Bio Rob is the co-founder of propertyhub.net and the bestselling author of The Price Of Money (Penguin). He co-presents the UK’s most popular property podcast, and has a weekly column in The Sunday Times. Interview Highlights 02:30 Jack of all trades 06:00 Recruiting interested people 07:45 Life as a digital nomad 10:50 Getting into property 12:00 Podcasting – the magic ingredients 17:40 Property investment 20:20 Long term vision 23:10 The Price of Money 26:00 Inflation & interest rates 31:00 Diversified portfolios 34:00 The end game 36:40 Seeking advice 39:40 Systemising property investments 42:30 Sharing strategic decisions 46:20 Goal setting 48:40 Parenting perspectives 59:20 Increasing your own earning power 1:02:40 Consume less, do more Social Media · LinkedIn: Rob Dix on LinkedIn · Instagram: Rob Dix on Instagram · Twitter: Rob Dix (@robdix) · Website: Robdix.com · Website: propertyhub.net Books & Resources · The Price of Money: How to Prosper in a Financial World That’s Rigged Against You, Rob Dix · How To Be A Landlord: The Definitive Guide to Letting and Managing Your Rental Property, Rob Dix · The Complete Guide to Property Investment: How to survive & thrive in the new world of buy-to-let, Rob Dix · Property Investment for Beginners, Rob Dix · 100 Property Investment Tips: Learn from the experts and accelerate your success, Rob Dix, Rob Bence · Beyond the Bricks: The inside story of how 9 everyday investors found financial freedom through property, Rob Dix · The Property Podcast - YouTube · Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life, Bill Perkins · How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty, Harry Browne · Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia, Bill Gifford · The Coming Wave, Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar · The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society, Azeem Azhar Episode Transcript Intro: Hello and welcome to the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. I’m Ula Ojiaku. On this podcast I speak with world-class leaders and doers about themselves and a variety of topics spanning Agile, Lean Innovation, Business, Leadership and much more – with actionable takeaways for you the listener. Ula Ojiaku I'm pleased to have with me here as my guest, Rob Dix, who is the co-founder of Property Hub and he's also an author, investor, entrepreneur extraordinaire, and we'll be learning more about it. So Rob, thank you so much for making the time to be my guest on the Agile Innovation Leaders Podcast. Rob Dix It’s a pleasure, thank you. Ula Ojiaku Yes. I usually start with this question for my guests because personally, I am curious. I love learning about people. So what would you say have shaped you, looking at your background, into the Rob Dix we know and admire today? Rob Dix Well, it's a well trodden career path. I studied cognitive neuroscience, went to work in the music industry, obviously, as you do. And then sort of ended up leaving that and going into property. None of that makes any sense, and I think that sort of sums up how I've got here, which is just by following my curiosity and doing whatever seemed like a good idea at the time, and so if something seemed interesting to me, I would do it. And property, which I got into by accident in my early thirties, was probably the first thing that I've really stuck with and it's held my interest for the long term. I'd always just sort of like, wanted to figure out how something works, once I knew how it works I got bored, moved on, but with property it's like you kind of never get to the end, there's so much to it, and then it's also served as a gateway into investing more generally and into economics, ended up writing this book about how the economy works and all this kind of thing, but it's the same old theme of just kind of going with whatever seems interesting. Ula Ojiaku A very fascinating background. It sounds to me, and I'm not trying to box you in or label you, but you sound like someone who's multi-passionate and multi-talented, would you call yourself a jack of all trades? Rob Dix Absolutely. Yeah. I've written an article actually, in defence of being a jack of all trades, because I think people fixate on the master of none bit, but I think that there's a lot to be said for knowing a little about a lot, and I think it's a natural tendency. I was saying to my wife the other day that I don't think I would be able to, if I had to like knuckle down and it's like if you just do this one thing for three ...
