Welcome to the real estate and financial independence podcast. My name is Chad Carson. You can also call me Coach Carson.

And this is a show all about investing in real estate, achieving financial independence, and doing more of what matters.

Normally on this day, on a Thursday, when I release this episode, I do something called

the Ask Coach edition of the podcast. I'm going to try something a little different today,

and I want to talk about an idea, one simple idea that as I unpack it might not be quite

so simple, but it's something I'm

interested in and that I think is related to our main topics of financial independence, of real

estate investing and of doing what matters. And it's called the highest goal. So actually when I go

back to something I say every single day on the when I introduce one of these

podcast episodes. I say that this show is all about real estate investing, which obviously I talk a lot

about. I'll say most of the content I dig into is the very practical tips. How do you do this? How do you do

that? How do you do seller financing? How do you acquire property? How do you find deals?

And I love the nitty gritty stuff.

I think the tactics are very important.

But I also say that we do a lot of that.

The big picture is to achieve something called financial independence.

And I've had episodes about those as well where we talk about progressive financial independence,

how you start sort of at the bottom

of a mountain and just saving money in an emergency fund and then getting a stable job and paying

your debt off and eventually buying investments and building wealth and having passive income

and maybe eventually getting to the top of the mountain where you have more income coming in

from your investments than you need to live.

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