Property Hub - Investment Insights & Inspiration - Get Invested: Introducing The Get Invested Podcast

Episode Date: March 25, 2018

‘Get Invested’ is the podcast dedicated to time-poor professionals who want to work less and live more. Join Bushy Martin, one of Australia’s top 10 property specialists, as he shares his know-how on the ways investing in property can unlock the life you always dreamed about and secure your financial future. Bushy believes that if your property investment is structured in the right way it is the safest most affordable way to be able to live more and work less. ‘Get Invested’ will show you how you don’t need to compromise or sacrifice your lifestyle in the meantime to fund your financial freedom. Each episode of ‘Get Invested’, Bushy talks with experts from all walks of life to uncover their secret know-how on where they invest their time, skills and money - and how it’s benefited them and others. Find out how property investment is more about regaining your time, so you can do what you want when you want while building your success. ‘Get Invested’ will show you the passion that Bushy has for building your future, and you will hear how he has amassed a multi-million dollar investment portfolio, he doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk. Unlock the life you want today and every day to get the best know-how on property investment from one of the industries leading specialists. ‘Get Invested’ is the podcast you need to subscribe too as the best first step in your financial future and freedom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greetings and welcome to the Get Invested podcast. I'm Bushy Martin and I'm really glad that you've taken the time to tune in. I believe if you desire to live more, work less and leave a legacy, then consistent and intentional investing is a must. If you're a time poor professional that feels trapped on the treadmill and you're looking for a way to break free so you can regain your time, your freedom and improve your lifestyle by investing, then you've come to the right place. Over the last decade of working with thousands of busy Aussies like yourself, I keep hearing that you have no time and no life outside of work. You constantly feel overwhelmed, exhausted and trapped on the treadmill. You secretly fear that to improve or maintain

your quality of life you'll never be able to afford to stop working. Well many of us are interested in investing to escape the rat race and secure your future but you don't have the time, you don't have the expertise, you don't know who to trust and you don't know where to start. You may also be concerned that you can't afford to invest or that investing is going to restrict your lifestyle. Well, as a result, the years just keep slipping through your fingers and nothing changes. But believe me, doing nothing is no longer an option, as the average income of Australian retirees over the age of 65 is currently just $15,300 a year, according to the ABS. So the normal plan of paying off your home and relying on your super or the

age pension to maintain your lifestyle is doomed to a life of penny-pinching poverty long term. And for every week you delay investing, it's costing you between two and five grand in lost wealth. So this is where the Get Invested podcast can help you. For the last 12 years, my business, KnowHow Property Finance and its predecessors, has been helping busy career professionals like you to regain your time, your freedom, and your life through safe, affordable property investment. As an active investor myself, starting with nothing 20 years ago, my wife and I have accumulated an international portfolio of 12 properties that affords us a great lifestyle, and I want to help you to do the same. Why? Because I saw my father

work himself to an early grave. My dad, Bushy Sr., planned to keep working hard until he could afford to retire and then take the time to start living and tick off his bucket list. He never got there. He suffered cancer and a series of strokes and a bunch of other debilitating conditions, which meant that he spent his last years in a wheelchair with mum as his carer. So much for living his dreams. And I was following fast in his footsteps. I'd never admit it, but dad was always my hero and role model. As an architect, I spent 17 years working 14 hours a day, seven days a week, following that old model of work hard, build your career, and then start living when you retire. But it wasn't working. In my mid-30s, my workaholism cost me dearly and I

ended up divorced, destitute and depressed. I lost everything. At that time, Dad looked me in the eye and slurring his words from his third stroke, he said, son, learn from this. Don't spend your whole life working for money. Get your money to work for you. He said, Dad, open my eyes to the true value of time. So I started investing in property. 15 years later, our investments allowed me the freedom to spend the best part of a year giving back to my dear mum, who was dying of cancer. You see, I had the precious time to help Mum die with dignity, at peace, at home, in her own bed. You see, for me, it's all about time. So thanks to our conservative, safe and affordable long-term investment approach, we now enjoy

the freedom to do what we like, when we like, without having to worry about money. We now enjoy the luxury of travelling the world, keeping fit and healthy, and spending quality time with our family and friends. Over the years, we've also helped over 1,700 other investors to secure in excess of $600 million in property. As a result of this, I've recently been humbled to be recognised in Australia's Top 10 Property Specialists by the Property Investor Magazine. And our secret sauce to give you all the know-how to do the same has been captured in my book, The Freedom Formula. You see, in my experience, everyone invests, some consciously, some unconsciously, but every minute of every day we're investing our time,

skills and money in something. Sometimes for good, sometimes for bad, sometimes with no impact. I see a future where hard-working Aussies like you can live your life on your own terms by investing consciously and carefully. And I believe there's never been a better time nor greater need to invest to secure your future, whether it be in your skills, your career, a business, in shares and equities, in property, or all of the above. The Get Invested podcast is designed to create interest and awareness in your need to invest your time, your skills, and your money wisely to sustain your income and your lifestyle long-term.

The Get Invested podcast will not only help you to narrow your ever-important investment options, but it will also bring you key insights and valuable feedback from some of today's most successful and inspiring investors from all walks of life. But I'm sure you're still wondering, what's this podcast all about? Well, at the end of the day, all of us are seeking fulfilment and freedom. What do I mean by this? Well, for me, fulfilment is when you give freely to others without expecting anything in return ever. I start every day by asking myself, what am I doing to help others?

And freedom? Well, freedom is being able to do what you want, when you want. But in our day and age it's very challenging to fulfil fulfilled and free when we just don't have the time. We're constantly just managing to survive the rat race of everyday life. The ever increasing speed and pressure of our lives means that we just don't have any margin either in time or money. As author Richard Swenson so well puts it, we have no breathing space between our load

and our limits. No gap between rest and exhaustion. No one has the time to listen, yet alone love. Our relationships are being starved to death by velocity. Our children lay wounded on the ground, run over by our high-speed good intentions. We need to get our time back so that we have the freedom to think and permission to heal. But we can only really help ourselves and others when our time and money needs have already been met. It's like the safety video on a plane with a cabin crew telling you to fit your oxygen mask first before you fit anyone else's.

If you do it the other way around, you're just not going to last very long. So to create freedom, we need to regain our time. We need time in our hands. In our high-tech Western world, we can only do this when our income needs, which are the equivalent of oxygen, are being met without relying on us to generate it. Like it or lump it, but in our Western capitalist society, money is the lifeblood enabler of our choices,

and it's the fuel for our freedom. Hence the need to replace our active work income with passive investment income. so that we can work less and we can give more. It's what we call becoming passive-aggressive or aggressively passive. This is what Sonia and I have personally done over the last 20 years and what we now help others to do via the Freedom Formula. So in this regard, the Get Invested podcast is based on the belief

that intentional and consistent investment is key to your success and your enjoyment of life, however you choose to define that. One of our goals is to give you access to the best of the best, across the full spectrum of investment to help you make informed decisions on what's right for you. But more than that, you and I get to sit down and chat with a new and interesting investor every week. People I believe to be some of the brightest minds and unsung heroes in every area of investment today. You'll have a rare chance to listen to successful investors in all walks of life as they share their secrets, their successes and their failures. Now think about that for a

it. Nearly everyone we'll hear from on this journey charges big bucks for their time but you and I get to enjoy their valuable time for free. I hope you can see how valuable this is. Now if you're not currently investing but you're here because you desire to do more of it or if you feel you should be investing more, maybe you're having difficulty squeezing in time for it, then let this podcast serve as a regular encouragement to you as you make that journey. If this is you then I hope that listening to this podcast will inspire you to devote more time to carefully, consciously and consistently invest your time, your energy and your money. But if that doesn't happen, then that's okay as well. At the end of each episode, you'll have a much

better idea if a way of investing is right for you. And if you decide that it isn't, you'll still have learned something new along the way just for having tuned in. So that's what this podcast is, now what it isn't. This isn't just another real estate, property investment, share investing or business podcast. Not that there's anything wrong with them but there are enough of them already on iTunes. You can safely assume that I'm not going to waste your time with less than an interesting investor. All of my guests will be what I consider to be five-star investors in some interesting aspect of their lives. We'll dive deep under the surface and we'll get to the core of how they think and feel and exactly what they've done to achieve

their definition of success the format of the podcast is designed to suit you if you're busy or time poor so each bush bite episode will be easy and quick to digest some guest interviews may be broken into several parts to respect your time each week we plan to start with a guest interview and then later in the week follow with a short sharp and shiny five to ten minute bush bite focusing on an element of my book the freedom formula or other related areas of interest I'm also going to suggest that you listen to these episodes more than once, because each time you do, something new is going to grab you, and potentially shake your perception of reality, confirm an intuition, or correct your course by one degree.

And often, that's all that it takes. I've learned over the years that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we have the courage to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we summon the courage to take. So by listening to the Get Invested podcast regularly, you'll start getting comfortable with feeling uncomfortable by consciously exposing yourself to opinions and perspectives that are different from yours

so you can expand your circle of comfort. Everything you want is right outside your comfort zone, so open your mind so you can become more resilient and have the courage to take action and make positive changes each and every day. In this way, the most fulfilled and effective people I know spend their time creating themselves, designing their life it's what we call living by design not by default get invested in my book the

freedom formula is intended to be a call to action where you take a piece of what you hear on the podcast or read in my book and you apply it to your life i want to challenge you to make it your goal to take just one thing from every episode or every chapter and start doing it for a month to see how your life improves. I know you're not going to regret it. Remember that you are the author of your own life and it's never too late to replace the limiting stories you keep telling yourself and start investing in things that will improve your life for the better over time. As Jeff Olson said in his great book, The Slight Edge, life is a curve construction, time is the builder and your choices are the master architect.

I feel that podcasts are a great way to take your daily commute, your run, your workout, while you're driving or just doing the household chores and turn that time into a fantastic session for learning and productivity. Big things are coming in Get Invested, so I hope you enjoy the podcast and my book, The Freedom Formula, that has inspired it.

If you want to learn more, please go to www.bushymartin.com.au forward slash getinvested or email me on hello at khgroup.com.au. That's H-E-L-L-O at khgroup.com.au. If you enjoyed the podcast, I'd really appreciate it if you rate it on iTunes and leave a short review because this is going to increase the likelihood of the podcast getting noticed by other good people like yourself who are also looking for similar answers. Another way to stay in the know is to like our Facebook page, Know How Property Finance. Thanks again for listening and I hope you really enjoy the Get Invested podcast.