Hi, I’m Jake Trewhitt. Today I am an affiliate marketer but also currently working in a 9 to 5 job. Being an affiliate marketer means that I get paid for recommending products and services from other companies. The products that I promote are ones that I have bought, worked with and really trust myself as a “product of the product”.

Slowly but steadily I’m growing my business and gaining invaluable experience along the way in order to become a full-time professional affiliate marketer, which is a goal made even easier when leveraging top-shelf education and the experience of accomplished mentors.

I’m a kiwi born and bred (that’s a New Zealander for those scratching their heads). Born in 1989 in the South Island of New Zealand in a lovely city called Christchurch. I am a middle child with an older brother and younger sister.

My family and I lived in Christchurch until I reached the age of 8 when my hard-working Father who had accepted a higher position in the company he worked for and had been spending weeks at a time working away from us up in the North Island of New Zealand decided to relocate us all there too!

So it was, that the whole family packed up and headed to the North Island of New Zealand to a small town (at that time) in a district called the Kāpiti Coast. Life was good and I grew to make friends and follow the status quo – more or less until I reached high school.

I was always a bright, creative and social person who achieved well in school but when I reached my high school days something changed in my persona and I decided to take a back seat socially, becoming more of a quiet observer. My interest in formal education and the school system itself dropped and I found more interest in hanging out with my small circle of friends of the time, mainly pursuing our interests in music (myself being quite proficient on guitar) and other outlets. It was during the later part of this time where I had also discovered the spiritual side to life and became a Christian.

Eventually, I dropped out of high school, took it easy for a short while and then found myself studying in the electronics field for a couple years. This then progressed into a job and career which I was at for about 6 years repairing and servicing a broad range of electronic and electrical equipment for the New Zealand Defence Force – as a civilian thankfully.

A year or so up until this point I had another shift in my way of thinking and began to really delve into the world of self-improvement/transformation. I started regularly attending a local gym and began reading books such as “Feel the fear and do it anyway”, by Susan Jeffers as well as many online articles and blogs and a couple books on expanding ones understanding on how one perceives the world. I began to get an itch for travelling and so promptly resigned from my job on good terms and left for overseas; stopping first in the Gold Coast, Australia to spend some time with a good mate who was on a similar wavelength to me while we planned for our trip into Asia.

We quickly decided on Thailand being our destination and just as quickly we had booked our flights and were on our way. I remember the freedom I felt on the journey there as I had no job determining when I must return and a decent amount of cash saved up to last me awhile in a country such as Thailand. I had recently visited Bali, Indonesia on a family trip and so there wasn’t much of a culture shock upon arrival.

Thailand was everything it was cracked up to be and I met some amazing people along the way. One person I met, a local Thai woman, was so amazing in fact that we formed a relationship that endures to this day as she is now my Wife living together in New Zealand, but I’m getting ahead of myself here.

I ended up spending about 6 months in total over the next year living in Thailand building and growing my relationship with my now Wife. During this time I really started to get an entrepreneurial mind and began reading books such as “The Four Hour Work Week”, by Tim Ferris, “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, by Robert Kiyosaki, “The Execution Factor”, by Kim Perell and even started getting interested in the Stock Market with books such as “Get Rich with Dividends”, by Marc Lichtenfeld as well as others in the same vein. I was really just looking for ways to build my personal wealth and not just financial wealth but to be wealthy with time that I would be free to spend how I pleased.

My now-wife eventually got her Visa and we travelled back to New Zealand where we live now. I found a job back in my old field, we bought a home, got married and had a beautiful baby Son.

If you are reading this then you have probably already read on my homepage what happened next and the journey it led me on so to not insult your intelligence I won’t repeat it here, but if for some odd reason you came here first, you can read about it here 🙂

The immense value and education I found within SFM has inspired me to share it with as many people as I can so you too may experience the freedom and gratitude this community of mentors has given me.

To your success!

Jake Trewhitt