In this podcast episode, Austin Rutherford tells his origin story of going from aspiring ball player to successful real estate entrepreneur, highlighting the importance of visualization and setting goals.    In this episode, you will learn:  How did Austin Rutherford go from a baller to becoming a successful real estate entrepreneur? What was the light bulb moment that led Austin to begin investing in real estate? What sets athletes apart from other people, in Austin's opinion? "Money solves problems. Money provides a lot of things. A lot of things in this world. Can't I go to argue? Almost anything, any problem can be solved with money. So if you have money, you don't have problems anymore."   Austin Rutherford is a real estate entrepreneur, investor, and coach who has been in the business since he was 20 years old. He is the founder of Rutherford Investments and has completed over 300 deals.   This is Austin Rutherford's story...   Austin Rutherford is a real estate entrepreneur who has been in the business since he was 20 years old. He started out by flipping his first house and then went on to mentor and coach others in the industry. He is currently sitting down with Sam for an interview on The Origin Story. Austin shares his story of always wanting to be rich and how he finally found his breakthrough by reading the book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. He talks about how this opened his mind to the possibilities of success outside of being an athlete or a rapper and how he then went on to buy his first rental property. Today, Austin has done 300 plus deals and continues to grow his business.   In this episode, you will learn the following: How did Austin Rutherford go from hating basketball to becoming a successful real estate entrepreneur? What was the light bulb moment that led Austin to begin investing in real estate? What sets athletes apart from other people, in Austin's opinion? Chapter Summaries: [00:00:02] - Today on the origin story, Sam will introduce his guest, Austin Rutherford. Austin is a real estate entrepreneur and investor. He has been in the game since he was 20 years old and is a coach and a mentor. Sam likes to bring on guests who are actually doing it right.   [00:01:08] - Austin has been involved in real estate entrepreneurship for almost a year. He came to Austin early on. Austin and Tim Bronze got 75 million doors from Tim Bronze. Austin will talk about this later on. He will also talk about how he came to meet Austin.   [00:02:21] - Austin. Grew up in Columbus, Ohio. Moved to Arizona to play a year of basketball out there at a prep school to pursue the NBA dream. In Phoenix, he picked up a ballet job. He was sitting on his rooftop journaling. He read a book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. He bought his first rental property when he was 20 years old. Bought his second house at 21. Flipped that six months later. Made $107000 net profit four days after his 22nd birthday. Reinvested every penny into the business.   [00:05:34] - As a kid. He always wanted to be rich. His parents always provided for him. But they never had the massive houses, the Ferraris, Lambos or anything like that. He loves competition and he loves to win. He picked up a book in Phoenix, Arizona, while he was playing basketball and it changed his life.   [00:07:21] - Sam used to own a gym and did a podcast series with his trainers every week. Sam is not a big reader, but he read a lot in school and he loves knowledge and wisdom. Sam lets his trainers read the books and then he comes in and absorbs the wisdom.   [00:08:12] - Austin has been an entrepreneur his entire life. His parents raised him to be competitive and he wanted to be an entrepreneur. His childhood dream was to become an NBA player. He used to work out all day, every day. Three times a day, he would ride his bike to the YMCA at 5:00 am. His dad supported him.   [00:11:24] - Athletes are hyper visualizers and they put the process fi