In Part 1 of this conversation, Matt LeBaron walks through the story of building a life under real pressure. From pipeline work and early financial success to launching a real estate business just before the 2007–2008 market collapse, Matt shares what it looks like to persist when ambition meets reality.

But this episode goes deeper than career. We explore how work ethic is passed down through family, why entitlement quietly erodes character, and how parenting has changed in a world shaped by convenience, technology, and speed. Matt reflects on teaching his children responsibility, investing, and long-term thinking — even as forces like AI make shortcuts more tempting than ever.

The conversation ultimately turns toward faith and formation. Matt speaks openly about growing up in a Christian home, rebelling, drifting, and eventually returning to a reordered life where God comes first, family second, and work third. Through fatherhood, anxiety, and surrender, he came to see that formation cannot be outsourced — and that legacy is built through daily choices, not intentions.

Matt LeBaron is a real estate broker, entrepreneur, husband, and father based in Idaho. He began his career in pipeline and industrial work before transitioning into real estate, launching his business just ahead of the 2007–2008 housing market collapse. Navigating economic uncertainty, entrepreneurship, and family life shaped his views on responsibility, discipline, and long-term thinking.

Beyond business, Matt is deeply committed to faith and family formation. He speaks openly about parenting in a rapidly changing world, teaching work ethic and financial responsibility to his children, and ordering life around faith, family, and vocation rather than convenience or cultural pressure.

• Transitioning from pipeline work to entrepreneurship

• Launching a real estate business just before the 2007–2008 market crash

• Surviving financial pressure and learning resilience through failure

• Work ethic learned from family and passed down to children

• Parenting in an age of entitlement, convenience, and distraction

• Teaching kids responsibility, delayed gratification, and investing

• Gold, silver, scarcity, and long-term financial thinking

• Artificial intelligence as a tool — and the danger of outsourcing judgment

• Anxiety, ambition, and the cost of misordered priorities

• Faith drift, return, and the role of a praying parent

• “God first, family second, work third” as a lived hierarchy

• Why environment, mentorship, and focus shape identity and legacy

• Discipline & Mastery

• Faith & Formation

• Family, Fatherhood & Legacy

• Responsibility & Becoming

• Story & Identity

• Trust Realty – About Matt

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