Episode Details

Jack Oujo — From Minor League Baseball to Financial Peace of Mind

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Episode description

What happens when the career you built your identity around ends at 30—with no money and a baby on the way?

Jack Oujo joins Jason Wade on BackTier to discuss his transition from professional baseball umpire to building a tax-focused wealth management business, which he later sold to two employees. His story connects career reinvention, a supportive marriage, calculated risk, and the question he says sits behind almost every retirement conversation: “Am I gonna be okay?”

Jack explains why financial advice is fundamentally coaching, why a useful plan considers difficult markets, and why success involves more than accumulating money. The conversation also covers his daily use of AI to develop speaking material from his memoir, the limits of automated podcast editing, and how technology can free people to pursue more meaningful work.

The episode closes with personal observations about entrepreneurship, travel, and economic opportunity.

Guest background

As described by Jack in the conversation:

• Spent eight years in professional baseball as an umpire before being released at 30.
• Started a business with a partner using credit cards for financing.
• Built an accounting practice that evolved into tax-focused wealth management.
• Eventually focused on clients who used the firm for wealth management.
• Sold the business to two employees, effective January 1; the year is not specified in the transcript.
• Wrote a memoir and began appearing on podcasts to promote it.
• Is developing corporate speaking engagements around reinvention, resilience, and lessons from his career.
• Uses AI daily, including to extract stories and lessons from his book.
• Says he is 68 and lives in Fort Lauderdale.

His book title, business name, website, and preferred contact links are not supplied in the transcript.