Thought Leadership

Money doesn’t change you...it exposes you.

My pursuit of happiness has been such a long journey, that I do not think I have ever had the time to figure myself out.

Until now.

The need for higher education was something I felt I had to do. It would make my parents proud and at seventeen years old I saw no other path outside than college.

Obviously, I needed a well paying job after school. So the goal of making money and happiness will follow eventually inevitable. Right?

Now, I have seen some success in life, but what have I been trading for it all this time?

Who Is Justin, Actually?

I am a proud father. I was a stay-at-home father for 2 years as we navigated COVID-19. My son just turned 3 years old and he's amazing.
I am a proud husband. I met my wife the first day of college 16 years ago. She has been with me since Day 1.
I’m an unapologetic, and oftentimes nerdy, gamer. My brother showed me gaming when I was very young due to our 14 year age difference. I still play and will always be a gamer.
I am a Sommelier. Wine is great. (I am a German Riesling kind of guy)
I am a Commercial Real Estate Agent. A career that I have been working towards for nearly a decade now
I am a Real Estate Investor. Trying to change our family’s trajectory through passive income and generational wealth.
But most importantly, I am an introverted extrovert. Is that even a thing?

Yes, I am an introvert. I feel that so much of my life has been chosen and/or scripted for me that when I am alone, I look for silence and calmness. The concept of being true to yourself never made sense to me because I assumed that in certain spaces, I needed to be a certain person to appease certain people. After-all, that’s what society teaches us, right?

Well, here we are. I have time to breathe and focus on me and my goals and visions for myself.

It’s been hard. Writing this article has been hard. But I realize I have been chasing money for so long that I have finally exposed myself. Money isn't the goal. The lifestyle is what I have been chasing. The freedom to be who I wanted to, around everyone, is what I have been chasing.

Cheers to who you ACTUALLY are.

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