{"id":8054,"date":"2023-03-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T17:11:19","slug":"why-passionate-income-is-better-than-passive-income-with-brian-luebben-698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/?p=8054","title":{"rendered":"Why Passionate Income Is Better Than Passive Income With Brian Luebben | 698"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is there really anything better than passive income? What is &#8220;passionate income?&#8221; How does that play into everything?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianluebben.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Luebben<\/a> shares how he became financially independent at age 27, and where his passions led him. He shares his grand journey to travel the world full time by buying real estate and monetizing his podcast \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionacademypod.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Action Academy Podcast<\/a>.\u201d What passions do you have that could lead to millions? Find out here!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<h3>Watch the episode here<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kunZJXANAcs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Listen to the podcast here<\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/percolate.blogtalkradio.com\/offsiteplayer?hostId=709401&amp;episodeId=12206071\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180px\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Why Passionate Income Is Better Than Passive Income With Brian Luebben<\/h2>\n<p><strong>I appreciate you guys binging and tuning in. Without you, there could not be a ripple effect created. Thank you so much for not just taking this information, and then going on with your day, but actually applying it and making it work for you. As a reminder, if you already listened on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/money-ripples-podcast\/id895555599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>iTunes<\/strong><\/a><strong> or wherever it might be, if you haven\u2019t given us a review, give us a review there or give a shoutout. If you\u2019re a YouTuber, great. Go to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJS6bPY8sm53pkjiCSuBKMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><strong>, subscribe, like us, and all that good stuff. I appreciate you guys tuning in. Please be sure to share that with all your friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A special guest I\u2019ve got here is someone that I met through different circles, especially in the real estate game. Not just real estate, but entrepreneurship. He\u2019s an impressive man. For someone so young doing some things that are so cool, I know you\u2019re going to love this story. I\u2019ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w2toworldtravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Luebben<\/a> here. A little bit about him. He was working the whole 9:00 to 5:00 corporate job, retire by 65, that kind of thing but he realized that wasn\u2019t for him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What he ended up doing is he ended up going out on a journey and traveling the world. He\u2019s doing that full-time. He also has a great podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/theactionacademy.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Action Academy Podcast<\/a>, that you guys should check out. This guy\u2019s been able to hit financial freedom at the age of 27. If you thought it was cool that I did at 28, Brian one-up me. He did it one year better. Brian, we get to talk with you about how to not just create passive income, but passionate income. I\u2019m excited to have you on, Brian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was like watching the Sistine Chapel being painted. That was a work of art. Everyone tuning in, he does this live. That was beautiful from one podcaster to another. I am eternally grateful to be on here. It\u2019s awesome to finally be able to meet you face-to-face and have this conversation. You and I struck up a relationship over a couple of mastermind groups that we were discussing. Now, we\u2019ve formed a new friendship. I\u2019m excited to be on here and talk to all of you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve been following your journey around Europe and stuff on social media. You\u2019re like, \u201cChris, you went for another run.\u201d I\u2019m definitely excited to have you here. Help me fill in the gaps. Help us understand more of who you are, Brian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did everything the traditional way like real estate investors do. I started with a small loan of money from my parents of $10 million and through a lot of hard work, I made it to $9 million. I started middle class. I went to college. I did the normal thing where we tried to figure out what the heck to do outside of college. I graduated and went into Corporate America.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m one of the few insane people that chose to go into a sales profession. I worked my tail off. That was my identity being the corporate guy. Clean-shaven, shirt and tie, nicely pressed, whistling to work, and listening to podcasts every single day in my car. That was my cheat code for how I made it to the top of the company.<\/p>\n<p>This applies here because now all of you are tuning into me and Chris while you\u2019re going to work or from work. You get in this freaking automobile university of information. I used to listen to sales podcasts and I did the math. If you are listening to one hour to work and one hour from work, that\u2019s two hours of podcasts a day.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 10 hours a week, 40 hours a month, which means that while all your co-workers are working their normal work week, you\u2019re getting a full additional 40 hours of education without any extra time. I made a switch from sales podcasts. When I hit the top of the company, I won Sales Rep of the Year and Rookie of the Year. I got all the awards and a Fortune 500.<\/p>\n<p>I realized that I was climbing the wrong mountaintop and that it was not the summit that I anticipated. I switched those sales podcasts to real estate. I started buying real estate one house after another. It\u2019s very simple and very doable for everyone tuning in to this show. After that, it\u2019s a snowball effect compounded into me starting a podcast and joining a couple of mastermind groups.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to monetize that show and leave my corporate job on March 17th of this year. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I am doing this show from Amsterdam, and this has been very cool. I\u2019m traveling full-time around the world. I started in July. This is month two and a couple of days. That is essentially my story completely. Thanks for having me on guys. It\u2019s been fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ll tell you the rest of the story later when I\u2019m done.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had to beat Chris. I saw that he did it at 28, so that was my mission all along. Doing it at 27 just to one-up him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You just had to beat me by a little bit. I imagine because you\u2019re with a Fortune 500 company, you got all these accolades. Were there people around you, maybe even your own parents, that were thinking, \u201cYou\u2019re trying to quit this job. Are you freaking insane?\u201d Were people thinking you were crazy for doing this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what happened. There\u2019s a lesson in this, which is why I tell the story. I\u2019m trying to speak with a lot of brevity here for time\u2019s sake. Essentially, I hit all of my goals and dreams when COVID hit. Normally, when you hit the top of the company, you get this red carpet rolled out for you. You get this massive bonus, cash bonus, $50,000-plus. You go to President\u2019s Club diamond level. You get a beach vacation all-inclusive. You go up on stage with all these thousands of people clapping for you.<\/p>\n<p>I hit it during COVID. When that happened, they took away all of that. They said, \u201cBrian, this goal that you\u2019ve been working towards, great job. You did fantastic. By the way, the $70,000 we owe you, we\u2019re not going to pay you because we\u2019re laying people off, so we can\u2019t justify giving you that kind of money. Also, no trip, but we\u2019re going to do a five-hour presentation end of year. We\u2019re going to put you on a PowerPoint slide at the end. It\u2019s going to say, \u2018Congrats to Brian Luebben for winning.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I watched that by myself sitting in my dark apartment almost depressed and in tears. I was like, \u201cThis is the thing that I\u2019ve worked so hard to accomplish.\u201d I realized that I was at a mountaintop that was on the wrong end of the freaking mountain range. That was the realization that it was time for something new. I said, \u201cI\u2019m never going to have this happen again. If I\u2019m going to work my tail off, I\u2019m going to make sure that I\u2019m getting the fruit from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lesson in that is that whenever a bad situation happens in your life, which it inevitably will, you have to zoom out and ask yourself, \u201cWhat am I supposed to learn from this?\u201d If that hadn\u2019t happened and I would\u2019ve gotten everything I wanted, I\u2019d still be wearing a shirt and tie today. I\u2019d still be maybe working my way up the corporate ladder whistling.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, that\u2019s what started my financial freedom journey. It was how terrible I felt. It\u2019s sweeping me under the rug after that and saying, \u201cStarting back at zero. Onto the next one.\u201d I said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m out.\u201d To answer your question, at that point, my friends and family were like, \u201cThey didn\u2019t pay you $70,000. We get it.\u201d I did give up a $250,000-a-year job. It was a good bit of money, but now I live life on my terms. That\u2019s more important for me. It makes me feel richer and have a richer life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to sound clich<\/strong><strong>\u00e9, but what happened didn\u2019t happen to you, it happened for you. It guided you down the path that you were meant to go down, which is incredible. I know everybody\u2019s going to be asking, how did you do it? They want to know how you created this passive income to creating passionate income. Talk about that. What\u2019s the difference between passive income and passionate income?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, we do a lot of podcasts, me and Chris both. We\u2019re pretty well-rehearsed in all of these answers. Passive income is what everyone knows traditionally and what Chris talks about on the show. It\u2019s where your investments and the money coming into your mailbox and to your bank account are no longer tied to your time. You\u2019re not working X amount of hours to get Y amount of dollars.<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D8054&#038;text=Passive%20income%20is%20what%20everyone%20knows%20traditionally.%20It%E2%80%99s%20where%20your%20investments%20and%20the%20money%20coming%20into%20your%20mailbox%20and%20to%20your%20bank%20account%20are%20no%20longer%20tied%20to%20your%20time.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passive income is what everyone knows traditionally. It\u2019s where your investments and the money coming into your mailbox and to your bank account are no longer tied to your time. <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D8054&#038;text=Passive%20income%20is%20what%20everyone%20knows%20traditionally.%20It%E2%80%99s%20where%20your%20investments%20and%20the%20money%20coming%20into%20your%20mailbox%20and%20to%20your%20bank%20account%20are%20no%20longer%20tied%20to%20your%20time.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bctt-ctt-btn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p>You can have something like real estate, stock, dividend stocks, business, revenue, or whatever have you. It\u2019s coming in no matter if you\u2019re lying on the couch playing Xbox or whatever you\u2019re doing. It\u2019s passionate income. In passive income, we\u2019ve all talked about this for ten years now. Tim Ferriss started this with a <a href=\"https:\/\/fourhourworkweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>4-Hour Workweek<\/em><\/a> back in 2008. It\u2019s been over a decade now, and people are still on chapter one of the book.<\/p>\n<p>We talk about passive income over and over again, but nobody talks about what the hell they do after they have enough passive income to have their freedom. What happens is now, we\u2019re a decade past. I\u2019m assuming that you guys have at least exposure to investing or you have investments yourself. You have some level of passive income and you know that it gets easier.<\/p>\n<p>What is your enough number? What is that number that when you hit it, you\u2019re like, \u201cI\u2019ve accomplished something?\u201d More importantly, after that, what does your life look like? Nobody can answer that for the most part. I talked to multimillionaires on my show every single day, and that was a huge thing. A lot of them said even they didn\u2019t know what their life looked like. They\u2019re making $100,000, $200,000, $300,000 a month. They don\u2019t know what their vision is.<\/p>\n<p>Passionate income is when you have passive income and you have your freedom. Now, you do work that you choose to do, not that you have to do. Passionate income is what life is about. Passionate work. Now, instead of doing something to where you\u2019re having all these rental units and all these thousands of dollars of cashflow, you\u2019re sitting on a beach in Mykonos and you\u2019re just sunning, drinking, and having fun, you\u2019re literally doing something that\u2019s fulfilling to you.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re doing something that\u2019s meaningful. You\u2019re working on complex things. You\u2019re striving to be better and move the business forward. You\u2019re doing something that fires you up. That\u2019s what keeps people going that are 80 to 90 years old. You see these 95-year-olds in Italy because they\u2019re still working at that restaurant that they created with their family and they love it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trying to get people out of this freaking corporate job and cut your tie off. If you want to go travel the world, I\u2019ll help you. If you want to go create a candle-making company and move to Colorado with your family, let\u2019s do that. Let\u2019s get you the passive income to allow for that. We can get into that conversation here in a little bit because that\u2019s the easy part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most people do think that the strategy to get there is the hard part, but it\u2019s like what Mark Twain says, \u201cI can help anybody get what they want. I just can\u2019t find anybody who knows what they want.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love that. That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>People never look beyond that goal of whatever it is like $10,000 or $20,000 monthly passive income. What is it you think money is going to help you accomplish? What is it you want to do after? What\u2019s the next step after you accomplish that? I truly believe that many people don\u2019t achieve their passive income goals faster than they do because they\u2019re afraid of what that next level might be. They\u2019re not sure what they would do with that freedom, time, and passion they have.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s insane because I have personal friends that are making $1 million a year passive. They joke and say, \u201cI have more freedom than they do.\u201d They can\u2019t just up and leave. They have a team of 50 that work for them. They can\u2019t just disappear. To put a case study to this so that you guys know I\u2019m not completely full of crap and talking woo-woo at you, let\u2019s put some numbers to it.<\/p>\n<p>What did I do step by step? There\u2019s a four-step process to do all of this. I\u2019ve got all of it free online, too, so you guys don\u2019t worry about anything. Step one is to do your vivid vision. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vivid-Vision-Remarkable-Aligning-Business\/dp\/161961877X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Vivid Vision<\/em><\/a> is a book by Cameron Harold. It\u2019s essentially a three-year vision that you cast into the future. You write down in present tense what you want your family to look like, your friendships, your relationships, health, business, income, investments, etc.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8055\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vivid-Vision-Remarkable-Aligning-Business\/dp\/161961877X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8055\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8055\" src=\"https:\/\/media.moneyripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/09074650\/Graphics-Caption-1-MORI-698-Brian-Luebben-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"MORI 698 | Passionate Income\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Vivid Vision: A Remarkable Tool For Aligning Your Business Around a Shared Vision of the Future<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>You\u2019re going to write it all out, take a day or two days, however you want. This is your roadmap. Once you have your roadmap, you\u2019re going to build your financial foundation. The foundation\u2019s going to be unsexy stuff. A lot of the stuff that we talk about on Chris\u2019 show and my show, where we\u2019re giving you examples of things that aren\u2019t necessarily going to maybe fire you up, but to get you the security and the foundation to build on top of.<\/p>\n<p>For me, that was house hacks. House hack is when you live in one unit and rent the others out. We want to get super granular. I bought about five-bed, four-bathroom house hacks in the upper metro part of Atlanta, Georgia in appreciating neighborhoods. I focused on 1970 to 1980 styles, split construction, two kitchens, and in-law-suite.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, you look at this and you\u2019re like, \u201cCool.\u201d It\u2019s a duplex technically, but nobody on the MLS wants to buy these because Millennials don\u2019t have a purpose for two kitchens. To build a kitchen is $20,000, so you don\u2019t want to do that. I buy these houses up to have two kitchens with separate entrances and I rent them out by the room. I did the co-living thing before it became a little bit mainstream now.<\/p>\n<p>I have the upstairs unit rented like a traditional three-two. It\u2019s my HGTV unit. It looks super hip and trendy. Downstairs, I rent by the room. I would live in one and move a buddy or somebody in that I liked to the other room. While I\u2019ve been investing, I\u2019ve never gotten out of the apartment mentality, although I\u2019ve got a pretty sizable chunk of net worth now. That\u2019s going to be the next step.<\/p>\n<p>I rinsed and repeated. For that, because you\u2019re running by the room, you get way more cashflow. I was cashflowing $1,500 to $1,700 per house. I got two houses, and then I realized, \u201cI\u2019ve got $3,500 coming here. This is fun.\u201d What also happens when you house hack is you don\u2019t have a mortgage payment technically because your tenant is covering it. You\u2019re not paying rent, so that\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8056\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8056\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8056\" src=\"https:\/\/media.moneyripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/09074653\/Graphics-Caption-2-MORI-698-Brian-Luebben.jpg\" alt=\"MORI 698 | Passionate Income\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-8056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passionate Income: When you house hack, you technically don\u2019t have a mortgage payment because your tenant is covering it. You\u2019re not paying rent, so that\u2019s gone.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My student loan is gone. I paid all of them because I had a DJ company in college, which I would talk about, but I don\u2019t think any of you are trying to be DJs. It\u2019s not pertinent to you. My mortgage is taken care of. I buy all my cars in cash. The latest one I have is Toyota Camry XSE. It was $30,000 and I bought it in cash. I have no car payment.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got some insurance payments and I\u2019ve got my cell phone bill. Call it $1,000 of fixed expenses that I\u2019m on the hook for every single month. That cashflow technically surpassed what my expenses are because I run a lien. That\u2019s my fixed expenses. For my variable expenses, I spend a s*** ton of money. I spent a good bit of money on what I enjoy spending money on, which is travel, food, and nice hotels. I want to stay in a cool place.<\/p>\n<p>The variable income, once I had that financial foundation with my fixed expenses covered, I get to phase two, which is, I build my framework. Now you\u2019re going to start going to your masterminds and communities. You\u2019re going to build relationships. You\u2019re going to start growing this community and this collaboration with mentors and peers.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re then going to start building businesses with them on top of your financial foundation. This is the point where you\u2019re going to start shooting for the stars and seeing what works and what doesn\u2019t. It took me three times to figure out I loved podcasting. I started the podcast because I loved it, not because I wanted to make money from it.<\/p>\n<p>What happened was I did the podcast. I started it last October going into December. I had multiple people reaching out to me saying, \u201cWhatever you\u2019re doing is working. I\u2019m having dozens of guys sign up for my coaching program and for my mastermind over and over again without you even saying anything just from your show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They said, \u201cDo you want to have a business partnership here?\u201d I said, \u201cHeck, yeah. Let\u2019s go.\u201d Now I\u2019ve got those formal partnerships, and then January hits. I looked down and I looked back up and I\u2019m like, \u201cI\u2019m making $10,000 to $15,000 here outside of my W-2.\u201d Let\u2019s repeat this. January, February, and March hit, I said, \u201cThat\u2019s three months back to back. I\u2019m out. Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To finish my monologue and get off my soapbox, I saved up four months of emergency fund. That completely covers all of my expenses. I left the job on March 17th. I gave up about $110,000 of preferred options. I gave up a $20,000 bonus and a good bit of enterprise deals that I had in the pipe. I knew it was time and I knew it was now or never.<\/p>\n<p>My accountability group said, \u201cPut a date to this or never talk about this again.\u201d I said, \u201cGot it. I\u2019m going to put a date to it.\u201d It was March 17th, I left and on July 6th, I got on my flight. I flew out to Mykonos with my girlfriend. We did Mykonos, Santorini, Crete, Barcelona, Split Croatia, Austria, then we did Vienna, and now I\u2019m in Amsterdam. There\u2019s my entire life story in about six minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s a good thing you have a short life. That\u2019s for the last few months alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the kicker, Chris. I accomplished my 3-year vision in 1.2 years. You hear all of this stuff and all of this materialized $10,000 a month coming in from October that didn\u2019t exist before. That\u2019s the power. How much real estate would you need to do that? That\u2019s why I tell people, \u201cFind what you\u2019re passionate about and post content on it. Be a producer of content, not a consumer,\u201d like you\u2019re doing with this show.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care how nich\u00e9 down you are. If you love doing old reformation pottery, go on TikTok and create a brand on it and you\u2019ll get millions of followers. There are dudes watching glue dry on TikTok making millions of followers and they have a business built around it. It\u2019s insane. That\u2019s the soapbox I get on now. I\u2019m like, \u201cWhenever you find what your thing is and you go all in on that, it\u2019s an accelerant. It\u2019s like you\u2019re putting nitrous oxide in the gas tank.\u201d It\u2019s just so much fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s such good advice because you didn\u2019t even have to get strategic. For the most part, the strategy is creating that plan. Having that vision, having the plan to help you get there, and then walking that path. As you said, it cut your timeframe from 3 years down to 1.2 years. You\u2019re living your dream. I know you have your own next level. I\u2019m sure you have something next that you\u2019re like, \u201cI have a new dream now.\u201d What is your new dream right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been turmoiling over this. I\u2019ll take this as a little bit of a segue to tell the audience about the theory of navigation versus acceleration. This is a term from the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindvalley.com\/buddhabadass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Buddha and the Badass<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> It\u2019s by a guy named Vishen who founded this company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindvalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindvalley<\/a>. It\u2019s a unicorn in the Silicon Valley space.<\/p>\n<p>Navigation versus acceleration talks about how our life is not just continuous innovation. It doesn\u2019t work like that. We\u2019re designed to sprint and go 100 miles an hour and then rest. That\u2019s how we\u2019re designed to do. We\u2019re supposed to live our lives in spurts, and then do the work to figure out what\u2019s the next spurt. For me, I had a little bit of a depression first month while I was traveling because I had accomplished everything that I had set out to do and that was my identity for three years. I did it and I\u2019m like, \u201cNow what? Who am I now that I\u2019m doing it?\u201d Moving forward, my thing is I want to be the go-to resource, community, and program for people that are looking to leave that corporate position and figure out how to build passive income and passionate income.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be the go-to resource and the go-to community for that. That\u2019s what I\u2019m in the process of building right now. None of it is live yet, but it\u2019s in my vision. I know how that works, so I\u2019d put it out for maybe around January. That\u2019s what I\u2019m working on right now and I\u2019m working my tail off to make sure it\u2019s the best thing ever. To also grow my podcast to a million downloads a month is what I want.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, it\u2019s been so much fun. You know what I\u2019m talking about. The podcast is the most fulfilling thing ever. When you guys reach out to Chris or if you reach out to me and say, \u201cThis one quote or this one book or this one idea that you told me in that show completely changed how I viewed things. Now I get it.\u201d That is the most fulfilling thing in the entire world. I want to grow that community. That\u2019s all I\u2019m focused on right now. It\u2019s building a media company and an online education platform while traveling.<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D8054&#038;text=The%20most%20fulfilling%20thing%20in%20the%20entire%20world%20is%20when%20a%20quote%2C%20book%20or%20an%20idea%20you%20shared%20changed%20how%20a%20person%20views%20things.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The most fulfilling thing in the entire world is when a quote, book or an idea you shared changed how a person views things. <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoneyripples.com%2Fmoney-ripples-st%2F%3Fp%3D8054&#038;text=The%20most%20fulfilling%20thing%20in%20the%20entire%20world%20is%20when%20a%20quote%2C%20book%20or%20an%20idea%20you%20shared%20changed%20how%20a%20person%20views%20things.&#038;related\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bctt-ctt-btn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m excited to see that unfold. Brian, I appreciate you joining us today. Everybody, be sure to check out The Action Academy Podcast. Brian, what\u2019s the website we have them go to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You could check out the Action Academy Podcast or you can go to the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.W2ToWorldTravel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W2ToWorldTravel.com<\/a>. That\u2019s going to have a free 30-page guide. That\u2019s going to be essentially everything Chris and I talked about today broken down, step by step with numbers and case studies. Also, a bunch of other financial case studies from other multi-millionaire entrepreneurs that have done the same thing. You\u2019re going to get all that for free. If travel is not your thing, that\u2019s okay. You can use that framework to live whatever your best life is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, Brian, thank you for your time. You\u2019re very generous. I\u2019m very excited for you in the next 27 years. You\u2019ve got ahead of you, too. Everybody, make it a wonderful and prosperous week and we\u2019ll see you later.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Important Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w2toworldtravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Luebben<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theactionacademy.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Action Academy Podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fourhourworkweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>4-Hour Workweek<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vivid-Vision-Remarkable-Aligning-Business\/dp\/161961877X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Vivid Vision<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindvalley.com\/buddhabadass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Buddha and the Badass<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindvalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindvalley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/money-ripples-podcast\/id895555599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a> \u2013 Money Ripples Podcast<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJS6bPY8sm53pkjiCSuBKMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> \u2013 Money Ripples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About Brian Luebben<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8063\" src=\"https:\/\/media.moneyripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/09074930\/Graphics-Brian-Luebben-Headshot-MORI-698-Brian-Luebben-less-100kb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"MORI 698 | Passionate Income\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">Brian Luebben made it to the top of a Fortune 500 Sales org only to realize that the corporate ladder and retirement at 65 were not in the cards for him. He then set out on a grand journey to travel the world full time by buying real estate and monetizing his podcast &#8220;The Action Academy Podcast&#8221; to help him hit financial freedom at 27. He did just that and is now building his media company and teaching others how to go from &#8220;passive income to passionate income.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:180px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Is there really anything better than passive income? What is &#8220;passionate income?&#8221; How does that play into everything? Brian Luebben shares how he became financially independent at age 27, and where his passions led him. 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