The Field Guide to Wealth: Building, Holding & Leading Wealth Without Losing Yourself

There are plenty of books about getting rich. What isn't discussed is what to do with the money and your life once you're financially successful.

Decisions take longer, relationships grow more complicated, and the clarity that drove the success has gone oddly quiet, with nobody around you seeming to have a name for what's happening.

The Field Guide to Wealth: Building, Holding & Leading Wealth Without Losing Yourself is written for people who are building, holding, or stepping into significant wealth and want to understand what's actually going on beneath the surface — not just the financial mechanics, but the identity shifts, the relationship dynamics, the decision-making infrastructure, and the moments where velocity stalls for reasons that don't show up on any balance sheet.

At the center of the book is the Wealth Leadership Model™, built around the four elements every wealth holder works with: identity, relationships, financial fluency, and the advisor team. Each one affects the others, and when they're working in concert wealth moves with a kind of ease that's hard to manufacture — and when one is off, the whole system slows in ways that are equally hard to diagnose without a map.

That map is what this book provides. It walks through the 12 Decelerators that quietly drain wealth velocity and the 12 Accelerators that restore it, introduces the Identity Ceiling — the point where wealth outpaces the internal foundation holding it — and traces the Headwaters Effect, which explains why everything in a wealth system flows from how well you know yourself in relation to your money.

Practical ground gets covered along the way as well: asset classes, family office allocation principles, how to evaluate and lead your advisor team, and how to build the decision-making infrastructure that holds up under real pressure.

You can only do one of three things with money: chase it, follow it, or lead it. This is the field guide for the rare person who wants to lead it.