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[00:00:00] Chris Powers: [00:00:00] I mean, just fundamentally. I think it's how some people are wired and not everybody's wired this way. But I remember when I bought my first house, I thought, well, if I can just get to 10 houses, like I'm set and then you get to 10 houses and, and as you get there, you enjoy, like, I don't even know if you enjoy it because now that you have 10, you need 20 and is like, you never really arrive at where you think you're going to arrive to that.

[00:00:24] The journey kind of is the destinations. I figured that out pretty early on that every time I kind of set my life is like, if I can just get to this point, everything will be okay, or I will have done what I needed to do you really just realize that that's just another step in the journey. I think if, if the journey ended, we wouldn't see companies like Amazon and Apple and all these things they would have ended way before.

[00:00:49] Right. and that's kind of the entrepreneurial spirit is like it never really in.

[00:00:57] Michael Moore: [00:00:57] Welcome to the climb. I'm your cohost [00:01:00] Michael Moore. Today we will dive deep inside the mind of a man transforming the real estate landscape of Fort worth and beyond meet Chris powers, founder of Fort capital. An amazing family man with quotes like we're just going to need faster horses. Don't buy all the land first and humility is the ultimate super power.

[00:01:23] This podcast is one you will listen to more than once. Listen to the Climb.

[00:01:36] Chris powers, welcome to the client. 

[00:01:38] Chris Powers: [00:01:38] Thank you for having me. It's been fun watching this get started. 

[00:01:43] Michael Moore: [00:01:43] Well, I can, I think I can speak on behalf of our cohost Bob, where I'm, you know, he and I came up with this idea about 90 days ago. But I was preparing for this this morning and look back in my notes and it was the fall of 2019 [00:02:00] that I started really listening to your podcast and set a meeting with you.

[00:02:03] And so, you know, I think. From both of us, you're kind of the spiritual founding father of our podcast. So we're excited to have you on and look forward to an engaging conversation this morning. Yeah. Back in and talk about, you know, Chris and not so much where you are today and where you're going, but let's, let's dive back a little bit.

[00:02:23] Born in El Paso came to TCU, kind of walk us through the beginning stages of, of Chris power. 

[00:02:30] Chris Powers: [00:02:30] Yeah, so I was born in El Paso, Texas. My mom lived there, her whole life. My grandfather had lived there pretty much his whole life. So El Paso runs very deep in my family, lived in Lubbock for a few years. My dad was a, a practicing attorney for 13 years.

[00:02:50] And then at 37, decided he wanted to become a doctor. So stop practicing law. We moved to Lubbock, so he could attend a medical school [00:03:00] at Texas tech. We moved from one year to Connecticut to do his first year of residency, moving Texans up to the Northeast. Probably wasn't the best decision we did one year.

[00:03:12] And we moved back to El Paso to finish and I finished high school there. I graduated, high school a year early. So I accepted my, my letter to TCU. when I was 16, came to TCU and I was 17, played a lot of golf in high school. I cherish El Paso. It's where I get a lot of, probably my values. And, it's an awesome place.

[00:03:35] Came to Fort worth in 2004 to go to TCU. And I've been here ever since. TCU was incredible for me. Like it is for a lot of people college. I met a ton of people. I started my business. I have to stay in Fort worth. After where I met my wife, been married for six years. I have a three and a half year old and a she about to be one year [00:04:00] old, two daughters.

[00:04:00] So yeah, life's pretty good. 

[00:04:03] Bob Wierema: [00:04:03] I just wanted to ask one question, cause it was 

[00:04:04] really intriguing to me. 

[00:04:06] So tell me 

[00:04:07] real quick, your father 

[00:04:10] just says, okay, I'm done with, with being a lawyer. I want to go be a doctor. Like what made him do that? I mean, that's, that's like pretty wild. 

[00:04:18] Chris Powers: [00:04:18] That's about as wild as it gets.

[00:04:19] And when you're a young kid, I was seven. When we, when we went to medical school in Lubbock. And I guess you just, your dad tells you that that's what you're going to do. And you just maybe think that's like a normal thing that people do. And, I'm now 33, I've met a lot of people and I've never met anybody else on the planet.

[00:04:36] That's on it. His dad was an attorney. so my dad grew up in the Northeast. he was, from Rhode Island. Went to Virginia then went to Harvard law and at Harvard wanted to really, always wanted to do like an intro in Texas or one of his summer deals in Texas. And he had a roommate from El Paso. He moved to El Paso and that's where he met my mom over the [00:05:00] summer and ended up moving there.

[00:05:02] But I don't think he ever really wanted to be a lawyer. I think his dad was a lawyer and I think a lot of people fall into that trap of my dad does it. I don't really know what else to do. And I honestly now looking back on it, I give him, while it's a crazy thing and it's not something I would recommend everybody do as I get older, I really admire him for.

[00:05:23] Really being willing to say, like this, isn't what I love doing. And making such a drastic change to do something that he would be happy doing. He had always wanted to be a doctor and even at 37, you know, he's just become a partner at a law firm and everything. He just said, like this isn't going to be fulfilling for me the rest of my life.

[00:05:40] And we did it. And so, again, as weird as it was, and, you know, we could have a whole podcast on what it's like to go to medical. Let's go when you're 37, it's something I really admire him for is. Really just kind of doing what makes them happy. I think there's a lot of people that probably don't ever make a big change because they're kind [00:06:00] of keep the status quo or, so not something, I knew at the time, but something I've learned as time goes by.

[00:06:06] Michael Moore: [00:06:06] Do you draw down on that though? Is his you're making decisions at four capital and you've got a pivot or maybe launch into something new. I mean, do you, do you see yourself reflecting on your dad's ability to go. This isn't the right direction for me. I'm I'm changing everything. I'm moving my fam...