Every American walks around with a bazooka strapped to their should all of the time, right?  What CORE BELIEFS of yours are totally false… and are costing you the chance to enjoy astounding investment results?  I’m Bryan Ellis.  I’ll expose the profit-sucking bias you don’t even know is controlling your mind RIGHT NOW in Episode 159.----Hello SDI Nation!  Welcome to the podcast of record for savvy self-directed investors like you!So there we were in an elevator.  My wife and I were heading downstairs in a hotel to a presentation to some affluent investors.  I had a large cylinder strapped over my should which contained a poster I was going to use in the presentation.  The doors opened on another floor for a lady to get in, and when she said “hello”… it was clear she was European.But she kept staring at my poster tube.  She seemed really uncomfortable.So, clearly joking, I looked at her and said – “This is my bazooka.  Where’s yours?”  If you don’t know, a bazooka is a cylindrical weapon used to launch grenades at tanks.Well, the lady turned pale white.  She appeared to choke up.  So I told her to relax… I was only kidding… it’s just a poster.She then said the strangest thing to me… she said:  “Well, I watch news.  I know all of you Americans are heavily armed.”That’s right, folks… that’s what the rest of the world thinks of us.  That we all walk around with bazookas strapped to our shoulders.  And this is NOT a fabricated story, folks.  But it’s a GREAT example of ignorant, false bias.  More on that in a moment.My friends… I’d like to thank you for the incredibly kind response you showed to my show on yesterday where I opened up a bit about a mistake I nearly made concerning raising capital to work with my clients.               If you didn’t get to hear it, I’d really recommend you do so now… you can hear it at SDIRadio.com/158.As a result of that show, I got a really cool note from one of my clients named Joe out in Arizona, thanking me for the transparency and offering a word of encouragement.  Joe… man, I really appreciate your note of support.  Joe has placed several hundred thousand dollars into play in other transactions he’s doing with us, and he very kindly indicated he plans to deploy another $100,000 with us.  I really do appreciate your confidence, Joe… as always, we’ll serve you very, very well.  I thank you for the opportunity, sir!So what about this CORE BELIEF that many of you hold… a latent form of discrimination, which is costing you REAL financial opportunity?Here’s an illustration:I have a friend who’s just a really great salt-of-the-earth type of guy.  Loves his kids.  Works hard.  He went through a divorce recently, so that was tough on him.  He’s a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy, but is a respected professional too… regularly speaks to very large audiences and is well known in his industry. This guy drives a normal car.  He has a nice, but not particularly extravagant home.  Not because he can’t afford it… but because his personal style is more subdued.  His kids go to good private schools.  On the surface, this guy has an upper-middle-class kind of lifestyle.But BELOW the surface… this guy is FLUSH.  I mean… he has stupid-high cash flows… consistently, each and every month.  He will never be worried about money for a single day in his life, because he’s got money coming in – in VERY LARGE VOLUME – each and every month.  His cash flows would enable him to live anywhere in the world that he wants to live.And his cash flow is TRULY PASSIVE.  He does NOTHING to maintain it.  I mean… not a darn thing.One more thing… he’s young… in his mid 40’s… and achieved this without an inheritance or winning the lottery.  How’d he do it?He buys little houses in just a few specific markets in the south and east… He particularly likes Alabama.  He pays no more than about $55,000 each for them, full renovated. He then leases them out through a government program that provides housing for lower income people.  And he has prop