Carlo Boton is a Certified Financial Planner in Southern California whose team manages roughly $200 million in client wealth — and he’s also a father of eight, married to his wife Joy for 21 years. In this episode of Forge The Man, Carlo shares the whirlwind story of proposing to Joy after just ten days of courtship, why he believes raising a large family is far less expensive than most young couples assume, and the daily rhythm that keeps a household of ten running.

He also gets candid about parenting through conflict — how he and Joy resolve sibling disputes “court of law” style, how Joy’s tenderness balances his own more demanding style of love, and why he believes the real beneficiary of a hard parenting season isn’t the child, but the parent being refined. It’s a grounded, practical conversation about marriage, money, and fatherhood from a man living all three at full capacity.

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