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  • From Wage Slavery to Wealth: How to Start a Purpose Driven Business and Win Financial Freedom for a Lifetime
  • Written by: MJ DeMarco
  • Narrated by: Scott Thomas, MJ DeMarco
  • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (76 ratings)

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Unscripted: The Great Rat-Race Escape

Written by: MJ DeMarco
Narrated by: Scott Thomas, MJ DeMarco
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Publisher's Summary

Has your life been conscripted by an economic religion?

Learn how to free yourself and your life through the power of unscripted entrepreneurship.

Grab your front-row seat in the story of a lifetime. Witness how one family escapes the rat race - the world's economic religion - and how you can too.

By all appearances, Jeff and Samantha Trotman are living the American dream. But behind the white picket fence, they endure an American nightmare. With little time for each other, a pile of debt, and Ferrari taste on a Ford budget, the ruse of affluence is killing them. Two respectable jobs and a lovely suburban house paint a pretty picture, but behind the ink is a broken marriage rife with meaningless work and dead dreams. And now, with an unplanned pregnancy, they’re facing a mid-life crisis 20 years early.

With little time and looming bankruptcy, the Trotmans are forced to face the red-pill truth they long denied: They were living, but they weren’t alive. Determined to resurrect their life and their marriage, the Trotmans plot a rat-race escape - only to find themselves more thickly in it. As tensions rise and hope fades, follow along step-by-step as the Trotmans pivot to a new strategy and a new career: starting a business as entrepreneurs. While they navigate their journey, you’ll learn 120 wealth-building strategies and principles that your mainstream financial guru won’t dare reveal - actionable concepts that will help you profit your way into the unscripted one percent, an emerging economic class of entrepreneurs who enjoy a lifetime of freedom emancipated from miserly living and Wall Street's "save, pray, and wait" paradigm.

Discover how one family escapes the wage-slaving grind and wins a lifetime of financial freedom, leaving behind the tyranny of meaningless jobs and mediocre living - and how you can do the same. Not in 50 years, but five or 10.

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Great book!

MJ is one of the people I trust when it comes to money advice. He tells it like it is. This book is so good. Extremely practical while entertaining.

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MJ doesn't miss.

I read MJ’s first book, The Millionnaire Fastlane almost a decade ago. At the time, I was a senior in high school unsure what to do with the rest of my life. At the time, MJ had created the best business book I’d ever read to date.

But this might top it.

Weaving in an emotional (and tearjerking) story about a young couple, and infusing it with 100 incredible principles allowed this book to not only stand up to TMF, but surpass it in terms of impact.

If you’ve been batting around the idea of starting a business, or have built one and have never hit the level of success you wanted, buy this.

This might be the last business book you ever read.

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A Brilliant Book

This book combines a great illustrative fictional story with mountains of excellent practical advice and direction. It really motivated me to find my own version of Jeff and Sam’s business model. Thank you MJ for writing this book - this is definitely up there with the best business books I have ever read.

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yet another masterpiece

The wisdom that comes from MJ is stunning and that's not just me saying everyone I have suggested his books to has said the same.

Thank you MJ for the hard work put in. Really enjoy all 4 audio books

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Thank you MJ DeMarco

This book was great, and I would recommend it to anyone. Thank you MJ DeMarco

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Realistically Wonderful

I loved how realistic Mr Demarco makes this process. It’s not easy but it’s so worth it!

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Awesome combination of all the best parts of previous books

If you haven’t read his other books read this, if you have read them, read this still.

This books does a great job of combining all of the key concepts from his other books into one neat package.

I’m glad he also brought back Scot Thomas to assist some parts of it.

Definitely one to revisit, as it’s chock full of insightful strategies and concepts.

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The best out there

The best entrepreneurial book out there. Would recommend to anyone interested in getting into business.

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Honest and Blunt

Appreciated the bluntness MJ brings to his books. Entrepreneurship isn't always as sugarcoated as some would have you believe. Can't wait to go back and review some sections and then start chipping away at my business.

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Just the best entrepreneur book

Truly the best. This guy knows his stuff and knows how to deliver it in the simplest way possible.

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