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The number that changed how I think about money — and why I built Live Your Financial Dreams.

I lost everything in 2009.

Not figuratively. Not “things got tight for a while.” I mean everything.

The market crashed. The real estate market followed. I’d spent years on the road doing advance and operations work — I knew many of the people I worked for, and they may or may not have known me. It wasn’t personal. It was just business. But when the econom…