In this episode, we sit down with Austin Yeh, who is a real estate investor based in Toronto. Tune in as we discuss real estate investing, personal finance, managing properties and more!

Connect with Austin:

https://www.instagram.com/austinyeh6/

https://linktr.ee/risenetworkevent

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:35 How does a 28 year old own over 20 rental properties in the GTA?

4:27 Investing in Windsor, Ontario

6:50 How being an immigrant informs attitude towards wealth

9:45 Being inspired by Rich Dad, Poor Dad

12:00 Leaving a 9-5 job

12:24 Getting into real estate investing

15:43 Horror stories from real estate investing

19:50 Wholesaling in real estate

24:00 How to find a discounted property to live in

26:00 Risk with discounted properties

32:40 Interest rate risk

35:06 Best places to invest outside of GTA

39:38 Sentiment towards landlords

43:25 Managing far away properties

47:09 Finding a power team

49:07 Starting a real estate podcast

52:55 Branding

54:20 Building RISE Network community

56:58 Advice for investing

In this episode, we chat with Sabrina Colosimo, founder of Sunday Creative. Sabrina opens up about her journey as a creative entrepreneur, sharing the highs and lows of her journey. We delve into topics like entrepreneurship, the creative process, nomadic living, vintage selling and buying, and personal development. Join us for a candid conversation with Sabrina, where she shares valuable insights and practical advice from her experience.

On this episode, the boys do a full recap of the rap beef that rocked the hip hop world, and its implications.

On this episode, the boys welcome Weiting Bollu who co-founded "OpenRoom" which aims to provide transparency in the rental ecosystem. What started off as a small passion project from a tenancy dispute has quickly grown into an online database with almost 2 million searches in past year by nearly 130,000 visitors to help Canadians make informed decisions on succeeding in the rental market. Weiting also dives into the world of entrepreneurship and product management with key leadership roles along the way. Lastly, Weiting shares her key success factors with inter-racial marriages, parenting and immigrant parents.

Follow Weiting:

https://www.instagram.com/openroomhq/?hl=en

https://openroom.ca/

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:40 How "OpenRoom" started

3:49 Difficulties in identifying good tenants

4:35 Weiting's Highschool journey

7:20 Shifting from business school to product management

8:26 Experience with university exchange programs

15:15 Buying a home 6 months after graduation

17:30 Unintentionally starting property management

18:32 Effects of a tenancy dispute

19:27 Misconceived notion of passive income through real estate

21:09 Historical trends of landlord vs. tenant issues

22:33 Inefficiencies in Ontario's landlord and tenant board

23:25 Leveraging "OpenRoom"s database for finding repeat offenders

24:55 Career in product management

29:40 Finding your inner "curious learner"

31:00 Powerful learnings from immigrant parents

33:00 Why I wanted to be an entrepreneur?

35:30 Complex problem-solving in the corporate world

37:10 Learnings from corporate world carried over into Entrepreneurship

39:50 Scaling "OpenRoom"

41:15 Passion project vs. viable project

42:10 Starting a business with your partner

47:20 Future of "OpenRoom"

48:38 Diversity of thoughts in interracial marriage

50:15 Managing entrepreneurship with parenting

55:04 Potential career as a "Chief of Staff"

56:20 Biggest takeaways from failures

1:00:10 Memorizing versus understanding content

1:01:20 Advice for career in product management

1:04:00 Growing social media following

1:09:00 OpenRoom's social media strategy

1:10:20 Social media strategy of Linkedin

1:12:30 Openroom going on viral

1:13:50 Advice for future entrepreneurs

1:14:45 Closing off

On this episode, the boys welcome Jelani Smith who has invested in 8 properties on his way to building a $11 million real estate portfolio. He is recognized as a RE/MAX Hallmark Top 1% realtor. He is also the founder of Bay Street Blog, and if passionate about educating people on personal finance and real estate.

https://www.baystreetblog.com

On this episode, the boys are back to indulge into the landscape of rap competition including Drake versus Metro Boomin and Future. They then get into lawsuit of social media platforms and its impact, and what the evolution of basketball looks like?

In this episode, we welcome Noor Zainab, who is a writer, producer and host for various sports media outlets. We talk about working in the Sports industry, being a woman in a male dominated industry, meeting Shams Charania, Canada vs USA when it comes to sports entertainment, and some funny tweets!

Follow Noor:

Twitter/X: https://x.com/noorrzainab

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noorrzainab

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

2:33 Leaving Law to get into Sports Media

5:58 How to be different and stand out in the industry

9:33 Meeting NBA reporter Shams Charania

12:48 Kawhi the cat

16:51 How Noor got into basketball

20:11 Sports betting

24:06 Putting out quality content on Social Media

28:52 Noor explains some of her Tweets

33:23 Challenges being in a male dominated industry

38:54 How culture has influenced Noor

40:40 Is women's participation increasing in sports?

46:29 Difference between Canada and USA in sports

59:03 Living in Ottawa

1:01:15 High cost of living in Toronto

1:02:17 Noor's dream role in the sports industry

1:05:56 Bell and Roger's monopoly over Canadian economy

1:08:27 Advice for people who want to work in Sports Media

1:11:16 Noor's fondest memory working in sports

On this episode, the boys talk about NBA past, present and some future. Then they get into the world of VR with the Apple Vision Pro, and why was Drake viral again!?

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:46 Our NBA fandom

2:30 Becoming a LeBron fan

8:20 What happens after Curry and LeBron retire?

14:30 Reminiscing about Kobe

27:40 The early 2010s era of Basketball

32:48 Bring back rivalries in the NBA

37:25 Assessing the current Toronto Raptors

44:30 Assessing the rest of the NBA

49:18 Is parity actually good for the league?

53:00 Who do we think is winning the chip?

55:49 Apple Vision Pro

1:00:00 Augmented reality vs virtual reality

1:04:25 Implications of VR

1:07:30 How VR can bring people closer

1:17:19 Drake going viral?

In this episode, we have IP lawyer Aaraf Dewan joining us to go into his journey with Intellectual Property law, and gives us insights on the implications of our current technology on IP law.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:00 Introducing Aaraf Dewan

2:22 The busy life of a lawyer

4:07 Working near the Suits set

5:04 The challenge of going through Law school

9:50 Why get into Law?

12:45 Is a science degree applicable to IP Law?

17:44 What is IP Law?

24:35 How has globalization played into IP Law?

26:47 How do big companies get away with copying other companies?

33:54 What happens when you get sued?

38:30 What do Social Media companies own?

42:30 Who owns the IP in the age of AI?

52:13 Where is the future of lawyers going?

57:44 Misconceptions about lawyers

1:02:20 Do IP lawyers do litigations?

1:04:34 What advice would give to people who want to go into Law?

In this episode, our co-host Naveed dives into the details about his Accounting profession, and his journey to becoming a CPA.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:30 Start of our CPA journey

4:35 CA “Rule the World”

8:26 Studying Accounting

11:20 What is Accounting?

15:10 CPA journey after undergrad

22:55 Different pathways within Accounting

27:50 Life as an Accountant within the public sector

32:00 The most interesting thing Naveed has worked on

34:24 Misconceptions about Accounting

38:27 How did CA become CPA?

44:03 The CFE

46:14 Future of Accounting with the emergence of AI

55:32 Use cases of AI within Accounting

58:40 Advice to get into Accounting

1:03:10 Something has changed within Accounting