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Know Your Why Podcast with Dr.Jason Balara

Dr. Jason Balarawww.larkcapital.com
Hosted by Dr. Jason Balara, this podcast aims at helping professionals finding their own purpose in life and create alternatives streams of income in order to reach their maximum potential.
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Mentoring in the short-term rental industry with Lucas Piper | Know your WHY #158

Lucas lives in Austin, TX. His story includes graduating with a social work degree, working as a counselor with homeless youth, backpacking/volunteering in Central & South America for 1.5years and a half decade as a Director of Marketing in the healthcare industry. He eventually realized he could mix his two passions, helping people and traveling. June of 2021, Lucas left his W2 to launch a Vacation Rental Management Company (Five Star Vacation Home Rentals). Lucas is now able to help provid...

Nov 30, 202251 min

AEROSPACE ENGINEER FINDING EARLY RETIREMENT THROUGH COMMERCIAL RE | FLINT JAMISON|Know your WHY #157

Flint Jamison spent 20 years in aerospace as an engineer and program manager. He is now finding a path to early retirement through commercial real estate investments. Flint moved quickly from his initial duplex and pivoted into syndications, where he does multifamily, fund management, and build-to-rent. Flint started his real estate endeavor with a duplex that he rehabbed in 2018. From there, he quickly pivoted to multifamily syndications, and is now moving into Build-to-Rent new development. Fl...

Nov 25, 202234 min

SHOULD YOU SPECIALIZE IN NICHE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE? with Kevin Bupp | Know your WHY #156

Kevin Bupp is a Florida-based Real Estate Investor, Top iTunes podcast host and best selling author with over $250 million of real estate transactions. His extensive investment experience spans the gamut of apartment buildings, single-family portfolios, medical office, self storage, assisted living and his three favorites and by far the most profitable, Mobile Home Parks, Parking Lots, and Build-To Rent Communities . Kevin holds the keys to successful real estate investment. Get in touch with Ke...

Nov 23, 202247 min

Breaking into real estate as a mechanical engineer with Jonathan Tonks | Know your WHY #155

Jonathan lives in Holland, MI, and began his career as a continuous improvement engineer for a multi-billion dollar automotive supplier. He started investing in real estate in 2020 and created an investment firm, called Provision Space, to partner with large multifamily operators around the country. As managing partner, he is responsible for building relationships with investors, vetting investment opportunities from sponsors, and providing the strategic vision for Provision Space's growth. Get ...

Nov 18, 202241 min

The importance of finding your blind spots with Rob Chiang | Know your WHY #154

Rob Chiang is the creator of the passive wealth coaching system. He has been managing apartments since the age of 16 and has 25 years of experience with all facets of real estate investing, including but not limited to: rent collection, accounting, maintenance, remodeling, leasing, buying, selling and owning. Rob Chiang holds a California broker’s license as well as a general contracting license and currently controls $193M in investment property assets and owns $10M worth of Real Estate. He coa...

Nov 16, 202233 min

Wealth creation through emerging markets with Levi Allen | Know Your WHY #153

LEVI ALLEN is the Principal of Wealth Creation Asset Management, a real estate investment company that acquires residential multi-family properties. Levi studied at BYU- Idaho after returning home from a 2-year Church mission in Peru. He acquired his first property in 2012 and immediately developed a passion for the real estate industry. Levi has focused full-time on rental housing. He takes pride in his ability to identify opportunities, execute on his vision for the property, maximizing profit...

Nov 11, 202232 min

From victim to victor: changing your mindset to facilitate success with Sakit Jain | Know Your WHY #152

Saket Jain is a #1 bestselling author, investor, syndicator, tech enthusiast, and philanthropist. He's the Founder and CEO of Impact Wealth Builders where he’s passionate about achieving financial freedom through real estate. He has over 15+ years of experience in real estate investing. Over the last 5 years, Saket has taken a particular interest in class B/C multifamily apartments in markets that have strong fundamentals. Saket, along with his partners, has built a portfolio of over 2000 units ...

Nov 09, 202256 min

How to build real wealth with real estate with Monika Jazyk | Know your WHY #151

Monika Jazyk is the founder of RPI Education, the world’s fastest growing investment community and is on a mission to help everyday people invest like the top 2% in order to fill the wealth gap experienced by middle class working people today. Monika is passionate about helping other people create wealth through real estate and alternative investments so they can reach their financial and personal goals and create time, money, freedom in their lives today! Get in touch with Monika: www.rpieducat...

Nov 04, 202250 min

4 steps to achieve anything in life with Matt Fore | Know your WHY #150

Matt Fore is a part time real estate investor based out of Nashville, Tennessee. In his professional life, he has spent over a decade in sales and sales leadership positions at one of the largest technology companies in the world. After finding real estate, Matt was able to achieve financial independence in 3 short years by the age of 32. Today, Matt has invested in 750+ multi-family units and various real estate debt. When he's not working, he enjoys reading, training for Ironman triathlons and...

Nov 02, 202249 min

Unique vacation rentals as investment opportunities with Tamara Jones | Know your WHY #149

Tamara N. Jones is the founder of Bucket List Stays LLC, a successful real estate and property management that provides excellent vacation and short-term rental services. She has created a trusted platform that gives excellent opportunities to real estate investors by utilizing properties and transforming them into beautiful spaces that are available for short-term rentals, strategically located in some of the highest demand travel destinations across the United States. Get in touch with Tamara:...

Oct 28, 202237 min

Impact driven real estate investing with Evan Holladay | Know your WHY #148

Evan Holladay is a real estate developer and investor with over $375 million and 1965 units of multifamily real estate developed and invested. Evan is Founder and CEO at Holladay Ventures where their team specializes in creating and investing in workforce, affordable and mixed- income communities. Their mission is to create quality housing opportunities and empower the residents to realize their full potential. Evan is also the host of the iTunes Top 200 business and real estate podcast, “Monume...

Oct 26, 202247 min

Using technology to help solve problems worth solving with Litan Yahav | Know Your WHY #147

Litan is a former officer in the Israeli Navy, established and successfully sold "Segoma", a revolutionary technology that disrupted the global diamond industry. Following his exit, he became passive RE/PE investors with complex & diverse portfolios. With no existing technological solution to manage, track, and monitor his wealth and a full range of investment assets, he decided to build a startup for planning and controlling his wealth and the wealth of others like him, and so Vyzer was bor...

Oct 21, 202245 min

Winning at rental real estate with Jason Griggs | Know your WHY #146

Jason Griggs has become the biggest Short Term Rental investor in the Las Vegas / Henderson Nevada Area, he currently runs 18 active Airbnb rentals. He averages around $21K every month passively from these investments. Slowly, he turned his investments into short-term rental properties and found tremendous success. He is also helping other agents/ Realtors and investors with short-term rentals. Get in touch with Jason: https://griggsuniversity.com/ https://winwithairbnb.com/ https://www.facebook...

Oct 19, 202237 min

Leaving her career in nonprofit/social work for real estate with Susanna Medrano | Know your WHY #145

After 15 years of being a part of the legal industry and working for several national and local nonprofits...Susanna decided to make a change in her career path. At the beginning of the 2013, she began to do some serious soul searching and wanted to find a path that could make the most impact in the current society. She realized that one of the biggest decisions in a person's life is buying a home, and wished to be a part of making this dream a reality. Susanna is currently the National Sales &a...

Oct 14, 202239 min

Scaling your business with multifamily technology with David Toupin | Know your WHY #144

David Toupin is a multifamily real estate investor and entrepreneur, based in Austin Texas. He started investing at the age of 20 when he bought his first property while in college, a 12 unit apartment complex. By the age of 26 David has purchased and developed over $100M in commercial and multifamily real estate as the founder of Toupin Holdings. He is also the founder of Real Estate Lab, a Multifamily acquisitions software application for investors. Get in touch with David: Instagram @realesta...

Oct 12, 202229 min

Protect, preserve and grow wealth through apartment investing with Julie Holly | Know your WHY #143

Julie is founder of Three Keys Investment, helps people like you find their freedom through multifamily real estate investing so that they can live the life of their dreams! She has invested in single family homes, house-hacked before it had a name, managed properties from 1k miles away and passively invested in multifamily assets. Currently, Julie is passively invested in nearly 300 doors, strategically partnered in 68 Atlanta based and a general partner in 120 units. Get in touch with Julie: h...

Oct 07, 202244 min

Nurse Anesthetist to acquiring and operating commercial multifamily with Ryan Johnson | Know your WHY #142

Ryan began investing in real estate in 2017. His experience includes land acquisitions, fix and flip projects, and small multifamily development. In 2020 he shifted his focus to acquiring and operating commercial multifamily assets. Ryan holds an M.S. in Anesthesiology and is a practicing Nurse Anesthetist in Houston, TX. Ryan leads the investor relations team at GenWealth Capital Group and also oversees construction management. He is invested in 138 units as General Partner and 228 units as a l...

Oct 05, 202235 min

The world of alternative investing with Fred Moskowitz | Know your WHY #141

Fred has positioned himself as an authority on investing in alternative assets and on building wealth using Self-Directed IRA accounts. Fred combines a 15 year career devoted to entrepreneurship and investing with a mission to helping people attain a higher level of financial literacy, resulting in the perfect combination of wisdom and experience providing value to aspiring investors from all walks of life. Get in touch with Fred: https://www.fredmoskowitz.com/ If you want to know more about Dr....

Sep 30, 202250 min

Electrical engineer turned multifamily syndicator with Tommy Brant | Know your WHY #140

Tommy Brant is a ‘recovering‘ electrical engineer and data scientist turned full time Real Estate Investor. He started TB Capital Group as a tool to buy real estate with family, friends, and partners. He helps busy professionals accelerate their wealth through passively investing in real estate. His goal is to help others achieve ULTIMATE freedom (which can’t be done without being financially free) Portfolio of LTR, STR, and apartments - invested in 356 units, totaling $33M in assets. Biggest ac...

Sep 28, 202246 min

Breaking out of corporate America with Multifamily investing with Emily Cortright & Adam Roberts | Know your WHY #139

Emily Cortright co-founded A&E Real Estate Group, LLC in 2013 after holding various roles in operations management and manufacturing in the aerospace and automotive industries. Experience includes direct management of 15-30 member assembly and machining teams with daily output goals and a strong focus on safety, quality, cost, and responsiveness. Currently accountable for the comprehensive management of the short- and long-term real estate assets and holds a real estate license in the state ...

Sep 23, 202250 min

Growing real estate portfolios to better the lives of others with K Trevor Thompson | Know Your WHY #138

Accredited investor participating as LP in 18 (15 active) 1 GP syndicated deals. Over the past few years, he has become deeply passionate about learning about Real Estate Investing. He's an avid learner, continually connecting with as many like-minded people. He's now switching to being active and looking to be a GP / Asset Manager – Boots on the ground for syndications in TX. Get in touch with Trevor: Email: KTT@Niagara-Investments.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktrevorthompson/ Websi...

Sep 21, 202234 min

Developing first-generational wealth with Dan Calonge | Know Your WHY #137

Dan is head of Learning & Development for a technology company and is based in Lexington, Kentucky. He spent 26 years working for companies such as Microsoft, Dell, and Sony including six years in Latin America. Dan also invests in large apartment complexes and is Managing Partner of Avanza Investments (partner in 487 units). 'Avanza' means to 'move forward' in Spanish, and he is focused on helping other working professionals achieve excellent returns through multifamily real estate investin...

Sep 16, 202249 min

Former broke teacher to retiring in his 30’s | Bryce Stewart | Know your WHY #136

Bryce Stewart is a former Elementary School Teacher. He retired from W-2 at age 35 through real estate investments and wrote Amazon bestseller "House Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy". He went from $50k in debt to multimillionaire. If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara Audio Track: Back To The Wood by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: htt...

Sep 14, 20221 hr 11 min

Building wealth through unconventional ways with Clay Hepler | Know Your WHY #135

Clay Hepler is a fiancé, multifamily investor, educator, and cash flow specialist. Clay Hepler, Chief Wealth Strategist at the Creative Capitalist, helps entrepreneurs and real estate investors in 50 states create, protect and multiply their cash flow so they keep, control and amplify more of their hard earned cash in ANY economy. He scaled his family’s chocolate company from 2 states to 42 in 18 months and set the foundation to have a partnership with Geoffrey Zakarian, the Iron Chef from Chopp...

Sep 09, 202243 min

Leveraging your circle of competence with Paul Moore | Know Your WHY #134

Paul was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight (1996 & 1997). Contributor to BiggerPockets and Fox Business. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he’s been a featured guest on 250+ other podcas...

Sep 07, 202232 min

Redefining traditional investments through house hacking with Kevin Brenner | Know your WHY #133

A University of Miami graduate with a Bachelors in Atmospheric Science and former top Pentagon Air Force meteorologist, Kevin is not your typical Wall Street fund manager. Rather than pursue an expensive finance degree, Kevin spent years meticulously educating himself in every facet of multifamily real estate from syndications to underwriting to fund management. Apart from serving his country, Kevin is a well- recognized military real estate investor, coach, mentor, and host of the top-rated Act...

Sep 02, 202247 min

Importance of language in personal empowerment with Mark England | Know your WHY #132

Mark England is a TEDx Speaker and co-founder and head coach of Enlifted. He has been researching, presenting and coaching on the power of words and stories for 15 years. Mark holds a Masters degree in education and was an elementary school sports Get to know more about Mark: www.enlifted.me Here is a link to his 2017 TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6as-5dxSs If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara Audio Track: Bac...

Aug 31, 20221 hr 8 min

Tech entrepreneur turned commercial real estate investor with Kranti Ponnam | Know your WHY #131

Kranti Ponman is an innovator. He always try to come up with new and innovative ways to do things. He loves to be creative and think outside the box. He never stops learning and there’s always something new to explore. Kranti owns 2000+ units, 3 passive companies and 2 active. He's the director of Capital at Four Oaks Capital & Seroda Capital. Get in touch:https://krantiponnam.com If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara Aud...

Aug 26, 202228 min

Building a winning team for your real estate syndication with Mike Desrosiers | Know your WHY #130

Mike Desrosiers is a general partner in 12 multifamily properties with over 1000 units and 70 million assets under management. His properties are located in Texas, Las Vegas, Kansas City, and California. Mike has extensive experience in multifamily syndication, asset management, investor relations and acquisitions. Get in touch with Mike: www.growcaptoday.com If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara Audio Track: Back To The Wood...

Aug 24, 202241 min

Transform your future, one morning at a time with Jeff Wickersham | Know your WHY #128

Jeff Wickersham is a sought after mindset and confidence coach who helps guide clients to intentionally step into the best versions of themselves and unlock that inner hero waiting to be unleashed. Jeff’s a #1 best-selling author, Tony Robbins award winner, podcast host and a practitioner of what he teaches. He recently completed his second David Goggins 4x4x48 Mile run, has meditated for 1,612 straight days and taken an ice bath or cold shower 1,266 straight days. If you have that itch that you...

Aug 17, 202239 min
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