Matt Maurizio, founder of Reconstructing Wealth
and former baseball player with the Royals, professional
baseball player, minor league level at least,
probably could have crushed a few home runs in
the big leagues as well. Man, tell me about your
vision. Well, my vision is, it's sort of evolved.
I always thought I was going to be the baseball
player. But what's really cool is that my life
has grown bigger than... bigger than that and
beyond that and i'm really grateful for that
i have seven children now i've been married 15
years almost yeah so dude i love that so happy
for you guys thank you man it's it's a full my
cup is full uh but it continues to fill up so
i'm like i thought it was full but it gets fuller
so um my vision now is it well it's in the name
of the the firm that i that i started reconstructing
wealth it's really about figuring out how to
reconstruct people's relationships with money.
Because as a financial advisor for nearly a decade
and now running my own firm and having thousands
of conversations with people about money, I've
learned that we all, on varying degrees of the
spectrum, we all have some jacked up version
of relationship with money that we've typically
inherited from our parents and them from their
parents. And if you go back one more generation,
it's Great Depression era. relationship finance
relationships so that gets handed down and i
recognize firsthand as i've as i've been immersed
in the language of finance the last decade and
really understood the rules of the game if you
want to speak like a sports sports person like
i do the the rules of the game of money once
you understand them the fear and anxiety around
it starts to sort of dissipate because you got
a little more clarity that the fear around finances
i've learned is It's really about fear of the
unknown. So as you start to know more, your relationship
starts to change with it. You see it more as
chess pieces on a chessboard than you do this
emotional burden that you carry. And my vision,
if I can reconstruct people's relationship with
money, see it for what it is, help them emotionally
detach from it. To me, that's true financial
freedom. If you can emotionally detach from your
finances as much as humanly possible, then I
know. because I'm that one in my family, I have
an opportunity to change the trajectory of my
family. And those people have an opportunity
to change their family trees forever. Quite literally,
like the rest of your family lineage will no
longer see money the same way because you were
the one that decided to break that generational
chain. So that's my vision. Huge. And that is
a phenomenal piece of advice. wisdom that anybody
can pick up. I know we didn't give him the form
of advice, but I'm hoping that we all can take
it that way because we are affected by this more
than we think. I can talk about water openly
as a resource without being awkward about it
and ask your family, how much water do you have
and how much water do you need? I can do that
about food. But the moment we start diving into
that with friends and family about money. You
know, the moment everybody gets awkward. And
so if that's you, if that if there's awkwardness
around the topic of a resource that has sometimes
been demonized, you know, or pointed it as some
type of like awkward subject, taboo subject.
No, no, no. That's just huge for our families.
I love how you talk about the generational impact
on that. I also want to highlight, you also talked
about a wealth transition from your sport into
a new mindset. I was one. uh lebron does the
great job of balancing his business and his sports
life um i would say tiger woods did that really
well too um and then there's there's two athletes
who are well known um and they didn't do as well
as lebron or tiger who could you know we're talking
about goats here um but carmelo anthony and tasem
hill um i loved reading about their stories because
carmelo knew that it was never just about basketball
All right. That was that was part of his legacy,
but a small part of what he wants his legacy
to be. He's he's a venture capitalist and has
been for years. And Taysom Hill during his during
his injury and rehab years, he would go work
at Goldman Sachs and Goldman Sachs and Charles
Schwab, I believe, and maximize that. So all
of us. Looking at, you know, where are our role
models? Where are the people who are getting
after it in the different spectrums of life and
opening and expanding? Matt, you're a great example
of having looked at what opportunities exist
beyond what I might be laser focused on. Gary
Keller, your book, The One Thing, you know, not
a bad book at all. Yet, I do wish more people
would make room to see that. What does the vision
look like to my left and to my right? you know
not just straight ahead and and can i do that
without losing my sense of self um so without
further ado matt can we bring you back yeah i
would love it i would be honored it's already
i'm like juiced up for this conversation so yeah
i would love to come back man let's get you back
on here so that we can dive in dive in even deeper
on what you're up to and and you know really
let's go to ray dalio as well his book principles
I'm excited to dive into your principles. I'm
excited to find out what got you to this opportunity
where you've got the big family. You've had the
passion career that so many children look up
to. And now you're off to the races on what I
would call the American dream. And so you represent
a lot of hope for people. And I really appreciate
you honoring me with your time today. Thanks
for that, man. That means a lot to me. Name it
like that. So I appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely.
I name what I see. So as you're listening in,
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