Building financial independence in public

Twenty-one years of career. $4,000 to show for it.

I'm Kola Akinboye. For the next seven years, I'm documenting the real road to financial independence by fifty. The method. The mistakes. What's actually underneath it. Not performed. Documented.

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The story

An infrastructure leader and founder, based in Canberra.

Over twenty years, across Nigeria, Senegal, Scotland, and Australia, I've led major energy and infrastructure projects for companies like Total, SSE, and APA. Today I manage a $300M+ portfolio at one of Australia's largest energy companies.

I'm the co-founder of Black Professionals Australia and the founder of Renewcap, a renewable energy business in Africa. The Second Move is where career and conviction meet. I built it on one belief: the migrant story doesn't have to stop at survival.

I didn't figure this out early. That's exactly why I'm building it in public.

Career

Twenty years, three continents, one career. Here's what it actually taught me about work, title, and worth.

Conviction

Not a slogan stapled onto the numbers. The actual ground the plan stands on, named plainly, never softened.

Wealth

Real numbers. Real decisions. Real mistakes. Building toward financial independence by fifty, documented as it happens.

Latest issues

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Issue 001

$4,000. After twenty years.

Where this all started. The real number, at 43, after two decades of work.

Issue 002

I didn't learn to fear money from being poor.

I learned it from watching a country fall apart. And what that costs, even on a good income.

What's next

A community is taking shape.

For people building real wealth, not performing it. Who it's for and how it runs is still being worked out. In public, the same way everything else here is. Subscribe and you'll be the first to know when it opens.

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