Hello my friends, and welcome to another episode of Passive Real Estate Investing. I'm your host, Marco Santarelli. Now, even though this show is titled Passive Real Estate Investing, that's the name I gave the podcast in 2015. We really talk about all kinds of things. It's not just about real estate, it's about mindset and wealth creation and preservation, and even topics on the economy and housing inflation, interest rates and, and even other opportunities. So with that, you know, I wanted to bring one of my business partners and friends, Eddie Wilson, onto the show. It's something we've been talking about for a number of years, actually, never really got around to it for whatever reason. But, you know, I, I decided to have him on today as my guest. And so we had a great conversation. I'm recording this intro after my interview with him, which I just finished.

But yeah, we had a great conversation about all kinds of things, and we went, you know, kind of down a few rabbit holes ever so briefly as it relates to the economy and housing and even inflation. So I think this is a great episode to listen to through, to the end, because there's a lot of good nuggets and some deep thinking involved in, you know, some of the things we did talk about. So I, I know you'll enjoy the episode. It was about 45 minutes in length. I think this is great to listen to and, and possibly even listen to a second time. So without any further ado, let's get to that interview and I hope you enjoy it. And if you have any comments or questions about it, shoot that over to me or my team and we will talk to you soon.

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Well, it is my pleasure to welcome a good friend and business partner on the show. His name is Eddie Wilson. Eddie is a husband, father Avid real estate investor. He's a CEO of multiple companies, a national speaker, and he has a passion for business growth. Over the course of his career, he has built and run more than 100 different businesses, which is just amazing to me. Managed 4,000 employees, traveled around the world, speaking about business and leadership. He was also one of my business partners in a number of ventures, and he's a good friend. Eddie, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Well, it's great having you on. We've been talking about this for a while and finally pulled the trigger to get you on .

I know, I think you're invited me on your, on your show in 2016 in my office in Kansas City, and this is how long it took us to make it happen. But you know, today's the day.

Today's the day. We'll leave it at that. Well, it's good having you on. It's long overdue for those people who don't really know who you are, much about you, because obviously a lot of people do. Tell us a little bit about yourself. You could highlight whatever you want.

Sure, yeah, I think I really put my life into three buckets. One's corporate leader. I love business growth. I love the operational side of business. So that corporate leader, like no matter how many companies I sell or exit from, I always find more to run. Tried to retire twice and it just never works. I find a new company within, you know, 30 days to purchase or start. And I think we're similar in that fashion. I, I really do enjoy business. The second thing is I'm an avid investor. And so it's, it's not just related to real estate only. While real estate is my largest investment, you know, kind of class or bucket investing is a, is not just a pastime or a hobby, an investment, kinda that investment path has an entire vehicle inside of my company, underwriting processes, so on and so forth.

And I invest in a lot of different things. And then lastly, altruist you know, you get to a place in life where you make enough money, you have enough things,