Fresh Start for Life

How To Enjoy A Plan for Financial Happiness After Bankruptcy

No matter where you are in your financial journey, bankruptcy leads to emotional trauma that can affect every area of your life. You might find yourself:

🌱 Lying awake at night wondering if you’ll ever be able to buy a new car

🌱 Raising your voice at the littlest issues because you’re so overwhelmed

🌱 Battling knots in your stomach when you think about your credit score

🌱 Questioning if your life will ever be normal again

But what if you could go beyond normal and find financial peace that you only dreamed was possible?

All your living expenses covered, including emergencies

Funds to enjoy your favorite recreation or hobby

A growing savings account to spend how you want

All with little or no debt weighing you down.

Sadly, few people achieve these dreams after bankruptcy. Many people go back to their same financial situation: burdened with debt and living paycheck to paycheck.

I started thinking about how I could help people break this vicious cycle after bankruptcy and replace it with total financial peace.

Allow me to introduce myself.

Why I Started Fresh Start for Life

My name is Don Golden. And I’m a bankruptcy lawyer.

After reading a challenging book, Lead for God’s Sake, I had the nagging feeling that there was something more I should be doing to help my clients after bankruptcy.

I began to realize that bankruptcy wasn’t really changing their life; it was merely changing their circumstances. And sometimes, only for a short time.

My clients were getting a fresh start, but it wasn’t for life.

They were out of debt, but didn’t know how to move forward financially. How were they going to handle their money in the future? Would they do anything different –– or would they end up in the same financial hardship as before?

Here’s the cold truth: I’ve had people come to me more than once to file bankruptcy.

It’s an honor that they come to me and want me to help them again. And I’m happy to. But it breaks my heart too.

Would You Choose to Go Through Bankruptcy Twice?

You would think that no-one would want to go through the stress of bankruptcy twice:

🌱 Battling the creditors

🌱 Receiving notifications of lawsuits

🌱 Worrying if the judge will allow them to keep their car

Sadly, a percentage of people filing bankruptcy this year will find themselves in the same financial mess a second time. Good people, like you, with no desire to abuse the system — who are just trying to make ends meet so they can live a comfortable life.

I definitely don’t want to see anyone go through bankruptcy twice. Once is bad enough.

And something was telling me that I COULD DO MORE for my bankruptcy clients

than just help them get a discharge of their debts.

I could offer them more… help them restore their life after bankruptcy.

I could show them how to:

Rebuild their credit score

Manage their money smartly

Enjoy the financial life of their dreams

That’s when I realized YES — I can do this. I already have a background teaching money management courses.

Why not offer courses to my clients so they could learn how to achieve financial peace after bankruptcy?

Immediately, I set out to develop Fresh Start for Life — so that I could show people like you how to live the financial life of their dreams — to avoid the pitfalls that lead to empty bank accounts and heavy debt — and show them how to build wealth and find financial happiness.

I’ll share more about that in a minute, but let’s talk about why it’s so hard for some people to recover after bankruptcy.

Why Good People Stay

Broke After Bankruptcy

Many people are living direct deposit to direct deposit — and don’t understand why they’re broke all the time. They think it’s because they don’t have enough money.

But that’s not the real problem. It actually has little to do with money.

Let me ask you a question.

If your next door neighbor won a

million dollars (after taxes) in the lottery,

would you think he had achieved financial peace?

Some people would say that he was filthy rich, a millionaire — and living the financial dream.

But the truth is, you wouldn’t know if he was rich until a year or two later. The stats show that if a person was broke before they won the lottery, there’s a 33% chance they will file bankruptcy themselves within three to five years.

One lottery winner — “Bud” — won 16.2 million dollars in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988. One year later, he was one million dollars in debt. In 2016, he was living on $450 a month and food stamps.

This is just one tragic story among many.

So why do people go broke after winning the lottery?

It’s the same reason people stay broke after bankruptcy: there’s something that they don’t know.

How to Discover the💲ecrets of the Rich

Perhaps you’ve wondered about the secrets of the rich and famous.

Why they have money and others do not.

It really comes down to knowledge.

Rich people know something that poor people don’t know.

It’s pretty simple. Rich people are rich because they think like a rich person. I know it sounds silly. But it’s true. Imagine if a rich person won the lottery. What would they do with the 16.2 million? They’d probably invest it and get richer. And more than likely, they wouldn’t end up bankrupt in three to five years.

Rich people have knowledge about how to handle money and make it grow. Trust me, it’s not magic. It’s sheer knowledge. Knowledge of how to use and spend and invest money. Knowledge that you can learn.

Here’s one of their secrets that might surprise you:

Rich people don’t waste their money on lottery tickets. And for a good reason. They don’t take shortcuts to wealth. Shortcuts to wealth cause people to end up — broke.

There are many other tips and tricks that wealthy and successful people use. And I want to share some of them with you so that you can be successful with your money. These are some of the things we will teach you in Fresh Start for Life.