Summary

In this episode of the Life by Design Podcast, hosts Jessalyn and Brian Pearson discuss the critical relationship between health and wealth. They emphasize that health is the foundation of wealth, exploring how stress and poor health can lead to financial leakage and missed opportunities. The conversation also highlights the importance of investing in longevity and making conscious choices that support both health and financial well-being. Listeners are encouraged to take actionable steps to protect their energy and align their spending with their long-term health goals.

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Chapters

00:00 The Foundation of Wealth: Health Matters

06:57 The Cost of Stress: Financial Leakage

15:35 Investing in Longevity: Health and Wealth Balance

Transcript

Jessilyn Persson (00:05)

Welcome to the Life by Design Podcast where Jessilyn and Brian Persson, struggling to align your financial goals or confidently invest in real estate as a couple,

Brian Persson (00:15)

That's why we created this podcast and the Riches Relationships and Real Estate Program to help you build wealth and strengthen your relationship. Visit weekendwealth.ca to take our quiz and discover your real estate investor type. Let's create the life you deserve together.

Jessilyn Persson (00:32)

In this episode we're diving into a truth that often gets overlooked. Your health is the foundation of your wealth. We'll explore how stress quietly eats away at both your bank account and your opportunities. Why longevity is one of the smartest investments you'll ever make and simple steps you can take right now to protect your energy, build confidence and align your wealth with a life you can fully enjoy. The first

Takeaway we're going to focus on is your health is the foundation of your wealth. If your body is drained, your earning power, creativity and decision making all suffer.

Brian Persson (01:11)

That is absolutely true. ⁓ Me and you have both been in that position where we just don't, you just don't want to do anything. You just don't want to, you know, you have no motivation to go anywhere, do anything, work towards any kind of goals because you're physically suffering. And when you're physically suffering and your health is just not the best that it could possibly be, what kind of energy are you going to put towards?

any kind of business or any kind of wealth or any kind of future endeavors.

Jessilyn Persson (01:44)

absolutely a great example is everyone has experienced some kind of an illness whether it be your common cold, flu, COVID, you name it, everyone has experienced it at least once in their life if not once a year, right? And if you think about where you're at in that time, you wanna lay on the couch, you want to get rest, you want...

hydrate. A lot of times you don't feel like eating. You're lucky if you're sleeping. So in that state, now that's an extreme state because you're actually physically sick but you definitely aren't working. You're lucky if you got the TV on to kind of just keep you busy between naps. put that aside and you're better. You don't have, you're over your cold, you're over your flu but over time other things start.

to take into account. Aging happens, which can shift everything in your body and things you don't even know until it's done and it impacts you in ways you can't necessarily prepare for. So if you don't take care of your health overall, it's gonna slow down your ability to create the wealth you want.

Brian Persson (03:01)

Yeah, and your wealth won't mean much if you don't have your health. Like we've done very well for ourselves, but I remember even recently, like I think it was two years ago, I had a significant hip issue. My muscles and my tendons were just not firing and moving the way that they should have. And it was causing like a significant amount of pain for me. it just takes you out. That's all you can think about. Even just trying to...

put eight hours a day towards your job is difficult because your health is so impacted by this that you literally can't get past the fact that you're in pain or you're suffering in some way and then you can't focus on anything else beyond that. it really just kind of blocks you from building anything else beyond trying to get through that pain really.

Jessilyn Persson (03:57)

yeah, you're definitely not your best self. I know I've shared before in 2019 when I experienced severe burnout from working way too much and then my body just shut down because I was not listening to my body. And I was down for two months. I couldn't leave the house. I couldn't have light. I couldn't have noise. I couldn't have motion.

And I'm laying there going, I am useless. This is useless. I can do nothing. What good was all the money I made working 50 plus hour weeks if I can't do anything with it? And so that was a really hard and eye opening lesson for me to learn back then. And now I'm very conscious of triggers, knowing that, wait, I'm working too much. I'm feeling the pain in back of my eyes, in my neck, in my back, wherever that pain sits.

when you feel pain somewhere, that is a sign that something is off. And more often than not, we push through thinking it'll go away. Or we take drugs to ease the pain, take it away, which is a band-aid. It's going to come back with a vengeance if you actually don't take care of the root cause.

Brian Persson (05:06)

Yeah, yeah, especially when it comes to like muscle related issues and like just your your regular mobility issues because mobility is is so so huge. And and I mean, health can drastically affect wealth, but it can also go the other way around. If you can build wealth, then you can also just live a healthier life because that wealth will will just buffer you from time, you'll have more time in your day to actually do things. It will buffer you in terms of

getting a massage so that you don't have to start suffering, you know, particular joint problems or particular muscle problems. You can use wealth to also build your health, but you need to start by having some health level first in order to actually be able to get to the point of building the wealth.

Jessilyn Persson (05:55)

Yeah, once you have ⁓ some wealth built up, it absolutely gives you the opportunity for ⁓ more downtime. know, you're not going to be as worried. If you can afford to pay your bills, you're not worried. Then if you got to take a day or two off just to chill out and regain your energy, you can do that without the stress of the money worries. Right. And like you said, it buys you time freedom. So again, if you have wealth, you can outsource tasks like cleaning your house or

mowing your lawn, task where that would take an extra one, two, three, four hours, possibly a week, that you now get to focu...