Becoming an Asset Millionaire, Build a Growth Mindset, and Take a Vacation | Brand New Podcast

Pastor Shannon just got back from vacation and it did not start well. XNA didn't have anyone on hand to fix a small maintenance issue on a 5:10 a.m. flight, so he missed it and spent an unplanned night in Chicago. He redeemed it with Lou Malnati's deep dish, then lost three hours to Odyssey on IMAX and would like them back.

That's the first twenty minutes. Then it turns into a money conversation and gets pointed.

His argument is that you probably have more room than you think. Wages are up 46 percent, groceries are up 34 percent, and he says that gap is 12 percent nobody's accounting for. He walks through what a couple paying $2,200 in rent and $2,400 in daycare could do instead. Buy a house with a 680 credit score, live in it two years, rent it out, buy another one. Do that four times and you're an asset millionaire before 35.

He also runs the math on whether a second income is actually a second income once you take out childcare, the car, the work clothes, and the phone. He's careful to say he isn't telling anybody to quit their job.

Also in here: the timeshare presentation vacation hack and why two hours of it is genuine torture, ten to God and ten to yourself and live on the eighty, the tractor he couldn't afford and bought anyway, why he thinks TikTok works like a curtain, and an engineer who finished a $150,000 project in ten hours.

Plus: nobody wants to go to a small mall, $3.75 an hour in the 80s, and a kid yelling watch this from the side of a pool nine times in a row.

Comment your worst airport story, or tell us where you land on the house thing. Then send this to somebody who says they can't afford it.

00:00 Cold open

00:59 Nobody made good music in the 70s

02:52 Three hours of Odyssey on IMAX

05:07 Missing a 5:10 a.m. flight out of XNA

07:06 Stuck in Chicago with deep dish and Garrett's popcorn

11:27 Is backpacking 20 miles actually a vacation?

15:14 Two hours of timeshare torture for three free nights

17:22 What people spend outside their mortgage

21:01 A short detour about coffee

26:01 The day your soul finally catches up

29:58 $2,200 in rent and $2,400 in daycare

31:12 It's hard to buy a home. No it isn't.

31:42 Live in it two years, rent it out, buy another

32:20 An asset millionaire in under ten years

34:25 Wages up 46 percent, groceries up 34

35:44 Does your spouse actually have to work?

38:08 Watch this, watch this, watch this

41:16 A 680 credit score and not waiting on rates

44:18 Taking initiative and paralysis by analysis

45:27 The tractor he couldn't afford and bought anyway

48:45 Three channels and an antenna on the roof

49:44 TikTok is a curtain

50:57 Nobody talks about the plane that landed

52:02 In defense of every kind of weather

54:27 The rock he cannot get out of the ground

56:50 Production versus presence

1:04:07 Revolving stages and cowboy hats

1:08:33 A growth mindset for the church

1:10:09 Nobody wants to go to a small mall

1:11:49 $3.75 an hour and helping with groceries

1:13:52 Claude, Grok, and a $150,000 job done in ten hours

1:21:48 Zakat, tithing, and the five pillars

1:29:00 Arguing about church production online

1:32:53 How do we get this out?

1:33:58 Closing prayer