Wake Up to Wealth - Unlocking Real Estate Entrepreneurship with Rob Chevez

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

In episode 41 of Wake Up to Wealth, Brandon Brittingham interviews Rob Chevez, the Founder of Grid Investor and CEO at The Caza Group, as he dives deep into the importance of providing value without expecting anything in return, the challenges of entrepreneurship, and the significance of shifting your mindset from being just an agent to becoming an investor. Tune in for insights on wealth building and the latest in real estate investment strategies! SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBrandon BrittinghamInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mailboxmoneyb/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandon.brittingham.1/ Rob ChevezInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robchevez/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robchevezLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertchevez/ WEBSITESGrid Investor: https://www.gridinvestor.com/The Caza Group: https://www.thecazagroup.com/==========================SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS:Rocketly: https://rocketly.ai/Email Carson at The Money Multiplier: [e-mail] Mortgage: https://www.responsivemortgage.com/Horizon Trust: https://www.horizontrust.com/BrandonB 

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How you doing? I'm doing great, man. Hey, listen, life of the entrepreneur. So Rob, you know, I'm busy as shit. He's busy as shit. Completely forget that he's coming down here this week. He texts me, he's like, hey, you still good tomorrow? I'm like, yeah.

And then this morning I'm like, shit, he's here tomorrow? I'm like, Yeah. And then this morning, I'm like, shit, he's here, we got to get him on the podcast. I love it. I call my videographer. Thank God he's he's ready. So we got to be here today. But that's how it is being an entrepreneur sometimes. Man. Thank you so much, man. It's my pleasure. It was a nice drive. Three hours. Yeah. So you believe in a lot of same same things I believe in as far as real estate from investing. But something that's really cool for those that don't know or that are listening to this, you built something really cool called the grid community.

And you were telling me some stuff before we got on air that I didn't even know about how many members you have. And it's pretty fucking remarkable. So if you wouldn't mind, like, go back to, um, cause I think it's important to go back to what was the idea? How did you start it? Where are we today? Okay. So, um, man, thanks so much for having me. This is, this is awesome. Um, you know, I started it because I was recent on the journey. I think I might've been a couple of years

into being a real estate investor full-time. I needed community. I felt like I had made enough mistakes between being a part-time investor and a full-time investor to add some value, right? And start a conversation, kind of like what we're having today. And so it started with five people in the room,

grew to 10, 50. Before I knew it, I had 150 people in the room, place is packed, people are driving in from all over, right? The DMV area. Say, man, this is awesome. Can you help me do this in a different location? And the first couple of times I was like, nah,

like I'm too busy. I'm selling houses, I'm buying houses. And then eventually I was like, what if I somehow created some kind of licensing play like CrossFit? And so, you know, it just came out of a need of wanting to be around cool, smart, interesting people doing real estate investing, talking about the thing that I love to do and the journey that we're all on. And man, it was actually a long time ago, about 17 years ago.

It wasn't called Grid then. It was like this little pet project on the side. What did you call it then? Did it have a name? Yeah, it was the Kaza Investor Network. Got it. And Kaza is our sales team sales team. And so it was, you know, the Kaza Investor Network, which Kaza means to hunt. And it's also a play on words like casa, meaning house, right? So to hunt for houses was literally the name of our business early on. Right. Yeah. And so all right. So you started with, you know, I always like I always like to get into these stories

because what happens so much, especially with social media nowadays, is people see us where we are today, right? But they don't see us where we're getting our fucking ass kicked, right? And we still get our ass kicked, by the way. We just not handle it better now. But so how many members are you up to now?

So we have 30,000 members, 30, 33, somewhere around there. That's fucking crazy. Yeah. And so you got chapters, different places in the country. How does it work? Right from from DC to LA and everywhere in between we've we have 40 in agent investors that lead rooms, there are people like you and I, right? That have created community in their local market. And we give them the playbook of how to execute the play, the ethos, the culture, the community. And then they use that community to,

really it's a lead gen funnel, right? At the end of the day for whatever business they have, whether it's property management, construction, title, investments, agent business. But the cool thing is it's a go-giver community. Like that was always the ethos was, nobody's selling you any frigging books and tapes in the back of the room.

Like you're gonna come and you're gonna facilitate a great discussion. You'll bring in a local baller to interview them kind of like what we're doing right now. Yep. And then you let the room participate and ask questions. Yeah. And that way the room gets to learn,

but we always say it's not so much what they're learning in front of the room, it's the people that they're meeting in that room that changes their life, right? So you might meet your next hard money lender, your next construction person, your next agent, your next spouse, right? So we believe that the power is in community.

The power is in the network. That's kind of like our tagline. And it's been an awesome ride, right? So the underlying thing too is build community and provide value. 100%. Right. That's it.

And so did you ever think, I mean, 30,000 members, that's insane. Yeah. Like, did you ever think like, think about that in terms of a real estate company? Yeah, it's crazy. You'd be top, right? Would you be top 10? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.

Yeah. It's like as far as- Size? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you know, like when I was thinking about it, no, at first I was like, man, if we could just get, you know, a hundred people in a room, that would be awesome. Yeah. And it took a life on of its own.

It wasn't, I didn't set out to build it. Like the community asked for it, which is an interesting idea, right? 100%. And so all I did was kind of create the wrapper to allow it to exist. We rebranded it. And then I said, okay, well, who are the right who's

to run the chapters around the country? Well, they've got to be go-givers. Because I'm an agent investor, I want to put the agent investor in the center of that conversation and build a board around them, right? And then I need to pour into them and show them how to build their business. And so it just took on a life of its own and it became a massively gentle for them and

a great way for me to be able to get in the relationship with other people around the country, which as you and I were talking, could provide leads and deals and opportunities and all the rest. So it's just been a blessing because I get to meet cool people like you and just to have fun in the thing that we love. So what do you think, tell us kind of one thing, because if you're an entrepreneur and you're listening to this, to build a community of 30,000 people Like if you're an entrepreneur and you're listening to this, to build a community of 30,000 people by no means is that easy.

What do you think kind of the thing you learned, what do you think is like the biggest like aha or takeaway? And tell me what do you think you fucked up the most? The biggest is be consistent with all things, right? Like you just, I just showed up every month and poured into people and didn't ever ask for anything in return. You gave value. I just gave value.

I just gave value. That was it. Hey everybody. Let me tell you about my good friend, Carson Harleen. The Wake Up To Wealth podcast is proudly sponsored by Carson. Carson helped me build my family banking system. What I've seen Carson do for people, it gives them back their peace of mind. If you want to get your mind and your money right, email my good friend Carson at Carson

at the money multiplier.com to learn how you can become your own bank today, like I have. So what you just said is almost a lost art form, in my opinion, right? You know, I think so many people have gotten away from giving without expectation, and everyone goes to, you know, well, what's in it for me and the people that that I see that give like that the Leos of the world, Leo Pera, who's a CEO of eXp, john Ceplak, Bobby Castro can't clothe your like when spring

Benson, another homie of mine, when I see people like this, and for those of you hearing this shit, this is truly living in, you know, not living in scarcity and living in abundance. If you go into anything and you say, well, I don't wanna give because I want something in return, or if you have the scarcity mindset of, I don't wanna give my blueprint away

because I feel like you'll steal it from me, you're living in scarcity, it has become a lost art form. The reason why I want to stop here is because I believe in this so much. You build a community of 30,000 plus entrepreneurs by giving. 100%. It's interesting. I always say information is free, execution is hard. I'm willing to just share everything,

the scars, the lessons learned, my resources, my contacts. But at the end of the day, the entrepreneur needs to like step up and execute. And honestly, dude, you know what happened? I fell in love with the entrepreneur. I fell in love with the entrepreneur because I was like, this person is willing to risk everything and like cut themselves off from the juice, right? A nine to five.

I honor that. And so I want to just fucking help as much as I possibly can. Right. And I think because the journey for me wasn't easy, like I, I like literally I turn left, I make a mistake, I turn right. And so I'm like, it's a difficult journey. And if somehow we can provide resources and be a guide for people on that journey,

just to help like my former younger self, like I just wanna do that. What do you think is the biggest mistake you made getting to 30,000 people? Not understanding what I truly had, right? Meaning, meaning I didn't, um, it was such a, Hey, I'm building this thing, but I'm, I'm, there's this other thing that I'm focused on. And so in the beginning, grit was really just kind of like my pet project a little bit. And it just kind of grew on its own

without a lot of intention and purpose on my part. And I think I spent too much time thinking that it wasn't the main thing, when in reality it is the main thing. Like community is the ultimate lead generation tool out there. Absolutely. And as soon as I woke up to that,

we got purposeful about building community. Another thing I'm super passionate about that you and I have talked about multiple times, and we talked about this off air a few minutes ago, is real estate agents getting into the investment side of business. Right? Yeah. And man, God, listen, if you are, if you're in real state, I'm going to give you some shit right now. Y'all, you just need to hear this. So agents will go and there's nothing wrong with this, but they'll go sit in a room. They'll learn another tactic to recruit, which again, you need to do another tactic to sell a house, which you need to do

another tactic to market what you need to do. Right. But they won't learn how to run a house, what you need to do, another tactic to market, what you need to do, right? But they won't learn how to run a fucking business and have your back office dialed in and all those kinds of things. But then also the biggest source for your revenue and net worth is under your nose and that's being an investor. And man, I can't tell you how many times

someone will reach out to me. They'll want to come to one of my events. They'll want to coach with me, whatever the case is. And they'll say, you know, Brandon, I thought about it and I just don't have enough time. And, um, and it, it, it, it just, it baffles me because it's like, you're going to have less and less time if you continue on this journey of trading time for money. Yeah. Right. And then you'll always have to go sell another house.

Right. So like for you, when did you discover, like I need to go on this other path. And also I really want you to mention there's not so much as there used to be, but there's still the allure of expanding in different markets and doing all this from a team standpoint,

which again, I'm not trying to give anybody shit, but let's hear it from real operators, right? Like you went down that path and you said, this doesn't make sense either, like just unpack that for us. Yeah, well, a couple of things is, well, I started on the investment side. Yeah.

I started on the investment side. And the idea was always, I was just going to buy assets. That was it. And what I discovered in that journey, this was before YouTube and all the rest, was I need to buy a lot of assets to pay for my life. Right. And so, you know, cashflow wasn't showing up the way I thought. Like I was thinking, oh, I buy an asset and I- Like a thousand bucks a month. Exactly. Yeah. No, no. I just get a few of these. I'm good.

I'm good. Right. That was the original idea. Right. I realized I needed to sell some shit in order to make that happen. So I started wholesaling and then I got my license purely to get referral fees. And what I really needed at the time was a model, right? There wasn't a really good model. I didn't have somebody to model. I'm sure they were out there, but I wasn't, I didn't, you know, one mistake I made was I didn't put

myself at the feet of people that had built something before soon enough, right? I was trying to figure it out myself for whatever reason, but I got a license and I needed to hang that license somewhere. So I read the book or somehow I was at Barnes and Noble. I saw the book, the millionaire real estate agent book by Gary Keller. And I, when I read the book, the Millinare Real Estate Agent book by Gary Keller. And when I read the book, I saw it for what it was. It wasn't a book about real estate, it was a book about business.

And because I owned a recruiting business, we didn't talk about that, but I owned a executive search firm with my best friend where we would place tech salespeople. I did that for seven years, which taught me how to sell. Like I realized that that business was so similar to the agent business. I'm like, seven years, which taught me how to sell. Like, I realized that that business was so similar to the agent business. I'm like, Oh, I get this business. Let me go hang my license at this place called Keller Williams. Which by the way, there was this young broker there

by the name of Leo Pereja. Right. I was like, who's this really smart 25 year old kid. And so it's funny how life full circle, right? But I never had the intention to be an agent. What happened was because I had so many relationships in the recruiting space, those friends that found out that I was an agent then started saying, hey Rob, can you help me sell a property? Can you help me?

And this was by the way, 07. Yeah. Right. So what was happening in 07, remember? Oh, shit was getting ready to get bad. It was getting bad. And what was happening was- We weren't seeing it all yet, but it was starting to come. It was starting. And so, what happened was, and I was full-time in 05 as an investor, so we were just flipping a lot of- my wife and I were flipping 20 to 30 houses a year, and then managing

assets for those investors. And what happened was my friends saw that I was doing this and they're like, listen, I tried to sell this house with another realtor. Couldn't do it. Can you help me sell this house? And a friend of mine that was a builder was like, Hey, there was this luxury agent. They didn't get it done. So $1.7 million new construction build. Will you help me sell it? I was like, let me look at it. I'm like, yeah, I know what you need to do.

Reposition the marketing, reposition the price, right? Got it sold in 30 days. I'm in really good commission. I was like, damn, this was good. This was like really fast 30, 60, 90 day money. You got hooked on the short-term dopamine. 100%. Yeah.

Which was, took me off the original path. Took your eye off the ball. Right. And so what happened was, I always say, between the ages of 25 and 35, I bought a lot of stuff. Yeah. Right, a lot of real estate. And between 35 and like 45,

I kinda got distracted by this agent building teams and all the, by the way, what I learned was invaluable because it made me a better business person. 100%. But I didn't buy as much as I should have bought, right? And one day I woke up and I looked at my net worth tracker and I was like, dude, I'm spending 99% of all my time building sales teams and 99% of all my net worth is in assets that I purchased

10, 15 years earlier, right? In 2008, when the market was low, I was buying assets. In 09, I was buying assets, holding those assets. So I was like, I've got to flip this script, right? And by the way, grid is growing that whole time. And it's just, grid is growing that whole time. And I realized, oh, I love this game of investing. We were building when we started expanding these hyper local neighborhood teams,

kind of like I call them the friendly Spider-Man team, the traditional agent team. And I was like, if I'm going to expand, if I'm going to play this game, then the only game I want to play is this agent investment model. Because it puts us in the path of opportunity, right? If you're marketing for pre-foreclosures, to stressed assets, to help sellers figure out difficult situations, it puts you in the path of opportunity. So if I'm, if I'm going to go start a team in Knoxville,

Virginia, or Knoxville, Virginia, or Knoxville, Tennessee, sorry, then I want it to be this kind of model because then I can buy assets in those markets. And that's the, so that entered a different idea into my brain, right, of what expansion might look like. But for five years, man, like we're just beating our head against the wall,

building these hyper local neighborhood teams and not really making any money. Right. And fucking a lot of stress and headache. A lot of headache, a lot of stress. Yeah. Right. And so, you know, that that's part of the game. You've got to learn how to pivot.

Sure. And so, you know, I heard Leo's wife the other day say there's power in the pivot. Yeah. And so we pivoted. Yeah heard Leo's wife the other day say there's power in the pivot. Yeah. And so we pivoted. And it's been great. Yeah. It's interesting that you say that because what's kind of interesting is right now, I'm

coaching some of the top real estate teams in the United States and agents. And they're saying the same thing that you just did of like I've I climbed the mountain, I got the t-shirt and the reward at the end of it is I bought I built a great sales organization that is not something I can necessarily sell. It's not necessarily something that's an asset yet Yeah, it generates a good income, but I did not get on the asset side. And I'll tell you, my journey is so why I really focused on investing for a while. And to your point, I got distracted too, because I got really good at being an agent. Yeah, number one team in Maryland, number one store buying into that whole thing. And all that shit was cool, right? But when I got my license was in 08.

Was actually at the end of 07 going into 08. And I remember being in the office, Lonnie Foster, now we're both at UXP, and great company by the way. And I'm sitting in the office and I'm watching everybody go bankrupt. Do you know what I mean? And I had this misnomer in my head of like, once I become an agent, everybody invests,

right? No, they don't. And then so I'm sitting in the office and you got men crying and losing their shit. I mean, just bad, like not good. And they had no assets, right? And I'm like, man, there's just gotta be another way. And for those of you that are in real estate and you're listening to this,

it is the biggest seven figure business opportunity under your nose right now if you're not doing it. By the way, if you're not in real estate and you're listening to this, it is the biggest, one of the easiest paths of wealth is owning real estate. And you don't have to own a ton of doors. You can own a handful and still become very, very wealthy later on in your life.

Yeah. Or even sooner. I found more doesn't necessarily mean better. No, more means a lot more fucking headache. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 100%.

But it still baffles me to this day. One thing that I'm super passionate about, I know you are too, is to change the narrative of like, don't be just stuck being an agent. And look, there's nothing wrong with that. Like be whatever lane you want to be in, but there's nothing to say you can't go on 10, 20, 30 rentals, retire comfortably, have that paying for it, you know, like, but so many people just, they won't do it. They would, they would rather, I can't tell you how many times I've had this conversation where they're

like, well, I, you know, I'm in Maryland and I want to go do an expansion team in Florida. And I'm like, cool, um, money, time, effort, energy that you're going to put into that. Maybe it becomes profitable. Why don't you take that same effort, energy and focus on investing in real estate? And it's almost like it's not sexy enough to them. Yeah, it's like you're setting up an acquisition arm and you start thinking about all the vertically integrated businesses that you could start off

of your core main team. It's just like a better way to think about expansion. And dude, it's so much more profitable. You get access to the deals. It solves a ton of problems. It's just, it's still to this day baffles me. You and I did a regional rally recently together and it baffled me how many people,

there's probably 400-ish people in that room, whatever the number was. And I'm sitting there talking about investing in real estate and I could see the part of the room that was lost. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? And it just still baffles me to this day that we are just not better at an industry understanding

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so we trust them. Reach out to them for all your mortgage needs. Tell them I sent you. I started creating frameworks. I think like one of my superpowers is being able to take these complicated ideas and make them simple for people to understand. And we created this framework called like the seven levels of freedom to help people

to understand levels, right? Like you and I talked, there's a mindset level. If your mindset isn't in the right place, like whatever you build is just going to get torn down, right? Level two is like where you're an agent and you're just trying to figure out how to make money and pay your bills, right? And so I call it it the predictable income level, which is just your money math. Figure out your inputs to get certain outputs. Level three is

like you start getting really good at the inputs and getting the outputs, but you suck as a business person. So you got to go on this business ownership journey, close your books, review your P&Ls. And these are all things that I learned on this journey. Level four, though, to speak to your point, is once you understand how to run your agent business, or whatever business out there, you should be thinking about converting your active income into assets so that it creates highly leveraged income, so you can create that, AKA passive income, right? And for whatever reason, agents have not given themselves permission

to adopt that identity, right? Which is what I'm- It's a big identity thing. It's an identity thing, right? So level one, I'm like, it's mindset, energy, identity. Like you've got to adopt the identity that you're actually going, you're a wealth builder, that you are a, like, that you are deserving of wealth,

right? And for whatever reason, agents don't adopt that. Like, if you started- No, dude, that, dude. So you just hit, man, that's such a powerful, I wanna key in on that. Identity around money is two things. One, it is, if you don't think that you are worthy of a certain amount of money,

you'll never get it. And that's a real thing. The flip side of it is if you don't envision having that amount of money, what happens is if you do get to that point, for instance, with an agent, one of the things that I've seen is they say, you know, the white whale is to make a hundred grand a year, just use that as an example. Then they get there and they won't get in the investor side or the whatever side because they've now, so let's just say it's a hundred and they get to 150. They've actually outgrown their identity of money, right? So it actually makes them kind of freeze of like, I'm good. Do you know what I mean? Like I'm good. And so it's like, and or their identity is so tied to, well, I'm a top producer, I'm good. Do you know what I mean? Like I'm good. And so it's like, and, or their identity is so tied to,

well, I'm a top producer, I'm not an investor. And it's like, it is so, so powerful, the identity conversation around this. What's interesting is when I first met you and you were, like I heard you speak, I was like, dude, like, I see you. I get you. Like, I totally get it because I think both you and I, because we've been in the space and we, we see our colleagues. Uh, you know,

we're on a mission to change their identity, right? And, and help them kind of, I don't want to say elevate their thinking, just, just move to the left, right? And think differently about how this business can help you build an incredible life, right? And to get off of the hamster wheel and to create what I call the income flip. The income flip is like when you've got more of your assets and your businesses and your notes and all the rest, paying you more money than your expenses, right? Robert Kiyosaki would call that, getting out of the rat race.

I'm like, just flip your income so that it's more leveraged income than active income, right? The first step in that for many agents is like, can you go from being the producer, right? To then giving it up and just having somebody else do it. So- And a lot of people can't, you know what I mean? Really hard for them, right?

Because they're so good at production. They don't understand how they can slow down in order to speed up. And so we have to coach them through that whole idea and identity. And then level five is about really going on a leadership journey. Like I've seen you like, like practices, level five is about really going on a leadership journey. Like I've seen you like, like practices.

Level five is about leadership on purpose. I think in the beginning, like we're leaders by default because we just have to. You're not taught it. You're not taught it. And anybody says, well, so and so was a natural born leader. No.

They learned by trial by fire. And then they went and got some professional training to help on that for sure. 100%. I realized, I woke up and said, wow, this is actually a leadership journey. Well, yeah, and so think about this. So if you're listening to this and you say,

man, I wanna lead a bunch of people where I wanna be a great leader, you know one of the biggest qualities you have to have as a leader is you have to be able to handle massive amounts of failure all the time, because that's actually where you learn. Right. And then get the fuck up and keep moving.

That's it. And, and, and so, and it's not for everybody. No, hell no. Right. Like I always say, Hey, you can win the game by just being like an incredible producer, taking that money and buying assets and calling it a day and the asset will do its job 24 seven, seven days a week, won't talk back, right? Do the whole thing.

And that lane is, that's another thing too, to your point is whatever lane you're comfortable being in is okay as well. 100%. Yeah. You don't have to, you don't, do you? Yep. You don't have to buy into whatever you see, right? Build whatever you want to build,

not what you think you need to be. And like you and I know, like a lot of people that might be on stage, and this I think happens across every industry. If you actually look under the hood, you're like, oh, they really don't, they haven't created a really good wealth machine, right? Correct, yeah.

I'm like, you need- They've created a good income machine. Yeah, I call it a cash machine and a wealth machine. Correct, yeah. They create a good income machine. Yeah, I call it a cash machine and a wealth machine. You got to build that cash machine to build a wealth machine. And that's how you start flipping the income. And then level six is when you start doing what you've done, which is vertically integrate all of these different businesses. You realize, oh, I can add title and increase my profit.

I can add mortgage, increase my profit. I can add mortgage, increase my profit. I can add insurance, right? Or I could expand into other markets, which by the way, really hard. We just talked about doable, right? But hard, and you have to decide if you wanna do that. And then level seven is impact. You've been living impact the whole way.

Impact will always be some form of giving. Some people will give to a church. Some people will start a grid community. Some people will do a podcast like we're doing now, but it will show up in the form of giving. And you'll just have to figure out who do I want to be a superhero to? That's Dan Sullivan said that. And I just realized one day I wanted to be the superhero to the agent, to the investor. Like we're just, we're real estate entrepreneurs. The investor also goes on this journey, right?

Like wholesaler, fix and flipper, they get stuck there. They don't buy any assets. I mean, how many fix and flippers have you met? Like they flipped thousands of houses, but they don't have any assets. If you would have kept a third of them. Exactly. Number one regret I always hear is like, I should have they don't have any assets. If you would have kept a third of them. Exactly. Yeah. Number one regret I always hear is like, I should have kept.

Should have kept more. I should have kept more. Right. So it happens on both sides of the equation. Absolutely. All right. Yeah. Man, powerful stuff. We actually ran a little bit longer than we normally do, but we were jamming, so I wanted to go. So I appreciate you coming on today.

I always end at the same. And we call the show Waking Up to Wealth. And so the reason why I call it Waking Up to Wealth is because probably like you and most people, and I think this is why the show's gained so much popularity, is we traditionally are taught about money the wrong way. Go to college, make money, save money, right?

And then put in retirement and then you can retire one day. And what I found out quickly when I started getting around people with money is that's just not how it worked. That's not how people got wealthy. So I always try to bring people on here like yourself to teach our audience how they can wake up every day to become wealthy.

So I ask everybody at the end of the show the same question, what is waking up to wealth mean to you? And it can be whatever version your version is. My version is to be able to do what I love to do. Meaning, it's not, it's, I used to think it was tied to money and now it's tied to just enjoying what I do, right? Loving, waking up every day and like loving what I do. I realized a long time ago that all I need is a warm cup of coffee, a good view, and I am wealthy, health, right?

That I'm healthy, I've got my family around me. So money's just a fun way to kind of keep score and it's a game in my mind, it's just a game. But real wealth for me is to be able to live a life of experiences with people that I love, right? Bottom line. That's awesome. If someone's listening to this

and they want to get involved in Grid, how do they do that? They can go to great investor comm they can find a chapter that might be near them or start a chapter How can they find you or get in touch with you? They can go to at Rob Shabazz my Instagram handle or they just accurate investor You'll find us online and we got a free Facebook group, right? or at Grid Investor, you'll find us online. And we got a free Facebook group, right? Grid Investor Network on Facebook

and we've got thousands of people in there. All right, brother. Hey, that was great conversation today. Appreciate you being on here. Guys, if you're listening, give Rob a follow, reach out to him, thank him for coming on the episode. Let him know any information he gave you that was valuable. Drop us a like, drop us a comment, drop us a review.

Thank you guys so much for continually supporting the show. It makes me continue to spend time on this to be able to pour back into you guys. Thank you guys so much. And Rob, thank you again for being on here with us. And thanks for having me, brother. I appreciate it. Hey, what's up, everybody?

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