Welcome to Doug Lynam’s YouTube channel! A former Marine turned Benedictine monk turned financial expert, Doug’s extraordinary path defies the norm. After topping his class at Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in 1995, he spent 20 years in monastic life, teaching math at a top private school and earning a liberal arts degree from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM—the renowned Great Books School. In 2017, he joined LongView Asset Management, a sustainability-focused B Corp, becoming a partner overseeing $250M in assets.
Author of the bestseller *From Monk to Money Manager* and the innovative *Taming Your Money Monsters: Nine Paths to Money Mastery With The Enneagram*, Doug fuses spiritual wisdom, modern psychology, and practical financial advice. As a speaker and coach, he helps you rethink money as a force for good. Subscribe for his unique blend of humor, insight, and strategies to align wealth with purpose and ethics!
Douglas Lynam
From Monk to Money Manager: Douglas Lynam on Values-Driven Finance | Finding Genius Podcast
What happens when a Benedictine monk becomes a financial advisor? A very different conversation about money.
In this episode, I join Richard Jacobs on the Finding Genius Podcast to talk about what I call values-driven finance — the idea that wealth is most powerful when it's built with purpose and used in service of something larger than yourself.
We cover:
-The Four Pillars of Finance and how to use them
-Why money so often gets weaponized — and how to stop that pattern
-How monastic discipline and military training shaped the way I work with clients
-Why spiritual and financial struggles tend to arrive at the same time
-What financial literacy actually looks like in practice
My books "From Monk to Money Manager" and "Taming Your Money Monster: Nine Paths To Money Mastery With The Enneagram" are available wherever books are sold.
Learn more at douglynam.com
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Had an amazing conversation with Roger Knecht on the "Building the Premier Accounting Firm" podcast! We talked about money mindset, identifying the money beliefs holding you back, spotting anxious vs avoidant patterns in your relationship with money & much more. Give the episode a listen!
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My TEDx just hit 362k views! So thrilled to share how monastic wisdom can improve your finances.
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Here is a wonderful conversation I had with Richard Rohr about spirituality and money.
https://youtu.be/-bfR9aWm-7k?si=kqOx6...
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Here is a fascinating conversation I was honored to participate in with Richard Rohr, Pete Holmes, and Mirabai Starr.
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