Freedom Gameplan #author Amir Rodnia

Freedom Gameplan
Build Wealth. Live Free. Reclaim Time.

Most people work hard for decades, yet still feel trapped by money. The alarm clock rings, the bills keep coming and, despite earning more than ever before, true financial freedom still feels just out of reach.

Freedom Gameplan offers a different way to think about wealth. Instead of focusing on chasing millions, financial planner Amir Rodnia introduces a powerful new idea: measuring progress through your Freedom Score. This is the percentage of your living expenses covered by passive income. It is a simple concept that reveals how close you really are to financial independence - and what steps you can take to get there.

Unlike many personal finance books that focus purely on mindset or speculation, Freedom Gameplan blends philosophy, strategy and actionable tactics. Readers will learn how to measure their financial independence, avoid common psychological traps, build a resilient wealth strategy, identify opportunities during market downturns and create passive income streams that grow over time.

Along the way, Amir shares personal stories from his own journey, from struggling to make ends meet to building a system designed to reclaim time, freedom and control over life's choices.

Clear, practical and grounded in real-world experience, Freedom Gameplan is not about getting rich quickly. It is about building a life where money no longer dictates your decisions.

To connect with Amir ....
https://www.rodnia.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-rodnia/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61591697552158 

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SPEAKER_01 0:02

Amir Rudner, welcome to Yellow Shelf.

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Thank you very much, Joa. Glad to be here.

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Ah, my pleasure. Congratulations, your book, Freedom Game Plan, is out, available now. Tell us all about it.

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Thank you. Yeah. It's been a whole journey getting here. It's been in the making for about five years. And I always wanted to write a book that blends knowledge and action. I really wanted to write the book that I wish I had basically, um, you know, 10-15 years ago. And every time I come across a really cool book, even though the content may be really good, but it's always either about mindsets or it's about tactics or disconnected tips. So what I wanted to do is to put it all together in one neat package that spans everything you need to know to sort out your finances. And um the starting point of that was how I did things for myself. So before I was a financial planner, I was always interested in money and in investing, but above all, I never chased wealth as cool as it is. But the most important thing for me is freedom. I'm all about having choice. The book, in its essence, is about being able to wake up in the morning and decide exactly how you would like to spend your day. Not because you have to, but because you choose to. And think about it like this: say you want to take six months off work to spend more time with the kids because they're in their early years, and you know, that would really make a difference for the family. But if financial pressures are going to prevent you from making that happen, which is usually the case, you don't really have a lot of freedom. No matter how much you earn, you could be a high income earner. But if at the end of the day that job is keeping you in that cage of having to pay mortgages and bills and subscriptions, then you're still stuck. Or let's say you're an artist and you love producing really, really cool art that doesn't really pay. So you'd be forced to work in a job that you probably don't like. This whole concept of financial freedom has two parts: financial and freedom. I find that the freedom part doesn't get as much love as it deserves because at the end of the day, uh finance is a tool and freedom is the outcome. So, but everything should be toward that outcome of becoming free. So, in a nutshell, this book is not about getting f rich, it's about getting free.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Yeah. Oh, I like that. I like the you know, that's your nuance, isn't it? That's what makes this book different to all the others. Do you want to do you want to tell me a bit about you, you know, your career, and then what inspired you to write? And tell us a bit about the writing journey as well.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

Sure. I have had a very zigzaggy, interesting career. So from studying engineering to being what we call a dish pig, very affectionately in the hospitality industry, then um, and then becoming a chef and then a head chef of being a business consultant and now I'm a financial planner and a lot of other stuff in between, which I don't remember now. But the one common thread was that I always loved to help people, whether it be making a really cool meal as a chef that people really enjoy, or my job today of really making a difference in people um organizing their finances, achieving their goal. But um along the way, I have had to go through some serious struggles, and I've shared all of that in the book as well. Yeah, and that probably the funniest one, which at the time it wasn't, yes, but it is now, was that once I actually uh swam through a flood just to get to work, and yeah, that's when it's those moments that shape your life that you go, what's happening? Why do I have to find myself swimming through a flood just so I can't miss a shift that would pay $100, which otherwise, you know, it would be a massive problem. So I've come up with this concept which I call the wage cage, and it's pretty simple, and it is as it sounds. At the end of the day, if you can't have enough passive income to support your life, and by the way, it doesn't have to completely replace your active or employment income, but if you want to drop work to four days a week and enjoy your life a little bit more, if you can't do that, you're stuck in that wage cage regardless of how much you earn. So, again, my idea was to give people a systematic approach of moving from active income toward passive income to bridge that gap. And the book is my way of sharing what um I think works and is practical enough for you to be able to put it to practice.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

Yeah. And look, I mean, I think a lot of people will be watching and listening, thinking, thinking about what freedom looks like to them. Amir, if we're watching or listening anywhere in the world and we're curious about you and we're curious about the book, do you want to point us in the direction of either your socials or where we can go to learn more about you and the book?

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Sure. Well, I'm lucky enough I have a really unique name. So if you Google me, there's not that much that comes up other than me. The book is available in all formats. So you can get a print copy on all major platforms. So if you're in Australia, you can get it from BigWime website, Dymox, QBD, Amazon. Um, it's available in Apple Books and Audible and basically all major platforms that offer um audiobooks and ebook as well. And you can always jump on my website as well, which is again in my name, Google me, it'll pop up.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

Well, I'll put the link uh in the show notes to your to your website as well. Uh, congratulations on being an author. Well done and sharing. Thank you very much, and thanks for having me. Freedom and finances and bridging that gap. Well done. All the very best.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Thank you very much. You too. Cheers.