FX50 / About
Joel Busboom, founder and lead trainer, FX50 / FIREd by 50
Joel Busboom · Founder + Lead Trainer

Train the trainer,
not the costume.

FX50 comes out of a career spent teaching people and training the people who train them, from the Army to Tennessee's classrooms. The look stays field-built and plainspoken on purpose: discipline, not costume.

Where it comes from

A career spent teaching, and teaching teachers

Joel didn't arrive at this from a consulting deck. He arrived from the front of the room. In the Army and then in the classroom, the job was the same: take something that matters, make it simple enough to repeat, and hand it to the next person so they can teach it too.

That's why FX50 is built to be repeated, not performed. Every piece is plainspoken enough that an owner can hear it once and say it to their team that same afternoon. No jargon to memorize, no costume to put on.

"The promise has to be simple enough to repeat by that same afternoon. If it isn't, it won't travel."
JOEL BUSBOOM
The idea that started it

Teaching it proves you care

Teach a person how their money works, and you've proved you care about their life off the clock.

That was the unlock. Compound interest isn't a perk; it's proof. And care comes back, as people who show up engaged and stay. The 3 Cs grew straight out of that one idea: three concrete ways for an employer to prove they care, about a person's money, their future, and their voice.

What he brings to the door

Discipline, not costume

Trainer firstA career spent teaching people and training the people who train them. Train the trainer is the method, not a slogan.
Field-builtFrom the Army to Tennessee's classrooms. The system is plainspoken because it was built to be used, not admired.
Owner's-eye viewWalks into a business, asks the questions owners are too busy to ask, and helps them see improvement from it.

FX50 is the short form of FIREd by 50, the name on the door, with the full name always in sight. One person, one promise, simple enough to repeat.

One free meeting, no homework

Meet Joel for one conversation.

No charge, no homework, no list of twenty services. One conversation about your people's money, future, and voice, and you'll see where it goes from there.

Email hello@getfx50.com