Meet Alan Corey. A real estate investor first, turned real estate agent leading people to true financial freedom through real estate.

Alan is the host of Real Estate Maximalist, a podcast dedicated to real estate investing. He has a passion for real estate and the experience to show it. Starting with a $99,000 condo at the age of 22, Alan grew his net worth from $10,000 to $1,000,000 by the age of 28 and was able to retire from the corporate world to focus on real estate full-time.

Currently “maxing out” in real estate, Alan now manages a $50 million dollar portfolio of over 300+ doors, leads a top-producing Atlanta real estate brokerage team, and teaches investors worldwide through his books, podcast, courses, and speaking engagements.

A "Real Estate Maximalist" through and through, Alan helps investors of all levels transform their life through real estate. Listen in for a fresh perspective on debt, leverage and building wealth in real estate.

Meet Alan: https://www.realestatemaxi.com/ 

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Meet Tim Ray. The stat is 97% of real estate buyers are using the internet. That might seem like a no-brainer, but let's translate what that means.

If they're using the internet, they're looking at pictures. So when I open, fill in the blank...realtor.com, Zillow, whatever it may be, we're just doing our own research prior to talking to an agent or in between working with an agent. If there was a listing that had no photos or bad photos, I skip it, Right?

There's thousands more to to choose from, and if it's not presented well or doesn't even have a picture, I'm just moving on to the next one. So, I know that's kind of anecdotal, but it is personal experience that supports the data that 97% of people are looking online for real estate.

So if they're looking online, you want to present well... Tim developed a Kick A$$ APP to help agents take MORE and BETTER images for their properties.

Listen in and see what you are missing! Thanks for an awesome conversation Tim! 😀

Meet Tim: Facebook

Get the app: You CELL It

Meet Trina Foster. An Arizona Realtor who moved through serious health issues and came out on top.

After a seriously stressful career in healthcare, Trina ended up in the hospital with some serious health issues that pushed her into making some new life choices. With the support of her husband, a whole lot of faith in herself, Trina started from zero in real estate and has created a new life for herself.

Listen in as we talk about stress, how it affects your whole body, making hard choices and paving a new path for yourself. We dive into her real estate business, relationships and a whole lot more.

Thank you, Trina for a great conversation.

Meet Trina here: Say Hi to Trina

Meet Tyler Gibson. From Sprinklers to Real Estate Team Builder.

Based in Orlando, FL, Tyler has built a team of high integrity, service oriented professionals catering to home buyers, sellers and investors. Tyler spent years putting in the work to create a solid foundation to support his clients, all while working a 9-5.

Listen in as we discuss lead generation, knowing your strengths, doing what you want to do, supporting your peers and most importantly, providing value. There is a ton of unbelievable value packed into this episode. 

Know yourself, know your audience, know what YOU want to do daily. Action packed with knowledge friends. Listen in, take one thing and IMPLEMENT.

Check out the strengthsfinder here: Find Your Strength

Connect with Tyler: Meet Tyler

Meet Daniel Blue. He's not just another finance guy in real estate.

Mixed up with the wrong crowd, Daniel found himself hooked on Oxycodone and in bad shape not to long ago. 

We talk about having life experience, making mistakes, having some wins, doing good things, being on a losing streak and the fear of the unknown. The fear of what other people are going to think, and eventually having to get past your excuses.

That held Daniel back from being the best person he could have been. That's why he made a lot of bad choices. He knew what he needed to do. He just had excuses that outweighed his commitment.

Daniel specializes in helping entrepreneurs, including realtors, leveraging their investments to invest and buy real estate. He tells the story of a realtor that loses $40,000, ends up giving it to the IRS, because she had bad advice from her financial planner. 

Thank you, Daniel for a fantastic and real conversation with me. Appreciate you dude!

Meet Daniel: WEBSITE

Meet John Schuchman. Realtor, Podcaster, Survivor.

John and I dive into job jumping from one W2 job to another and to another and so on...We talk about finding your place in this world, taking risk, being scrappy and building a foundation for success.

His last job, was working at a bank. He was in their management trainee program that they hype up as thousands of people apply. John's soon to be boss noted he was one of the people being picked. He remembers saying to them, you know, there was a point I'd been in retail banking for awhile and got promoted to this program. And they said, we want you to go back and be an assistant branch manager or a branch manager. So John said to himself, you're telling me the best I'm ever going to do is be an assistant branch manager making $50,000 or a branch manager making $60,000 a year? And they said, yes. Two weeks later he lost his job....The conversation in his mind was you're done...time to take control of your life.

Almost 3 years later, John operates out of Lancaster, PA with his family and has built an unbelievable business within 3 years from ZERO. We talk about serving clients, lead generation, social media and leveraging the gifts you HAVE.

I enjoyed this episode with John and love the real, down to earth spirit that just lives within. Thank you, John for a great time and a fantastic conversation!

Listen in friends!

Meet John: Website

Listen to his podcast: John's Podcast

Meet Barry Karch. Born into real estate, yet fighting for who he wants to be, Barry found his place.

Barry calls himself an introverted realtor. When getting started, his mentor was his father. His father was a very successful real estate agent, using old school salesy methods that Barry felt uncomfortable with. After spending time listening to guys like Brian Buffini, going to seminars, learning, focusing on who he was, Barry figured out how to find his people.

He just had to be his most authentic self. That's it.

Barry and I discuss building your database, lead generation, follow up, marketing and the role people play in our lives.

Listen in to a great conversation with a veteran in the real estate business. Thank you, Barry for a truly great conversation.

Barry's podcast: PODCAST

Barry's website: Meet Barry

Meet Chris Odegard. The Prolific Investor.

Chris was a conventional investor for most of his adult life. If you have read Cashflow Quadrant,  Chris was an E, an employee. He was raised in a family of employees.

He asked "What is an entrepreneur?" He didn't know any, he had no interest or desire of being an entrepreneur or a business owner. He had been in corporate america all of his career. And then in 2009, he had what he finally referred to as his illiquidity event, where he lost 55% of his assets through a divorce, and it could have been anything, but in his case, it was a divorce. And coincidentally, around that time, a friend of his said, Hey, you should read this book...

So he bought said book and set it aside for too long. Finally, he picked it up one day and read it. And of course it was Robert Kiyosaki's rich dad, poor dad. So now, his mind was open to all these other things that he didn't grow up with. Different types of investing and real, tangible assets. So he quickly started moving in that direction.

Chris did what's called an in-service transfer of all the 401k matching money that the Boeing company had ever paid in over the decades. He'd worked there and rolled it over into a self-directed IRA. He started, and that was his way of jump starting into real estate. 

Chris shares with us his successes, failures and some deep insight into real options to get started.

Listen in friends for a great story of unlearning and relearning with Chris Odegard.

Grab his awesome book here

Thank you, Chris for an incredible conversation! Meet Chris below via his website!

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Meet Virginia Corbett. Her start in real estate? 2 kids. No job. No spouse. So let's jump into real estate. HOLY CRAP!

She jumped in with zero backup plan with mouths to feed. Failure was NEVER an option. Virginia believes she was given the opportunity to begin again. With nothing but faith, she started her real estate business.

Virginia breaks it down so clearly - This business is hard, but very easy if you just do what you have to do everyday, no matter what. It's all about the disciplines you create your first year, then maintain. Here is her simple schedule:

Focus on having an amazing day until noon, then afternoon's are what they are. Take the 80% win! There is very little that needs to happen on any deal before noon; stop being reactive.

She notes some keys to her business that she fought at first. Hire an assistant. Build a team. RESULT = 85 deals in 2020 as a SOLO AGENT!

Going into 2021, she had 2 team members. Now in 2022, 21 team members!

Virginia is committed to getting BETTER. She talks about how coaching pays for itself OVER and OVER. Best choice she made, handsdown. She is both a member and a coach at Club Wealth. 

The keys to faster success:

Follow that formula for success. Seriously.

Fast forward to today...Virginia will list 100 homes this year and plans to expand her team to support the growth of her company. She is excited to bring in team members, help them grow and impact people while building her business.

Thank you, Virginia for an amazing conversation and showing us how it's done!!!

Connect with Virginia here: Hi Virginia

Website: Visit

Meet Zack and Erica Greenberg. From Real Estate to Product creators, these two awesome humans founded SpinTopSIgns and are illuminating Real Estate Signs around the country!

High school sweethearts, Zack and Erica have grown up together learning, failing, growing and got started in real estate just after college. While both have been realtors, Zack had a background in engineering and Erica was crushing real estate sales.

The idea for improved signs came from a conversation with Zack's grandfather, who remembered real estate signs being the same decade after decade. Zack being an engineer, they set out to michaels, bought a robotics kit and started creating a beta sign. After a few versions, Erica started asking if brokerages if they were interested and received positive feedback. Next thing you know, they were in the product development business creating improved signage for realtors! SO, they started a sign installation business installing their hand built signs!

Word got out, social media took over and they started getting inquiries to buy these in other states. It was time to get serious, so a shippable product was created. Friends, this is an innovative product that is helping market properties better and different than others. If you want to STAND OUT, start doing something different using a sign that no one else is using.

This is not just a sign, this is a branding tool and a revenue stream for your real estate business.

Zack and Erica are still active in real estate, managing this product, have kids and Zack has a full time engineering job. Congratulations you two for getting this far and keeping momentum!

As a product creator myself for the last 30 years, I am a believer in this product and have opted in to be an affiliate with Zack and Erica to help promote this product. If you want to support Zack and Erica, along with me 🙏, buy yours here: www.SpinTopSigns.com.

Thank you, Zack and Erica for sharing your story and walking us through your journey! Keep innovating!!! 

There is so much good stuff in this conversation friends. Lessons, messages, how-to's. Enjoy the conversation!