Cole Hatter

I made a gazillion dollars.

Well, it's

I was making hundreds of thousands a year as a young, you know, 20, 21, 22 year old, sometimes six figures in a month.

And I lost it all because I was 100% leverage in real estate.

And like I said earlier, banked on appreciation.

2008 taught me a lesson that maybe I should be more diversified, number one.

And number two, know how to make money within real estate, whether real estate's going up or down.

And so after three years of limping through the recession, 2011, I came back with a vengeance and then went off to make millions of dollars.

And in that season of having made money, having lost it all, and then having made way more back than I'd ever had before, you know, you start asking, geez, is it really about the money?

Cause that's what the world says is important.

Or is there more to it than that?

And so what I have found is that money is great.

Uh,

But it's just a utility.

It's not a destination.

It's a starting point.

And when we have money, it gives us more options, options to take great vacations, options to buy great cars or options to do good in the world.

And I believe that business can be the greatest tool or or vehicle to leverage to to make a

really positive change in the world, whether it's in your business model, like Tom's shoes, who gives shoes away, or whether it's just making so many millions of dollars, you don't have to worry about money more like a Warren Buffett or a Bill Gates who want to give all their money away.

But I just think that when people are getting by paycheck to paycheck, it limits their capacity to do good in the world.