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Let me start by saying this….

…..you can make a ton of money with coaching and consulting. I’m not here to tell you it doesn’t work.

Because it does. But it shouldn’t be your main source of income, and here’s why.

One of the biggest things I hammer home in The Money Blueprint is the importance of finding a way to separate your time from your money.

If your income is tied to the hours you work, you’ll never build real wealth. You’ll always be stuck in the cycle of chasing the next client, the next invoice, or the next call.

With coaching and consulting, no matter how much you charge, you’re still trading your time for money.

And that’s a losing game in the long run.

As you very well know, there are only so many hours in a day. And once you max out your availability, you hit an income ceiling.

Sure, you can raise your rates. But even at $500, $1,000, or $5,000 an hour, you’re still locked into working for that money.

If you stop, the money stops.

That’s not wealth. That’s just a high-paying job.

This is why I always push for what I call an online wealth ecosystem, which is a system that makes you money 24/7, even when you’re sleeping, on vacation, or focusing on other things.

Your wealth ecosystem should include digital products, courses, memberships, automated affiliate marketing, and scalable offers.

In other words, things that don’t require your direct time to generate income.

Just think about it, instead of coaching one-on-one, you can create a self-paced course that teaches everything you’d cover on a coaching call.

That means you would no longer be trading your time for me.

When you build an online wealth ecosystem, your coaching or consulting can be an add-on, and not your entire business.

You can coach selectively, when and if you want to, instead of because you have to in order to pay the bills.

Too many entrepreneurs build themselves a golden cage. Their business makes money, but they can’t step away without everything crumbling.

The goal isn’t to work forever. The goal is to build a machine that prints money even when you’re not touching it.