“#1 Leading Ladies”: Recent Episodes
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climbing in a male-dominated science, military, and leadership positions /industry, then helping women gain more power is the ultimate service
Tanya Mayo (she/her) is the Owner and Chief Operating Officer at Be the Change Consulting. She’s the former Director of Capacity Building at San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and their Families. A certified professional coach, she draws from her vast experience in training, non-profit systems, and youth development to develop capacity-building pathways. Tanya has a rich background in multicultural education and art with 10+ years of teaching experience, deep-rooted work with diverse populations, and knowledge in organizational capacity-building. Her skills include strategic planning, program development, staff development, board retention, and fundraising. Tanya raises her brilliant kids in Oakland, CA on Ohlone land.
Romana Hasenohrl start over at 44 Successful Astrology and world travel business staEpisode 85 - “#1 Leading Ladies”
Avery Carl was named one of Wall Street Journal’s Top 100 and Newsweek’s Top 500 agents in 2020.
She and her team at The Term Shop focus exclusively on Vacation Rental and Short-Term Rental
Clients, having closed well over 1 billion dollars in real estate sales. Avery has sold over $300 million in
Short Term/Vacation Rentals since 2017. An investor herself, with a portfolio of over 100 Doors, Avery
specializes in connecting investors with short term rentals with the highest ROI potential, and then
training them to manage their short-term rental from their smart phone from anywhere in the world.
Elena Cardone Build an empire from the ground up with Real Estate Episode 83 - “#1 Leading Ladies”
Want to real estate invest with a bunch of women but don’t know where to start? Meet our partner Powerhouse women REI once you are ready big commercial deals are next!
Carrie Young has been investing in MF Real Estate since 2016. She and her husband formed Silica Ridge Investment Group so she could be a RE Professional and take advantage of writing off expenses and depreciation against her husband's W-2 Salary. She started out primarily as a passive investor with over 4,000 doors. In mid-2017, her tax advisor suggested doing a Joint Venture or Tenant in Common to take advantage of bonus depreciation. That deal sold in 2 years more than doubling her money and receiving a tax refund for the first time ever. She was hooked! Carrie now has 2 syndications where she is a GP and 2 more Joint Ventures. She specializes in detailed asset management and location selection.
Elaina Briscoe Fleming is an accomplished business owner and aspiring apartment investor living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Being the daughter of Brian Briscoe, co-founder and principal in the real estate investing firm Four Oaks Capital, Elaina learned from a young age the importance of building passive income and creating a legacy. At the age of 21, she created her own LLC, PodcastHero, in order to work closely with her father and Four Oaks Capital as the sole editor of the Diary of an Apartment Investor Podcast. Outside of the multifamily world, she is currently attending the University of Utah to become a Registered Nurse. She has a passion for helping people, and volunteers her time at an after school program for refugee children, as well as at a free clinic in Salt Lake. She and her husband are active in their community and plan to eventually set up a nonprofit to advocate for people with special needs. Her hobbies include writing, photography, and exploring the great outdoors.
Victoria Evans Intuitive Eating Coach - She began her career in the corporate world with a prominent Fortune 500 company in the beauty industry in Montreal. During this time, her challenges related to eating disorders, mental health, extreme dieting, and overexercising became a catalyst for creating a solution to an issue millions of women deal with today.
As a successful Intuitive Eating Coach, she is disrupting the wellness industry through her fundamentally science-based approach. Victoria helps countless women heal their relationship with food by optimizing their mindset for happier and healthier lifestyles.
Savannah "The Networth Nurse" is a full-time Registered Nurse in Los Angeles, California. She uses her skills as a leader in healthcare operations to manage multifamily syndications. She also helps busy medical professionals create passive income through real estate investing. Savannah uses mindset tools and goal setting to elevate herself within the healthcare system, as well as create a real estate business.
She’s not an investor or advisor, she’s a Financial Coach.
Pennywise Coaching is about helping you connect your Money,
Goals and Values and learn the day to day skills to achieve your
goals, by creating a custom spending plan to pay off debt and live
within your means so you can build wealth for a future you
deserve.
Danielle started her career in Software Development leading teams of Quality Assurance Analysts. She spent years testing software and managing customer relationships in both the healthcare and legal industries until she left the field in 2010.
After that she went on a natural journey as a result of her son being diagnosed with asthma and admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. If you would have told her at any point prior to this she would be making her own deodorant she would have laughed at your. Yet here she is, she has built a natural skin and body care company using her skills in quality assurance to create an exceptional product. Also focusing on customer relationships as the driver of growth and customer loyalty.
Golden Sky Naturals is a balance of adventure and self-care. The products do not compromise on clean - both human and environmentally, have a no b.s. ingredient list, and are created in-house by her and her team.
Hallie Brown graduated from Baylor University in 2014 with BBA’s in Finance and Entrepreneurship with previous experience in real estate research and economic development. Shortly after she moved to Austin and started working with a local Texas owner-operator to help manage his existing lines of business and expand into new areas of interest. During her time there, she learned property management of SFR and multifamily properties, how to source off-market SFR leads and assisted in fix and flip operations while helping onboard new team members and help create processes and operations manuals.
Katie Brinkley is the owner and Social Media Strategist and Coach at Next Step Social Communications, a social media agency based out of Littleton Colorado. She has been helping small businesses, real estate agents, construction companies, and homebuilders with their social media for over 17 years. She specializes in coaching entrepreneurs on how social media can be an incredible tool to help find new leads, build community, grow sales, and bring the social back to their social media.
Kimberly Radaker Bays has been managing and overseeing Exponential Property Group and its associated companies, with a focus primarily on multifamily Real Estate, for the past ten years. She has grown Exponential Property Group from 2 employees to more than 160 in that time. Her leadership helped to complete eleven full-cycle transactions where properties were purchased, rehabbed, leased up and sold to provide capital gains exceeding 100% in three years or less, to the partnership. She currently leads eleven properties totaling over 4200 units and is always seeking more. Prior to her involvement in multifamily real estate, she was involved with creating and running her family’s single family rental portfolio and house flipping activities. Prior to starting her real estate career Kim was a consultant with over ten years of experience in virtually all areas of qualified retirement plan design and administration. Kim is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a major in finance and concentrations in accounting and economics. She lives with her husband Matt, twin sons, James and Nathan, and her stepson Jett in Southlake, Texas.
McKinley Hindi is the founder of Anita Project. Her work experience spans international business, national politics, and local organizing. Currently, she is a senior leader with a global biotech company's informatics organization.
McKinley is also a founding board member of AnnieCannons, a nonprofit transforming survivor of human trafficking into software professionals, and a Leader 50 member. Most importantly, McKinley personally experienced sexual harassment in multiple professional environments and understands the complications of the reporting process from both a victim and employer perspective. This experience inspired Anita.
Lizzy has co-created 2 businesses and 2 different meetup groups at just 21 years old. Her main focus is multifamily real estate investing, primarily focusing on syndication and target markets close to her home- Louisville, KY, as well as Indiana, Tennessee & Alamaba.
Lizzy brings her youthful energy (and love for talking!) to build the necessary connections to make their business work.
Her first local meetup group, a women's entrepreneur group, has well over 300 women and is constantly adding massive value at her events. She thinks BIG, loves building relationships & being an inspiration to those around her.
Ekaterina Stepanova was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, and has immigrated to the United States 13 years ago and has lived in New York since.
She is a Principal at M2K Partners (www.mhpteam.com) who owns and operates several mobile home park communities throughout the country with the focus on value add properties.
Ekaterina is a founder of Equity Tree (www.equitytree.io), an online platform dedicated to helping commercial real estate investors manage their deals and Investor relations for an
affordable price and with educational support throughout the entire investment process.
She is also a host of monthly VIRTUAL meet up for Mobile Home Park investors called MHP Tribe, MHP Tribe group on Facebook and weekly “MHP week kick-off” calls for the
community.
For more information, visit www.mhpteam.com and Facebook group MHPTRIBE You can reach Ekaterina on Facebook Ekaterina Stepanova MHP Tribe and katerinastepanova on LinkedIn, email: mymhptribe@gmail.com
Sharon L. Goldmacher is a veteran in the marketing and public relations industry, beginning her career in Atlanta in 1987. She develops integrated, results-focused marketing, PR, and digital campaigns for clients in real estate, community improvement districts, food/beverage, professional services, sports, nonprofits, and technology.
Competitive by nature, she created communications 21 in 1992, at the naïve age of 28, to see if she could do it. Within the first two years, she won the DeKalb Chamber’s Stargazer award for “Small Business Start-Up of the Year” and the Young Advertising Professional Award presented by the Atlanta Ad Club. In 2013, she won Business to Business Magazine’s Woman of Excellence award. Over the next 28 years, the company has garnered 80+ awards for its campaigns.
While often accused of telling long stories, Sharon enjoys presenting and has spoken on marketing, PR and digital strategies and tactics to various organizations such as the Association of Public Gardens, the American Marketing Association’s Annual Summit, the Exhibit Design and Producers Association, NewComm (Society for New Communications Research conference), MBA Conclave Curriculum and Teaching Conference, PRSA chapters in Washington, D.C., and Florida and more.
Karen is a passionate advocate for financial literacy. After nearly 25 years managing multi-million portfolios across the globe, she launched Financial Literacy for Her to help women overcome their fear of money and empower them to build generational wealth. Women control over half the wealth in this country, yet most are afraid to discuss it and leave their potential fortunes to make pennies on the dollar after taxes and inflation. Karen specially designed Financial Literacy for Her to be a safe place for women to be vulnerable and ask the scary questions without judgment. As part of the program, each client is partnered with a knowledgeable coach to create a diversified wealth plan to help them realize their dreams. In addition, clients will be teamed up with other like-minded women to share in their journeys.
In her capacity as a pastor and Licensed Minister of Dance, Karen also works with families who have loved ones struggling with drug addiction, mental illness, and incarceration through her non-profit Elevarte Ministries. In her free time, she loves spending time with her teenage sons, being in the outdoors, traveling, and volunteering at her church.
Kata is an international model turned full time real estate investor with focus on the Syracuse
NY market and has built a portfolio of high cash flowing single family, small multifamily and
commercial assets for a combined value of $1.5 million. Kata is the co-founder of CNY real
estate investors group and recently transitioned into self management. With a focus on lower
income housing and rebuilding neglected neighborhoods in her market, Kata is setting a
strong example for new landlords and investors alike. Kata uses her youtube channel The
model investor to inspire and share her journey to help others. Kata has recently teamed up
with fellow investor Josiah Smelser to tackle the large multifamily market
KELLY STINSON “The Potty Princess” – National Sales Manager, SAS
•Passionate about water & energy conservation and the influence we have to improve the environment
•“Potty Princess” nickname caught traction 3 years ago through a continued commitment of bringing awareness, education, & support across the country to multifamily property owners relative to the financial and environmental impact of old toilets on their properties.
•In 2019 I saved multifamily property owners over $2 MILLION on their water/sewer bills coupled with reducing water consumption by just over 200 million gallons (that will fill 303 Olympic size swimming pools). That is a $40 MILLION asset value boost at a 5% cap rate.
Born and raised on a horse ranch in Aubrey, TX, Kim loves crazy foods, has traveled through North & Central America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. At UNT she earned 2 degrees (Marketing & International Development) then later an MBA from UTD.
Kim has quickly become the REI guru of the agency. She travels all over giving a public educational presentations on Insurance, and she loves it. You can catch her networking at an REI club, chatting on a podcast, and of course on the phone explaining the ins and outs to all our clients. Her flood knowledge ain't too shabby either!
A proud graduate of Leadership Richardson’s class XXVIII, “The Best Class” and honored recipient of “The Outstanding Woman of Tomorrow” Award from Altrusa, Richardson Chapter
Believe it or not, Kim has a life outside of insurance, too. When she isn’t raising her gorgeous daughters (Squeak & Chirp) she volunteers to help anyone in need. She trained in mixed martial arts for 12 years, loves Yoga and Tai Chi, practices Feng Shui and gardens. Kim plays the drums, attempts to sing, and definitely busts a move on the dance floor.
Growth Mindset Dental Consultants began as an idea when an oral systemic clinical dental team comprised of a dental assistant, Kary Helmer, and a hygienist, Shira Newman noticed that there is a fine art to implementing oral systemic health into a dental practice and creating a profitable, cohesive dental team.
Incorporating new processes and procedures can be a daunting task if done incorrectly. We take the guesswork out of what works. After years of practicing in successful oral systemic dental offices, we know the secrets to success, and the smoothest means to transition your team and office to practice oral systemic health.
Far too often, dental offices are not set up for growth and success, and the dental team does not have the tools and resources needed to achieve their highest potential. At Growth Mindset Dental Consultants, our approach is multifaceted and all encompassing. We create a work environment that caters to every team member from front office, assistants, hygienists and doctors while impassioning the team about oral systemic health, and the individual goal for each practice.
As a team, we live and breathe oral systemic health, holistic (biological) dentistry and team development.
Kali began the Love You, Mean It lifestyle coffee brand after a decade of experience with creative marketing for companies in various industries. From philanthropy consulting to salesmanship and event curation, Kali has successfully continued to work within the “people business”, and shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. Her genuine passion for adding value to others' lives, combined with her tenacity for personal growth & development, continue to be the driving forces behind her success in life and business.
In 2010, Masha Klapanova came to study Hospitality / Event Management in the USA. She got a taste of real estate back in Russia, where she still has an apartment and a summer house for lease.
Prior discovering her passion for self-storage investing, Masha did residential real estate sales, flipped houses, managed Airbnb properties and pursued wholesaling. However, she knew that commercial real estate investing has so much more potential for scalability and growth.
Her career path had shifted as soon as she discovered self-storage investing. The more she learned about it, the more it attracted her. Masha strongly believes that self-storage has many advantages over other asset classes.
Investors love it due to high returns and lower risks. Lenders love it because of the default rates to be the lowest and the recession resiliency of this asset class. Owners love it due to ancillary income opportunities, flexible lease terms and sticky tenants. Masha loves it because of incredible opportunities in value-adds and remote management.
With over 20 plus years in the multi-family industry, Dawn’s experience is well-rounded and multi-faceted, built upon her passion for marketing, training, asset management, business development and operation of all asset types. Dawn joined the real estate business at 18, starting as a receptionist for Ferland Corporation in Rhode Island. Shortly after, she was promoted to Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Conventional Operations, broadening her experience in appraisals and acquisitions. Her family’s military duties moved her to Florida where she managed and operated the property management division for a large family-owned firm.
Ms. Waye later joined a development and asset management firm focused on tax credit and multi-use, high-rise new construction. Dawn was hired as an Investment Manager at Pinnacle Properties to oversee the renovation and lease-up of a mixed-use, historical tax credit development in downtown Dallas. After joining Knightvest Management as the Vice President of Operations, she was afforded the opportunity to purchase the third-party business and founded City Gate Property Group. Dawn holds brokers licenses in Texas, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island, as wells as a national CPM Designation. As a leader in her industry, she provides our clients, vendors, and residents a voice at the local, state and national level through legislative advocacy. Dawn has sat on panels representing the industry and her entrepreneurial spirit is embraced by all her colleagues.
After 14 years in the fire service, ultimately leaving as chief, she now leverages her risk analysis from her experience and from her Master's degree from the University of Chicago in Risk Management into her investing career. A fulltime real estate investor for almost 3 years now with a portfolio of 41 doors, she is partnering into new companies with other investors who specialize in their own niches. Due to her exposure to almost every form of real estate investing she helps drive trends and pivots with her team as change occurs. Her speaking engagements and guest appearances on some of the top real estate investing podcasts drive her messages to an eager audience. Her ability to asses and mediate risk and implement innovative ways to maximize each property’s net operating income make her a natural purveyor of the wealth of others and driver of real estate investing norms and practices. She is currently performing consulting work for new property tech startups and co-writing a book providing real estate investors with mentalist advantages with mentalist Mind Hacker, James Springer.
Brittany Melville, Director of Marketing and Sales
Brittany applies her extensive experience in direct sales, marketing and customer relationship management at Next Generation. In her role, she develops and oversees the implementation of our marketing strategy across all media and works with our team to support sales initiatives.
Brittany’s accomplishments throughout the years include designing and executing lead generation strategies across multiple channels, developing and nurturing multi-million dollar sales pipelines, enhancing digital marketing outreach, creating educational content, conducting market and competitive analyses, training sales personnel and improving internal processes to support sales. Prior to joining Next Generation Brittany held positions at Convergent Revenue Cycle Management, Inc., and Altria Group Distribution Company (formerly Philip Morris USA).
Brittany graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in marketing and business management from Boston College, and is certified as a Self-Directed IRA Professional (SDIP). Brittany and her husband currently live in Branchburg, NJ, with their cat Leo. She also owns a rental property at the Jersey Shore. In her free time she enjoys dancing, working out, playing piano, cooking, reading and cheering on her favorite football team, the Philadelphia Eagles.
Kristin Gerst is the Managing Director at Capricorn Mortgage Investments. Capricorn Mortgage Investments buys high interest rate mortgages from small business owners and companies and sells them to large institutional buyers.
Kristin Gerst was born in Paris, France and raised in Chicago, IL. Kristin is a graduate with a BA and MA degree from the University of North Texas. Kristin has been a Texan since 1996 and has been a full-time real estate investor for 15 years. Kristin got started with an 8-unit apartment building and by mid-2008, she had acquired over 60 doors that were all rented Section-8 and that she managed herself. Since Jan 2005, Kristin has successfully renovated 100’s of properties. After the market crashed in 2008, Kristin learned how to owner finance properties and started converting her properties to mortgage notes as her tenants vacated. She also became skilled in acquiring properties by the “Subject-to” method and creating “wrap around mortgages” with each property she acquired. In 2014, Kristin accepted the Director of Marketing position for Bay Mountain Capital, a hard money lender in Dallas, TX, and got proficient at not only borrowing hard money, but also lending it.
Kristin has originated 100s of owner finance notes for her own portfolio as well as other investors. After discovering a need in the market to buy owner finance mortgages from investors, Kristin created Capricorn Mortgage Investments in early 2015. Since 2017, Capricorn Mortgage Investments has bought and sold over $26 million dollars in private owner finance mortgages.
In 2017, Kristin entered the short-term vacation rental space in Dallas, TX. She has four active and very successful AirBnBs in Uptown Dallas and has started managing short-term rentals for other investors. Kristin Gerst is one of the Divas on the show “Real Estate Divas” on PropelioTV and continues to public speak and teach on various real estate topics monthly.
Ellie Paget, known affectionately by friends as The hospitality creativist is a designer, chef and artist who applies out of the box principles to the art of living, work, business and home. She utilizes the daily landscape as a canvas and holds high standards of hospitality to transform the attitude of real estate and strives to foster delight. She loves orchestrating a vibe of excellence in all aspects of interaction for her clients and guests. Her beliefs are that transparency, efficiency and continuity will raise the standards naturally as the foundation and pillars of her company.
Ellie started HomeSlice, a vacation rental management, investment and consultation company, in February 2019, and through organic growth, within 6 months has scaled to over 50+ units in four major metropolitan cities. She grew as Director of Operations for a former company, a portfolio from 12-125 in one year in 15 different major markets, and managed roles overseeing several departments. Ambitious and confident in the trajectory for HomeSlice, she is already developing new concepts with family offices, multifamily developers, and investors seeking to diversify their portfolio by adding hometels into their portfolios. She is an effective communicator, has a keen operator perspective, a gifted leader, and a skilled negotiator.
HomeSlice the premier authentic property management company for short term rentals.
A full service solution offering marketing, branding, design, home maintenance, and concierge services. HomeSlice homes are branded with a high tech high tough standard that drives high occupancy for consistent revenue.
Amanda Williams has been involved with real estate since 2008. She has been a private money lender for Fix-N-Flip Deals, Flipped homes herself, bought and sold homes on lease options, subject- to, and owner financing. Amanda and her partner Alex, have a nice size Airbnb portfolio in Raleigh, NC. She has been a licensed realtor in North Carolina since 2013, opened her own brokerage in 2016, then affiliated with eXp Realty (the Amazon of Real Estate) in 2017 which allows her to work with agents all over the world. Amanda's team of 30+ realtors serves both buyers and sellers in the Raleigh area focusing mainly on relocation and investment properties. She currently enjoys traveling and helping other real estate agents create multiple streams of passive income.
Ginamarie Cornelius is the Co-founder of Blissful Fortitude, a keynote speaker and the Co-host of the Bliss Beyond F.EA.R. Podcast.
As a mentor and life advocate, Ginamarie is committed to helping people go from feeling helpless to whole. As a part of that mission, she uses over thirty years of trials, tribulations, losses and reinvention to provide inspiration to all that she touches. As a widowed mother of eight homeschooled girls, if anyone knows how to organize time and get through busy days, she is THE expert.
Ginamarie’s infectious energy, positive attitude, optimism and determination drives all that she does. Her non-judgmental and nurturing approach builds trust with her clients and makes way for them to have faith not only in others but more importantly, in themselves. As a successful business owner, she has worked with thousands of people and an impacted so many lives.
Ginamarie resides in Brentwood, California with her eight beautiful daughters, two son-in-LOVES and two grandchildren. She has a love for fun, dancing and entertaining!
Beth Azor, a 34-year veteran of the commercial real estate industry, owns Azor Academy, which specializes in consulting services, training, sales/leadership coaching, acquisition due diligence, and market analysis. She owns and manages a $80,000,000 portfolio of commercial retail properties in southeast Florida and wrote and published “Don’t Say No For The Prospect”, a guide to help propel the career of both novice and experienced leasing agents and more recently, “The Retail Leasing Playbook”, a detailed ‘how to’ book on leasing commercial retail space. Ms. Azor is also a frequent guest on business and commercial real estate podcasts and hosts a monthly “Rockstar” book club call where she and her listeners review non-fiction business-related books. Her clients include Brixmor Properties, Urban Edge Properties, The Shopping Center Group, Phillips Edison, Kimco Realty, and DLC Management Group. A graduate of FSU, she is the past Chairman of the Board and Founder of the FSU Real Estate Foundation.
Yelitza Mora is the Director of Business Development at BuildTx Solutions. A full service certified women owned construction company in the DFW Metro Area.
Our commitment to our customers:
- A full suite of services.
- Tailored market-leading solutions that work for real estate investors, home owners, residential brokers, realtors, and others.
- Information advantage to drive smarter solutions.
- A team you can rely on.
Yelitza has been working as a sales consultant for over 10 years, and her mission is always to mitigate risk, improve efficiency, reduce spend, and make her customers very successful
Nancy Wallace-Laabs is a licensed real estate broker in the state of Texas. She has more than 15 years of real estate investing experience, owns several rental properties, and manages properties in the North DFW area. Her new book, "Winning Deals in Heels," hit Number One on Amazon's Best Seller List for Real Estate Sales & Selling.
Nancy and her husband own KBN Homes, LLC, a real estate investment company that's making neighborhoods great again, one home at a time. By actively seeking homes that are difficult to sell, and compassionately representing owners in distress, KBN Homes offers hope, relief, and options to sellers while also creating opportunities for investors.
Learn more at kbnhomes.com, or connect with Nancy on LinkedIn. You may also email nancy@kbnhomes.com, or call her at 214.862.8215.
Anush Gulinyan is from Armenia. She Started being a hairstylist when she was 17 years old. She worked ever since. When she was 20 years old, her dream was to open a spa, so she decided to go to a business school and got her Business Administrative degree.
At age 25, Anush opened her first spa in Moscow. 6 years later she moved to the United State of America and started working for Lifetime fitness center and worked there for 3 years. Anush was still trying to open her own spa here in United State. She kept working hard and gain knowledge about how the business is here in the United State. After that she opened her Medical spa here in Frisco, Texas in 2018! She has over 200 amazing clients now that are so happy about her work and the person she is today!
As a real estate investor, I understand the importance of budgets and timelines on a remodel. Choosing finishes that make a home look great without breaking the bank is my specialty. Quality work and high impact design mean fewer days on the market for your flips.
- Stephanie Reid
Anna Kelley is the founding partner of Zenith Capital Group, Apex Multifamily, and ReiMom.com. She is a former top-ranked Financial Relationship Manager for a Private Bank and began investing in real estate 20 years ago.
Anna has purchased, renovated, and rented millions of dollars in real estate across numerous asset classes while working full time and raising 4 active children. She recently retired from her corporate career, after creating financial freedom through rental property investing. She has active ownership in and manages a rental portfolio valued over $60 Million, and has invested in over 1500 doors as a limited partner.
Anna actively seeks out the best multifamily investment opportunities for her partners and investors. She coaches new investors and enjoys helping others to overcome fears, increase knowledge, and minimize risks in real estate. She is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author & runs a meetup group for Women in Real Estate.
Contessa is 38 years old, from Louisiana, and a Die Hard Saints fan! Chocolate and Cocktails are her biggest weaknesses! Thank goodness fitness was embedded in her at a small age considering 2 of her parents were in the military and one a huge sports advocate. She would have some serious depression without the gym or Crossfit.
She fell into some bad behaviors and moved, on average, every 6 months from the time she was 18 till around 28. She was restless and very unsure of her future. Until one of her moves brought her to Texas. She has met some pretty awesome people here. One of them is like her right arm! She is her business partner and best friend. She also met an amazing man who would be the first in 38 years to get her to say “I Do!” Which was no easy feat!
She has 3 fur babies that hold the key to her heart.. and 3 more like her own! She knows and sure to appreciate the extra cuddle time she gets with them due to this Real Estate Venture. Right now she is heavy into Wholesaling and helping Landlords go from being Tired to Retired!
"Real Estate is an amazing opportunity to build wealth and give one of the things we all wish we had more of…. TIME! I can hardly wait to see where this will take us!" - Contessa Kirk
Erin runs a stellar Real Estate Investing business and delivers as promised. We just received our first monthly rent checks from two new acquisitions and wow, lazy money sitting in the bank is now yielding us almost 14% return…Thank you! She has got impeccable character and is downright the real deal. So grateful for the blessing of her presence in our lives and we’re flipped out about beginning a life-long friendship and business relationship.” -Carl Frushon
As first-time real estate investors, we appreciate the character and integrity of Erin. Her skill level, professionalism and willingness to answer our questions, as complex or as novice as they may be, put us at ease and confirmed we were in excellent hands. The process was exactly as expected due to their commitment to under-promise and over-deliver. We highly recommend Hudson Investments real estate made easy, where you can confidently begin or continue the process of real estate investing.- Taryn & James Lieker
MICHELLE OPPELT is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience founding and managing multiple profitable companies, including her first company formed in 2007 which has been featured on CNBC. With a background in bio-science, she understands the importance of using data and metrics in order to properly analyze investment opportunities. Combined with her knowledge and experience of creating and implementing successful business plans, Michelle partners with ApartmentBuys, LLC in broker relations market analysis to find strategic, value-add investment opportunities within the Multifamily space.
Trina Piceno serves as the Chief of Operations with WR Property Management, a full-service property management company servicing the Northern California East Bay and surrounding areas. As the COO, WR Property Management has become the go-to team in repositioning hard to manage areas and has done so while earning the Silver and Gold awards recognized by the Best of Brentwood.
Serving within Asset Management, Trina specializes in recognizing undervalued assets and working through the diligence, logistics and realistic budgeting necessary to maximize the assets cash flow and reposition feasibility.
Trina has been working in the Property Management field for over 9 years and has been working with investment owners at high volume for 7 of those with WR Property Management. Trina and her team have successfully repositioned 109 Units over the past 2 years and currently controls 82 doors as GP ownership.
She now focuses on multi-family and commercial real estate investing. Her mentor, whom she met in 2018 is the nationally known Multifamily Guru and Investor himself, Rod Khleif. Since joining Rod’s program, Chat has become a Limited Partner in more than 700 apartment units and a General Partner in 208 units. Her son Mitch now works as a Behavioral Therapist for autistic kids at the UCLA Behavioral Health Center while currently pursuing his masters and doctorate degree.
She has quickly discovered the potential and opportunities for solid returns in multi-family residential investing, by aligning with solid, reputable partners and helping others to discover the same. Chat has also co-founded a women’s group focusing on Multifamily investing called Multifamily Women’s Mastermind with over 250 very successful and active members, sharing education, collaboration and networking focusing in the multifamily investing space.
Because her husband’s loss posed a lot of changes in her life, and for her to move on in life, she now has willingly accepted the changes that her loss gave her. Chat has sold her house in Brentwood where she lived with her family for over 20 years, closed her spa, and is now just focused on her newfound thriving business which is investing in Multi-Family Real Estate where she travels a lot all over the United States.
Chat loves to travel, passionate about life, loves to spend time with her son, friends and family and looking forward to give back and be able to help out people who have had profound loss in life get support and find hope again through working with OUR HOUSE Grief Support Center, a charitable organization very near and dear to her heart, as part of the Advisory Board.
Marjeanne manages investor negotiations, due diligence, property evaluations, and thought leadership for her company, AZ Wealth Builders. She holds a Bachelors's degree in Business Management with an emphasis on digital marketing, and sales. She is a licensed realtor in Arizona and a certified Google AdWords specialist. Marjeanne has been a key principle in a few construction-related businesses that have earned multi-million dollars in revenue per year.
Kathy Fettke is Co-CEO of Real Wealth Network and best selling author of Retire Rich with Rentals. She is an active real estate investor, licensed real estate agent, and former mortgage broker, specializing in helping people build multi-million dollar real estate portfolios that generate passive monthly cash flow for life.
With a passion for researching real estate market cycles, Kathy is a frequent guest expert on CNN, CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, NPR, CBS MarketWatch, and The Wall Street Journal. She was also named among the “Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs two years in a row.
Kathy hosts two podcasts, The Real Wealth Show and Real Estate News for Investors — both the top ten podcasts on iTunes with listeners in 133 different countries. Her company, Real Wealth Network, offers free resources and cutting edge education for beginning and experienced real estate investors. Kathy is passionate about teaching others how to create “real wealth,” which she defines as having both the time and the money to live life on your terms.