Send us a text This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dan Handford, founder of the Multifamily Investor Nation . Dan has an extensive successful background in starting multiple seven-figure businesses from scratch including a large group of non-surgical orthopedic medical clinics located in South Carolina. His family of companies has annual budgets in excess of $10MM. He is the co-host, along with his wife, Dennae, of the Tough Decisions for Entrepreneurs podcast which can be found on...
Jun 27, 2022•39 min•Ep. 57
Send us a text 'Finding good deals is a hallmark of a successful long-term real estate investor' - Andre Johnson This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andre Johnson a real estate investor, business consultant, and the owner of several businesses. Since 2000, Andre and his companies have experience with well over 500 real estate and private placement transactions nationwide. Andre currently deals partners with investors to Find, Fund, Fix & Flip residential and commercial properti...
Jun 20, 2022•44 min•Ep. 56
Send us a text This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Tim Kelly, a Real Estate Investor & Educator, a Best-Selling Author, Speaker, and recently separated from the US Navy as a Chief Petty Officer after 15 years of service. Tim achieved financial freedom through his real estate investing and businesses and built enough Cashflow to cover his families living expenses, so today, he can fully pursue his dream of owning and operating multi-family real estate and helping others realize ...
Jun 13, 2022•34 min•Ep. 55
Send us a text This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Matt Picheny, a real estate investor, Tony award winner, and author of the #1 best-selling book Backstage Guide to Real Estate. He is focused on developing passive income streams that enable investors to write their own stories, and choose how they want to spend their time. Matt and I discuss: - Matt shares his journey from acting to digital marketing to real estate - Drawing parallels from the theatrical world - It's not just repe...
Jun 06, 2022•47 min•Ep. 54
Send us a text This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Carol Kaemmerer, an author, professional speaker, and executive branding coach. She helps businesses and executives leverage the power of LinkedIn to increase their visibility and influence, engage with their ideal audiences, and cultivate reputations as thought leaders. She believes that your personal brand – well articulated on LinkedIn – is your best protection against business factors beyond your control. Carol and I discuss: -...
May 30, 2022•29 min•Ep. 53
Send us a text This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Weiler International’s Founder and Principal Marion Weiler a Senior Business Management Executive and Leadership Expert. Working collaboratively with key stakeholders, she has developed and optimized business growth strategies for industry-leading companies as well as companies rapidly growing. Marion and I discuss: - Change is the only constant - Getting to the roots of the issue - Having clarity on what you are doing as an entrep...
May 23, 2022•33 min•Ep. 52
Send us a text This week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Edmund Chien, a business and sales success coach who built and managed a $70 million book of business for high-net-worth clients. Despite it being difficult to bring new clients into financial services, Edmund discovered that by genuinely caring about other people, and wanting to help them grow and become better, onboarding new clients not only becomes far easier, but your life as an individual also becomes more rewarding. Edmund a...
May 16, 2022•39 min•Ep. 51
Send us a text Aileen is the managing partner at Bonavest Capital and has experience managing financial budgets for projects over $900M. She received her Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University. Her mission is to find value-add properties to provide above average returns and to help investors to achieve financial freedom through passive investing. She believes in respect, transparency, and integrity for fostering a successful partnership. Aileen and I discuss: - Stepping i...
May 11, 2022•32 min•Ep. 50
Send us a text Get neutral eyes to verify every number on your spreadsheet. - Sandhya Seshadri Sandhya Seshadri has invested as a Limited Partner, General Partner in 3000+ doors totaling $200M in assets throughout the United States. Sandhya has been a leader in the equities markets for over 20 years and had moved into commercial real estate due to the tax advantages and the ability to uniquely “force appreciate” each asset. It’s become her mission to help other people capitalize on all of the be...
May 02, 2022•30 min•Ep. 49
Send us a text Leka is a real estate developer and broker based in Seattle, WA. She is the President of Rehabit Homes, Inc. a company focused on residential and commercial redevelopment. She has spearheaded hundreds of transactions, developing around 100M in real estate. Leka brings 8 years of experience in construction management and redesign. Leka has been featured on numerous podcasts and other media including Business Insider and BiggerPockets. She is a chapter contributor in the recently pu...
Apr 25, 2022•37 min•Ep. 48
Send us a text Ben Kogut is a partner at HJH Investments, specializing in investor relations. Ben is also an Austin, Texas-based commercial real estate broker with more than 15 years of experience. His passion is to help investors make wise decisions. Ben studied government and business at University of Texas and later earned an MBA from the Acton School of Business; he is also CCIM certified. Key Highlights - What makes Ben choose Commerical Real Estate over Multifamily - Difference between ass...
Apr 18, 2022•36 min•Ep. 47
Send us a text Kyle Mitchell is a Managing Partner at Vertical Street Ventures whose passion is in helping others reach their goals in all areas of life by doing things the right way and creating long-lasting relationships based on trust and clarity. Kyle has been investing in income-producing real estate since 2010 and currently manages and operates $107M AUM in multifamily assets in the Arizona markets. Kyle has been a successful business operator/owner for more than 20 years. He is also the a...
Apr 11, 2022•29 min•Ep. 46
Send us a text Pili Yarusi loves to help people and “Lead with Aloha”. She runs the Investor and Client Relations branches of both Yarusi Holdings and Multifamily Live . Pili is the co-host of the Multifamily Live Podcast and The Jason and Pili Project. Pili also has her NJ Real Estate License with EXP Commercial. Key Highlights - Portraying your true self in business - Pili shares about her humble and close-knit upraising - Pili shares about her first flip - Exploring Passive Investing - Partne...
Apr 04, 2022•32 min•Ep. 45
Send us a text Brad has been in Real Estate for almost 20 years. Over the last 5 years he ran a successful investor relations department then made the switch to InvestNext where his focus has been on helping IR departments successfully utilize technology to help grow their business. He is head of Partnership Development with InvestNext, an investor management portal. Contact Brad: brad@investnext.com If you've liked this episode, please give us good comments and five star rating below! Would lov...
Mar 23, 2022•36 min
Send us a text Melanie started her career in navy and wore multiple hats from park ranger to a realtor, however she always knew that she was meant to do something bigger and better. She went on self-exploration journey to find herself. She challenged herself and opened herself up to new possibilities. Today, Melanie is the founder of Freestyle Capital Group, a boutique private equity firm that partners with passive investors to invest in private equity real estate transactions across a variety o...
Mar 16, 2022•33 min
Send us a text Sam is an active investor in self-storage, parking, retail, multi-family apartments, RV parks and single-family homes. Sam started his real estate journey with a foreclosure and today he hosts the “How to Scale Commercial Real Estate Podcast”. In this episode he shared how he started from a foreclosure and branded himself. He talks about branding and positioning yourself. In this episode Sam talks about the importance of branding and positioning! Contact Sam Wilson: https://bricke...
Mar 08, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Send us a text Angel has been involved in real estate investing her whole life but began her personal real estate investing journey in 2003. She is now a full time Real Estate Professional and gave up her teaching career to pursue her RE profession! In this episode she talks about her recent deal. and how she went to through many challenges to close this deal in timely fashion. Angel hopes to break down perceived barriers in investment types and tools. She is a founder of The Academy Presents RE...
Mar 01, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Send us a text Whitney was able to scale his business at a groundbreaking pace - starting from nothing in 2017. Whitney served in military and then transitioned over to police force, he even trained horses, which taught him humility. Whitney is a philanthropist and recently founded his new non-profit, The Life Bridge Foundation - the latest exciting development in his commitment to donate 50% of his profits to support orphans and their adoptive families. Whitney and his wife Chelsea have 3 child...
Feb 22, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Send us a text Rob grew up not just playing football and golf in Silicon Valley, California but also constantly soaked up real estate and business insights from his parents, who were in real estate business. Due to his intellectual curiosity, Rob began his entrepreneurship journey at an early age. Fascinated by investing, Rob dropped out Carnegie Mellon University and founded his own real estate private equity firm which is set for exponential growth. At Present, Rob Beardsley oversees acquisiti...
Feb 15, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Send us a text Kim Lisa Taylor, a renowned securities attorney! Kim started her career as an environmental consultant and then transitioned to pursue her long-time passion for law. Today, Kim is a renowned securities attorney! An episode full of golden nuggets!! Kim Lisa Taylor is currently launching, Crowdfund Your Syndicate, LLC, up and hope to that up and running in near future! Contact: Syndication Attorneys PLLC If you've liked this episode, please give us good comments and five star rating...
Feb 08, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Send us a text 40 + years ago, Vinney Chopra came to US with $7 in his pocket and a big dream. And we all know "Dreams do come true" if we equip ourselves with right resources, tools and mindset. Vinney's positive mindset and persistent nature took him to the greater heights of success. And he never looked back! Today Vinney (Smile) Chopra is a successful real estate investor, syndicator, an international best - selling author, host of 4 podcasts, multifamily educator, and a mentor. Vinney has a...
Feb 01, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Send us a text With his dad escaping communist regime, he was always an entrepreneur since he came to America. Serg learned from him on being entrepreneur mindset. But he always grew up middle class to lower middle class while growing up, so he always knew hard work even growing up. He got into nursing because his sister advised him to be one. He worked in ICU while going to nursing school. Once he graduated Nursing, seeing his siblings struggle through entrepreneurship but succeed eventually go...
Dec 22, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Send us a text Frank Agin, went from public accountant on taxes, after he decided that he didn't want to do that anymore. He learned quickly that trying to be on his own, that you have to get your own clients and it wasn't as easy as it was in corporate world getting work. He then learned the power of networking group. Thats how he got into Amspirit and finally took over the entire company eventually. Frank has now written books about networking, podcast and so on and helping people be effective...
Dec 08, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Send us a text In this episode, Julie talks about her journey from school teacher to CRE investor! Teaching and Real Estate in her DNA made her choose two parallel careers, which makes her work her optimum potential and gives her true fulfilment. Initially she took a business route but later she followed her inner voice and became a teacher. She prepared herself to handle success and became a successful Real Estate Entrepreneur! Contact Julie: threekeysinvestments@gmail.com Would love your feedb...
Nov 30, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Send us a text You can visualize your future state vividly in a calm mind and from there you can reverse engineer your final state. Dr. Jones has figured out that you can achieve your goals with a calm mind. If you can become master of your mind you are able to mange many things aligned with your objectives. Dr. Jones is a neuroscientist and a successful RE syndicator. He is managing and enjoying his both role because he has learned and brought his mind &, body in alignment with his professi...
Nov 22, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Send us a text Growing Omar Syed wanted to be an architect to design houses. But as soon as he started working on computers when he signed up for computer courses, he completely turned the aspirations to computers and programming them. He wrote even his own printing software so on. Although he worked for Raytheon on hardware aspect (Chip Design), but he got into AI later with his Masters degree. Which lead him to NASA as research analysis center. He started business to help business host website...
Nov 15, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Send us a text Growing up in suburbs of Atlanta, with both parents as teachers, but with very humble means. Seeing what everyone else had around him, Alan Corey always thought since childhood how does he get to be like people who had lot of things. So that mindset developed since childhood, but his move to New York picked it up a notch. He went to library when he started working New York and learned how to be financially independent and real estate is what he thought was his vehicle, by reading ...
Nov 01, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Send us a text Michael grew up in middle class neighborhood in suburbs Chicago, Which had mostly minority kids, gave him different perspective on life. He then went Lutheran college, wanting to be lutheran pastor, led him to study Hebrew and greek. He thought greek and Hebrew was sign from that he is not meant to be pastor. Although he felt called to be a pastor, but he felt he wasn’t doing it for the right reasons. He dads was traveling salesman and entrepreneur, which influenced Michael. His d...
Oct 25, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Send us a text Wendee grew up in double income household working hard, but she learned to fend for herself when she was little. She never went to school/college since she was always told to get a job and got a job first thing after high school. When her friends told her about how much money they were making in real estate, realizing that if she was going to spend so much time working and not being able to spend time with her little kids, might as well make money in business, led to her to get re...
Oct 11, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us a text Chris always had entrepreneur mindset since early. His first venture was selling sandwiches at school since he saw the school food was bad. He always wanted to work for himself and always wanted to make his own money. This was not from his parents, but something he learned watching them struggle budget etc. He was always a good listener and learned by listening to his parents and their struggles what not to do. He also learned from his friends parents who were successful how to bu...
Oct 04, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 28
