The Right Mountain

By Matt Ludmer

The Right Mountain

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A Wall Street director who spent 40 years at the top of wealth management reveals that "wealth" was always bigger than money--and here's the seven-part framework for claiming all of it.



In 2000, at the peak of his career, Matt Ludmer won his firm's top-producer award in front of three hundred colleagues at a Four Seasons resort in Scottsdale. His team had generated $15 million in revenues. The ballroom erupted. His immediate next thought: "I guess we've got to do it all over again." That hollow moment launched a twenty-five-year experiment in redefining what wealth actually is. The book follows Ludmer's arc of the Aligned Center in Irvington, New York--a physical community built around the four dimensions of True Wealth. Along the way, it teaches readers to meditate, examine their shadow, find their Ikigai, understand the Wheel of Life, invest intelligently using Nobel-Prize winning factor models, and ultimately practice the counterintuitive art of "Ease Up"--letting go of the frantic striving that blocks fulfillment.

Matt Ludmer

Matt Ludmer is the founder of Aligned Wealth and The Aligned Center of Irvington, New York, and a former 30-year-old director at Morgan Stanley and top-producing advisor at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. For four decades, he has integrated Tibetan Buddhist practice, Jewish wisdom, and Nobel Prize-winning investment science into a unified framework for True Wealth. He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has studied with teachers including Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche.Kristin Kaye is a writer, teacher, and narrative guide who helps people uncover hidden truths and write—and live—new stories into being. An award-winning author and ghostwriter, she is the creator of Literary Alchemy, a writing methodology that combines narrative, mindfulness, and the craft of writing to help writers and creatives transform their stories and bring meaningful work into the world. She is also co-creator of Embodied Wisdom with Master Somatic Coach Jennifer Reitz, offering workshops that help individuals cultivate greater presence, resilience, and authentic power. A Certified Mindfulness Teacher–Professional Level (CMT-P), Kristin trained through Dharma Moon and Tibet House with David Nichtern and has received mindfulness mentoring from Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Her writing has appeared in Fast Company, BusinessWeek, and Harvard Business Review.