Podcasts about 150mm

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News—all from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world: compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional. Top stories include: Credit Suisse whistleblowers will share in a $150MM bounty. (WSJ) Corpses for cash = corruption. (WSJ) CZ to ask for a Presidential pardon. (CoinDesk) OpenAI governance issues still exist. (FT) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Sirpilla is a co-founder and CEO of Society Brands Inc., a tech-enabled consumer products company headquartered in Canton, Ohio that acquires e-commerce native brands. Society Brands recently raised $205MM for acquisition financing, one of the largest early stage raises in Ohio's history. He has primarily focused on organic growth throughout his career. Prior to starting Society Brands, he founded a financial services wholesale agency with 40 direct reports and built it to a multi-million-dollar business. He also partnered in a population health management business and scaled it from $0 to $150MM in revenue within five years.

Apesar de algumas regiões terem sofrido com o excesso de chuvas na última semana, causando alagamentos, a distribuição está bem regular, garantindo um bom desenvolvimento para as lavouras de forma geral. Atenção para o grande volume de chuva que deverá cair entre os dias 19 a 23 de dezembro. Os dados climáticos mostram que alguns locais podem ser atingidos com volumes entre 120 a 150 mm. Veja como ficará o tempo na sua região! Clique no trecho em destaque: 1:06 Semana 09 a 13/12: tempo aberto no Sul, nova frente fria para MG e RS e chuvas ainda devem persistir. 2:18 Semana 14 a 18/12: novo sistema traz tempo chuvoso para grande parte do Brasil. 3:12 Semana 19 a 23/12: norte de Minas, interior do Nordeste e sul do Piauí com chuvas escassas. 3:37 Atenção: grande volume de chuvas sobre a Região Sul, entre 19 a 23. 4:26 Lavouras em condições excelentes devido ao clima favorável. 5:58 Resumo final. 7:36 Sonda HT: controle das daninhas com tecnologia inédita no milho!

Precipitações voltam ao Matopiba, mas com volumes menores em partes da Bahia

In the bustling world of e-commerce, achieving eight figures in sales is a milestone many sellers aspire to reach. But what does it truly take to scale your business to this level of success? Join us in this episode of The Seller Process Podcast with Michael Sirpilla, CEO of Society Brands, an e-commerce aggregator home to multiple seven and eight-figure brands, shares various aspects of building and scaling successful e-commerce brands, including team size, SKUs, business partnerships, capital management, geographical distribution, and advertising efficiency.Here's a breakdown of what to expect in this episode:Michael's Entrepreneurial JourneyInsights into Eight-Figure BusinessesThe Importance of Business PartnershipsTeam Size and Structure in Eight-Figure BrandsProduct Range and SKU EfficiencyGeographical and Channel DistributionCapital Management and Post-Acquisition StrategyInventory Management and Cash FlowBenchmarking Brand GrowthScaling Strategies for Acquired BrandsMindset and Skills for SuccessBooks and Mentors Impacting SuccessCrucial Soft Skills for EntrepreneursDownload the “Episode Transcript”  by Michael SirpillaAbout Michael Sirpilla:Michael grew up in Ohio and has been in and around retail his whole life and has extensive M&A experience throughout his career and been part of multiple business ventures where hes primarily focused on organic growth. He founded a financial services wholesale agency with 40 direct reports and built it into a multi-million-dollar business. He also partnered in a population health management business and scaled it from $0 to $150MM in revenue within five years. With Michael as CEO, Society Brands raised $205MM to continue their rapid consolidation in the e-commerce sector and has completed many acquisitions since inception.Connect with Michael Sirpilla...Website: https://www.societybrands.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/society_brands_/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/societybrandsConnect with Gianmarco!Website: https://www.thesellerprocess.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gianmeli/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voltageholdings/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianmarco-meli/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB07vjOEJnu3mhYxmoaVlegFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/gianmarco.melTools & Useful ResourcesPickFu -  Polls & Split Tests - Perfect for split testing product variations before launching them. Also useful to optimize your listings by getting real instant data. Get 50% off your first poll with code: THESELLERPROCESSFBAExcel - Best Automation Tools - FBAexcel offers powerful tools built entirely on Google Sheets to help you automate keyword research, PPC optimization, metrics tracking, and more. Sign up for free through the link below to get "Keyword Dominator" 

No matter where you are in your career, you'll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more. About Mogul: Founded by the former Heads of Creator at SoundCloud, Mogul is an all in one business management app for musicians & their teams. Our Rocket Money-esque platform allows one to connect the sources that generate an artist's royalties, give them a total picture of their business, and then show where revenue is slipping through the cracks across all rights types. Like an always on audit.Mogul is tracking over $150MM in royalties across some amazing artists and teams.

GUEST OVERVIEW:  Rick Walker is a renowned leader across multiple domains. As Founder-CEO, he built a 400-employee company, scaled a 2,000+ team member nonprofit into 53 countries as Chairman, and recruited $5 Billion of capital investments to his hometown to generate 5,000 new jobs – simultaneously.   His talks communicate deep insights into how mankind functions, rooted in his acquired knowledge of ancient literature, world religions, strategy, and the arts. His central claim is that each of these domains communicates truth.   His background beyond business includes serving as Chairman of a $150MM charitable foundation and director of a Middle Eastern religious college, concurrently. He hosted a popular talk show in 2021 featuring long-form conversations with the most powerful members of the US Senate, US House of Representatives, the Presidential Cabinet, Fortune 500, a billionaire, and fellow multi-domain polymaths.   Regularly consulted by many of the most powerful families in the world, he has even met privately with a United States President.   Rick currently serves at a private equity firm he founded with a group of 11 wealthy families and is the author of a forthcoming book on seeing through the world. Residing in Texas with his wife of 21 years and three mostly teenage daughters, his free time is consumed by sports, ballet lessons, and secret milkshake runs.   His 3:30 AM wake-up call helps fit everything in.       https://rickwalker.com/   https://twitter.com/RickWalkerTX

In today's episode, Zane Schartz joins the show to talk about his success in the commercial space and his expertise in finding, acquiring, and managing single-tenant net lease properties!Zane tells us what makes his investment opportunities different for investors, his strategies for minimizing risks and maximizing investor returns in single and double-tenant net leases, finding the right deals and market to invest in, and the benefits of passive investing in real estate!Key Points & Relevant TopicsZane's background in real estate and his own private equity firmWhat makes Zane's company stand out for investorsThe principles and characteristics Zane had to apply to his investing careerThings to consider when looking for the right deals for investorsStrategies to secure investor returns and distributions from single-tenant net lease investmentsTools and resources for finding a good investment marketThe importance of having reserves and working capital in preparing for a potential investment risk Building trust in real estate investing and identifying your WHY and purpose Resources & LinksApartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive InvestorAbout Zane SchartzZane is the Founder of Freedom Commercial Real Estate. He has worked in private equity real estate investing for over 7 years and was the Chief Investment Officer of a firm with over $700MM of AUM. He successfully managed a portfolio of 6 commercial real estate funds with over 60 assets. He is a partner in over $300MM worth of commercial real estate, has a multifamily portfolio of over 1,200 units and directly manages over $150MM of commercial assets. Zane is passionate about maximizing returns for investors and adding value to their portfolios through using creative methods to generate wealth. He attended Liberty University where he played college hockey and graduated with a degree in business marketing and management. After graduation, he went on to play professional hockey for three years in North America and Europe. Zane attends Eastside Community Church in Dallas, TX. His biggest goal in life is to create a non-profit organization that funds Christian missionaries around the world. Get in Touch with ZaneWebsite: https://freedomcre.net/ Email: zane@freedomcre.net To Connect With UsPlease visit our website www.bonavestcapital.com and click here to leave a rating and written review!

In this Convo of Flanigan's Eco-Logic, Ted speaks with Sean Neman, Founder and CEO of Cal Solar Inc. Cal Solar Inc. proudly delivers reliable, full service renewable energy solutions for new construction, existing buildings, and retrofit projects throughout California. Their experienced in-house team of designers, engineers, and installers is equipped to deliver renewable energy solutions for multifamily, commercial/industrial, and public works projects of any size. To date, they have successfully completed 600+ large-scale renewable energy projects, 200+ prevailing wage projects, and worked within 13 electric utility territories throughout the state. Sean has been an entrepreneur and CEO in the renewables and energy efficiency construction space since 2008. Since founding Cal Solar Inc, Sean has executed $150MM in such projects and has led the company through continuous exponential growth, breaking through the barriers to solar in California, proving that rooftop solar is alive and well in Southern California. He and Ted discuss Cal Solar Inc.'s diverse portfolio of projects. Cal Solar Inc. is a full-service California engineering, procurement, and construction services company, with well over 200 employees. It has teams of in-house engineers, estimators, and state-wide installation crews. Sean shares his EPC service self-performs everything from initial design and engineering to installation and service. They discuss Cal Solar's installation of what at the time was the tallest Solar Water Heating system in the world, atop the 42nd floor of 399 Fremont Street in San Francisco. They also focus on Panel-Level Energy Storage technology that Cal Solar is deploying. Sean concludes by sharing the sentiment with Ted that the "solar coaster" is an interesting one, especially with so many policy changes across the board, but the industry in California is the industry to join. There is still tremendous opportunity and a need to tap this free, renewable resource. 

ABOUT KENNY WOLFEKenny Wolfe is an experienced multifamily syndicator, the Founder and CEO of Wolfe Investments, and the published author of “Investing in the Dream”, and “Your Quest to Financial Freedom." He invested in his first multifamily property in 2010 and instantly saw the potential for real estate to transform his life – allowing him to quit his day job and start a company.  Kenny has grown Wolfe Investments to over $715 million worth of assets under management. He has been a principal in over 9,000 multifamily units, $500MM in development projects, and $150MM in Triple Net assets. He holds a BBA from Baylor University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Kenny currently resides in Plano, Texas with his wife, daughter, and son. When he's not scouring the market for new deals, he enjoys discovering new vegan restaurants and rooting for the Broncos.    THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL: Kenny's journey in real estateAbout Wolfe InvestmentsVertical Integration Transition from Oil & Gas industry to real estateAbout the Downtown Dallas DealDeal Metrics and Why it's a Great AssetUnit mix and commercial use The project plan for this assetHold period and RefinanceUnderwriting and Target returnsExpectations on the Dallas marketLong-term goals & projects of Wolfe InvestmentsCriteria for Buying Deals Taking Advantage of Interest rates when buyingAbout his books: Your Quest to Financial FreedomHis Book: Investing in The DreamConnect with Kenny   KEY QUOTE:  “It's not an operation thing. It's just a financial crisis that's causing this which is great, cause you know that you're buying at the right price. Even at these higher interest rates, you can make some really good money.”‌    SUMMARY OF BUSINESS: Wolfe Investments is a diversified private equity real estate firm focused on bringing valuable investment opportunities to our investors. Founded in 2012, Wolfe Investments began as a husband and wife company with a focus on multifamily real estate investments in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. We've expanded to include commercial real estate, real estate development, and hard money lending in our offerings in addition to multifamily. Our passion and purpose is to create passive income for our investors so that they can achieve their investment goals and ultimately become financially free.   ABOUT THE WESTSIDE INVESTORS NETWORK   The Westside Investors Network is your community for investing knowledge for growth. For real estate professionals by real estate professionals. This show is focused on the next step in your career... investing, for those starting with nothing to multifamily syndication.     The Westside Investors Network strives to bring knowledge and education to real estate professional that is seeking to gain more freedom in their life. The host AJ and Chris Shepard, are committed to sharing the wealth of knowledge that they have gained throughout the years to allow others the opportunity to learn and grow in their investing. They own Uptown Properties, a successful Property Management, and Brokerage Company. If you are interested in Property Management in the Portland Metro or Bend Metro Areas, please visit www.uptownpm.com. If you are interested in investing in multifamily syndication, please visit www.uptownsyndication.com.       #RealEstateWealth #RealEstateInvesting #MultiFamily #AssetManagement #TripleNetLease #Courthouse #PostOffice #ValueAddMultifamily #CommercialRealEstate #Underwriting #Author #InvestingInTheDream #YourQuestToFinancialFreedom #OilAndGasIndustry #Dallas #Texas #Inflation #HighInterestRates #GroundUpDevelopment #AlternativeInvestments #PassiveInvestment #RealEstateStrategy #FinancialFreedom #InvestmentOpportunities #InvestmentInsights #RealEstateTips #DealDeepDive #Syndication #JoinTheWINpod #WestsideInvestorsNetwork    CONNECT WITH KENNY:Website - https://wolfe-investments.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/wolfe-investments Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kennywolfe.investments Instagram: @realkennywolfe       CONNECT WITH US   For more information about investing with AJ and Chris:  ·    Uptown Syndication | https://www.uptownsyndication.com/  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/71673294/admin/   For information on Portland Property Management:  ·    Uptown Properties | http://www.uptownpm.com  ·    Youtube | @UptownProperties     Westside Investors Network  ·    Website | https://www.westsideinvestorsnetwork.com/  ·    Twitter | https://twitter.com/WIN_pdx  ·    Instagram | @westsideinvestorsnetwork  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13949165/  ·    Facebook | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  ·    Tiktok| @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  ·    Youtube | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Rick Walker is a renowned leader across multiple domains. As Founder-CEO, he built a 400-employee company, scaled a 2,000+ team member nonprofit into 53 countries as Chairman, and recruited $5 Billion of capital investments to his hometown to generate 5,000 new jobs – simultaneously. His talks communicate deep insights into how mankind functions, rooted in his acquired knowledge of ancient literature, world religions, strategy, and the arts. His central claim is that each of these domains communicates truth. His background beyond business includes serving as Chairman of a $150MM charitable foundation and director of a Middle Eastern religious college, concurrently. He hosted a popular talk show in 2021 featuring long-form conversations with the most powerful members of the US Senate, US House of Representatives, the Presidential Cabinet, Fortune 500, a billionaire, and fellow multi-domain polymaths. Regularly consulted by many of the most powerful families in the world, he has even met privately with a United States President. Rick currently serves at a private equity firm he founded with a group of 11 wealthy families and is the author of a forthcoming book on seeing through the world. Residing in Texas with his wife of 21 years and three mostly teenage daughters, his free time is consumed by sports, ballet lessons, and secret milkshake runs. His 3:30 AM wake-up call helps fit everything in. https://rickwalker.com/ https://twitter.com/RickWalkerTX GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Serbian geopolitical and technology analyst at FullReport.rs, former Silicon Valley, based in China, @nikstankovic_ on X

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Rick Walker is a renowned leader across multiple domains. As Founder-CEO, he built a 400-employee company, scaled a 2,000+ team member nonprofit into 53 countries as Chairman, and recruited $5 Billion of capital investments to his hometown to generate 5,000 new jobs – simultaneously. His talks communicate deep insights into how mankind functions, rooted in his acquired knowledge of ancient literature, world religions, strategy, and the arts. His central claim is that each of these domains communicates truth. His background beyond business includes serving as Chairman of a $150MM charitable foundation and director of a Middle Eastern religious college, concurrently. He hosted a popular talk show in 2021 featuring long-form conversations with the most powerful members of the US Senate, US House of Representatives, the Presidential Cabinet, Fortune 500, a billionaire, and fellow multi-domain polymaths. Regularly consulted by many of the most powerful families in the world, he has even met privately with a United States President. Rick currently serves at a private equity firm he founded with a group of 11 wealthy families and is the author of a forthcoming book on seeing through the world. Residing in Texas with his wife of 21 years and three mostly teenage daughters, his free time is consumed by sports, ballet lessons, and secret milkshake runs. His 3:30 AM wake-up call helps fit everything in. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Chris Burgard, Chief Strategic Officer at His Glory TV is a Wisconsin-born and bred, award-winning filmmaker. He made his 1986 Hollywood debut as Matthew Broderick's dance double in “Ferris Bueller's Day Off.” He quickly landed a recurring guest role on the popular 90's sitcom, “Growing Pains” and appeared in numerous television and movie roles over the next several decades. Burgard is the director of Capitol Punishment, a documentary told through the eyes of the people who were there on the ground on J6. The film explores how everything we have been told is a lie and shows how Americans are being persecuted to support that lie.

Clima no Sul do país deve ser marcado pela irregularidade das chuvas e temporais localizados com risco de granizo no RS

Many people have dreams of quitting their job… and being able to live a life on their own terms.    Including Chi Nguyen, who turned that dream into a reality.    Her roadmap was definitely a bold one and probably not a prescription for most, but there's a ton of wisdom and some profound lessons we can all learn from the path she took.   Tune in now to her her fascinating story and discover things like the one book that completely changed her life, 4 tips for leaving your W-2, and her top 3 asset classes … and why.   More about Chi Nguyen:   Chi Nguyen is a San Diego real estate investor who has her hands in a few REI buckets – she is a nonperforming 2nd position note investor, a long-term buy & hold housing provider, a developer, and a private money lender. She now leads a vertical in asset management from acquisitions to disposition for 7E Investments, a $150MM fund investing in 1st & 2nd position nonperforming notes ‌ Having a special place in her heart for the nonprofit world, Chi believes in always having a part of her life dedicated to giving back to leave the world a better place than she found it.  During her free time outside of work & giving back, Chi can be found backpacking abroad, camping, surfing, practicing yoga, and spending time with her loved ones in San Diego.   For contact info and link to free course on funds, visit our website www.GimmeSomeMORE.info/episodes and type in the search bar: Chi Nguyen

Gus Antos is the owner of Milestone, a residential home services company that specializes in plumbing, HVAC, and electrical. He also owns or partners in several other residential service companies. In total, all the operations exceed $150MM in revenue. (He started with CertainPath in 2004 with revenues less than $500K and deep in financial distress.) Today, he's a member-leader within the organization.Milestone is having another incredible year in 2023; however, it's not been one without immense challenges. Plumbing and electrical continue to grow at 25%; yet, HVAC has only grown 5%. In this interview, Gus shares how his leadership team and he have navigated a turbulent year to again grow and do so at great profitability. Gus also shared his insights on many critical topics facing our industry today, including…· What to do when demand calls cut way back.· The one marketing sin contractors make.· How Milestone has forced itself to deliver even better service.· What changes Milestone has made with its managers to generate more revenue with less calls.· Why contractors should be reviewing their compensation plans.· The importance of quickly shifting your objectives in turbulent times.· The 3 things all contractors should consider when looking to acquire a competitor in today's environment.· Why Milestone is considering expanding service hours and days.· The ONE hire you should make as a $2-3MM owner/operator trying to find more time in your day.· The 3 questions you must ask yourself if you want to grow from $20MM to $40MM quickly.· Why being a part of a group like CertainPath is more important than ever.· And so much more!Show NotesThe Successful Contractor Podcast is a part of the CertainPath family. CertainPath builds successful home service businesses—and has for 25 years. We do it by providing contractors with a proven path to success, professional coaching, software solutions, and a member community of 1,100+ strong. Doubling your sales, with a 20% net profit, and an inspiring company culture is ALL possible. Let us show you the way.With CertainPath, Success is Made Certain. Visit www.mycertainpath.com for more information.FOLLOW CERTAINPATH: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CertainPath Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/certainpath Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/certainpath/Thank you to our sponsors:Yellowstone Local. Are you a home service company struggling to find experienced employees to hire? Then you need to schedule a meeting with Yellowstone Local, the undisputed leader in helping home service companies build high performing teams. Yellowstone Local doesn't just fill open positions; they shift your entire recruiting paradigm. Changing your brand into a magnet for amazing people and helping you hire people that embody your vision, your drive, and your commitment to excellence. With an intentionally extensive approach, you'll have a partner that builds and executes the entire process for you, saving you time and money while getting the best results. So in an industry where your product is your people, don't settle for less where it matters most. Visit Yellowstonelocal.com today and experience a different way to hire. For more information, contact Warren Lentz at (512) 962-2638 or warren@yellowstonelocal.com.GOODMAN. Have you heard? Goodman has turned HVAC on its side. At first glance, the new Goodman SD Inverter Heating and Cooling System for ducted homes looks very different than your traditional system. But at 53% lighter and 40% smaller than a traditional cube style unit, it's easy to transport and is designed to optimize space, comfort, and performance. The Goodman GTST connected thermostat provides the ultimate inverter experience when installed as part of a Goodman SD inverter system. The Goodman's GTST thermostat has a compact, non-intrusive design featuring voice control through Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Goodman remains focused on providing high-quality products at an affordable price. It's no wonder homeowners and local contractors say, “Thank goodness for Goodman.®” Be sure to visit goodmanmfg-dot-com or “Follow” Goodman Air Conditioning and Heating on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube for see more on the new Goodman SD.Professional Plumbing Group. How many hours in a day do your plumbers waste because you do not have the right part for the job? This problem leads to additional issues and reduced productivity, poor customer satisfaction, and increases your cost per job. Professional Plumbing Group (PPG) can help you solve all those issues and more! We have everything you need to help your business grow and become more profitable by allowing you to focus on plumbing not inventory management, product selection and so much more. Go to authorizedplumberprogram.com for more information.Synchrony. Ever wonder how to calculate your true cost of financing and how to fit the price of financing into your business and pricing for products and services? In Synchrony's new and improved Toolbox website you can easily calculate your Cost of Credit, view educational videos and learn more about Synchrony's digital tools. Simply to go toolbox.syf.com to explore and learn more.CleanEffects. CleanEffects is Trane's premier solution to deliver cleaner air to the entire house by removing up to 99.98% of airborne particles that pass through the reusable filter including 99.9% of Influenza A (H1N1) virus. Restricted air flow through a clogged filter forces your system to work harder, reducing its lifespan. Trane CleanEffects uses a powerful, patented ifD corona field to charge incoming air, causing particles to adhere to the CleanEffects collection cells as air passes through. Since your furnace or air handler isn't struggling to work against a clogged filter, clean air flows freely. The Trane CleanEffects collection element is ground-breaking. Each layer is only 0.08 inches apart, with alternating charges, which makes for a stronger, more effective collection field. What is more, the TraneCleanEffects element has eight times the collection surface (over fifty sq.ft.) of a standard electronic air cleaner, so it is vastly more efficient at providing clean air throughout your home. For more information, visit the CertainPath Member HUB or contact Trane's Devoe Ward at StrategicAccounts@tranetechnologies.com or (469) 346-1776. And for more information on Trane, visit www.trane.com.

“I wish there was a beauty brand I could go work for that was rooted in philanthropy.” It's the desire that led Karissa Bodnar to found Thrive Causemetics, the leading direct-to-consumer luxury beauty brand. As a child growing up on her family's farm in rural Washington, she mixed her own beauty products and would go on to travel the world working for L'Oreal's luxury division. Following a friend's death from cancer, Karissa was inspired to create a line of clean products which people with health concerns can feel safe using. Since its founding in 2015, the company has donated an astounding $135 million in funds and products to 500 giving partners in order to help deserving communities thrive. With empathetic leadership and a dedication to social action, Karissa is on a mission to change the way we think about the power and potential of beauty. Key takeaways:Ignorance is bliss when you're starting a business Don't raise money if you don't need toStart slowly - especially if you're low on capitalRely on and trust your community to guide you in making pivotal decisionsAsk for help, you can't do it aloneFind friends outside the businessQuotes:“I often say that ignorance is bliss when you're starting a business, because if I had known how hard it was, I wouldn't have done it.”(11:47 | Karissa)“I had to work on it for many, many years, much longer than your traditional product development cycle. That spirit of creating products that are truly solving problems still rings true in all of the products that we're creating. Because at the time the world didn't need another pair of false eyelashes or lash glue. There were great ones on the market, but we needed to solve a very specific problem.” (13:39 | Karissa)“We always say everybody's on the giving team at Thrive Cosmetics because one of our values is one team, one score.” (24:11 | Karissa)“I did not think that it would get this big. I did not think it would happen the way that it did and when it did, but that's one thing that always inspires me, Lindsay, is that I didn't dream that big, but our community did.” (34:34 | Karissa)Connect with Karissa Bodnar:Instagram:http://www.instagram.com/thrivecausemeticsInstagram:http://www.instagram.com/karissabodnarIf you like what you're hearing, please leave a rating or review at https://ratethispodcast.com/dearfoundher You can now work with Lindsay 1:1 to build and monetize your community through the same method she used to grow and scale her business. Fill out the form here and set up a FREE 30-minute consultation.Make sure you sign up for Lindsay's newsletter and have all of the takeaways from every podcast episode sent straight to your inbox. PLUS, you'll get a tip every week to help you grow and scale your own business.Don't forget to follow Lindsay on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsaypinchukPodcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean has spent the last 30+ years running a B2B sales and marketing consultancy helping executives of businesses grow and overcome sales and marketing barriers based on groundbreaking research in behavioral change. He's an author, speaker, and advisor for emerging middle-market businesses. Sean's expertise has helped executives of $5MM to $150MM companies scale their businesses and better leverage marketing through a comprehensive understanding of how buyers progress from unaware to advocacy. ---------------------------------------- This show is sponsored by Leopard Solutions Legal Intelligence Suite of products, Firmscape, and Leopard BI. Push ahead of the pack with the power of Leopard. For a free demo, visit this link: https://www.leopardsolutions.com/index.php/request-a-demo/ Links: https://www.fitzmartin.com/ https://seanmdoyle.com/ Buy Sean's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Shift-Practical-Business-Driven-Executive-Marketing/dp/1605440574

Sul do Brasil pode ter mais de 150mm de chuva em 24 horas; frio com geada moderada vem logo atrás do ciclone

In this week's episode, Terrie chats with ‘Nomad Investor' Elijah Brown, Founder of GoldHawk Capital. With a diverse real estate portfolio encompassing over 1,000 units and valued at $150MM, Elijah explains his journey, from living in a van to raising capital and building wealth through Real Estate. The conversation revolves around two main points: respect for risk and the wisdom acquired through Elijah's personal journey. The discussion covers the risks of solo investing, emphasizing the need for strong partners. Elijah also talks about the importance of learning the business in order to scale safely.   Throughout, Elilah weaves the theme of appropriate risk assessment, and why many investors fail to appreciate and respect the risks built into investment deals that may be available.    Tune in for an educational and engaging listen. Don't forget to subscribe for more!   What we learned from Elijah Brown and Terrie Schauer in this episode: - How to find the right partner as a real estate investor through different channels (LinkedIn, conferences, and more.) - The huge risk of being a solo investor — why having a reliable partner is the fastest way to success.  - The power of networking and the importance of having multiple income streams.  - The Nomad Investor… How did Elijah do it?  - How to start investing in Airbnb. - The benefits of investing in multifamily properties, how to find a good syndicator, and how to do your own research.    Notable Words From The Episode:   A lot of people try to jump into this space by themselves and do everything by themselves. I was one of them, I did that, and I burned out and it was risky. The better way to do it is to go work for someone who's doing it so that you can learn all the things not to do or the things to do. -Elijah Brown   In terms of how you network or how you build a network, that's also not something that you wake up with one day, that's something that is a product of years of farming. -Terrie Schauer   One way to get onto this path is to acquire some skills. You don't necessarily have to go and do a certificate, you know, at the university or go get like pay for education, you can also get a job somewhere, learn it, and then sell that skill or find a way to make money with it in real estate. -Terrie Schauer   Figure out a way to essentially get multiple streams of income, which you're only going to be able to do through entrepreneurship, or passively investing. That is a lot less risk because if one of those streams of income gets cut, like you get fired from your job, you've got the other ones to rely on. -Elijah Brown   Timestamp:   [00:00] Podcast intro [01:25] Elijah walks us through his life's journey that led him to become a real estate investor.  [04:28] Elijah shares how he was able to scale his portfolio up to 1000 units. [07:50] Terrie and Elijah talk about the power of networking and the importance of having multiple income streams.  [13:28] Elijah highlights the importance of having actual experience in doing deals.  [15:22] The nomad investor lifestyle and how it started.  [19:59] How one can start their own Airbnb and the benefits of investing in multifamily properties. [28:33] Elijah shares the lifestyle hits he took when he started his real estate investing journey.  [32:15] What we should be talking about in the real estate industry that we're not talking about? [38:22] Ways to connect with Elijah Brown.  [38:48] Podcast outro    Connect with Elijah Brown here:    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijahwbrown/ Learn how to passively invest in multifamily real estate: https://goldhawk.us/ebook  Market insights and access to Elijah's deals: https://goldhawk91591.activehosted.com/f/1    Connect with Us:   Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/restateinvestorsclub/  Email: reic@clubimmobilier.ca  Terrie Schauer's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrieschauer/  Terrie Schauer's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terrieschauer/ 

From a coil cleaning HVAC apprentice to President of Morris-Jenkins, Jonathan Bancroft joins To The Point for part two! We continue our conversation with Jonathan about how he helped grow the organization from 3.5MM to the 150MM powerhouse it is today.    

“I'm really passionate about creating beautiful spaces,” says Ariel Kaye, founder of home and lifestyle brand Parachute, which she founded in 2014 after realizing that she and her peers were having trouble finding cozy, quality sheets to furnish their post-college apartments. Since then, Parachute has become an industry disruptor in the home and textile space, evolving into a lifestyle brand which provides essentials for all rooms in the home. In nine years, Parachute has earned $150 million, added 20 brick-and-mortar locations across the U.S. to its direct-to-consumer model, and expanded into the Canadian market with the Hudson's Bay Company. The brand is dedicated to sustainability and climate neutral certification as well as to cultivating wellness and kindness. Come on in and meet Ariel, the founder who is spearheading a comfort movement across North America.Top takeaways from today's episode:You know you have a good idea when you can't think of anything elseAsking for help isn't a weakness–people are happy to give you their timePR is importantLook for consumer feedback when making decisions–especially about product extensionsBeing a founder can be chaotic and lonely. Keep a community around you to stay focusedQuotes• “I was 100% positive that this was a great idea. I felt it in my bones. I could not shake it.” (10:54-11:00 | Ariel)• “The response that we got from the customer was the indicator for me that we were onto something…It was just this, “ I see you,' moment.” (24:51-25:09 | Ariel)• “As someone who has a background in building relationships with the customer, the whole idea around Parachute was, ‘How do you build a relationship with the customer so that they keep coming back?'... I knew that retail had to be a big part of it.” (28:12-28:46 | Ariel)Connect with Ariel Kaye:Instagram Ariel | https://www.instagram.com/arielkaye/Instagram Parachute | http://www.instagram.com/parachutePlease don't forget to rate, comment, and subscribe to Dear FoundHer on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!You can now work with Lindsay 1:1 to build and monetize your community through the same method she used to grow and scale her business. Fill out the form here and set up a FREE 30-minute consultation.Make sure you sign up for Lindsay's newsletter and have all of the takeaways from every podcast episode sent straight to your inbox. PLUS, you'll get a tip every week to help you grow and scale your own business.Don't forget to follow Lindsay on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsaypinchukUse code FoundHer for 50% off your first month with both HiveCast and FiresidePodcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Abel Pacheco is a real estate entrepreneur and Texas native. With a proven track record of repositioning properties, delivering quality renovated housing products to market, and delivering consistent returns to investment partners. Abel has experience in acquiring distressed properties, managing renovations, raising private capital, and management of multi-family investment properties. Abel and his wife have invested, owned, and operated income-producing properties since 2008. Abel is a General Partner and Principal in $150MM+ of Commercial Real Estate across 17 syndications and 1500+ doors. He is also working on developing a 156‐door multifamily property, and 98 unit build-to-rent community. He has also served as a commercial loan broker. His wife Leslie has also invested on her own in 500+ doors of commercial real estate. Prior to real estate investing, Abel was a senior tech sales executive. He brings 20 years of professional experience, including a verifiable 10x track record going from 5.6 million in acquisitions to 57 million in acquisitions in 2015. Abel Pacheco, President and Principal of 5 Talents Capital, and the host of the Five Talent Podcast. He also hosts CRE Meetups, a monthly multi-family meetup providing free multi-family investing education for others in the community.

Greetings & welcome back to the rose bros podcast.This episode we are joined by Chris Slubicki, most recently President, CEO & Director of Modern Resources Inc., a Calgary-based private oil and gas company which was sold to Tourmaline Oil for ~$150MM.  From 2009 to 2011, Chris was Chief Executive Officer of OPTI Canada, which was sold to CNOOC for $2.1 billion in late 2011.Chris is the former Vice-Chairman of Scotia Waterous and was one of the four original founders of Waterous and Co., a private global oil and gas mergers and acquisitions firm, starting the firm in Calgary in 1989. Prior to selling the firm to Bank of Nova Scotia in 2005, the firm expanded to offices in five countries with a staff of 88 and completed hundreds of oil and gas transactions over its 17-year tenure. Chris has held operations management and engineering positions within the oil and gas industry at Placer CEGO Petroleum Ltd. and Chevron Canada Resources Ltd.  Chris graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Queen's University and an MBA from the University of Calgary. He is a Professional Engineer in Alberta, and a member of APEGA. Chris served on the board of Alpine Canada Alpine for seven years, the last two as Chair. Chris coached young ski racers with the Fernie Alpine Ski Team for 14 years and served as President of the club for three years.We sat down for a smooth cup of rose bros coffeeand discussed entrepreneurial success, the easiest way to reduce emissions, opaque green energy policies, Jevons Paradox, why the energy industry benefits all Canadians & why the world needs more of it.Enjoy!This episode is also available on YouTube, so check out the rose bros channel, and if you enjoyed the conversation, subscribe to the channel. Also, this podcast is sponsored by Headracingcanada.comLooking for high performance ski gear this winter? In partnership with 4x-Olympian Manny-Osborne Paradis, Headracingcanada.com is offering the lowest prices possible through its online storefront, by passing brick and mortar savings to customers. Check out  Headracingcanada.com for more info on high performance gear for the upcoming ski season.Support the show

Jeff kicks off the new year with some tips on goal-setting, including how to ensure your vision and values are aligned to goals, and reviewing common goal-setting mistakes. As he takes a pause on producing new episodes for 6-weeks, Jeff revisits his interview with Xavier Naville, Author of “The Lettuce Diaries: How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables in China.” Xavier is the Principal at Vision Management Consultants, and was CEO of the Creative Food Group, a key supplier to major restaurant chains in China, like McDonald's, KFC, and Starbucks. Xavier grew the company to one that now has nine factories serving 6,500 restaurants a day and over $150MM in revenue. Jeff and Xavier discuss how his business experiences in China were vastly different than what is typical in most western companies. They talk about which leadership principles are universal, regardless of the country or industry. Xavier shares his personal stories about managing a Chinese team as a foreigner, trying to work with Chinese farmers to improve how they conducted agriculture, all while navigating investor demands. He and Jeff discuss the five ingredients that make up the “Complete Leader.” Xavier shares vulnerably from his leadership journey, which included some nail-biting experiences of being an expatriate in China, almost failing at his business, and his eventual successful exit.

Networking is a vital part of building a business. However, it can also be intimidating. On this new episode of Elevate Your Equity Podcast, we have an amazing guest, Abel Pacheco -  a real estate entrepreneur and Texas native. In this show, he explains the importance of networks and relationships in building a real estate investing business. We also talked about his mindset and the skills he honed that leveraged him to become successful in his business.Topics discussed:• His journey of scaling up• His advice on how to build a networkMore about Abel, He has experience in acquiring distressed properties, managing renovations, raising private capital, and management of multifamily investment properties. Abel, his wife, and children have lived in San Antonio Tx since 1998 and they have invested, owned & operated income‐producing properties since 2008.Abel is a General Partner and Principal in $150MM+ of Commercial Real Estate across 17 syndications and 1500+ doors. He is also working on developing a 156‐door multifamily property, and 98 unit build-to-rent community. He has also served as a commercial loan broker. His wife Leslie has also invested on her own in 500+ doors of commercial real estate. Prior to his Real Estate investing career, Abel was a Senior technology sales executive. He has 20+ years of progressively complex sales execution and sales management experience across computer software, cloud management, workforce management, and enterprise software.Connect with Abel on LinkedIn and all social media platforms. Learn more about his business by visiting his website at 5 Talents Capital https://5talents.capital/. Check out his amazing podcast How To Build Wealth Like The 1%.Thanks a bunch Abel Pacheco for coming on the show!Unlock 3+1 degrees of freedom (time, location, financial + health) with our 5-Point Blueprint! https://elevateequity.org/podcastgiftIf you really enjoyed this content and are looking for more, you can continue to learn more about us in several different places for free!on our website for blogs & other podcast interviews! elevateequity.orgour YouTube channel! youtube.com/channel/derekcliffordour book/audiobook! amazon.com/dp/ebookIf you'd like to have a FREE copy of our 7 Ways Commercial Real Estate Syndications Protect and Build Wealth, simply click the link below. We are here and vested in your long-term success! elevateequity.org/7waysEbook

「Irix、シネレンズの新バージョン「Irix Cine 150mm T3.0 TELE」発表」　Irix Cine 150mm T3.0 Macro 1:1は2019年に市場に投入されたマイクロ専用レンズで、主に被写体に近づいて撮影するために調整されたフォーカスリングを特徴としている。同レンズは、より遠い面にもピントを合わせることが可能だが、その特殊性から、リングの可動範囲がかなり狭くなるという。そのため撮影対象からより遠い距離で快適に作業できるバージョンを作れないかと、同社に要望があったという。ユーザーの声を大切にしている同社は、150mm T3.0レンズに「TELE」を冠した第2弾を開発にいたったという。

Tony Harman - Founder, CEOTony Harman has been running game development companies since the '80s, creating products that have earned over a billion dollars in revenue. He began his career with a decade at Nintendo of America in charge of acquisitions and development, including blockbuster titles like Donkey Kong Country. As President of DMA Design, his team created Grand Theft Auto, one of the most successful franchises of all time. Tony later cofounded Realtime Worlds and developed GTA's MMO successor All Points Bulletin, as well as the hit franchise Crackdown. Most recently, Tony was President of nWay, a mobile-focused game developer focused on bringing console-quality games to mobile: ChronoBlade and high-profile licenses such as Power Rangers and WWE. Tony has raised over $150MM for the companies he has founded.Links:@theunioverse, https://unioverse.com/ *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy but only as an expression of his opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only.~Want more information on us? Please check out our Linktree for all our info :)linktr.ee/cryptocurrent

Logan Freeman has facilitated over $150MM in over 125 separate real estate transactions and focuses on working with local and out-of-state investors to acquire investment property in the Greater Kansas City market. Learn More About Logan Here: FTW Investments - https://ftwinvestmentsllc.com/ LiveFree Investments - https://www.livefreeinvestments.com/ Connect with the Global Investors Show, Charles Carillo and Harborside Partners: ◾ Setup a FREE 15 Minute Strategy Call with Charles: http://ScheduleCharles.com ◾ FREE Passive Investing Guide: http://www.HSPguide.com ◾ Join Our Weekly Email Newsletter: http://www.HSPsignup.com ◾ Passively Invest in Real Estate: http://www.InvestHSP.com ◾ Global Investors Web Page: http://GlobalInvestorsPodcast.com/  

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Today, Rachel and Andrea interview superstar athlete and investor, Zane Schartz. Zane is the Chief Investment Officer of Wolfe Investments and he is a partner in over $150MM worth of commercial real estate and has a multifamily portfolio of over 1,000 units. Zane is passionate about maximizing returns for investors and adding value to their portfolios through using creative methods to generate wealth. He attended Liberty University where he played college hockey and went on to play professionally for three years in North America and Europe after graduation. Zane is an active member at Watermark Community Church in Dallas. His biggest goal in life is to create a non-profit organization that funds Christian missionaries around the world. Tune in to hear more about Zane's incredible story and how he scaled his investment business to the stratosphere by leveraging other people's capital! Contact Zane: zane@wolfe-re.com Join our meetup group! https://www.meetup.com/the-passive-investors-network-with-goodgood-investing/ Download our e-Book at: www.goodgoodinvesting.com –– **Under no circumstances should any material at this site be used or considered as an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy an interest in any investment. Any such offer or solicitation will be made only by means of the Confidential Private Offering Memorandum relating to the particular investment. Access to information about the investments are limited to investors who either qualify as accredited investors within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or those investors who generally are sophisticated in financial matters, such that they are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of prospective investments. You should always consult certified professionals before making decisions regarding your individual financial situation. Rachel Grunn and Andrea Cwik are not financial professionals, and GoodGood Investing is not a brokerage, dealer, or SEC-registered investment advisory firm**

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The Investor Relations Real Estate Podcast Episode 96 - How Do You Build Wealth? Host: Jonny Cattani Guest: Logan Freeman Producer: April MunsonJonny Cattani is joined by Logan Freeman to discuss:How do you build wealth? BRRR method Office space The IDEAL investment Intrinsic motivation Logan Freeman is co-Founder and Principal of FTW Investments and serves as the Chief Development Officer. Logan has facilitated over $150MM in real estate transactions. Logan has a unique understanding of the needs and wants of sophisticated investors enabling him to effectively support individuals and organizations along their investment journey. Logan is particularly adept at sourcing off-market properties, with more than 50% of his completed transactions involving off-market properties. Having completed over 125 transactions, Logan has found a reliable process for executing real estate transactions. Logan is an advocate for affordable housing and works closely with many organizations in helping to end homelessness in Kansas City. Understanding how to “do well by doing good” is Logan's motto and has made it his “why” for doing business. Logan holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Central Missouri.  Linked material referenced during the show: Book: Millionaire Fastlane - MJ Demarcohttps://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Fastlane-Crack-Wealth-Lifetime/dp/B0146TGBZ8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6HLVRVDXWH47&keywords=millionaire+fastlane&qid=1660360783&sprefix=millionaires+fast%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-1  Connect with Logan! Email: logan@ftwinvestmentsllc.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/livefreeinvestmentsWebsite: https://ftwinvestmentsllc.com/ Connect with Jonny!Cattani Capital Group: https://cattanicapitalgroup.com/Invest with us: invest@cattanicapitalgroup.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-cattani-53159b179/Jonny's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonnycattani/IRR Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theirrpodcast/TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@jonnycattani?lang=enYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCljEz4pq_paQ9keABhJzt0AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.cattani.1

With the news reporting a recession on the horizon, and many investors frozen by fear, it's understandable if you're not sure whether now is the right time to get into real estate. Many seasoned investors are sitting on the sidelines right now, waiting until things seem more certain. However, Warren Buffet is famous for saying, “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” So, is now the time to be greedy? This is the question we grapple with as investors, and the one we attempt to tackle during our conversation with today's special guest. Hunter is a full-time real estate investor, and founder of Asym Capital (“AY-SIM). Since founding Asym, Hunter has helped more than 400 retail investors acquire over $150,000,000 of mobile home parks, self-storage, retail, office, ATM machines, and cryptocurrency assets. Hunter is also the host of the Cash Flow Connections Real Estate Podcast which has received over 1,000,000 downloads. He also wrote Raising Capital for Real Estate which hit #1 on Amazon in Real Estate Sales and Selling. Hunter discusses the stock market crash that sparked his interest in real estate, the reality of sitting on the sidelines during this time of unprecedented opportunity, and his views on the impact of today's economic climate on real estate investors. Hunter also shares some impactful advice to anyone who is new to real estate investing, and isn't sure what step to take next. This timely interview is one you cannot afford to miss. Connect with Hunter: Website: https://asymcapital.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hunterlthompson_/?hl=en Raising Capital for Real Estate: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08129C85Q/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 If you want to download our FREE 5 Mistakes New Investors Make Playbook, go to www.donisinvestmentgroup.com/playbook. Follow Us: @donisbrothers on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @Donis Investment Group on Linkedin Website – www.donisinvestmentgroup.com

With the news reporting a recession on the horizon, and many investors frozen by fear, it's understandable if you're not sure whether now is the right time to get into real estate. Many seasoned investors are sitting on the sidelines right now, waiting until things seem more certain. However, Warren Buffet is famous for saying, “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” So, is now the time to be greedy? This is the question we grapple with as investors, and the one we attempt to tackle during our conversation with today's special guest. Hunter is a full-time real estate investor, and founder of Asym Capital (“AY-SIM). Since founding Asym, Hunter has helped more than 400 retail investors acquire over $150,000,000 of mobile home parks, self-storage, retail, office, ATM machines, and cryptocurrency assets. Hunter is also the host of the Cash Flow Connections Real Estate Podcast which has received over 1,000,000 downloads. He also wrote Raising Capital for Real Estate which hit #1 on Amazon in Real Estate Sales and Selling. Hunter discusses the stock market crash that sparked his interest in real estate, the reality of sitting on the sidelines during this time of unprecedented opportunity, and his views on the impact of today's economic climate on real estate investors. Hunter also shares some impactful advice to anyone who is new to real estate investing, and isn't sure what step to take next. This timely interview is one you cannot afford to miss. Connect with Hunter: Website: https://asymcapital.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hunterlthompson_/?hl=en Raising Capital for Real Estate: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08129C85Q/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 If you want to download our FREE 5 Mistakes New Investors Make Playbook, go to www.donisinvestmentgroup.com/playbook. Follow Us: @donisbrothers on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @Donis Investment Group on Linkedin Website – www.donisinvestmentgroup.com

How do the mentally strong manage their money? In a world where it seems like there's a disconnect between those who have money and those who don't, are there things we can do on a daily basis to transform our mindset around money?Joining me for this conversation is Winnie Sun.Winnie is one of the most trusted financial voices on social media today. With 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, Winnie serves as Managing Director of Sun Group Wealth Partners, CNBC Financial Advisor Council, Forbes contributor, regular Good Day Los Angeles, host of the Yes Factor podcast, and is also tv host of LevelUp With Winnie Sun on NASDAQ, Amazon Fire, Roku. Her trending business tweetchat averages over 150MM impressions per week.Winnie gives listeners actionable tips on: [1:45] Where to start with managing your money [5:50] How to shift your mindset around talking about finances and money [8:30] Tips to manage and keep track of your money [15:00] How to invest smartly [20:00] Why should we start building credit as soon as possible [24:30] Winnie's book recommendation Resources mentioned in this episode:The Trillion Dollar Coach by Bill CampbellConnect with Winnie here: Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Facebook https://sungroupwp.com/  Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com  https://www.instagram.com/winniesundotcom/

How do the mentally strong manage their money?  In a world where it seems like there's a disconnect between those who have money and those who don't, are there things we can do on a daily basis to transform our mindset around money? Joining me for this conversation is Winnie Sun. Winnie is one of the most trusted financial voices on social media today. With 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, Winnie serves as Managing Director of Sun Group Wealth Partners, CNBC Financial Advisor Council, Forbes contributor, regular Good Day Los Angeles, host of the Yes Factor podcast, and is also tv host of LevelUp With Winnie Sun on NASDAQ, Amazon Fire, Roku. Her trending business tweetchat averages over 150MM impressions per week. Winnie gives listeners actionable tips on: [1:45] Where to start with managing your money [5:50] How to shift your mindset around talking about finances and money [8:30] Tips to manage and keep track of your money [15:00] How to invest smartly [20:00] Why should we start building credit as soon as possible [24:30] Winnie's book recommendation Resources mentioned in this episode: The Trillion Dollar Coach by Bill Campbell Connect with Winnie here: Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Facebook https://sungroupwp.com/  Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com  https://www.instagram.com/winniesundotcom/

How do the mentally strong manage their money?  In a world where it seems like there's a disconnect between those who have money and those who don't, are there things we can do on a daily basis to transform our mindset around money? Joining me for this conversation is Winnie Sun. Winnie is one of the most trusted financial voices on social media today. With 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, Winnie serves as Managing Director of Sun Group Wealth Partners, CNBC Financial Advisor Council, Forbes contributor, regular Good Day Los Angeles, host of the Yes Factor podcast, and is also tv host of LevelUp With Winnie Sun on NASDAQ, Amazon Fire, Roku. Her trending business tweetchat averages over 150MM impressions per week. Winnie gives listeners actionable tips on: [1:45] Where to start with managing your money [5:50] How to shift your mindset around talking about finances and money [8:30] Tips to manage and keep track of your money [15:00] How to invest smartly [20:00] Why should we start building credit as soon as possible [24:30] Winnie's book recommendation Resources mentioned in this episode: The Trillion Dollar Coach by Bill Campbell Connect with Winnie here: Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Facebook https://sungroupwp.com/  Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com  https://www.instagram.com/winniesundotcom/

Fernando is the co-founder of MarketplaceOps, and specializes in scaling CPG brands on Amazon. MarketplaceOps leverages fully-integrated technology and proprietary marketing techniques to beat your competition with repeatable strategies. Fernando has generated more than $150MM in revenue for his clients, and sold two businesses in the Amazon space. His companies were ranked in the Inc. 5000 in 2019 & 2020, and in Entrepreneur360 in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 https://www.marketplaceops.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernandoc01/ Make sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you are notified of new episodes!

Logan has facilitated over $150MM in real estate transactions. He has a unique understanding of the needs and wants of sophisticated investors enabling him to effectively support individuals and organizations along their investment journey. Logan is particularly adept at sourcing off-market properties, with more than 50% of his completed transactions involving off market properties. Having completed over 125 transactions, Logan has found a reliable process for executing real estate transactions. Logan is an advocate for affordable housing and works closely with many organizations in helping to end homelessness in Kansas City. Understanding how to “do well by doing good” is his motto and has made it his “why” for doing business. Logan holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Central Missouri. https://www.linkedin.com/in/livefreeinvestments/ https://ftwinvestmentsllc.com/ The CRE SharkEye Show https://www.youtube.com/c/YishaiBreslauer The best 6 secrets of commercial real estate download free https://lnkd.in/dZkCUFR The CRE Crash Course - Everything you need in order to get the Must Have Skills for Commercial Real Estate, in only 2 weeks https://www.crelaunchpad.com/cre-crash-course

ABOUT JOHN DESSAUER John Dessauer is the Chief Creative Officer of The Dessauer Group and also runs a property management, lending, and marketing company. John has a Bachelor's Degree in Biology and Business Administration from St. Ambrose University. He is a published author of a few books on real estate and business and is a sought-out speaker around the world regarding real estate, business, and entrepreneurship. John and Heather live right outside of Chicago on a 900-acre lake with their three children.    THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL: [01:45] 90-unit deal in Lafayette, Indiana [02:15] How he found the deal [03:40] Divide-and-conquer strategy[04:30] Sales comparison approach [06:54] Underwriting the deal[07:20] Planning and understanding the Exit strategy [09:18] Negotiation with the bank and 80-10-10 strategy[10:45] Importance of good debt service ratio [12:50] Educating the people that are involved in closing the deal[14:51] How to reach out to John Dessauer  KEY QUOTE: [06:19] I am using the bank's rules that are put forth on what dictates 5-units and over (income capitalization approach) and 4-units and under, valuation systems approach that are tied to each one of those. [07:01] When I'm underwriting a property, I always want to make sure that I have safety nets. Just like a fireman who goes into a burning building, they want to have at least two ways out. I looked at my real estate investments the same way.     SUMMARY OF BUSINESS:John Dessauer has owned many companies in various industries, including Environmental Services, Hospitality Services, Auto Services, Marketing, Education, and Real Estate. Regarding real estate, John has transacted hundreds of deals in real estate in different sectors such as apartments, office buildings, retail, single-family homes, and condominiums all within his personal portfolio.Anton Agency has managed and brokered over 2MM of rental and retail square feet, which translates into over $150MM in property values.  As a Managing Broker in Illinois, Indiana, and Florida he has the experience, knowledge, and creativity to not only help you buy, sell and create a deal in real estate, but his team can finance it as well.    ABOUT THE WESTSIDE INVESTORS NETWORK     TheWestside Investors Network is your community for investing knowledge for growth. For real estate professionals by real estate professionals. This show is focused on the next step in your career... investing, for those starting with nothing to multifamily syndication.      The Westside Investors Network strives to bring knowledge and education to the real estate professional that is seeking to gain more freedom in their life. The host AJ and Chris Shepard, are committed to sharing the wealth of knowledge that they have gained throughout the years to allow others the opportunity to learn and grow in their investing. They own Uptown Properties, a successful Property Management, and Brokerage Company. If you are interested in Property Management in the Portland Metro or Bend Metro Areas, please visit www.uptownpm.com. If you are interested in investing in multifamily syndication, please visit www.uptownsyndication.com.                 #realestate #realestateinvesting #passiveincome #realestateinvestor #investor #investments #properties #realestateinvestment #business #REinvesting #beyourownboss #motivation #mindset #success #entrepreneur #multifamily #realestategoals #cashflow #rentalproperty #investing101 #financialfreedom #author #coach #speaker #apartmentinvesting #passivewealth #incomeapproach #valueadd #investingtips #localcommunity #debserviceratio #divideandconquerstrategy #exitstrategy#salescomparisonapproach #duplex #underwriting #negotiation #dealdeepdive #Indiana #Lafayette      CONNECT WITH JOHN DESSAUER Website: https://www.thedessauergroup.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-dessauer-6557164a/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realwiserealestateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dessauerjohn/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QOSMdGy37WKEv87S97egg    CONNECT WITH US   For more information about investing with AJ and Chris:  ·    Uptown Syndication | https://www.uptownsyndication.com/  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/71673294/admin/         For information on Portland Property Management:  ·    Uptown Properties | http://www.uptownpm.com  ·    Youtube | @UptownProperties     Westside Investors Network  ·    Website | https://www.westsideinvestorsnetwork.com/  ·    Twitter | https://twitter.com/WIN_pdx  ·    Instagram | @westsideinvestorsnetwork  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13949165/  ·    Facebook | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  ·    Youtube | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  

ABOUT JOHN DESSAUER John Dessauer is the Chief Creative Officer of The Dessauer Group and also runs a property management, lending, and marketing company. John has a Bachelor's Degree in Biology and Business Administration from St. Ambrose University. He is a published author of a few books on real estate and business and is a sought-out speaker around the world regarding real estate, business, and entrepreneurship. John and Heather live right outside of Chicago on a 900-acre lake with their three children.    THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL: [01:31] John's career background[02:06] What propelled him to real estate[03:40] Leaving the corporate world to build other businesses[06:40] First mistake on being over-leveraged in investment[08:11] His best practices as an investor [11:46] Tips on how to find a winning deal[13:20] Deals that are run by mom-and-pop operations[14:25] Tenant-based approach that can withstand the storm[14:40] Adding value through taxes and insurance[17:15] Finding leads with for rent signs[19:17] Closing the 10-unit deal[20:57] Factors to consider when looking at deals [25:20] Success ratio before getting that first deal[25:42] Understanding a good local market [27:43] Best way to converse with the owner/seller[31:04] Advice to his 25-year-old self[31:59] His first entrepreneurial endeavor[33:38] His formal and informal training that shaped his journey[35:54] Biggest mistake and what he learned from it[39:01] Best way to reach out to John Dessauer     KEY QUOTE: [06:32] Just because you can buy things with no money down, doesn't mean that you should. I have learned the importance of not being over-leveraged, and it's one of the first lessons that I learned. [22:59] One way to look for smaller deals is that you should be proactive and call those for rent signs. Don't be afraid to call these folks because you'll never know what type of financial challenges they are facing and why somebody would possibly want to sell.  [38:21] History doesn't exactly repeat itself, but it rhymes. You can lose on a 48-unit building, you can lose in a market like Austin and Texas, even though it's 2022, and we think everything is going to be great. Just be aware that it's the market that dictates your success or failures and the actions you take within those market changes.      SUMMARY OF BUSINESS:John Dessauer has owned many companies in various industries, including Environmental Services, Hospitality Services, Auto Services, Marketing, Education, and Real Estate. Regarding real estate, John has transacted hundreds of deals in real estate in different sectors such as apartments, office buildings, retail, single-family homes, and condominiums all within his personal portfolio.Anton Agency has managed and brokered over 2MM of rental and retail square feet, which translates into over $150MM in property values.  As a Managing Broker in Illinois, Indiana, and Florida he has the experience, knowledge, and creativity to not only help you buy, sell and create a deal in real estate, but his team can finance it as well.    ABOUT THE WESTSIDE INVESTORS NETWORK     TheWestside Investors Network is your community for investing knowledge for growth. For real estate professionals by real estate professionals. This show is focused on the next step in your career... investing, for those starting with nothing to multifamily syndication.      The Westside Investors Network strives to bring knowledge and education to the real estate professional that is seeking to gain more freedom in their life. The host AJ and Chris Shepard, are committed to sharing the wealth of knowledge that they have gained throughout the years to allow others the opportunity to learn and grow in their investing. They own Uptown Properties, a successful Property Management, and Brokerage Company. If you are interested in Property Management in the Portland Metro or Bend Metro Areas, please visit www.uptownpm.com. If you are interested in investing in multifamily syndication, please visit www.uptownsyndication.com.                 #realestate #realestateinvesting #passiveincome #realestateinvestor #investor #investments #properties #realestateinvestment #business #REinvesting #beyourownboss #motivation #mindset #success #entrepreneur #multifamily #realestategoals #cashflow #rentalproperty #investing101 #financialfreedom #brokerage #propertymanagement #marketing #lendingcompany #author #coach #speaker #apartmentinvesting #winningdeal #passiveincome #passivewealth #momandpopoperators #incomeapproach #forrentsigns #forsalebyowner #FSBO #overleveraged #valueadd #owner #seller #localmarket #smallerdeals #passiveincome #equity #investingtips #localcommunity      CONNECT WITH JOHN DESSAUER Website: https://www.thedessauergroup.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-dessauer-6557164a/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realwiserealestateInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dessauerjohn/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_QOSMdGy37WKEv87S97egg    CONNECT WITH US   For more information about investing with AJ and Chris:  ·    Uptown Syndication | https://www.uptownsyndication.com/  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/71673294/admin/         For information on Portland Property Management:  ·    Uptown Properties | http://www.uptownpm.com  ·    Youtube | @UptownProperties     Westside Investors Network  ·    Website | https://www.westsideinvestorsnetwork.com/  ·    Twitter | https://twitter.com/WIN_pdx  ·    Instagram | @westsideinvestorsnetwork  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13949165/  ·    Facebook | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  ·    Youtube | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  

Even as a young girl creating lemonade stands, Chinwe Onyeagoro was always thinking about franchising and creating more. Join an entrepreneurial convo with Chinwe Onyeagoro and LL discussing launching, managing, and visualizing startups. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:The journey to CEO and recognizing Plan ZHow you raise money as a small businessFinding the need to create a startup Feedback, launching, and the process to get it rightGrowth with sharing and celebration Trust is always key for customer support and serviceVisualization to change the status quo Episode References/Links:WebsiteInstagramGuest Bio:Chinwe is the co-founder and CEO of PocketSuite. After graduating from Harvard, Chinwe worked as a management consultant at McKinsey providing strategic advice to Fortune 1000 companies. She came to the realization that her passion was not in helping multi-billion dollar businesses increase market share, but in helping solo operators and micro businesses succeed. Her initial focus was working with small business owners to access growth capital through a network of 300+ lenders.After raising over $150MM in capital for small businesses, Chinwe recognized that more than loans most service professionals just needed a simpler way to get booked and paid on a recurring basis by their clients. These professionals were either using too many single purpose apps or just pen and paper, spending countless hours trying to find, convert, and follow-up with clients.By combining insight into the operations of successful service professionals with an understanding of the power of technology to automate any business workflow, Chinwe has gained recognition as a thought leader in helping small businesses succeed. PocketSuite is an all-in-one mobile and desktop app that helps any service professional with clients manage scheduling, invoicing, payment processing, contracts and text-based client communication.  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  Hello Be It listener, I have a very special guest. And I'm sure I say that at least 17 times, but it's okay. Because I really do have a very special guest for you today. It's funny how things work out. And I really want you to know that if something you were working on, doesn't work out, and you were like, but that's the thing I was gonna do. I need you to listen this whole episode because I actually share how I spent time with a company working really hard to make something happen and it didn't happen. And it didn't happen because it wasn't supposed to because the thing that I'm doing now with our guests, that's the thing that is supposed to happen. That's where the magic is. And I am honored, honored, to be working with them, and to be part of the mission that they're on because our missions are so aligned. So today I have Chinwe Onyeagoro. She is the CEO of PocketSuite, which is the scheduling tool that Profitable Pilates one of my companies has partnered with, with the Profitable Pilates signature edition. This is for any service based business. So if you're not a Pilates instructor and listen this but you are in the service based business, I really want you to check it out. Also, just I'm so excited to hear what she talks about in creating this company. Because no matter what it is that you're creating, whether it is a lemonade stand, or it is a you know, Breathworks Company, or Pilates business, or maybe you're an artist, or maybe you actually want to be an interior decorator, all those things. I want you to listen to how she created her company, and how she got it to grow. Because I'm a firm believer, if you build it, they don't just come like out of the blue, you have to put it out there, share it, listen. And she she shares a beautiful roadmap that I believe that you all can be inspired by, take some nuggets with. And hopefully you try out our tool, the tool we've got together because it really is going to make it easier for you to do what you're here to do. You've got a purpose on this planet. And you need an easy way to do it, an easy way to run it, an easy way to make it. So simple. So anyways, that being said, if you're interested in the 30 day trial, we have the link in the show notes below. But here you are, the woman of the of the moment, Chinwe is here to share her story of how she got from being a seven year old little girl creating businesses to the CEO of an incredible incredible company PocketSuite. Thank you so much. And here she is.Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast, where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice not, a perfect. Let's get started.All right, Be It listeners, I have a very special woman here. I'm really excited to actually have her all to myself because every time I've ever got to talk to this woman there's like six heads on the screen. And but we we met because well I'm gonna let her talk about it in just a second. However, it just amazing like the divine appointments that people you can meet on this world when you're just working on your passion and like the purpose of solving problems. And so Chinwe Onyeagoro, I'm so thrilled to have you here. Can you please tell the Be It listeners who you are and what you're up to right now?Chinwe Onyeagoro 4:00  Lesley, I am super excited to be talking to you and the Profitable Pilates community. My name is Chinwe Onyeagoro. And I'm the CEO and co founder of a company called PocketSuite. I'll tell you more about it.Lesley Logan 4:13  Yeah. Okay. So, you know, you're the CEO. How does, how does one get there? Because I think that is, you know, I have I was the CEO of my own companies, which is like it felt it felt really weird to be that one. There's like four people on the team. I'm like, "Really, am I a the CEO of something." (Chinwe: Exactly.) And then I and then I went then we came a team of 20. And I was like, "Actually, I'm not a CEO. I'm just on the Chief Visionary Officer, thank you so much." But how did how did you get to being the CEO of this amazing company? What was the journey there?Chinwe Onyeagoro 4:42  Yeah, it's really funny. I joke, "I'm the Chief Evangelist Officer." Right? (Lesley: Yes) Like, that's really what the CEO is. Right? You're like the face and you're helping to create the vision as you said. So I like to tell folks that my path to CEO was very windy. Let's say that I'm on my plan Z, you know, we, our parents talk to us about plan A, plan B. And it's like, "No, no, let's keep going." (Chinwe and Lesley laughs) It's a windy road. I'm just from a very early age, I'm originally from Nigeria. And I've always been really motivated to kind of understand how business works and how you help people kind of make money and live a great life. And for me, I just was very intrigued by entrepreneurism very early. So I would at the age of seven, I had friends, we'd always come up with business ideas, whether it's like a baby sitters club, or a lemonade stand, and everybody had a role, right? So there was someone who loved to think about how much sugar do we put in the lemonade mix? And I was the one always writing the business plan. It's like, "How we're going to get the next lemonade stand on the next block?" Right? And so, that has just been my path. If I'm hanging out with my friends, and we're walking, you know, down the street, we're looking inside stores, I'm always bugged by stores that only have like few pieces of merchandise, and like, "How are they making money? Are they selling on Amazon? Are they ..." And my friends like, "Are you going in to buy something or can we move on?" Right? And so that's just my thing ... (Chinwe laughs)Lesley Logan 6:04  Oh my god, I love that so much, I would I still do this, I like look at space, and like, "Oh, my god, that would make an excellent this." Like (Chinwe: Exactly) I just someday, I see myself just being an amazing paid consultant because ...Chinwe Onyeagoro 6:14  Exactly. It's just in the DNA, right? So so you could kind of say that, like I always, I was always going to be on a path to sort of running a business or helping to manage a business. And I started out just asking a lot of questions. So I went into consulting, because that's kind of the path where you can get exposure to a lot of different types of businesses, a lot of different industries, you get to like, learn fast. How they make money, and then help them make more money come up with ideas, right? So that was kind of my early, my early kind of experience or professional experience after college. And then fast forward, I started thinking about gosh, you know, there are specific problems I'd like to solve, and it's for much smaller businesses, but like big businesses, the Fortune 500 companies are kind of fun, you get to play a little bit lot more resources. But in terms of impact, and like, but for my efforts, like would this have happened? It's the smaller businesses, it's the folks who are going out these heroes, right, your listeners, right, that have gone out and said, "I'm going to follow my passion. I'm going to work for myself." And they've you know, frankly, I like to say that, you know, solopreneurs folks who have small teams, like you might be doing it and you're independent, but you're not alone. You've got teams of folks, right, that are kind of helping you from different parts of the ecosystem. And I was one of those folks who kind of stepped out and started helping people raise money, get business loans, created a company that was really just about you should be able to get the loan you need to help your business grow. And ...Lesley Logan 6:30  So I, I have a question about that. Because I feel like raising money is literally (Chinwe: Yeah) a being it till you see it because you're correct me (Chinwe: Yeah) if I'm wrong, you are going into a room and you're saying, "This is what its gonna look like. (Chinwe: Yeah) This is what we're doing all (Chinwe: Yeah) that stuff." And half the time you haven't even like press play on anything happens ... (Lesley laughs)Chinwe Onyeagoro 8:04  Totally, totally. So three things, one is most people the first money they raise is their credit card, their personal credit card, they're just using their credit card, because you're right, there's no one there that kind of believes in what you see. And so you have to like bet on yourself. Right? So that's the first thing. The second thing is the vast majority of businesses, the kind of businesses, we work with Lesley, our service based businesses, and they're not really raising equity money, right? They're typically getting debt, they're getting small business loans from like banks, or credit unions or like smaller, and those are the category of folks who are looking at you and saying, "Well, can you repay me? (Lesley: Yeah) I know you want to do all this cool stuff, but like how much money you're making today to be able to pay me back, if I give you this money." Again, that's why we use our credit cards, because we already have that. So I was actually helping them raise that kind of money. And then there's a small group of folks who are creating chains of Pilates studios and chains of yoga sho... you know, studios where they can actually kind of go out to an equity investor. (Lesley: Yeah) They say their first investors were friends, family, or fools. And so you might go out to that group first to get some money. (Chinwe and Lesley laughs) And then the next wave. So I raised about $150 million in small business loans for businesses. So yay, that was really exciting. And this was a category of folks who were getting rejected about 80% of the time (Lesley: Yeah) for traditional bank loans. So routing ...Lesley Logan 9:25  Definitely, was one of those people. So (Chinwe laughs) here I was making over six figures could show every single year more and more like growth, and I went to the bank and I was like, "I just need $15,000." I didn't think that was a lot of money. (Chinwe: Yeah) And they, 100% I was like, "Do I borrow more? Is more better like what's the amount that I need to borrow?" So I had to use a credit card and buy the equipment on a credit card. Hustle to pay that credit card down. So when the balance came due, I could put that on the card. (Lesley laughs)Chinwe Onyeagoro 9:53  Crazy, crazy. Yeah, that's it. That's the path. Right. So and that's the thing, right, like banks aren't funding your growth. They're typically funding your cash flow. Right. They're like just saying, "Hey, you can..." They're not funding growth because they don't necessarily believe, right? And what you see in the future, they're just going to fund what you're making right now. So what I found is that a lot of folks were raising this money, and it was really to cover cash flow. And I just was confused by it, right? Like you're primarily a service based business, you're offering these great services to clients that are paying you that regularly, why are you raising money to cover that cash flow, it's because they weren't billing on time, they weren't collecting the money upfront, they weren't selling things like packages to be able to sell bundles. And so they were basically eroding their margin by raising this money to have to pay interest (Lesley: Yeah) on you know, something that their client should have paid for. So for me, that sort of set me down a path where I said, "Gosh, we can build a better mousetrap, a better system for making it easy for these awesome businesses to build. And to make money up front, collect deposits, get subscriptions, all of that stuff that really allows them to only raise money if they're looking to grow and to be able to have that cash flow right up front from their clients."Lesley Logan 11:06  See, I love this because you are like you are working on something. You saw consistent problem was happening. And instead of like continuing to do the thing, that just puts a bandaid on the problem. You're like, (Chinwe: Right) "How do we actually just solve the problem?" And I love this so much, because, you know, since since when I became a Pilates instructor, I was around the recession of 2008. And I was in retail at the same time. So people weren't, people weren't buying their diamond necklaces anymore. They weren't buying the $500 purses. They were like, "Oh, what's this vegan purse?" I'm like, "Yes, so I can sell you that vegan purse." And they're like, they still wanted to buy but they were being conscious, right? And so but it didn't translate to me that it would cause me problems in my teaching, however, and I didn't, what I did here was all these teachers saying, "There's no money in teaching, there's no money in teaching." I was like, "Why?" And they're like, "Well, I found the same problems. People were bil... like waiting until someone remembered their checkbook." And I'm like, "No one goes into a store and leaves with an item without paying for it. It's called stealing. So they're stealing sessions from you. No, they have to pay when they have to pay." And so I found that too. And that's why I ended up coaching people, because I'm like, "Why is this happening? Like, who trained them on this?" And so when you went into making this, like, I love how you call it like a little mousetrap or this little way of like solving this problem, so that they only have to raise money when they have to raise money and actually have their margins on it. Okay, because I've been on the side of like, just just doing the part that I I'm on. That was a lot of work. And you already did the work. So how, how did you, how did you start this company? And like, how long did it take you? And like, what did you tell yourself when you're hitting obstacles because I feel like that's where people get stuck.Chinwe Onyeagoro 12:45  Yeah. So so the first thing is I sort of started like, in my own backyard. And so I looked at the folks that I was working with, who I would text and then they show up, like whether it's fitness trainer or what have you. And they give me these awesome sessions. And then they wait 90 days, 60 to 90 days to send me an invoice. And I was like, "I'm ready to pay, just send it to me." And so I just went to them. And I was like, "Can we like can we do something different?" And I had teamed up with my co founder who was engineer number five at a company called NetSuite, and they build like big business management systems, just like you know, PocketSuite for much larger companies. So he at the time was, I think, like, there were thousand engineers in his company at that point. And so he was kind of bored. And like, "Hey, I'd love to do this all over again for much smaller businesses." So he built the first version of PocketSuite. We went to the service providers I had worked with to say, "Hey, will you use this?" And some of them were super excited. Others were like, "No, I'm using a Blackberry. You built it on on an iPhone." And I was like, "Ah..." Right. And so we put it in the app store and then folks started using it. And what we realized is so many folks, so many service professionals were doing everything on their phone, right? They were like scheduling appointments, they were messaging, and they were doing it across like 3, 5, 7, different apps, (Lesley: Yeah) right? They were putting client information in 7 to 10 different places. And they had to keep track of it all and it was a mess. And so when we sent them this like you know, kind of manna, right from heaven, right, this one app that had their client information, it had their calendar, it had who paid them. It had everything notes on the client, they were like, "What the fudge?" Right. And they started sending us messages like, "Can you add packages?" We're like, "What's packages? Can you add subscriptions?" We didn't know at the time what it was but we started listening and we started building it out from there.Lesley Logan 14:34  That was cool. That and I think I just want to like I love the part you listened. And I and you also and this is the hard part for a lot of people. The first one isn't the last one. The first, you just have to get something done like, how (Chinwe: Yeah) what like what was the struggle of like done enough versus (Chinwe: Yeah) you know, like what, how did you handle like going, "Okay, this is enough done to get out for people to try." (Chinwe: Yeah) Did you feel ready to do that? Or was you know, I mean, you've been in the business for so long, maybe you do. But like, I feel like I think it's done. Is it done?Chinwe Onyeagoro 15:08  Yeah. No, it's a great question like this, this whole concept of like MVP, like your minimum viable product, like you don't have to build, you know, like the Colosseum day one, right? Like, you just have to start with like, a big pain point. So for us, we said, like, "It's about getting paid." And so we said, like, "Let's get invoices in here. And it's about getting paid for your time. Let's get invoices, and let's get the calendar in here. And then the rest will follow." We started with literally three features, we now have, like 33, right, but we started with three. And we said, "If we can solve this problem that we hear over and over again, that we've experienced personally, then we will buy ourselves the right to be able to do more." And that's exactly what happened. People were like, these are the three apps I use the most, my messaging, my calendar, and, you know, PayPal or Square, Cash App to get paid, right? And so if we can just like bring those all three in one app, like we've solved a big problem, not every every problem, but we've solved the big one, and then they are going to give us hopefully, the space to do more.Lesley Logan 16:10  Yeah, I think, you know, I think that's like really good information for starting anything. Because (Chinwe: Yeah) the it you do have to get things out there so you can get the feedback. You know, like, (Chinwe: Right) we talked about this when I started the podcast, one of my friends when I was interviewing them, they're like, "How'd you feeling? Well, that was my first one. How did I do?" And I it doesn't even matter because it's going to go out because there's probably only seven listeners right now. (Lesley and Chinwe laughs) So it doesn't even matter. We have to get it out. So you actually learn so you can get the information, get the feedback, and (Chinwe: Yeah) see how people are using it. And that's, that's hard because that nobody, I think people kind of fear feedback. They think that the (Chinwe: Yeah) feedback means that they failed, and it's like, "No, it's just people asking questions and helping you get it better."Chinwe Onyeagoro 16:53  Well, here's the thing, we took our first users out to lunch. We sat with them, we were like, "Talk to us about your business. Tell us more" like we were just so excited that there was like crickets, right? And for us, we've always thought about feedback truly, as a gift. I know it sounds cheesy, but it's like, if they're complaining, that means they're using it right? Like, you hear nothing, then you've got an issue. But if people are giving you feedback, that means they care enough that you've solved enough of a problem that you're worth spending time on to get it right. And that's, you know, that's all you can ask for.Lesley Logan 17:24  Yeah, that's really cool. You know, I just remember, this is year, actually the second scheduling tool that I I was brought in by a different scheduling tool, because the founder was a client of mine. And he (Chinwe: Oh no way) was watching how the teachers were like, paying with money. And then he was like, "How he would pay me?" And, and he's like, he's like, "Would you use my scheduling tool?" And, um, it was for therapists, and I was like, "If you could make it work for teachers, I could help you sell it." And, you know, the thing is, is that I went in for a meeting, they had me, they had me for lunch, they asked all the questions, it was really fun. I was like, "This is really great." But you know, what ended up happening there was they sold, and when they sold, the company didn't want to expand into fitness, yet. (Chinwe: Oh no, yeah) And so it's just like, it's so funny how things work out because I've did like, I sort of liked that app. I love you, I love your tool so much more. (Chinwe: Yay) So it does way more things. And it really does solve any kind of service industries person's problems. And I think that it's nice, it wasn't like so like, on one thing, you've been really been (Chinwe: Yeah) able to do that. So okay, you know, you you listen to people, you figu... you'd like launch with the what was the most like, solve this problem first, and you kept going? (Chinwe: Yeah) Then there's like, it's not maintenance, because you're always growing, but it is sort of like, you know, getting more people to use it, getting more people to (Chinwe: Yeah) hear about it. And that's where that's really hard because once you get past the friends and family, (Chinwe: Yeah) getting strangers to be like, "Yeah, I'll trust you over my seven apps that I have this system for?" How do you handle that? Like, how do you get people to like, be willing to try something new?Chinwe Onyeagoro 19:04  Yeah. You know, early on, because you're you're an app that's really like helping people earn money, like, this is what I'm using to pay my rent or my mortgage and my children's school fees. Like it's about trust, right? Like, you think it's in the service industry, tech too. Right. Like, "I'm going to put my client's credit card here. I'm going to charge something and I'm going to expect that those funds will be deposited into my account." So for us, it was about credibility. Right. So we had a Wall Street Journal article written about us. We had TechCrunch, we were part of this like accelerator called Y Combinator, which is one of the most success... (Lesley: Were you really?) we were. Yeah. So Airbnb came from Y Combinator, and like, some of the biggest brands stripe came from, like those, some of the biggest brands, you know, came from that and it's just like, it's a legitimacy. It's like, we're on a path. We're building, you know, A grade, investment grade, you know, tech to solve a big market problem and that was huge because you people would call and say like, "How do I know you're not going to like, take my money." And we're like, "Here's a Wall Street Journal article on us, here's a this." You know, and they're like, "Oh okay." "We're built on top of Stripe, like Stripe is actually the one handling your money." And, and so like all of that, like really helped for to build that trust. And then more than anything, it's making the users we had happy. Because when you make, when you know this, right, like when you make a user, a client, a customer happy, they're, they're swinging from the rafters, they're talking about you in conversations where no one even brought up like a scheduling tool. But they're so happy that they're like sharing information. And our like, biggest kind of flywheel was just referrals. It's like, "I'm an aesthetician. I have a network of friends." Like, they're not even asking me, but I'm posting on Facebook, like, "Check this out. They're like an awesome (Lesley: Yeah) scheduling app." And so it just kind of blew up from there. Like it was just this word of mouth. And like, kind of viral referral loop that started happening.Lesley Logan 21:00  Yeah, which I'm obsessed with, because I still tell people all the time, like referrals are the like, people, even if it's a referral via text, like people are (Chinwe: Yeah) still getting their information from a friend. You know, they're (Chinwe: Sure) watching shows based on what their friends say, they're buying different things. Like I have a, I went to a place last Saturday to try like aerial fitness, because a friend was like, "Hey, you should check this out." And I was like, "Okay, I didn't even research them." I'm like, "Alright, I'll sign up." That's ... (Chinwe: Exactly, yeah) you know, and so I think, you know, we think because of ad spend that's out there, and like all these things, that that's the way to go. But really like your tried and true, it's gonna grow with with people sharing and celebrating. So I love that you focus on just like making sure people are feeling happy. (Chinwe: Totally) And solving their problems and trust. That's so good. You know, when, when Brad brought it to my attention, I was like, because, you know, the first time I was like, "I don't know. They didn't work out that time." (Chinwe laughs) (Chinwe: Yeah) Like, "How I'm gonna do this?" But you know, since I've been coaching fitness instructor since 2009 2010, because my boss at a studio was like, "How are you getting so many clients?" And I was like, "Isn't that my job?" (Chinwe and Lesley laughs) So I started getting really curious, like, "What is going on? What are teachers doing in sessions? What's happening there?" And then that led to a bunch of things like helping people figure out how to pick a program, because so many people are picking programs that wouldn't allow them to teach. And then I had to solve this problem. Like there's no money teaching, because there's so is otherwise people wouldn't create franchises. If (Chinwe: Right) there's you know, (Chinwe: Right) like, they just wouldn't so. So when I when I was looking at everything, what I loved is, you know, so many ser... like some people have memberships and some people have packages, and some people have auto renewals. And some people want a 12 hour cancellation policy. And it is amazing to me, how, I mean, obviously, over time, how you've been able to go, "Okay, how do we make sure that we can do all of these things. So someone can like someone (Chinwe: Yeah) on this street corner can have packages, but literally down the street, they could have memberships?"Chinwe Onyeagoro 23:03  Totally, totally. So one of the things that we we sort of said is, look, we want to be a mile wide and an inch deep. So we want to serve a variety of different service professionals, anyone who's running a business for themselves, but we want to do it in a way that like really focuses on just those core things that they need. And so how do you do that? Well, on PocketSuite, when you sign up, you put in your industry and the app, auto updates and personalize it for just your industry. So I mentioned before, we have 33 features. But for yoga, Pilates, it's like these are the five to seven features that matter most for you and you can kind of pick and choose. And so for us, it was like really important because people get bogged down by apps that have so many features, you have to take a course just to kind of learn. Right. Like, "How to use this thing?" Right? So that was really important to us. And again, like fundamentally, its messaging is like the underlying kind of base of it, and then build on top of that is scheduling. (Lesley: Yeah) And then on top of that is your payments, and then everything kind of shifts from there. But the one other thing I'll say is, those three things are like communicated differently depending on your industry. Right. Like so, in yoga and Pilates, we are talking about like privates and duets, and classes, right. And sessions versus, you know, in another industry, they're talking about open enrollment, and series, but those are all those are all forms of like classes, right? And so what we learned is it's about the like the lexicon, right? It's about how you communicate it for that industry to ensure that it works. You don't have to stack up tons of features. You just have to get the lexicon right and the core features right. (Lesley: Yeah) And that's what we've tried to do at PocketSuite.Lesley Logan 24:48  Yeah, it's it's amazing. We have so many members who are in there, and the time we're recording this in their second month and they're obsessed they love it. It's like it's so fun to to see people, you know, who probably would never have thought they need a tool, like the confidence that they have in their business by having one also, like, make some... I'm like, "You are a business owner, you have like you are, look at this. (Chinwe: Right) You've got this app." (Chinwe: Right) And it's just, it's just really cool. I, it's, I will have to send you some of the testimonials already because (Chinwe: Yay, thanks!) they're, they're really, they're really sweet. And it's, you know, it's a problem that has been needed to be solved. And while there's so many other tools out there, it's like, years ago, my thought was like, "Write down everything you needed to do. (Chinwe: Yeah) And then because you're gonna pay for it, make them sell it to you." (Chinwe and Lesley laughs) That was my like coaching advice on. And now it's like, "Stop, this is the one and if it doesn't work for you, that's totally fine but I bet you it will." And you also, you know, your your company really prides itself on your customer service, I have to say that you can tell because you can actually talk to your team. (Chinwe: Oh my gosh, yeah ...) How did you do that, because no one else does that?Chinwe Onyeagoro 25:59  Well, so first of all, like, I'm obsessed about great customer support and service, because for me, it's like, look, it's about trust. And it's about more than just, more than just an app, right? Like this is about human connection to help folks solve human problems, right. And tech is just first helping to facilitate that. And so what we've done is we've prioritized world class product technology, world class customer success. You've seen it with Airbnb, you've seen it with Zappos, like Zappos, their motto was like, "We're gonna keep you on the phone. We're not trying to like, we're not trying to hang up this call, like, traditional customer says, it's like, 'What else do you need? Oh, you want to buy pizza? We'll help you buy a pizza.'" Like it's, it's but but what happens is, when you value the relationship, your ability, then to solve whatever problems over the lifetime of that relationship, you are in first position as a resource, as a reference to be able to help that particular pro, that particular business solve problems, right, because they trust you. And that for us is what we're in the business of doing is, is building that trust. So we can help folks build a better business and hopefully a better life. And that's just like, that's the philosophy. And I will say this, Lesley, as we're on the phone, as our team members are on the phone with Profitable Pilates community members, they're like, "Hey, I just got off the phone with Brad and he advised me to do this, or Lesley always tells me shouldn't discount my services." So I'm gonna say to you, you obviously also prize, you know, customer success and customer service. (Lesley: Yeah) Like it's that's it? Right?Lesley Logan 27:30  Yeah, it... your, thank you for that. I love that. I love hearing that. (Chinwe laughs) But I and I think like, you know, no matter if you're listening, and you're like wanting to build, you know, some like massive business or just have a side hustle or some like that, I think the those takeaways trust is so key. And I bet everyone listening to this, obviously, what I assume they want people to trust them. When you make it easy for the tools you use to also (Chinwe: Yeah) allow you to have that feeling. It's so (Chinwe: Right) much easier to do your, to do whatever it (Chinwe: Right) is you want to do. Because it's so funny when when I'm using in some other app or tool or website, and it's like not working, then all of a sudden your energy isn't there, you've switched into like, "This is so frustrating." And then you have a call and you're like, "Okay, let me, let me get back." (Lesley and Chinwe laughs) You know, so it's like so nice that there's an there's actually a tool that you like, you believe in trust. I'm, I believe in trust, and it makes it easier to just do the job you want to do. Makes it easier to be it till you see it.Chinwe Onyeagoro 28:27  Totally, totally. And you know, and we think about a business app as well is like you're on the one hand saying, "How do I use it?" You're on the other hand, saying, "Why sho... Why am I why would I want clients to schedule me online? Why might I want like you're asking business strategy questions, too, which is where again, Profitable Pilates comes in, they're coming in knowing (Lesley: Yeah) the strategy because you've given them that coaching. So that makes our job so much easier." Like, "Okay, here's how you can do that."Lesley Logan 28:51  Yeah. I have to say I had so much fun making the coaching videos we did with the different features, because each time I was reading it, I was like, "And, it does this. Oh my ..." (Lesley and Chinwe laughs) And this is when I and then there was some things I was like, "This one you might want not to do, you got to check your state, just an FYI. Or, you know, how about instead of doing this, just put into the price, just build it into your price, you don't have to think about it." So it was really fun for me because it's just another way for me to get my coaching services out there. Because I really do, I'm on this mission that if more bodies are doing Pilates, the world's a better place. And since I cannot teach everybody, since there's like the every person out there that's teaching is the best served for who they're here on this planet for. I really want to empower them and not everyone will come into my coaching group and that's fine. But (Chinwe: Yeah) like having this like little way to like, give them a nudge, give them that coaching. It really does make me happy. And so I'm really I'm freaking grateful for you and what you've built and like I love your that you're on, you know, plan Z but plan Z is (Chinwe: Yeah) exactly where you were supposed to be. And (Chinwe: Exactly ...) it really is helping not just the people that are using your app, but people like me who are like I really, I really want more people to feel successful in their business and not have, what they end up doing is they don't charge enough because they don't want to have fees, they only take cash, but then their bookkeeping is crazy. And then they can't get loans, and they can't get this. And it's like, you know, I just want them to be able to do ... whatever their dream is. So thank you.Chinwe Onyeagoro 30:16  Well, you know, Lesley, first of all, let me just, again, brag on you, it's like 92% of your users who are using the Profitable Pilates edition, have been watching those videos, and they're coming back 10 times to watch those videos, like we've shared the, you know, analytics with you with Brad and and he's like, "Oh, my God," because what ends up happening is these are like, one minute, two minute, like segments of gold. That are helping people get to the business outcomes they want, which is working less, making more, having happier clients. And so you're helping them do it not in like a two hour course. It's like two minutes, "Here's what you got to do to like, make sure you're making the money you want and that you deserve." And so I just think it's like a really powerful path that you're on as well, which is to reach people where they're doing business. Right, And to be able to like, give them that nugget, and they can take action on it, right away. (Lesley: Yeah) So I thank you for that. I really (Lesley: Yeah) do.Lesley Logan 31:11  We are a dynamic duo, Chinwe. (Lesley and Chinwe laughs) We are, we're just solving the world's problems one small business at a time. Okay, Chinwe, first of all, I mean, obviously want everyone to sign up for the Profitable Pilates editions, (Chinwe laughs) signature edition. (Chinwe: Yeah) So we'll put that link below. But where else can people find you, get to know more about what you're doing, support you?Chinwe Onyeagoro 31:33  Yeah. So check us out. Also on our website, pocketsuite.io. You can see all the different features we have and how you can use them and see some of the members of our community ambassadors, and then you can check us out on Instagram. And that's @pocketsuiteapp - p o c k e t s u i t e app a p p. So looking forward to hearing from you guys.Lesley Logan 31:58  Yeah, okay, this is great. I know, I know, a bunch of our users will be listening and they'll they'll send it to you because they're their high user, high loyals. They're so fun. They love to tell people what they're doing. And I'm so appreciative of them, because they inspire me. On those days, they're like, "Is anyone listening? Is anyone using this?" And then you get to hear from them. So okay, we ask every guest, bold, executable, targeted, or intrinsic steps people can take, action they can take to be it till they see it.Chinwe Onyeagoro 32:28  Yeah, I think the first thing that I would say is visualize, like, there's so much that you can do to just change your how you feel about like what you're doing right now, just by visualizing what you want to be feeling like when you hit your goals? Who you want to be surrounded by and interacting with, and what you want your day to be like. Right? And so visualize it, because that is something you can control right now, what ends up happening is when you visualize it, the world, the universe conspires to help you to get there, right? Because you're it's top of mind. So like every decision you're making is taking into consideration that visual, that feeling, right? And if you just will it into being. And so I would just say visualization is huge. And if you cut out magazine articles, cut it, like, do whatever you need to do to like, get in that zone and stay there.Lesley Logan 33:22  Oh, I love that. I love that because that's something you can do. Like every day, you can just take a moment and like picture that that's really beautiful. (Chinwe: Totally, totally) Chinwe, I hope we get to meet again. I'm like secretly hoping that there's some tech conference in Vegas that makes you come out (Chinwe laughs) so we can go celebrate.Chinwe Onyeagoro 33:39  Just say the word. We will, we'll we'll pick the next team on site PocketSuite on site. We'll put it in, wherever region you are in.Lesley Logan 33:45  Yes, yes. Well, you know, there's a beautiful new casino and (Lesley and Chinwe laughs) (Chinwe: I love it.) you guys all have to go the 60th floor and visualize the next thing. (Chinwe and Lesley laughs) (Chinwe: I love it.) Oh, my goodness, thank you for being you. Thank you for all you've created. And thank you for letting me be part of it, in my in my own way, because I really am so proud of what to be part of what you've created and to really empower people. So thank you, and we hope to have you back.Chinwe Onyeagoro 34:17  Lesley, you've built an awesome community. We're inspired by you and all of the members that make the community is so great. So thanks for trusting us and for going on this journey with us.Lesley Logan 34:28  Yeah. All right, everyone, how are you going to use any all of all this information in your life. What I want you to do is screenshot this podcast. Tag the @be_it_pod, tag @pocketsuiteapp, and let us know so that way we can hear what your favorite things or what inspired you. And you know, you might create the next feature on the app you just never know. Right? So thank you everyone. Until next time, Be It Till You See It.That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review. And follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_ pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it help us and others BE IT TILL YOU SEE IT. Have an awesome day!'Be It Till You See It' is a production of 'As The Crows Fly Media'.Brad Crowell 35:24  It's written, produced, filmed and recorded by your host Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell. Our Associate Producer is Amanda Frattarelli. Lesley Logan 35:35  Kevin Perez at Disenyo handles all of our audio editing.Brad Crowell 35:39  Our theme music is by Ali at APEX Production Music. And our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 35:48  Special thanks to our designer Jaira Mandal for creating all of our visuals (which you can't see because this is a podcast) and our digital producer, Jay Pedroso for editing all video each week so you can.Brad Crowell 36:00  And to Angelina Herico for transcribing each of our episodes so you can find them on our website. And, finally to Meridith Crowell for keeping us all on point and on time.Transcribed by https://otter.aiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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The past 10 years have introduced and welcomed mobile wallets, digital assistants, and the adoption of digital identity verification. With the intricacies of our online lives, the notion of tying verification to a credential is slowly dissipating. In this week's State of Identity podcast, join host, Cameron D'Ambrosi, and Rick Song, Co-founder, and CEO of Persona. They break down Persona's recent $150MM raise, what the next 10 years pose for identity verification, and a few expected challenges we can anticipate along the way.

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Ben interviews Michael Braddock II with The Braddock Group, LLC located in Wilmington, NC. After working, becoming a top performer, and selling $150MM+ in real estate for various award-winning developers throughout the Southeastern United States, Michael now implements his expertise to buyers, sellers, builders and developers of residential & commercial projects. You follow Michael at LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Follow The Braddock Group Instagram Facebook Follow Red Cliff Homes Website Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Youtube

Next gen Tom Stadum realized that he had a long runway and greater opportunity beyond UBS. So once his partner/father fulfilled the obligations of his retirement agreement, Tom left to build independent firm Fjell Capital with Sanctuary Wealth.

The Tamron 35-150mm F2-2.8 sample images have finally been shared by Tamron, including full-size sample images where we can perfectly analyze the performance of this lens. Written Article: https://www.alessandrocarpentiero.com/tamron-35-150mm-f2-2-8-sample-images-the-photography-news-show-21/  YouTube Episode: https://youtu.be/_nt2tvUKP6g In today's show

This week Tamron has announced the development of Tamron 35-150mm F2-2.8 for Sony E mount, which will be the fastest aperture zoom lens of the system. https://www.alessandrocarpentiero.com/tamron-35-150mm-f2-2-8-under-development-the-photography-news-show-13/   In today's show

This week Tamron has shown the 1st real-life images of the Tamron 35-150mm F2-2.8 at the WPPI 2021 in Las Vegas. https://www.alessandrocarpentiero.com/tamron-35-150mm-f2-2-8-real-life-images--the-photography-news-show-15/   In today's show

#208: How do you choose investment opportunities? What do you look for when entering into an investment deal? There are many things to consider when investing, one of which is making sure that you invest in something you understand and are passionate about.  Today's episode brings back Steve Libman, a managing partner of Integrity Holdings Group, host of the https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/free-from-wall-street/id1479043554 (Free From Wall Street podcast), and a member of the Forbes NY business council. Steve first appeared on the show back in July 2019 to talk about investing in self-storage facilities. Now, he will share how he shifted his focus to a different asset class as he learned more about his Investor DNA. So tune in and learn how to find the right investment opportunity that will give you the best chance of success.  Listen to Steve's previous episode: Episode 95: How to Become Recession-Resistant by Investing in Self-Storage Real Estate w/Steven Libman: https://www.wealthwithoutwallstreet.com/podcast/how-to-invest-in-the-self-storage-real-estate-space-w-steven-libman (https://www.wealthwithoutwallstreet.com/podcast/how-to-invest-in-the-self-storage-real-estate-space-w-steven-libman)   Top 3 Things You'll Learn:  Three critical factors to consider when managing other people's money Things to look out for when evaluating investment opportunities How to do a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats, Opportunities) analysis   About Our Guest: Steve Libman is a managing partner of Integrity Holdings Group, a real estate investment company involved in sourcing and executing value-add commercial opportunities. Integrity Holdings Group and its numerous partnerships connect and deploy capital into fixed, steady, asset-secured returns that create predictable cash flow. Integrity Holdings Group and its partners currently own and operate over 2k units valued at 150MM in assets. Steve is also the host of the https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/free-from-wall-street/id1479043554 (Free From Wall Street podcast) and a member of the Forbes NY business council.  Connect with Steve and Integrity Holdings Group: Website: https://integrityhg.com/ (https://integrityhg.com/) Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/IntegrityHG (https://web.facebook.com/IntegrityHG)

Joining us today we have an amazing guest: Steve Libman He is a Managing Partner of IHG after spending 5 years as a broker. Graduate in 2004 from Boston University. After growing the wholesale and fix and flip arm of the business to over 150 deals a year, Steven and the team went on a search on how to be more passive, more tax advantaged, and more impactful and purposeful with their investments. Since 2018 the team has bought and sold over 150mm in commercial real estate, both in self storage and multifamily. through the companies donor advised fund, IHG is growing in giving in every deal they do with the intention of being able to give away 90% of the companies cashflow in a deal through the DAF. If you got value out of today's episode, please head over to Itunes to give it an honest rating & review. And if you're watching this on Youtube, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss future episodes! Connect with the host, Bailey Kramer! --------------------------------------------------------------

➡️ About The Guest A career revenue and sales executive. Ryan Staley had his first success in business as an inside sales representative selling cutting edge technology and training to CIO's, CTO's and VP's of the largest Investment Banks and Brokerages in the world. He finished #1 nationally, was promoted to Manager and then Sr. Manager. This experience later launched Ryan into a leadership position (at a new organization) in which he was responsible for transforming a struggling business unit into the top performing office, creating an enterprise team from scratch and in developing a recurring revenue engine.  The new business unit resulted in growth from 0-$30M Annual Recurring Revenue, $30 Million in capital revenue, over (30) $500,000 plus contracts and a $20 Million contract (with ONLY 4 Sales people and without lead generation). Ryan codified the playbook that he's learnt and executed over every single sales role he's held in his career and built out his own firm, Whale Boss, working with executives, CEO's or Revenue Leaders to implement a 7-8 figure sales system in relatively short, three-month sprints. ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 - Intro 04:18 - Ryan's origin story. 14:05 - The importance of networking. 18:57 - How to move up market and sell bigger deals. 23:11 - Find larger new customers and sell more to existing customers. 24:51 - Customer referrals. 26:23 - Dropbox's referral system. 29:29 - Help 100 million people grow their business. 35:24 - The secret strategy to sell to enterprise. 44:15 - Reinventing yourself later on in life. 46:46 - Good books for entrepreneurs. 48:12 - Ryan's definition of success. ➡️ Show Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-staley/ https://bit.ly/3BmuKCl ➡️ Show Sponsor Gusto - gusto.com/scott (3 months free payroll / platform services) Gusto's people platform helps businesses like yours onboard, pay, insure, and support your hardworking team. Payroll, benefits, and more. Just Works - justworks.com Run your business with confidence with Justworks. Get simple software + expert support for payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance. Ladder - ladderlife.com/successstory Ladder is life insurance built to be instant, simple and smart. We offer direct-to-​consumer, term life insurance online.  Canva - canva.me/successstory Canva makes video & graphic design amazingly simple for everyone! Get a photo editor, video maker, and logo creator all in one free editing app.  BKA Content - bka.com/success Buy SEO articles, blog posts, web pages and more from the #1 content writing service in the industry. Work with real people, not programs! ➡️ Success Story Podcast Stories worth telling. Welcome to the Success Story Podcast, hosted by entrepreneur, business executive, author, educator & speaker, Scott D. Clary. On this podcast, you'll find interviews, Q&A, keynote presentations & conversations on sales, marketing, business, startups and entrepreneurship. Scott will discuss some of the lessons he's learned over his own career, as well as have candid interviews with execs, celebrities, notable figures and politicians. All who have achieved success through both wins and losses, to learn more about their life, their ideas and insights. He sits down with leaders and mentors and unpacks their story to help pass those lessons onto others through both experiences and tactical strategy for business professionals, entrepreneurs and everyone in between. Website: https://www.scottdclary.com Podcast: https://www.successstorypodcast.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/scottdclary Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottdclary Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottdclary Facebook: https://facebook.com/scottdclarypage LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/scottdclary

Logan has facilitated over $150MM in real estate transactions. Logan has found his niche in the real estate industry acting as an investment property specialist and working with local and out-of-state investors to acquire investment property in the Greater Kansas City market. Logan has a unique understanding of the needs and wants of sophisticated investors enabling Logan to effectively support individuals and organizations along their investment journey. Logan is particularly adept at sourcing off-market properties, with more than 50% of his completed transactions involving off market properties Having completed over 125 transactions, Logan has found a reliable process for executing the process. Starting with the end in mind, Logan is able to understand his client's needs and help them find the right investment. Logan is an advocate for affordable housing and works closely with many organizations in helping to end homelessness in Kansas City. Understanding how to “do well by doing good” is Logan's motto and has made it his “why” for doing business. Logan Freeman is co-Founder and Principal of FTW Investments and serves as the Chief Development Officer. Logan has facilitated over $150MM in real estate transactions. Logan has a unique understanding of the needs and wants of sophisticated investors enabling him to effectively support individuals and organizations along their investment journey. Logan is particularly adept at sourcing off-market properties, with more than 50% of his completed transactions involving off market properties. Having completed over 125 transactions, Logan has found a reliable process for executing real estate transactions. Logan is an advocate for affordable housing and works closely with many organizations in helping to end homelessness in Kansas City. Understanding how to “do well by doing good” is Logan's motto and has made it his “why” for doing business. Logan holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Central Missouri. Show notes:www.tylercauble.com/podcast/episode044

When people hear about success stories, they tend to make excuses. But what they don't realize is that behind all that success, there is an extreme struggle that got them there. In this episode, Whitney speaks about the sacrifices he made through the journey to achieving $150MM AUM. Whitney's background and how he got interested in real estate The reason for choosing multifamily and the start of acquiring deals The 4-year journey to $150MM AUM Why start a daily podcast? Balancing work, family, and a daily podcast  ‘'If you could do it all over again, what would you change?'' Life Bridge Capital's goals for 2021 and in the future Pod Decks Segment Core Four Segment Favorite Real Estate Related Book What do you think your unique skill is that helped you become successful? Tell me something that's true about real estate that almost nobody agrees with you on? One piece of advice would you give to our listeners wanting to succeed in real estate investing BOOK MENTIONED The Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book - Joe Fairless ABOUT WHITNEY SEWELL Founder of Life Bridge Capital LLC, Whitney began his real estate investing career in 2009. Whitney's passion is working with investors, helping them secure financial security via multifamily syndication. Since 2017, Life Bridge has acquired 900 doors and $150M AUM. Whitney also hosts The Real Estate Syndication Show, a daily podcast where he has now interviewed over 850 experts providing cutting-edge tools and strategies of the syndication business. Whitney and his wife Chelsea are on a mission to help other families through the process of adoption. They have personally endured the financial burdens that the process puts on families and have committed 50% of their profits to this goal. Connect with Whitney Sewell Website: Life Bridge Capital E-mail: whitney@lifebridgecapital.com Phone: 540-585-4338 For more information about Ferrari Capital visit us on our website @ https://www.ferraricapital.com  If interested in doing any deals with us and want to keep updated on any upcoming new deals, just sign up at the link below and you'll be on our investor list: Partnership — Ferrari Capital To grab a copy of our free Ebook: “The Ultimate Guide to Investing in Multifamily Syndications”, just provide us your email on our homepage, and will send that right over to you.

Devin Elder is a Real Estate entrepreneur and San Antonio native with a proven track record of repositioning properties, delivering quality housing products to market, and delivering consistent double digit returns to hundreds of passive investment partners. Devin began investing in Real Estate in 2012 and has grown revenue and profit every year since. Devin Elder is sole owner of DJE Texas Management Group LLC (DJE), which manages all aspects of acquisition, repositioning, and disposition of single family, land, development, and multifamily projects in Central Texas. DJE has successfully completed over 200 Real Estate renovation projects, with renovation budgets ranging from $10k to $1.2MM+. Devin is a Principal in over 2,000 units of multifamily valued at over $150MM. No investor capital has ever been lost on any DJE project. https://djetexas.com/   Want to learn more about passive investing? Grab our FREE Course: https://www.passiveinvestorsclub.com/course Thank you and I appreciate you watching this video. Please like, subscribe, and share with others that you may find this valuable. Your comments are useful and help us generate better quality content based on your feedback.   Subscribe to my channel here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb66-jA-WR4-LlJqp8Sn2wg?sub_confirmation=1   The Passive Investors Club is a community of like-minded individuals seeking financial freedom through passive investing in commercial real estate. More information about our club: https://www.passiveinvestorsclub.com Follow Me Online Here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwainelclarke/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DwaineClarkeOfficial LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwaineclarke/ Website: http://passiveinvestorsclub.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/dwaineclarke Medium: http://medium.com/@dwaineclarke SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/dwaineclarke Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wealth-through-real-estate-investing/id1457606006 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7B2wIQyiMgrcEJoqBUJzRR

Today, we have on special guest Anthony Phillips, CEO of Galvanize, the leading company in technology education (recently acquired for upwards of $150MM).  He talks us through his journey with burnout, and tackles a lot of the hard questions around knowing when to take a step back, how to deal with the pressure that corporate needs place on an individual, and shares the systems he uses to now manage burnout successfully without compromising professional success, including this tool for mitigating the impact of Slack and email:  https://bit.ly/39g4pcU I hope you enjoy it and as always, your feedback is always appreciated! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beating-burnout/support

Dave Zook Founder and CEO The Real Asset Investor Lancaster PA   Dave is a successful Business owner, Syndicator and an Investment and Tax Strategist He has acquired more than $150MM of Real Estate since 2010 which include several thousand Multi-family apartment units, multiple large institutional grade Self-storage facilities and Cleaner Energy Coal distillation units which produce pharmaceutical grade oil and liquids. His team is also one of the top #5 ATM operators in the country. Connect with Dave: The Real Asset Investor:  https://www.therealassetinvestor.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Want to appear on our podcast?  Contact Us Learn how you can passively put your hard earned money to work for you through multifamily syndication:  Steed Talker Capital Connect with Us: Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram Youtube

Neal Bawa is known as the mad scientist of multifamily real estate investing, and the founder of Grocapitus, which is invested in projects worth $150MM. He's also the creator of Multifamily U, a multifamily education business that teaches thousands of students each year. Show notes: https://bit.ly/3hIBv6K

Essa semana, no Intech: BR: Zenklub captou R$16.5MM para terapia online acessível; whatsapp liberando pagamentos entre pessoas físicas e empresas. Pipo Saúde captou cerca de R$25MM para escalar o negócio que atualmente tem 30 funcionários. Jupiter levantou cerca de R$15MM para sua plataforma de comida delivery, que segue um modelo de estoque centralizado. Wandelbots levantando cerca de R$150MM como uma plataforma no-code para treinamento de robôs para tarefas industriais. Zycada saindo de "stealth-mode" com uma rodada de cerca de R$100MM com bots focados em evitar o abandono de compradores em e-commerce (cerca de 70% com intenção de comprar abandonam os sites). O Intech, podcast da Labenu, é um trechinho da aula semanal que estudantes da Labenu têm para se atualizar em notícias de tecnologias e negócios que surgiram na semana. Formamos devs em uma experiência de 1000h em desenvolvimento de software, em um modelo que reduz as barreiras de acesso ao mercado de tecnologia . Indique para os amigos! @labenu_ no Instagram ou www.labenu.com.br

In this episode we talk to Mike McDerment, Co-Founder & CEO at FreshBooks. You can connect with Mike McDerment on Twitter: @MikeMcDerment If you like this episode, you'll probably also love: 923: 3 Leadership Lessons from Bootstrapping to $150MM w/ Tomas Gorny Are you getting every B2B Growth episode in your favorite podcast player? If not, you can easily subscribe & search past episodes here. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Você se pergunta o que fazem as mentes mais brilhantes ou pessoas que você admira muito para chegarem no topo, para atingirem o sucesso?Seria muito bom ter a receita para chegar lá, não é mesmo?Hoje e nas próximas duas semanas, dividirei com você os 17 princípios para realização pessoal segundo Napoleon Hill. Você conhece esse cara?Eu queria que ele estivesse vivo para eu presenciar uma palestra mas a nossa sorte é que ele deixou tudo bem registrado através do Instituto Napoleon Hill e também dos incríveis livros que ele escreveu e que chegaram a mais de 150MM de copias vendidas no mundo. Mas quem foi Hill? Brevemente te conto que ele aprendeu tudo o que sabia com um cara chamado Andrew Carnegie que chegou a ser o homem mais rico do mundo e que antes de ser famoso, era um simples catador de carretéis. Imagina só o que ele não ensinou a Napoleon sobre o sucesso. Mas Hill não parou por ai!Seguiu os conselhos de Carnegie e entrevistou por 20 anos as mentes mais brilhantes do mundo naquela época. Estou falando de Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Graham Bell, para citar alguns. E depois desses 20 anos de pesquisa, começou a publicar os segredos do sucesso que aprendeu com Andrew e que comprovou com todas as mentes que estudou. E ai, esta interessado para conhecer os principios? Aproveite então esse podcast!!

David Byczek is a multimillion-dollar real estate investor owning over $150MM dollars in real estate assets. Owner of National Management LLC, Dave provides his background and expertise as a real estate investor in wake of the COVID19 Pandemic.   Later, we dive into the COVID19 pandemic and the surrounding economic implications. We particularly attempt to predict how it will impact the real estate market and small businesses of the Midwestern states.   Dave focuses in on the top challenges of the economic “shut down” and provides some helpful insights on how small businesses and real estate investors can take advantage of the CARES Act. He also discusses some insights into how real estate investors can prepare their own companies for what is to come with a possible economic downturn.   Dave Byczek LinkedIn

With global migration and pandemics knocking at our doorsteps, how are we thinking about our supply chains - who they are benefitting, how they are contributing to the health of our planet and not extracting from it, and how we have more direct relationships with the food we are consuming to know the true impact of how its grown in a healthy and transparent way. This is why we’re sitting down to talk with Sarela Herrada, the Founder of SIMPLi. She focuses on ethical food sourcing to create a vertically integrated supply chain from working directly with the international farming communities to the distribution of products to market. Prior to SIMPLi, Sarela spent 5 years at CAVA Group, where she led supply chain strategy and execution - which included national foodservice distribution for 350+ restaurants under two brand catalogs (CAVA + Zoe's Kitchen) - purchasing over 150MM+ spend and 300+ unique SKUs in various categories. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Capital markets are an inherently queer place. Securities produce financial returns by manifesting intrinsic value. Or as some might say, “living their best life.”As America’s leading loft-based finance transsexual, the inherent gayness of creating shareholder returns this way has long been old news to me. But while Ashby and I were discussing queer issues on this latest episode of the Free Money Podcast, he reminded me that some have been working to exclude companies which support (among other things) the “LGBT Lifestyle” from their investment portfolios. The Inspire Global Hope ETF (BLES) is perhaps the largest such fund. And with roughly $150MM in assets under management, it’s no behemoth. But with a slightly bigger base of assets, it might form the basis for a poetically beautiful pairs trade. That’s where investors buy one security and bet against another, hoping to profit from the difference between their performance.The chart below shows:The aforementioned BLES ETF in khaki (the official heterosexual color).The LGBT Employment Equality ETF (PRID) in lavender (the official gay color).The MSCI ACWI index in black (the official color of benchmarks).An investor who bought PRID and bet against BLES at the beginning of 2018 would have captured a 12.7% performance spread before fees and transaction costs. In other words, if this fund gets a little bigger, one could build a business around betting against it. Here’s hoping. Have a listen to the podcast for some further discussion about queer issues, coming out, and (as always) pensions. And for fun, here’s a picture I took right before coming out two years ago and a selfie I took yesterday. You might say I’ve womanifested some intrinsic value in the meantime. Get on the email list at freemoney.substack.com

Dave Borden, the founder of numerous multi-million dollar rental businesses gives us advice on starting companies and his regret of selling his first company too early.

Dave Borden, the founder of numerous multi-million dollar rental businesses gives us advice on starting companies and his regret of selling his first company too early.

Sponsor: Steel River Co.  https://steelrivercompany.com/ Discount Code: NSRI30 for 30% off your purchase of $100 or more (one per customer through the end of the month) In the last few days, Big business and government have been making some announcements around firearms as tools of defense and tools of terror. Because I like to keep it as unbiased as possible when we think about how we should be prepared for this kind of situations which are become more practical than anyone ever imagined let's start by looking at the facts, dive into the recent press releases, and then I promise at the end I will let you know where I stand and why. You bet it's going to be a rocky conversation, but I bet you don't guess how it ends, I think you're going to be surprised... The Numbers: 27 .     The number of active shooter incidents in 2018 38 .     The number already in 2019 through August 16 .     The number of states that had incidents 85 .    The number of people who lost their lives in these shootings (excluding scumbags whose names you won't hear on this blog) 128 .   The number of wounded in these crimes 27 .     The number of shooters; 23 male, 3 female, 1 at large 10 .     The number of shooters that took a cowardice exit 11 .     The number that were taken in by the  good guys (4 of them were held by armed citizens and 3 by unarmed citizens until authorities arrived) 4 .      The number that committed suicide by cop 1 .       Killed by a concerned armed citizen. 4 .     The number of active shooters in California, the state with the most in 2018 5 .      The number of active shooter situations that were stopped by citizen involvement. 22%   The percent of the time a rifle was present   Citizen Intervention In three incidents, unarmed citizens confronted the shooter, thereby ending the shooting. In one incident, a citizen wrestled the gun away from the shooter. The shooter fled the scene and was apprehended approximately 34 hours later at another location. In one incident, citizens confronted the shooter (including one who was pistol-whipped by the shooter), allowing others to flee the scene. The shooter committed suicide at the scene before law enforcement arrived. In one incident, a teacher wrestled the shooter to the ground and restrained him until law enforcement arrived and apprehended him. In two incidents, armed citizens possessing valid firearms permits exchanged gunfire with the shooter. In one incident, two citizens retrieved their guns from their respective vehicles, then shot and killed the shooter. In one incident, a citizen armed with a gun confronted the shooter, but no gunfire was exchanged. A second citizen exchanged gunfire with the shooter, but neither was struck. The shooter fled the scene and was apprehended by law enforcement a short time later at another location. Locations 16 .  Occurred in Business locations 5 .    Occurred in Education Settings 2 .    Were in open spaces 2 .    Healthcare facilities 1 .    Government property 1 .    House of worship The Announcements Government On the last day of August 2019, the day after the Odessa, TX shootings, New law went into effect in Texas that changed the way you can carry a gun in the state: You can now carry in places of worship Can no longer prohibit renters from having firearms Now you can keep your firearm concealed in your car at school No laws will be inforced on CCW when evacuating or returning to a disaster Disaster shelters will now allow you to bring them in If you are caught with a CCW and you did not know that the area prohibited concealed carry, if you're asked to leave and you do then there is no crime. Overall, Texas sees the issue as not enough guns in the right places at the right time. Big Business Walmart announced that it will discontinue selling ammunition in .223, .556, and .22 calibers. They view these calibers as the primary for assault-style weapons and want to distance themselves from the murders. They also joining Kroger, Dicks Sporting Goods, Starbucks, Target and Wendy's in asking that people not open carry in their stores even if they have the right to. Today, open carry is only banned in California, Florida, Illinois and DC. Lastly they are pulling handguns from the only state they sell them in today which is Alaska. 20% .    Percent of the ammunition sold in the US that is sold by Walmart 6% .      Percent of the ammunition Walmart wants to sell in 2020 by eliminating rifle calibers 2% .     Percent of US gun sales done at a Walmart Much of this is spurred by liability costs as in The Estate of Maurice Stallard v Kroeger. In this instance, the daughter of the deceased is suiting the store for letting guns into it and asking that they ban guns at all stores. Kroeger responded by asking that customers don't open carry. Kroeger stopped the sale of all firearms in their 45 Meyers stores as well. When Dick's Sporting Goods realized that the Parkland, FL shooter who killed 17 purchased his gun from one of their stores, they started pulling guns from 10 of theris stores as a pilot which cost them $150MM. Despite that, their stocks are up 4% and they are looking to remove guns from 135 of their 730 stores by the end of the year. They also instituted a policy to only sell to those 21 and over which is quickly becoming standard amongst big box stores including Dick's owned Field & Stream locations. Outside influence on Big Box Camping World, owner of Gander (Formerly Gander Mountain), who is focused on selling RV's and Campers also sells firearms. The Sofware giant SalesForce had been toting doing an implementation at Camping World and had asked that Camping World change their stance on selling firearms. Camping World has not budged, but they are also no longer listed as a customer of SalesForce. Links Active Shooter Incidents In The Us 2018 041019 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kroger-gun-ban-woman-sues-for-gun-ban-in-kroger-grocery-stores-after-fathers-murder/

In this episode we talk to Tomas Gorny, CEO & Chairman at Nextiva. Tomas shares... Key lessons learned scaling a bootstrapped company from 0 to $150MM+. 1) Don't focus on your exit strategy 2) Make sure you believe in what you're doing & that you're serving a true gap in the market (not just a perceived one) 3) Focus on building the right team--not just talented individuals, but a cohesive group that is all rowing toward a common goal How to win in extremely competitive markets when you're the underdog. Focus on the 10x-type benefits you can bring, not just incremental differentiation. Why CEOs need to step outside the boardroom and get "in the trenches" with their sales & marketing teams. Want to learn best practices, tips, and strategies to generate positive and organic word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) by building your own scalable referral program? Get your free copy of The Definitive Guide to Referral Marketing from our friends over at Ambassador: GetAmbassador.com/growth

This week, we welcome Angad Chowdhry and Anurag Banerjee, the co-founders of Quilt.ai, the company using big data to understand people better. We speak to them about AI for Social Good. Dr Angad Chowdhry completed his PhD from SOAS, the University of London. His academic specialization is anthropology and media studies. He has conducted big data / big culture research in over 70 countries across clients and industries. At Quilt.ai he is working on integrating the latest advances in cognitive computing with the exponentially increasing human data that is being openly generated to conduct anthropology at scale. For almost a decade, Anurag Banerjee ran a 800 person team for global business development at American Express. He built a fee based Travel Big Data business to $1BB before starting on his entrepreneurial journey. He was employee number one at Jana Mobile (invested in by Publicis and Verizon ventures with $100MM raised). Post exiting Jana, he raised $150MM across multiple ventures he has backed / advised. SocialCops is his venture prior to Quilt.ai was funded by Ratan Tata & work for India’s Prime Minister Modi. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-8-ai-for-social-good

This week, we welcome Angad Chowdhry and Anurag Banerjee, the co-founders of Quilt.AI, the company using big data to understand people better. We speak to them about AI for Social Good. Dr Angad Chowdhry completed his PhD from SOAS, the University of London. His academic specialization is anthropology and media studies. He has conducted big data / big culture research in over 70 countries across clients and industries. At Quilt.AI he is working on integrating the latest advances in cognitive computing with the exponentially increasing human data that is being openly generated to conduct anthropology at scale.For almost a decade, Anurag Banerjee ran a 800 person team for global business development at American Express. He built a fee based Travel Big Data business to $1BB before starting on his entrepreneurial journey. He was employee number one at Jana Mobile (invested in by Publicis and Verizon ventures with $100MM raised). Post exiting Jana, he raised $150MM across multiple ventures he has backed / advised. SocialCops is his venture prior to Quilt.ai was funded by Ratan Tata & work for India's Prime Minister Modi.Discover more about this interview on our website here.Twitter: @global_futuresInstagram: @global_futuresSubstack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time Management is a crucial skill that every successful person has mastered. We must respect time, because once it is wasted there is no refund on what we've spent. Jeremy Williams, Owner/CEO of Red Hawk Coaching provides coaching and consulting services for small businesses looking to soar both in business and life. Jeremy has been in the real estate industry since 2004 helping thousands of real estate agent agents achieve their business goals. Jeremy currently coaches a small group of elite agents in his Inner Circle coaching program that combine for over $150MM in closed production over the last 12 months. Visit 365Driven.com/podcast for show notes and guest contact info.

Listen as Kevin shares how Group 46:10 Sold 552 houses last year for $150MM in sales volume. Watch the whole episode at www.realestatedisruptors.com/video/interview-with-kevin-kauffman/ The post How Kevin Sold 552 Homes for $150MM in 2017 appeared first on Real Estate Disruptors.

In this episode, I visit with Steven Durham, a partner in the law firm of Labaton Sucharow. The firm is one of the leaders in the SEC Whistleblower practice. Durham describes his background and how he got to the firm. He relates the Whistleblower Practice at Labaton, what is your role and how Jordan Thomas worked to create the firm’s whistleblower practice after leaving the SEC. He then  relates what the SEC Whistleblower program is and how has it worked to pay out over $150MM in bounties through this spring. Durham then discusses how the SEC Whistleblower office facilitates the SEC’s mission to protect investors, why whistleblowing benefits society and corporate America and how firms like Labaton assist the SEC in its practice. We conclude with a discussion of where Durham sees SEC Whistleblower program going under the Trump Administration.  For more information on Steven Durham, the law firm of Labaton Sucharow and its whistleblower practice, check out the firm’s website by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Smolyansky talks about high-protein kefir. She also shares her inspirational story about using technology and innovation to improve her probiotic range. Lifeway Foods started in the basement of a family home selling a 150-year-old Eastern European cheese delicacy to Chicago area Russian immigrants. Some years later and following the untimely death of founder Mike Smolyansky, his then 25-year-old daughter, Julie, took over the business and a dramatic reinvention began. Celebrating 30 years this month, Lifeway has become known for being one of the first to bring the probiotic craze to your grocery store isle. Her protein rich drink, Kefir, is guzzled by everyone from toddlers to body builders, and its popularity has made them $150MM company traded on the NASDAQ. Guest Info Twitter - @JulieSmolyansky Website - http://lifewaykefir.com/         

Michael Eisenberg. Michael’s a canny investor who’s on the cutting edge of the VC scene in Israel. He invested in Wix and Conduit while working with Benchmark - now he’s set up his own firm, Aleph. Listen in to hear about Aleph’s investments in an AI dashcam, Michael’s journey from unemployment to top VC, and why scale-up is the new start-up. Famous 5 Favorite Book? – Good to Great What CEO do you follow? — Jeff Bezos What is your favorite online tool? — Gmail Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be? —There’s so much to do in this world. Keep working. Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:40 – Nathan’s introduction 02:00 – Welcoming Michael to the show 02:06 – Started Aleph 3 years ago with a partner - wanted to invest in Israeli startups 02:40 – Michael’s been a venture capitalist in Israel for over 20 years 03:20 – Started a merchant bank for technology startups in Israel 04:00 – Invested in the first online photo-sharing site in 1994 and sold for over $100 million 05:00 – Worked at Benchmark in Israel for several years - invested in Wix, Conduit, and other startups 06:00 – Raised $150 million for Aleph in 2013 06:20 – Core mantra is: “Different is better than better” 06:50 – Aleph is an equal-partnership firm in terms of return and decision-making influence 08:15 – Invest almost exclusively in Series A 08:40 – The Thing About Cycles - Michael’s blog post about cyclical investing 09:10 – Currently investing in Nexar, an AI-powered dashcam 10:15 – Nexar can give you real-time information based on location and the license plates of the drivers around you - it takes information from drivers’ speed and location. 11:20 – Have already covered more mileage than Google Streetview 12:10 - Invested $4 million in Series A 13:08 - 15 months in; 9 months since the launch 13:18 - Collecting about 80k license plates each day 13:46 – Connect with Michael on the Aleph website or through his blog 16:20 – Famous Five 3 Key Points: Invest in disruption: “Different is better than better” Michael’s currently investing in a smart dashcam that has an enormous capacity to collect data. Keep working. The world is full of opportunities. Resources Mentioned: Freshbooks - The site Nathan uses to manage his invoices and accounts. Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for cheapest price possible. Leadpages – The drag and drop tool Nathan uses to quickly create his webinar landing pages which convert at 35%+ Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he's driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5 hour drive) to listen to audio books. Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives  

In episode 006, Brian Kurtz shares the classic direct marketing lessons he and his partners used to create a business doing $150MM/year, and he teaches you how to get the attention and connection of people in high places.

Today’s Best Ever guest is the best in the business when it comes to loans, mortgages and finance. We discuss how to use a renovation loan for a successful purchase, how to find the right property for the right price.     Perry Farella’s real estate background: ·        Mortgage and finance expert based in Chicago, Illinois ·        AmeriFirst Home Mortgage and say hi to him at or www.renoloanexpert.com ·        Has licenses in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin ·        Been in the business since 2002 and done loans totaling over 150MM ·        Has a degree in software and computer scienc   Subscribe in   and    so you don't miss an episode!   Made Possible Because of Our Best Ever Sponsor:     - Could you do more deals if you had more money? Let the crowdfunding platform, Patch of Land, find investors for you and fund your next deal…and your next deal…and your next deal…and…well, just go find out more at