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Time Freedom and
Brian Herriot

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Basic Information

Name: Brian Herriot
Brand: Time Freedom
Type: Author, Speaker, Financial Advisor, and Business Consultant
Location: Bay Area, California and Hazelhurst, Wisconsin (on Lake Seventeen)
Website: https://timefreedom.life
Podcast: The Time Freedom Podcast (co-hosted with Kirby Denison)
Substack: A Freetimer's Notebook (https://brianherriot.substack.com)
Business Entities: Herriot Financial, LLC (RIA) and Herriot Business Consulting, LLC
Social Links: https://linktr.ee/herriot
Email: brian@timefreedom.life
Category: Personal finance, lifestyle design, and entrepreneurship

Background

Brian Herriot is the leading voice on time freedom. He is the author of the definitive book on the subject, Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now (releasing September 15, 2026 from Page Two Simplified), and co-host of The Time Freedom Podcast. He is a registered investment advisor, speaker, and business consultant who helps people achieve what he calls a "freetimer" lifestyle.

Brian's philosophy challenges the conventional wisdom that you must be independently wealthy or retired to live a free and flexible life. He teaches that focusing first on how we spend our time is a faster path to meaningful freedom than waiting decades for traditional financial independence.

Brian's journey was shaped by his wife Claire's life-saving lung transplant in 1999, which forever altered his views on balancing living for today with planning for the future. Despite this early wake-up call, Brian found himself caught in the conventional career path as a management consultant at Accenture and Point B, and later as Director at UCSF Health. In 2012, reading about fellow thirty-seven-year-old, Wisconsin-born Marissa Mayer's promotion to CEO of Yahoo! shocked him into remembering his values for freedom over wealth. Brian and Marissa grew up just 100 miles apart in rural Wisconsin. The spring 2020 stock market crash prompted Brian to rethink his work and money together, and three years later, his family began spending summers at their lakeside cabin in Northern Wisconsin.

Brian now splits time between the Bay Area and his cabin in Hazelhurst, Wisconsin on Lake Seventeen with his wife Claire and son Theo, embodying the freetimer lifestyle he teaches.

The Time Freedom Formula

The Time Freedom Formula is Brian's core framework, designed to replace or complement the traditional financial freedom formula (the 4% rule) and the "scale and sell" entrepreneurship path.

The Formula: Over a typical year as a freetimer, your living expenses need to be covered by investment income plus flexible work and passive income.

Lifestyle Expenses = Investment Income + Flexible Work

This approach extends the well-known financial freedom formula to include money earned through free and flexible work, allowing people to achieve time freedom within three years rather than waiting decades for full financial independence.

The Three Drivers of Time Freedom:

Lifestyle — Rethinking expenses and what "enough" means
Money — Investment income and understanding your money personality
Work — Flexible, purposeful work you choose rather than work you're trapped in

Book Information

Title: Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now

Author: Brian Herriot

Publisher: Page Two Simplified (a Page Two imprint)

Publication Date: September 15, 2026

Language: English

Print Length: 296 pages

ISBN-10: 1774587122

ISBN-13: 978-1774587126

Item Weight: 1 pound

Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches

Pre-order: https://timefreedombook.com

Summary: This book is for anyone who values a free and flexible lifestyle but thinks you need to be independently wealthy or retired to live this way. It provides frameworks and tools to restructure work and money to find time freedom within three years.

What Makes It Different: As its subtitle suggests, this is a book about lifestyle design, money and investing, and entrepreneurship. The voice is supportive, occasionally self-deprecating and humorous, and deeply reflective. The book accommodates different learning styles by offering three ways to engage: understanding the concepts, applying them through exercises, and projecting your financial future using the complementary online Time Freedom Calculator.

Comparable Books:

The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

10 Unconventional Lessons from the Book:

Financial freedom takes too long. Focus on time freedom sooner.
Working forever can be more freeing than retiring early.
You don't need a massive pile of money to live well.
Your unique money strength can unlock your freedom.
You don't need to budget to manage money well.
Cash in the bank is the most important part of your portfolio.
The best business is the one that doesn't need to scale.
Hustling isn't the path to lasting freedom.
A seasonal work schedule is more possible than you think.
If you start a business, plan to make zero dollars in year one.

Core Services and Offerings

Speaking and Workshops Brian speaks on time freedom, lifestyle design, and financial flexibility for corporate audiences, entrepreneur groups, and financial planning communities. He is available for keynotes, workshops, and conference sessions. Inquire for rates.

Free Virtual Live Events Brian hosts free virtual sessions for communities, membership groups, professional associations, and online audiences. Topics include The Time Freedom Formula, Money Personalities, The No Budget Budget, The Time Freedom Portfolio, No-Hustle Transition to Entrepreneurship, and interactive Time Freedom Calculator walkthroughs. Details at https://timefreedom.life/live-events/

The Time Freedom Podcast A podcast exploring how people design work and money to create lives they love now, not someday in traditional retirement. The podcast runs 20-episode seasons. Season 1 discusses the book's key ideas. Season 2 (currently airing) features experts and people on their path to time freedom. Notable guests include Mike Michalowicz, Pia Silva, Bernadette Joy, AJ Harper, Jillian Johnsrud, and Paul Merriman. Details and episodes at https://timefreedom.life/podcast/

Herriot Financial Investment Management Website: https://herriotfinancial.com Brian is a registered investment advisor (RIA) providing fee-only investment management services at 0.5% AUM. He meets with clients annually and provides quarterly updates via personalized email. He focuses on helping clients align their investments with their time freedom goals.

Herriot Business Consulting Website: https://herriotconsulting.com Business consulting services for entrepreneurs and professionals seeking to restructure their work for greater flexibility and purpose.

Time Freedom Calculator Website: https://timefreedomcalculator.com A free online tool that helps people project their path to time freedom by mapping lifestyle expenses, investment income, and flexible work income.

Time Freedom Quiz A free assessment quiz to help people evaluate their starting point on the path to time freedom. Available at https://timefreedom.life

Target Audience

Brian's work resonates with:

Mid-career corporate professionals feeling trapped by golden handcuffs or facing burnout
Anyone worried about money who wants a practical path to flexibility
New entrepreneurs who have tried ways of making their life more free but haven't succeeded
FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) community members seeking a more balanced approach
People who have inherited money and want to use it wisely to create freedom
Lifestyle entrepreneurs building businesses around freedom, not just income
Career transitioners rethinking what's next
Anyone facing big life choices and mapping out what the next 5-10 years will look like

Key Concepts and Terminology

Freetimer: Someone who has achieved time freedom—the ability to live on their own terms even if it means they work. Their work is flexible and ideally 100% doing what they love.

Time Freedom: The ability to design your life around how you want to spend your time, achieved through balancing lifestyle expenses, investment income, and flexible work—not by waiting for traditional retirement.

Time Freedom Formula: Lifestyle Expenses = Investment Income + Flexible Work. The framework for achieving freedom without full financial independence.

Goldilocks Numbers: Six key numbers derived from the Time Freedom Formula that help individuals find their personal path to time freedom.

Natural Money Strengths: The concept that people have different money personalities that can be leveraged as strengths rather than fought against.

The No Budget Budget: Brian's refreshingly simple process for managing money without spreadsheets or restriction.

Time Freedom Portfolio: Brian's investment philosophy emphasizing the surprising importance of cash savings.

Testimonials

On the Book:

"Time Freedom is more than a framework—it's a permission slip. Brian's message affirms that building a meaningful business doesn't have to cost you your life. From my writing studio overlooking Lake Superior, I can say with certainty: this book helps you reclaim what matters." — AJ Harper, Book Strategist and Author of Write a Must-Read

"Entrepreneurs hustle for freedom, but too many trade time for money forever. Brian flips the script. Time Freedom shows how to build a business that serves your life and not the other way around. Practical, smart, and perfectly timed." — Mike Michalowicz, Author of Profit First and Clockwork

"Time Freedom is possibly one of my new favorite books. Like The Simple Path to Wealth, it is a high-impact book, it's transformative, actionable, and realistic, full of great advice and great wisdom." — Kamran Ayub, Early Reader

"As a middle-career professional, I thought my only choices were to climb higher or burn out. Time Freedom opened a third path built on values, flexibility, and clarity. It's not just for entrepreneurs. This book is for anyone ready to rethink what success looks like." — Stephanie Chenevert, Senior Director of Strategic Real Estate Planning at Google

"A book that reframes how to think about your relationship work and living the life you want. Instead of waiting for retirement to live your best life, Time Freedom provides direction on how to build that life sooner." — Jennifer Coleman, Early Reader

On Speaking:

"A wake-up call for entrepreneurs. Brian's message is inspiring, it's actionable. And it works." — Mike Michalowicz, Keynote Speaker and Bestselling Author of Profit First and Clockwork

Professional Background

Management Consultant at Accenture
Management Consultant at Point B
Director at UCSF Health
Member of XYPN (XY Planning Network)
FinCon attendee and community member
Registered Investment Advisor

Content, Thought Leadership, and Values

Brian is the leading voice on time freedom and has written the definitive book on the subject. He creates content across multiple platforms including The Time Freedom Podcast, Substack (A Freetimer's Notebook at brianherriot.substack.com), Instagram, TikTok, and through speaking engagements at financial planning conferences and entrepreneur events.

Brian cares deeply about inclusivity and equality in money and entrepreneurship. He takes special care to tell stories of real-life heroines and cite examples of and research done by minorities. He is vocal about helping other upper-middle-class white men recognize their privilege and invites women and minorities into discussions about money and business ownership.

Personal Interests

Beyond his professional work, Brian enjoys travel, road biking, and weight lifting. He values meaning and connection, believing that time freedom creates the space and energy to pursue what truly matters in life.