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What if the biggest driver of your financial future isn’t what you know, but the decisions you keep repeating?
In this second part of Bushy’s rolled gold conversation with property investor Aaron Christie-David, we move deeper into the E stage of the Property W.E.A.L.T.H. Clock — Examination, where awareness turns into responsibility, and responsibility demands action. This is where your decision patterns are exposed for what they really are — the bridge (or barrier) to your future capacity.
If Part 1 helped you see what’s going on beneath the surface, this episode challenges you to own it, and start changing it.
Bushy and Aaron unpack why wealth is rarely the result of one big move, and almost always the outcome of small, repeated decisions that either build momentum, or quietly destroy it.
They explore:
Why wealth is built (or broken) through the decisions you repeat daily
How small, seemingly insignificant choices compound into major financial outcomes
The hidden cost of indecision — and why avoiding decisions is still a decision
Why confidence is a critical driver of financial progress
How fear operates as an invisible constraint on your capacity
The way property amplifies your behaviour — both good and bad
This is a confronting but empowering listen.
Because the truth is your future won’t be shaped by what you intend to do, but by what you consistently do.
And if you can change your patterns, you can change your trajectory.
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Success in property starts with your 'why', and then the 'what' and 'how'. Let me, Bushy Martin, lead you through it! Sign up for my Freedom Formula program. The first session is absolutely free, and it only takes around an hour!
Find out more https://bushymartin.com.au/freedom-formula-course
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About Get Invested, a Property Hub show
Get Invested is the leading weekly podcast for Australians who want to learn how to unlock their full ‘self, health and wealth’ potential.
Hosted by Bushy Martin, an award winning property investor, founder, author and media commentator who is recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted experts in property, investment and lifestyle, Get Invested reveals the secrets of the high performers who invest for success in every aspect of their lives and the world around them.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to get every Get Invested episode each week for free.
For business enquiries, email [email protected].
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Why do so many smart, capable people feel like they’re doing okay financially … but never quite getting ahead?
In this “Rolled Gold” episode with Aaron Christie-David, part of the E for Examine stage of the Property W.E.A.L.T.H. Clock, the focus shifts to honest self-assessment, helping you unpack what’s really going on beneath the surface of your financial life.
After exploring your WHY and unpacking your spending habits and discipline in recent episodes, this is the natural next step. Because before you can build momentum, you need clarity on where you actually stand, not where you assume you are.
Aaron Christie-David is a property investor and finance professional who works closely with everyday Australians on lending, structuring and long-term wealth strategy. Through that lens, he sees firsthand how behaviour, life choices and mindset, not just income or opportunity, ultimately determine financial outcomes. In this conversation, he brings that grounded, real-world perspective to explain why so many people stall without realising it.
This episode tackles the deeper questions most people avoid:
- Why does progress feel slower than it should?
- Why do smart people drift financially over time?
- What decisions (or lack of decisions) are actually shaping your future?
This isn’t about strategy yet, it’s about awareness. Because clarity always precedes capacity.
Key insights you’ll take away:
• Financial stagnation rarely looks like failure — it often feels like stability
• Comfort can quietly mask stagnation and delay progress indefinitely
• Lifestyle drift is subtle, but incredibly expensive over time
• Comparison distorts your perception of progress and fuels dissatisfaction
• “Doing okay” can be the biggest risk to long-term freedom
• “Good” is often the enemy of “free”
The core idea is simple but confronting: the real enemy isn’t struggle, it’s unconscious comfort.
If you’ve ever felt like you should be further ahead by now, this episode will help you understand why, and give you the clarity needed to move forward with intent.
Take the next step with Bushy
Personal Solutions Session
Get clarity and personalised guidance: Book now
Property W.E.A.L.T.H Program - live now!
Be first to access discounts + free Module 1: Find out more https://courses.bushymartin.com.au/property-wealth
Find your Freedom Formula
Success in property starts with your 'why', and then the 'what' and 'how'. Let me, Bushy Martin, lead you through it! Sign up for my Freedom Formula program. The first session is absolutely free, and it only takes around an hour!
Find out more https://bushymartin.com.au/freedom-formula-course
Subscribe to Property Hub for free now on your favourite podcast player.
Take the next step - connect, engage and get more insights with the Property Hub community at linktr.ee/propertyhubau
Get property investment and wealth resources, and book a Personal Solution Session with Bushy.
All the links and info are here: linktr.ee/propertyhubau
About Get Invested, a Property Hub show
Get Invested is the leading weekly podcast for Australians who want to learn how to unlock their full ‘self, health and wealth’ potential.
Hosted by Bushy Martin, an award winning property investor, founder, author and media commentator who is recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted experts in property, investment and lifestyle, Get Invested reveals the secrets of the high performers who invest for success in every aspect of their lives and the world around them.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to get every Get Invested episode each week for free.
For business enquiries, email [email protected].
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if the real thing holding you back from financial freedom isn’t the market, the bank, or your income, but your daily behaviour?
This episode is a Rolled Gold replay with Bushy and Amanda Thompson - author of Financially Fit Women, award-winning financial planner, three-time world championship qualifying Ironwoman, and founder of Endurance Financial.
And that endurance lens is exactly the point.
In this early E-stage episode of the Property W.E.A.L.T.H. Clock rollout, the focus shifts from strategy to self. Before borrowing power, deal analysis or timing the market, this is about financial fitness, and whether your current habits are actually setting you up for freedom.
This is a key hinge point in the journey. You’ve clarified your WHY. You’ve started to examine your money thinking. Now it’s time to look at what you’re actually doing day to day.
Because wealth isn’t built in big moments, it’s built in patterns.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Why financial freedom is a behaviour pattern, not a one-off event

How Amanda’s endurance mindset reframes wealth building completely

Why small, repeated habits outperform bursts of good intention

Why financial fitness comes before financial freedom

The cost of misalignment between your values, goals and spending

Why systems and discipline beat hope every time

How better habits build confidence, capacity and choice over time

If you’re earning well but not getting ahead, this will help you see why, and where to start.
Before we move into borrowing capacity, life choices and the BEAR Facts, this is the reset point.
Get this right, and everything that follows gets easier.
Take the next step with Bushy
Personal Solutions Session
Get clarity and personalised guidance: Book now
Property W.E.A.L.T.H Program - live now!
Be first to access discounts + free Module 1: Find out more https://courses.bushymartin.com.au/property-wealth
Find your Freedom Formula
Success in property starts with your 'why', and then the 'what' and 'how'. Let me, Bushy Martin, lead you through it! Sign up for my Freedom Formula program. The first session is absolutely free, and it only takes around an hour!
Find out more https://bushymartin.com.au/freedom-formula-course
Subscribe to Property Hub for free now on your favourite podcast player.
Take the next step - connect, engage and get more insights with the Property Hub community at linktr.ee/propertyhubau
Get property investment and wealth resources, and book a Personal Solution Session with Bushy.
All the links and info are here: linktr.ee/propertyhubau
About Get Invested, a Property Hub show
Get Invested is the leading weekly podcast for Australians who want to learn how to unlock their full ‘self, health and wealth’ potential.
Hosted by Bushy Martin, an award winning property investor, founder, author and media commentator who is recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted experts in property, investment and lifestyle, Get Invested reveals the secrets of the high performers who invest for success in every aspect of their lives and the world around them.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to get every Get Invested episode each week for free.
For business enquiries, email [email protected].
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if the scariest property headlines right now aren’t warning signs, but signals most people are misreading?
In this episode, Bushy unpacks the growing “fear squeeze” shaping today’s property market, where rising uncertainty, tighter lending conditions and noisy headlines are creating confusion for everyday investors. While some are pulling back or freezing, the reality is more nuanced: the real pressure isn’t just interest rates, it’s a multi-layered squeeze on borrowing power that most people don’t fully understand.
Rather than reacting to headlines or surface-level signals like rising listings or rents, Bushy breaks down what’s actually happening beneath the surface, and why this phase of the cycle is quietly creating selective opportunity for those who stay calm, prepared and strategic.
Key takeaways:
The real squeeze isn’t just interest rates - it’s a combination of lender pricing, tighter serviceability, DTI scrutiny, HEM creep and conservative valuations all hitting borrowing power at once

More listings don’t automatically equal more opportunity - “fake supply” and reluctant sellers can distort what’s really available

Rising rents don’t guarantee investor wins - higher costs, debt levels and risk are still squeezing many investors

Headline-driven fear is causing hesitation, which is creating selective buying windows for prepared investors

Infrastructure and shifting “usefulness” are quietly shaping future demand before the broader market catches on

Preserving borrowing capacity, buffers and flexibility is becoming a critical long-term strategy

The biggest risk right now is misreading signals and overestimating what you can actually afford

This phase rewards calm, informed, selective investors - not reactive, headline-driven decisions

The real divide isn’t owner vs renter or rich vs poor, it’s those who are prepared versus those who are not

This episode will leave you clearer on what’s really driving the current market squeeze, more cautious about the narratives dominating the media, and better equipped to identify the quiet opportunities others are missing.
Take the next step with Bushy
Personal Solutions Session
Get clarity and personalised guidance: Book now
Property W.E.A.L.T.H Program - live now!
Be first to access discounts + free Module 1: Find out more https://courses.bushymartin.com.au/property-wealth
Find your Freedom Formula
Success in property starts with your 'why', and then the 'what' and 'how'. Let me, Bushy Martin, lead you through it! Sign up for my Freedom Formula program. The first session is absolutely free, and it only takes around an hour!
Find out more https://bushymartin.com.au/freedom-formula-course
Subscribe to Property Hub for free now on your favourite podcast player.
Take the next step - connect, engage and get more insights with the Property Hub community at linktr.ee/propertyhubau
Get property investment and wealth resources, and book a Personal Solution Session with Bushy.
All the links and info are here: linktr.ee/propertyhubau
About Get Invested, a Property Hub show
Get Invested is the leading weekly podcast for Australians who want to learn how to unlock their full ‘self, health and wealth’ potential.
Hosted by Bushy Martin, an award winning property investor, founder, author and media commentator who is recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted experts in property, investment and lifestyle, Get Invested reveals the secrets of the high performers who invest for success in every aspect of their lives and the world around them.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to get every Get Invested episode each week for free.
For business enquiries, email [email protected].
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if financial freedom isn’t built by moving faster, but by learning to slow down?
In Part 2 of Bushy’s conversation with Max Phelps, we move deeper into the E for Examine stage of the Property W.E.A.L.T.H. Clock where awareness turns into action, and habits start to shape outcomes.
If Part 1 exposed the trap, this episode begins to map the way out.
Bushy and Max unpack the hidden link between patience, spending and wealth, and why the real game isn’t played in big financial decisions, but in the quiet, repeated choices no one sees.
They explore why modern money feels so effortless (and dangerous), how convenience erodes discipline, and why introducing friction back into your financial life can be one of the most powerful moves you make.
This is where behaviour meets strategy, and where most investors either take control or keep drifting.
Key takeaways:
Financial freedom is built by slowing down decisions, not speeding them up

Patience and friction are underrated wealth-building tools

Deliberate spending beats autopilot every time

Wealth is created quietly through consistent, everyday choices

Property success is downstream from basic financial discipline

The E stage is about identifying your money behaviours and regaining control before making bigger moves

If you’re serious about building long-term property wealth, this is the step you can’t afford to skip.
Because before strategy, before leverage, before your next deal … comes discipline.
Take the next step with Bushy
Personal Solutions Session
Get clarity and personalised guidance: Book now
Property W.E.A.L.T.H Program - live now!
Be first to access discounts + free Module 1: Find out more https://courses.bushymartin.com.au/property-wealth
Find your Freedom Formula
Success in property starts with your 'why', and then the 'what' and 'how'. Let me, Bushy Martin, lead you through it! Sign up for my Freedom Formula program. The first session is absolutely free, and it only takes around an hour!
Find out more https://bushymartin.com.au/freedom-formula-course
Subscribe to Property Hub for free now on your favourite podcast player.
Take the next step - connect, engage and get more insights with the Property Hub community at linktr.ee/propertyhubau
Get property investment and wealth resources, and book a Personal Solution Session with Bushy.
All the links and info are here: linktr.ee/propertyhubau
About Get Invested, a Property Hub show
Get Invested is the leading weekly podcast for Australians who want to learn how to unlock their full ‘self, health and wealth’ potential.
Hosted by Bushy Martin, an award winning property investor, founder, author and media commentator who is recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted experts in property, investment and lifestyle, Get Invested reveals the secrets of the high performers who invest for success in every aspect of their lives and the world around them.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to get every Get Invested episode each week for free.
For business enquiries, email [email protected].
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.