Purpose-Driven Wealth

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, and Shane Melanson talk about how the rich invest in commercial real estate. Most outsiders don't understand commercial real estate. Shane cites this as a reason why most people don't hear about it like residential. He shares how they find deals to work with, explains the pillars retail investors need to understand, and what he has observed about commercial investors in his years in the market.

In this episode, Shane talks about:

• How he became introduced to commercial real estate
• His template for finding deals
• Outsiders have a hard time understanding industrial real estate
• The importance of your team, the market, and the market cycle
• Don't take preleasing for granted
• and so much more!

About Shane Melanson:

Like many Canadian real estate investors, Shane started looking for a way to replace his 6 figure income. He moved to Calgary, AB, at 17 and got his BA in Economics. Shane's first real estate investment was in 2004, a 1943 war-time house with no basement or central heat.

When he started his real estate career, he was young and had no family yet, so working long hours and weekends didn't bother him.

Eventually, Shane built a small portfolio of single-family properties and was flipping homes — he figured this was the way to invest in real estate: buy undervalued residential houses, fix them up, and either rent or sell them.

Today, Shane is not retired (I still actively invest) because he loves it. Each property he invests in has the potential to earn a high 6 and generally 7 figures. He controls his schedule and loves what he does.

Follow Shane Melanson on:

Website: https://shanemelanson.com/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-investing-advantage-podcast/id1465519313

Club Syndication: How the Wealthy Raise Money and Invest in Commercial Real Estate, Book by Shane Melanson:

https://www.theclubsyndicate.com/

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, and Natalie Pequeux talk about a different perspective on wealth and what else it could mean. What is energetics? What are energetic gaps? Here, Natalie redefines capital and wealth and speaks on energetic languaging. She also touches on leadership, the kind of clients she works with, and the interest she took in the long-term effects of energy on people.

In this episode, Natalie talks about:

• The definition of wealth
• Patriarchal and matriarchal energies are not about sex
• The average run of how Natalie works with clients
• Preventative > Reactive
• What drew Natalie to energetics?
• and so much more!

About Natalie Pequeux:

Natalie Pequeux is an Energetic Practitioner who works with high-net-worth families to successfully transfer their wealth mindset down through the generations. She consults with individuals to create intrinsic shifts on a business and personal level that re-establish flow in their lives by removing the underlying conflicts and internal blocks that are holding them back. Her work focuses heavily on physiology, wireless anatomy, and how our systems function; when our systems are 'off,' so will our family enterprise and businesses.

Natalie has lived and worked on four continents and speaks fluent English, French and Japanese and began her career working as a Japanese interpreter for senior scholars and business leaders. Working as an Energy Practitioner for the last two decades, she has saved her clients hundreds of millions of dollars by identifying the energy blockages within the management team and business functions.

Follow Natalie Pequeux on:

Website: https://intrinsicshifts.com/

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, and Aleks Svetski answer the question, "can Bitcoin make democracy obsolete?" Aleks is clear on how different Bitcoin's direction is going in contrast to the rest of the world. Here, he explains what can be expected from the book he co-authored, The UnCommunist Manifesto, what he stands by regarding private property, and why he believes the history of human civilization is the pursuit of Bitcoin.

In this episode, Aleks talks about:

• We are like blind people making houses with elastic tape measures
• About the book, The UnCommunist Manifesto
• Respect for private property
• Money is a ledger in the sky
• Bitcoin will not be forced on people; it will dawn on them
• and so much more!

About Aleks Svetski:

Aleks Svetski is a Speaker, Author, and Founder of the world's first Bitcoin accumulation app, Amber. Host of the Wake Up Podcast and Creator of The Bitcoin Times publication.

Follow Aleks Svetski on:

Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/svetski

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, and Doug Noland talk history and forecasts in light of today's global credit bubble. In the early 90s, Doug started the Credit Bubble Bulletin after extensively studying the changing financial system. At that time, Doug was wholly convinced that it was just a bubble. Today, he explains what society didn't learn in 1994, what inflationism is, why he's a solid proponent of capitalism, and why central banks don't genuinely want to control inflation.

In this episode, Doug talks about:

• The evolution of the financial system
• Bubbles are mechanisms to destroy and redistribute wealth
• The merits of capitalism
• We have a lot of credit that's just financing the asset markets
• About the huge dependency on low interest rates
• and so much more!

About Doug Noland:

In November 2016, Doug Noland ended his almost two-year sabbatical to join David McAlvany and McAlvany Wealth Management. He's at the stage of his career where he will only work with people that he trusts, respect, and admire. Doug couldn't be happier and was really excited with the unique new product they've put together—the MWM Tactical Short.

The period 1990 to 2015 was an invaluable 25-year experience learning and persevering as a "professional bear." His lucky break came in late 1989 when he was hired by Gordon Ringoen to be the trader for his short-biased hedge fund in San Francisco.

Working as a short-side trader, analyst, and portfolio manager during the great nineties bull market – for one of the most brilliant individuals he's ever met – was exciting, demanding, and, in the end, a grueling and absolutely invaluable learning experience. Later in the nineties, Doug had stints at Fleckenstein Capital and East Shore Partners.

In January 1999, he began his 16-year run with PrudentBear (which concluded at the end of 2014), working as strategist and portfolio manager with David Tice in Dallas until the bear funds were sold in December 2008.

Follow Doug Noland on:

Website: http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/

https://mwealthm.com/

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, and Kathy Fettke talk about the synonymity of real estate to real wealth. For Kathy, the only ones who cannot acknowledge real estate's power are those who know nothing about it. She shares her early days of interviewing wealthy people, an experience that proved the essence of due diligence, the elements she looks for in a chosen market, and what the M1 and M2 charts tell us about the US dollar for the past two years.

In this episode, Kathy talks about:

• Interviewing wealthy people
• It's amazing how investors can sometimes disprove "experts"
• You don't slack off on your due diligence—ever!
• What factors does Kathy look into when choosing a market?
• What the founding fathers knew about untethered currency
• and so much more!

About Kathy Fettke:

Kathy specializes in teaching people how to build multi-million dollar real estate portfolios through creative finance and planning. She is passionate about researching and then sharing the most important information about real estate, market cycles, and the economy. Author of the #1 best-seller, Retire Rich with Rentals, Kathy is a frequent guest expert on such media as CNN, CNBC, Fox News, NPR, and CBS MarketWatch.

Follow Kathy Fettke on:

Website: https://realwealth.com/

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, talks with Ruben Greth about how he took his capital-raising game to the next level. When Ruben interviewed and followed a small multifamily investor around in Phoenix, sharing stuff on YouTube, little did he know it would become the start of something bigger. He shares how he started on syndication with a local mom and pop, why people love the fund structure, and why having an avatar is fundamental to marketing.

In this episode you will learn:

• How Ruben Greth started in real estate investing
• It takes time to understand built-to-rent
• Starting an interview-based YT channel can open a lot of doors
• Why do people love the fund structure so much?
• Ruben Greth, on avatars and marketing
• and so much more!

About Ruben Greth:

Ruben has a popular podcast about raising money for multifamily syndication called the Capital Raiser Show, where he learns from the best multifamily syndicators in the country.

In 2019, Ruben partnered with a local syndicator on the acquisition of 190 Units and has since become a fund manager who is building a 98-unit housing subdivision in Louisiana, a 154-unit housing subdivision in Alabama, and partnering with multiple select syndicators bringing equity, advisory, and investor management. He primarily uses Regulation D. Exemption 506(c) in his deals, including the ones discussed here.

He has partnered in $5M of capital-raising partnerships. He got his start by bringing joint venture capital to successfully raise $625K for small Multifamily deals during the post-crash buying frenzy in Phoenix.

His websites are legacyacquisitions.com and capitalraiser.com

He has bachelor's degrees from Arizona State University in Chemistry and Spanish.

Follow Ruben Greth on:

Website: https://capitalraisershow.com/

https://legacyacquisitions.com/

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, talks with Louis O'Connor about the promise of diversifying your portfolios with strategic metals. Louis simplifies what strategic metals are and their many other names. He cautions on what buyers should keep in mind, explains what Tradium offers those who express interest in investing in these high-demand assets, and what forecasts tell us about how strategic metals will perform in the future in parallel to precious metals.

In this episode, Louis talks about:

• What are strategic metals?
• China is the market leader in the rare metals industry
• Caution to rare metal buyers
• Rare Earth Elements vs. Precious Metals
• The historical performance of rare earth metals in the past decade
• and so much more!

About Louis O'Connor:

Louis O' Connor is the founder and principal of Strategic Metals Invest, which offers private investors the opportunity to physically own and profit from holding strategic metals as tangible assets. Louis emigrated from his home in Dublin, Ireland, in 1988 and spent ten years in West Germany working directly for BMW in sales and marketing, expanding BMW's tax-free operation to include all NATO forces throughout Europe.

The role also expanded to US Navy's 6th fleet and later included the Middle East. In 1998 Louis moved to Panamá, creating a boutique concierge business for North Americans and Europeans looking to invest in Central and South America. In 2020 Louis relocated to Europe to create Strategic Metals Invest.

Follow Louis O'Connor on:

Website: https://strategicmetalsinvest.com/

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina talks with Akhil Patel about the importance of an investor understanding his market cycles. Of course, markets have ups and downs. But if downs are overcome, how are there periods where it happens all over again? Here, Akhil simplifies how economic cycles repeat, the common theme with downturns, and his two cents on how relationships between nations impact the economy.

In this episode you will learn:

• If we understand [economic problems], we can make better decisions around it
• Why are there cycles?
• The government has the tendency to spend too much on the wrong places
• No successive cycle looks like the one before
• Akhil Patel on the relationship between the US, China, and Russia
• and so much more!

About Akhil Patel:

Akhil became interested in economic cycles during his school years when he came across Henry George's Progress and Poverty, which explained why economies go through periods of boom and bust.

Later on, he witnessed the negative effects of not understanding economic cycles when his family's business went through difficult periods during the major recessions in the early 1990s and during the global financial crisis after 2008.

He became determined to develop a body of work that would help people – whether they were investors, business owners, or those just interested in doing something with their savings to grow their wealth or manage their affairs through the course of these economic cycles.

Akhil has professional experience in audit, central government, and international banking and has worked on a range of issues, from reviewing large infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPP) deals to helping establish the UK's £3 billion International Climate Fund.

He has two Master's Degrees (in Finance and Public Policy) and a first degree in the Classics from Oxford. He is also currently a principal policy advisor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Follow Akhil Patel on:

Website: http://www.propertysharemarketeconomics.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AkhilGPatel

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina is joined by Seth Bradley to talk everything about passive investing and why most young investors overlook investing in commercial real estate. He discusses how people generally see residential real estate; and how different people become when it comes to the commercial side. Seth speaks on the best performing asset class in the commercial space, why he left medicine, and his thoughts on the essence of education to every investor.

In this episode you will learn:

• Seth Bradley, on deciding to leave med school
• Financial education tells us that we don't have to work a nine-to-five our entire lives
• Most people don't even know what industrial real estate is
• Even banks are investing in crypto now
• Investing in stocks vs. in real estate
• and so much more!

About Seth Bradley:

Seth Bradley is a real estate entrepreneur and an expert at creating passive income while working as a highly paid professional.

He's closed billions of dollars in real estate transactions as a real estate attorney, investor and broker. He's the managing partner of Law Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on multifamily and opportunistic real estate acquisitions.

He's a former big law attorney and is now the managing partner of his own firm, Bradley Law Limited, helping his clients with their real estate and asset protection needs.

He's the host of the Passive Income Attorney Podcast, educating attorneys and other professionals on how to stop trading their time for money so that they can practice when they want to, not because they have to.

Follow Seth Bradley on:

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-passive-income-attorney-podcast/id1543049208 Websites: www.passiveincomeattorney.com www.lawcapitalpartners.com www.bradleylawlimited.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sethpaulbradley Facebook: www.facebook.com/sethpaulbradley Instagram: www.instagram.com/sethpaulbradley YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBFCoOy_AM7-8F6h0DiHdSw

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina sits with M.C. Laubscher to break down how you can build the best cashflow niche for yourself. On the subject of promising hard assets, who would've thought that timber, especially teak, would get in the picture? M.C. discusses how he became his own banking system, why your relationships with people can't be overlooked, alternative assets and their unique niches, and what the California gold rush tells us about when investing in crypto.

In this episode you will learn:

• C., on forming your own banking system
• What partnering with the best can do for you
• Who are the cashflow ninjas?
• Niches in agriculture and the hospitality market
• The California Gold Rush Strategy
• and so much more!

About M.C. Laubscher:

M.C. Laubscher is a Husband, Dad, Podcaster, Author & Cash Flow Expert.

As a cashflow investor and entrepreneur, M.C.'s passion is to assist investors & business owners to create, recover, warehouse & multiply cash flow through advanced strategies.

Having figured out how to escape the rat race and replace his income through cashflow investing, he shares how highly paid professionals and business owners can replace their incomes through cashflow investing strategies to escape the rat race.

He is focused on helping business owners and investors capitalize on their economic opportunities in times of great change, disruption, and chaos.

M.C. is the creator & host of the top-rated business and investing podcasts, Cashflow Ninja & Cashflow Investing Secrets.

The Cashflow Ninja Podcast has been downloaded over 4.5 million times in over 180 countries and has been featured as one of the top 48 podcasts for entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur Magazine, and is regularly featured as one of the top 100 podcast by Apple Podcasts.

M.C. also founded Producers Wealth, an insurance brokerage helping clients in the United States with advanced cash flow strategies, and Producers Capital Partners, a firm assisting investors all over the world to invest in alternative assets that produce passive income in any economy and market.

Follow M.C. Laubscher on:

Website: www.producerswealth.com www.producerscapitalpartners.com www.cashflowninja.com

Email: [email protected]

The 21 Best Cashflow Niches: Learn How To Create Wealth In The Best Alternative Cashflow Investments, by M.C. Laubscher:

https://www.cashflowninjaprograms.com/The-21-Best-Cashflow-Niches-Book

Connect with Mo Bina on:

Website: https://www.high-risecapital.com/

Medium: https://mobina.medium.com/

For more information on passive investing in commercial real estate, please check out our free eBook — More Doors, More Profits — by clicking here: https://www.high-risecapital.com/resources-index