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Finance For Freedom

Interested in understanding the true meaning of Financial Freedom?. 

Created byJoe Withrow
IntermediateUpdated Apr 12, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand the history and function of money.
  • check_circleTrack income, expenses, assets, and liabilities.
  • check_circleEliminate consumer debt and build a cash reserve.
  • check_circleLearn strategic asset allocation for financial resilience.
  • check_circleIdentify and invest in alternative assets like precious metals and Bitcoin.
  • check_circleDevelop income streams that support financial independence.

About This Course

Master Your Finances in 30 Days with Finance for Freedom, a comprehensive guide to understanding money, building wealth, and gaining true financial independence. This course demystifies the monetary system, challenges conventional financial advice, and provides actionable strategies to help you take control of your financial future.

You’ll explore the history and properties of money, learn how fiat currency impacts your purchasing power, and develop practical tools like income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow tracking. From managing expenses and debt to building emergency funds, investing strategically, and designing antifragile asset portfolios—including gold, real estate, stocks, and Bitcoin—this course empowers you with the mindset and methods to thrive in an ever-changing economic landscape.

Designed for those who want more than just budgeting tips, Finance for Freedom gives you a step-by-step path to financial literacy, resilience, and long-term prosperity.

Course Content

1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 2h 4m

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General-Part11 videos • 2.1 hours
  • videocamFinance for Freedom
    Duration 124:37

Your Instructor

Joe Withrow

Author/Editor/Publisher/Entrepreneur

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Joe Withrow is just an average, hardworking American who did everything by the ‘American Dream’ handbook. He took advanced classes in a public high school and graduated with good grades. He then went on to earn a finance degree from a public university. Upon graduation, Joe moved to a metropolitan city and played the corporate game, working for two different mega banks and earning several minor promotions/pay raises/bonuses for his efforts. Joe bought a starter home, met his wife, and settled down to live the American Dream – just as he had been “educated” to do. He contributed the match rate to his 401(k) and he maxed out his contributions to a traditional IRA – just as he had been “educated” to do. Joe was doing everything the “right” way and a storybook life appeared to be unfolding before him. But then something strange happened. Joe started to see that the rat-race had no light at the end of the tunnel and no rewards worth reaping. He began to realize that the ‘American Dream’ was at best a myth and at worst a means of control. He began to see how the monetary system itself worked against him. He began to realize that his annual wage increases could not possibly keep up with inflation over the long term and therefore he was stuck on a perpetual tread-mill despite doing everything the right way. He began to realize that the stock market could not possibly go up exponentially forever no matter how many talking heads swore up and down that it would. So Joe started to do a lot of independent research and he started to do a lot of introspective examination. He quickly came to the realization that he had to build a more self-reliant lifestyle if he wanted to have a chance to create a Mindful life for himself and his family. So Joe made the decision to seek financial freedom. Over a period of time, Joe was able to eliminate debt and needless spending and redirect his income to a carefully constructed asset allocation model. This enabled him to end his career in corporate America and spend his time pursuing entrepreneurial projects of interest.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
81 reviews
  • NW
    Naween W.
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    Pretty much covered the current economic situation and its implications on escaping the rat race.

  • CB
    Cory B.
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    I'm very interested in financial freedom and I think every accountant should spend more time thinking about their personal situation; sometimes accountants might neglect their own retirement plans. Great course and insight!

  • MP
    Michael P.
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    Fantastic course. A lot of material is covered yet it is kept within easy to understand blocks. The 20th century saw many changes with respect to personal financial wealth which does not necessarily mean the playbook will remain the same this new century.

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    Paul C.
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    At first when you mentioned you were going to cover the history of money I wondered why but I found it very interesting.

Frequently Asked Questions

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