In this powerful episode of the Be Wealthy Podcast, Brett Tanner and co-host Katelyn Mitchell break down one of the most important — yet most overlooked — components of building a wealthy life: time. This episode isn’t about money tactics, investing, or business strategy. It’s about designing a future you’re truly excited to live.

Brett shares the life-changing exercise that transformed the way he approaches each year, each season, and each relationship — an exercise built around understanding the finite nature of time and intentionally planning a life by design, not by default.

Together, Brett and Katelyn explore the emotional weight of realizing how much time remains with loved ones, how to build meaningful rituals that last, why wealthy people think in longer time horizons, and how to architect a year that aligns with your highest priorities.

This episode will shift the way you plan your life, measure success, and invest your most valuable resource: time.

1. Time is your most valuable asset. Money is replaceable — time isn’t. Wealthy people plan far ahead to maximize meaningful experiences.
2. Your future should guide your present. Big decisions today should be influenced by the life you want 10, 20, or 30 years from now.
3. You have fewer moments left than you think. Whether with friends, kids, or aging parents, the math of time creates urgency and clarity.
4. Rituals create lasting connection. Build traditions that survive changing seasons of life — especially with family.
5. Not all time is equal. An hour of intentional connection is far more valuable than an hour of proximity.
6. Freedom comes from discipline. Planning your year doesn’t restrict you — it unlocks the ability to live a purposeful life.
7. Your life is the sum of your choices — nothing more, nothing less. When you choose with intention, you create a life without regret.

00:00 – Intro: Designing a wealthy life through time

01:00 – Why wealthy people think further into the future

02:15 – Time as your most important resource

03:00 – The truth: Money can’t buy time

04:00 – The three resources: Time, Money, Talent

05:00 – The mindset shift most people never make

06:15 – The “weeks of your life” exercise

07:30 – How projecting into the future changes the present

09:00 – The number of days you have left — and why it matters

10:15 – Seasons of life: Why timing determines opportunity

12:00 – Why certain experiences lose value later in life

13:30 – Life design through intentional rituals

16:00 – The ocean swim metric: Designing your own “success measures”

17:30 – The Super Bowl example — only so many left

19:00 – Katelyn’s story: Cheating the system to gain time with her father

24:00 – What people regret at the end of life

25:30 – Spending 90% of your time with kids before they move out

27:30 – Why meaningful rituals outlast proximity

29:30 – “Two lives — the second begins when you realize you have only one”

31:00 – Your life = the sum of your choices

32:00 – Warren Buffett’s 5/25...