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How to Lose Money

Paul Moore and Josh Thomaswww.howtolosemoney.com
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!
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Episodes

208: How to Lose Money by Joining the Crowd to Invest in Something You’re Clueless About with Dr. Jeff Anzalone

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.

Apr 20, 202039 min

207: How to Lose Money in the First 5 Minutes of Starting a Business with John Paul Mendocha

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 sal...

Apr 13, 202051 min

206: How to Lose Money by Sinking From Millionaire to Deeply in Debt in Less Than 2 Years with Gino Wickman

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...

Apr 06, 202045 min

205: How to Lose Money by Not Being Prepared for the Apocalypse with Neal Bawa

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 o...

Mar 30, 202043 min

204: How to Lose Money by Making Instant Coffee with Josh Zloof

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 C...

Mar 23, 202030 min

203: How to Lose Money by Staying in the Closet with David Hancock

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 ...

Mar 16, 202035 min

202: How to Lose Money by Buying Underpriced Properties at a Tax Sale with Jack Gibson

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 pas...

Mar 09, 202046 min

201: How to Lose Money by Being Inexperienced with Vincenzo Villamena

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, corp...

Mar 02, 202033 min

200: How to Lose Money by Being in a Coma with Nick Prefontaine

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...

Feb 24, 202043 min

199: How to Lose Money by Being Desperate to Make Money with Keith Elias

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-Sellin...

Feb 17, 202037 min

198: How to Lose Money by Paying a 44% Tax Rate with Andrew Henderson

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...

Feb 10, 202030 min

197: How to Lose Money by Being Overconfident with Antoine Martel

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 ...

Feb 03, 202035 min

196: How to Lose Money by Choosing the Wrong Career Path with Inna Rubinchik

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....

Jan 27, 202039 min

195: How to Lose Money by Taking Venture Capital with Bob Fraser

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 r...

Jan 20, 202039 min

194: How to Lose Money by Not Signing Contracts with Todd Dexheimer

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. T...

Jan 13, 202041 min

193: How to Lose Money by Being an Uninformed Investor with Melanie Finnegan

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.

Jan 06, 202034 min

192: How to Lose Money by Owning a Profitable Billboard Company with Frank Rolfe

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 ...

Dec 30, 201936 min

191: How to Lose Money by Trusting Someone Else's Due Diligence with Ross Stryker

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 pract...

Dec 23, 201938 min

190: How to Lose Money by Building an Online Grocery Business Before Recession with Eric Satz

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...

Dec 16, 201939 min

189: How to Lose Money by Drowning in Dumb Debt with Brett Swarts

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 i...

Dec 09, 201932 min

188: How to Lose Money by Taking Your Eye Off the Numbers with Dan Handford

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 inv...

Dec 02, 201933 min

187: How to Lose Money by Trying to Do it All but Accomplishing Nothing with Travis Jones

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 facilit...

Nov 25, 201938 min

186: How to Lose Money by Starting a Marketing Agency with John Crestani

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 en...

Nov 18, 201942 min

185: How to Lose Money by Spreading Yourself Too Thin with Shawn Yesner

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 Septembe...

Nov 11, 201938 min

184: How to Lose Money by Speculating Rather Than Investing with Marco Santarelli

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.

Nov 04, 201939 min

183: How to Lose Money by Entrepreneuring Without a Plan or a Purpose with Jason Wright

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 entrepre...

Oct 28, 201930 min

182: How to Lose Money by Making Bad Life and Financial Choices with Tony Bradshaw

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 mil...

Oct 21, 201934 min

181: How to Lose Money by Failing on Due Diligence with Dmitriy Fomichenko

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...

Oct 14, 201936 min

179: How to Lose Money by Exercising Blind Faith with Kenneth Ameduri

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. Ke...

Sep 30, 201935 min
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