From Pain to Gain: Recent Episodes
Ivan Alpha
This podcast exposes the blindspots on pain in society, so that you can hold space for gain...Instead of the natural inclination to avoid it all.
Created by Real Estate Investor, Speaker and Author Ivan Alpha. Disclaimer: This is not advice or statements that will work for everyone, just sharing experiences from one human being to another based entirely on my experience. Your results may vary. Consult licensed professional(s) before making any professional or personal moves surrounding these sensitive topics.
Award-winning Musician, Author, Lecturer, and Activist Daryl Davis shares his journey on making friends with hate group leaders & members. Groups such as the KKK & Nazis gave up their roles because they could not reconcile being friends with this great man, and being a part of said groups.
Dr Ravi Mandadi and I discuss the delicate topic of him seeing beyond death, to living his maximum life. We navigate his journey of what things to look out for if you fall into a similar thought process and how to break out of it, so you can also go beyond it into living your maximum life.
We jump into discussing how addiction affects the brain, the stages of recovery, and expert-level techniques & stories.
Fredd and Ivan speak of their personal journeys of financial pitfalls they've faced, and how they escaped those.
We share our perspectives on this gnashing-of-teeth-type issue that arose from the Supreme Court this year in the hopes of moving forward through it together in wisdom & peace. Instead of holding back our feelings, concerns, and encouragements on this matter as we are FAR TOO USED TO in this country.
Diagram Video: Abortion Talk Diagram
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Jason and Ivan talk about how everyone contributes towards making monsters like Jeffrey, from village [society], to parents, to addicts in many different aspects of life including negative news & sexuality.
We speak not only the observation of these societal dynamics which is valuable simply to be aware of, but how one can be delivered from them with the decision to.
We also share some of our own journeys in fighting through this lopsided monster-friendly framework, to the framework that Jesus created for us to live in freedom.
Song mentioned towards the end: Defender- UPPERROOM
Ivan & Jason cover how the many different subversive messages in music scientifically and anecdotally effect their brains & society's brains as a whole. Including songs that subliminally encourage hedonism, sexually inappropriate behavior, sexuality change, and division of spousal relationships thereby households.
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/YkLS16VoESM
Dealmaking Audiobook [one of the first free episodes]. Ivan describes a deal that was supposed to take 21 days ended up taking 120 days due to disagreements & complications between 4 siblings from the Final Will & Testament. Ivan describes how he facilitated all of the variables, and explained the sales & management learning points along the way.
1. Only your jokes are funny to you
2. Doubters, not empowerers in your inner circle
3. The urge to buy your way out of anything
4. Long stretches of expenses without income
BONUS #5: Be careful on who you do business with
Ivan describes what the podcast will be targeting. Some episodes will be uploaded in video format to YouTube: https://youtu.be/h0Zi27EbSJI
As of now, here are the rough season breakdowns to be filled in as we go:
Season 1: Affordable Housing, because the home is the #1 determining factor to a fulfilling life. It largely determines inflation, family stability, crime, personal development, wealth-building, etc.
Season 6: Societal Issues
Season 7: Jesus Other seasons to be filled in later.
Grow multiple crops from one seed. How an owner of existing single family rental home, can create more affordable housing units on the same property with low upfront capital risk and exponential ROI.
Break off from the pigeon pack fighting for crumbs. Ivan explains how an SFR [single family rental] investor should strategize their divestment and investment plan into multi-family with some examples of how to offset risk...Thereby increasing availability for affordable housing.
Ivan draws out the predicament for the 3 major stakeholders in this crisis before going into solutions.