4.8 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Billy and Melissa have a net worth of $1.0 million. This is in various investments including the market and real estate. They are in their late 30s and are business owners. They recently relocated from a high cost of living area to a low cost of living area to participate in geoarbitrage. They started in a big hole that included over 100k in debt and had a car repossessed at one point. They emphasized the importance of staying the course, overcoming adversity and continuous improvment.
Takeaways
*Start investing early and pick a strategy that works for you
*Consider risks in life and how they may affect you in the short term and long term
*You can make mistakes and still overcome them especially when you're young
*Entrepreneurship can provide fulfillment and generate a lot of income but it isn't easy
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0:00.0 | and I do like the idea of I am a martial artist like I mentioned you know in martial |
0:06.1 | arts you have the different ranks and the different belts you're trying to move |
0:09.8 | forward with I do like that with the finances as well I like setting different |
0:14.6 | benchmarks and seeing things grow so it's not necessarily for any particular |
0:19.2 | reason but just to have little goals and have little stepping stones. |
0:23.2 | I like the idea of making enough with investments to cover expenses. |
0:27.3 | I think that would be a cool next target for us. |
0:30.0 | And then there might be something else after that. |
0:32.8 | So let's say it's the second million or whatever it is. |
0:36.4 | And we look at that. |
0:37.7 | It is this thing that I'm thinking about doing and I'm assessing risk, |
0:42.3 | how does it affect the vision that we have for our family? |
0:46.4 | Is there going to be a decent chance that it's going to mess that up |
0:50.5 | or it's going to really affect things in a negative way, that might take it off the table. |
0:55.3 | If it looks like there's a pretty good shot, whether it's something I'm already doing and I |
0:59.8 | see some growth trajectory, I might look at that and say, okay, let's go all in over here. |
1:04.3 | And that's kind of what happened with this other business. |
1:06.1 | I just noticed a, I guess kind of like a hole in the market. |
1:15.3 | And I started dabbling and, I guess, kind of like a hole in the market. And I started dabbling and, hey, let's see what happens here. Not that it's been like all upwards, but I saw some good signs, whether it |
1:20.7 | was people saying things or just the results that were happening and then kind of putting more |
1:27.2 | into it from there. |
1:28.0 | That's kind of my strategy. |
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