Season 2
Episodes
33. Steve Trang: Why Real Estate is NOT the ONLY PATH to Financial Freedom
Real estate is a touchy subject: tenants and landlords don't like each other. Tenants believe they are subservient to them, and landlords believe they SHOULD be. Or are the perceptions of each side drastically...
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32. Cybersecurity expert on role of AI in modern business w/ Darren Gallop
Cybersecurity is highly technical. You and I probably would not be able to understand a lot of the terms or systems or coding behind it. But revolutionary improvements come from the practical application of...
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31. What's happening to AirBNBs? - Short-Term Rentals w/ Avery Carl
Avery and her husband had a great idea one day to purchase a home and to rent it out, in hopes that one day, they will be able to help fund their kids' education with the income. They didn't even know this was known...
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30. Buying Real Estate in 2024 with...Letters? Direct Mail Marketing w/ John Klingelhoets
Real estate investing has two forms: active and passive. Passive is what most people think of when you say real estate investing, where you buy an asset, and it generates some sort of cashflow for you. Active...
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29. Can you CREATE LUCK in your Life & Business?
Can luck dictate one's success in business? Absolutely. But looking at another's success or luck does not mean that you lose something in exchange. Luck is something I fully believe can be CREATED.
For example, when I...
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28. SIGNAL vs NOISE - Why the News Media's Reality isn't Yours
2024 is yet another pivotal election year for the United States. But if we've learned anything from the last few elections, there is a tremendous amount of fearmongering, noise, and propaganda that can result from a...
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27. How 18% Interest Rates changed the Housing Market - Will we ever go back?
My dad, Ron, lived in a time where mortgage interest rates were 18% - the highest in US history. He assumed he would never be able to own a home, and he would be renting forever. He had friends going down to the bank...
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26. How the US Saved the World - and Why It's Stopping
The US had a huge role in shaping the world the way we know it today. It's role in international wars, politics, and economics has been astounding, particularly for a country so young. It's done a lot of bad, it's...
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25. Consumerism & Capitalism: Understanding the Money Cycle
Capitalism is a function of money - the economy. It’s all about serving other people. What you can trade, what you can offer or sell, what problem you can solve for a certain price.
As a society, we put a lot of...
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24. Waking up to Problems: Lessons from the Hospital Bed w/ Mauricio Rauld
After multiple, back-to-back surgeries, Mauricio was in the hospital for 5 weeks. But he had a law firm to run, and was working out of his laptop in his hospital bed. This proved to be unsustainable and...
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23. What the Fed Lowering Interest Rates means for the Economy
The Fed announced several rate drops that could possibly happen in 2024, quite the surprise since they hiked rates dramatically to fight inflation not so long ago. What does this mean for the American Economy?
In this...
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22. How (almost) losing everything changed my outlook on business
Selling health insurance is not glamourous by any means. But that' what my dad and I did for years and years. It felt great for a while. My success and income was based on how much I sold. It felt like I was my own...
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