{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Vision Architect","title":"Eric Thurber: Create a \"Life Well Lived\" | #215","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2364,"description":"Most financially successful people eventually ask a deeper question: after the money is made, how do I build a life that actually feels worth living? Eric Thurber, founder of Three Bridge Wealth Advisors, spent 30 years helping first-generation entrepreneurs and venture capitalists answer it. In this conversation he shares how farm-bred work ethic, deliberate self-awareness, and a team aligned around excellence, partnership, and integrity create the conditions for both wealth and meaning.\nThe episode moves beyond spreadsheets and asset allocation. Eric reveals the advice he gives wealthy clients: define what money is really for before optimizing it, make decisions from abundance rather than scarcity, and prepare emotionally and financially for the market punches that always arrive. He also opens up about the hard choice to give back a multi-seven figure retention check, the values that guided it, and how he keeps a high-demand practice sustainable for his team—remote work, energy rituals, and a strict refusal to let eighty-hour weeks define success.\nListeners will come away with practical tools: a gratitude journaling practice, a framework for asking 'what is money for?,' and permission to build a life where time, energy, and purpose matter more than the next dollar.\nHighlights\nAsk clients what money is for first; answers center on security, family, and independence.\nReturning a multi-seven figure retention check built an independent firm clients could trust.\nFirst-generation wealth creators combine education, passion, calculated risk, and a vision others can join.\nPrepare for the inevitable 50% market drop before it happens—plans die without preparation.\nSustain performance with energy habits: 90-minute workouts, saunas, gratitude, and meditation.\nDesign the firm for balance so you can still love the work at 75 without 80-hour weeks.\n\nImportant Concepts and Frameworks\nLife Well Lived — The goal of integrating wealth with purpose, values, family, balance and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VBnh9x8rbh9YrZjNJj3am5DRI-1En7vTMfJGQVF1NnU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMTUy/MDY2ZTE1MGM5MWE3/MWZmMTFjOGFjZTRk/ODZiYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}