Episode 47: The Pursuit of Continuous Improvement with TJ Van Gerven

My guest on today’s podcast is TJ Van Gerven. TJ is the founder of Modern Wealth Builders, a financial planning and wealth management firm for high-earning millennial couples. In this episode TJ shares his story of entrepreneurship from starting off in a corporate setting to taking the leap of starting his own firm in the hopes of providing deeper value to the people he serves, at a lower cost, while still being able to provide a great living for himself. He discusses how he made some moves that weren’t the “right financial planning” move, but were the right entrepreneurial move and how sometimes financial planning strategies and entrepreneurial strategies can be different. I loved this episode because TJ’s story is very similar to my own, and we think very similarly in how to provide value to the people we serve in the financial planning space. And be sure to listen to the end as TJ explains how he defines success to include constant improvement- not from a comparison to others perspective, but a comparison to his former self. So with that introduction, I hope you enjoy this episode of the Self-Employment Success Podcast with TJ Van Gerven.