MICHAEL VALDES GLOBAL PODCAST: Recent Episodes
MICHAEL VALDES GLOBAL
THE GLOBAL PODCAST IS BACK! Coming off the successful two and a half year run with the “Global Luxury Real Estate Mastermind” podcast where I interviewed over 100 real estate professionals from all over the world and was blessed to have that project distributed to over 100 countries, I decided to create this new “Michael Valdes Global Podcast”.
On this episode of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast, I interview Rico Leon. Rico is the host of the upcoming TV show on the HGTV Network, “Rico to the Rescue.” This show is the culmination of Rico’s experience in real estate. He started in construction, then moved into selling real estate when he figured he could make more money that way. His background in construction gave him a different perspective than most agents, and he was able to more effectively serve his clients. As someone who knows construction, he’s also seen how bad contractors can really screw up a renovation, and his empathy toward his clients has led him to advocate for them. In his new show, Rico to the Rescue, he saves homeowners from bad construction contractors. Watch this episode to hear his background and the lessons he’s learned from building and selling homes.
On this episode of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast, I interview my good friend Lee Lamont. His mother is British, and his father is Jamaican, but he’s lived in Texas for 20 years. Those humble beginnings gave him the drive to outwork the competition. At one point, he had a good corporate job which gave him the means to get married and have children. But when that corporate job was “made redundant,” he took to real estate. His simple principles - Outwork the competition, always answer the phone, do the right thing - made him successful. Watch this video to see how you can be successful by following the same principles Lee has.
On this episode, live from NAR, I interview Levi Lascsak. Lascsak is a social media superstar. And he approached social media success the way he approached many things in his life: through “hyperlearning.” Hyperlearning, which may be a term he coined, involves studying as much as you can about a subject in 60 days and then executing on what you learn. He modeled success by finding people who are successful and doing what they did, with some minor tweaking for his goals and his personality.
On this episode of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast, I interview Matthieu Arseneault and his translater Donna Dalonzo. Matieu innovated a new way to sell real estate by selling high-end real estate by helicopter. He is a licensed helicopter pilot, and his brilliant idea was to integrate his passion for flying with his real estate business. He gave his clients a unique experience by making them feel like royalty flying above the clouds, and in the process was able to literally give his clients a birds-eye view of the neighborhood and the property. In this interview, with the help of Donna Dalanzo as his translator, I ask him how he got started in this crazy business.
Today, my guest is Dean Graziosi, a multiple New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, and investor. Dean has a magnetic personality, and I’ve been happy to call him a friend since the day I met him. Dean is a great example of how you can break the cycle of generational trauma. He loved his parents, as he put it, but he didn’t want to become them. His parents were from families that we would call today “dysfunctional.” They both married and divorced multiple times because they didn’t learn how to have the mental and emotional tools to have a healthy relationship from their own parents. They worked hard, but they were always living paycheck to paycheck. He resolved at a young age to give himself the options that his parents didn’t have, and to one day become a better parent than his own. A large part of why he was able to achieve those dreams successfully was because he didn’t ask “how” he would be successful, he asked “who” he had to become in order to make an impact. And he learned how to let go of the past and focus on the present and the future. This interview is full of lessons that he learned that go beyond real estate and focus on mindset and emotional fitness.
Today’s guest for Episode 16 of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast is Brian Culhane. Culhane got his start in real estate selling real estate by working at an accounting position at a commercial real estate company, and was quickly moved into a sales position. He learned back in the days when you could open up a phone book and cold call prospective clients. He was a younger voice in a field dominated by older, experienced agents, and he was able to successfully convince the people around him to adopt new technologies, which at the time were web pages and electronic communication. He took to real estate and took a job with Glenn Sanford, an early founder of eXp Global, who took him on as a mentor and taught him how to sell real estate as effectively as possible. On this episode, you’ll hear what Brian learned from Glenn and from other mentors, how to grow a brand, and how to set audacious goals and achieve them. This is just the beginning for Brian, and you can hear how he’s doing it.
On Episode 13 of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast, I interview Tristan Ahumada, founder of Lab Coat Agents. Tristan is a podcaster, social media influence, business consultant, public speaker, and oh yeah, he’s a realtor, too. He is one of the top 1% of all real estate agents in the United States, and he did it by adapting new technology to make personal connections. In this episode, he will talk about all the different ways that he uses the internet to connect with people in the real world, and giving customers something that they can feel, (sometimes literally) to make the sales process much easier and more effective. He breaks down these tips into easy-to-remember mnemonics and TLAs. Watch this video to learn how to make more sales in real estate by combining the real and virtual.
This is a special episode of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast. Rather than interview a guest, this episode will give you a basic principle to use in your life and career to be successful: The B.I.D. Principle. B stands for Beliefs. I Is for Integrity. D is for Discretion.
What this means is that if you have absolute conviction that you are capable of being successful (belief), hold yourself to a higher standard (integrity), and put your clients’ privacy first (discretion), you will have an advantage over everyone else in your field. Often, we can make mistakes, miss opportunities, or sabotage your chances without ever knowing it. By living with these principles, people will trust you with information that they only give to a select few. By being one of those few, you will have opportunities to succeed that most people won’t.
These principles may be easy to pronounce, but they aren’t easy to live by. Make these three principles part of your core belief system, to the point where you don’t even think about acting in any other way.
On today’s episode of The Michael Valdes Global Podcast, my special guests are Nate and Austin Cheviron of the Cheviron Group. (No connection with Chevron Corporation), the number one real estate agency in the entire state of Indianapolis. Austin and Nate are cousins but are often mistaken for brothers. They even grew up next door to each other as children. Nate and Austin began real estate in their 20s and worked hard, but always put family first. That commitment to a strong family has helped them in their coaching careers as they passed on many of the folksy lessons from their Grandma Clem to well-heeled businessmen. Nate and Austin take ideas that have worked for thousands of years to grow yourself mentally strong and put that mindset towards a business.
To find out more, watch the entire video.
On this episode of the Podcast, I interview Phil Hahn. Phil Hahn is the best of the best when it comes to selling real estate, and is the number 1 real estate agent in the entire country of Canada. He has made over a billion dollars in sales over the course of his career, and he’s just getting started. Phil has always pushed himself to be the best, to the point where even the people above him in the corporate world would be intimidated by him. It was inevitable that he would start his own real estate business, and it may have been divine intervention that he found eXp Global and began working with them. Watch this interview to hear just how he went from the bottom to the top.
Micah and Hamudi (Muhammad) Mruwat are the founders of The Legacy Builders, formerly known as the Mruwat Enterprises. Hamudi is known as “The Flip Master,” because he has flipped hundreds of real estate properties. The two are a happily married couple, raising two boys, and their strength as a family is integral to their success in real estate. They re-evaluate their goals every day, which takes some impressive discipline, not to mention honesty with each other. Together, they are able to push each other every day to being the best parents and best entrepreneurs they can be. Watch this video to learn more about these two unique individuals.
On episode 8 of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast, I interview Ausin Allison, co-founder and CEO of Pacaso. Picasso modernized and simplified co-ownership of second homes, something which many people find so confusing that they wouldn’t even consider it in the first place.
In this interview, he explains what inspired him to found the company, and what problems he solved by doing so. He also shared the lessons he learned as he built the company from the ground up, and how it quickly became a “unicorn company.” The idea of starting a company at the beginning of the pandemic seems crazy, but it turned out to be a brilliant decision.
Watch this interview to learn who Austin drew inspiration from, and how you can take those same lessons.
Grant and Elena Cardone built an empire, primarily in real estate, but also in several other business ventures, including writing books and teaching personal development. When the economy collapsed in 2008, he had a revelation: Banks were too big to fail. He had been successful in real estate, and he made prudent investments, yet he was dragged down by the economy. What if he could be too big to fail?
From that moment on Grant and Elena committed themselves to being the king and queen, respectively, of an empire. Grant created the 10x movement, and grew his business until he had seven businesses making nearly $100 million in sales per year.
How did they do it?
By thinking big and acting big.
On this episode of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast, I interview Buck Wise, co-founder of the Wise Property Group. Buck got his start in radio, working for Clear Channel (now known as iHeartRadio). He worked his way up quickly to being one of the top radio personalities before moving to CBS and later founding his own full-service digital agency. Following that, he worked with Grant Cardone and learned lessons that changed his career, including making connections as EXP global that would take his career to the next level once again. In this interview, he shares some of the lessons from throughout his career that can be applied whether you are in real estate or any endeavor. Watch this video to learn these amazing lessons.
John DeMartini, author of 40 books on personal development, was a success story no one expected. He literally did not know how to read well into his teenage years. He expected at the time that his career would go no further than working at a surf shop, but a chance encounter with alternative medicine pracitioner Paul C. Bragg led him to a breakthrough in his mindset. He had a vision of himself becoming a teacher one day, and he taught himself how to read and how to speak eloquently to achieve that goal.
Paul C. Bragg taught him an affirmation to say to himself every day: I am a genius when I apply my wisdom.” He used that wisdom to pass his G.E.D. exam. He used that wisdom to learn philosophy and reasoning skills. He used that wisdom to teach himself to speed read and how to absorb knowledge every day.
John DeMartini went from a “stupid” kid who couldn’t read to a “genius” in a few short years by having the breakthrough that his history is not his destiny. He was able to shape the life he wanted and live is by having a breakthrough in his mindset.
Enjoy this video!
Kevin and Tina Caul, founders of the Caul Group, and a happily married couple, joined me on the podcast this week to discuss their life and their story. This interview has a lot of great takeaways, but to me the specific through-line that stands out the most is that they have gone headfirst into doing things that are difficult, knowing the payoff is worth it.
Welcome to Episode 3 of the Michael Valdes Global Podcast. In this episode, I interview Jairek Robbins. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the son of Tony Robbins, one of the biggest names in personal development. But Jairek is quickly making a name for himself.
On this episode, I ask Jairek to share how he got started in personal coaching, and what lessons he’s learned along his journey. He educates me on some of the new ways technology makes it possible to measure things that were previously impossible to measure. And what’s more, because you can measure these things at all, you can improve your life in ways not possible just a few years ago. I close with a series of questions about how is life is right now. Be sure to watch this episode of the MVGP!
On this episode of the Michael Veldes Global Podcast, I interview Jay Kinder. Jay is the co-host of the popular podcast Face to Face with Jay Kinder and Michael Reese, and a real estate agent at eXp Global. He has sold over 4,300 homes and also now teaches the lessons he learned along the way advise to other real estate agents as part of his consulting business. On this podcast, he shares how his father got him to understand business at a young age, his biggest influences, fears, lessons learned, and more.