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Austin Z Zeeland.

Dude, I'm excited.

I'm stoked for this episode.

Glad to have you out on the show with this today.

Yeah, thanks for having you, man.

So for all those people out there that are just tuning in today have never heard about

you ever before in their entire life.

Could you give us just a brief background about yourself and tell us at the end of the day

what got you into real estate?

Yeah, definitely. So I kind of started my career in corporate America.

So I used to work at Microsoft as a consultant. I was helping them with some like strategic stuff, their partner channels, that type of stuff.

And at a certain point in my job there, I got really good at what I did. So I became very efficient and I had all this free time and I'm like, okay, well, I still have to clock in every day and this really sucks, still have to drive to work and I wasn't really enjoying that because I knew I could do so much more with my life.

I knew that I could spend my time doing the things that I really enjoyed doing, which includes like

nonprofit work and stuff like that. And for me, it seemed like a waste of time to have to go into the office every day and so I was like thinking I was like what can I do that could possibly get me out of this nine to five now for the years leading up to that I had started doing a little bit of day trading and so I was trading on the foreign exchange for X market and basically just applying my capital to the market and taking advantage of currency fluctuations.

And so over time I had gotten pretty good and during my time at Microsoft that's when I finally became

consistent at it consistently profitable and learn how to manage risk and

emotions and all that stuff and it kind of put me in a position where I started

making more money with that than I was for my job and I'm like, okay, interesting. This might just be my way out here. But at this point, it kind of became a second job for me because I live in Seattle and in our time zone the time to

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