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Ep 133. Choosing Freedom On Fridays · Go Big with Gib Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Go Big With Gibb podcast, where we talk to professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs about their big wins.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Go Big With Gibb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I want to talk about a question that stopped me in my tracks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last summer, my daughter asked me something simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said, Dad, why do you work on Fridays?
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  SPEAKER_00: I have the standard answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have clients, I have deals, I have responsibilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you're talking to a 12-year-old, those answers don't sound nearly as convincing.
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  SPEAKER_00: What she really was asking was, if you've worked so hard all these years, why aren't you with us at the beach?
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, I didn't have a response.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Because she was right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like many entrepreneurs, business owners, lawyers, and investors, I had spent years building, building a law firm, building investment companies, building wealth, building opportunities.
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  SPEAKER_00: And somewhere along the way, I forgot to ask, what was I building it for?
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: This year I decided to make a change.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fridays are off because I finally realized that freedom isn't something that starts someday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Freedom is something you have to choose.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now on Fridays during the summer, the phone goes in the drawer, the emails can wait, the portfolio can run without me for a day.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: And my kids get the version of me that isn't distracted, stressed, or thinking about the next meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: They get dad.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what's funny?
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing broke.
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  SPEAKER_00: The law firm is still there, the investments are still there, the opportunities are still there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The world kept spinning, and that taught me something.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people spend decades chasing financial freedom, but when they finally get it, they don't use it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They keep working exactly the same way they did before.
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  SPEAKER_00: They keep checking their phones, they keep chasing the next deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: They keep telling themselves they'll slow down later.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Next year, the next raise, after the next investment.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: The milestones never stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is always another mountain to climb, another goal to hit, another dollar to earn.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: If you're not careful, you'll spend your whole life building freedom and never actually enjoying it.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: We tell ourselves we're sacrificing today for tomorrow, but tomorrow eventually becomes 20 years.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: And one day you wake up and realize the kids are grown, the games are over, the beach trips are memories.
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  SPEAKER_00: The opportunities you were trying to create for your family are still there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the time you could have spent with them is gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why this summer is different for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I spent years grinding so my family would have options.
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  SPEAKER_00: This summer I'm finally using one of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The purpose of wealth isn't to accumulate money, the purpose of wealth is to create choices.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're fortunate enough to have those choices, don't forget to use them.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's all for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spend time with the people who matter.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: Take the trip, put the phone down, and remember why you started building in the first place.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, go big.