#20: AJ Osborne
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
AJ Osborne is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and investor with more than $300 million in self-storage assets. He's also a husband and father of four and hosts the 'Self Storage Income' podcast.
In this episode, AJ opens up about his childhood and how traditional school just didn't work for him – an experience that inspired he and his wife to start a school for kids who don't fit into the box.
AJ also discusses his battle with Guillain-Barre syndrome, which left him suddenly and unexpectedly paralyzed and near death... and how getting a second chance at life drives him to do BIG things in business and life.
AJ also speaks about:
-His advice for parents who can’t homeschool or put their children in private school
-The need to teach your kids that it’s okay to say no to authority and to reinforce your beliefs
-How he and his wife talk to their kids about sex and pornography
-How to help your kids feel comfortable speaking to you about difficult subjects
-His past career as a medical insurance salesman and the massive fluctuations in income he experienced
-His transition into self-storage
-How he suddenly became a quadriplegic after getting diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome
-Being fired from his job while on life support
-His slow recovery, and the small milestones he celebrated when he started getting his movement back
-The current state of his body and the lasting effects of his illness
-How he started 3 multi-million dollar companies out of his wheelchair and how he gets purpose and meaning from his work
-The mindset and attitude that helps him get through the day-to-day
-What he would do if he lost all of his wealth tomorrow and had to start all over again
-How he built a massive machine of self-storage businesses that support one another
-What his leadership style is and the legacy that he wants to leave behind
AJ’s charitable cause:
Chair the Hope, which provides wheelchairs to people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford them – including in developing countries across the world
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
Connect with AJ on socials:
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| 0:00.0 | What I've been given, I would never want to leave. I am totally okay with where I'm at. I do not feel jaded. I do not feel robbed. I'm not mad at God. I just don't have that. I was very mad in the hospital that they were keeping me alive. I thought that was cruel and unusual. I was like, why won't you let me die? Come on. It was like, you're just letting me |
| 0:22.1 | be tortured here, but obviously, very happy that that happened to everything else. So I don't |
| 0:26.9 | have those feelings at all. I am filled with extreme gratitude. Welcome to A Better Life with |
| 0:35.5 | Brandon Turner. That is me, where world-class guests share their wisdom on building a better life. |
| 0:40.6 | Join me as we explore the habits, the actions, and the beliefs that have guided their journey |
| 0:44.4 | with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. A.J. Osborne, welcome to A.J. Osborne, welcome to A.J.O.'R. |
| 1:04.9 | How you doing? Doing great, man. How you doing? |
| 1:07.7 | Man, this is a crazy weekend. We're here at the Better Life Summit, |
| 1:12.6 | real estate summit, and I just got done with the keynote. So I'm hyped up right now on adrenaline. |
| 1:17.9 | And you killed it. Seriously, dude, I'm always so amazed. And the event you've put on here is |
| 1:25.3 | phenomenal. Thanks, man. I hate to say that on podcast because everybody that wasn't |
| 1:28.9 | here now knows they've missed out on something incredible, but you should have been here because it was, |
| 1:33.4 | you did really good. I appreciate that, man. Well, let's talk about you because you're way cooler than |
| 1:38.6 | me. So I doubt that. So I know you, AJ. I know you as, let's start by your father of four. I know that. I know you have four amazing kids. I've been to your house. We've hung out. You have the coolest house in all of Idaho. I mean, yeah, Idaho. I almost confused that with Utah, which there's, again, we talked about, yeah, David Green last night was making fun of us for, what do you say? They're like two actors that look identical, but they're not? It's like, Idaho and Utah. |
| 2:01.7 | No. |
| 2:01.9 | Father of four, husband, and one. |
| 2:03.1 | I know that you've got over, I think it's at this point, three million square feet of self-storage. |
| 2:07.0 | Yes. |
| 2:07.5 | Yeah, which is insane. |
| 2:08.6 | You also, I mean, you're a real estate guy forever. |
| 2:10.9 | You syndicate deals. |
| 2:12.1 | You raise a sorts of stuff. |
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