#166 – Thomas McPherson: Contrarian Thinking, Building Wealth & Finding Meaning

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Thomas McPherson is real estate entrepreneur and U.S. Navy veteran. After serving in Iraq and returning home he found his niche in real estate and buying distressed debt, purchasing and repositioning value-add multifamily across Arizona. He became a millionaire before he was 30.

Thomas has numerous passions outside of work, primarily spending time with his wife and two children. When not working or with his family, Thomas is also a pilot, BASE jumper and Skydiver, and that is with a fear of heights (“Don’t let your fears stop you”).

0.00: Thomas early years in the military and getting deployed as a medic in Iraq

7.00: Reality of the horrors of war

13.00: Barriers of connection and lack of empathy

16.00: What Thomas learned travelling to over 30 countries

22.00: Post military, finding financial success in real estate (after leveraged trading)

26.00: How to find Happiness as a by product

33.00: Navigating the cycles of the market

37.00: Being Contrarian in Investing (and Life)

44.00: Finding your Tribe and the dangers of being ostracized

55.00: What Thomas wishes he could tell his 20 year old self

1.02.00: Appreciation and gratitude as the path to happiness

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Until next time, love and good vibes.

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0:00.0	A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:18.0	Get ready to enter the lion heart with your host, Lawrence Dunning.
0:22.0	Thomas, I'm so glad we got connected.
0:24.0	Shout out to my mutual friend Victor, Victor Chan, who connected us.
0:27.6	And we are such kind of spirits.
0:29.0	And I would love to, maybe, actually before I even start, maybe if you could give a little
0:33.7	bit about your background, you have a rich and awesome history.
0:37.1	So obviously, you can't cover everything. But just give someone a bit of perspective background. You have a rich and awesome history, so obviously you can't
0:37.9	cover everything, but just give someone a bit of perspective of what you're about and a bit of your
0:42.5	journey in the class. Absolutely. I'll do my best. So pretty standard American childhood. Nothing I would
0:48.3	say out of the ordinary. Getting out of high school, September 11th happened when I was a senior in high
0:53.8	school, getting ready to graduate. So I felt a bit of a sense of duty, sense 11th happened when I was a senior in high school, getting ready to
0:54.5	graduate. So I felt a bit of a sense of duty, sense of patriotism. I served five years in the military.
0:59.6	My specialty was combat trauma. I was a medic. So it was my job to kind of patch guys up when
1:04.3	they got banged up and blown up or shot. And I deployed multiple times, including combat deployment
1:10.6	to Iraq. And that really helped
1:12.3	change my worldview in a lot of important ways. I went in believing a lot of certain things to be
1:17.2	truths. And I came out not believing a lot of the same things to be certain truths. And I quickly
1:23.0	transitioned into real estate. I have a passion for real estate. I just, I love what it can do for you from a
1:28.1	financial standpoint. I love how real estate can improve communities, connections among people
1:32.9	and the built environment. We interact with it 25 hours out of the day. So it's just such a
1:38.5	critical aspect of who we are as people. So I just, I love real estate. And it's a real passion
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