The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs

Steven Todd Morris is a real estate investor and business coach living in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the CEO of Red Door Renovations LLC & Bulletproof Sales, which is a company that prides itself on adding value and beauty to commercial buildings across the US through the revitalization and renovation process.

• Connect with Nick Lamagna
  • [email protected]
  • https://nicknicknick.com/

• Connect with Steven Todd Morris
  • http://reddoorrenosllc.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/smorrisREI/
  • https://www.facebook.com/RedDoorRenosLLC/
  • https://twitter.com/reddoorrenos
  • https://www.instagram.com/smorris802/?hl=en

• How Nick and Steven met - 2:47
• Steven's background and how to get in touch with him - 3:13
• His experience as a real estate agent - 5:32
• Transitioning to the renting side - 6:02
• What is a realtor? - 8:38
• Having deals and partnering with great people - 14:00
• Steven gives a piece of advice to have a successful business - 15:21
• What he learned in the construction section - 18:40
• Why people are scared about Multifamily - 25:00
• Get in touch with Steven - 25:52
• Making deals and money for coaching - 29:01
• Commercial real estate - 31:26
• His partnerships - 34:48
• Doing commercial building - 35:57
• Talking about Steven's Airbnb business model - 39:10
• The demand of the Airbnb market - 49:49

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What makes a clothing brand successful and what makes it fail? On today's A Game Podcast, Nick Lamagna attempts to answer this question through his conversation with an entrepreneur, Alex Rodriguez, as they discuss the trajectory of her clothing brand.

• Connect with Nick Lamagna
  • [email protected]
  • https://nicknicknick.com/

• Connect with Alex Rodriguez
  • https://klonapparel.com/
  • https://www.facebook.com/klonapparel
  • https://www.instagram.com/klonapparel/?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=15x9dlyj0xzk0

• Alex's background - 2:35
• Meeting her business partner - 3:33
• Making a brad affordable to everybody - 4:55
• Finding a way to help yourself and other people - 5:56
• Darkness before the sun - 9:16
• Living in the moment - 11:27
• Keep Moving Forward - 12:30
• The experience of being a parent - 20:18
• An affordable business - 24:44
• Different sizes - 25:50
• Making people feel better about themselves - 26:40
• The people and the energy - 28:43
• Take the first step and ask for help - 34:57
• Alex's experiences with coaches - 36:55
• Investing in yourself - 37:39
• Going to the gym and doing yoga - 42:07
• Alex's website - 42:57
• The physical stuff helps the mental stuff - 43:48
• If you want something you have to go and do it - 44:40
• Finding balance in life - 46:39

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Digging into the minds and experiences of some of the brightest entrepreneurs, Nick Lamagna talks in this new episode with Corey Kendig, who is here to discuss his experience with Real Estate and to share with us some of his financial knowledge.

• Connect with Corey Kendig
• • https://www.instagram.com/cdiggit/?hl=es-la
  • https://twitter.com/coreykendig?lang=es

• How did Nick and Corey meet? - 3:00
• Discussing the A Game podcast - 5:00
• How Corey got into the Real Estate investment business - 6:18
• Real Estate at a young age - 9:50
• Asking people for money - 16:12
• Corey's leg accident - 17:08
• Corey's childhood - 18:10
• The importance of having financial freedom - 18:52
• Money and cash flow bring you freedom - 22:23
• Real Estate investing at a young age - 25:57
• Living a better life - 28:15
• Corey's stance on cash flow - 35:50
• What financial freedom can do for you - 40:15

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A true jack of all trades joins us on this new episode, as Daniel Newman shares his extensive resume, having started his career as a musician who later transitioned into acting to end up working in the real estate business. Regardless of what he's doing, Daniel is always bringing his A game, so there is definitely a lot we can learn from him.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• Connect with Daniel Newman
• • https://www.instagram.com/danielnewman_/?hl=es-la
  • https://twitter.com/danielnewman

• Daniel's extensive resume - 3:31
• Being an extra and working on tv series - 7:59
• Learning from directors - 8:47
• The acting game - 9:30
• Handling rejection on an audition - 11:22
• The acting game V.S. the real estate game - 13:05
• Doing everything with passion - 16:52
• Focussing on what you want - 17:37
• Taking control over your destiny - 18:20
• Don't take no for an answer - 20:55
• Starting in real estate - 21:16
• There are so many investors around - 22:58
• People don't want to put their money only in the bank - 24:19
• Daniel's experience on The Walking Dead show - 26:22
• Being an actor and understanding the real estate market - 29:43
• Deals in Atlanta - 31:54
• Balancing acting and real estate - 36:33
• Educating yourself first - 40:14
• Daniel's new projects - 41:32
• Discussing books - 44:10
• Finding things that you love doing - 45:23
• Get in touch with Daniel - 46:46

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Best selling author & national speaker Ben Azadi, is today's A Game Podcast guest. He is known as 'The Health Detective' because he investigates dysfunction and he educates— not medicates— to bring the body back to normal function. Ben has designed a health coaching platform that extends worldwide. In 2008, he went through a personal transformation of shredding 80 lbs of pure fat and ever since he has been on a mission to help 1 billion people live a healthier lifestyle.

• Connect with Nick Lamagna
• • [email protected]
  • https://nicknicknick.com/
  • (123) 456-7890

• Connect with Ben Azadi
• • http://shredfat.com/
  • https://twitter.com/thebenazadi?lang=en
  • https://www.youtube.com/ketokamp
  • https://www.instagram.com/thebenazadi/
  • https://www.facebook.com/benazadi05
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/benazadi
  • https://www.amazon.com/Ben-Azadi/e/B0786PXW5R%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
  • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-keto-kamp-podcast-with-ben-azadi/id1470779784

• Dieting helps you feel better - 1:54
• Ben's background - 4:59
• What is the Keto diet? - 6:49
• Ben and depression - 8:14
• Thinking how to kill himself - 8:48
• Health is your true wealth - 9:30
• Losing body fat - 10:37
• Teaching your body to eat less sugar - 13:54
• Talking about Keto Diet - 17:13
• Eating Keto - 17:49
• Eating less often - 23:33
• Weight loss and energy - 25:00
• The importance of understanding why you are doing something - 27:27
• It's a bad idea to eat late - 29:53
• Take responsibility and develop a new habit - 33:32
• Cancer risk - 39:15
• Doing little things to make changes in your lifestyle - 40:53
• Exercising with an empty stomach? - 44:38
• Cortisol vs. Caffeine - 47:55
• Cancer isn't always a genetic disease - 50:20
• Diets, obesity, and future - 1:00:09
• Ben's Podcast - 1:05:55

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Digging into the minds and experiences of some of the brightest entrepreneurs of real estate and business, Nick interviews Tim Bratz, who is a commercial real estate investor. He tells us how to do deals, earn money in the industry and also he shares some tips for being a successful person.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• Connect with Tim Bratz
• • https://cleturnkey.com/about/
  • https://es-la.facebook.com/CommercialEmpire/
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/timbratz

Show Notes

• Tim's inspiration - 5:11
• Real estate professionals - 6:53
• Helping build credibility with real estate - 7:20
• Developing yourself as an entrepreneur - 9:22
• Getting into real estate investing - 10:25
• What to do before being a master in a business - 11:35
• Raising money for deals - 12:53
• Small entrepreneurs - 14:33
• The reason why Tim has his current successes - 15:20
• The instant success - 16:20
• The importance of educating people - 18:30
• Residual income versus transactional income - 21:10
• Buying apartment buildings - 22:39
• Talking about the experience at the single-family side on real estate - 24:38
• Handling good and bad days in the business - 28:44
• Hiring an assistant - 29:55
• Finding buyers, deals, and money - 30:49
• Having a team and a partnership - 33:14
• The most successful real estate investors do commercial real estate - 35:34
• Understanding the business very well - 36:24
• In life and business, it is all about expectations - 40:08
• Anybody can be an entrepreneur - 45:00
• Success brings more success - 48:17
• Giving value somehow - 49:40
• To stay is more difficult than to start - 53:00
• Tim talks about lending money - 1:03:53
• The importance of borrowing money and paying early - 1:05:23

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Mark Evans, DM, DN is a 7 time, best-selling author, full-time world traveler and full-time virtual real estate investor. He is a master at creating multiple streams of income and is a life-long student of marketing. As such, he has turned his attention toward reaching out to others; to teach them how to live life on their terms and how the secret to success is just being willing to DO THE WORK!

Today, he sits down with Nick to talk about how he started his career, his philosophy at work and his charity work.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• Connect with Nick Lamagna
• • [email protected]
  • https://nicknicknick.com/
  • (123) 456-7890

• Connect with Mark Evans
• • http://www.markevansdm.com/
  • https://www.instagram.com/markevansdm/
  • https://www.facebook.com/markevansdm

Show Notes

• Nick introduces Mark and asks him about his upbringing - 4:25
• Contrary to most people, Mark began his career in real estate at a very young age - 7:40
• Avoiding frustrations when dealing with everyday issues - 9:55
• There are problems everywhere, do you see them as opportunities or obstacles? - 11:05
• The importance of being able to make decisions - 12:32
• Brotherhood inside the business and Mark's charity work - 13:43
• The more we give the more we make - 19:50
• The most common trouble Mark sees from people that are either starting or wanting to grow their business - 20:10
• A mindset problem, you should be willing to do the work! - 24:30
• No one will care about your business as you do - 27:09
• Employees are not a cost, they are an investment - 27:40
• How you should use your team to make you better - 31:30
• Pitfalls to look out for when you are starting to hire employees - 33:44
• Mark's first virtual deals - 37:10
• How the shift of the market would affect Mark's business - 40:35

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Ron Rivers is running for State Assembly in NJ-17 and is here to talk about how he started his career in politics, how the values of Jiu-Jitsu relate to his job, and what are his plans for the community.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• Connect with Ron Rivers
• • https://www.rivers2019.com/
  • https://twitter.com/ronrivers_

Show Notes

• Where Ron's drive comes from - 4:33
• How to keep the motivation up when you have lazy days: the routine is freedom! - 9:14
• Being present in the now, to create the future that I want - 11:30
• How Ron started his journey in politics and what his campaign is all about - 13:15
• "We try to maximize the potential of the individual instead of maximizing the profit of a few" - 20:40
• The importance of relatability, social media and how Ron reaches people - 23:40
• Ron's political aspirations - 28:10
• How Ron avoids frustration when encountering polarization in social media - 38:50
• How you can learn more about Ron, his campaign and how to vote for him - 48:12
• Touching on the subject of climate crisis - 1:02:00

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On this episode, host Nick Lamagna talks with "Raging" Al Iaquinta. He's a renowned UFC fighter who recently changed his lifestyle by becoming a licensed real estate agent. Today, he tells us about his journey in this new career path and how having a competitive mindset can drive you to success no matter what you choose to do in life!

Links and Resources from this Episode

• Connect with Al Iaquinta
• • Instagram @aliaquinta

Show Notes

• Being a fighter and a Real Estate agent - 1:57
• Getting his Real Estate agent license - 3:47
• How he changed his lifestyle working in Real Estate - 4:33
• Being a Real Estate agent - 9:29
• You have to align yourself with the right mentors to learn a lot from them - 10:17
• Everybody is competing with each other - 10:54
• Al Iaquinta tells us the importance of working out for ourselves - 12:35
• Do not invent excuses to be lazy - 13:33
• Having a great motivational speaker in his life - 17:17
• Setting goals in your life: short, medium, and long term goals - 17:30
• Al Iaquinta tells us some things that he learned from his father - 19:03
• How Al Iaquinta balance his day being a fighter and Real Estate agent - 20:00
• Al Iaquinta recommends being positive when you wake up every day - 23:22
• How to keep consistent with your goals - 26:30
• Thinking on how you want to live your life - 28:10
• Why his parents didn't want him to fight - 31:10
• Being successful in fighting and Real Estate - 34:00
• How Al entered the Real Estate business - 35:20
• Understanding and learning about the Real Estate process - 37:10
• Working on residential sales - 39:00
• Talking about his current goal - 40:00
• The New York Real Estate market - 41:02
• Al tells us how much he has progressed - 44:10
• Dealing with people all day long - 49:30
• Get in touch with Al Iaquinta - 50:35

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Nick Lamagna talks on this podcast with Alek Gilmore. Alek is a business mentor, speaker, and philanthropist. With his company Transcend Alpha he focuses on helping people experience the freedom of time and money they've always dreamed about. In this interview, he gives us an important message about having a vision of life and explains what The Alpha Mind System is.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• Connect with Alek Gilmore
• • https://www.linkedin.com/in/alek-gilmore-05209a8
  • https://www.facebook.com/transcendalpha/
  • https://www.linkedin.com/company/transcend-alpha
  • [email protected]
  • https://deskgram.net/transcendalpha
  • https://www.transcendalpha.com/get-access

Show Notes

• The Ideal Life Vision - 5:00
• Becoming a better dad - 6:20
• He tells us how he has to fight against his impatience - 6:50
• How to talk to your children on a one to one level - 8:50
• Recording a Life Vision - 11:00
• Understanding the Alpha Mind System and Vision - 13:30
• Troubles will always be there - 19:04
• Being constantly aware of the things that happen in your life - 20:08
• Trying to be 100% focused on what you want to do - 21:33
• Why there will always be ups and downs - 24:24
• Having the right people around you - 28:32
• Keeping yourself positive and motivated - 30:55
• Being a routine guy - 31:22
• Focus on the important things that you have to do during the day -32:03
• Everybody has a voice in their head - 35:17
• Getting up and working out - 40:58
• No matter what you do, be the best - 45:07
• Keep a commitment and fulfill it- 46:50
• Working as a coach and asking clients questions - 50:30
• When we live in comfort we lose - 51:31
• How Alek solves problems as a coach - 54:00
• Types of people that Alek helps - 56:12
• Finding a balance with everything in life - 59:40

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