The Practice

The program to master your money and redesign your life.

See how much freedom your numbers already hold - then design the life they're for.

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First half · The Numbers

The Numbers

See exactly where you stand - and what it makes possible.
18 modules · five or six hours · your own pace · yours for life

Put your real income, spending, and net worth on one screen and finally see, in your own figures, exactly where you are. Most people discover they're years ahead of where they feared - and that several doors are already open.

iThe Burn Audit. Upload your bank statements, or type the numbers in, and see your true monthly burn.
iiWhere You Stand. Guess first, then get the verdict: your runway, and how free you already are.
iiiThe Doors. Price the sabbatical, the pay cut, and the exit against your own numbers.
ivThe 90-Day Plan. Choose one lever and give it a date.
You finish with: your Freedom Model filled in, and a printable Numbers Report.
Where you stand
You can exhale.
You're past halfway to financial independence and have 18 months of accessible runway. Not free yet - but not in trouble, either.
18.0
mo runway
24%
savings rate
41%
to FI
First half · The Numbers
Then model your whole future.

Your money projected to any age, crash-tested against every market crisis since 1929, with what-if scenarios you can drag in real time. The Freedom Model is the dashboard your Numbers work pre-fills - the course ends, the dashboard stays live, and one tap pulls in anything you update later.

A full Freedom Model - FIRE projections, crash tests, scenarios
The two or three levers that actually move your trajectory
A tactical 90-day plan, with one move and one accountability date
North - it reads everything you enter and answers in your real numbers
Your Freedom Model
Free at 52
on your current path
72
freedom score
The Numbers · what's inside

Inside The Numbers - exactly what you'll do.

Eighteen short modules in three chapters - the twelve at its core below - taking you from “I think we're okay, I guess” to knowing exactly where you stand and what to do about it.

1The Lifetime Earnings RevealAdd up every paycheck you'll earn in your whole life - it's a shocking number - then see how little of it you actually get to keep.
2Your Full PicturePut everything in one place: your income, your partner, kids, debts and big goals - so your whole situation is in front of you at last.
3Money 101The basics of how money works, explained in plain English. Already comfortable with the fundamentals? Skip it.
Why it holds up
None of this is invented. It's built on the work of the best minds in personal finance - the frameworks and models thousands already rely on - distilled through more than 10,000 hours of my own study over the past decade, and pressure-tested in hundreds of honest, private conversations with high earners wrestling with exactly the questions you are.
What you walk away with
Where you stand
A straight answer on how you're doing - how long your money would last, how much you really save, and how close you are to not needing to work.
Your Freedom Model
A simple map of where your money is heading - stress-tested against every market crash since 1929 - plus a freedom score you keep checking for life.
Your two or three big moves
The specific changes that make the biggest difference - and how many years each one knocks off.
One thing to do next
A single, clear change to make in the next 90 days - and a date to check you actually did it.
Not a course you finish and forget
It becomes your living dashboard.
Log back in whenever you like - to see how you're tracking, or the moment a big decision lands (a job offer, a house, a sabbatical, a move abroad) and watch what it does to your whole picture. Your numbers and your life design in one place, updating as your life does.
18 modules · self-paced · saves as you work · lifetime access, come back anytime
One purchase · both courses · yours for life · 10× guarantee
Second half · The Life

The Life

Decide what the money is actually for.
22 steps · four or five sittings of 45-60 min · yours for life

Once the numbers prove it's possible, the only question left is what you'll do with it. The Life is the disciplined work of listening to yourself seriously - your money story, your values, what “enough” actually means - and then testing every instinct against the math.

iDefining Enough. Work out what enough actually costs for you, and write the number down.
iiThe Rich Life. Design the life you're aiming at, down to an ordinary Tuesday.
iiiTime Buckets. Give the things you keep postponing a date and a price, decade by decade.
ivThe Path Forward. Choose your path, set the 90-day plan, and write the one sentence you'll test decisions against.
You finish with: a printable Report, your work and life philosophy, and a letter to your future self.
Your Life Balance
HealthFamilyWorkMoneyPlayGrowth
Where your life is full - and where it's thin.
Second half · The Life
Three futures, the one you'd actually choose.

The right path rarely arrives fully formed - it shows up in comparison to the alternatives. You design three different five-year lives, score them side by side, and pressure-test each against your real numbers, until what's meaningful and what's possible become the same thing.

Three five-year futures, designed and scored
Every option pressure-tested against your Freedom Model
An Action Plan and a Report you keep for life
Three five-year futures
Stay the courselikability 6/10
Same job, compounding quietly
Downshift at 45likability 8/10
Lower pay, more life
The leaplikability 7/10
Your own thing, on a runway
The Life · what's inside

Inside The Life - the work you'll actually do.

From an honest look at where you are, to a life you've designed on purpose and tested against your real numbers - and a report you keep for life.

1Where Are You Right NowA quick, honest snapshot of how each part of your life is really doing today.
2Your Money StoryThe beliefs about money you picked up growing up - and how they quietly run your decisions now.
3What Actually MattersSort out what you genuinely care about, so your big choices finally have something to measure against.
4Your Life BalanceHealth, work, play, love - which gauge reads full, and which one is running on empty?
5Your Money BeliefsSpot the money beliefs holding you back - and decide which ones are worth rewriting.
Why it holds up
The life-design half draws on the best thinking in psychology, philosophy and life design - shaped by the same decade of study, and hundreds of honest conversations about what a life is actually for.
What you walk away with
Your life philosophy
A clear sense of what work and life are actually for - yours, in writing.
A definition of enough
A real number attached to a real life - so you finally know when you can stop chasing.
The path you'd choose
Three futures designed and scored, and the one you'd genuinely live - tested against your real money.
Your Report
Everything pulled into one document - the blueprint you return to for life.
Not a workbook you fill in once
It becomes your living blueprint.
Your values, your definition of enough, the path you chose - always one login away. Open it at every crossroads and weigh the decision against the life you actually designed, your real numbers right beside it.
22 steps across 7 phases · self-paced · saves as you work · lifetime access, come back anytime
One purchase · both courses · yours for life · 10× guarantee
Why now

There's no countdown timer on this page.

No expiring discount, no “three spots left.” The only deadline that matters is the one no sales page prints: you get a limited number of years where you're healthy enough and free enough to actually use what you learn here. The work itself takes a weekend or two. In my experience it's the deciding to do it that quietly eats the years.

Honesty

A quick fit check.

This is for you if
You want to understand how your money can work for you
You've said 'One More Year' more than once
You're ready to design your life - not just your portfolio
You want honest answers, not comfortable ones
This is not for you if
You're looking for investment tips or stock picks
You're early in your career and still building savings
You want someone to validate a decision you've already made
You want comfort, not clarity
Both programs · one price
The complete program
The Numbers + The Life · lifetime access · $970
Often reimbursable - many employers cover financial-wellness or professional-development programs.

See your money clearly, then design the life it's for. The Numbers and The Life are one program - the whole journey, from where you stand today to the life you actually want - and it's yours for life.

What's included
A suggested path through every module, end to end
Your money data carried straight into your life-design work
North - your personal coach, with one memory across the whole program
The complete Report that pulls it all together
Not a cost - an investment in getting your life back. For less than a weekend away, it hands you a clear plan and years you'd otherwise have traded for a salary. The return isn't measured in dollars - it's measured in your time.
Get clarity on your life →
“I went through The Life and The Numbers during a weekend and it has made me feel a lot less anxious about money. It has also started a life-design journey that I now think about on a daily basis.”
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Alex · Ex-FAANG · The Numbers + The Life
After you join

No call to book, no waiting - you start tonight.

1
Instant, lifetime access
Both programs unlock the moment you join - The Numbers and The Life, yours to keep. Nothing ships, nothing to schedule.
2
Go at your own pace
Open The Numbers and start the audit whenever suits you. It saves as you work, so you can stop and pick up anytime, on any device.
3
North and the Circle, included
North is there throughout - it reads everything you enter and answers in your own figures - and your invitation to the private Otium Club lands once you’re in.
Come back whenever you're weighing a decision - your numbers, your verdict, your options, all in one place, updating as your life does.
More about Oliver →
One 90-minute session · With Oliver · 6 a month

The Kitchen Table

90 minutes with Oliver, on your numbers.

Everything on this site started with one conversation at a kitchen table - a friend, a spreadsheet, three hours, and a decision that changed the shape of his next decade. The Kitchen Table is that conversation, bookable: ninety minutes, the two of us, on the thing you keep circling.

The $2,100 covers the complete Practice program - both courses, everything in the $970 tier - plus the session itself. You work through the programs first and bring what they produce - your Report and your Freedom Model. That's what makes ninety minutes enough: I've read your whole picture before we sit down, so we can spend the time on the decision itself.

Your ninety minutes, in three acts.
i
Your verdict, read back · 20 min
I tell you what I see in your report - where you're in better shape than you think, where the numbers are doing less than they appear to, and what I'd want you to notice before we go any further.
ii
The one decision · 50 min
We stress-test the decision you brought - leaving, staying, the sabbatical, the house, the offer - against your own model, with the questions a straight-talking friend would ask and your advisor won't.
iii
Your 90 days, signed off · 20 min
We go through your 90-day plan line by line, tighten it where it's soft, and agree on the first move and the date you'll make it.
What you keep
A one-page second opinion, written by me within a few days of the session - my read on where you stand, what I'd do in your position, and why. It's added to your Report, so it's there whenever you, or your partner, want to read it again.
$2,100 + VAT · the complete Practice program (both courses) + one 90-minute session with Oliver
Already own the programs? The session on its own is $1,300 + VAT.
I hold six of these a month. That's a real ceiling - it's my own calendar - so if a month is full, you'll be offered the next one.
Same short application as Private Otium - it covers both, so just mention the Kitchen Table in the note.
1:1 · Only 4 clients per quarter · By application

Private Otium

Done with you, not by you. On your numbers.

On paper, you've made it - the savings, the equity, a number most people only dream of. So why doesn't it feel safe?

For many, the money arrived faster than any real understanding of it - RSUs, a windfall, comp that just kept climbing - and under the success is the quiet fear of not really knowing what you have, whether it's enough, or what happens if you get it wrong. For others the fear is subtler: that you're trading years you can't get back - your kids at home, your parents still here, your own good health - for money you may not even need. Either way, there's no one to be honest with about it. Your partner's too close. Your advisor sells products. Your friends would trade places tomorrow.

Private Otium is the room where you can finally be honest.

No jargon, no judgment, nothing assumed. We start from your real numbers and the questions you've never had a safe place to ask, and we don't stop until you understand exactly what you have, what it can do, and the moves that get you there. The fear, replaced by a plan.

You don't need to already be good with money - that's the point. Private Otium is for people with $800k+ in play, or a decision where getting it wrong is expensive: a vesting cliff, a sale, a pivot, an early exit.

Your three months, in three acts.
i
See it all, clearly
Your real numbers, your situation, and the decision you've been circling - laid out in one honest place, alongside what it's genuinely all for.
ii
Build it, then stress-test it
We build your Freedom Model together, then run your big decision - or your three possible futures - against the numbers, the trade-offs, and the risks.
iii
Walk out with the plan
The hard conversations rehearsed and the moves put in the right order - then a written plan you keep: the life, the math behind it, and your first 90 days.
“The Otium 1:1 conversations changed how I view my options in life. The work with Oliver made me rethink how my money can impact my life decisions and helped me feel less anxious about my financial and career situation. Worth every cent.”
V
Vakis · Ex-FAANG
$8,100 + VAT · six 90-minute sessions across three months
Tell me about your situation in 2–3 paragraphs. I respond within 48 hours - if it's a fit, we'll book a 30-minute discovery call. No pitch, just diagnosis.
Your Life Timeline
on your numbers
39Today47Part-time52Sabbatical58Free
The life moves your money already makes possible - and the age each one opens.
Your Top Values
ranked
1Freedom & autonomy
2Time with the people I love
3Health & energy
4Work that means something
5Adventure & growth
What you actually value - ranked, so every decision has a yardstick.
A look inside

A sneak peek at Otium's interactive tools.

The verdict

End the guessing.

The Practice gives you an honest verdict on your financial situation and shows you how free you really are.

Where you stand
You can exhale.
You're past halfway to financial independence and you have 18 months of accessible runway. Not free yet - but not in trouble, either.
18.0
mo runway
24%
savings rate
41%
to FI
Sense Check Your Options

Freedom isn't one finish line.

Your investments and savings give you opportunities - a sabbatical, a lower-paid job, working part-time. The Practice helps you clearly see those opportunities.

Take real time off
Available now
Stop working completely for a stretch - travel, recover, be with people - living off savings, then go back.
Toward a full year off78%
You could take about 9 months off and still keep a six-month cushion.
The model

Model your future.

The Freedom Model gives you a freedom score, shows how much your money earns while you sleep, and much more. Come back to it whenever financial anxiety starts creeping in - and leave with calm.

Your Freedom Model
Free at 52
on your current path
72
freedom score
The reader of your work

Ask North anything.

North reads every number and answer you enter in the program, and replies with your whole picture in mind - in your own figures, never generic advice.

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North · your money coach
Can I actually afford to take next year off?
On your numbers - yes. You've 18 months of runway and you're 41% to FI, so you could take a full year and still keep a six-month cushion. So what's the year actually for?
Ask North…|
The honest answer

Couldn't I just do this with ChatGPT?

Some of it, honestly - yes. But almost no one does, and even if you tried, a chat window can't give you the four things that actually make this work.

It actually knows you
The Practice keeps your real numbers, your answers and your decisions - and remembers them for years. A fresh chat forgets all of it, and a blank box never asks you the questions that actually matter.
Living models, not paragraphs
A working picture of your money you can play with - stress-tested against every market crash since 1929. A chatbot can describe it; The Practice shows you the years moving.
A coach inside your numbers
North answers in your actual figures and knows where you are in the work - not the generic advice a stranger types into a prompt.
Real people who get it
The Otium Club - a small, private group living the exact same questions about money and life. No AI can give you that.
The answers were never the hard part. Doing the work, in order, on your real life - and having it all in one place you can return to - is.
Why this price

Why this price.

A $47 course teaches you compound interest. You already know compound interest. What's in here is the specific work of looking at your numbers, naming your money story, writing your 90-day move - work that costs a lot more almost everywhere else.

Comprehensive financial planning$3,000-10,000
Executive coaching · 4-8 sessions$2,000-8,000
Therapy on money / identity$1,600-4,800
FIRE retreat or workshop$1,500-5,000
Piecing it together from YouTube / blogs100+ hours
The Practice - both programs$970
If it lands, the value is measured in years of your life.
Every program

The 10× promise.

Finish the work. Find 10× the price in value - or every dollar back.

Complete all the modules and apply what you learn. If you haven't found at least ten times the price in annual value - reduced spending, better decisions, or real clarity - email me and I'll refund you in full. Most high earners find 10× in the first audit alone.

Common questions

Questions worth asking.

Where do I start?
With The Numbers - it's the foundation The Life rests on, the place your money stops being a vague worry and becomes a position you can think clearly from. The Life is the deeper second half, once that's in place. Both are included, so you simply move into it when you're ready.
Do I have to choose between the two halves?
No. The Practice is one program - The Numbers and The Life, both included for $970, with lifetime access to both. The program is complete on its own; the only things beyond it are optional time with me - a single Kitchen Table session, or the full Private Otium 1:1.
How long do I have access?
Forever. Once you buy, the program is yours. Come back every quarter and refresh the picture as your life changes - most people do.
What's the 10× promise?
Finish the work. If you haven't found at least 10× the price in real value, email me and I'll refund you in full. Most high earners find 10× in the first audit alone.
Can my employer pay for this?
Often, yes. Many companies have professional-development or financial-wellness budgets, and personal-finance education is a common reimbursable category. You'll get an itemised receipt for every purchase.
Come for the numbers. Leave with your life.
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