About This Site

Most people do not lack information; they lack clear frameworks for understanding reality. After decades in finance, building businesses, experiencing failures, rebuilding, and facing mortality multiple times, I've learned that most explanations of how the world works are either incomplete or overly simplified. This site exists to carefully and quietly correct that.

If the level of insight and information had existed when I was growing up, I would still have made mistakes, as that's normal and part of growing. But I definitely would have made better-informed decisions.

Why This Site Exists

For over forty years, I worked in financial services, advising high-net-worth individuals, business owners, and families. My work was at the intersection of money, law, risk, incentives, and human behaviour.

What became clear to me early on is this:

People do not usually fail because they are unintelligent. They fail because they misunderstand how systems behave under pressure. The same patterns recur across finance, health, relationships, business, and personal decision-making. Sadly, most people do not recognise these patterns until it's too late. This site aims to make those patterns visible.

• Experience, Not Theory.

• Everything written is influenced by direct experience, not abstract theory.

My experience includes:

• Advising individuals and businesses through success, failure, and transition.

• Building and selling a successful financial business.

• Learning digital marketing and website development later in life.

• Losing a business due to external systemic shocks.

• Recovering from serious illness and long-term physical injury.

• Navigating addiction and rebuilding my life.

• Raising a blended family and learning responsibility the hard way.

• Training for decades in disciplines that require patience and endurance.

• Being present when risks became immediate and unavoidable.

All of this information is shared not for sympathy or admiration, but because experience alters your perception of cause and effect.

What This Site Is (and Isn't)

This site is:

• A platform for clear thinking about money, power, risk, health, and life.

• An attempt to connect ideas across disciplines instead of isolating them.

• A long-term body of work, not just a content feed.

This site is not:

• Financial advice.

• A motivational platform.

• A political project.

• A promise of easy answers.

This text should not be considered as instruction; rather, it is intended to serve as material for reflection.

How to Use This Site

Most posts are deliberately short and focused, designed to:

• Clearly explain one idea.

• Show how that idea connects to others.

• Encourage the reader to think further rather than agree.

Over time, patterns will emerge. Reading this site is akin to building a personal reference map you can revisit when something in the world doesn't quite make sense.

On Money and Integrity

All public content is free. If readers find value here, they can:

• Make a voluntary contribution.

• Purchase eBooks that expand on specific themes.

• Use affiliate links to tools and services I use.

There is no hidden urgency or obligation. If you find something helpful, support it; if not, take what helped and move on.

A Final Note

Understanding how things actually work does not necessarily make life easier. However, it does provide clarity. And clarity, especially in uncertain times, is often the most valuable asset a person can have.

Written from experience, not ideology!

Who's My Mate Jeff

Have you ever stood in a crowd and thought, "I'm not like everyone else; I feel there is more"? If so, you are in the right place, with everything to gain and nothing to lose.

We are not here to sell you anything directly, but we will provide links to products, services, and people who may benefit you as they did us on our journey.

Why Listen

Survivor of:

• Bullying.

• Abuse.

• Drug Addicted Child.

• Alcoholic close family member.

• Jealousy.

• Personal addiction.

• Death of a friend.

• The black sheep of the family.

• Struggled with relationships.

• Been shot at.

• Nervous breakdown.

• The legal and financial system.

• Lost a couple of million.

• Cheated by best friend and business partner.

• An incurable disease.

• Seriously injured a limb.

• Married twice, second time lucky!

Accomplishments:

• Survived the above!

• 40 years of experience in the financial and legal system.

• Made 4 x average wage at 22 years old.

• Millionaire at 29 years old.

• Martial arts practitioner.

• Regained Financial Independence

• Two of my children follow in my footsteps.

• Two of my children follow their passions.

• Raised a mixed family of four successful young people.

• Overcame a Disability.

• Cured an incurable disease.

• Enjoyed the life-work balance, more life than work!

• A fabulous relationship with family and a few close friends.

• I live in my happy place.

• Realised what's important.

Why do I do This?

The reason is "I'm not dead yet", and I don't like what I see in today's world. And it gives me something to do that I enjoy, writing and sharing knowledge.

I've helped my children and stepchildren open their eyes to how the world really works, and it's not what they learned in school or from the media. If I can help one more person navigate the MATRIX, that's a result.

As you can see, I'm mature and prefer to remain anonymous, so call me Jeff. For some reason, I always liked the name and its meaning, "God's Peace"

Why anonymous? I enjoy my privacy. As your eyes open, you will value your privacy too, in a world where so much is online.

My conclusion about life is that while money is necessary, health and relationships are truly crucial. But time is your most valuable asset; you can't replace it, and you don't know how much of it you have left, so spend it wisely.

Money won't solve your problems; it only amplifies what you already are. So, if money is your goal, become the person with whom money feels safe!