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Paw Paw Paw Paw with a mission to bring renewable water to a billion people, something I love. He's using the power of entrepreneurship to fund this dream. He is, through a strategic real estate portfolio in Memphis. He's not only creating financial freedom for himself, but also using his expertise to help others do the same. In just this past three years, he's helped entrepreneurs from historically marginalized communities secure over 3,000,000, because that's $3,000,000 in funding, provide proving that when you lift yourself up, you can lift others with you. He's also an US army veteran, a devoted father of three, and a passionate storyteller. He travels and he gardens just to name other things he likes to do. He's here to share his journey, his strategies, and his vision for a better world with us.

So get ready to be inspired because today, we have Paul Brown on the show. Paul, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me. Thank you for your kind words, and, I'm just so grateful to be here.

Oh, you got that southern drawl that is just gonna lull us all into loving you even more, Paul. So we're gonna jump straight into it. Why did you become an entrepreneur? What made you decide, hey, I wanna bring reliable renewable water to over a billion people? What what made you decide that's to be your big goal and dream through entrepreneurship?

You know, the first draw was was time, freedom. I I got tired of working for the band and having my time and, my geography where I was dictated to me. And, of course, that's better than not having any opportunity at all. Right? So those jobs were stepping stones that I'm grateful for to my ultimate time freedom. But the the draw to entrepreneurship was how do I is it possible for me to create assets, to buy assets, to create a business that can free up my time? That was the push. Now I don't know that I would have really got anywhere without a a big why, a big life purpose. And that came that came towards the beginning of of, my entrepreneurial journey as far as as far as for me, it was creative real estate and how I leveraged that to to free up my time. But if I didn't have a big purpose, a big why of of helping people get water, then I wouldn't have taken as much action or risk.

And I think I'd still be I think I'd still be working for the man.

You'd still be there grinding away with for the man. What what made you decide this big why? Because it it is a huge why, and it's not one that most people would think would be of, something that encourage you or, you know, drive you because you're looking to help a billion other people and not yourself or your local community. What made you decide on water? What was it about the water situation that just compelled you?

Sure. I'll say to be clear, it's definitely helping me in many ways. So I'm I'm right there along with the people I wanna help. And not sharpshooting you. It just that's an important distinction that that servant leaders need to keep in mind that we're people too. So when we help our neighbor, just remember we're neighbors. Well, it's kinda you're you're included in that help. I, about twelve, fifteen years ago, I was I was on one of my favorite authors' websites, and I was learning about early Christian history.