Business Academy · Building the Wealth Foundation
How to live your life purpose — and fund it.
You weren’t meant to spend your life earning money, paying bills and waiting for retirement. The free masterclass below is on how money actually works, what people who build wealth do differently, and how to build a financial foundation underneath the life you actually want to live.
Next intake starts: Tuesday 8 September 2026, 9:30am AWST
10 live workshops, finishing Tuesday 10 November 2026.
Educational content only. No financial advice. Nothing to fill in to watch it.
Free Masterclass · 50 min
Understand the principles, structures and strategies used by people who build wealth to protect their time, grow what they have, and create more freedom around what matters most.
How to Fund Your Life Purpose — Understanding the Techniques the Wealthy Use
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What’s in the masterclass
Roughly 50 min, free, and worth watching even if you never take it any further.
- Why four out of five people don't want to be at work — and what that costs a family, not just an employer.
- The parable of the talents, and the four things in it about growth, stewardship and burying what you were given.
- Why money is best understood as a tool to do good with rather than as the goal itself.
- Twelve differences in how people who build wealth operate — from how they treat opportunity and risk to the order in which they pay their costs.
- The entrepreneur who was paid three times over for the same beehives, and what it shows about how businesses actually make money.
- Why “control rather than own” changes everything about how wealth is held.
- The three pillars wealth has always been built on — business, property, and trading and investing.
Watching is one thing. Building it is another.
If that changed the way you think about money, purpose or wealth, the only question left is what you’re going to do with it.
Building the Wealth Foundation
The financial education most of us were never given.
Twenty lessons, workshopped live with Derek over ten weeks: how money works, how wealth has been built and held for generations, and how to think about the resources passing through your hands.
But this was never really about accumulating more. Money is a tool to do good with — and the whole point of understanding it is the freedom it buys you over how you live, how you work, and what your wealth is ultimately for.
From earning money to understanding wealth
Most of us reach adulthood knowing how to earn an income. Very few of us are ever taught how the rest of the game works.
Purpose
Know what you're building wealth for
Get clear on what you're actually here to do — and stop treating money as the goal rather than the thing that funds it. Almost nobody starts here, which is why so much financial effort ends up pointed at nothing in particular.
Money
Understand the game you're playing
Where money comes from, what a bank actually does when it lends, and what debt really costs you over a working life. Once you can see the mechanics, financial decisions stop being emotional ones.
Mindset
Think about wealth differently
The differences in how people who build wealth approach opportunity, risk, education and the order in which they pay their costs. None of it is secret. Almost none of it is taught.
Protection
See how wealth is held, not just earned
The principles behind structures, asset protection, tax, insurance and estate planning — and why the question changes from “how do I earn more” to “how do I keep and pass on what I build” as things grow.
The Three Pillars
Understand where wealth has actually been built
Business, property, and trading and investing. How each one works as a vehicle, what each demands of the person using it, and why different pillars suit different stages of life.
Your Foundation
Bring the pieces together
Leave with a framework for your money, your time and your future — and with far better questions for your accountant, your lawyer and yourself.
That is what it means to build your wealth foundation.
This isn’t a video library. It’s ten weeks with Derek.
You could buy twenty videos anywhere. What changes the outcome is having someone to ask, a group going through it beside you, and ten weeks in which it actually gets done.
Derek, live, every week
Ten live online workshops. Not a recording of a workshop — the actual room, where you can put your own situation on the table and get an answer.
Two lessons a week, watched before you turn up
The teaching is done on your own time, so the live hours are spent on your questions instead of on delivery. Two lessons a week for ten weeks — enough to keep moving, not so much that it buries you. Replay any of them as often as you need.
A small group moving at the same pace
Financial education rarely fails because the information was wrong. It fails because nothing changes once the video ends. A group working through the same material in the same ten weeks is the part that makes it stick.
The questions you can't ask a video
Yours are not the textbook questions. They're about your mortgage, your business, your family and your timing — and those are the ones the live workshops exist for.
Support between the workshops
Email support runs the whole way through, so a week doesn't get lost waiting for the next session.
Yours to keep
Full replay access to the lessons after the ten weeks are done — because the parts about structure and estate planning tend to matter more in five years than they do in five weeks.
How it works
Lessons first, on your own time. Then each week we workshop the material together — your chance to ask the questions and fill in the gaps.
Apply
A short application so we know where you're starting from, then secure your place through our secure checkout. If your application isn't accepted, your payment is refunded in full.
Watch the lessons
Two lessons a week, sent to you to work through before that week's workshop, at whatever pace suits you.
Join the live workshops
Weekly live online workshops with Derek and the group, commencing Tuesday 8 September 2026, 9:30am AWST.
Build your foundation
Ten weeks later you'll have a framework for your money, your time and your purpose — and the lessons stay yours to revisit.
From students who’ve done it
Results shared on this page are the experience of the individuals concerned. They are not typical, not promised and not guaranteed. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance, and trading and investing carry risk, including the risk of loss.
“Building the wealth course was a good start and eye opening into the financial world. So glad we did this before we got married. Looking forward to furthering our knowledge in the future. Blu Sky Factory courses are defiantly value for money.”
“Financial education that is vital in this day and age highly recommend it to anyone. Interesting and informative topics.”
At the end of the ten weeks
Nobody here is going to tell you what to buy, what to sell, or what to do with your money. That isn’t what this is — and it isn’t what you should want from it.
What you come away with is an understanding of how the financial world actually works. Enough of it to ask far better questions, to recognise what the options in front of you really are, and to hold a proper conversation with the accountant, the lawyer or the adviser you choose to work with — instead of nodding along.
Money is a tool. Ten weeks is how long it takes to learn to use it.
Ready to build your foundation?
Twenty lessons, ten live workshops, one small group, starting Tuesday 8 September 2026, 9:30am AWST.
Pay in full
One payment — $450 less than the payment plan
Payment plan — total
$1,045 deposit + 5 monthly instalments of $480
Fully refunded if your application isn't accepted.
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