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The Mike Litton Experience

From PhD to Passive Income: George Roberts’ Journey to Financial Freedom

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Careers, Kids & Family, Business, Parenting

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Mike Litton Experience, host Mike Litton sits down with investor, author, data scientist, and entrepreneur George Roberts—a man whose journey spans from Troy, Michigan to a PhD in biology, breakthroughs in research, life-changing career pivots, and ultimately to creating financial freedom through passive investing and commercial real estate.

George shares powerful moments from his early life, his years in research, the challenges and triumphs of transitioning into data science, and the bold leap into entrepreneurship. He also opens up about writing his book, “Passionate Living Through Passive Investing,” and how his mission is to help people build wealth, reduce career risk, and create meaningful lives driven by purpose.

What You’ll Get From This Episode:
✔ How George went from earning $16k/year in academia to generating passive income through real estate
✔ Why being laid off became his greatest turning point
✔ Actionable lessons to start investing—even if you’re new or busy
✔ How to build a passionate life by leveraging passive income
✔ The mindset required to leave a traditional career and design your future
✔ The surprising habits and personal stories that shaped George’s success

If you’re someone looking to build passive income, shift careers, start investing, or simply get inspired by a story of resilience and reinvention—this episode is for you.

👉 Buy George’s Book: Passionate Living Through Passive Investing (Available on Amazon & Audible)
👉 Connect with George: RobertsCapitalEnterprises .com
👉 Join His Meetup: MDCRE (Metro Detroit Commercial Real Estate)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

They call me into the Zoom because it was still pandemic time. And we were really hardly in the office at all.

0:07.1

And I thought, oh, my God, I see like six people on the Zoom. I know what's happening.

0:11.1

Interest rates are shooting up faster than they ever have. And I'm here in FinTech, you know, mortgages.

0:18.5

I mean, the business just dried up. So I was more than happy to go because,

0:22.8

Mike, I was doing the right thing. I thought, what am I going to do with my cash? Because I was

0:28.7

making good money. I mean, like I tell you, I started out at $16,000 a year. And then to be in a job where I'm earning six figures plus, that was not in my mind as a researcher.

0:43.0

I put money out of my mind. But then I had the money and I had to decide what to do with it.

0:47.4

So I decided that I would go into multifamily real estate. I went from having no idea how to write anything to writing up my own

0:59.7

scientific papers, which is, I mean, I gotta say in a way it's crazy difficult. But another way,

1:05.1

because it's so stereotyped, the way we speak, if you take a look at scientific papers,

1:10.3

and they're all written up in the, in the strangest way.

1:13.0

But we all write, it seems almost in the same style. So I do all of these things that have sort of

1:19.2

qualified me to be the nexus. People say, you know, who is George Roberts? Well, he's the man who knows

1:24.8

everybody in real estate. And so because of that, and because I do

1:28.4

spend so many, so much time, and I spend so many hours going on podcasts, hosting my own podcast,

1:35.0

I've got people who just come to me and they're willing to bring me into their deals.

1:40.9

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1:45.4

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1:51.2

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1:55.8

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2:02.4

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2:06.1

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