Binit Shah, MD, FAPA, DABAM, FASAM

Binit Shah, MD is a triple board-certified physician and the Senior Strategist at Freedom Family Investments. He serves as Medical Director of two psychiatric hospitals and continues to practice medicine alongside his work helping high-income professionals build financial freedom.

Binit grew up middle class, in the best sense of the phrase. His parents were immigrants who arrived with almost nothing and built stability through discipline and frugality. What they couldn't teach him, because they had never learned it themselves, was what to do with money once you had it. So he did what physicians do when they don't know something. He looked it up. He put money in a 401(k) because that's what his employer offered. He put money in the stock market because the news told him the Dow mattered. He invested in crypto because he'd read about it. None of it felt quite right.

The shift came when he left employment and opened his own private practice. The moment he became responsible for his own taxes, his own overhead, his own financial decisions, something clarified. He realized the entire financial system he'd been participating in was built for the benefit of someone else. His 401(k) was managed by people who made money whether he did or not. The stock market ran on a board of directors who would never call him to ask how he was doing. He had no control. And without control, he had no real freedom.

"In order to get freedom, you have to have control. You cannot have freedom without control."

He found Dani Lynn Robison's work through an article she wrote for Forbes, became an investor, and eventually joined the team as Senior Strategist. He helped design the investment structures described in Prosperity Rx, the book he co-authored with Dani.

A few years ago, after a decade at the same hospital, Binit stepped back from a responsibility he had tolerated for years. Not because he was forced to. Because he wasn't forced to anymore.

"I don't feel the financial pressure of accumulating so much. Because my view is, it's going to keep growing. That's a very different mindset."

That mindset belongs to physicians too, once they know how to build it.