Digital Course
Essential Financial Skills for Empire Builders
Survive and thrive in the financial fast lane! Learn the core financial concepts that maximize your potential for accelerated wealth creation. Based on professional-level education, you’ll discover the same tools that wealthy families and high-performing companies have been using for centuries to generate fortunes of all sizes.
Beta-testers wanted for 2025
Course Delivery
Course is delivered through CrushHouse’s online digital platform.
Lessons are live-streamed weekly with recordings made available after each session
Upcoming Session Dates
Wednesday evenings, 6-9pm PST
January 3 to March 20 (12 Sessions)
Thursday evenings, 6-9pm EST
January 4 to March 21 (12 Sessions)
Course Description
Taking the lead in your own financial success means relying on yourself to make great decisions and see them through. If you’re considering this course, you likely have plenty of ambition, a great work ethic, and some money set aside you’re willing to risk. However, you might feel lost knowing what to do next or how to make the most of each step along the way. That’s where this course comes in. It explores a complete wealth creation platform from start to finish, one layer at a time, connecting the lessons together as you go. By the end of the program, you’ll have built a powerful foundation that will come through for you over and over again.
Designed specifically for financial ‘outsiders’ looking to get up to speed quickly, this course extracts the key lessons from multiple topics and repackages them into four powerful units. The program is structured as if wealth creation is a game that you’re learning to play for the first time. In units 1 and 2, you’ll learn the general rules, who the other players are, and how to keep score. In units 3 and 4, you get into the tactics of the game like how to find the right opportunities, getting the most out of each one, and successfully build an exit strategy.
Supported with dozens of lessons from multiple financial topics, the Essential Financial Skills for Empire Builders program teaches an integrative system that will serve you the rest of your life. Simplify the world of money, see the big picture clearly, and transform your financial future with confidence.
Who is this for?
This course is ideal for anyone who wants direct control over their financial success. The skills and tools developed through this program offer a complete wealth creation system beneficial to all students, but is specifically useful for those pursuing the following paths:
- Entrepreneurs
- Franchisees
- Private Investors & Lenders
- Landlords and Property Flippers
- Land Developers
- Inventors and Innovators
- Content Creators
- Managers and Key Personnel
Curriculum
The course opens by ensuring you have a strong foundation to build from. This means a clear understanding of key personal finance and wealth accumulation concepts. These areas become important pillars that shape and support your empire building activities long-term. Once this base is established, the unit continues by teaching key frameworks behind making direct investments. These include the core concepts, tools, and mindset needed to get started. By the end of the unit, you’ll have a clear understanding of your personal financial journey, how it will evolve over time, and how wealth creation activities integrate with the rest of your finances.
Technical Areas: Personal Finance, Wealth Management, Capital Budgeting
Unit Highlights:
- Simplify the big picture of your financial journey and command its progress
- Learn to measure and track your growth short-term and long-term
- Discover your maximum lifetime wealth potential and how to increase it
- Explore the 3 modes of investor autonomy and the pros and cons of each
- Master the frameworks used to explore and integrate new investments
The second step is to become familiar with the financial world around you. Although no one can see this world perfectly, the better you understand its nature, the more advantages you will have. This unit kickstarts the process for you by simplifying the economic universe into a practical, straight-forward model. You’ll explore wealth distribution, economy mapping, and the drivers that cause money to flow. From there, you will learn to develop new sources of income by positioning effectively in a competitive environment. By the end of this unit, you’ll be better prepared to evaluate new opportunities in context of the world around them.
Technical Areas: Economics, Strategy, Financial Reporting
Unit Highlights:
- Visualize the overall economy and carve out your position within it
- Identify the two forms of money and how the natural form controls its flow
- Master the formula for unlimited income and each of its drivers
- Introduction to strategic thinking in the business context
- Unlock the power of financial statements without studying accounting
Building on the foundations learned in the first two units, its now time to look for financial opportunities that are right for you. This process is interesting because it requires that two opposing perspectives work together. On one hand, you’re brainstorming all the ways an opportunity can build exciting amounts of profit. But you also want to cross-examine it aggressively to reveal any biases or weaknesses often hidden by optimism. This unit provides you with a universal toolkit to evaluate and compare investment opportunities, then move forward with the one that suits your goals.
Technical Areas: Entrepreneurship, Business Plans, Financial Modeling
Unit Highlights:
- Be prepared to evaluate all kinds of investments and business ideas
- Use systems thinking to methodically design and implement plans with confidence
- Build financial models to determine profit potential before you risk your money
- Learn the components of effective business plans and identify weaknesses
- Explore the risks and rewards of financial leverage
The final phase of the process is maximizing returns and setting up your exits. At this point, you have made an investment and are learning how to improve its profits. To get the most out of each opportunity, you’ll discover multiple ways to test, monitor, and improve the financial performance of your investments plus manage risk along the way. You’ll also learn how to set yourself up for a strong asking price when you decide to sell. Whether you’re working alone or through a team, this unit will support your growth every step of the way.
Technical Areas: Financial Analysis & Performance, Valuation, Risk Management
Unit Highlights:
- Identify 7 degrees of risk facing empire builders
- Build 360° financial management skills to fine-tune ongoing performance
- Use trends and ratios to improve your rank against competitors
- Learn common valuation techniques and use them to maximize your exit price
- Plan multiple exit strategies to ensure a strong finish
FAQs
No, this program doesn’t have any pre-requisites. Its designed intentionally to be beginner friendly. The lessons are ordered so you always learn what you need before you move on to the next one. By the end of the program, you’ll have built a complete skill set from scratch, even if you have never studied wealth creation before.
The course is delivered via Kajabi and Zoom. You will need internet access and a computer fast enough to handle youtube videos or video calls to get the most out of the course.
You’ll also want access to a financial calculator or a financial calculator app on your smart phone. We use the BAII+ calculator from Texas Instruments throughout the course when a calculator is required. Instructions to use the calculator will be provided in your course materials.
We know how intimidating financial subjects can be when you don’t feel confident dealing with numbers. The good news is that you can build a solid foundation of financial skills using just the basic 4 functions of math. Also, we encourage the use of calculators throughout the course and show you how to use them, so you’ll always have computers doing the heavy lifting for you.
We allocate 12 weeks for the course, although it is designed to be completed in 10. This allows some flexibility to engage with students and provide additional examples to ensure that all questions are answered sufficiently.
We allow up to 50 students to register per cohort but often have groups with less.
You’ll be able to return to the materials in your learning portal for a minimum of 12 months. We may extend this period at our discretion but guarantee 1 year of access from the date the course begins.
No, there are no required assignments or final exam that need to be passed to complete the program. However, you’ll have the option to submit a business or investment proposal for review with feedback on every element of your work.
No, this course is not associated with any universities or accrediting bodies. We made this program to provide practical skills across a broad cross-section of topics spanning multiple financial disciplines. We believe this provides a stronger foundation than traditional financial education paths as we can teach you everything relevant to your financial success rather than focusing on just one area.
Learners who submit a business proposal at the end of the program will receive a certificate of completion.
Classes are live-streamed on the dates and times indicated in the course schedule. If you cannot attend a session, it will be recorded and made available through the learning platform for viewing after-the-fact.
If you cancel more than two weeks in advance of the course start date, we will provide a full refund less a $100 administration fee.
If you cancel by the end of the 2nd week of the program, we will provide a refund for the amount paid for the course, less a $300 administration fee.
Once you have registered for the course and made payment, a welcome package will be emailed to you at the address you provided us. This includes access to the learning platform where you will find a course outline, an introduction to your instructor, and any bonus items that were part of your offer. You will also receive contact information if you have any questions or concerns after registering. If you did not receive an email, please contact us at service@crushhousecapital.com with your questions. We ask that you allow 24 hours for a response before resending a request.
There is no official waiting list for courses that have reached their maximum learner capacity. However, if spaces become available due to cancellations, we will make them available to our Insider’s Club via email. You can join our Insiders Club by following the link below.
You can email your question to inquiry@crushhousecapital.com but before you do, consider clicking on the “Learn About Beta-Testing Opportunity” link below and watch the video posted there. We answer many more questions about this program throughout that 20 minute presentation.