Coming October 2026
Building Freedom Funds
How to grow wealth and say goodbye to financial shackles
You don’t need to be rich to start building wealth. You need a plan, the courage to begin and the belief that financial freedom is possible for you.
by Dafina Lovelace
About the book
Your Freedom Fund Starts Here.
What if financial freedom wasn’t reserved for the lucky, the wealth, or the well-connected, but built intentionally, step-by-step, by people just like you?
In Building Freedom Funds, FinTech executive, former White House U.S. Digital Service leader and investment club founder Dafina Lovelace shares her powerful, real-world journey; from learning BASIC computer programming as a child dreaming of wealth, to navigating Wall Street, to building community-based investment strategies rooted in clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Drawing on her Computer Science degree, MBA, New York City street smarts, and years in financial services, Dafina demystifies money and investing in a way that is practical, relatable, and empowering, especially for high-achieving and high-potential professional who earn well but want their money to work harder.
This book is not about get-rich-quick-schemes. It’s about building freedom funds that support the life you actually want.
“Your money has more potential. So do you.”
— Dafina Lovelace
Inside, you’ll discover
Five shifts, one freedom fund.
Build wealth intentionally, even if you’re starting later than planned
Shift your money mindset and release fear, guilt, and limiting beliefs
Design a clear financial strategy you can actually sustain
Leverage community and investment clubs to grow wealth together
Say F’It (pronounced “off-it”) to outdated rules and financial shame
The Author
Dafina Lovelace
Dafina Lovelace is a Darden MBA and earned her B.S. in Computer Science. She has spent her career at the intersection of Wall Street and financial technology prior to lending her expertise to public service and technology modernization. She founded an investment club to help her community build wealth together, and now channels that experience into practical, judgement-free financial guidance.