Somebody might be saying, I'm waiting for an opportunity to fall on my lap.

And I have a kind of a comeback to that.

Opportunities don't fall in your lap.

They pass by your line of vision.

And if you recognize them and you grab them, you can do something with them.

If you don't recognize them, they keep on going, right?

They just fly right out of your line of sight and they move on to somebody else that knows what they're looking for and grabs it.

Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. That is me, where world-class guests share

their wisdom on building a better life. Join me as we explore the habits, the actions,

and the beliefs that

have guided their journey with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. Brian Tibbs, welcome to the podcast, man.

Thank you very much. It's a pleasure for me to be here.

How many times have been to Maui now in the last few years?

Well, Brandon has brought me three times, and I was at Kona one at the time before that.

Wow, all right. Well, I'm glad to have you here, man.

So I know you as a real estate investor.

Obviously, you're in some open door capital stuff, but you're also active real estate investor yourself.

But I also knew you were a former missionary.

And you lived on the Amazon River.

I want to hear about that at some point.

And I know you are an author.

You got a new book. It's called The Hacker Method from Mr. Brian Tibbs. I'm super excited to talk about that today. So that's who you are today. But take us back before all that. Who was Mr. Brian Tibbs?

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