Welcome to the Coach Carson podcast.

This is a show about real estate investing and financial independence,

and it's also a show about doing more of what matters.

I'm your host, Chad, Coach Carson.

I'm really happy to have you here today.

The topic of today's episode is slowing down, how to live more deliberately in a fast-paced

world. Now, this is literally a little change of pace from the topics. I like to go back and

forth to do a lot of real estate investing and get into a little bit

of, call it life philosophy. But this is an episode as much for me as perhaps many of you. Just to give you a

little history on me, I've been a real estate investor for about 16 years now, an entrepreneur

right after I got out of college. And to be honest, all the way back, even I'm thinking back in college and high school,

just sort of my personality has been a tug of war between a couple equally compelling

visions of an ideal pace of life.

On the one hand, I'm very driven.

You know, I like to go fast and push and have goals.

I got a scholarship to play football in college.

I was a captain of the team for two years as a middle linebacker.

So you can imagine the intensity there.

I'm an entrepreneur.

I like to, you know, I've been pursuing financial independence and ambitious financial goals for a long time.

So that's, on the one hand, that's the kind of pace that drives me.

On the other hand, though, and perhaps some of you have these twin kind of drives as well,

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