Lazy Money Lab

About

Hey, I’m Joey.

I make the paycheck-split videos. I’m 22, I work a restaurant job, and I have about $120K invested. Most of it I earned a dollar at a time, which is the only reason the split is worth listening to me about.

Joey Viola at his desk, in a shirt that reads JOEY V GON BE FAMOUSSSSS

I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the back of a Subaru Outback, on the last day of the year. My parents split up when I was small. I still had all four grandparents and a family that showed up, which is its own kind of wealth, and I know not everyone gets it.

The money, though, I mostly made. At 12 I was reselling things on eBay for family and friends. At 11 I’d already started investing through my dad’s account, small amounts into the tech companies whose products I used every day, and in 2018 some friends put me onto bitcoin, so I bought a little of that too. At 16 I got my first real job, as a summer camp counselor, and invested almost every dollar of it. In 2020 I opened an Etsy shop selling custom face masks and ran it for two years.

Some birthday and holiday money went in along the way, the way it does for most people. Take a habit of investing nearly everything I earned, add a few investments that went well, and you get $120K at 22, while still running food at a restaurant.

That habit is the whole trick, and it’s the only thing I actually teach. Five percentages, applied to whatever hits your account, moved automatically on payday. Not a side hustle, not a stock pick, not selling your car. The videos show the numbers. The free kit is the same thing in files you keep.

What this site is

A place to get the split without commenting on a reel. The calculator does what the DM bot does. The Starter Kit is three free files. The Pro Kit is the finished system for $19 if you outgrow the free one. And if you run a budgeting, banking or investing product, this is what I make for brands.

Everything here is education, not individualized financial advice. I’m not licensed, I don’t know your situation, and nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. When I mention what I did with my own money, that’s a story, not a suggestion.

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