Go Big with Gib Podcast
Go Big with Gib is a podcast for professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs to talk about their big wins.
Go Big with Gib Podcast
Ep 108. Your Job is Lying to You About Wealth
We challenge the belief that income equals wealth and lay out a clear path to convert salary into assets that compound. We map an asset stack—business, real estate, ETFs, crypto, and credit lines—and explain why ownership beats predictability as AI and inflation reshape work.
• why predictability and wealth are not the same
• how inflation and AI erode the old career formula
• three trends making capital outrun labor
• the difference between renting time and owning systems
• the asset stack for modern wealth building
• how to convert income into cash-flowing assets
• why liquidity and leverage discipline matter
• simple steps to start tracking ownership
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Welcome to the Go Big With Gibb podcast, where we talk to professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs about their big wins. Let me say something that might make you uncomfortable. Your job is not designed to make you wealthy, it's designed to make you predictable. And predictable people are easy to manage but rarely become financially free. Welcome to this episode of Go Big With Gibb. We were sold a clean formula. Go to school, get good grades, get a stable job, work hard, and retire someday. That model worked in 1985. It is collapsing in 2026. Inflation compounds faster than raises. AI is replacing entire departments. Pensions are extinct, and job security is a marketing phrase. Yet most people still believe income equals wealth. It doesn't. Here's the difference employees rent their time, owners control systems. Employees get raises, owners get leverage. Employees budget, owners allocate capital. One path compounds slowly, the other compounds structurally. Three trends are colliding. Number one, AI is wiping out middle management and white collar roles. Number two, asset prices are inflating faster than wages. Number three, capital is becoming more valuable than labor. Translation, if you don't own assets, you are financing people who do. Through rent, through subscriptions, through interest, through inflation. Even as a business owner, I realized something uncomfortable. If I stopped working, cash flow stops. That's not freedom. That's just a higher paid job. So I shifted my focus from income to infrastructure, from salary to systems, from effort to assets. This is how modern wealth is being built. Businesses for cash flow, real estate for leverage and tax efficiency, stocks and ETFs for liquidity, Bitcoin and crypto for asymmetric upside, credit lines for velocity, not one thing, a stack. Multiple engines, multiple time horizons, multiple exits. Because people feel it, they're working harder, saving less, falling behind. And nobody tells them the truth. You cannot out-earn inflation. You cannot save bad money. You cannot retire on loyalty. You must own. You don't need to quit your job tomorrow. You need to convert income into assets, build liquidity, not just net worth. Learn how leverage actually works. Stop worshipping salary. Start tracking ownership. Your paycheck is a seed, not a destination. The system rewards risk takers, allocators, builders, owners, not clock punchers, and not complainers, not people waiting for permission. Your job is a tool, not a strategy. Your income is fuel, not the finish line. And wealth is built by what you own, not what you earn. Go build something that pays you back. I'm Gib Irons, and this is Go Big With Gib. Thank you for listening to this episode of Go Big With Gibb. If you haven't already, go follow us on social media at Gib Irons. We'll see you next time.