The Blueprint of a Bold Life
Start here: the framework that connects your wealth to your values.
Every week, new readers join this community (thank you for helping me grow), and a handful have messaged me with the same honest sentiment: “Where do I start?”
You want to live a more meaningful life and use your money intentionally. You want to know your path is adding up to something that matters in the big picture. And you want to stop going through the motions and instead, live boldly.
I understand that feeling. Long before Bold Wealth had a name, these ideas lived in scattered notes on my phone, conversations with friends, and late-night reflections about what actually creates a meaningful, grounded life. I wasn’t building a newsletter back then. I was trying to uncover clarity for myself.
I wanted to understand why some seasons felt rich and rooted, while others felt disconnected, even when my financial numbers were strong. I wanted to understand why success on paper didn’t always translate to fulfillment in real life. And I wanted my kids to grow up with a different framework for thinking about money, time, and the choices we make.
Most of us were never taught how to build a life that feels rich, not just a life that looks successful.
Where do you begin? Right here. This post is your starting point: a collection of writing and teaching that will change the game for you.
So, You Want Bold Wealth
You want to use your money intentionally to create freedom. You want align your time, money, and values. You’ve come to the right place. This is where you minor in money so you can major in life.
At its heart, Bold Wealth is the belief that money alone does not create happiness.
Money is not the goal. Life is the goal. Financial strength simply gives you more options to live that life well. When money supports what matters most, every part of life becomes richer.
Start Here
Each link below explains a different part of the framework and provides tools to build a life aligned with your values. They work together to help you understand money, time, decisions, and fulfillment in a deeper and more intentional way.
1. The Wheel of Life
Money is just one spoke in a well-rounded life, and this post shows why leaning too heavily on any one area creates imbalance. It explains how fulfillment comes from strengthening all the parts of your life, family, health, purpose, enjoyment, and contribution, not just the financial one. When money supports the other spokes, everything rolls more smoothly.
→ Click here to see why money alone never creates fulfillment, and how balance across life actually works.
2. Know Your Values
Values are the compass that keep your life and decisions aligned. When you know what matters most, your choices become calmer, clearer, and far more intentional. This post helps you clarify those values so your money and your time start moving in the same direction.
→ Click here to learn how clarity around your values makes decisions simpler and life calmer.
3. Your Most Valuable Asset: Time
Time is the one resource you can never earn back, and this post reframes wealth through that lens. It’s about becoming aware of where your minutes go and learning to spend them on what matters most. When you understand the real cost of distraction, your entire relationship with money and life shifts.
→ Click here to reframe how you think about time, and why protecting it is the foundation of real wealth.
4. The 16 Money Moves That Changed My Life
This is the practical side of BOLD Wealth, the strategies that helped me build financial independence over 25 years. Real estate, tax planning, smart leverage, investing, cash flow, and disciplined decision-making. These are the moves that create freedom, so your values can come first
→ Click here to explore practical money strategies that create freedom, not just higher numbers.
5. The Power of Compounding
Compounding is the quiet force that builds both financial wealth and a meaningful life. Money compounds when you invest consistently, and life compounds when you repeat the right habits over time. This post shows how small, simple decisions grow into extraordinary results when you give them enough runway.
→ Click here to understand how small, consistent decisions compound in both money and life.
6. Before & After: The Moment Everything Changed
The night my boys were born reshaped my definition of success, ambition, and what truly matters. This story became the emotional root of BOLD Wealth, the moment I understood that life is more than numbers on a spreadsheet. It’s the heartbeat behind this entire project.
→ Click here to read the personal story that reshaped my definition of success and started BOLD Wealth.
7. How to Make Bold, Aligned Decisions
A Bold Investment is big enough to matter, smart enough to protect your downside, and aligned enough to serve the life you actually want. This framework applies to money, business, career moves, and personal choices. When you learn to filter decisions this way, your confidence and clarity increase instantly.
→ Click here to learn a simple framework for making financial and life decisions without regret.
8. The Matrix of Wealth & Life Enjoyment
This post gives you a map, the clearest way to understand where you are financially and emotionally today. It shows why some people feel stuck, why others feel stretched thin, and how to move toward the quadrant where money and meaning finally meet. It’s one of the most helpful tools for designing a life that feels both secure and fulfilling.
→ Click here to see where you are today, and how to move toward a life with both money and meaning.
If You Want to Know More About the Author Behind the Work
I’ve spent the last 25 years building companies, investing in real estate, making mistakes, learning lessons, and building a life I’m proud of. Some decisions created great results. Others taught me the lessons I share here. All of it has shaped the Bold Wealth philosophy.
You don’t need my story to build yours, but if you want more context, these pieces may help:
• Read → How I built my first million
A real look at early ambition, hard lessons, and the financial mistakes and decisions that shaped how I think about money today.
• Read →The best investment our family ever made
Why the most impactful investments are not about chasing returns, but about making intentional, values-aligned decisions that compound over time.
• The bigger arc of my life and values - visit chrisehrenfeld.com
The longer story behind the businesses, the family, and the philosophy that connects money, time, and meaning.
These aren’t success stories meant to impress. They’re lessons meant to help you make clearer decisions, avoid common traps, and build a life that actually feels rich.
What You Can Expect Each Week
Every Tuesday, you’ll receive a long-form, story-driven piece that blends money, meaning, and the habits that create a rich life. These essays challenge your thinking, offer clarity, and help you make decisions that improve your financial and personal life at the same time.
Occasionally, you’ll also get bonus content. On December 30, for example, you’ll receive a year-end workbook designed to help you reflect on this year and prepare intentionally for 2026.
Your Bold Wealth
You deserve a life that feels coherent and aligned. A life shaped by your values and supported by intentional choices instead of drift. Most people never build that kind of life because no one ever taught them how. They work hard, they earn money, they move through the calendar, but they never stop to ask whether their time, money, and values are aligned.
In the BOLD Wealth framework, money becomes the tool. Time becomes the asset. Values become the compass. Progress becomes the signal that you are heading toward the life you want, not the one you defaulted into.
When these pieces come together, life expands. It becomes richer, steadier, and more meaningful. You feel more confident in your decisions and more connected to what matters. That is the work we are doing here. And it is work worth doing.
💡 Your Turn + Start Bold
If you have been reading since the beginning, thank you. I appreciate you. Your commitment to growing in money, mindset, and meaning is what makes this community so special. Which newsletter has been your favorite so far, and why? I would love to hear.
If you are new, do one thing this week. Choose a single post from the list above and read it with a pen in your hand. Underline the one idea that speaks to you. Then write down one small action you can take because of it. Not ten. Just one.
Change starts with awareness, but progress comes from action. And progress equals happiness.
If you want to take a bigger step, reply and tell me where you are on your journey. I read every message. Your story matters here.
Why We Build Wealth
We build financial wealth not for scorekeeping or status, but to fuel the parts of life that matter most. Family. Health. Growth. Generosity. Joy. These are the areas that create a rich life.
Money helps you support them. Meaning gives them direction. Values give them purpose. That is the real payoff. That is what it means to build BOLD Wealth, a life rich in money and rich in meaning.
I am glad you’re here. Let’s build a bold life, one intentional step at a time.
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Wow the breadth of wisdom and resource here. GOSH thank you! Passing along to my family.