Today’s guest migrated to the US with just 180 dollars in his account. Still, in only five years, he was able to source deals worth more than 40 million dollars and has recently closed on an $11,500,00 deal, a 160-unit apartment building in Houston, Texas, with his multifamily investment syndication firm, Dwellyn.com.

While working full time in tech, Ola Dantis, Founder and CEO of Dwellynn.com  was able to build up his success in the real estate investing space by networking with the right people and learning the real estate investment business. He continues to exceed his investor’s returns by focusing on value add deals in metropolitan cities across the United States. 

Ola shared with me how he started in real estate investing, the challenges he faced, and the lessons he learned along the way. 

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Today's guest was originally a white-water rafting guide teaching people how to navigate dangerous rivers and lakes. Wanting to have more intellectual challenges in his life, he ventured into the stock market.

Now, he teaches and mentors people around the world on setting up automated trading systems for the stock market.

Professional stock trader Laurens Bensdorp is the founder and CEO of Trading Mastery School and the bestselling author of “The 30-Minute Stock Trader” and his newest book, “Automated Stock Trading Systems.”

He mentors a small group of people who want to have automated trading systems that work in bull, bear, and sideways markets.

Laurens and I talk about how he switched his career to stock trading, how he developed his own stress-free automated trading system and how his approach smoothly copes with uncertain times, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Today, we’re talking about an alternative retirement investment tool other than the 401k or self-directed IRA. Our guest has been a professional investor for more than 20 years with the purchase of his first rental house he charged on his VISA. That move snowballed into 150 rental houses in less than 5 years.

Like everybody else, he lost big time in the 2008 economic crisis. But, in just less than five years, he reclaimed his wealth, and now, he is on his mission to free 1 million people from the shackles of financial bondage.

Damion Lupo is a professional investor and best-selling author of 10 books on personal finance, investment, and retirement strategies. He pioneered over 50 companies including the eQRP® - the ultimate investor retirement tool that allows individuals to take control of their retirement money and invest it in real assets like Real Estate, gold, and crypto WITHOUT GETTING HIT WITH UBIT. Interesting fact, he also founded his own martial art, Yokido®.

Damion and I talk about his beginnings, the challenges he faced, lessons on investing he acquired over the years, and how he created eQRP® as a retirement investment option for everyone. He also shared how this financial strategy works, its difference with 401k and IRAs, how to set it up, and who are those qualified to avail of it.

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Today we’re digging into a more technical and less glamorous topic - but it’s a crucial one if you are serious about having a business. We’re talking all about forming legal entities like Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) and corporations to protect yourself and your real estate & business assets.

Michael S. Brady is an attorney with over 25 years of experience representing clients in commercial and residential real estate transactions, as well as a wide variety of business transactions and commercial litigation matters.

In this episode Michael walks us through a couple scenarios for owning a real estate business and things you need to think about for your legal entity’s structure. We also talk about the differences between LLCs and corporations, when you may want to work one-on-one with a lawyer instead of just using something like Legal Zoom, and some of the contingencies you need to plan for when setting up your business.

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Humans are hard-wired to care about things when we hear them in the context of a story. Today’s guest has learned that first-hand while making his signature creative, engaging content for himself and for other entrepreneurs. Now, he’s using his skills to help run virtual summits and workshops to help other entrepreneurs carry on as we all continue to adjust to life during COVID-19.

Moby Hayat is an entrepreneur and content creator who helps other businesses and entrepreneurs share their stories. He is the host of the Fire Show Podcast, creator of the 2 Week Content Bootcamp, and host of the Online-First Summit 2020.

Moby takes us through his entrepreneurial journey, starting with his time working in tech at Dell while waiting to get his green card in the USA. We chat about his time working at a startup accelerator, how COVID-19 has changed the job landscape for so many of us, and how he is using his talent for making content to help other people and build his own business.

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Although today’s guest originally did have his own business, that isn’t how he advises his clients to make money now. Instead, he focuses on teaching people how to harness the power of compound interest to build wealth in the long term.

Curtis Ray is a money scientist and bestselling author. He's the founder and CEO of SunCor Financial and an expert on Maximum Premium Indexing, a new and highly profitable spin on the indexed universal life insurance plan. His latest book is The Lost Science of Compound Interest.

Curtis and I talk about his entrepreneurial experiences and how he got into being a money scientist. He also walks us through compound interest and why it’s so powerful, despite a lot of people not using it to its full advantage. 

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I met this week’s guest by chance while on vacation, and he has such an interesting entrepreneurial story and mindset that I had to have him on the show.

Braun Mincher has been a successful entrepreneur for over 25 years in a diverse variety of business ventures. Since 1996, he has focused on being a leader with telecommunications and VoIP technologies. He leads several related telecom entities which specialize in Telecom Consulting, Hosted Voice-Over-IP (VoIP), and highly advanced IP-PBX phone systems for multi-location business enterprises and call centers nationwide.

Braun and I chat about how he decides what business to get into next, why he’s so passionate about financial literacy, and how he deals with problems and setbacks in business. This one is all about the entrepreneurial mindset, which is the foundation for any successful business.

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Last episode we chatted with Alex Caputo about his experience owning a franchise in the fitness industry. He has recently pivoted away from fitness and into a totally different and fascinating market - waste management - so I wanted to share his story and the reasons behind that shift.

In this episode Alex and I talk about why he invested in car washes with a couple business partners after he sold his Orangetheory franchises. He then talks about the processes of finding a new business to work on, why he is so excited about his opportunity with Smash My Trash, and what he considers before jumping into a new business.

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We’ve talked about franchises on the show before, but this time we’re talking about the whole process - from purchasing to running to selling - with someone who has done this in the fitness franchise space.

Alex Caputo has worked in a variety of Technical Sales roles and found that he was also drawn to entrepreneurship.  Because he was passionate about fitness, he got started with Orangetheory fitness franchises which he successfully sold and transitioned into car washes. 

Alex and I talk about how his wife introduced him to Orangetheory and why they decided to open their own franchise. He shares some advice about knowing your strengths and weaknesses as business partners and the pros and cons of owning and operating this kind of franchise. And Alex and I discuss the reasons they sold their franchises even though they were still doing really well.

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I recently spoke with a legal expert about crowdfunding platforms that work in industries outside of real estate, and he connected me with this week’s guest and his platform: Honeycomb Credit.

George Cook is the Co-Founder and CEO of Honeycomb Credit, a Pittsburgh-based investment crowdfunding company that allows anyone to lend money at competitive rates to locally-owned small businesses. 

In this episode George tells us about the loss of community banks in the US and how platforms like Honeycomb Credit can fill the gap in supporting small businesses. We discuss regulation crowdfunding, some of the businesses Honeycomb has helped support, and how the platform is helping investors and small businesses during COVID-19 and beyond.

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