Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 13 segments
He accidentally went viral with 10 million views for a story about a missile falling off his jet — but Sean Walsh's real mission is teaching service members how to build wealth. A retired F-16 pilot…
Spencer ReeseHost
But one of the things that I want to highlight for the listeners is when you're first getting started, it can seem like nothing's working, right? Like you're putting away 100 bucks a month or 500 bucks a month into your TSP.
And you check it like three months later and you're like, oh, cool, I got like $2,000 in there and $20 of gains.
Like, what is this thing? Like, is this thing on? Is this working? And so I think that that's, you know, to have that target, right? Like whatever the goal is, whether it's, I always like to tell people like, If you're starting from zero, you're starting from a negative number.
And then once you're at the million mark, it's like, okay, where do you want to go from here? You know, like, what is enough? Because I think it can be overwhelming, right? When you're talking to a young airman or a young soldier, you're talking about, hey, you can have $2 million by the time you retire.
And so to be able to back it up and to put it into context for that young person and say, look, it seems like nothing's happening right now, but this is the work.
And I think actually you have a chart or a graph in your book that kind of goes through that.
The compound interest that you get over time, time is that third variable of the money you're putting in there.
If you invest $100 from age 20 to 30 and then do nothing else, you stop investing, don't put in any more money and do nothing.
If you wait until just 10 to 15 years later in your early to mid 30s, and then you start putting in 100 bucks a month, At age 65, you only have $150,000.
But one of the things that I want to highlight for the listeners is when you're first getting started, it can seem like nothing's working, right? Like you're putting away 100 bucks a month or 500 bucks a month into your TSP.
And you check it like three months later and you're like, oh, cool, I got like $2,000 in there and $20 of gains.
Like, what is this thing? Like, is this thing on? Is this working? And so I think that that's, you know, to have that target, right? Like whatever the goal is, whether it's, I always like to tell people like, If you're starting from zero, you're starting from a negative number.
And then once you're at the million mark, it's like, okay, where do you want to go from here? You know, like, what is enough? Because I think it can be overwhelming, right? When you're talking to a young airman or a young soldier, you're talking about, hey, you can have $2 million by the time you retire.
And so to be able to back it up and to put it into context for that young person and say, look, it seems like nothing's happening right now, but this is the work.
And I think actually you have a chart or a graph in your book that kind of goes through that.
The compound interest that you get over time, time is that third variable of the money you're putting in there.
If you invest $100 from age 20 to 30 and then do nothing else, you stop investing, don't put in any more money and do nothing.
If you wait until just 10 to 15 years later in your early to mid 30s, and then you start putting in 100 bucks a month, At age 65, you only have $150,000.
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