E106 - He Built Jet Engines for GE... Now He Teaches Families How to Build Financial Freedom | David Zapata

Schedule with David: https://factumcalendar.com/david Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendar  Out Print the Fed with a 1% target per week: https://remnantfinance.com/options Email us at info@remnantfinance.com or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more information FOLLOW REMNANT FINANCE Youtube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance) Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588) Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance) TikTok: @RemnantFinance Don't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBE \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\__ In this episode, Hans sits down with David Zapata of Factum Financial, one of their leading agents, for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from David's personal story to the philosophy behind infinite banking and the kind of practice he and Kyle Fuller are building. They walk through David's path from a Colombian upbringing marked by the early loss of his mother, to a decade as a jet engine engineer at GE, to the coffee shop meeting and the single book that pulled him out of the corporate track. From there they get into why nobody has an incentive to teach you control, why life insurance is a product of privilege, and the four-stage progression from saver to full infinite banking practitioner that shapes how Factum serves its clients. **Chapters:** 00:00 – Opening segment 03:30 – Growing up in Colombia and losing his mother at 15 07:35 – Protection as a real transfer of risk you can't control 09:40 – Insuring the non-breadwinner spouse 12:20 – The peace of mind of having already transferred the risk 13:05 – Ten years at GE and the pull toward more purpose 13:40 – Watching layoffs and retirement fear reshape his thinking 18:25 – Financial literacy in Colombia vs. the US 28:10 – Stop being a passenger: becoming your family's CFO 33:05 – Money as the foundation for every other relationship 41:40 – Concentrating capital across four policies 43:00 – Getting licensed and joining Factum 45:05 – "The Waiting List": why delaying kids backfires 47:30 – None of us know how many days we have 49:30 – Inside Factum: 2,300 clients and 99% persistency 54:00 – Why Factum won't do transactional business 59:15 – The Factum model and building leverage as an agent 01:05:20 – Read the book again: you've changed, it hasn't 01:07:25 – Where to find David and Factum **Key Takeaways:** The absence of protection is a risk you can't control. David lost his mother to cancer at 15, and it shaped a lifelong conviction: in the absence of protection, a family falls prey to whatever is left.  Life insurance the way it's used here is a product of privilege. As one of David's CLU professors put it, whole life requires the money, the background, and the health to access it, which is why the top 20% of society uses it meaningfully.  You can earn six figures and still save nothing. David and his wife both earned six figures and couldn't put away $400 a month, and it made him doubt whether he could even afford to have kids.  Don't run a transactional practice, build relationships. Factum services roughly 2,300 active clients with 99%-plus persistency and about a billion dollars of protection across all 50 states.