I have been known to say, bluntly, that being a solo practitioner dentist past age 50 can be a 99% fatal condition. This book is about the 1%, the ones who found their way off the treadmill. I am familiar with most of the authors and their stories. They probably won't ever make any money from this book, especially compared with their other financial successes inside and outside their practices, but in their stories you will quickly see their mission - to help others who are in the same place as they were not very long ago. - Dr. Mike Abernathy

David Phelps owned and managed a private practice dental office for over twenty-one years. While still in dental school in 1980, he began his investment in real estate by joint- venturing with his father on his first rental property. Three years later, the property was sold and David took his $25,000 capital gain share and leveraged it into thirty-one properties that produced $15,000 monthly net cash flow by 1998. Multiple health crises suffered by his daughter, Jenna (leukemia, epilepsy and a liver transplant at age 12), compelled David to leave private practice to be there for his daughter. Today, with a true freedom lifestyle, he continues to invest in real estate equities and debt and helps other high- income professional practice owners on the path to wealth and cash flow creation through real estate investment. "Your life is your life-your business is not your life. All the money in the world can't buy your life back," says David today. "Create a real business and invest in capital assets to fit your lifestyle...don't wait for someday, because someday will never come." David is a nationally recognized speaker on creating freedom, building real businesses and real estate investment. He is the author of the book, From High Income to High Net Worth, a monthly newsletter, Path to Freedom and hosts The Dentist Freedom Blueprint podcast. Freedom Founders Mastermind Community, David's current passion, provides the roadmap to freedom for professional practice and entrepreneurial business owners. www.FreedomFounders.com