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James Short: From Endurance Race Training to Property Investing

Season 8, Ep. 844

We’re back with business and life coach extraordinaire James Short. Even with already 16 fruitful years of coaching clients, he understands that one must keep moving on the path towards success. Equipped with almost two decades of coaching success, he unpacks the incredible story of how he became an ultra endurance athlete and how he uses that real-world experience as a powerful metaphor to give his clients aiming to go the next level the push they need—in property investing or otherwise. 


Plus, he gives a glimpse of the properties he has garnered so far and how he thinks luck, intelligence, and hard work actually fit in the picture.

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