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When running a business, you're pulled in many different directions. Your time can be spent in many different ways. Your business grows more quickly when you stay in your zone of genius and allow others to support you in the other areas you need it. Molly Rose Speed is the founder of the Virtual Assistant Academy, which provides trusted virtual assistant solutions and tech execution serving busy entrepreneurs and business owners. From being a corporate accountant cubicle dweller, this military spouse launched her VA business to focus on what she loved, and to provide her location freedom while moving all over the country. Molly Rose is the go-to professional for some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the speaker/author and content creator industry. With so many in the real estate space looking to gain exposure as authors, speakers, and creators, hear from Molly Rose how you can grow your business by leveraging the support of others while...

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The easiest ways to grow a business is through referrals. However, it can feel clunky and awkward. Stacey Brown Randall is an expert on helping business owners generate referrals naturally so that you don't have to compromise your values or your relationships. She is the award-winning author of the book Generating Business Referrals Without Asking and is also the host of the podcast Roadmap To Referrals. Listen as we discuss how to build a referable client experience, how to generate more referrals in your business, and how Stacey has built her business by being an expert on this important topic.

In this podcast hosted by Mike Swenson, we discussed:

• A key point of gaining referrals from others it to create a referable client experience
• Complications in real estate transactions doesn't mean you're not doing a good job, as problems come up, so it's important to manage client expectations.
• If you don't manage expectations, it's setting up a...

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Aziz has been in the real estate industry for almost 2 decades as a lender, agent, broker, coach and speaker in the Chicago area. He got his start on the lending side helping with a loan on a property that he purchased at the age of 23. His thirst for knowledge has allowed him to help many different people in various areas inside of the real estate space. He owns multiple rental units, leads a 30+ agent real estate team, and also operates a financial consultation business. Aziz shares how his desire to better himself and help others has paid off. From helping new agents get their real estate license to achieve their business goals, to helping people build their personal and business credit to help them get loans and secure properties, Aziz has poured into others so that they can accomplish what they want in life.

In this episode hosted by Mike Swenson, we discussed:

• How Aziz has build a great business helping people with real estate needs,...

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Not many people have the Freedom Trinity - financial, time and location freedom. For Bryce Robertson, this is his reality, however it was not always the story. Growing up in Australia, he was a high school dropout with no knowledge of business and entrepreneurship. After working a few years in gold mines and traveling the world, he ended up in the USA. With a negative net worth and $2,000 he was able to gain financial freedom in 2.5 years, primarily from investing in mobile home parks. He's focused on growing a great team of people to give him leverage which allowed him and his wife to take 6 months and travel to 20+ countries around the world. Bryce is the host of the Freedom Hack Radio podcast, host of Financial Freedom Mastery, writes articles for BiggerPockets, leads the Cultiv8 Collective Inner Circle focused on investing to create freedom, and wrote a best selling book titled "10,000 Miles to the American Dream."

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With a background as an engineer, Patrick Grimes began buying single-family residential properties and lost it all in the last recession. Taking what he learned, he began building a portfolio into multifamily real estate and amassed a portfolio over 3,000 units and $500M in value through his company Invest on Main Street. He's now working with his investors to diversify into energy. Patrick is also on the Forbes Real Estate Council and is known for being a thought leader and expert panelist in commercial real estate. In addition, he's co-authored a #1 best selling book "Persistence, Pivots and Game Changers, Turning Challenges Into Opportunities."

In this episode, hosted by Mike Swenson, we discussed:

• Why portfolio diversification is important with your investments.
• In finding a deal you should look at the markets, regions, locations and recessions
• When looking for places to invest, find areas that are growing, have diversified...

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Success in one area of your life does not have to come at the expense of other areas of your life. Too many times people in real estate are so focused on numbers for the sake of bragging that they leave other areas of their life a mess. Michelle Spalding has committed to helping people create businesses that suit the lifestyle that they desire. With over 26 years of experience in the real estate industry, she's been a transaction coordinator, started a transaction coordinator training academy, and now helps people start and launch their own businesses. She's focused on helping people reclaim their own version of success in whatever they do. With this episode coming at the end of the year, listen and think about what you want your next year to look like, and orchestrate a plan to get you there with Michelle's help and advise.

In this episode, hosted by Mike Swenson, we discussed:

• Michelle's important exercise to take a holistic assessment...

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Investing in Real Estate doesn't have to be your full-time life passion. In fact, it can simply be a vehicle to open up other doors and freedoms for your future. Zachary Daniel discusses how investing in a few properties in Wisconsin with his buddy from college has given him the foundation and freedom to pursue other things in life. He has a degree in Nuclear Medicine, started a Bitcoin ATM company, became a registered investment advisor specializing in digital currency, and just published his first fiction book titled "Manifest Destiny". Find out how all of this came to be and how his real estate company has allowed him to take profits from digital currency and put it into less volatile vehicles like real estate, creating a good investment mix.

In this episode, hosted by Mike Swenson, we discussed:

• If you find a  way to make money, and you're doing what you love, you don’t need a degree or PhD. His degree in Nuclear Medicine...

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When you have 25 years experience as a tax attorney and founded a company doing over 100,000 real estate investor's tax returns, and you have invested in over 200 real estate projects yourself, you know how to make the most of the intersection between real estate and taxes to help build wealth. He's the author of "Tax-Wise Business Ownership" and "Infinity Investing: How The Rich Get Richer and How You Can Do The Same". He's focused on helping investors preserve their wealth and create amazing legacies for future generations. If you're looking to get started, check out all the free resources on his Youtube channel, which has over 190k subscribers!

In this episode, hosted by Mike Swenson, we discussed:

• Real estate is the most lucrative type of investing and it gives you a unique opportunity to help others.
• If you're going to work with investors you need to do what they're doing, which is why Toby invests himself.
• Continue to buy assets and as...

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Can you be a successful agent without cold-calling? Ask John Schuchman! Back in 2019 he lost his W-2 job and decided to get into real estate. He used free organic social media to grow his business to 6 figures, paid off debt, and hasn't looked back. He even tripled his business in 1 year! In addition to his role as an agent, John is the host of the "Real Estate Survival Guide" podcast, and he wants to help others do what he did and help them create a successful real estate business to utilize "low-hanging fruit" to grow their business for free and enjoy the freedom and flexibility that a career in real estate can bring.

In this episode, hosted by Mike Swenson, we discussed:

• How John used organic social media to create his six-figure income.
• Tell stories on what you’re doing because everybody is a storyteller, and people like to hear stories.
• Have a humble attitude.
• Do not beg people to use your business, do it organically.
• Social media...

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Did you know that you can use an IRA to invest in real estate? Corey Daharsh is sharing a big secret many of you didn't know....a self-directed IRA can be used to help achieve your real estate investing goals. There is over $40 TRILLION in the US retirement account industry and just 4% of IRA's are in Self-Directed Accounts. Learn how you can unlock your IRA to use for funding real estate deals tax-free to give you complete control over your retirement funds and your investing decisions!

In this episode, hosted by Mike Swenson, we discussed:

• Self-directed IRA’s is an under utilized option for your retirement account.
• A true self-directed custodian or administrator follows the same guidelines as the IRS
• Advanta IRA lets you as a client, pick whatever asset classes, whatever dollar amount, whatever you'd like to do with your plan.
• Only 4% of the retirement accounts are self-directed.
• As real estate investors, you've got to do your...