ARDEN C. TANNIS
AUTHOR • FINANCIAL ARCHITECT • EDUCATOR
Money is building material.
What matters is what we build with it.
Arden C. Tannis writes and teaches about responsibility, financial structure, family protection, and the quiet decisions that shape what we leave behind.
Three books. One companion workbook. One continuing conversation.
The Cost of the Puppy begins with awareness. The Financial Architect moves from awareness to structure. The Companion Workbook helps readers inspect and strengthen their own Financial House.
The Cost of the Puppy
Available Now
The Financial Architect
Coming November 2026
Companion Workbook
Coming Soon
FEATURED BOOK
The Cost of the Puppy
Available Now
It began with a promise.
A daughter asks her father when he is going to buy the puppy he promised her. Then she quietly lowers the request to a guinea pig.
That small adjustment forces him to confront a larger question: after decades of working, providing, and carrying responsibility, what had all that effort actually built?
The Cost of the Puppy is not a story about quick financial recovery or becoming wealthy. It is a story about awareness, responsibility, inherited beliefs, family, promises, and the moment a hardworking provider can no longer confuse motion with structure.
ONE ROOT. MULTIPLE EXPRESSIONS.
One idea. Different stages of life.
Responsibility, foresight, and disciplined decisions shape long-term outcomes.
That principle runs through Arden’s work, whether he is writing about the financial awakening of an adult provider, explaining how a household can build financial structure, or telling a story in which young readers experience consequence for themselves.
The Cost of the Puppy
See what has been hiding in plain sight.
The Financial Architect
Turn income and intention into structure.
The In-Between
Let young readers encounter responsibility before adulthood requires it.
THE FINANCIAL HOUSE
A financial life is built.
Most people are taught how to earn. Fewer are taught how to build.
Income
The construction material.
Blueprint
Gives it direction.
Systems
Create consistency.
Limits
keep the structure honest.
Protection
Prepares the household for storms.
Growth
Builds capacity beyond immediate needs.
Stewardship
Asks what remains after the builder.
THE COMPANION WORKBOOK
Reading gives perspective. Inspection creates visibility.
The Financial Architect Companion Workbook helps readers examine their own financial house through assessments, scorecards, household conversations, reviews, and practical action pages.
It is designed to help a reader move from:
“I understand the idea.”
Or
“I can see where my own structure needs attention.”
Companion Workbook — Coming Soon
SPEAKING
Bring the conversation into the room.
Arden speaks to families, churches, community organizations, schools, professional groups, and media audiences about responsibility, financial structure, stewardship, family protection, and the lessons children absorb long before adults realize they are teaching them.
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Notes From the House
Occasional reflections from Arden on money, responsibility, family, stewardship, books, and the work of building something that lasts.