#35: Brody Fausett
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Brody Fausett is a real estate investor, ultramarathon runner, teacher, and founder of Real Estate Investing School.
In this episode, Brody breaks down how he went from rookie door-to-door salesman to reaching millionaire status before age 30 – and makes the case that you can achieve your goals a lot faster than you might think.
Brody also talks about:
- Running a 174-mile ultra marathon through the desert with his pregnant (!) wife
- How doing missionary work overseas changed his outlook on life
- His experience selling security systems door to door
- How he built massive wealth quickly through house hacking, rent-by-the-room, short term rentals, and other real estate strategies
- Generating over $1M cash from just one house
- Why he takes every Wednesday off work
- Moving his family to Hawaii based on intuition
- His first-hand experience in Lahaina when the wildfires swept through town
- How his wife appointed herself "Director of Distribution" and helped deliver supplies to families displaced by the fires
- Conspiracy theories surrounding the Maui wildfires, Oprah, and blue roofs
- The books, people and quotes that have helped him live a better life
Brody's Charitable Cause:
Mana Mentors, which "mentors young people through surfing and skateboarding to achieve physical, academic and mental health goals" – and which is currently helping with Lahaina wildfire relief*
*All ad revenue from this episode is donated directly to the charity of the guest's choice
Connect with Brody:
- Brody's Instagram
- Real Estate Investing School Instagram
- Real Estate Investing School Website
- Brody and Andrea's Couples Goal-Setting Retreat
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't want anybody be in control. |
| 0:04.0 | Like I want to be the one that's in control. |
| 0:06.0 | I want to be the driver in my life. |
| 0:08.0 | If you're always waiting for that external circumstance to dictate how you feel and what you do, |
| 0:13.0 | dude, you're going to be swayed left and right and you're never going to know what mood you're in from one day to the next. |
| 0:18.0 | Instead, why not take the approach of, hey, whatever's going on, whatever's happening? I'm the one that's freaking in control. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. That is me, where world-class guests share |
| 0:30.8 | their wisdom on building a better life. Join me as we explore the habits, the actions, |
| 0:35.2 | and the beliefs that have guided their journey with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. |
| 0:57.8 | Brody Fawcett, welcome to the show, man. |
| 0:58.9 | Thanks, brother. |
| 0:59.9 | Excite to be here. |
| 1:00.8 | Excide to do this. |
| 1:01.4 | All right, man. |
| 1:05.1 | Well, you know, I know you currently decently well. |
| 1:08.8 | Like, you know, founder of real estate investing school, massively successful real estate investor, amazing choice of where to live in the world |
| 1:11.5 | because you live here on Maui. And I know that about you, but I don't know almost anything about your |
| 1:15.5 | past. So that is who Brody is. Who was Brody before all that? Oh, I mean, how deep do you want to go? |
| 1:23.1 | Deep, man, deep. Yeah, man, just like an average guy, to be honest, growing up, I moved around a ton. |
| 1:29.8 | Like, I think that I actually remember distinctly in, this is like elementary school, towards |
| 1:33.8 | the end of elementary school. And I'm like, mom, I haven't been to the same school in, I think |
| 1:37.8 | I'd been to like five different schools every grade. Like, we'd move. And she's like, you know what, you're right? And I remember that year, we didn't, we didn't move anywhere. And so live in Las Vegas, Nevada for a little bit, lived in Utah, |
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