{"id":6507,"date":"2020-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/?p=131581"},"modified":"2020-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T07:00:00","slug":"biggerpockets-podcast-413-matthew-mcconaughey-on-vision-preparation-and-balancing-ambition-with-family-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/biggerpockets-podcast-413-matthew-mcconaughey-on-vision-preparation-and-balancing-ambition-with-family-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"BiggerPockets Podcast 413: Matthew McConaughey on Vision, Preparation, and Balancing Ambition with Family &amp; Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You, BiggerPockets listener, may have more in common with Matthew McConaughey than first realized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Changing careers. Wondering how family life fits in with a hard-driving work ethic. Embracing spontaneity, but learning that success comes from making the choice today to &#8220;be kind to your future self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-winning actor covers those topics and more in our chat today. A lifelong journaler, McConaughey is in a reflective mood after writing his first book, Greenlights&#8230; which is filled with unforgettable stories about growing up the son of Texas an oil pipe &#8220;peddler,&#8221; stumbling into acting after a night drinking with the producer of Dazed and Confused, getting arrested for playing the bongo drums in the nude, and his mid-career shift toward intense, challenging projects like Dallas Buyers Club.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking &#8220;nah, this episode won&#8217;t teach me how to house hack&#8221;&#8230; fair enough. But give it a chance and see if you aren&#8217;t entertained. It&#8217;s a soulful, positive, not-at-all-Hollywood conversation about choices, happiness, and success. Here&#8217;s to catching more greenlights!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You, BiggerPockets listener, may have more in common with Matthew McConaughey than first realized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Changing careers. Wondering how family life fits in with a hard-driving work ethic. Embracing spontaneity, but learning that success comes from making&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}