What are the two financial levers?

The two main financial levers, as highlighted by Brad Barrett and his podcast guests, are offense and defense.

• Offense involves increasing your income through various means such as better job opportunities, side hustles, or creating assets like businesses [1].
• Defense focuses on controlling and reducing your expenses, thereby creating a gap between income and spending which can then be invested [2].

Both levers are crucial in achieving financial independence, with strategies tailored to individual circumstances, such as higher income brackets or extreme frugality [1] [2].