New Book

The First-Gen Path to Wealth

10 Pain Points. One System. The book your parents couldn’t write for you.

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This Book Is For You If

You earn six figures but still feel behind.

You’re the first person in your family to navigate American financial systems — 401(k)s, IRAs, mortgage amortization, estate planning — and nobody taught you the rules.

You work in STEM or healthcare. You’re smart. You’re educated. And you’re carrying your entire family on your back while trying to build wealth for your own.

You’ve Googled more financial questions than you’d admit. You’ve started spreadsheets you never finished. You’ve told yourself “I’ll figure it out this year” more than once.

This book is the map.

What’s Inside

10 chapters. 10 pain points. One system.

No Blueprint

Why being first means building the plane while flying it.

Poverty Scars

How growing up without shapes every dollar decision you make today.

Starting Late

The real math on what’s still possible and what isn’t.

Lifestyle Creep

The silent killer of six-figure earners.

Subscription Bleed

Small cuts that compound into serious damage.

Credit Card Debt

The 24% anchor dragging your net worth underwater.

Mortgage Amortization

You don’t break even until Year 21. The bank eats first.

No Emergency Fund

Six figures. No cushion. One bad month from the edge.

Analysis Paralysis

23 browser tabs. Zero dollars invested.

Remittance Pressure

The financial weight nobody else talks about.

The System

A complete financial framework — cash flow, debt, protection, and wealth — connected into one plan. The four-zone architecture used with every Lampados Financial client.

About the Author

Chukwudi Uraih

Chukwudi Uraih is The Financial Engineer: financial planner, Army veteran, systems engineer, and first-generation Nigerian American.

His father was a pharmacist. College-educated. Worked in America his entire adult life. Then he got sick. No recovery. No plan for what happens when the paychecks stop. The last three years of that life, Chudi was the one holding everything together.

Forty years of professional income. No system underneath it.

How does that happen?

That question built Lampados Financial Group. Chudi helps first-gen STEM and healthcare professionals build wealth so nobody ever has to ask it about them.

MBA, UVA Darden • MS Systems Engineering, GWU • MS, Drexel • BS Mechanical Engineering, UVA

Eventually is expensive.

The playbook your parents couldn’t write. The map you’ve been building alone. It’s ready.

Buy on Amazon — $9.99 Buy Direct (PDF) — $19.99

Kindle ebook $9.99 · Instant PDF download $19.99