Becoming Your Greatest Possible Self Podcast | Business | Success | Motivation | Entrepreneurship with Chris Burns

My guest today, Paula Slater, is not just survivor but a Thriver, who navigated her own way through every challenge that life laid before her through her sheer determination to live life to the it's fullest in order to reach her greatest personal potential.

Brett Swarts  is considered one of the most well-rounded Capital Gains Tax Deferral Experts and informative speakers on the west coast. His audiences are challenged to lean into multiple capital gains tax deferral strategies, create and develop a tax-deferred passive cash flow optimal timing wealth plan of their own, and execute on this plan so they can create and preserve more wealth.  

Brett is the Founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions and host of the capital gains tax solutions podcast. Each year, he equips hundreds of business professionals with the Deferred Sales Trust tool to help their high net worth clients solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. 

Mr. Swarts is passionate about educating people in Capital Gains Tax Deferral with a Deferred Sales Trust, how to divest from a business or real estate, and gain freedom from feeling hostage to a 1031 exchange, then invest back in to a new business venture or investment real estate at any time [all capital gains tax deferred] which he calls optimal timing.

His experience includes numerous Deferred Sales Trusts, Delaware Statutory Trusts, 1031 exchanges and $85,000,000 in closed commercial real estate brokerage transactions. He’s an active commercial real estate broker and investor with brokerage experience and ownership in multifamily, senior housing, retail, medical office, and mixed-use properties. He is a licensed California Real Estate Broker who holds Series 22 and 63 licenses.   

Brett was formerly an associate at the largest Commercial Real Estate Brokerage firm in the country, has his own Multifamily Brokerage Company now, and has years of experience and hands-on training from some of the best in the business. 

Brett lives in Roseville California, with his wife, Melanie and their 5 children. 

Raye Carr is a Certified Clinical and TransPersonal Hypnotherapist serving Savannah, Georgia and surrounding areas. Her belief is that we have everything within us to heal the mind and the body and hypnosis is a tool she uses to hep you realize this awesome power. Her personal mission in life is to "inspire the world through meaningful and passionate service; with Divine guidance share myself, my experiences and my wisdom in a way that promotes love, peace, health and prosperity."

Outside of hypnotherapy Raye Carr has a passion for living life to the fullest while endeavoring to make the world a better place. In addition to training the mind to achieve wellness goals, she have also developed a love for training the body. As a Certified Personal trainer and Weight Loss Coach she help clients by sharing how she was able to beat her Lupus symptoms and lose weight. Becoming healthy has been one of her biggest accomplishments and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is a reward in itself. This has motivated her to develop programs to share with others, and believes that any level of fitness can benefit from training the mind.

Dane Maxwell is a serial entrepreneur and he has taken his businesses from mere ideas to seven figure companies within a brief period of 5 years.

He has gone on to create over 15 millionaires with his teachings. He specializes in helping underdogs start successful businesses. He is the author of the upcoming book Start From Zero which teaches entrepreneurs a new way to build businesses quickly, without the risk, from scratch.

Lance is an ambitious entrepreneur on a journey to inspire the masses by helping individuals achieve their life purpose. His goal is to help people grow their mindset, develop a healthy relationship with themselves and overcome adversity so they can go on to achieve greatness in their lives.

Lance has a passion for travel and has been all over the world to many countries. His most recent adventure landed him abroad for 5 years in Australia. That’s where he worked and managed in various bars around the country.

Before all the traveling and bars, Lance was a highly competitive athlete where he played at an elite level of hockey. But a few bad choices along the road suddenly ended the hockey career he once chased.

While in Australia, Lance was living a very toxic life that was taking him down a road he wasn’t proud of. On top of that, at the same time he lost his younger brother to suicide and his father to cancer. All of this happened in just 18-months. His life went on a downward spiral…

In 2017, he went on a 1-year journey of sobriety and successfully ran a bar while completely sober. Throughout this time, his priorities changed and he decided that he wanted to make a huge change in his life that no longer involved the toxic bar lifestyle. Lance is now on a journey to serve people in a different way. This time as a business coach, mentor, and social media marketer helping people go from employee to entrepreneur as seamlessly as possible. That way they can go on to create a business and a vehicle that will allow them to create the freedom they desire.

He created the University of Adversity to share the stories of people/entrepreneurs, digging deep and highlighting the challenges, life struggles, and adversity they had to overcome in order to achieve amazing success in their lives.

He is striving to change the way we look at adversity. He believes that we should come to terms with and understand that personal growth and becoming the best human we can be, always comes after overcoming something challenging or some form of personal struggle.

Life is full of different levels of adversity, so it is Lance’s mission to help people deal with adversity when faced with it, and show them that it’s actually a gift they can use to fuel and ignite their life purpose and passion.

Patty Farmer is an award-winning Marketing & Media Strategist, International Speaker, Podcast Host, Magazine Publisher, Event Producer and Best-Selling Author specializing in Marketing & Media Strategies and works with small business owners, entrepreneurs and speakers to attract and convert their ideal clients so they can make a bigger impact in the world, and even bigger deposits in their bank account. She has created a network of 100,000 + connections while teaching thousands of entrepreneurs to connect, collaborate and convert in less time and make more money while designing the lifestyle they want to live. Patty believes we all have a message and her mission is to help them master, market and monetize that message in a way that creates transformation for both them and their clients.

Graced with an abundance of gifts, Dr. De’Andrea Matthews, without reservation, selflessly pours her heart into her work and into the lives of many in various capacities. Commonly known as Dr. Dee, she is an author, educator, and international speaker. Passionate and accomplished, Dr. Dee’s gifts, exercised through voice and pen, have aspired many to embark upon their own road to success.

Dr. Dee is the president and founder of Claire Aldin Publications. She has written and published several books, book chapters and academic journal articles. Dr. Dee is inspired and committed to paving the way for many to grow spiritually and professionally. Because of this, many lives will unquestionably be impacted in the most positive way, by and through Dr. De'Andrea Matthews.

Scott Oldford is a mentor, investor, and advisor for successful online businesses. He’s also the creator of The R.O.I. Method, 6 Pillar Framework, and REwired, all systems that help entrepreneurs scale their businesses and generate sustainability. After successfully developing nine companies, Scott has mentored thousands of Entrepreneurs and helped many businesses reach the multi-million-dollar mark.

Scott's work has been viewed by millions of Entrepreneurs and has been featured online in Forbes, Inc., SUCCESS, Entrepreneur, Money Magazine, Fortune, Business Insider, and ABC. He lives in Northern California with his wife, Libby Crow, a fellow entrepreneur and podcast host of Behind the Dream, and their long-haired dachshund, Cooper.

Harrison Hunter Reid is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, and world traveler. The purpose of his life is to be radiant love, share extreme abundance and inspire others to feel fully alive.

Harrison is an expert in making things easy, actionable, and fun. He helps his students transform their health, take control of their minds, and create enterprises destined for success; all with ease.

Harrison went from being fired from every job he ever had to currently running 2 businesses. One that is relieving the global obesity epidemic by selling snack foods that satisfy our cravings in a radically healthy manner. The other helps American financial institutions structure their benefit programs to instantly generate substantially more income for both their employees and owners.

Harrison previously co-founded an events company when he was 18 years old that generated thousands of dollars for charity. He is also currently on the advisory board for two charities, Help For Children, which helps prevent child abuse, and National Alliance on Mental Illness, which offers help and support for the mentally ill.