How to Lose Money: Recent Episodes
Paul Moore and Josh Thomas
Hosted by Paul Moore and Josh Thomas, How to Lose Money is a wealth-building podcast dedicated to the honest, sometimes gut-wrenching stories of business and life lessons learned. If you’re an entrepreneur going through a tough season, a business executive wanting to avoid strategic mistakes, or just someone who loves to hear about victories earned on the other side of painful trials, this podcast is for you.
With new episodes every Monday, we feature an interview with a business leader who has made mistakes that you don’t need to repeat. We discuss topics like: risk-taking, financial principles, entrepreneurship, growing your business, real estate investing, best business concepts, leadership, books and resources, relationship hacks, networking, passive income, time management, and more!
Hosted by Paul Moore and Josh Thomas, How to Lose Money is a wealth-building podcast dedicated to the honest, sometimes gut-wrenching stories of business and life lessons learned. If you’re an entrepreneur going through a tough season, a business executive wanting to avoid strategic mistakes, or just someone who loves to hear about victories earned on the other side of painful trials, this podcast is for you.
With new episodes every Monday, we feature an interview with a business leader who has made mistakes that you don’t need to repeat. We discuss topics like: risk-taking, financial principles, entrepreneurship, growing your business, real estate investing, best business concepts, leadership, books and resources, relationship hacks, networking, passive income, time management, and more!
Greg Dickerson is a serial entrepreneur, real estate developer, coach and mentor. He has bought, developed and sold over $250 million in real estate, built and remodeled hundreds of custom homes and commercial buildings, developed residential and mixed-use subdivisions, and started 12 different companies from the ground up. Greg is an expert on the topics on entrepreneurship, leadership, and real estate, and he is regularly interviewed on some of the top real estate investing and business podcasts today.
Greg served in the U.S. Navy right out of high school and has always been a leader in the community, as well as supporting, advising and serving on the boards of several churches, ministries and non-profits. Greg currently coaches and mentors entrepreneurs, real estate investors and real estate developers around the world, helping them grow and scale their business, raise more capital and do bigger deals. Greg’s clients currently have over $2 billion in assets under management and deals currently in process.
Nikki Boyd is a wife and mother of three amazing kids who have all grown into beautiful adults. A long-time military spouse, her husband’s career in the Air Force meant that their family traveled extensively. The experience of moving and setting up house many times over gave Nikki the opportunity to hone her organization skills, and she developed dozens of tips and tricks throughout the years. Following her husband’s retirement, she and her family moved to a beautiful home in Charleston, South Carolina, where she is now able to pursue her own dreams. It is no surprise to her (or those closest to her!) that her passion is centered around organization. Nikki started a YouTube channel eight years ago sharing her organizing tips. The success from her channel has led to a following of half-million subscribers. She now also runs her own professional organization firm, At Home with Nikki, in Summerville, South Carolina, and helps people virtually around the world create beautifully organized spaces within their home and work environments. She is also a best selling author of Beautifully Organized.
Anne Lackey loves starting and running businesses. Mark has always been fascinated with making things work better and run smoother. Together they have co-founded and run multiple businesses for 2 decades. They generated over $15.7 million in revenue for their service-based businesses in the past four years alone. By coaching and consulting with hundreds of CEOs and executives, they found 3 common core business problems: owner overwhelmed, staff turnover and poor customer service/lack of follow-up. In 2014 Mark and Anne found an alternative to traditional hiring, and they have been helping other business owners grow and get control over their businesses while saving money by sourcing quality employees from the Philippines. They have evaluated over 20,000 applicants and have come up with a successful formula for any client needing help. If it can be done by a computer and a phone, they can source the right hire for their clients.
Patty Dominguez is the founder of Positioning to Profit. She helps small business owners establish their Category of One status. She believes true expert positioning is comprised of two parts: external (following a proven framework) and internal (aligning at the core), because your business results will always meet your identity.
Adam Gower, PhD is an authority on content marketing and online communications for the real estate industry. He has more than 30 years and $1.5 billion in transactional experience in commercial real estate, finance and investment. Over the last 5 years, he’s built a digital marketing agency at gowercrowd.com, and you can learn exactly how you can also create effective online communications, even while working from home, while working with Adam.
Dave Foster understands that real estate is really an investment in your future. As a multi-industry visionary, he has over 20 years of experience working in all phases of real estate investing. Commercial to residential, he brings his clients a fresh perspective and clear vision for strategic development. As an investor himself, he views each investment, whether historical, ecologically sensitive projects, fix-n-flips, rental portfolios, or vacation and resort property development and management, as a unique opportunity to maximize returns. A degreed accountant with a Masters in Management, Dave has built his reputation on being a driven, results-oriented Qualified Intermediary for 1031 exchanges who works relentlessly to optimize value for the real estate investors with whom he works. He is inspired by a genuine desire to help investors excel, and he continuously strives to create win-win situations. Dave recently launched the1031Investor.com to give investors instant access to the information they need to keep their taxes working for their own benefit with 1031 exchanges.
Matt Aitchison is a real estate investor, business coach, speaker and philanthropist. He’s flipped hundreds of houses, built a Top 1000 real estate team in the U.S, and now focuses solely on scaling his passive income portfolio made up of commercial strip centers, a hotel, and single family rentals. Matt is extremely passionate about helping others create more wealth, freedom, and fulfillment in their life and business through real estate investment opportunities and is also the host of the Millionaire Mindcast, a Top 100 ranked business podcast. Most importantly, he’s a husband to his amazing wife Marie and two beautiful daughters, Ella and Evelyn.
Travis Watts is a full-time passive investor. He has been investing in real estate since 2009 in multi-family, single-family and vacation rentals. Travis is also the Director of Investor Relations at Ashcroft Capital. Travis has invested in over 25 passive syndications between 14 different firms. Travis now dedicates his time to educating others in the world of investing and has made it his mission to share passive investment strategies in order to help others achieve and maintain wealth in real estate.
Tim is a Coach for business owners, executives and leaders. He is also the host of the SeekGoCreate Podcast. Tim and his wife are nomads that have been traveling full time since 2013 in New Zealand, Australia and all over North America in their 39-footer named Theo. The SeekGoCreate Podcast is available on all platforms or at seekgocreate.com. Tim just finished writing his first novel that will be released this year.
Justin started out just like many of you. He didn’t go to college and just went right into the utility industry and worked to become a Lineman. For years he dreamed of getting away from the sometimes 100 hour weeks and being able to take a leap into another career that he felt he could truly enjoy.
Enter real estate investing. He bought his first house as a foreclosure in the bay area California at 22 years old in 2009. He worked on it over weekends and after several years sold it for a small profit. Fast forward to today, and he has increased his Net Worth from 5k bucks at 20 years old to over 7 figures at 32.
He currently owns over $2 million worth of real estate, which consists of 12 rental units and a single family house, and he has done about a dozen purchases and sales of other properties over the last couple years.
Joe Conti is one of the original "Day Traders" that we hear about today. He began his career in 1990 under the tutelage of Harvey Houtkin. Harvey was known as the "Godfather of SOES Trading" (small order execution system) and is largely responsible for the market's current transparency, allowing the public access to the depth of the market and order flow, which at the time made Mr. Houtkin the most hated man on Wall Street.
Over the past 30 years, Joe has trained or educated over 1000 traders and continues to trade and teach to this day. He has seen virtually every mistake made, causing more than 93% of traders to fail. Joe has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, and an entire chapter was dedicated to him and his trading success in the book, "Electronic Trading Masters: Secrets from the Pros".
Joe has also enjoyed a successful 8-year run on radio in South Florida. His last show was hosting the 101.1 FM Morning Show.
Joe's passion is still trading, and he has combined his 30 years of trading experience into a live, two-hour, stock trading course designed to keep traders trading for decades, not days.
Kyle Mitchell is a real estate entrepreneur who has a focus on Multifamily Syndication and currently has $17MM AUM. He is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Limitless Estates, who’s vision is to provide A class living to lower income housing by putting the residents first and instilling a sense of community while inspiring others to do the same.
Kyle is also the co-host of the weekly real estate podcast, Passive Income through Multifamily Real Estate, where he speaks with various experts in the real estate industry to help educate and create clarity for passive investors. With a background in operations, management and logistics, he has overseen multi-million dollar businesses and has a passion in doing the same in the multifamily syndication space.
Jorge Newbery is on a mission to help Americans crushed by unaffordable debts. He is Founder and CEO of American Homeowner Preservation and AHP Servicing, which crowdfund the purchase of non performing mortgages from banks at big discounts, then share the discounts with struggling homeowners. He is also Founder and CEO of Debt Cleanse Group Legal Services, a nationwide legal plan to help consumers and small businesses get out of debt without filing bankruptcy. He is also the Founder and a non-attorney Partner in Activist Legal, a law firm in Washington, D.C.
A 2004 natural disaster triggered the financial collapse of Newbery's former business, leaving him with $26 million in debts he could not pay. Newbery rebuilt himself through AHP, sharing what he learned to help families at risk of foreclosure stay in their homes.
He has authored three books, including Burn Zones, which shares the story of his financial rise and fall, as well as Debt Cleanse: How To Settle Your Unaffordable Debts For Pennies On The Dollar (And Not Pay Some At All).
Will personally owns over $1,500,000 in real estate in the Northern Virginia area and is a partner in several apartment syndications across the U.S., both actively and passively. As a veteran of the residential mortgage business he earned National rookie of the year honors in 2017 and operated in the top 5% at one of the largest retail mortgage lenders in the U.S. In early 2019, he founded CEO Capital Partners with 4 partners, and the focus there is to help business owners and executives create passive income through multi-family real estate. His group is currently a partner in 403 units spread out across 3 properties. He also hosts a daily podcast called Wealth Junkies, and the focus is to share inspiring stories from other successful people to help liberate 1,000 listeners from the W2 rat race.
Joe McCall has been investing in real estate full-time for over 11 years. His background and education was in Civil Engineering. Before he started working on his real estate investing business full-time, he had worked for several large engineering & construction companies, building power plants all around the country.
As soon as Joe figured out the three keys to success in real estate investing (Marketing, Automation, and Delegation), and started implementing his unique systems for wholesaling and lease option deals, within 3 months, his part-time income surpassed his full-time income, and he left his job.
Joe only works a few hours a week on the “deals” side of his business, while his virtual team consistently flips several deals a month – all for him, in spite of him.
Joe is an expert at flipping properties remotely. In the last several years, Joe has spent many months in Prague, Czech Republic, and 3 months traveling the northwestern part of the US in an RV, with his wife and four kids. While he traveled, he was still able to flip deals in 4 different markets.
Erik Allen is truly a man of integrity, work ethic and an overcomer. Growing up with a complicated childhood and a broken home, to raising himself from the age of 14. Unfortunately finding trouble along the way desperately trying to fill the gaping voids in his life. As a young man Erik found himself empty and tired of settling for less. After the feverish pursuit of the Holy Spirit, Erik decided to surrender and trust the one that would never let him down.
Erik Allen, is the Owner and host of the #1 MMA podcast in the Northwest with Top Rated MMA as well as the Bearded Biz Show where he talks with Entrepreneurs, World Changers, and Success Minded People. Some of Erik's guests include Ed Mylett, Sean Whalen, Ken Shamrock, Eric LeGrand, and Hardcore Closer Ryan Stewman.
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 she started investing 20 years ago. Anna has purchased, renovated and rented millions of dollars in real estate across numerous asset classes while working full time in raising four active children. She recently retired from her corporate career after creating financial freedom through rental property investing. She has active ownership and manages a rental portfolio valued at $60 million and has invested in over 2,000 doors as a limited partner as well. Anna actively seeks out the best multifamily investment opportunities for her partners and investors. She is a sought after speaker, and enjoys helping others overcome their fears, increase their knowledge and minimize risks in real estate. She is also an Amazon #1 best-selling author.
Scott Reib, also known as "America's Legal Coach", is a business and legal coach with an emphasis on helping his clients succeed. Scott formed his company ReibLaw as a full service law firm that focuses on developing strong relationships with clients with one simple goal in mind – making your legal life easier.
With over 20 years of experience in business law and estate planning, ReibLaw is out to revolutionize the legal industry by eliminating outrageous hourly fees. They’ve created an alternative concept called, “The Access Plan”, a subscription-based legal service.
John Casmon is a real estate entrepreneur, who has partnered with busy professionals to invest in close to $90 million worth of apartments.
John hosts the Target Market Insights podcast where he covers multifamily and marketing insights. In addition, he is the co-creator of the Midwest Real Estate Networking Summit, a no pitch event to elevate like-minded investors.
With a background in marketing, he has overseen campaigns for General Motors, Nike and Coors Light amongst others.
Mark Willis is a certified financial planner, a #1 best-selling author, and the owner of Lake Growth Financial Services, a financial firm in Chicago. Over the years, he’s helped hundreds of clients take back control of their financial future and build their businesses with sophisticated, tax efficient financial solutions. He specializes in building custom tailored financial strategies that are unknown to typical stock jockeys, attorneys or other financial gurus. He is also the co-host of the “Not Your Average Financial Podcast”, where he shares some of his strategies for investing in real estate, saving and paying for college without going broke, and creating an income retirement that you cannot outlive. Mark works with people who want to grow their wealth in ways that are safe and predictable, become their own financing source, and create tax free income in retirement.
Russ is the co-host of The Real Estate Guys Radio Show. He’s an avid student of economics. He has a diverse background in business, investing, mortgage and financial services. Russ brings a unique and practical perspective to help entrepreneurial investors grow and protect their wealth and income through real estate and real asset investing.
Brian Price and Jennifer Gligoric are the founders and CEO/COO of Leafy Legal Services and hosts on Leafy Podcast. This dynamic duo has been helping entrepreneurs and real estate investors get started for the last 20+ years individually, and together for the past 8 years. Both Brian and Jennifer have harrowing backstories. Brian 'lost his shirt' in the 2008 recession, losing everything and filing bankruptcy before climbing back out and into success. Jennifer found herself homeless as a teenager and managed to put herself through college and become a successful business owner despite the odds against her. They both attribute their success to a mindset of abundance and paying it forward as the means to happiness.
Kaylee has purchased more than $2 million in real estate as key principle. She has sold over $3 million in residential real estate before transitioning into her current full time syndication role. She has started a podcast called the “#1 Leading Ladies” where she interviews “kick-ass women” who are disrupting their industry, and the real story of how they got where they are. The entire backbone of what gets Kaylee out of bed every day is her “why”. This is something she’ll share when asked personally about it, but at a 30,000 foot view, it is to create independence and space for those experiencing codependency and toxic relationships which hamper their ability to visualize and then manifest what their amazing reality truly could be. Her company culture models this “why” and is changing the face of multifamily to bring more women into the light as powerhouse operators, key principles and commercial brokers.
Scott K. Choppin is the founder of Urban Pacific Group of Companies. Scott oversees all operations of the Urban Pacific family of companies including business development, capital acquisition and strategic planning. Prior to that, Scott was director of land acquisition for the multifamily development division of Irvine-based Sares-Regis Group. In that position, he was responsible for all land acquisition activities for the development of luxury, market rate and senior rental communities throughout California, Colorado and Arizona. Before that, Scott was with Kaufman and Broad Multi-Housing Group (KBMH) as senior project manager who was responsible for all activities including multifamily development, acquisition and more. He was with Snyder Langston Real Estate and Construction Services. He has a B.A. with a specialization in finance from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Michael is a father, husband, author, OCR athlete, Krav Maga student, corporate consultant, and personal performance coach. He is a life-long student and has specialized in peak performance for over 20 years.
Man of Mastery is a virtual community that Michael founded and runs to bring together an exclusive peer group of high achieving men who live in concert with their values, reject mediocrity and status quo in continual pursuit of even better versions of themselves as fathers and husbands, and are willing to train and do hard things to be ready to serve their families, friends, country, and world. Each week they air a podcast to be your guide and resource to the best, most effective information available from the top of the corporate world, elite military teams, educational institutions, speakers, and authors.
Kevin Bupp is the Founder & CEO of Sunrise Capital Investors , which invests in mobile home parks, apartments, offices, and single family homes all across the US. He has 16 years of experience in educating investors to locate, acquire, and create “higher than average” returns from the widely misunderstood niche of mobile home park investing. He shares his expertise through the Mobile Home Academy and also as the host of “The Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast”, which has become one of the hottest real estate podcasts on iTunes.
Ryan Haley is a former U.S. Navy Officer, SH-60B helicopter pilot, Afghanistan combat veteran, and Pentagon defense budget analyst. He is the founder of A Better Way, a media and teaching platform that inspires people to experience “where the supernatural meets the practical” in faith, business, and life. A Better Way currently includes a podcast, blog, website, and book. Ryan received his MBA in Financial Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, a postgraduate Business Administration certificate from Georgetown University, and his BA in Psychology from the University of San Diego.
Ryan is an adjunct professor at Charis Bible College Business School and active real estate investor. He is originally from Portland, Oregon and now lives in Woodland Park, Colorado, where he enjoys the beauty of the mountains and outdoors through hiking, snowboarding and playing disc golf. Ryan also enjoys being part of his church and small group fellowships.
Michael Becker is a principal at SPI Advisory, and he heads SPI’s Dallas, Texas office, where he oversees all aspects of property operations. He’s a 15 year veteran of commercial real estate, and as a banker, he has originated and managed numerous portfolios of permanent and bridge loans in all major asset classes. Over the last 5 years of his banking tenure, Michael focused exclusively on multifamily properties, where he was the number one loan producer for his division and a top 3 national lender for his last 3 years. Michael is a life-long resident of north Texas and a graduate of the University of North Texas with a BBA in finance. He’s married and has 2 young children.
Scott Shay is the co-founder and chairman of Signature Bank in New York, New York. He is also the chairman of the investment committee of the Elah Fund. He has been a long time investing partner of Lew Ranieri, and together they were managing partners of various hyperion funds and Ranieri partners. Throughout his career, he has invested in a wide variety of companies, mostly in the financial service and technology arenas. Work is not sufficient for Scott though. His second book, In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism, has been recently published and has been receiving wide accolades.
Learn more about Scott and his book, In Good Faith, at scottshay.com.
Dr. Jeff Anzalone is an author, father, full time practicing periodontist in Louisiana, and the founder of debtfreedr.com. He started his blog after paying off close to $300,000 in student loan debt and reaching millionaire status by the age of 40. He now focuses on helping other doctors and high income earners create passive income from real estate so they can stop trading their time for money.
Deal Maker, Turnaround Specialist, Sales Improviser, Hired Gun, Serial Entrepreneur with 46 years experience, a consultant for 37 years, John Paul Mendocha is a professional speaker with 806 weekly training episodes, AKA Dr. SpeedSelling™. He can ferret out hidden reasons for declining sales profits within minutes. John's results are reality tested and market-proven. After leaving the corporate world, John went on to become a trusted long term advisor to clients, helping them realize greater sales, greater profits, and increased wealth. He speaks to clients with candor that is rare in the consulting world; exploring their opportunities, reducing their weaknesses, and helping them vanquish their competitors.
An entrepreneur since the age of 21, Gino has had an obsession for learning that makes businesses and entrepreneurs thrive. At age 25, he took over the family business, which was deeply in debt and in need of help. After turning the company around and running it for 7 years, he and his partners successfully sold the company. Gino then set out to help entrepreneurs and leaders get what they want from businesses. Based on his years of real world experience, he created the Entrepreneurial Operating System, EOS, a practical method for helping companies achieve greatness. He has personally delivered more than 1900 full day sessions for more than 100 companies, helping them implement EOS. He is also the author of the award-winning best selling book, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, as well as Get a Grip, Rocket Fuel, How to Be a Great Boss, and What the Heck Is EOS?. Gino is the founder of EOS Worldwide, an organization that helps tens of thousands of businesses implement EOS with the aid of an international team of over 350 professional and certified EOS implementers and online support. There are more than 76,000 companies using the EOS tools worldwide. Gino is devoting time and energy toward helping entrepreneurs in the making getting a huge jumpstart on taking their entrepreneurial leap, which is why he created Entrepreneurial Leap. The mission of Entrepreneurial Leap is to find all of the entrepreneurs in the making at any age, wherever they are, to help them realize their purpose and live the life they were born to live.
Neal Bawa is the mad scientist of multifamily. Besides being an entertaining speaker, Neal is a data guru, a process freak, and an outsourcing expert. Neal treats his $200 million multifamily portfolio as an ongoing experiment in efficiency and optimization. The mad scientist lives by 2 mantras. His first mantra is that we can only manage what we can measure. His second mantra is the data beats gut feel by a million miles. These mantras and a dozen other disruptive beliefs drive profit for his over 500 investors.
Josh Zloof is the co-founder and CEO of Sudden Coffee, the creators of the first specialty instant coffee. Sudden Coffee works with 30 coffee roasters worldwide, companies like Equator Coffee, Intelligentsia Coffee and Ritual Coffee. Josh got his start as an operations consultant at McKinsey and Company and later was a product manager at Groupon, building a point of sale for restaurants. After developing a passion for hospitality and good food and drink by throwing events, Josh founded Sudden Coffee to use his skills in operations to share hospitality driven experiences with more people.
David Hancock is the founder of Morgan James Publishing and has co-authored 12 books, including Performance Driven Thinking, Guerilla Marketing for Mortgage Brokers, and The Entrepreneurial Author. Nasdaq sights David as one of the world’s most prestigious business leaders, and he is reported to be the future of publishing. David was selected for Fast Company Magazine’s “Fast 50” for his leadership, creative thinking, significant accomplishments, and his significant impact on the industry in the coming decade. Morgan James Publishing is regularly ranked on Publisher’s Weekly “Fast Growing Small Press List” over the last ten years. David serves on many boards, including Chairman of the Guerilla Marketing International Board, Chairman for the National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence, the Jaguar Advisory Board, Habitat for Humanity Peninsula, Greater Williamsburg, and others.
Jack Gibson began his entrepreneurial journey at 19 and founded his first company at the age of 21. Operating a successful nutrition consulting and distribution company, Jack had built a multimillion dollar venture before he was old enough to rent a car. Soon after that, he bought his first home as an investment. One quickly became five, and then the bug hit. He became obsessed with learning everything he could about real estate investing and soon had over 50 investment properties generating passive income. Today Jack spends his time mentoring other entrepreneurs, building his real estate investment portfolio, and helping other investors build a brighter future through the power of turnkey real estate income.
Vincenzo Villamena is an American CPA and the Managing Partner of Online Taxman, which offers completely secure and online tax preparation services including an online document exchange and upload system and utilization of modern communication technologies.
He has “Big 4” audit and corporate accounting experience during his time with PricewaterhouseCoopers and was involved in Fortune 100 audit engagements and M&A transactions - giving him the knowledge to perform analysis in valuation, corporate finance, and technical accounting issues. More recently, Vincenzo has served as partner in 4 Corners Inc., focusing on individuals and businesses for accounting and tax preparation matters as well as advising high net worth individuals in private equity investing.
Vincenzo has both a Masters of Accounting and Bachelors of Business Administration with distinction from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He is from New York City but left the States to live a better life in Medellin, where he's been running his business. He sees many benefits to leaving the States for more entrepreneurial and better life opportunities elsewhere.
In 2003, Nick Prefontaine was in a snowboarding accident that left him in a coma for over 3 weeks. The doctors told his parents he probably wouldn’t walk, talk, or eat on his own again, but he actually ran out of the hospital 3 months later. Now a certified infinite possibilities trainer, Nick speaks to groups that benefit from his message of overcoming adversity. Nick grew up in the real estate industry, and he got started knocking on pre-foreclosure doors at 16 and 17 years old, doing up to 50 doors a day. This experience helped shape his real estate career now. Nick specializes in working with lease purchasers to get them into a home and on a path to home ownership. He recently co-authored the best seller, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing: 24 Leading Experts Reveal Their Real Estate Secrets.
Keith Elias played 6 seasons in the NFL with the New York Giants and the Indianapolis Colts. He graduated from Princeton University, where he completed his senior thesis on turn of the century masculinity and its impact on the creation of football. He works in the NFL’s Player Engagement Department, where he equips current and former players through their transition into and out of the league and throughout their lives. He is a screenwriter with his brother, Brian, a novelist, and 2x Best-Selling Co-Author of Resilience: Turning Your Setback into a Comeback and Purpose, Passion & Profit. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, former Nationally Ranked Gymnast, Christa and their daughter, Avary.
Andrew Henderson founded Nomad Capitalist to help people increase their personal freedom and to help them improve their financial situations and intelligently diversify their lives. Helping people save $280,000 a year in taxes, getting a second passport in a matter of months to get started on building the business of their dreams, and giving their children educational opportunities they never would achieve otherwise via a citizenship by descent program are all examples of work he’s done recently with this mission in mind. Andrew has spent the last 10 years meticulously traveling the world with the purpose of finding the best legal strategies and on-the-ground knowledge that actually works.
Antoine Martel is a 24-year-old real estate entrepreneur. He started investing in real estate while at university and has since bought and sold over 150 homes and multiple apartment buildings. He currently lives in LA where he runs martelturnkey.com, a turnkey rental company that buys and sells over 100 homes a year. They invest in markets like Memphis, Cleveland, Birmingham, and Saint Louis. Antoine also has a highly educational podcast entitled “A Millennial's Guide to Real Estate Investing.”
Inna Rubinchik is the regional leasing director at Compass in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the number one leasing agent in San Francisco. Her brand, Leasing Agent 415, is helping investors in San Francisco make informed decisions about rental properties and maximize profits. Inna has a master’s degree in taxation and has previously worked in acquisitions at several prominent Bay Area real estate investment companies. She is a wife and mother of 2 children.
Bob Fraser is co-founder and CFO of Aspen Funds, a fund management company focused on mortgage investments. He has 20+ years’ experience as a finance and technology executive, and he is a magna cum laude UC Berkley computer scientist and a former Entrepreneur of the Year award winner. Before that in 1995, Mr. Fraser founded Net Sales Inc., a back office e-commerce provider. As a CEO, Mr. Fraser raised $44 million in investment capital and guided the company to an average of 20% month-to-month revenue growth, becoming the metro area’s fastest growing company between 1997 and 1999. Since 2002, Fraser has founded and served several non-profit organizations as a board member and a CFO. Fraser has also been involved in a number of entrepreneurial initiatives, including book publishing, financial consulting, and an investment fund managing member.
Todd Dexheimer is CEO of Venture D Properties LLC. He started investing in real estate in 2008. Since then he has purchased and renovated roughly 800 units. Todd has completed over 150 flips, including a 20-unit mobile home park, a ski resort, and a 15-unit apartment complex while using those profits to build his rental portfolio. Today Todd owns approximately $25 million in real estate, comprised of 550 units in 5 states. His focus is on syndicating value-add multifamily in emerging markets. Todd is also the host of the podcast “Pillars of Wealth Creation” and does some coaching for multifamily investors. Todd’s passionate about teaching others how to create a business and how to take control of their finances.
Starting from the ground floor, Melanie Finnegan has educated herself in every area of the tax lien investing process. She’s been able to implement a strategy within the investment vehicle that allows investors to maximize their ROI and compound their interest. Her integrity, business ethics and natural compassion for helping people become successful has proven over and over by the success of her clients.
Frank Rolfe has been an investor in mobile home parks for almost 2 decades and has owned and operated hundreds of mobile home parks during that time. He is currently ranked with his partner, Dave Reynolds, as the 5th largest mobile home park owner in the U.S. with over 250 communities spread out over 25 states. Frank has always believed that mobile home parks are all about affordable housing. Along the way, Frank began writing about the industry, and his books, coupled with those of his partner Dave, evolved into a course and a boot camp on mobile home park investing that has become the leader in this niche of commercial real estate.
Frank lives in a small town in Missouri with his wife and daughter. He is very active in community affairs, being a member of the Lions Club, the school board, and chairman of the Landmarks Commission. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Stanford University.
Ross Stryker is the founder and CEO of Smart Asset Opportunities, which helps educate busy small business owners how to take charge of their own financial freedom and stop giving up control to those on Wall Street. He practiced dentistry and specialized in orthodontics for over 35 years, 12 while serving in the U.S. Army reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and later in private practice where he grew one of the largest single-doctor practices in the country. Although Ross is no longer practicing, he still considers himself a part of the dental and medical community. At heart, he’s really a small business owner, and, like many business owners, Ross was frustrated with the conventional financial system that seemed to benefit Wall Street but not the investors. Ross has replaced his transactional income of exchanging hours for dollars with passive income from his investments for his livelihood, and he wants to help others achieve the same goal. Ross has owned 40 or more single-family homes, written 2 books, one specifically on real estate investing. Ross is selling his homes, and he’s transitioning into commercial real estate investing, which includes self-storage, mobile home parks, office parks, a coffee farm in Panama, a resort in Belize, and multifamily apartment complexes.
Eric Satz is the founder and CEO of AltoIRA, and he’s a serial entrepreneur who has seen both wins and losses. Eric knows investing is no longer just for the wealthy, and he’s living out his mission of delivering 21st century investment opportunities to everyone, even non-accredited investors. Eric is a former investment banker and early stage investor with a passion for nurturing start-ups and raising capital. He teaches an entrepreneurship class to high school students in Nashville and served on the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 2015 to 2018. Through Alto IRA, Eric is making alternative asset investing available to all by giving people the support they need to choose and make their own investments using their IRA savings.
Brett Swarts is the CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions, and each year he equips hundreds of business professionals with a deferred sales trust tool to help their high net worth clients solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. His experience includes numerous deferred sales trusts, Delaware statutory trusts, 1031 exchanges, and 85 million in closed commercial real estate brokers transactions. He’s an active commercial real estate broker and an investor himself with experience and holdings in multifamily, senior housing, retail, medical, office, and mixed use properties. Brett is considered one of the most well-rounded capital gains deferral experts and informative speakers on the west coast. His audiences are challenged to lean in to multiple capital gains deferral strategies, create and develop a passive cashflow wealth plan, and execute on this plan so they can create and preserve more wealth.
Dan Handford is managing partner with passiveinvesting.com. He and his wife, Dennae, along with their 4 children (3 girls and a boy), reside and work in Columbia, SC. Dan has an extensive successful background in starting multiple 7-figure businesses from scratch, including a large group of non-surgical orthopedic and sports medicine clinics located in South Carolina. He’s the founder of the Multifamily Investor Nation where he educates a nationwide group of over 9,000 members of multifamily investors on how to properly invest in multifamily assets. He’s the co-host, along with his wife, of the Tough Decisions for Entrepreneurs Podcast, which can be found on iTunes and Google Podcast.
Travis Jones is the founder of over 15 results-based training gyms across Australia and founder of the health tracking app, Keystone.fit, a business coaching FitPros for the last 8 years, and has a digital agency as well. He has an amazing wife, who really is amazing, and two boys under 5 years old.
Jones, who played elite level rugby league as a teenager into his early 20s, opened his first RBT gym in south Melbourne in 2011 before growing it into a recognized Australian transformation facility, building a reputation of changing the lives of thousands of people every single year. Every year his goals get bigger and bigger.
Born in 1987, John Crestani has accomplished a lot in his 32 years. In 2009, Crestani, 21, traveled to Thailand to figure out his direction in life and find himself. During this time, he read a number of spiritual works, such as The Alchemist, that would later influence his life, but his saving grace turned out to be a business book. John was sitting on a beach in Thailand, poor and lost in life, when he opened a book that helped transform him into becoming a motivated and successful internet entrepreneur. This book was The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, the now classic manual for breaking free from the 9 to 5 workweek desk job by building an online business. After a number of years of trial and error building his internet business, Crestani finally managed to create a multimillion dollar business. He met his wife and traveled the world. He went from deep in debt to having a successful cash flow positive business that supports his life, his wife and their 3-year-old child. As of late, he’s gone on to build an education empire, and now he’s taken it upon himself to teach a handful of aspiring entrepreneurs how they too can transition to the new entrepreneurial economy and be their own boss.
Shawn Yesner is a Florida native, born in Tampa and raised in Miami. After graduating from Florida State University with a B.S. degree in accounting, Shawn enrolled in the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, graduating with a Juris Doctor degree in 1998. Since our last interview, Shawn’s podcast, the “Crushing Debt Podcast”, has continued to grow and now is in its fourth year. Shawn estimates that he’s helped his clients eliminate a collective amount of over $10 million. In September 2018, Shawn published his first book titled, Crushing Debt: 9 Strategies to Eliminate Financial Bullies. The book is available right now on Amazon.
Marco Santarelli is an investor, author, and the founder of Norada Real Estate Investments, a nationwide provider of turnkey cash-flow investment properties. Since 2004, Marco and his team have helped thousands of real estate investors create wealth and passive income through real estate. He’s also the host of the top-rated “Passive Real Estate Investing” podcast.
Jason Wright is the founder of the Intentionally Inspirational brand, which began as a podcast that was created to motivate and inspire entrepreneurs. Since its inception, Intentionally Inspirational has evolved to include a weekly blog, published resources, and a comprehensive offering of digital marketing services and consulting. Jason is the author of the book, The Backwards Route To Forward Progress, and the eBook, 15 Lessons for Surviving Your Startup. Jason is a lifelong serial entrepreneur who thrives on challenge and has an unwavering focus on participating in meaningful work, motivating and uplifting other people, and building a lasting legacy.
Tony Bradshaw is the author of The Millionaire Choice: Millionaire or Not. You Can Choose. Tony was 25 doing the same old stupid stuff with money that his parents had done. That’s also when he made his choice to become a millionaire. He had what he called his financial awakening and began learning everything he could about money. Now he’s helping people make their own choice to become a millionaire because he believes anyone can do it. Having grown up in a lower income family, Tony made his millionaire choice at 25. Now 2 decades later, he’s teaching people how to make their own millionaire choice. His book, The Millionaire Choice, was inspired by his own vision of empowering anyone to become a millionaire no matter what their income, ethnicity, or financial situation. His mission is to create a movement of financially educated and wealthy people who will make it their mission to fight poverty and help those in need around the world.
Dmitriy Fomichenko is the founder and president of Sense Financial Services LLC, a boutique financial firm specializing in self-directed retirement accounts and checkbook control. He began his career in financial planning and real estate back in 2000. He owns multiple investment properties in various states and is a licensed California real estate broker. Over the years, he’s taught hundreds of investment and financial planning seminars and mentored thousands of investors. Dmitriy founded Sense Financial Services to help his clients maximize their return on investment while protecting their hard-earned money. He’s very passionate about helping families and individuals achieve financial freedom by following proven, biblical principles of financial planning and investing.
Ari Gunzburg is a wilderness liaison, motivational speaker, workshop facilitator, podcast host, long distance cyclist to fundraise for kids with cancer, and more. From a colored past to a colorful future, Ari is raising spirits and helping people build themselves into more than ever before.
Kenneth Ameduri has had a passion for truth from an early age. Finding trends and anticipating growth sectors has been his primary focus since he was in high school. After noticing the cracks in the underlying financial system, Kenneth became a proactive investor, purchasing investments that would hedge his portfolio against inflation. This lead him to investing in real estate, precious metals, stocks and cryptocurrency, establishing a personal multimillion dollar profile prior to turning 30. Kenneth has taken the knowledge he has compiled in the business world and is now pouring it into “Crush the Street” for the benefit of his members through the weekly newsletter, blog and podcast, focusing on market trends, precious metals, cryptocurrency and sound economics. Kenneth is the chief editor at crushthestreet.com, where all of his work can be found.
Jordan Goodman is known as America’s “Money Answers Man” because he’s been answering Americans’ personal financial questions for almost 40 years. He’s written 14 best-selling books including Master Your Debt, Fast Profits in Hard Times, and the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms. He was the Wall Street correspondent at Money magazine for 18 years, and he’s currently the host of the national, weekly “Money Answers” radio show on the Voice America Business Network. He’s a regular commentator on financial topics on national and local radio and tv shows across the U.S. He runs the personal finance website moneyanswers.com.
Monick Halm is the founder of the Real Estate Investor Goddesses. She’s an educator and advocate for women to create real wealth through real estate and has made it her mission to help one million women achieve financial freedom through real estate investing. She herself is a real estate investor, syndicator and developer with over 14 years of real estate investing experience in multifamily, mobile home parks, RV parks, flipping, commercial, vacation rentals, syndication and ground up development. Together with her husband and her investors, she owns over 1,000 rental units across 5 states. She’s also the best-selling author of the Real Estate Investor Goddess Handbook, and Wealth for Women: Conversations with the Team That Creates the Dream. She’s host of the Real Estate Investor Goddesses podcast, real estate investment strategy mentor, sought after keynote speaker, recovered attorney, certified interior designer, yogi, avid world traveler, wife and mother of 3 amazing kids.
Rachel Marshall is the co-founder and chief financial educator of The Money Advantage. She’s on a mission to help business owners create time and money freedom by keeping more of the money they make, protecting it and turning it into cash flowing assets. Podcaster, YouTuber, blogger and speaker, Rachel teaches cashflow strategies, infinite banking, and alternative investments in a simple, actionable way. Since 2011, Rachel’s been a business owner motivated to control her time and destiny and help others do the same.
Bernard Reisz, CPA empowers individuals to optimize their finances using proactive and innovative strategies. He provides an integrated approach to tax and financial planning for real estate pros, focusing on their unique profiles and opportunities. Bernard is the founder of 401kcheckbook.com, which gives investors direct control of their tax sheltered funds for real estate equity and debt opportunities using checkbook control IRA’s, solo 401(k)’s and checkbook life insurance. He’s also the founder of agentfinancial.com, which provides tax, entity, and financial services to real estate pros including real estate agents, real estate investors and mortgage brokers.
Jason Hartman is the founder and CEO of Platinum Properties Investor Network, The Hartman Media Company, and The Jason Hartman Foundation. Starting with very little, Jason, while still in college at 19, embarked on a career in real estate while brokering properties for clients. He was investing in his own portfolio as well. Through creativity, persistence and hard work, he soon joined the ranks of the top 1% of realtors in the U.S., and in quick succession, earned a number of prestigious industry awards and became a young multimillionaire. Hartman now has been involved in several thousand real estate transactions, and he has owned income properties in 11 states and 17 cities. His companies help people achieve the American Dream of financial freedom by purchasing income property in prudent markets nationwide.
Daniel is a self-made multimillionaire and full-time fact finder. He credits his success to a strong desire to surround himself with the right people. After warning family and friends in 2007 about the coming market and mortgage collapse, he started his own YouTube channel, VisionVictory, which has received 10 million plus video views. On March 18, 2008, Daniel called for Dow 8000, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, AIG and Washington Mutual. During the mortgage crisis, he helped people buy put options on country-wide mortgage. These puts saw a gain of 1400%. His connections to insiders in the microcap space drive towards overdelivering to his readers is truly extraordinary and what separates him from other publishers. He is the co-founder of the Future Money Trends letter, “Crush the Street”, and also the author of Don’t Save for Retirement.
M.C. Laubscher is a “Cashflow Ninja”. He is a wealth strategist, educator and financial freedom fighter. He is the president and CEO of Producers Wealth, and he is the creator and host of the popular and top-rated business and investing podcast, “Cashflow Ninja”. His purpose and mission is to help producers and creators create, protect and multiply their wealth in any economy without getting ripped off by Wall Street and their governments. M.C. challenges existing societal belief systems and misinformation around concepts such as money, saving, investing, wealth, and retirement.
Gerri Detweiler is the Education Direct for Nav, which matches small business owners to their best financing options and gives access to free personal and business credit scores. Her articles have been widely syndicated. She’s been interviewed in more than 3,000 news stories, and she’s the author or co-author of 5 books, including her most recent, Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track.
Sean Zalmanoff is a respected speaker, coach, regional mortgage manager, mortgage influencer, and a founding member of Next Level Loan Officers. When not leading his mortgage business or coaching loan officers, Sean is an active real estate investor who both owns commercial and residential property, as well as flip homes.
During his down time, Sean enjoys being in the outdoors with his wife and two sons to make memories with his family.
Mark Mascia has had over 17 years of real estate investment experience and a career portfolio valued at over $2 billion. Mark founded Mascia Development, LLC in 2006. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Mark oversaw half a billion dollars in development projects in Manhattan while he worked for Archstone, a former Fortune 500, publicly traded real estate company. From early on, Mark has been working closely with some of the country’s wealthiest family offices and continues to do so today with his own company. Mark also has two Master’s degrees from New York University and George Washington University and is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Institute of Real Estate and has a deep appreciation for sharing his knowledge with everyone he meets.
James Kandasamy is the principal at Achieve Investment Group, a vertically integrated investment company actively engaged in multifamily acquisition, asset management, property and construction management. A well-known multifamily operator, James has over 4 years of multifamily experience, and 6 plus years of experience in real estate overall. In addition to his work, James has built a reputation for creative marketing tactics to find motivated sellers and unlock hidden value in multifamily operations. James has identified, underwritten and overseen the acquisition of over 65 million of quality multifamily investments over a total of 6 assets. He’s also routinely lead passive investors to an average IRR of over 20% in the past deals he’s done.
Prior to real estate investing, James pursued a career in engineering, having earned a B.S. in electrical engineering with honors and an MBA from a reputable university.
Anna Myers is the vice president of Grocapitus Investments, LLC, teaches underwriting for MultifamilyU, and co-hosts a real estate investor meet-up in the San Francisco Bay area. With an extensive background as a programmer in systems architect in the tech industry, she uses these skills to evaluate multifamily deals, identify key investment markets, and implement systems and processes to acquire and manage multifamily assets. Anna partnered with Neal Bawa to purchase 500 units of apartment projects in 2018, and added another 300 units in the first few months of 2019.
Maneesh is the founder of Pavlok and Shock Clock, helping people change their habits for good. In 2008, Maneesh took a two year break from studying at Stanford to travel and start hackthesystem.com, a travel blog about credit card hacking and digital nomads. In 2012, his article, “Why I Hired a Girl on Craigslist to Slap Me in the Face- And How it Quadrupled my Productivity”, went viral. In 2013, he took that idea to start a company that earned almost 8 figures in revenue over the last several years building devices that use psychology and sensory stimuli to help you change habits and wake up early. That company helped over 75,000 customers wake up in the morning, reduce cravings, quit smoking and defend against distractions, and, therefore, essentially helping people get fitter and healthier.
Vinney Chopra’s success in real estate investment and syndication is a testament to the power of enthusiasm, passion, persistence and positivity. He came to the United States from India over 40 years ago. He had only seven dollars in his pocket, but he knew without a doubt that the opportunities offered by this country were within reach because he had a vision for his life plus the commitment to learn, work hard and sacrifice to achieve his goals. He has successfully completed 27 multifamily syndications over the years, controlling 3500 units valued at $220 million. He also has a new fund for accredited investors who want to invest in multifamily.
Fernando Angelucci is the 27-year-old senior managing partner of Titan Wealth Group based out of Chicago. He first read Rich Dad, Poor Dad when he was 16 and subsequently started his first business at the age of 19 while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When Fernando graduated with a bioengineering AG degree in 2013, he went on to work in a Fortune 50 company and immediately started investing in single family homes on the side. By the age of 23, he was able to replace his income and exit the “9-5” life to begin investing in single family and multifamily properties full time. By 24, he began purchasing value-add self-storage facilities and within two years began pooling funds from his investors to build ground-up, class A self-storage facilities to flip to publicly traded REITs.
Adam started investing in real estate in 2005 after repositioning his first apartment community in 2007 from a $2 million value to a $4 million value in 12 months as a property manager. Adam bought his first multifamily apartment building. Since then, Adam has managed several single family “fix-and-flips” and holds over 100 multifamily rental doors. Adam is the organizer of Colorado’s most active real estate group, and he hosts the "Creative Real Estate Podcast”. Adam has been a guest on countless popular podcasts, including the “Best Ever Show”, “Investor Army”, and the “Investability Podcast”.
Jason Hull’s personal mission statement is to inspire others to love true principles. This means he’s all about figuring out what works and sharing it with others. Jason is the world’s leading property management growth hacker, and enjoys helping property management business owners grow their businesses. He’s the host of the "Door Grow Show", founder of the Door Grow Club, a free Facebook group for property management entrepreneurs, and the creator of The Seed Program: The Ultimate Foundation for Property Management Growth. His mission at Door Grow is to transform property management businesses and their owners.
Zach Beach works with smartrealestatecoach.com, located in Newport, Rhode Island. He works alongside his wife, Kayla, brother-in-law, Nick, father-in-law, Chris, and a great support team. He’s a successful real estate investor, completing over 100 deals in under 3 years and continues to buy and sell property without using his own cash, credit or investor’s money. Zach is co-authoring their second book, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing. At age 25, Zach decided to jump into the family real estate business. It was one of the first big risks he took in his life, and nothing was guaranteed. He didn’t know anything about real estate, so through hard work, in-house training and implementation, Zach has now completed these 100 deals and growing. Additionally, he coaches students around the country on how to buy and sell property just like his family does.
Ian Ippolito is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of the investment analysis website called therealestatecrowdfundingreview.com. The site has over 12,000 visitors per month and has been featured in USA Today, Bloomberg News, Realtor.com, Curbed and more. Ippolito is also the founder of a private investor club for alternative investing, with over 1,300 members and over 1.35 billion in investable assets. In 2001, Ippolito created one of the first remote work websites from an extra bedroom in his house, rentacoder.com, which was later renamed vworker.com. Ippolito grew it to 450,000 users, 15 employees, and 11.1 million in revenue before selling it to freelancer.com for an undisclosed price in the millions. Before that, he created one of the first open-source websites for programmers, planitsourcecode.com. At its peak, the site had 1.5 million visitors per month. Ippolito has been awarded the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Company Award four years in a row, and named to the 100 Most Innovative and Brilliant Companies by Entrepreneur Magazine. Ippolito has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Time, Fast Company, Tech Crunch, CBS News, Fox News and many more.
With a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and appealing solution to the epidemic of chronic pain, Brendon Lundberg co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centers. He combines his mission to change the way chronic pain is treated with deep experience and healthcare management, marketing, business development and sales. Prior to opening the first center in 2014, Brendon played key operational and business development roles for two Portland-area Business Journal and Inc. Magazine growth award-winning companies and was the director of sales and marketing for another Portland-based medical device start-up. Brendon holds a B.S. in Business Marketing and an MBA.
Terry White is a long-time business owner and investor. He’s a graduate of the University of New Mexico and began his career as the controller for the largest title company in New Mexico. In 1987, he started his first business, First Financial Escrow, Inc. Over the years, his business grew until in 1997 he purchased the real estate contract division from the largest bank in New Mexico. October 2017 marked First Financial’s 30th year in business. In 2004, Terry started Sunwest Trust, Inc. to serve the needs of investors that wanted to invest their individual retirement accounts in investments other than what was widely offered. Sunwest is now one of the leading self-directed IRA custodians in the country with assets under custody exceeding $1.5 billion. Along the way, Terry has invested for himself in many areas of real estate and started several other businesses.
Brian Burke is president and CEO of Praxis Capital, Inc., a vertically integrated real estate private equity investment firm, which he founded in 2001. Brian is also a member of the Praxis Investment Committee. Praxis operates on multiple platforms, currently managing active syndications for the acquisition of single, multifamily and opportunistic residential assets in the U.S. growth markets. As a recognized real estate expert, Brian has been a frequent speaker at real estate forums and conferences, including the Opal Family Office & Private Wealth Management forum, the Keiretsu Forum, and the Institute for Private Investors. He has also served as co-host and real estate expert on the Fox News radio show, “The Best of Investing”.
Brian is married and has lived in northern California for over 30 years. An avid aviation enthusiast, he’s a licensed instrument-rated airplane and helicopter pilot.
Lee Kearney is one of the nation’s most active and successful single-family real estate investors, having flipped over 7,000 houses in the last decade, totaling over $500 million in property under his SPIN Real Estate company. Lee is known as the leading expert in understanding and leveraging real estate market cycles. He has been on the front lines of flipping homes, and his passion and expertise come into play as he inspires and educates real estate investors at all levels through his “Flip Your Income” training program.
Ellie Perlman is a real estate investor who owns 2,000 units across the U.S., worth over $250 million. Ellie is the founder and CEO of Blue Lake Capital, a real estate investing firm specializing in multifamily investments. At Blue Lake Capital, Ellie helps investors grow their wealth and get double-digit returns by investing alongside her in large multifamily deals that they wouldn’t otherwise have access to. Prior to founding Blue Lake Capital, Ellie was a commercial real estate lawyer and a property manager. Ellie is the host of the podcast, “That REllie Happened”, which highlights unbelievable real estate stories. She is an author for Forbes and a writer of a weekly blog you can find at ellieperlman.com.
AJ Osborne has been in real estate since the early 2000s. He created Bitterroot Holdings, a self-storage company that has a $100 million asset holding portfolio. He got his start in insurance running one of the largest brokerage firms in the northwest.
Scott Royal Smith is a real estate investor and asset protection attorney in Austin, Texas. He graduated from Albany Law School and began his career in high-stakes corporate litigation. Scott learned the key secret he now uses to defeat lawsuits, that they are a business. Through his defense work, he targets defeating lawsuits before they are even filed by making sure the business part of a lawsuit no longer makes financial sense for a plaintiff to proceed. Scott founded Royal Legal Solutions to offer tax, business and legal strategies to real estate investors. He spent the past 8 years of his career diving through case law, reading the ever-changing tax code, and analyzing real estate investment so that you don’t have to. His claim to fame as an attorney is his uncanny ability to make his clients judgement-proof.
Joe Fairless is a full-time real estate investor that started buying multi-family properties in 2013 and now controls over $400 million of real estate, with a portfolio of over 4200 units. He’s personally raised over $100 million from private investors for real estate investments. Prior to that, he was the youngest VP at an award-winning advertising agency in New York City. He’s the host of the world’s longest running daily real estate iTunes podcast, “Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever,” where he’s interviewed guests such as Barbara Corcoran, Robert Kiyosaki, Emmitt Smith and Tony Hawk.
Scott Meyers is the nation’s leading expert in self-storage. After becoming a penniless landlord in the single-family rental and apartment business, he began investing in self-storage. He saw the light and quickly sold all of his single-family rentals and apartments to create a small empire of self-storage facilities nationwide. His company’s focus on syndicating self-storage deals and helping others to launch their own self-storage business to enjoy a lifestyle free from toilets, tenants and trash.
Scott is the principal in 16 facilities, totaling over 5,000 units and approximately 1 million square feet of storage. He is also the founder and president of selfstorageinvesting.com, a leading self-storage education company that offers courses, live events, mentoring and coaching. His company was started in 2006 for the purpose of acquiring, developing and operating self-storage facilities and has raised over 20 million in syndicates and private equity partnerships to fuel their growth.
Mike Zlotnik has been a debt and equity investor in real estate since 2000. He started his career and has spent nearly 15 years in the IT field, managing risk, business intelligence and software. Mike’s passion has always been real estate investing because of its predictability and well-understood risks. In 2009, he joined Tempo Funding, LLC (Mortgage Pool Fund), as Vice President. In 2014, he assumed the role of CEO. Mike is the author of the book, How to Choose a Smart Real Estate Investment Fund. He also has a podcast called “Big Mike Fund”.
Michael Levitt, with Breakfast Leadership and published author of 369 Days: How to Survive a Year of Worst-Case Scenarios, brings people back to life. He’s focused on helping individuals and leaders within corporations learn boundaries in their work and personal life so they can accomplish more by doing less, which will save them and their careers, and possibly their lives.
Ryan McKenna is the founder of McKenna Capital, which is a private equity firm that helps accredited investors invest in recession-resistant real estate assets. He focuses on value-add multifamily, self-storage and manufactured home parts. Since starting McKenna Capital, Ryan has helped investors allocate capital to over 10 deals, which have a combined asset value of more than $250 million. Ryan has worked with some of the most experienced and well-respected operating partners across the U.S.
Kim Snider has spent 20-plus years as an entrepreneur, options trader, investment advisor, financial engineer, author, speaker, educator and financial talk radio host. Her investment firm, Snider Advisors, was on the Inc. list of “Fastest Growing Companies” 2 years in a row, in 2008 and 2009. Kim retired at 47 and sold her investment firm. In 2011, she moved to South Carolina with her husband and dogs, built a polo farm and planned to lived happily ever after. It all was going well, until Crypto came along. Motivated by the cascade of bad advice she saw pouring out all over the internet, Kim unretired to create Sane Crypto and help baby-boomers get properly positioned for what could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but not get wrecked if it turns out to be a big “nothing-burger”.
Christian Chasmer empowers entrepreneurs to live their best lives and change the world. At 26 years old, this young entrepreneur has already built 2 successful companies and is now working on his 3rd, which is called Elevate Advisors. Starting in college, Christian built a franchise from 0 to 1.2 million in annual revenue, then he co-founded the real estate development company, CC Solutions, and grew it to 6 million in revenue in under 2 years. He’s also the author of the #1 best-selling book, Lose the Limits: Break Your Limiting Beliefs, Become a More Productive You, Achieve Everything You Want in Life. The secret to his success lies in the systems he uses, both in his personal life and his business.
In this episode, Victoria Mavis shares the importance of finding the right people to work with. Don't be too trusting, but don't be jaded either.
Victoria Mavis is a professional magician and podcast host of the show Pure Mind Magic. She is a published author of two books, has two academic degrees and is a consultant when it comes to mindset work. Now - brand new - she is also teaching you on how to deliver amazing podcast interviews worldwide - being prepared like a magician for a great show! Learn more at: www.victoria-mavis.com.
Oren Klaff is one of the world’s leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation, having pitched and closed over $500 million of investor capital in recent years. His first book, Pitch Anything, is required reading throughout Silicon Valley, Wall Street and the Fortune 2000, and has been translated into over 10 languages, with over 1,000,000 copies in circulation worldwide.
Today, Oren teaches leaders and organizations his hard-won real world methods. Additionally, Oren has written for Harvard Business Review, INC, Advertising Age, Entrepreneur and hundreds of periodicals, podcasts and blogs. Oren is an investment partner in a $200 million private equity investment fund. He lives in Southern California with his wife and son, and in his spare time is a motorcycle enthusiast.
Mike was laid off after almost 34 years from the high-tech industry at the age of 55. Instead of grieving, he took his 401k and turned it into a "self-directed IRA LLC" and then turned that LLC into a multi-million dollar company in less than 2 years. Now Mike gets to do anything he wants.
Cameron Herold is a top business consultant, best-selling author, and speaker. Named by Forbes Magazine as “the CEO Whisperer”, Cameron has touched thousands of businesses directly and indirectly through his work. By age 35, he had built two $100 million companies, and by 42, he had grown 1-800-GOT-JUNK? from $2 million, to $106 million in revenue in just six years.
Cameron has since gone on to help hundreds of companies grow, and exponentially increase revenue. He has earned his reputation by showing his clients how to double their profit in just three years or less—the process of which was the topic of his best-selling book “Double Double”. His companies have landed over 5,200 media placements, including coverage on Oprah. Cameron is not just a theory guy. He teaches what he knows from experience and is passionate about sharing his expertise with today’s most dynamic business leaders. He is currently channeling this passion through executive business coaching, international speaking events, and his work with the COO Alliance: the world’s leading network for COO’s.
Patrick Donohoe is the President and CEO of Paradigm Life, which he started in 2007 to teach investors, business owners, professionals and families sound financial principles. He is a firm believer that the more someone is educated, the better financial decisions they will make and the more financially free they will be. Patrick created a unique educational process which is conducted virtually, by way of video webinars and a no-cost eLearning program called Infinite 101. Along with founding Paradigm Life in 2007, Patrick also began hosting The Wealth Standard Radio, which continues to broadcast weekly.
Salem is the founder of Naked Capital, a private investment company focused on late cycle recession resistant assets and their underlying mathematics. To date, his company has $10M in assets and is growing rapidly with a target of $20M by the end of 2018.
Prior to Naked Capital, Salem worked his way out of a challenging upbringing all the way to Wall street where he was building the math behind ultra-high net worth financial products at one of the world's largest investment banks. He has also consulted numerous global corporations on financial structures and built multiple real estate companies all along the way. Today, he's going to walk through how that math applies to real estate investing and portfolios more broadly.
Dr. David Phelps owned and managed a private practice dental office for over twenty-one years. While still in dental school, he began his investment in real estate by joint-venturing with his father on their first rental property in 1980.
Multiple health crises suffered by his daughter, Jenna (leukemia, epilepsy and a liver transplant at age 12), caused David to leave practice so that he could spend time with his daughter. Unfortunately, a divorce and failed practice sale provided additional setbacks that he had to think and work through.
Today, David is a nationally recognized speaker on creating freedom, building real businesses and investing in real estate. He also combines his professional and personal experiences to illustrate how the tactical and aspirational work together. David helps other logical, rational professionals become dreamers, then strategically manifest those dreams into freedom. He authors a monthly newsletter, “Path to Freedom” and hosts The Dentist Freedom Blueprint podcast.