💡90% of real estate investors focus on finding deals… but only a small percentage ever master raising capital. 

That gap is exactly why most deals never get funded.

Capital is the real bottleneck. 

Not deals. Not opportunity. ⚠️

And the operators who understand how money actually moves are the ones who win.

📌 Inside this conversation, you’ll see how capital flows behind the scenes, what drives investor decision-making, and why most operators struggle to get deals funded even when the numbers look strong.

You’ll also uncover how to raise money from both individual investors and institutions, build a consistent capital pipeline, and avoid the subtle mistakes that quietly destroy investor trust.

If you're serious about scaling in real estate, private credit, or capital markets, this will reshape how you approach money, relationships, and long-term growth.

👉 Robert Costomiris is a capital markets and fundraising executive with over two decades of experience across Wall Street, private equity, and real estate investing. 

As President of MIOYM Equities, he leads capital formation, investor relations, and deal execution across distressed assets, fix-and-flip strategies, and ground-up developments.

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• Company: MIOYM Equities

If you’re serious about scaling your business, raising more capital, and surrounding yourself with the right strategy and support, the fastest path isn’t figuring it out alone.

📅 Book a call and let’s map out what this actually looks like for you:

No fluff. No guesswork. Just clarity on your next move.

00:00 Real Estate Investing Mistakes

#RealEstateInvesting #CapitalRaising #PrivateEquity #RealEstateDeals #InvestorMindset #Entrepreneurship #WealthBuilding

Most leaders are trained to think their way through pressure. The best leaders? They train their body to handle it.

In this episode of the Perpetual Growth Podcast, we break down the real reason high performers stay calm, decisive, and fully present when it matters most. This conversation goes beyond mindset and into embodied leadership, revealing how your physiology directly shapes your emotions, decisions, and leadership presence.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in your head, overwhelmed under pressure, or disconnected in high-stakes moments, this will change how you lead.

Croft Edwards is an ICF Master Certified Coach, leadership advisor, and founder of Croft & Company. With over 9,500 coaching hours, he has worked with Fortune 500 executives, military leaders, and high-performance teams.

A retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, Croft brings decades of real-world leadership experience into his work on somatic and embodied leadership.

🔗LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/croftedwards/ 

⏱️ Video Chapters

00:00 – Why Most Leaders Break Under Pressure

This is not a theory. This is practical leadership training for real-world performance.

High performance, intimacy, emotional blocks, sexual energy, and wealth creation are more connected than most people realize. In this episode, we break down why so many successful entrepreneurs and high achievers dominate in business but struggle in their relationships and personal fulfillment.

If you’ve built success but still feel disconnected, this conversation exposes the hidden patterns driving that gap and how to reclaim control.

Our guest, Katrina Wyrzykowski, is an international speaker and practitioner who works with high-performing individuals to clear subconscious emotional blocks that limit intimacy, pleasure, creativity, and personal freedom.

Her work sits at the intersection of mindset, energy, sexuality, and peak performance, revealing how the same internal drivers that fuel success can either expand or quietly sabotage your life.

Connect with Katrina:

00:00 – The hidden struggle of high performers

If you’re serious about elevating your performance, don’t ignore the part of your life that fuels everything else.

Mastery isn’t just what you build externally. It’s how aligned you are internally.

If this episode challenged your perspective, subscribe for more conversations that push beyond surface-level success and into real transformation.

Listen to the full episode, share it with someone who needs it, and start closing the gap between success and fulfillment.

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It's nearly impossible for families to facilitate their own family meeting because you don't know what you don't know. 

This video highlights the complexities of caregiving, especially when discussing topics related to senior care and aging parents. 

It emphasizes the challenge of navigating issues like nursing home options and understanding how medicare explained works, which can be overwhelming for those without prior knowledge.

This isn’t just about caregiving. It’s about staying in control when everything around you isn’t.

Hit play now, and take back clarity before crisis makes the decisions for you.

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00:00 – The Reality Most Families Avoid

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Burnout, mental load, invisible workload, and time management—this is why high performers feel overwhelmed. If you’re constantly exhausted, this episode shows how to reclaim your time, energy, and control.

Most people don’t realize it, but the real drain isn’t your work. It’s the invisible work—the mental tabs, emotional labor, and constant background decisions that quietly consume your capacity every single day.

In this episode of the Perpetual Growth Podcast, Lisa Woodruff, founder of Organize 365, breaks down why traditional productivity advice fails and what actually works when you’re managing both life and ambition.

You’ll learn how to reduce overwhelm, implement simple systems, and finally create space to operate at your highest level—without sacrificing your growth.

This is where burnout ends and real control begins.

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Listen to the full episode now and learn how to eliminate hidden overwhelm, build systems that actually work, and step back into control of your life. This isn’t just helpful—it’s a turning point for how you operate every day.

00:00 The Real Reason You Feel Overwhelmed

🎧 Audio version coming soon to Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/the-zac7us-podcast/id1794170265

80% of businesses listed for sale never find a buyer. The reason is simple: most founders never build a real exit strategy for their business.

If you want to sell your business for maximum value, understanding business exit planning, M&A strategy, EBITDA growth, and business valuation is critical long before the sale happens.

Most entrepreneurs focus on revenue. Smart founders focus on building a sellable company that attracts buyers, commands premium multiples, and creates real exit wealth.

In this conversation, we break down how successful founders design companies specifically for high-value exits, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic acquisitions. You’ll learn how buyers evaluate companies, what increases valuation multiples, and how to position your company for a profitable sale.

If you’re a small business owner, startup founder, or entrepreneur planning to sell your business, these insights will change how you think about scaling, leadership, and long-term wealth creation.

You’ll discover:

• How business exit planning actually works

The difference between exiting rich and exiting with regret often comes down to strategy, financial discipline, and long-term positioning.

Craig Keegan is an M&A strategist and business exit expert who has helped structure and execute complex mergers and acquisitions transactions across multiple industries.

His work focuses on roll-up strategies, EBITDA expansion, business integrations, and strategic exit planning that help founders maximize enterprise value before selling their companies.

Craig works closely with entrepreneurs to transform businesses into acquisition-ready assets that sophisticated buyers compete for. His approach blends financial engineering, operational optimization, and strategic positioning to unlock real exit wealth.

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00:00 Why Every Founder Eventually Exits

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10 Hertz Brain State, Peak Performance, Flow State, Neuroscience, and Mental Focus are deeply connected. 

Today, we explore how the brain’s electrical state determines whether you perform at your best or choke under pressure.

Sports neuroscientist Dr. Izzy Justice has conducted over 18,000 live EEG brain scans during real performance moments with elite athletes and executives. His research reveals that the brain often enters a 10 Hertz Brain State during moments of Flow State and Peak Performance.

In this conversation, you’ll learn how Neuroscience explains Mental Focus, why high performers sometimes underperform, and how accessing the right brain state can unlock clarity, confidence, and better decision-making.

Connect with Dr. Izzy:

Dr. Izzy Justice - Sports Neuroscientist, Author, and Keynote Speaker

Video Chapters

00:00 Intro

#10HertzBrainState #PeakPerformance #FlowState #Neuroscience #MentalFocus #HighPerformance #BrainPerformance #FlowStateTraining #PeakPerformanceMindset #NeuroscienceOfPerformance

💡DID YOU KNOW: More than 70% of marriages end in divorce.

What if the real constraint in your life isn’t strategy… but how you structure your relationships?

In this episode of the Perpetual Growth Podcast, we unpack the uncomfortable truth about modern love, emotional intelligence, and why so many high-performing leaders still struggle in their most intimate relationships.

With divorce rates climbing and more adults questioning traditional monogamy, the question isn’t just “Does this work?” It’s “Have we ever been taught how to build it intentionally?”

Our guest, Candace Klein, is a corporate executive, attorney, and author of Polyagony, a trilogy exploring the architecture of open relationships, agreements, fear, attachment styles, conscious uncoupling, and emotional repair. She has led at the highest levels of fintech and enterprise revenue, and she brings the same rigor to relationships that most leaders only apply to business.

This episode explores the prevalence of infidelity, noting that 78% of Americans admit to cheating. We question human monogamy by referencing bonobos and discuss how unhappiness often precedes betrayal in relationships. This discussion offers a psychological look into marriage and evolution. 💔

The conversation goes deep into:

• Why most relationships fail before they begin

Whether you’re monogamous, polyamorous, married, dating, or leading a team, this episode will challenge the way you think about commitment, identity, and growth.

Candace shares her personal journey navigating open relationships, parenting, corporate leadership, and the real-world cost of living authentically. Her work bridges emotional intelligence, modern love, and leadership development in a way few people are willing to discuss publicly.

🌐Connect with Candace

🎧 Audio version coming soon to Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/the-zac7us-podcast/id1794170265 

If your business looks successful on paper but feels chaotic behind the scenes, this conversation will hit home.

Most founders think they have a people problem, a sales problem, or an investor problem. In reality, they have a clarity and execution problem.

In this episode, we break down how to move from noise to focus, from motion to measurable progress, and from visionary chaos to disciplined execution using the Entrepreneurial Operating System.

Our guest, Rafael Eljou, is a professional EOS Implementer, angel investor, and systems strategist who has worked with founders, leadership teams, and investors across industries. He has built, exited, and rebuilt businesses. He understands what actually breaks inside growing companies and how to fix it.

Inside this episode, we unpack:

• Why founders fall in love with their product instead of their ideal client

If your company is busy but not clean, growing but not controlled, or profitable but exhausting, this conversation will give you language and structure you can immediately apply.

This is not a theory. This is an operating discipline.

Listen until the end if you want to build a business that serves your life instead of consuming it.

🎧 Audio version coming soon to Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/the-zac7us-podcast/id1794170265

#EntrepreneurialOperatingSystem

What happens when the paycheck stops?

And is your retirement plan built for income… or just growth?

In this episode, with Patrick J. Negado, financial advisor and author of The Canoe in the Current, to break down a smarter approach to retirement planning, wealth management, and guaranteed income strategies.

After nearly 30 years in financial services, Patrick shares what most investors miss: retirement isn’t about chasing higher returns. It’s about building reliable income, protecting against market volatility, and structuring assets with intention.

In this conversation, we cover:

• Why most retirement plans fail despite strong portfolios

🔗 Connect with Patrick:

Listen to this episode now and subscribe for more insights on investing, business growth, leadership, and building wealth that lasts.

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