Summary: You want your children to be successful, and you’ve always worked hard to raise them with strong values. Mark Aho, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Building-Wealth-Living-Faith-Fathers-ebook/dp/B07FXXWKSZ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Building Wealth and Living in Faith</a>, believes that you can help the people you love achieve financial security without compromising your religious and moral principles.<br> As a father, financial planner and a person of deep spiritual convictions, Mark believes that faith should be the center of everything in life, including money matters. In this episode, Mark offers his lessons on life, grace and money that you can pass along to the next generation. This is a plan for your loved one’s financial future and a meditation on faith, wealth and family.<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Building-Wealth-Living-Faith-Fathers-ebook/dp/B07FXXWKSZ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Get Steve’s new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Building-Wealth-Living-Faith-Fathers-ebook/dp/B07FXXWKSZ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Building Wealth and Living in Faith</a> on Amazon.<br> Find out more at <a href="http://markahofinancial.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mark Aho Official</a>.<br> <br> <br> Mark Aho: I came into this world in a unfavorable situation. I had a birth mother that was pregnant with me, she was extremely poor, she was living on bread and lard—and I had a birth father who didn’t want anything to do with her. So I ended up in a goodwill farm, or basically an orphanage.<br> When I go back and think about this very deeply, the one thing that’s just an absolute big occupier of my heart and my mind too—and it’s never changed and I’ve always known it—is that God is a big part of my life.<br> I think it’s a little bit of a miracle that I was able to have a life and to be given a life. Not only, not to be aborted, which may have been convenient thing to do, but I was guided into a family that cared for me and loved me and gave me the necessities of life to grow.<br> <br> My faith has always been a strong part of my life, and in that process as I grew up and learned a number of things.<br> In that process, I got married, I had some children. When my children were young, I wanted to find out some medical information about them or about myself, so that they would have the right information for themselves as they grow. It’s a long story about finding out more about my birth roots and so forth.<br> In that process of looking out for health issues and things for my children, it sort of invigorated my mindset about a lot of life experiences as my children grew and grew up and as I had the richness of those experiences to pass along to them<br> Everybody has a rich life story and things they’ve learned, maybe some dos and don’ts in life.<br> <br> Every parent wants to share those with their children.<br> <br> As I was going along, I was trying to explain things along the way, but there was more. There was always more. Then as my children got older and they got busier, it seemed like it was harder to tell them more. That’s one of the reasons why I kept thinking about this book.<br> It’s sad to say that sometimes in some lives, you never get a chance to physically sit down and tell your children the things you want to tell them. As part of that realization, it came into my mind and that if that did occur, I would like to put something on paper.<br> Maybe they’re too busy right now, but maybe if something did happen to their mom or their dad and they had something on paper, they might read it and read it intensely. Then I will feel that part of my mission is completed, to get to what I wanted to tell them in paper. That’s part of it.<br> Faith and Miracles<br> Charlie Hoehn: Maybe the best place for us to start is with the introduction in your book.
