Build Wealth. Live Life.
The investment strategies your financial advisor won't tell you about.
"The book I wish I'd had 15 years ago, while I was still in the corporate world."Martin Kuev
He'd "made it" on paper. Then life asked a harder question.
Martin spent nearly two decades in Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Kraft. Then, six weeks apart, his twin daughters were born and his father passed away.
He had the title, the salary and the pension, but he couldn't drop his kids off at school. So he went deep on the strategies most professionals dismiss without ever really understanding them, and built them alongside his corporate career, not instead of it. He only made the leap once the income made it feel safe rather than risky.
This book is everything he learned along the way, written for the person still sitting where he used to sit.
Four strategies. One system.
Most books go deep on one strategy. This one shows how four work together, with the income from one funding the next.
Stock options
Selling options to collect premiums, the way an insurance company does, to create monthly income from capital you already have, without betting on where the market goes.
How stock options work → 02Real estate
Equity and cash flow through smart leverage, including BRRRR: buy, renovate, rent, refinance, repeat. The way Martin turned single-family homes into legal duplexes, each one financing the next.
Why real estate builds wealth → 03Infinite banking & whole life insurance
A properly structured participating whole life policy as your own capital reserve: protection for your family, and money you can borrow against to fund your next investment.
How infinite banking works → 04Bitcoin
Why a small, deliberate allocation can belong in a serious long-term portfolio, as a hedge rather than a bet, and how to think about sizing it.
Why a small allocation →For the person who did everything right.
You earned the raises, contributed to the pension, invested every month, and still sense the math isn't adding up to real freedom.
- Corporate professionals with a good income and a pension or RRSP
- Investors in mutual funds wondering if there's a better roadmap
- Anyone who wants these strategies explained plainly, without an agenda
What people are saying
"Build Wealth. Live Life. tackles an important and timely conversation: how everyday investors can move beyond the traditional 'work, save, retire' roadmap and take greater ownership of their financial future. Martin Kuev brings together powerful strategies (stock options, real estate, participating whole life insurance, and Bitcoin) into a practical framework for building wealth, control, and optionality."
"Most people never fail because they lack opportunity. They fail because they spend decades following conventional advice without ever questioning whether it works. Martin has done something increasingly rare. He has assembled a collection of wealth building principles that encourage readers to think independently, act rationally, and view capital as a tool rather than a trophy…"
"Martin is a man who practices what he preaches. I've seen Martin go from owning a few smaller residential properties to a massive real estate portfolio in just a few short years. Listen to what this man says; it will absolutely help you on your journey."
"The BRRRR breakdown alone is worth the price of admission; Martin writes about leverage and cash flow like someone who's done the renovations himself. Because he has."
"Martin's experience in corporate marketing shows up in how well he communicates. This reads like advice from a friend who happens to know what he's talking about."
"What struck me most while editing this manuscript wasn't the strategies, it was how honestly Martin owns his own years of hesitation before using them; that candor is what will make skeptical readers actually turn the page."
Get your copy of Build Wealth. Live Life.
Available now on Amazon. Then bring your questions to a VIC meetup, where Martin, Chris and Sandy are in the room every month.