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Aaron Godwin, the Engineer of Wealth, Shares His Exclusive Approach in Building Financial Legacy

For Aaron Godwin, it was a massive leap of faith when he decided to leave his mechanical engineering profession to invest in a whole new field. But it was one of the best decisions he made in life as it not only benefited him but also allowed him to extend a helping hand to others. Using his extensive knowledge as a mechanical engineer, he molded himself into a financial expert, coming up with strategic and systematic solutions geared toward building a lifelong financial legacy.

Dubbed as the “Engineer of Wealth,” Aaron Godwin is a rising finance engineer specializing in three main areas: helping smart people see the math behind money, helping employees transition to entrepreneurship, and helping entrepreneurs invest back into their business. Essentially, he helps others in freeing themselves from debts and building generational wealth. But before his success in wealth engineering, the finance guru thrived in a much different arena.

After serving the U.S. Navy for nine years as a nuclear machinist mate stationed aboard the USS Pennsylvania for four years, Aaron Godwin earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from West Texas A&M University. He then proceeded to work for a United States Department of Energy’s nuclear facility. Eventually, he pursued his master’s of science in system engineering and engineering management from Texas Tech University. While completing his course, he became enamored with financial planning and the statistics of retirement savings. This marked the beginning of his passion for finance and wealth-building.

While Aaron Godwin lived a picture-perfect life, playing golf and watching his kids perform in sports and dance recitals, he often dreamed of what it would be like if he took control of his life without the influence of his engineering firm. But when he finally decided to shift his career, he found himself stuck in a contract with the government where he had no control over the outcome. Feeling outsmarted, he thought he had spiraled downwards until something happened that completely changed everything. 

Aaron Godwin began handling his finances as if it were a business. Focused and driven by what he was doing, he began teaching fellow engineers how to effectively handle their money. Eventually, he formally started his finance practice. He experienced working alongside a financial brokerage company, but later on, he decided to practice independently. Building his finance powerhouse online, he successfully did what he loved to do despite the onset of the pandemic. 

Today, Aaron Godwin shares with the world his exclusive approach to building wealth legacies. While others focus on retirement, investments, savings, and lastly, protection, the wealth engineer turns to the opposite, putting protection as his priority. “I believe you protect what you have. You save for emergencies and opportunities. Your number one investment is yourself. And that you never retire, that you may transition from working a traditional job to doing things that you are passionate about,” he explains.

For Aaron Godwin, his focus is on flexibility. “I want people to have the flexibility to do whatever they want,” expresses the engineer of wealth. Through his engineered wealth solutions, he strives to help them attain the flexibility to start a business, travel the world, and take care of their sick loved ones. In the future, he hopes to help at least 500 families put a generational wealth plan in place and become completely debt-free. “I want these families to become advocates for the engineered wealth solutions so that their friends and family can benefit from financial certainty in an uncertain world,” he says. 

Learn more about Aaron Godwin and his financial insights by visiting his official website.

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