About Us
About EPIC Wealth Strategies
The Company
The mission statement for EPIC Wealth Strategies is: “Empowering the Christian Entrepreneur with the knowledge of creating multiple streams of income through businesses, investments, and real estate.” We believe in equipping the saints with the financial education needed to effectively instigate wealth-building strategies for themselves and for the Kingdom.
The purpose of EPIC is two-fold:
- It takes money to fund the work of the Kingdom. As believers, we can be channels of blessing that God uses to bring the finances into the church.
- As individual believers, we need to be free from financial challenges so that we can pursue our own callings and ministries as part of the body of Christ. Many of us are not living to our full God-given potential because we have to focus on making enough money just to get by. We are just surviving by living paycheck to paycheck. This affects the freedom of our time, but also the freedom of our mind.
If you are constantly worried about money, chances are you aren’t able to focus on your individual and unique purpose in life to the fullest. Whether we would like to admit it or not, if we’re honest with ourselves, most problems can be solved with money. In case that sounds like heresy, the Bible itself takes it a step further in Ecclesiastes 10:19: “Money answers ALL things” [emphasis mine].
While it is true that money can’t buy happiness, I like the way David Bach of the Finish Rich series says, “Money may not make you happy, but LACK OF MONEY can certainly make you miserable.”
The Founder and President, Mark Freeman
I left corporate America as an executive vice-president of a highly successful architectural firm. Before then, my goal had been to settle into a large company just like the one I was in and climb the corporate ladder to the top. In my mind, I had assumed that I would retire there, because it was a great company, and I was on my way to attaining my goal. I was one step under the highest position in the firm – a partner.
But what I discovered is that the higher I went, the more involved in the rat race I became. I was making a good salary, but I was still living paycheck to paycheck. I didn’t have any assets to show for my success. I was becoming dissatisfied with the grind of long hours day after day after day. Every time I took another step on the corporate ladder, I thought everything would be better. And here I was, as Executive Vice-President, thinking, “Oh, but if I could only get that next promotion, everything will be all right.” I suddenly wondered why I was thinking it would be different on the next step. Perhaps being partner wouldn’t satisfy me, either.
These uncertainties were confirmed when I met with one of the partners of the firm one evening after hours. This partner was talking (bragging) about his hectic schedule and his long work hours like it was the greatest thing in the world! He spoke about how he took work home with him, and how he would leave the office in the late evening to go home for dinner. But then he would work at home after dinner or go back to the office to work until eleven o’clock or so. He was saying all of this as a positive note, and he was basically hinting to me that this is what it took to take that last step to become partner. But what that partner meant as an encouragement, God used as a confirmation.
I left the office that evening knowing the Lord had something different and better for me. I started investing in real estate part-time while continuing my job as an architect. I started out with a ten-year plan to accumulate enough real estate so I could quit my job. But that ten-year plan was accelerated to a three-month plan. Since leaving the corporate world, I’ve started nine different businesses, ranging from commercial real estate investments and developments, residential investments, architectural design and consulting, online sales, and financial education and publishing. On the one hand, some of them have been very successful businesses, but on the other hand, there are some “learning experiences” mixed in with the success stories as well. But I believe the failures and setbacks are better qualifiers for teachers and mentors than the successes themselves.
