342: A Survivor Thrives on Borrowed Time

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Cole Hatter had landed his dream job as a firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) at 19. He looked ahead with confidence to a 30-year career serving others. Two years into the job, a car crash threw him onto the freeway at 80 miles an hour. He was not expected to live. Years later, recovered, he knows he’s living on borrowed time. He is the founder of Thrive: Make Money Matter, an annual conference designed to teach entrepreneurs how to dominate in business and in life, while making the world a better place. Cole is a husband, father and philanthropist who strives to give back.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 342. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has
0:21.5	discovered his talents to do work he loves, to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.5	At 19, Cole had landed his dream job as a firefighter and emergency medical technician. He
0:34.2	looked ahead with confidence to a 30-year career of serving others. Two years into the job,
0:39.4	a car crash threw him under the freeway at 80 miles an hour. He was not expected to live.
0:45.2	Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Cole Hatter. Welcome, Cole.
0:50.8	Thanks for having me on the show, Don. I'm excited. Well, thank you, sir. It's our pleasure.
0:54.4	Cole, are you using your talents doing work that you love? I am. Thankfully, yes.
0:59.7	All right. We look forward to hearing the whole story. Cole Hatter is an entrepreneur,
1:04.5	investor, author, and award-winning speaker. He invest in real estate, startups, and several
1:10.4	funds exceeding $100 million. He's the founder estate, startups, and several funds exceeding $100 billion.
1:12.5	He's the founder of Thrive, Make Money Matter, an annual conference designed to teach
1:17.5	entrepreneurs how to dominate in business and in life while making the world a better place.
1:23.0	Cole is a husband, father, and philanthropist that strives to give back. His greatest passion is providing
1:29.3	a platform to educate and empower entrepreneurs to live their lives and run their companies in a way
1:35.2	that makes a measurable difference in the world. Well, Cole, that's a summary of your very fine career.
1:41.7	Tell us what you're up to now that has you engaged and excited,
1:44.6	if you would, please. Yeah, so I'm running businesses still to this day that I started 11 years
1:50.1	ago when I first became an entrepreneur, which is my real estate investment business. And I
1:55.7	have added more recently some things like my Thrive event and I recently opened a merchant processing
2:01.3	company. So I'm doing kind of a diversity of things that are completely unrelated in business
2:06.5	to one another and totally different industries that I've started one at a time and worked
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