Working Full Time, Parenting Small Kids AND Killing It with Land Academy Member Nathan Cheung (LA 1795)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah. Steven and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk.

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today we have Nathan Cheung, current Career Path member. I've got a ton of questions for him. First and foremost, how are you finding Career Path, and what led you to the point of making the decision to join us?

Nathan Cheung:

Yeah, well, first I just want to say thanks for having me on. I've been listening to the podcast for a long time, probably since 2019. When I first listened to it, I probably started with episode 100, or something, and just rolled all the way back. I had a really long commute.

Jill K DeWit:

Wow.

Nathan Cheung:

So, a little surreal to be talking live, but just-

Jill K DeWit:

Outside of Career Path.

Nathan Cheung:

Yep. Yep. That's right, outside of Career Path. I think I'm the fourth cohort of Career Path. I was really interested in joining one, two and three, but I actually work full time. I've got two young kids, so I think before, it was on Wednesdays or Thursdays, so that was... It was going to be hard to explain to my boss what I was doing.

Jill K DeWit:

Why are you taking these four hour lunch breaks every Wednesday? I don't know.

Nathan Cheung:

Yeah. But as soon as you guys offered it for Saturday, I just jumped all over it. I asked my wife, almost sheepishly, "Hey, there's... Land Academy is doing Career Path on Saturday." To my surprise, she didn't even flinch. She just said, "Do it. Go for it." She watches the kids while I do it. I hide out. They don't even know I'm around. It's been awesome. Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:

Good.

Steven Jack Butala:

What do you do in real life? What's your [inaudible 00:06:23] job?

Nathan Cheung:

Yeah, so my background, I'm actually a pharmacist.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay.

Nathan Cheung:

So no real background in real estate or entrepreneurship, but caught the bug a few years ago. Long story short, I'm here now. I'm still working full time, but kind of... I'm really doing both.

Steven Jack Butala:

We interviewed Dan Smart, who was... He's a pharmacist with his wife. I don't know if it aired yet. If it didn't, it's going to air next week.

Jill K DeWit:

Brainy people travel in our group. That's the whole underlying theme here. I'm going to say, it's definitely because of you. It's not because of me. I don't think I draw in the brainy people. So, that's funny.

Steven Jack Butala:

We have a really good friend, he's from Iowa. He's retired and he is got... He created from the ground up, this very successful contracting business that specializes in grain elevators for farming. He told this joke recently to us, and we were all on the floor about checking out a pharmacist with a couple of packages of bacon and his cholesterol medicine, over here. I'm sure you've seen it all.

Nathan Cheung:

Yep.

Jill K DeWit:

That's good. Okay, so 2019 you found us. Do you remember when you joined Land Academy?

Nathan Cheung:

Yeah, middle of 2019.

Jill K DeWit:

Okay.

Nathan Cheung:

I didn't really know what I was doing yet, still kind of getting my first couple deals under my belt. Actually went to the live event, the last one in Hermosa Beach, so that was, that was huge for me, just kind of hearing what the other members did. I remember specifically, I want to say Matt Rogers, kind of hearing him speak, hearing some of the other advanced members talking, just thinking, "Wow, this is possible." It seemed really far away from me at the time, but realizing that it was possible, I think that kind of helped catapult me a little bit. It's like each step of another mental barrier to level up, and to level up, and to level up.

Steven Jack Butala:

Someone told me a really long time ago that if you're a real entrepreneur,