EP388: Bridget Hilton - Living A Life With No Regrets

Michael Palmer: The whole book is about doing the experiences that you want to do now, whether that is giving back, whether that's traveling, whether that's, you know, learning guitar or learning a new language or whatever it is you want to do, like making those things that you like push off until quote unquote someday, like making those happen now. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, I'm Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer. Palmer, and today's show is going to be an experiential one, which you'll understand why I said that more because our guest is the co-author of The Experiential Billionaire: Build a Life Rich in Experiences and Die with No Regrets. Bridget Hilton, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me, Michael. I'm excited to chat with you. Well, it's great to have you, and I'm excited about diving into this, and that's a big title. I mean, Dying with No Regrets sounds fantastic. And, uh, and before we get into all of it, please let us know a little bit about yourself. How did you end up doing what you're doing today?

Guest: Sure. So I'll go into a little, uh, a deeper backstory, I guess. I'll just start off right with that. So I grew up in Flint, Michigan, which is, you know, a small blue cart collar town. It's a nice place, but at the same time, it's got a lot of problems, as you might know, with the addictions and crime and economic hardships and the water issue. So growing up, I always kind of had this big dream of getting out of there. And I didn't judge anyone that was staying there, but I always had this love for music and the entertainment industry. And I didn't really know anyone in that world growing up. My My entire family works in the auto industry. And so my entire youth was spent basically with one goal in mind, which was to get out and to move to California and work in the music industry. So what I ended up doing was starting off with a lot of the $0 to $5 an hour type jobs, which is cleaning up trash at music venues and getting coffee for people at radio stations. Selling like band t-shirts in, in like concert venues all over. And then eventually I