17 min • Caleb & Mary Beth Lutz

The dream gets sold hard. Make money while you sleep, earn on autopilot, set it and forget it. Some of it's real and a lot of it isn't. This episode makes it real so you stop pouring your time into the wrong things.

In this episode, Caleb and Mary Beth separate what's actually passive from what's just marketed that way, using examples from the income streams they've actually run themselves.

We cover:

→ The simple definition: passive income is money that keeps paying after the work is done

→ Why almost everything starts active, and why "recurring income" is the more honest term

→ Where real income streams fall on the spectrum from active to passive

→ Why buying a course or following a guru doesn't jump you from point A to point Z

→ The honest path to building something that actually pays you later

Passive income isn't learning about passive income. It's active work now that keeps paying after you stop.

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