiconductors as a process engineer, then as a technical sales engineer. I moved to Samsung as a tech sales engineering manager.

Somewhere in my initial career path, deep down I knew that I was highly “unemployable”!  I could NOT see working 9-5 for 40 years in a JOB. I ventured, part-time, into real estate  investing in early 2000. I learned two key lessons:  1) the importance of having a great mentor (that guy did well in r/e investing because he had a great mentor who’s also very successful in r/e) and  (2) although I did well in r/e, I now had 2 jobs - not what I wanted! 

I transitioned to a financial services business, part time; I walked from Samsung in 2009 to build my financial services business full time. I had to work on both building a business and building my entrepreneurial mindset & skillset (which I never learned in school, nor in corporate America).

I was mentored in the company by a woman who was earning a multi seven-figure income. She told me that I had four strikes against me in the business world – (1) trained as an engineer (2) went to a top tier university (3) had a advanced graduate degree in engineering and (4) was a highly paid employee.

I was stunned to hear that the traits that served me well as an employee, were, for the most part, obstacles to succeeding as a business owner. I had to work my tail off for about a decade to unlearn the mindset of an employee, and to learn the mindset & skills of an entrepreneur.

Even though I was a fully licensed investment advisor and branch manager in the financial industry, it’s ironic, and sadly comical that I knew NOTHING about the stock market.

That all changed when I met Chris Hanson at a cashflow game; I took Chris’s Profits on Wall Street stock market class in 2011. I didn’t know at the time but my life was forever changed from that point. The market was love at first sight;  I knew the stock market was IT for me.

I worked my ass off learning the stock market from Hanson and Chris Lam (who co-teaches w/ Hanson).  Hanson taught me the foundational concepts contained in the stock class, while Lam coached me on art of charting analysis.

I achieved time freedom in 2017.

I firmly believe that anyone, if they (1) commit to working hard; (2) are coachable; and (3) have a long term, no-quit attitude, they too can achieve time freedom via the stock market.

The reason is that it's simply a skillset that can be learned. It was a skillset that was taught to the person who taught me, and he's able to teach/explain it to others, which means it can be learned.   

It’s simple, but not easy. If  you are willing to commit, it’s a journey that you don’t want to miss!

God Bless and I hope you will embark on the journey to time freedom, and go after your wildest dreams!