Welcome back everyone to the Learn Like a CPA show. I'm your host Ryan Bakke.

In today's episode, I have a very special guest on Mr. Rich Summers.

I mean, this guy is awesome. This guy does everything boutique hotels.

He's got a Boutique Hotel mastermind.

I personally invest in those some of Rich's deals.

As well as the IP is also doing content creation.

And, Rich, I think we first met at the STR wealth conference in 2022 was it?

Yeah, it was out in Nashville, 2022 man and you were on stage speaking and I was like who the fuck is this cat I got to meet this dude and next thing you know you're out in San Diego for a podcast you literally walked in and you were like let's I want to invest in your fun I want to roll some self-directed Ira money over and

dude you were an action taker we jumped in connected and you hosted a cool badass

meet-up that same night in San Diego which a lot of people showed up to and a lot of people said some amazing things about it.

So thank you for coming out.

Dude, it's such a pleasure to connect with you, man.

Thanks for having me on your show.

Yeah, there's a, there's a book called The 48 Laws of power. Have you ever heard of that book?

No, I haven't heard of it. So one of the law one of the 48 laws is interaction with boldness.

So it knows when when you're going to do something you just go, you interaction with boldness, you go

all in.

When you feel like you're right about something or a person or an idea, you interaction with boldness and that that was me

Unleashing my inner 48 laws of power and acting with boldness so just giving you a heads up

Dude I love that man and you know what I haven't read that book but that's how I live every day of my life.

I don't do anything half fast. I go all in and you know that's that's how I got out of the air traffic control career I

burned the boats and I went all in and I think life rewards those who go all in. So what did so you worked at air traffic controller for W2 and then what about before that what did you do before that?

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