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The Walker Principles: Building Wealth Preserving Freedom Leaving a Legacy
THE WALKER PRINCIPLES
Most parents hope to leave their children money. Jodi Walker wanted to leave her son something harder to lose — the judgment to keep it.
Written as a letter from a mother to her son, The Walker Principles is a complete, plain-spoken guide to how to build it, how to grow it without gambling, how to protect it from taxes and time, and how to pass it down without passing down control. Thirty-three principles — one per chapter, each short enough to fit on a single page — distill a lifetime of hard-won lessons into something any reader can actually use.
And Jodi learned them the hard way. Having inherited wealth wrapped in trusts built to control rather than to free, she spent her life building her own — and deciding, deliberately, to hand it on differently.
Inside, you'll
The handful of habits that make every other financial decision easierA way to invest that's simple, low-cost, and built to last — no expertise requiredThe tax and estate-planning machinery most families never learn, in everyday languageHow to give to the people you love without turning the gift into a leashAnd the inheritance you cannot character, judgment, and the freedom to choose your own pathWhether you're managing your first paycheck or the work of generations, this is a clear-eyed, intimate map for turning money into a legacy that outlives you — and a reminder that the money was never the point.
Most parents hope to leave their children money. Jodi Walker wanted to leave her son something harder to lose — the judgment to keep it.
Written as a letter from a mother to her son, The Walker Principles is a complete, plain-spoken guide to how to build it, how to grow it without gambling, how to protect it from taxes and time, and how to pass it down without passing down control. Thirty-three principles — one per chapter, each short enough to fit on a single page — distill a lifetime of hard-won lessons into something any reader can actually use.
And Jodi learned them the hard way. Having inherited wealth wrapped in trusts built to control rather than to free, she spent her life building her own — and deciding, deliberately, to hand it on differently.
Inside, you'll
The handful of habits that make every other financial decision easierA way to invest that's simple, low-cost, and built to last — no expertise requiredThe tax and estate-planning machinery most families never learn, in everyday languageHow to give to the people you love without turning the gift into a leashAnd the inheritance you cannot character, judgment, and the freedom to choose your own pathWhether you're managing your first paycheck or the work of generations, this is a clear-eyed, intimate map for turning money into a legacy that outlives you — and a reminder that the money was never the point.
157 pages, Hardcover
Published July 2, 2026
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