540: Cop Salary to $300 Million in Real Estate w/ Whitney Sewell

<p>How do you build massive wealth while keeping your<strong>&nbsp;passions, family, faith</strong>, and bank account intact? Successful real estate investors will tell you the same thing: you need to<strong>&nbsp;automate and systematize</strong>&nbsp;to make time for it all, and they aren't kidding.&nbsp;<a href="https://lifebridgecapital.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Whitney Sewell</strong></a>&nbsp;was&nbsp;<strong>working as a cop&nbsp;</strong>when he got his start in real estate. Looking at his&nbsp;<strong>$35,000 salary</strong>, he realized that the long hours and tiresome, but enjoyable work, wouldn’t allow him financial freedom.</p><p>Whitney&nbsp;<strong>wanted more time with his kids, his wife, and his beloved horses</strong>. So, he started attending every real estate conference he could go to,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/network-better" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">networking</a>&nbsp;with anyone who owned any amount of real estate. He&nbsp;<strong>hired a performance coach, built a successful podcast</strong>, and flipped his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/biggerpockets-podcast-403-jason-drees" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>limiting beliefs</strong></a>&nbsp;on their head, so he could tackle big deals.</p><p><strong>In only three years</strong>, Whitney built a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/2014-09-14-build-real-estate-empire-ground" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>real estate empire</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;with over</strong>&nbsp;<strong>$300M assets under management</strong>. Part of his personal profits are donated to help adopted children and those who need adoptive parents. Whitney talks about how his faith and social goals have played a huge part in his real estate and how&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-investors-do-well-financially-do-good-philanthropy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>doing good</st