Biz Owners Ed

Rex Kerzius, is a true entrepreneur. He serves as Founder and CEO of Asset Panda, a highly configurable asset tracking and management platform that is SaaS based with mobile apps. In addition, Rex serves on the board and is an investor in several other operating companies. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and is a sought after speaker and donates a significant amount of his time to mentoring entrepreneurs. Rex is also the former President of the Dallas Chapter of Entrepreneurs Organization and former Chairman of the North Texas Young Presidents Organization.

Joe Kesterson, Retain President of Titan Factory Homes has started and sold three companies in his career. Joe is one of the finest sales leaders out there and his ability to transfer knowledge of strategy and closing is incredible. He has groomed many successful managers, vice presidents, and operations people within multiple industries and continues to teach every sales class that starts with his organization.

Zane Tarence, Partner and Managing Director of Founders Advisors Technology Practice, is an experienced investment banker, entrepreneur, and recognized expert on the growth and monetization of digital media, internet technology, and software companies. Over the past 20 years, Zane has led and completed more than 87 technology deals, including facilitating the sale of some of the largest lead generation internet businesses in the United States.

Zane is a noted speaker with Vistage International and Convene. He is the founder of the preeminent SaaS and internet summit, www.SiliconY’all.com. Zane is the author of “17 Reasons Your Company Is Not Investment Grade & What To Do About It“. To learn more about his book visit www.17-Reasons.com.

Ron and I have talked before about starting out in real estate, but what do you do once you want to scale?

In this episode Ron talks about his personal assets and how he has gone from one property, to millions and millions of dollars in commercial warehouse property.

In this Episode, Ron and I talk about how and why people are choosing not to make the leap into what makes them truly happy.

16 years ago, Bruce and his wife founded The Boardroom Salon for Men. Today they have 41 locations and have brought an entirely new perspective to the industry. With a focus on creating the place “Where Men Get Ready” they have built an empire with now secondary businesses in the space.

In this episode of BOE, Bruce walks us through how he made the jump to starting his own company and how me mitigated risk along the way.

Ron is an incredibly unique person. Starting out as a high school senior working on cars, he found himself homeless after his father passed away.

He has built multiple auto salvage companies that he later went on to sell to massive names in the industry. He then set to work on growing his wealth in real estate by buying office space, single family homes, shipping container spaces, self storage facilities, and just about everything else. He is incredibly knowledgeable in leverage and how to use it to expand your investing power.

We met in his Fort Worth, Tx office where he keeps his antique toy collection, as well as his large collection of modern day exotic cars. In the episode, Ron walks us through why people don't take risk, how to become tolerant to risk, and how to create real wealth vs. just more income.

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Dr. Daren Martin was born in Louisiana but spent most of his growing up years in Bangkok, Thailand. He started and ran his own psychology clinic company. After 20 years of running his business, he sold his company and began consulting Fortune 500 companies on Leadership, Company Culture, Sales Psychology, and other performance-related topics.

He has a deep understanding of what makes a company joyful and in this episode, he also discusses how to have consistent fun in your marriage, relationship with your children, parents, and so on.

Rick is the founder of Summit Metals Corp. In the earlier days, he was in high paying job and with 3 kids at home and life was good. When he was suddenly laid off, he recognized that it was either the time to find a new job for less money, or take the risk and start his own company.

Summit Metals is now one of the largest metal manufacturers in the business and hearing his story in this episode of how he grew it long with the culture of his business is inspiring.

Traveling from Lebanon to America at the age of 19 with only $500 and a dream sounds like a story in the making. In Eli’s case, he attended Arizona State University to study engineering where soon after graduation, he learned that he held no interest in pursuing a traditional job. Eli has since launched four startups over the course of eight years, two of which have been acquired. He has earned a spot on Arizona Republic’s 35 Arizona Entrepreneurs Under 35 List in 2015 (when he was 28 years old) as well as on Phoenix Magazine’s 2019 Great 48 list. His startups have also won significant awards and accolades throughout the years.

In this episode, Eli discusses how to become tolerant to risk and also the importance of continuing the battle until the war is won.