About this episode

Christian Mather discusses how recruitment founders can achieve personal financial freedom through understanding their 'freedom number'.

This is not a typical RAG episode. Christian Mather is not a recruiter. He has never filled a role, run a desk, or managed a team. He is a wealth planner. And since niching into recruitment founders about two and a half years ago, he has become one of the most in-demand advisors in the industry. Since January alone, he has had over 100 enquiries and spoken to 60 founders about the same thing: how to turn business success into personal financial freedom. Not through selling the business. Not through scaling to 50 heads. Through understanding one number. He calls it your freedom number. The amount you need in assets to cover your lifestyle for the rest of your life. And most founders massively overestimate what that number is. His simple formula gives you your starting point. In this episode Christian walked through real examples of his clients goals and challenges. A founder who thought he needed £5 million but actually needed £1.2 million. A 29-year-old woman billing half a million on her own, working 20 hours a week, about to hire staff she didn't need. A business doing 1.6 million net fee income with 16 staff but only £150K EBITDA because the founders were doing 80% of the…

People in this episode

Host: Sean Anderson

Guest: Christian Mather

Topics covered

• wealth planning
• recruitment
• financial freedom
• business success
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• wealth planner
• recruitment founders
• financial freedom
• business success
• freedom number

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: REC

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