This episode is for investors who are successful on paper, but don't always feel that way.

Your portfolio has grown.

Your equity has grown.

You have more properties.

And yet your time, flexibility, and peace of mind haven't improved the way you thought they would.

This doesn't mean you made bad decisions.

It usually just means you've outgrown your prior stage of real estate.

Today, we're going to unpack what that transition looks like and how to start

turning wealth into freedom. If we haven't met yet, my name is Chad Carson. You can also call me

Coach Carson. And on this channel, I teach you how to use a small and mighty style of real

estate investing to achieve financial freedom so you can spend your time doing more of what matters. And I'm joining this conversation by my friend Ariane Shi Hai. He's a successful investor from Houston, Texas. He's also a real estate broker, a property manager. He's one of the smartest real estate investors I know when it comes to how to use real estate to achieve financial freedom.

He writes at investing architect.com.

So, Aaron, I wanted to have a conversation with you to help a certain investor at a certain stage where they've already built some paper wealth.

Maybe they've already bought properties.

But they've had this feeling that they don't have the freedom, the flexibility, the options,

all these things that they originally set out to get like they, on paper, they're looking

pretty good, but they're not feeling good about necessarily translating that wealth into real

tangible, flexible freedom that they had hoped for in the first place. So my first question

for you is,

why does this happen? What is, what's going on when people feel this way? So I have a

controversial theory on this. And my theory is that most people like the idea of freedom,

but not freedom itself. So what I mean by that is that we love the pursuit of financial freedom, meaning preparing

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