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I just did episode #100 of The Stephen Courson Show, the podcast about money and chasing modern freedom.

Thank you to everyone for your support.

What podcasting for 2 years has done for me…

• Increased my network
• I’ve developed 5 different skills (audio engineering, video editing, social media management, graphic design and communication skills)
• Skill stacking makes you dangerous and valuable
• Learned new ways to make money they don’t teach you in school

If you can do something purposeful for 2 years, it will change your life, many times in ways we don’t think.

And if you are going, I can’t do anything for 2 years…think about things you would consider bad habits. 

• Drinking 2x soda a day
• Eating candy daily 
• Only brushing your teeth 3x a week

Those were habits I had for over 2 years and I was DEDICATED. I was consistent. What did it get me?

• 5 cavities 
• 2 root canals in 2 years (only had like 3 cavities my entire life before that)
• $7000+ in dental fees
• Was 19lbs over my ideal weight

We are creatures of habit and therefore consistent in our nature. We don’t like change. You are consistent at something. The question to ask yourself is this…

“Are my habits driving me towards the life I want?”

If not, then ask this…

‘If I could cut one bad behavior down by 50% today and stay consistent with it, what would that do for me?”

Start small. Think long-term. Change your life.

Announcements…

• I will be launching a series of products in 2023 designed to help you get from $0-$100k net worth quickly
• 4-7 minute videos on my YouTube channel
• Exclusive offers on LinkedIN (so Connect with me)
• Digital products meant to help you change habits, make more money and free up time
• So go to my website and put in your email address to stay notified and get a weekly newsletter

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About Lifebuilder
The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

For this Thanksgiving episode, I take some time to open up and give thanks during what has been a very challenging year.

Cancer. Moving. New jobs. Young kids. All of it.

It's really made our lives difficult and put us in a constant state of change. It definitely hasn't made us "happy" all of the time. And that's totally fine because we don't focus on being happy.

Our focus is on significance. Things that have deep meaning. Our culture preaches that doing what makes you happy is the ultimate desired state. Society couldn't be more wrong.

It's impossible to be in a constant state of happiness. It's also very shallow. If you had a loved one dying in a hospital, would you not go see them because that would make you sad and not happy? Of course not. You would drive there as fast as possible. Why?

Because those last moments would be significant.

We get it mixed up. We think that if we are happy, we will be grateful.

But the dirty little secret is that its the opposite. 

When we are grateful, we will be happy.

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About Lifebuilder
The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

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Sarah Carruthers is works in tech sales for her day job and is a 24/7 mother, wife and real estate portfolio builder.

She discusses the strategy she uses to invest with a little-known mortgage option called a first-lien heloc. She learned about this a few years ago and it enabled her and her husband to accelerate investing since they could utilize the equity in their home.

In this episode, she goes into detail on what it is and how it works. It's not for everyone, but for the people who have a solid plan to invest, its a powerful tool.

We also discuss having a contrarian world view, why thinking different than the mainstream is important, parenting and more.

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About Lifebuilder
The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

It's Election Day and the mid-terms are here. Both parties always make big claims about what they will do for the economy. So who is correct?

Which political party is better for stocks?

I also give an update on the crazy hit that growth stocks have taken since the pandemic pump.

There are some real buying opportunities!

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About Lifebuilder
The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

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On This Episode
Will Watkins has made his way through the tech consulting and tech sales world since being drafted by the Yankees in the MLB. 

When injuries ended his career early, he used a lot of the discipline and community-building traits he had developed to find new ways to network and lead in the corporate world. 

This allowed him to rise quickly through the ranks while being a top performer. His wisdom and advice on how to get in front of important people in a way that benefits everyone is something anyone can do and there's no downside to it!

His purpose shines through everything he does as he lives a mission-focused life.

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About Lifebuilder
The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

The government is denying we are already in a recession. 

The media is mostly complicit in this false narrative which is driving poor behaviors in people who don't see how serious our predicament is.

The ones ignorant will be the ones hurt the most by it.

We ARE in a recession and its going to get worse. So here are 3 things to prepare for that.

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About Lifebuilder
The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

Lucas Leblanc has had a busy decade. He went from working with rockstars like me in corporate to selling everything he has and backpacking the world.

His focus to chase a dream even when he wasn't sure what he was looking for is an incredible story that resulted in finding his true love and starting a real estate portfolio.

He shares lessons and wisdom that he learned along the way that's applicable to so many no matter what your journey looks like.

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About Lifebuilder
The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

How do people like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or the millionaire next door that's only 35 years old become rich faster than everyone else?

They change one crucial thing about their income. They get paid off of the results they produce instead of the time they put in.

In this video, I'll compare how an administrative assistant can do the same job in the same amount of time but double her income!

Working an 8-5 job brings stability and income predictability. There's nothing wrong with that, but unless you're in the 1% of jobs like doctor, lawyer or some other highly-skilled job that gets paid $300/hr+,  you won't become rich quickly.

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The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

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On This Episode

JQ talks about taking advantage of resources your city may provide and the importance of taking action! 

From a random seminar to starting a small real estate empire, when you take chances, you may be surprised what you find!

We discuss how journaling has boosted his overall productivity and given him a legacy to leave his children.

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About Lifebuilder
The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.

Society and our poorly run education system teaches you to think in amounts. But people building wealth and millionaires think about money in percentages.

Society: A $4 item that goes to $5 is a $1 difference. No big deal.

Millionaires: A $4 item that goes to $5 is a 25% difference. That's a big deal. If nothing is different about the item, is it still worth it or can I find something similar? Do I even need it?

That is why its so powerful to think this way.

Now this is a small example but then multiply it to hundreds and thousands of dollars with credit card bills and mortgages and its life-changing.

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The Lifebuilder Podcast helps ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders gain clarity, eliminate distractions, and achieve their goals faster. Each episode gives practical strategies for personal growth, productivity, and building a meaningful life. If you want clear direction, better focus, and proven frameworks to win at life and work, this show gives you the tools to get unstuck and move forward.