68 The Household Economy & Investing in your local community w/ Skyler Kressin

The Pursuit of Purpose

Today, we have Skyler Kressin, a CPA with Masters in Tax law and partner of Dominion Enterprise Services, who offers strategic tax planning. He previously worked with local firms in Southern California. He then moved to Idaho and joined a friend's startup firm where he worked full-time in February 2022 as a head of a department.

Questions:

1. Is joining the previous company your first entrepreneurial venture?
2. In the idea of household economy in reference to Christian commonwealth, what do you mean when you say 'household economy' and why is it an interesting thing to talk about these days?
3. In our modern society, some of the angst is around working really hard, day in and day out, to build someone else's vision.
4. We are all trying to raise children that are going to do meaningful things in the world, but also we wanted to have meaning in our lives. We are not just limited to past meaning to the next generations. Men and women both feel the struggle in different ways.
5. If you don't have an investment, where do you put money for the future?
6. What do you do with your money to spend it strategically? What other vehicles are there aside from real estate to invest in?
7. Besides directly investing in small businesses, what are your top 5 ways that you try to keep your money in the local community?
8. What are your thoughts about hiring virtual assistants?
9. Have you taken your kids to participate in the family as dominion?
10. There is a danger in treating your family like business partners. Do you have a mission statement for your family? What's the next step in formally strengthening the family for the sake of the business to thrive?
11. When you invest with your family, you're investing in your children's formation.

Closing Questions:

-Book Recommendations:

1. The Last Safe Investment by Bryan Franklin and Michael Ellsberg
2. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
3. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford

-Movie Recommendation

1. Master in Commander
2. Song of the Sea

-How should people connect with you?

1. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/skressincpa
2. Website: www.dominionenterprises.com