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This week on Name 3 Songs… We're discussing the biggest (pop culture) moments from the Super Bowl including Usher's perfect performance, why Justin Bieber didn't perform and why the internet was convinced he would, Taylor Swift being No. 1 girlfriend and also appearing with her girl gang, and of course, Beyonce using a Verizon commercial to announce that she's dropping new music, and that new music then leading us to find out she's dropping a full album on March 29. Then! We're looking back at the previous episode “Leaked Nudes, Sex Tapes, and America's Obsession With Power.” We felt it was important to revisit this episode after explicit AI images of Taylor Swift were passed around the internet. We discussed this at length with special guest Matt Thompson, digging into men's relationship and pornography and how they use it to exert power over women.  About Leaked Nudes, Sex Tapes, and America's Obsession With Power: America is both terrified and obsessed with the idea of nudity and how nude bodies must be viewed as sexual objects. This double-edged sword of a relationship America has with nudity shows its true colors whenever we see celebrity nude photos or sex tapes leak. Since the internet became a household commonality, America's obsession with holding some sort of power over its brightest stars has led to an influx of leaked nudes and sex tapes. We're looking into both America's weird relationship with naked bodies as well the media and general public's response to leaked celebrity nude photos and unauthorized releases of sex tapes. A conversation sparked by the recent controversy over Britney Spears sharing self-censored nudes on Instagram led us down a rabbit hole covering everyone from Vanessa Hudgens to Pete Wentz to Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian. Enjoy this episode? Join our Patreon community or leave us a tip on PayPal!  Want to talk more? Find us: @name3songs | @sara_feigin | @jenna_million Check out all the sources for this episode at name3songs.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us on the latest episode of Passive Investing from Left Field, with guest Paul Moore from Wellings Capital. In this episode, we unravel the art of building confidence with LPs, explore the resurgence of preferred equity, and share insights on diversification strategies. Discover Paul's journey from speculator to seasoned investor, gaining actionable advice for consistent returns. Don't miss these gems of wisdom that could steer your investment journey toward consistent returns and stronger strategies.  About Paul Moore  After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was 2x Finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He launched multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to Bigger Pockets, producing live shows, recorded videos, and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he's been featured on over 200 podcasts. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage (Bigger Pockets Publishing 2021) and The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Here are some power takeaways from today's conversation: 03:33 His real estate journey?05:20 Transition from speculator to investor07:32 Preferred equity vs preferred returns09:27 What is preferred equity?14:55 Why aren't the lenders lending more?16:42 Should the LP know about the preferred equity?04:35 The Evolution of His Real Estate Journey20:29 Are all pref equity the same?30:44 What to look for in the common equity?33:04 How do you protect yourself from deals failing?37:46 How does an LP get into pref equity?30:41 How does the LP evaluate this?43:48 Podcast recommendations44:42 Contact Paul45:05 Thank you for watchingThis show is for entertainment purposes only. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. Before making any decisions, consult a professional. This show is copyrighted by Passive Investing from Left Field and Left Field Investors. Written permissions must be granted before syndication or rebroadcasting.    Resources Mentioned:Contact the Guest:Instagram- @paulmooreinvestFacebook- @wellingscapitalLinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-moore-3255924/Email- paul@wellingscapital.comAvoiding Rookie Errors as a Left Field Investor: 20 Lessons Learned From 14 Years of Passive Investing in Private Syndications by Steve SuhPodcast Recommendations:Motley Fool MoneyThe Walker WebcastAdvertising Partners:Left Field Investors - BECTribevestRise48Aspen FundsGSP REISpartan Investment GroupVyzer

EPISODE SUMMARY: Could the key to thriving in the ever-shifting sands of real estate investment be a lesson in simplicity from Warren Buffet's playbook? Real estate investor and author Paul Moore rejoins us to share the wisdom of his journey, emphasizing the power of a lean, diversified approach akin to Berkshire Hathaway's model. Paul, a beacon of experience, unpacks the virtues of collaborating with top-tier professionals across various asset classes. We examine the idea that you don't need to wear every hat yourself to strike gold; instead, focus on the 20% that yields 80% of the results and leave the fine details to the experts. As interest rates climb, they reshape the landscape of real estate investing, creating a labyrinth of new challenges and opportunities. We navigate through the complexities of alternative financing methods which rise in prominence as traditional lending tightens its belt. Mezzanine debt, preferred equity, and their potential to blend risk with reward enter our discourse, highlighting the importance of adaptability and keen insight when one is charting a course through the tumultuous waters of today's economy. Paul's mission transcends the boundaries of business, as he turns his gaze to the prevailing issue of human trafficking. With a passion that stirs the soul, he shares how he dedicates a portion of his success to combating this harrowing global crisis, championing a crusade that intertwines purpose with profit. This episode is not just a treasure trove of financial acumen but also a clarion call to harness our achievements for a cause far greater than ourselves. Join us for an exploration of investment strategies intertwined with a heartfelt appeal to make a tangible difference in the world. PAUL'S BIO: Paul's professional journey began with a notable stint at Ford Motor Company before co-founding a successful staffing firm. His entrepreneurial prowess earned him the distinction of being a 2x Finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After the firm's successful acquisition by a publicly traded company, Paul redirected his focus towards real estate investment. A trailblazer in the real estate arena, Paul has established and led multiple investment and development ventures. His expertise has been showcased on platforms like HGTV, Fox Business, and The Real Estate Guys Radio. A prolific contributor to BiggerPockets, Paul produces live shows, recorded videos, and insightful blog content. Notably, Paul co-hosted the wealth-building podcast "How to Lose Money" and has been a sought-after guest on over 200 podcasts. His literary contributions include "Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage" (BiggerPockets Publishing 2021) and "The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing." Paul Moore is the visionary Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a distinguished real estate private equity firm. GET IN TOUCH WITH PAUL : www.wellingscapital.com EPISODE CHAPTERS: (0:00:00) - Diversification and Investing With Experts Paul Moore shares insights on diversification, working with top operators, and the current economy's impact on investments. (0:09:47) - Challenges and Opportunities in Interest Rates Challenges in real estate investment due to rising interest rates, reduced leverage, and shift towards preferred equity. (0:17:33) - Inflation, Economy, and Investing Options Inflation and interest rates may remain high, multifamily properties are resilient, and alternative assets are popular due to JOBS Act and social media. (0:30:37) - Investing and Fighting Human Trafficking Mixing market-rate and affordable housing increases asset appraisal, eliminates property taxes, and raises awareness for human trafficking. If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara Audio Track: Back To The Wood by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/  

Happiness, a term often thrown around in casual conversation, in literature, and in the very founding documents of the United States, has become a central goal for many. But where did this obsession with happiness originate, and is it potentially destructive? Could the concept of 'contentment' serve as a healthier alternative? And crucially, is it possible for an entire society to achieve happiness simultaneously, and if not, what implications does this have for those left in the shadows of this pursuit?

Jason Bivins is a specialist in religion and American culture an is the author of 2008's Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism. He has also published multiple articles, review essays, and occasional pieces on religion, politics, and culture in the United States. His most recent book is Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, April 2022). A child of the era of the Satanic Panic - the unfounded moral hysteria around devil worship that gripped much of the US and Canada in the 1980s and 90s - Jason's interest and study of religion has been driven in large part by the experiences of his metal-loving, comic book-reading youth. Here he talks to Kelly and John about how conservative evangelicals manipulate and embrace horror tropes for their own ends in books like Left Behind, the story of Hell Houses, and how are cultural fractured and broke all our brains sometime in the mid 1990s. If you want to connect with Jason, you can email him at jcbivins@ncsu.edu.

Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their significant influence on public life. From the ascent of Reagan to the "Contract with America," from 9/11 to Obama to Trump--these claims have moved steadily to the center of conservative activism. Scholars of religion have approached these phenomena with great caution, generally focusing on institutional history, or relying on journalistic conveniences like "populism," or embracing the self-understandings of evangelicals themselves. None of these approaches is sufficiently calibrated to decoding the fierce convergence of online conspiracy theory, public violence, white supremacy, and religious authoritarianism. Accepting the narrative of Embattlement on its own terms, or examining it as mere turbulence on the path of American pluralism, overlooks how such deeper structural or atmospheric conditions work through this discourse to undermine the actual practice of democratic politics.  Exploring the impact of these claims through case studies ranging from the Tea Party to Birthers to anti-sharia laws, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (Oxford UP, 2022) digs deeper into the debates between Martyrs (those who profess persecution) and Whistleblowers (those who sanctimoniously refute such claims). Hidden beneath each of these episodes is a series of ambivalences about democracy that require attention. Jason Bivins argues that the claims of Martyrs and Whistleblowers are symptoms of America's larger failings to strengthen the conditions for democratic life, and thus that rather than engaging their claims on the merits, concerned citizens should reassess fundamental democratic norms as part of a broader challenge to embolden American citizenship and institutions. Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of three previous books including, most recently, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. He has written widely for popular and academic media, has taught for The Great Courses, and has recorded multiple albums of improvised music on guitar. This episode's host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their significant influence on public life. From the ascent of Reagan to the "Contract with America," from 9/11 to Obama to Trump--these claims have moved steadily to the center of conservative activism. Scholars of religion have approached these phenomena with great caution, generally focusing on institutional history, or relying on journalistic conveniences like "populism," or embracing the self-understandings of evangelicals themselves. None of these approaches is sufficiently calibrated to decoding the fierce convergence of online conspiracy theory, public violence, white supremacy, and religious authoritarianism. Accepting the narrative of Embattlement on its own terms, or examining it as mere turbulence on the path of American pluralism, overlooks how such deeper structural or atmospheric conditions work through this discourse to undermine the actual practice of democratic politics.  Exploring the impact of these claims through case studies ranging from the Tea Party to Birthers to anti-sharia laws, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (Oxford UP, 2022) digs deeper into the debates between Martyrs (those who profess persecution) and Whistleblowers (those who sanctimoniously refute such claims). Hidden beneath each of these episodes is a series of ambivalences about democracy that require attention. Jason Bivins argues that the claims of Martyrs and Whistleblowers are symptoms of America's larger failings to strengthen the conditions for democratic life, and thus that rather than engaging their claims on the merits, concerned citizens should reassess fundamental democratic norms as part of a broader challenge to embolden American citizenship and institutions. Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of three previous books including, most recently, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. He has written widely for popular and academic media, has taught for The Great Courses, and has recorded multiple albums of improvised music on guitar. This episode's host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their significant influence on public life. From the ascent of Reagan to the "Contract with America," from 9/11 to Obama to Trump--these claims have moved steadily to the center of conservative activism. Scholars of religion have approached these phenomena with great caution, generally focusing on institutional history, or relying on journalistic conveniences like "populism," or embracing the self-understandings of evangelicals themselves. None of these approaches is sufficiently calibrated to decoding the fierce convergence of online conspiracy theory, public violence, white supremacy, and religious authoritarianism. Accepting the narrative of Embattlement on its own terms, or examining it as mere turbulence on the path of American pluralism, overlooks how such deeper structural or atmospheric conditions work through this discourse to undermine the actual practice of democratic politics.  Exploring the impact of these claims through case studies ranging from the Tea Party to Birthers to anti-sharia laws, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (Oxford UP, 2022) digs deeper into the debates between Martyrs (those who profess persecution) and Whistleblowers (those who sanctimoniously refute such claims). Hidden beneath each of these episodes is a series of ambivalences about democracy that require attention. Jason Bivins argues that the claims of Martyrs and Whistleblowers are symptoms of America's larger failings to strengthen the conditions for democratic life, and thus that rather than engaging their claims on the merits, concerned citizens should reassess fundamental democratic norms as part of a broader challenge to embolden American citizenship and institutions. Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of three previous books including, most recently, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. He has written widely for popular and academic media, has taught for The Great Courses, and has recorded multiple albums of improvised music on guitar. This episode's host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their significant influence on public life. From the ascent of Reagan to the "Contract with America," from 9/11 to Obama to Trump--these claims have moved steadily to the center of conservative activism. Scholars of religion have approached these phenomena with great caution, generally focusing on institutional history, or relying on journalistic conveniences like "populism," or embracing the self-understandings of evangelicals themselves. None of these approaches is sufficiently calibrated to decoding the fierce convergence of online conspiracy theory, public violence, white supremacy, and religious authoritarianism. Accepting the narrative of Embattlement on its own terms, or examining it as mere turbulence on the path of American pluralism, overlooks how such deeper structural or atmospheric conditions work through this discourse to undermine the actual practice of democratic politics.  Exploring the impact of these claims through case studies ranging from the Tea Party to Birthers to anti-sharia laws, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (Oxford UP, 2022) digs deeper into the debates between Martyrs (those who profess persecution) and Whistleblowers (those who sanctimoniously refute such claims). Hidden beneath each of these episodes is a series of ambivalences about democracy that require attention. Jason Bivins argues that the claims of Martyrs and Whistleblowers are symptoms of America's larger failings to strengthen the conditions for democratic life, and thus that rather than engaging their claims on the merits, concerned citizens should reassess fundamental democratic norms as part of a broader challenge to embolden American citizenship and institutions. Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of three previous books including, most recently, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. He has written widely for popular and academic media, has taught for The Great Courses, and has recorded multiple albums of improvised music on guitar. This episode's host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their significant influence on public life. From the ascent of Reagan to the "Contract with America," from 9/11 to Obama to Trump--these claims have moved steadily to the center of conservative activism. Scholars of religion have approached these phenomena with great caution, generally focusing on institutional history, or relying on journalistic conveniences like "populism," or embracing the self-understandings of evangelicals themselves. None of these approaches is sufficiently calibrated to decoding the fierce convergence of online conspiracy theory, public violence, white supremacy, and religious authoritarianism. Accepting the narrative of Embattlement on its own terms, or examining it as mere turbulence on the path of American pluralism, overlooks how such deeper structural or atmospheric conditions work through this discourse to undermine the actual practice of democratic politics.  Exploring the impact of these claims through case studies ranging from the Tea Party to Birthers to anti-sharia laws, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (Oxford UP, 2022) digs deeper into the debates between Martyrs (those who profess persecution) and Whistleblowers (those who sanctimoniously refute such claims). Hidden beneath each of these episodes is a series of ambivalences about democracy that require attention. Jason Bivins argues that the claims of Martyrs and Whistleblowers are symptoms of America's larger failings to strengthen the conditions for democratic life, and thus that rather than engaging their claims on the merits, concerned citizens should reassess fundamental democratic norms as part of a broader challenge to embolden American citizenship and institutions. Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of three previous books including, most recently, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. He has written widely for popular and academic media, has taught for The Great Courses, and has recorded multiple albums of improvised music on guitar. This episode's host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their significant influence on public life. From the ascent of Reagan to the "Contract with America," from 9/11 to Obama to Trump--these claims have moved steadily to the center of conservative activism. Scholars of religion have approached these phenomena with great caution, generally focusing on institutional history, or relying on journalistic conveniences like "populism," or embracing the self-understandings of evangelicals themselves. None of these approaches is sufficiently calibrated to decoding the fierce convergence of online conspiracy theory, public violence, white supremacy, and religious authoritarianism. Accepting the narrative of Embattlement on its own terms, or examining it as mere turbulence on the path of American pluralism, overlooks how such deeper structural or atmospheric conditions work through this discourse to undermine the actual practice of democratic politics.  Exploring the impact of these claims through case studies ranging from the Tea Party to Birthers to anti-sharia laws, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (Oxford UP, 2022) digs deeper into the debates between Martyrs (those who profess persecution) and Whistleblowers (those who sanctimoniously refute such claims). Hidden beneath each of these episodes is a series of ambivalences about democracy that require attention. Jason Bivins argues that the claims of Martyrs and Whistleblowers are symptoms of America's larger failings to strengthen the conditions for democratic life, and thus that rather than engaging their claims on the merits, concerned citizens should reassess fundamental democratic norms as part of a broader challenge to embolden American citizenship and institutions. Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of three previous books including, most recently, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. He has written widely for popular and academic media, has taught for The Great Courses, and has recorded multiple albums of improvised music on guitar. This episode's host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their significant influence on public life. From the ascent of Reagan to the "Contract with America," from 9/11 to Obama to Trump--these claims have moved steadily to the center of conservative activism. Scholars of religion have approached these phenomena with great caution, generally focusing on institutional history, or relying on journalistic conveniences like "populism," or embracing the self-understandings of evangelicals themselves. None of these approaches is sufficiently calibrated to decoding the fierce convergence of online conspiracy theory, public violence, white supremacy, and religious authoritarianism. Accepting the narrative of Embattlement on its own terms, or examining it as mere turbulence on the path of American pluralism, overlooks how such deeper structural or atmospheric conditions work through this discourse to undermine the actual practice of democratic politics.  Exploring the impact of these claims through case studies ranging from the Tea Party to Birthers to anti-sharia laws, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (Oxford UP, 2022) digs deeper into the debates between Martyrs (those who profess persecution) and Whistleblowers (those who sanctimoniously refute such claims). Hidden beneath each of these episodes is a series of ambivalences about democracy that require attention. Jason Bivins argues that the claims of Martyrs and Whistleblowers are symptoms of America's larger failings to strengthen the conditions for democratic life, and thus that rather than engaging their claims on the merits, concerned citizens should reassess fundamental democratic norms as part of a broader challenge to embolden American citizenship and institutions. Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of three previous books including, most recently, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. He has written widely for popular and academic media, has taught for The Great Courses, and has recorded multiple albums of improvised music on guitar. This episode's host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are marginalized, despite their significant influence on public life. From the ascent of Reagan to the "Contract with America," from 9/11 to Obama to Trump--these claims have moved steadily to the center of conservative activism. Scholars of religion have approached these phenomena with great caution, generally focusing on institutional history, or relying on journalistic conveniences like "populism," or embracing the self-understandings of evangelicals themselves. None of these approaches is sufficiently calibrated to decoding the fierce convergence of online conspiracy theory, public violence, white supremacy, and religious authoritarianism. Accepting the narrative of Embattlement on its own terms, or examining it as mere turbulence on the path of American pluralism, overlooks how such deeper structural or atmospheric conditions work through this discourse to undermine the actual practice of democratic politics.  Exploring the impact of these claims through case studies ranging from the Tea Party to Birthers to anti-sharia laws, Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion (Oxford UP, 2022) digs deeper into the debates between Martyrs (those who profess persecution) and Whistleblowers (those who sanctimoniously refute such claims). Hidden beneath each of these episodes is a series of ambivalences about democracy that require attention. Jason Bivins argues that the claims of Martyrs and Whistleblowers are symptoms of America's larger failings to strengthen the conditions for democratic life, and thus that rather than engaging their claims on the merits, concerned citizens should reassess fundamental democratic norms as part of a broader challenge to embolden American citizenship and institutions. Jason C. Bivins is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of three previous books including, most recently, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. He has written widely for popular and academic media, has taught for The Great Courses, and has recorded multiple albums of improvised music on guitar. This episode's host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Moore & Derek Buescher discuss managing risk, what type of returns they have been dealing with in the current market, challenges they have faced, and steps they took to overcome them.Join our multifamily investing community for FREE for in-depth courses and live networking with like-minded apartment investors at the Tribe of TitansLink to subscribe to YouTube channel: https://tinyurl.com/SubYouTubeDiaryPodcastApple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/AppleDiaryPodcast Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotDiaryPodcast Google Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/GoogleDiaryPodcast Follow us on:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiaryAptInv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Diary_Apt_Inv Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diary_of_an_apartment_investor This episode originally aired on September 11, 2023----Your host, Brian Briscoe, has been a general partner in 1000+ units worth over $100 million and has been lead sponsor, asset manager, capital raiser, and key principal on these properties. He has developed a multifamily education community called the Tribe of Titans that helps aspiring investors learn the game, network with other like-minded professionals, and get their apartment investing business to the next level. He is founder of Streamline Capital Group, which will continue to acquire multifamily assets well into the future. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps in 2021.Connect with him on  LinkedInBrian@Steamlinecapital.com----Paul MooreAfter a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was 2x Finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage  and The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm.Learn more about him at: https://www.wellingscapital.com/His Book: https://rb.gy/mf835If you prefer to make a one-time donation, you can do so here: www.aimfree.org----Derek BuescherDerek has brokered $45 million in investment real estate throughout his 13-year career as a commercial real estate broker. He has transacted on all property types, including multi- family, mobile home parks, retail centers, office properties, industrial properties, and land. Derek holds a bachelor's degree in Real Estate & Business from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He is also a Navy Veteran who served aboard the USS Ashland LSD-48 out of Virginia Beach, Virginia.Contact him at: Phone Number 480-213-2531

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss the racist shooting in Jacksonville (17:03) and the argument that Trump's mug shot appeals to Black voters (44:30). Plus, a discussion about Keke Palmer's post with Darius Jackson (1:03:50) and Rachel's Apology Rating for a KFC ad campaign (1:05:41). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul Moore is a returning guest to Real Estate Investing Abundance.   Paul has launched multiple investment and development companies.  He completed over 100 commercial and residential investments. He has appeared on HGTV, contributed to Fox Business, The Real Estate Guys Radio, and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets.  He is the co-host of the wealth-building podcast, How to Lose Money.  Paul is the author of two publications: Storing Up Profits – Capitalizing on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage, and The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing.Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Main Points:Tell us about your RV Park Special Report (released in January 2023). Why did your firm add RV Park investing to your portfolio? Why are multifamily investors turning to RV parks, self-storage, and mobile home parks for double-digit returns in this turbulent environment? Tell us why you're passionate about generating funding to fight human trafficking and rescue its victims. Why is it important for investors, entrepreneurs, and executives to find their “big why”? Many investors are sitting on the sidelines right now. How is Wellings Capital navigating this economic downturn?Connect with Paul Moore: Get a free copy of our RV Park Special Report by going to our Resources Link at www.wellingscapital.com/resourcespaul@wellingscapital.com

A Boobs Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me and You with Leslie Lehr   Leslie Lehr is a prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, and essayist who graduated from U.S.C. School of Cinematic Arts and earned her MFA at Antioch University.  A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me — and You, is her first project since breast cancer treatment, she continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. The book has been selected on the must-read lists of Entertainment Tonight, GMA, Glamour,  and People and Salma Hayek is turning it into a TV series for HBO Max.    https://leslielehr.com

Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She's gone from size AA to DDDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she's not alone - these are classic life stages for women today.At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob's Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman's body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women's liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America's obsession with the female form has affected her own life's journey and the psyche of all women today.From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr's life-long passion. A Boob's Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you'll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.

At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob's Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman's body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women's liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America's obsession with the female form has affected her own life's journey and the psyche of all women today.From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr's life-long passion. A Boob's Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you'll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.

At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob's Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman's body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women's liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America's obsession with the female form has affected her own life's journey and the psyche of all women today.From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr's life-long passion. A Boob's Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you'll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.

Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She's gone from size AA to DDDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she's not alone - these are classic life stages for women today.At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob's Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman's body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women's liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America's obsession with the female form has affected her own life's journey and the psyche of all women today.From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr's life-long passion. A Boob's Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you'll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.

Do you sometimes berate yourself by thinking that you “should” work out? Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why? How can you create a truly healthy and loving relationship with exercise and your body? In this podcast episode, I speak about the book Fit Nation and America's obsession with exercise with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Ph.D. We reflect on the history of beauty ideals, and discuss the problems around societal messaging. Sign up for the FREE e-course to understand your eating disorder and embark on the road to recovery. SHOW NOTES: Click here Follow me on Instagram @behind_the_bite_podcast Visit the website: www.behindthebitepodcast.com

Do you sometimes berate yourself by thinking that you “should” work out? Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why? How can you create a truly healthy and loving relationship with exercise and your body? In this podcast episode, I speak about the book Fit Nation and America's obsession with exercise with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Ph.D. We reflect on the history of beauty ideals, and discuss the problems around societal messaging. Sign up for the FREE e-course to understand your eating disorder and embark on the road to recovery. SHOW NOTES: Click here Follow me on Instagram @behind_the_bite_podcast Visit the website: www.behindthebitepodcast.com

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Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela was a self-proclaimed bookish kid growing up in the 1990s. She didn't exercise, she didn't play sports and she loathed physical education at school. But that changed when she first stepped into a group exercise class. “When I walked in there, I discovered there was something called fitness,” she tells host Kerri Miller on this week's Big Books and Bold Ideas. “Pretty quickly I realized this is not only better than PE, I love this. I don't just tolerate it.” So began a shift within Petrzela. She started to move her body and like it. She became a fitness instructor and taught classes, even as she ended up working in academic. And as a historian, she couldn't help but look around her secondary world and wonder: How did this fitness culture come to be? Her new book, “Fit Nation,” is the result of digging in to that question. The book charts the evolution of our collective attitudes toward exercise. From body builders on the beach in the 1940s, to Jack LaLanne introducing exercise to housewives in the 1950s, from Jane Fonda and Jazzercise to the current Peloton mania, Petrzela shows how working out went from a bizarre pastime to being an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. She also reveals the double-edged sword beneath it all — how exercise can be both empowering and elitist at the same time. Guest: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is a historian of contemporary American politics and culture at The New School, in New York City. Her latest book is “Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession.” To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above. Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS. Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations.

We have Paul Moore, Founder of and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm, back on our show to discuss RV Park Investing, another potentially lucrative commercial real estate investment asset class. Also on this episode, Paul talks about his next book on Warren Buffet, value investing and its relationship to real estate. Paul has launched multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV and has completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live shows, recorded video, and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he's been featured on over 200 podcasts. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage and The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing.

Paul Moore is a returning guest on our podcast. He is the founder and CEO of Wellings Capital. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. He is the go-to expert on investing in self-storage, and the king of profiting from storage units in America. In this episode we talked about: * Paul's Background and Journey into Real Estate * Paul's View on Self Storage * Raising the Capital and Finding Deals Operations Overview  * Investment Philosophy * Warren Buffett's Rules for Real Estate Investing * 7 Unique Paths to Commercial Real estate Investing Useful links: https://www.wellingscapital.com/resources The book by Paul Moore "Storing Up Profits" - https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/storing-up-profits    

In this episode originally recorded in July 2021, Vox's Zack Beauchamp talks with Columbia law professor Jamal Greene about his book How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession With Rights Is Tearing America Apart. They discuss how the US obsession with rights and their protections gives too much power to judges and the courts, makes it difficult for ordinary citizens to find reasonable solutions to legitimate problems, and has made this country's legal system not only nonsensical but dangerous. Vox Conversations will return on Thursday, Oct. 13th — but under a new name, and with a new look. Stay tuned for The Gray Area with Sean Illing: a philosophical take on culture, politics, and everything in between. Host: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), Senior Correspondent, Vox Guest: Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene), Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School References:  How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession With Rights Is Tearing America Apart by Jamal Greene (HMH Books; 2021) "From Guns to Gay Marriage, How Did Rights Take Over Politics?" by Kelefa Sanneh (New Yorker; May 24, 2021) Lochner v. New York, 198 US 45 (1905) Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 US __ (2018) District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 US 570 (2008) "Texas's radical anti-abortion law, explained" by Ian Millhiser (Vox; Sept. 2, 2021) We want to hear from you! Take Vox's audience survey today: vox.com/feedback Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Conversations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Vox Conversations by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Support Vox Conversations by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by:  Producer: Erikk Geannikis Editor: Amy Drozdowska Engineer: Patrick Boyd Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: A.M. Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today's show, Pancham interviews Paul Moore - founder and managing partner of Wellings Capital, and author of Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage and The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing. Paul began investing in real estate after selling his company to a publicly traded firm. From speculating transactions to going as a full-time investor, the two-time finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year has launched investment and development firms and has completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits! The ultimate investing rock star is ready to unpack his wealth of knowledge as he explains how he started his investing journey and how he got to where he is today. Don't miss out as he shares his life lessons, principles, and the perfect wealth-building opportunities to look out for! Listen and enjoy the show!   Quote: “I believe that the greatest wealth-building opportunities are always to those who patiently invest.” Timestamped Shownotes: 0:41 - Pancham introduces Paul to the show 2:54 - From speculator to being a full-time real estate investor 7:29 - Why he pivoted away from investing in multifamily properties 15:48 - The perfect asset class for him that you can look out for 18:28 - RV parks trends and why they are currently the best investment 23:21 - On applying and learning from Warren Buffett's principles 28:27 - How his morning routine helped with his productivity 32:46 - Taking the Leap Round 32:46 - Coffee makers and house flipping as his first investments 34:48 - His fears when he first started house flipping in 2000 36:16 - Why his 3 mobile home park investments did not work out 39:04 - Why you should stay focused and invest with the best experts 42:05 - How you can connect and get your free resources from Paul 3 Key Points: Investing in real estate properties outside Wall Street is one way to build wealth and earn high returns. There are many asset classes to watch for and invest in because current trends indicate that they could generate a lot of wealth in the near future. There is a significant increase in the production of RV parks and people who want to go camping thus, investing in RV parks is expected to yield promising returns. Get in Touch: Paul Moore Email - paul@wellingscapital.com Get access to free eCourse and free eBooks at https://www.wellingscapital.com/resources Wellings Capital Website - https://www.wellingscapital.com/ How to Lose Money Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-lose-money/id1170805348 The Gold Collar Investor Club - https://thegoldcollarinvestor.com/club/ Pancham Gupta Email - p@thegoldcollarinvestor.com Books: Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage by Paul Moore - https://www.amazon.com/Storing-Profits-Capitalize-Obsession-Self-Storage/dp/1947200488 The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing by Paul Moore - https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Investment-Enduring-Historic-Multifamily/dp/153700395X 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More by Perry Marshall - https://www.amazon.com/80-20-Sales-Marketing-Definitive/dp/1599185059 The Forgotten Way Meditations: The Path of Yeshua for Power and Peace in This Life by Ted Dekker - https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Way-Meditations-Yeshua-Power/dp/0996812407 The 49th Mystic (Beyond the Circle) by Ted Dekker - https://www.amazon.com/49th-Mystic-Beyond-Circle/dp/0800729781

After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was2xFinalist forMichiganEntrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He launched multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live shows, recorded video, and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he's been featured on over 200 podcasts. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits–Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage(BiggerPockets Publishing 2021) and The Perfect Investment–CreateEnduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing. Paul is theFounder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm.Connect with Paul:Email: paul@wellingscapital.comWebsite: wellingscapital.comPhone: 1-800-844-2188Twitter handle: paulmooreinvesRich State of Mind Links:Website: www.richstateofmind.comJoin our email list to know our services and our prize giveaways:  https://sendfox.com/richstateofmind1Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/Instagram : @richstateofmindpage and @rich_invests_Podcast links: https://linktr.ee/anthanerichiePlease like and subscribe to our channel.See our cool wealth building and real estate T-shirt designs in the links below :Rich State of Mind Store : https://bit.ly/RichState5 episodesSupport the show

After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was2xFinalist forMichiganEntrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He launched multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live shows, recorded video, and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he's been featured on over 200 podcasts. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits–Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage(BiggerPockets Publishing 2021) and The Perfect Investment–CreateEnduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing. Paul is theFounder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm.Connect with Paul:Email: paul@wellingscapital.comWebsite: wellingscapital.comPhone: 1-800-844-2188Twitter handle: paulmooreinvesRich State of Mind Links:Website: www.richstateofmind.comJoin our email list to know our services and our prize giveaways:  https://sendfox.com/richstateofmind1Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/Instagram : @richstateofmindpage and @rich_invests_Podcast links: https://linktr.ee/anthanerichiePlease like and subscribe to our channel.See our cool wealth building and real estate T-shirt designs in the links below :Rich State of Mind Store : https://bit.ly/RichState5 episodesSupport the show

Paul was a finalist for Ernst & Young's Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight (1996 & 1997). Contributor to BiggerPockets and Fox Business. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he's been a featured guest on 250+ other podcasts including the BiggerPockets Podcast, The Real Estate Guys, and Entrepreneur on Fire. Get in touch with Paul: https://www.wellingscapital.com/        If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara   Audio Track: Back To The Wood by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   Artist: http://audionautix.com/  

The Investor Relations Real Estate Podcast Episode 108 - The Perfect Investment Is NOT Perfect If…Host: Jonny Cattani Guest: Paul MooreProducer: April MunsonJonny Cattani is joined by Paul Moore to discuss: Self Storage and Passive InvestingAfter a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was 2x Finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He launched multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits.He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live shows, recorded video, and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he's been featured on over 200 podcasts. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage (BiggerPockets Publishing 2021) and The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Linked material referenced during the show: Book: The Circle Series - Ted Dekker, Jay Papasan https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Circle-Black-White-Green/dp/B08GNLNMHZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=EG553CUFLSCO&keywords=the+circle+series+ted+dekker&qid=1661866953&sprefix=the+circle+seri%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-Connect with Paul!Email: paul@wellingscapital.comWebsite: https://www.wellingscapital.com/podcastLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-moore-3255924/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellingscapitalCall: 1-800-844-2188Connect 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

America is both terrified and obsessed with the idea of nudity and how nude bodies must be viewed as sexual objects. This double-edged sword of a relationship America has with nudity shows its true colors whenever we see celebrity nude photos or sex tapes leak. Since the internet became a household commonality, America's obsession with holding some sort of power over its brightest stars has led to an influx of leaked nudes and sex tapes. In this week's episode, we're looking into both America's weird relationship with naked bodies as well the media and general public's response to leaked celebrity nude photos and unauthorized releases of sex tapes. A conversation sparked by the recent controversy over Britney Spears sharing self-censored nudes on Instagram led us down a rabbit hole covering everyone from Vanessa Hudgens to Pete Wentz to Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian. Enjoy this episode? Join our Patreon community or leave us a tip on PayPal!  Want to talk more? Find us: @name3songs | @sara_feigin | @jenna_million Check out all the sources for this episode at name3songs.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investing in self-storage is a smart idea that can provide you with a lot of good benefits and experiences. But, with many different factors involved, it's hard to know where to start and what you need to do before (or after) making an investment. This is your opportunity to learn as Paul Moore of Wellings Capital will share the do's and don'ts of self-storage that everyone should be aware of. After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was a two-time finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live video and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he has been a featured guest on over 200 podcasts. Paul is a three-time real estate author and BiggerPockets recently published his new book called Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Wellings Capital designates a portion of its profits to thwart human trafficking and rescue its victims.  In this episode, Dave and Paul talk about… The story about what was Paul's exposure to money and investing as he was growing up? How did Paul start investing? His opinion about what achieving freedom is? When is someone financially free? Benefits of Self storage What point do you consider moving on from Self storage? How to get into commercial real estate? What is the most dangerous time to invest in self-storage? Resources Mentioned: Website: Wellings Capital Locum Story Books: The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing by Paul Moore Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage    For all the show notes, and more, check out the podcast website at www.doctorfreedompodcast.com ----more--------more--------more---- Investment advice is only offered in jurisdictions where Centurion Financial Strategies, LLC (“Centurion”) is appropriately registered or exempt from registration. Our Form ADV Part 2 brochure can be obtained free of charge at https://adviserinfo.sec.gov by searching for our firm by name or its unique CRD number (316454). This podcast is not a solicitation to provide advisory services in any jurisdiction in which we are not appropriately registered or excluded from registration. The information, statements, and opinions contained in this podcast have been obtained from or are based upon information obtained from sources which we believe to be reliable, but we do not warrant or guarantee the timeliness or accuracy of any such information. This podcast is intended for informational purposes only and should not be construed as personalized investment, tax, or legal advice. Opinions expressed by any guest are their own opinions and do not necessarily reflect the firm's views. You should carefully consider your unique financial circumstances and needs prior to making any investment in securities or purchasing any insurance products. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Investing in securities involves the risk of loss. Insurance products are backed by the financial strength and claims-paying ability of the issuing insurance company and may be subject to restrictions, limitations, and early withdrawal fees which vary by issuer. You should consider the charges, risks, expenses, and investment objectives of any insurance products before entering a contract.

Syndication Made Easy with Paul Moore After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was two-time finalist Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live video and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he has been a featured guest on over 200 podcasts. Paul is a three-time real estate author and BiggerPockets recently published his new book called Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Wellings Capital designates a portion of its profits thwart human trafficking and rescue its victims. https://www.wellingscapital.com/resources Don't forget to head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. It's very much appreciated. ------------------------------------------------ About Vinney (Smile) Chopra: Vinney is a real estate investor, syndicator, International best-selling author, host of 4 podcasts, multifamily educator, mentor, dedicated husband of over 40 years and father of 2 children-Neil and Monica, residing in Danville, California (near San Francisco) for 40+ years. Vinney came to this country with only $7 in his pocket and a dream. Vinney has now built a portfolio of over 6,500 units amounting to over $650 Million in the multifamily, senior assisted living and hospitality arenas. He is passionate about helping others achieve financial freedom and giving back to our seniors who have given us so much. Learn more about Vinney: https://vinneychopra.com/ Learn more about investing with Vinney: https://vinneychopra.com/invest/ Apply for Mentorship: https://vinneychopra.com/mentorship/ Vinney's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VinneyChopra/videos Vinney's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinney-smile-chopra/ Vinney's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinneychopra/ Vinney's Free Book: https://vinneychopra.com/freebook/ Claim your FREE copy of The #1 Top Seller in Commercial Investing: http://apartmentsyndicationmadeeasy.com/ ------------------------------------------------

Syndication Made Easy with Paul Moore After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was two-time finalist Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live video and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he has been a featured guest on over 200 podcasts. Paul is a three-time real estate author and BiggerPockets recently published his new book called Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Wellings Capital designates a portion of its profits thwart human trafficking and rescue its victims. https://www.wellingscapital.com/resources Don't forget to head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. It's very much appreciated. ------------------------------------------------ About Vinney (Smile) Chopra: Vinney is a real estate investor, syndicator, International best-selling author, host of 4 podcasts, multifamily educator, mentor, dedicated husband of over 40 years and father of 2 children-Neil and Monica, residing in Danville, California (near San Francisco) for 40+ years. Vinney came to this country with only $7 in his pocket and a dream. Vinney has now built a portfolio of over 6,500 units amounting to over $650 Million in the multifamily, senior assisted living and hospitality arenas. He is passionate about helping others achieve financial freedom and giving back to our seniors who have given us so much. Learn more about Vinney: https://vinneychopra.com/ Learn more about investing with Vinney: https://vinneychopra.com/invest/ Apply for Mentorship: https://vinneychopra.com/mentorship/ Vinney's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VinneyChopra/videos Vinney's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinney-smile-chopra/ Vinney's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinneychopra/ Vinney's Free Book: https://vinneychopra.com/freebook/ Claim your FREE copy of The #1 Top Seller in Commercial Investing: http://apartmentsyndicationmadeeasy.com/ ------------------------------------------------

Syndication Made Easy with Paul Moore After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was two-time finalist Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live video and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he has been a featured guest on over 200 podcasts. Paul is a three-time real estate author and BiggerPockets recently published his new book called Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Wellings Capital designates a portion of its profits thwart human trafficking and rescue its victims. https://www.wellingscapital.com/resources Don't forget to head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. It's very much appreciated. ------------------------------------------------ About Vinney (Smile) Chopra: Vinney is a real estate investor, syndicator, International best-selling author, host of 4 podcasts, multifamily educator, mentor, dedicated husband of over 40 years and father of 2 children-Neil and Monica, residing in Danville, California (near San Francisco) for 40+ years. Vinney came to this country with only $7 in his pocket and a dream. Vinney has now built a portfolio of over 6,500 units amounting to over $650 Million in the multifamily, senior assisted living and hospitality arenas. He is passionate about helping others achieve financial freedom and giving back to our seniors who have given us so much. Learn more about Vinney: https://vinneychopra.com/ Learn more about investing with Vinney: https://vinneychopra.com/investor/ Apply for Mentorship: https://vinneychopra.com/mentorship/ Vinney's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VinneyChopra/videos Vinney's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinney-smile-chopra/ Vinney's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinneychopra/ Vinney's Free Book: https://vinneychopra.com/freebook/ Claim your FREE copy of The #1 Top Seller in Commercial Investing: http://apartmentsyndicationmadeeasy.com/ ------------------------------------------------

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Gas prices are high right now and people are feeling the squeeze. What does our relationship with the pump reveal about us? And can we do things differently? We spoke with Aaron Gordon, senior writer for VICE's Motherboard to break down the dead-end politics around gas prices and if electric vehicles really are the solution. This episode was produced by Adriana Tapia and edited by Stephanie Kariuki. VICE News Reports is hosted by Arielle Duhaime-Ross and produced by Sophie Kazis, Jen Kinney, and Adriana Tapia. Our senior producer is Sam Greenspan. Our supervising producers are Ashley Cleek and Stephanie Kariuki. Our associate producers are Steph Brown, Sam Eagan, and Adreanna Rodriguez. Sound design and music composition by Steve Bone, Evan Sutton, Pran Bandi, and Kyle Murdock. Mixing by Evan Sutton. Our executive producer is Adizah Eghan. And the VP of Vice Audio is Kate Osborn. Janet Lee is Senior Production Manager for VICE Audio. Fact Checking by Nicole Pasulka. Our theme music is by Steve Bone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the Juice Boys interviewed Paul Moore, the founder and CEO of Wellings Capital. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. He is the go-to expert on investing in self-storage, and the king of profiting on storage units in America. To top it all off, Paul is an incredible human with the best intentions, and he wants nothing more than to help others and see people succeed. If you're looking for a new way to invest in high profit real estate, this is the episode for you!-

Jim talks with Paul Moore about value add case studies in self storage. ======================== About Paul Moore Website: www.wellingscapital.com Book: Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage https://amzn.to/3a3Dmoc Paul has founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live video and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he has been a featured guest on over 200 podcasts. Paul is a three-time real estate author and BiggerPockets recently published his new book called Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Wellings Capital designates a portion of its profits to thwart human trafficking and rescue its victims. ======================== Jim Ross - The Self Storage Show & 3 Mile Storage Management Free 30 Minute Consult with Jim Ross of 3 Mile Storage Management ****In this free 30 minute consult, I have 30 minutes to find 3 ways I would increase your leads, rentals, and revenue for your self storage business! https://calendly.com/jimross/3milestoragemanagement The Ultimate Self Storage Management Playbook! This is the Most Incredible Free Gift Ever...Designed To Increase Leads, Rentals, and Revenue For Your Self Storage Business! https://www.3milestorage.com ======================== Connect With Me Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfstoragecommunity Website: https://3milestorage.com/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-self-storage-show-with-jim-ross/id1387362783 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/selfstorageservices/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2bGLy48wzIus-1ncSNVM6g ======================== About Jim Ross I started out in the self storage industry as a self storage manager. I moved up and became a district manager. Eventually after many years in the self storage industry I knew I could use my knowledge and expertise to help owners skyrocket the value of their self storage investments. That lead me to create 3 Mile Storage Management. 3 Mile Storage Management offers self storage property management solutions for self storage facility owners that want to dominate their local 3 mile market. I enjoy proving value to the self storage industry through speaking at industry events, putting together virtual summits, hosting The Self Storage Show podcast, weekly newsletter and compiling much of the content and online events I've done into the The Ultimate Self Storage Management Playbook.

Today's episode introduces you to everything you need to know about self storage investing, a potentially highly lucrative commercial real estate investment strategy. Our expert guest is Paul Moore, a serial entrepreneur and real estate authority. Paul has launched multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live shows, recorded video, and blog content. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and is the author of Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage (BiggerPockets Publishing 2021), as well as The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm.

Jim interviews Paul Moore from Wellings Capital and author of Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage ======================== About Paul Moore Website: www.wellingscapital.com Book: Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage https://amzn.to/3a3Dmoc Paul has founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and completed over 100 commercial and residential investments and exits.   He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets, producing live video and blog content.  Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he has been a featured guest on over 200 podcasts.  Paul is a three-time real estate author and BiggerPockets recently published his new book called Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage.  Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Wellings Capital designates a portion of its profits to thwart human trafficking and rescue its victims.  ======================== Jim Ross - The Self Storage Show & 3 Mile Storage Management The Ultimate Self Storage Management Playbook! This is the Most Incredible Free Gift Ever...Designed To Increase Leads, Rentals, and Revenue For Your Self Storage Business! https://www.3milestorage.com Click Here To Schedule A Time To Discuss 3 Mile Storage Management Services  https://calendly.com/jimross/3milestoragemanagement ======================== Connect With Me Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfstoragecommunity Website: https://3milestorage.com/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-self-storage-show-with-jim-ross/id1387362783 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/selfstorageservices/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2bGLy48wzIus-1ncSNVM6g ======================== About Jim Ross I started out in the self storage industry as a self storage manager.  I moved up and became a district manager.  Eventually after many years in the self storage industry I knew I could use my knowledge and expertise to help owners skyrocket the value of their self storage investments.  That lead me to create 3 Mile Storage Management.   3 Mile Storage Management offers self storage property management solutions for self storage facility owners that want to dominate their local 3 mile market.  I enjoy proving value to the self storage industry through speaking at industry events, putting together virtual summits, hosting The Self Storage Show podcast, weekly newsletter and compiling much of the content and online events I've done into the  The Ultimate Self Storage Management Playbook.

Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was 2x Finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year. After selling to a publicly traded firm, Paul began investing in real estate. He has contributed to Fox Business and The Real Estate Guys Radio. Paul is the author of Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage and The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Here's some of the topics we covered: The Different Kinds of Investing Mobile Home Asset Class The Advantages of Mobile Home Multifamily Having VA's Work To The Team's Success The Disadvantages of Mobile Home Parks Financing A Mobile Home Park Having Success In Self Storage To find out more about partnering or investing in a multifamily deal: Text Partner to 72345 or email Partner@RodKhleif.com  Please Review and Subscribe  

In today's episode we talk about some of the "dangers" of modern America's obsession with manifestation. We discuss: -what is manifestation -why manifestation isn't inherently bad -what are some of the dangers/risks of it today -the importance of balance All of this is opinion based on a decade of serious study of interfaith spirituality and religion, as well as direct experience with manifestation, formal training, and direct experience with many informed spiritual practices.

In this episode, I talk with Paul Moore the managing partner of Welling's Capital. Paul was a finalist for Ernst & Young's Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year for two years straight (1996 & 1997). Contributor to BiggerPockets and Fox Business. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money, and he's been a featured guest on 200+ podcasts. We talk about the highs and lows of his success in investing in real estate. We also discuss the "chasing shiny object syndrome" with investors today and how you can keep from gambling away your money. Paul also talks with me about the importance of diversity when investing and what you need to look for when vetting the right manager. Finally, he shares the ins and outs of his position at Welling's Capital and his goals for the future. Don't miss this exciting new episode with the amazing author, capital raiser, and real estate educator Paul Moore.

In 2017, we had a problem… Economists, investors, and operators thought we had pulled the final straw. To many, it had seemed like commercial real estate had passed over the line into overvalued territory.  Fortunately for most of us, various factors such as bonus depreciation, inflation, and new economic data changed much of the sentiments of that time.  However, it's now five years later. Markets are hot, inflation is high, cap rates are squeezed, and everyone you talk to is a bull.  But not to worry because our guest today has high conviction that self-storage is the way to hedge against inflation and position yourself for the unknown. In this episode, he tells us how to invest in this exciting asset class without losing money! Today, Paul Moore shares some of the insights he has gained, having gone full-cycle on over 85 real estate deals through multiple cycles. He is  the Managing Partner of Wellings Capital and has recently published his latest book' “Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage.” In this episode, we discuss… Why Self-Storage has been experiencing an unprecedented boom in demand, which was partly accelerated by COVID-19. Why Self-Storage makes sense from a macro and microeconomic perspective. Where Paul is investing in Self-Storage and why it is more important than ever to vet your operators before the deal. Some of the creative solutions best-in-class operators have implemented to compete in any market. If you are a passive investor seeking new perspectives to home your investment theses or a capital-raiser looking for new ways to approach choosing sponsors to partner with, Paul's insights will undoubtedly be valuable to you. Take Control,Hunter Thompson Resources mentioned in the podcast: 1. Previous appearance “E51 – Speculating vs Investing” 2. His book “Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage” 3. Wellings Capital's free 5-day course on getting into commercial real estate 4. Howard Marks' book “Mastering The Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side” 5. Howard Marks' book “The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor” 6. William Green's book “Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life” 7. How To Lose Money Podcast 8. Hunter's appearance on the How To Lose Money Podcast Interested in investing in ATMs? Check out our webinar.   Please note that investing in private placement securities entails a high degree of risk, including illiquidity of the investment and loss of principal. Please refer to the subscription agreement for a discussion of risk factors. Tired of scrambling for capital?  Check out our new FREE webinar -  How to Ensure You Never Scramble for Capital Again (The 3 Capital-Raising Secrets). Click Here to register.   CFC Podcast Facebook Group

Are you tired of fighting for multifamily deals in a competitive market? Return guest Paul Moore suggests looking into self-storage, an asset class he believes is often overlooked despite its many advantages. Paul shares why he transitioned from multifamily to self-storage, how he finds deals, and how he's grown his portfolio to where it is today. Paul Moore | Real Estate Background Previous Episodes: JF809: Creating a $10 Million Fund, Building a Hotel, and Focusing on Multifamily | JF1594: Expanding & Growing Your Strategy When Deal Flow Slows #SkillSetSunday with Paul Moore Founder and managing director at Wellings Capital, a real estate investment firm. Portfolio: Invested $71.3 million with 11 operators and have a total of 229 assets across all combined funds. Author of Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage Based in: Roanoke, VA Say hi to him at: wellingscapital.com Twitter: @PaulMooreInvest Click here to know more about our sponsors: Deal Maker Mentoring | PassiveInvesting.com | FollowUp Boss 

Paul Moore is an amazing contributor to BiggerPockets. Paul has launched multiple investments and developed companies appearing on HGTV and completed over 100 commercial & residential investments & exits in Real Estate. He has contributed in Fox business and Real Estate Guys™ Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets Producing live video and blog content. Paul also co-hosted wealth building podcast called “How to lose money” and  he has been featured on a number, over 200 at this point. Paul is a 3 time Real estate author. His new book is “Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage Paperback” In this episode we talked about: Paul's Bio & Background Entering Commercial & Multifamily Space Going Vertical in Self-Storage Rent Control Breaking into Self-Storage Self-Storage Performance and Risks within the recent 2 years Dislocation Aspect Underwriting of the Deals Thoughts on 2022 Outlook Why it is important to find your BIG WHY Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned Useful links: https://www.wellingscapital.com/resources https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-biggest-opportunities-in-real-estate/id1505750263?i=1000534008754&l=en Transcriptions:  So that's, that's what got me into real estate in the beginning. And then commercial, I ended up building a multifamily and operating it in the buckin oil rush of North Dakota. It was a multifamily quasi hotel. We did that for years. It was a lot of fun.   Jesse (4m 34s): That's great. So you, like, I'm not dissimilar from, from some stories and multifamily is you started with these properties, realize that you can make a dollar to two going that way. And then at what point did you end up going into the commercial space or the multi red space?   Paul (4m 50s): Yeah, so that was 20. So in 2010 we threw a bunch of friends and I threw over a million dollars to the bottom of a hole in the ground expecting about 50 times as much oil to come back out and nothing came out. And so I don't think we, I can almost certainly say we didn't think it through as well as it might sound now, but we thought, well, who made money in the gold rush? Well, those who sold the picks and shovels. So we noticed that there was a massive, massive housing shortage in North Dakota. I mean, like 10 or 20,000 people in a town of 3000, you know, sleeping in their trucks.   So we created this multifamily, which, which we ran as a, you know, sort of an extended stay hotel in 2011. And that was our entree in. And I ended up writing a book on multifamily about five years later and I was off to the races.   Jesse (5m 42s): Yeah, fair enough. I'm sure the, the Western Canadians can, can appreciate the throwing money in a hole in terms of the, so that moved from initially in Detroit, working with Ford motor company, was there an inflection point in your career where you, you said, okay, I'm going to go with the real estate way and, and left, left the job, or was it something that you kind of did on the side and kind of transitioned to?   Paul (6m 6s): Yeah. So when we launched our company, when I left Ford in 92, 93, it was actually, we started a staffing firm and I had only done a couple real estate deals on the side during those years. And honestly I hated real estate on the side, but when I had a chance to go into it full time in 2000 after we sold our company, that was, I I've honestly loved it ever since. Fair enough.   Jesse (6m 35s): Okay. So moving on to, you know, you write this book on multifamily, we're talking today about storing up profits, the, the book I mentioned at the outset, what can you tell us for the, for the average investor that say, you know, I'll give you an example is, is invested in some real estate, maybe it's on the commercial end. Maybe you, you know, whether it's single family or whatever, pick your vertical and keeps hearing about self storage. You know, we hear it, we hear it up here, you know, in the Canadian context, our friends to the south, we hear it constantly being brought up.   I think I mentioned before we had Brandon Moore or Brandon Turner on talking about self storage, but for the average investor, how would you describe the self storage vertical?   Paul (7m 17s): Yeah, so we, you know, we'd beat our head up against the wall for years looking for multifamily. And as I, you probably didn't know I'm old or, and, but seriously, those watching her going, he's really old anyway, but seriously, we, we were w w we're more conservative every year, you know, that I get, and, you know, I wanted to focus on investing and not speculating after making some mistakes in that arena. Hence the podcast name, how to lose money, but we, you know, really felt like it was like we were at the risk of overpaying for multifamily.   And unlike you, we didn't have a great acquisitions team finding those under the radar deals. And we found out that there were 53,000 self storage facilities in the us. That's the same as subway McDonald's and Starbucks combined, but three out of four are run by independent operators. And half, two thirds of those are actually run by single facility owners, which is also known as mom and pop owners.   And these mom and pops typically. I mean, first of all, the cap rates have compressed so much in the last eight or 10 years that they've doubled the value of their facility. And many of them did that by doing nothing except maybe staying the way they were, which is sometimes not always, but sometimes kind of mediocre. And so the opportunity for a medium sized company to go in and buy these facilities with this incredible intrinsic value, which I'll get into in a few minutes is enormous.   And we hadn't seen anything like that in multifamily in a long time. So we transitioned from multifamily to self storage, and then eventually also adding mobile home parks in 2018. And it's just been great. I mean, here's a couple quick stats. I mean, a couple quick issues to consider one would be that, I mean, if I'm renting a thousand dollar a month apartment from you and you raise my rent 6%, I might leave rather than commit to another 60 bucks a month or $720 a year.   But if you are renting me a self storage facility or unit, I should say, and you raise my rent 6%, well, you know, if it's a hundred dollars a month going to 106, I'm probably not going to spend a weekend rent a U-Haul get my buddies together to move my junk. I mean, excuse me, my treasures down the street, just to save six bucks a month. And that's one of the reasons that prices are so inelastic. And what I mean by that is, you know, I mean, they typically users don't leave because you raise the price, especially since most of the tenants think, Hey, I'm only going to be here a few more months anyway, and it's a month to month lease.   Well, that month to month lease has another benefit. And that is, it allows us to capture inflation. Think about it. Imagine my, my friend who has an Amazon sorting facility and has a 20 year lease on it, what's going to happen. If inflation goes way up, well, he's already locked in, or the guy with the warehouse, you know, that rents it for 10 or 20 years or a medical building. But this allows you to capture inflation increases, you know, potentially as much as every month. So we love that. There's also a ton of value adds.   Now, Jesse, the first time I heard value add self storage, I literally laughed. I thought, what are we talking about here? Four pieces of sheet metal, some rivets, a floor and a door. How are we going to do value at where where's the pain? Where's the fake hardwood flooring, where's the bark park. You know, none of that was available. And I had no idea. There were a significant number of value adds in self storage. For example, adding you hall now, adding you hall can, you can put a U haul out in front of your facility and with no cap ex nothing out of pocket, you can generate between one and $5,000 a month in commission, let's say it's $3,000 a month.   That's $36,000 a year using the commercial value at, I mean the commercial value formula, you know, 36,000 a year divided by, let's say a 6% cap rate. That's a $600,000 increase in value just by setting up a U haul operation at your facility. You can also sell locks, boxes, tape scissors, other retail items. You can add late fees. You can throw out bad tenants.   A lot of these mom and pops have a lot of delinquency. We invested in one self storage facility in grand junction, Colorado that had 80% delinquency, 80% of the tenants weren't paying or were paying late. And so there's just a lot of stuff you can do. You can add boat and RV storage, which is really popular. These days, you can add temporary storage like those, you know, storage, those boxes, and you can, there's so much, you can do two. And when you, you know, when you add the value formula and then add a little bit of safe leverage, it can really, really juice investor returns.   Okay.   Jesse (12m 42s): So I have a couple questions to start with, but just, just so I understand that correctly on the value add thing. Cause I, I never heard that concept before, either in terms of, so for example, the U haul, you basically just like you would see some industrial sites with multiple tenants that UCLU haul truck onsite, basically. That would be you, you basically getting the income for having that URL there and having individuals that are, that are tenants of yours renting that, is that correct?   Paul (13m 11s): Yeah. It wouldn't have to be tenants. Basically. You've got to, hopefully you've got a great location with high visibility on a main road you better. And these you halls will be sitting out front. People would book them from your location. And then the one catch is you have to have an employee there to check them out, you know, to sign the paperwork. And then when they come back in to sweep it out. So if you already have an employee think about self storage, how up and down somebody's hours are. I mean, I can imagine them sitting there for hours watching the security screens and Netflix.   Well, you know, it's not really a huge increase in cost to do that, but you get commission from you hall for doing this.   Jesse (13m 50s): It also be fair to say let's loop in Canada. Let's just say Canada is a big state and where you would be similar to New Jersey, New York, California. And I think Maryland in terms of rent control, the ability to remove tenants because of delinquency like you're describing here, is it, does it fall under the landlord tenant regulation in states or is it easier to, to remove them?   Paul (14m 16s): Yeah, that's another benefit of self storage is there's no eviction moratorium from COVID or from anything else, even in the height of COVID we were able to evict tenants. So that is another benefit for sure.   Jesse (14m 31s): I think the reason I bring up those states is those are all states with some form of rent, stabilization or control. And it's, it's a big factor up here, and I know it's a big factor in those states. So another appealing aspect, it seems of self storage, Paul, in terms of, so you talked, you opened the book with these, you know, different reasons that that self storage is an appealing asset class. And then you move into the ability to actually break into self storage. Cause you know, some people, if they're looking at these larger commercial deals and I think you're bringing up seven different paths about how you could get into the self storage space.   Could you talk a little bit about that?   Paul (15m 6s): Yeah. I, I wanted to write a book for bigger pockets on seven unique paths to get into commercial real estate. But instead I actually devoted the last one third of this book to that topic. And so this would apply to most, any commercial real estate. I think it's really hard for a lot of people, including myself for years to try to figure out how do I get into commercial real estate? And so the seven different paths real quick are one, some people call it stacking based on Brandon's a nomenclature there basically it would be buying a small facility, fixing it up, leasing it up, possibly refinancing, but more likely selling it and then going on to a bigger facility and then just rinse and repeat over and over.   I know that works. It's a long and winding road to the top, but it definitely will work. A second path would be being a capital raiser. Now here in the states, you've gotta be really careful with the securities and exchange commission if you're raising capital for other people's deals, but if you're a partner in the deal, or if you can work your way into a partnership with somebody for a raise and you raise the capital, that could be your specialty. And a lot of people do that are really good with people. They might have social media skills or podcasts, and they can raise a lot of money for other people's deals.   Some people have started their whole company by raising money. First Whitney Sule from the real estate syndication show. That's how he started. And he is just a master. Now at multifamily, he's raised a whole lot of money for his own deals, but he started as a capital raiser. Third would be a deal finder deal finder would be somebody who sort of serves hopefully legally in the role, similar to a commercial real estate broker and somebody who basically goes out and finds deals.   And then instead of getting a commission, they'd say, Hey, look, I like to get a piece of ownership in this deal. I'd like to stay involved and I'd like to do this over and over. And eventually hopefully, you know, you get to be a partner in that company or maybe another one. So deal finder is third. Fourth would be go big where you just start out at a high level. Let's say you won the lottery or, you know, retired from the NFL or you just have access to inherit it or your own money. You sold Bitcoin or something. And you can just start out at a high level and people do that.   It's, there's some challenges with that. Of course, path five would be, get a job. Now, most of your listeners probably thinking, I'm wait, I'm listening to Jesse to get out of my job. I don't want to get a job. Well, there are some benefits, especially if you're young to getting a job in property management or as a commercial broker or a commercial mortgage broker, possibly an asset manager, there's different things you can do to learn the lingo, learn the business, meet the people, get the connections and work your way into a career.   Six path would be taking the passive path. And that would be, you know, just becoming a professional or even a non-professional passive investor. Let's say you've got the money, but you don't have the time. You just need to do a great job. Vetting a great syndicator, check out several of them, use Bryan Burke's book, the hands-off investor, and go out. And that an organization that you can invest with and get, you know, essentially sometimes even higher returns than you'd get by yourself.   But somebody else is doing the heavy lifting. The seventh path is finding a mentor or a paid coach. And that would be, you know, finding somebody who will be willing to bring you into their training program or even somebody usually locally who will let you, you know, you trade your services for them, you know, the opportunity to hang around their office, get to know the product, get to know the company and the business as a mentee to that mentor. So those are the seven paths I talk about in the book.   Jesse (19m 5s): Yeah. What a great recap. I don't think I've, I've heard that in one, in one fell swoop, but that's pretty much covers everything. I didn't know that about Whitney. So for those interested, the syndication show, I believe it's called a fantastic podcast with Whitney and Brian Burke. We've had them on a number of times. I can't recommend that book enough. One thing I love about the book that he has is so many books are not from the limited partner's perspective, they're there from the, you know, the capital raiser or the, the GP. So it's nice, even as a GP, you really want to understand both sides of the coin.   So I'd recommend that to anybody that is interested. So Paul, from, from that outset, you know, you have these benefits of, of self storage. We go through this crazy time in the last two years, you know, the world has, hasn't probably one of the biggest health concerns of my generation. At least if not the last century and then various asset classes perform some not so well, some very well, how did self storage perform over the last two years? And maybe it's just in addition to that, what are the risks?   If, if any, with self storage?   Paul (20m 13s): Yeah, let me start with the risks. Cause I don't want to forget that it's really important. The biggest risk in self storage is really during the lease up. That's the time of the risk, at least. So in other words, we invested in a non unstabilized asset in Bradenton, Florida on a main road in a very, very booming area that had 29,000 new residential units being built in that area. Well, it was great until we tried to fill it up and that two new competitors, large national competitors had also built new facilities right down the road and the due diligence people miss this in that process, it just happened to fall right before they were really evident at any rate.   So it was harder to fill up that facility. It took two years longer than planned. And I think that is the biggest risk is large national competitors nearby by the way that eventually sold for an 80% profit to the investor. So it was great, but at any rate it was a hard road. So that's the number one risk would be competition, especially when you're unstabilized and leasing up. Other risks would include, of course, this is true for anything, a bad operator, you know, a great operator can take a mediocre deal and make it good or even great.   A terrible operator can destroy the best deal on the planet. And so bad property management, bad operator, those would be other risks with self storage, overestimating. Your ability to raise rents would be another one. You know, your, Hey it's 20% below market. Yeah. Well, there may be a reason for that. So really just, you know, things like that would be the major risks. I think if we drive around a lot of us, see just self storage in the, in the states everywhere.   And we're wondering why this has gotta be overbuilt. Well, I can take you to Nashville and show you, drive you around Nashville and show you why it is overbuilt. There's too many self storage facilities in too many locations around the city, but then I can drive you 20 minutes south to a suburb, a nice suburb Bellevue or Belmont they're neighboring suburbs. And they're completely underbuilt in fact, there's huge under supply there. And so this is why it's really important to invest with a great syndicator who uses tools like radius plus to check out, you know, the number of square feet of self storage versus, you know, the market, you know, the demographics, the number of people there.   So that's some of the risks as far as how it's done since COVID, it feels like you threw me a softball there, but I don't think you did the wall street journal, New York times, business wire and others have recently written articles basically saying that co that self storage is the big star in commercial real estate. Since COVID during COVID, we had students moving out of their dorms and their apartments, not knowing. I mean, the first weeks of COVID in March of 2020, what's going to happen.   We got to put our stuff in storage. Will we come back in two weeks when they flatten the curve or will it be two years we don't have. And so that, that was a nice little initial bump. Then there was the eviction moratorium that didn't happen, self storage. And then we have these unfortunate situations. I'm not making light of this, but a self storage thrives during the four days that's downsizing, dislocation, divorce, and death. And we had some of all of that going on during, and since COVID, let's look at dislocation, I mean, people have been moving in droves from places like Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and LA to smaller towns or different places like Utah and Texas and Florida and Charlotte and well, a lot of them need self storage along the way.   And so let's take dislocation as an example, Jesse, I mean, look in the last year at the massive number of people who have moved from places like New York city and Chicago, LA San Francisco to places like Utah and Texas and Scottsdale and Charlotte, a lot of these people need self storage along the way other people, you know, are moving for different reasons. There's been a lot of stress. There's been, unfortunately, a lot of divorce, there's been some death.   And so there's a lot of, you know, reasons that self storage is actually, you know, doing better right now. And another factor most people don't talk about is the price of steel and other building materials. Plus just the labor is in massively short supply. And so it's held up some self storage projects from coming to fruition. So the competition is actually lower, at least in these last, you know, let's say six to 12 months or more. And so really nobody would have dreamed, we thought self storage and we said self storage would do well in recessions.   Nobody had any idea how well self storage would do during this pandemic.   Jesse (25m 37s): Yeah, it makes sense. And just kind of from an anecdotal point of view, I can't, I can't remember a time where I've kind of put something in storage and I haven't used that storage for an extended period of time. I feel like, like you said, I believe you use the, the word inelastic. My, my very technical economic term would be sticky. It's just that aspect where once people store something in an area, like you said, you know, if you go from a hundred to a hundred, $6, is that going to make me move it probably not. You know, if you go up some crazy amount, then you might move the needle.   One thing I'm curious about I've, I've always been curious about the underwriting when it comes to self storage, because we always talk about self storage in the real estate context. I'm curious if that translates to the underwriting of the deal. And for example, you know, I somewhat of a rule of thumb when it comes to looking at multi-racial properties is an expense ratio of 40 to 50% know it'd be a good rule of thumb to do a back of a napkin calculation. Is that are the metrics with self storage?   What would they be most similar to in the real estate space?   Paul (26m 44s): I mean, that would be very similar to multifamily, but the operating expenses would be, I think about, I believe they would average something like 32% on average for most facilities, as some of the automated facilities have a lower expense ratio, but at the same time they can't have you all, they can't have showroom items like, you know, the retail items we discussed. And so their revenues might be a little lower as well. But yeah, other than that, you know, the, the revenues and certainly the value formula is quite similar.   Jesse (27m 20s): Fair enough. I just want to be a little bit mindful of the time. We do have four questions. We ask every guest when we wrap up here, but before we even get there, I'd like to get your thoughts on 2022 and maybe beyond in the relatively short term. And maybe we could talk about that a little bit in the context of self storage. And then, you know, if you want to opine on the broader real estate market, I'd love to get your thoughts.   Paul (27m 45s): Yeah. I used to make predictions when I knew nothing. And now that I know a little more, I don't, I mean, I've noticed that Charlie Munger, Warren buffet, Howard marks, those guys won't make any predictions of the cycle. Howard marks of course reminds us to, even though we can't know when the cycle is going to change, we should act appropriately for where we are in the cycle. So one thing we have here is this is a 10 real $10 trillion bills from Zimbabwe. And it just reminds me as I'm sitting here, you know, that we are in a real inflationary time and it might not be transitory.   And so I think that is something that, you know, self storage has going for it. Like I mentioned, it allows you to capture that inflation real time. And if it, you know, if deflation hits, it would allow, you know, you, that happened as well. I guess   Jesse (28m 40s): I would just say, I heard one of the best definitions from Howard marks when he said, if you want to define the, the cycle and in this could go for real estate as well. He said, stage one couple forward thinking. People realize that they think the market's going to get better stage two, a broader economy, and people realize it is getting better. Stage three people think it's going to get better forever. And he's like, I don't know why you need a better definition of that. And it it's people, you know, listening to this, they know I'm a big Howard marks fan, but I mean, it's a great, it's a great point.   And one thing I've, I've said a number of times is when my mentor, he said, you know, real estate is one of those few industries where you can actually charge your customers are downloaded inflation to your customers. I E tenants. And it sounds like self storage is a continuation of, of that. If not in more real time, given the fact that sounds like you could, you can do it on a monthly basis.   Paul (29m 35s): Yeah. Right. That's exactly right.   Jesse (29m 37s): All right, Paul, we, before we get to the final four questions here, I thought I would ask you why it is important for investors or entrepreneurs to find their, why.   Paul (29m 47s): You know, I woke up at 33 years old on October 7th, 1997. And I had a couple million dollars in the bank, which was completely unprecedented for a, you know, for me and I wasn't any happier. I wasn't any more, you know, like I didn't, I felt a little more successful than I did the week before, but not a whole lot. I think it's really important for people to find their big, why, you know, studies show that if you make over $95,000, I mean, let's say you make 950,000 or 95 million a year.   You're not any happier than you were at 95,000. So we really need to have something else to live for. I think we were created for more. And so I really would recommend people find a big why for me, it's a it's it's regarding human trafficking. You know, if you took the record profits, not the average, the record annual profits of apple, general motors, Nike and Starbucks, and you added those together, double that number. That's the approximate profits projected from human trafficking every year.   And I'd like to believe if I was alive in the 18 hundreds, I would have been an abolitionist fighting against slavery. And if I was alive or if I was an adult in the 1960s, I would have been fighting for civil rights. Well, this is a civil right. And it is slavery and it's happening right under our noses. So my company Wellings capital is dedicating ourselves to try to free 5,000 slaves in the next five years from human trafficking. And I'm just recommending, you know, on a broader point that everybody finds something you're passionate about.   That's bigger than yourself or your business,   Jesse (31m 28s): Dear. And I think it's important as you know, we do or individuals get successful individually or with their companies in our case, in real estate that you CA you figure out what those things are and you know, that human element of, of being, being successful or prosperous. Okay, we are going to switch it up to a four questions. We ask every guest, if you're ready to go, I'll fire them out. Yeah.   Paul (31m 51s): You bet. What's   Jesse (31m 52s): A one thing Paul, that you know, now that you wish you knew when you started investing in real estate.   Paul (31m 58s): I wish I hadn't known the difference between investing and speculating and investing is when your principles generally safe. And you've got a chance to make a return. Speculating is when your principal is not at all safe and you've got a chance to make a return. You know, they say low risk, low return, high risk leads to not high return. It's actually the possibility of losing all your money or making a high return. I wish I'd have known the difference when I started and lost a bunch of money early on.   Jesse (32m 27s): Yeah. I mean, it goes back to Howard marks where, you know, you have that curve where he's like, well, if high, if high risk means high return by definition, that is not that's impossible. It's it's, that would mean that it's certain it's, it's obviously the higher, the risk, the higher expected important expected piece there a return. Right. Okay. Number two, your view on somebody that's entering our industry, a younger person, what would you say to them in terms of mentorship and, and getting started?   Paul (32m 59s): Yeah, I would actually. So bill gates became the wealthiest guy in the world through three simple steps you can take right now. Number one, I'm sorry. I had to do that. Number one, he decided at a very young age, what he wanted to do, and he's stuck in that lane. He did not very, he said no to 10,000 distractions to stay focused. Number two step, he, all he partnered with, or he actually found a company that would partner with him who was the biggest wealthiest, most influential company in that business, the tech world.   And that was IBM. Then third, here's the surprise. He did everything in his power to make them successful. When he did that, he quickly became the wealthiest guy in the world at a pretty young age. And so I would say following bill gates steps, you know, try to figure out what you want to do. Say no to distractions, find a big organization. Who's willing to partner with you and do everything you can to make them successful. That's great. Okay.   Jesse (34m 3s): Number three, what is one book you just are constantly recommending to people?   Paul (34m 9s): Well, I was going to recommend Howard marks mastering the market cycle, but since your listeners are already familiar with that, I would go back to my second one by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller. The one thing, yeah,   Jesse (34m 21s): That's a great book. And you know what, it's funny with mastering the market cycle. That is one book that's fairly hard to find on. I think it's on audible. If you want to listen to the audio version, but maybe, maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I books, I, it was more challenging to find. All right, Paul, I think we're going to get an interesting answer on this one. My favorite Bloomberg question, first car, make and model   Paul (34m 46s): 1969, black Ford Mustang with the hood scoop   Jesse (34m 52s): 1 64, a oh 69, sorry, 69. I was going to not quite as cool. I was going to say the, would that be similar to the a, was it the 1970 was Mach one with the, with the kind of riveted Fastback.   Paul (35m 8s): Yeah. Well, interestingly, my hood was an aftermarket hood and somehow or another, I ended up with a Fastback hood with the turn signals out on the hood, you know, with my 1969 car. So   Jesse (35m 23s): Yeah, and I think that car was a, it was an Evie electric. Now I'm just joking. I feel like, I feel like this question is slowly, slowly going to get phased out as more and more people that come on just never had a first car, which is just the paradigm. Awesome. Well, for listeners that want to either, we'll put a show notes for the book for links to reach you, but where would the best be the best place be to, to connect with you? Paul   Paul (35m 51s): Jessie, I'm sure you can relate to this. When I, all those years, I wanted to transition from residential to commercial. I didn't know what to do. And so I've written a guide for people, free guide for people who want to learn, how to make that transition. And it's at Wellings capital.com/resources. That's w E L L I N G S capital.com/resources.   Jesse (36m 14s): My guest today has been Paul Moore, Paul, thanks for being part of working capital.   Paul (36m 20s): Thanks, Jesse. It's prey to be here.   Jesse (36m 29s): Thank you so much for listening to working capital the real estate podcast. I'm your host, Jesse for galley. If you liked the episode, head on to iTunes and leave us a five-star review and share on social media, it really helps us out. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Instagram, Jesse for galley, F R a G a L E, have a good one take care.

America's Obsession with Illusion Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 14, 2022 “He who despises his own life is soon master of others” – English proverb For the vast majority of Americans, the past year has been the most challenging in their lives – certainly for young adults. However, not everyone has been suffering equally. The nation's health or illness is not uniform. Much of our suffering is dependent upon the institutionalization and negligence of previous injustices, the loss of social equanimity, economic heedlessness, and our leaders' unmitigated greed and pursuit of power. Nor is everyone adversely affected by the shifts underway in the imaginations of the political and ideological universes. The transnational class of corporate and banking elites, for example, has little motivation to respect or contribute to national boundaries and interests. They perceive themselves as global actors. For the generals and captains of neoliberal globalization, the puppet masters of financial markets, the Covid-19 pandemic only caused annoying disruptions in the quality of their lives. For the remainder, it has been cataclysmic. As we begin 2022 should we not pause and reflect carefully about what we want and don't want as individuals and a nation to secure a sustainable future? A deep and collective introspection into the shared moral principles is called for. It is no longer what we say or profess that has any truth or significance. Rather what we actualize in our daily lives and as a society is going to determine whether the future will be better future or worse. Only our actions can realistically convey the deeper values in the American psyche. Therefore we need to ask ourselves more difficult questions to discover the real moral poverty that defines us as a civilization. Where were the large demonstrations against the trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street and foreign banks when barely a penny was spent for the average citizen? Where were the demonstrations against home foreclosures and the loss of small family farms?  Debt drenched student aid? Exploitive payday loans and exorbitant credit card fees? There was no outrage against Obama's broken promises on universal healthcare, a platform that helped bring him to the White House. The single-minded attention on the pandemic has cancelled out 2.5 million homeless American children and 46 million adults and children who go hungry daily. Where was a collective voice condemning the hundreds of billion tax dollars to increase the power of the military and intelligence complexes as American cities further collapsed into ghettos? Where were the marches against corporations off-shoring jobs? Why no vocal outrage against the invasions of Libya and Syria, or the US' ongoing support of rogue dictatorships, such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE for crimes against humanity in Yemen? Where are the protests against corporations exploiting slave labor in poor countries such as Bangladesh and Indonesia?  There were no noteworthy protests for any of these issues. And yet these are true existential threats to our very democracy. Bertrand Russell wrote, “one should care about the world they do not see.” Should we not be planning ahead for the future of our children, grandchildren and ourselves instead of being incapacitated by fear? The national popular disinterest in these and other crises foreshadows something on the horizon that does not bode well for most Americans. It is a simple principle to understand; yet so subtle it will likely go unnoticed until everyone is individually and collectively affected. It is the utter lack of balance within the nation's body politick, and across the media that spoon feeds us virtual images of a faux theatrical play, the illusory icons on our minds' monitor screens, that shape our perceptions of reality. This is how control is exerted over our thoughts, speech and actions. In fact, it is only after people exercise their thoughts independently, with the certain belief that they have actual self-control over their lives, that they can arrive at the realization that their perceptions may be largely distorted. Throughout America's history there has been a system of three federal branches to assure there is a platform for checks and balances as well as a structure to contain the tensions between them. That system now is being rapidly challenged and eroded. Now the middle of the road Democrats officially control the White House and both legislative bodies. We will see what awaits us. There is also what is commonly referred to as the “fourth estate,” the powers of the press and news media that control the framing of the political narrative and partisan issues. In the past, the media was expected to hold the government accountable by exposing its conflicts of interest that endanger the public, its misdemeanors, and systemic corruption. This too is in decay as the media has been fully captured by corporate interests and now aligns itself politically and ideologically with the new political elite determined to reshape democracy and launch a new reset that will dramatically infringe on individual rights and liberties. Finally, there is the growing influence of a fourth branch of government, the corpocracy and its private interests. We might also include the US intelligence community that increasingly operates independently from executive and legislative oversight. Together we can witness this loose cabal of seemingly independent entities, working simultaneously in consortium and in opposition to each other, propelling us towards a future tsunami of greater polarization and immense social disruption. Earlier generations were not threatened by the telecommunication and technological giants, such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. Clinton's Communications Decency Act of 1996, despite its well-meaning intentions to protect free speech, was otherwise destructively naïve. At that time it was sensible; however, that was before the advent of the social media that now dominates our lives and shapes political discourse. Silicon Valley has become a force far more powerful than the lobbyists on K Street to ensure that corporate Democrats are raised to a position of absolute power. Yet the problem would be equally threatening if it were the corporate and radicalized GOP in power. The centrist Democratic left, lulled in a passivity that “it can't happen here,” is every bit as dangerous and delusional as the Republican far-right's paranoia over conspiracies squatting behind every nook and cranny. A moderate centrist right no longer exists as it has now exited reality like a herd of lemmings to follow Trump phenomena over a phantasmagoric cliff. The more important question to contemplate is how this will impact yourself and average citizens. What happens elsewhere around the world can no longer be viewed in isolation. Globalization is perhaps the most holistic phenomena within the matrix of financial capital movements and post-modern social restructuring. China has the means to socially control most of its population, especially in urban areas. On the other hand, China would be unable to succeed in this endeavor without the direct assistance, trade and technological development of Silicon Valley and the private innovators of intelligence and surveillance applied science. China has already launched social scoring, a nefarious means to reward and penalize public activity. If a person protests the lack of personal freedom, democratic values and free speech, his or her social score decreases. And through digital networks, authorities can monitor and identify every Chinese citizen's movements. All of this technology is ready for launch in the US and other developed nations. However, rather than social scoring, it is block chain, the digital database that gathers any information it is programmed for. Block chain has already been employed for almost a decade. At this moment the federal government and individual states are blindly over-reacting to Covid's health threats, the climate and environment, and the collapse of social cohesion. These threats are eliciting government mandates, such as vaccination. A Biden federal vaccine mandate would overrule individual state laws. The fact that this is being publicly stated should quell many conspiratorial theories. It is part of a more comprehensive and long-term agenda for expanding government social control under the pretense and propaganda of keeping Americans safe under the banner of national security. New laws are under construction that would redefine hate speech. Censorship of free speech for criticizing official narratives and policies to tackle the pandemic are being enforced. Any criticism towards the failures of the Covid-19 vaccines is redefined as threats to public health. People raising such critiques may eventually find their names on domestic terrorist lists. This scenario is not beyond the imagination. Wikileaks revealed that environmental, animal protection, and human rights groups have been labeled as domestic terrorist organizations. Guilt by association laws, for example buried in Obama's National Defense Authorization Act, are in place. Expanding a law's scope is far easier than erasing it from the books. Consequently, it is not unlikely that these laws may eventually widen to include charges of subversion based solely on the emails you read, the videos you watch or the broadcasts you listen to. This would inevitably lead to the death toll for any residue of integrity in journalism. Silicon Valley's collusion with the government has canceled the voices of some of our best investigative journalists, such as Chris Hedges, Sharyl Attkinsson, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal and Craig Murray. These are only a few of many examples. The new unstated law is that original investigation must support the official narrative, otherwise it will be prohibited from accessible public view. We may recall that under the second Bush administration, the justice department created “free speech zones,” fenced off or confined areas where demonstrators were only permitted to exercise their Constitutional rights of free protest and expression. Today we are only several small amendments away before the right to assemble being banned altogether. Faced with growing condemnation by many nations, the US' hegemony on the world geopolitical arena has waned considerably. Biden's administration and its return to neocon foreign against Russia and China and neoliberal market policies will likely make every effort to regain the dominance it lost during the past four years. What has vanished in the US' former full spectrum dominance over the geopolitical landscape is now being inverted to strengthen federal hegemonic reign over the American population. Finally, we need to awaken to modern technologies' remarkable sophistication and its certain threats to the health of our societies, and even to our definition of being human. Sadly, this is an industry each of us has been complicit in advancing. Coining a term by one of the planet's most important and forgotten 20th century prophetic voices, the Trappist monk Father Thomas Merton, we are facing a great Unspeakable, a spiritual crisis contributing to the existential vacuity of modern American culture. Few are aware that in his 1964 collection of meditations, Seeds of Destruction, Merton predicted that the civil rights movement would confront a catastrophic impasse and may find itself without leadership. Four years later, Martin Luther King Jr, who Merton had a deep correspondence with, was assassinated. Merton would die suddenly later that same year under very mysterious circumstances in Thailand. Another way to describe the Unspeakable is criminal Sovereignty, with a capital S, to convey its almost numinous qualities. If alive today, Merton would look upon both the extreme right and left as mere expressions of the meaninglessness of American life manifesting as a turbulent ocean of afflictive emotions and thoughts. Instead of technology serving the needs of humanity, Americans are being increasingly conditioned to willingly bow as slaves to technology. The public, Somerset Maugham warned, “are easily disillusioned then they are angry or it was the illusion they loved.” The Unspeakable's unspoken mantra is: technology must progress regardless of how many people fall destitute, jobless, debt ridden and physically ill with only suicide as a recourse to escape. “American democracy today,” Merton observed over 55 years ago, “is just cheap pressed wood fiber, cardboard and spray paint.” Consequently, the elite sitting in the global control tower view the Great Reset's technological regime as preferable to democracy's kabuki theater. Advanced surveillance, artificial intelligence, intelligent robotics, transhumanism, a 5G internet of everything, genetic engineering, and weather modification should be our guiding avatars. The solutions, he would argue, can no longer be found in civil discourse or the rights of human beings gathering in assembly. For the ruling elite, the masses are blind sheep wandering in search of a shepherd. This is what author Ronald Wright called the “progress trap” – progress' unending efforts to feed technology's hunger to devour natural and human capital, interest free. And the mainstream press and news media, in its' malady of cognitive dissonance, serves as its unreflective cheerleader for our march towards civilizational collapse. Merton was keenly aware of technology's dangers to social stability. In a 1967 letter he took aim at the “universal myth that technology infallibly makes everything in every way better for everybody. It does not.” However, Merton was by no means a Luddite. “Technology could indeed make a better world for millions of human beings,” he wrote. Yet there remained the nightmare of technology transforming the world into a “more collectivist, cybernated mass culture.” Decades before the first desktop, Merton foresaw a complete fragmentation of the nation's moral and spiritual fabric when people will begin basing all of their political and ethical decisions on computers. Prophetically he wrote to a friend, “just wait until they start philosophizing with computers!” That was 1967. He even foresaw technology becoming a means to elevate the slaves of technology's false self, to satisfy narcissistic appetites for admiration and status. In other words, the woke social media. “The greatest need of our time,” Merton wrote in his Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, “is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see we cannot think. The purification must begin with the mass media.” For this reason we urgently need to penetrate the illusions of propaganda and popular falsehoods, across the entire political spectrum as well the self-appointed pontificating Pharisees who are ushering a new socio-economic era where endless technological innovation has precedence over human lives. Despite its newness, it has also been clearly predictable. No doubt, if Orwell were penning his great novel today, the emergence of this new American era we are witnessing would not be fiction.

The Commercial Investing Podcast welcomes back Paul Moore, founder and managing partner of Wellings Capital, to discuss seven paths to get involved with commercial real estate. Paul shares great advice and diverse ways to enter into this sector, whether you are just starting out, or already involved in residential real estate.  Key Takeaways: [1:10] Seven paths to commercial real estate investing [2:23] How Paul Moore got into commercial real estate [3:06] Path #1 The long and winding road [5:03] Path #2 Baptism by fire: Going on your own [7:01] Path #3 Become a deal finder/maker [10:49] Path #4 Be a capital development specialist (raise money) [15:06] Path #5 Get a job in the commercial real estate sector [17:30] Path #6 Passive investing [22:23] Path #7 Find a mentor   Mentions: Watch Jason's video "How to Analyze a Real Estate Investment and Read a Pro Forma" JasonHartman.com WellingsCapital.com Brian Burke: The Hands Off Investor   Paul Moore's Latest Book: Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage  

America's Obsession with Illusion Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 14, 2022   “He who despises his own life is soon master of others” – English proverb   For the vast majority of Americans, the past year has been the most challenging in their lives – certainly for young adults. However, not everyone has been suffering equally. The nation's health or illness is not uniform. Much of our suffering is dependent upon the institutionalization and negligence of previous injustices, the loss of social equanimity, economic heedlessness, and our leaders' unmitigated greed and pursuit of power.  Nor is everyone adversely affected by the shifts underway in the imaginations of the political and ideological universes. The transnational class of corporate and banking elites, for example, has little motivation to respect or contribute to national boundaries and interests. They perceive themselves as global actors. For the generals and captains of neoliberal globalization, the puppet masters of financial markets, the Covid-19 pandemic only caused annoying disruptions in the quality of their lives. For the remainder, it has been cataclysmic.   As we begin 2022 should we not pause and reflect carefully about what we want as and don't want as individuals and a nation for securing a sustainable future? Fundamental is a deep introspection into the common and moral principles we are living today. It is not what we say or profess, but what we actualize in our daily lives and as a collective society that matters. Only our actions can realistically convey the deeper values in the American psyche.    Therefore we need to ask ourselves more difficult questions to discover the real moral poverty that defines us as a civilization. Where were the large demonstrations against the trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street and foreign banks when barely a penny for the average citizen was spent? Where were the demonstrations against home foreclosures and the loss of small family farms?  Debt drenched student aid? Exploitive payday loans and exorbitant credit card fees. There were no protests against Obama's broken promises on universal healthcare. The single-minded attention on the pandemic has cancelled out 2.5 million homeless American children and 46 million adults and children who go daily. Where was a collective voice condemning the hundreds of billion tax dollars to increase the power of the military and intelligence complexes as American cities further collapsed into ghettos? Where were the marches against corporations off-shoring jobs. Why no vocal outrage against Obama's invasions of Libya and Syria, or the US ongoing support of rogue dictatorships, such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE, for crimes against humanity in Yemen. Where are the protests against corporations exploiting slave labor in poor countries such as Bangladesh and Indonesia.  There were no noteworthy protests for any of these issues. And yet these are true existential threats to our very democracy. Bertrand Russell wrote, “one should care about the world they do not see.” Should we not therefore be planning ahead for the future of our children, grandchildren and ourselves instead of being incapacitated by fear.   The national popular disinterest in these and other crises forebodes something on the horizon that does not bode well for most Americans. It is a simple principle to understand; yet so subtle it will likely go unnoticed until everyone is individually and collectively affected. It is the utter lack of balance within the nation's body politick, and across the media that spoon feeds us virtual images of a faux theatrical play, the illusory icons on our minds' monitor screens, that shape our perceptions of reality. This is how control is exerted over our thoughts, speech and actions. In fact, it is only after people exercise their thoughts independently, with the certain belief that they have actual self-control over their lives, that they arrive at the realization that their perceptions may be largely distorted.   Throughout America's history there has been a system of three federal branches to assure there is a platform for checks and balances as well as a structure to contain the tensions between them. That system now is being rapidly challenged and eroded. Now the middle of the road Democrats officially control the White House and both legislative bodies. We will see what awaits us.   There is also what is commonly referred to as the “fourth estate,” the powers of the press and news media that control the framing of the political narrative and partisan issues. In the past, the media was expected to hold the government accountable by exposing its conflicts of interest that endanger the public, its misdemeanors, and systemic corruption. This too is in decay as the media has been fully captured by corporate interests and now aligns itself politically and ideologically with the new political elite determined to reshape democracy and launch a new reset that will dramatically infringe on individual rights and liberties.   Finally, there is the growing influence of a fourth branch of government, the corpocracy and its private interests. We might also include the US intelligence community that increasingly operates independently from executive and legislative oversight.   Together we can witness this loose cabal of seemingly independent entities, working simultaneously in consortium and in opposition to each other, propelling us towards a future tsunami of greater polarization and immense social disruption.   Earlier generations were not threatened by the telecommunication and technological giants, such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. Clinton's Communications Decency Act of 1996, despite its well-meaning intentions to protect free speech, was otherwise destructively naïve. At that time it was sensible; however, that was before the advent of the social media that now dominates our lives and shapes political discourse. Silicon Valley has become a force far more powerful than the lobbyists on K Street to ensure that corporate Democrats are raised to a position of absolute power. Yet the problem would be equally threatening if it were the corporate and radicalized GOP in power.   The centrist Democratic left, lulled in a passivity that “it can't happen here,” is every bit as dangerous and delusional as the Republican far-right's paranoia over conspiracies squatting behind every nook and cranny. A moderate centrist right no longer exists as it has now exited reality like a herd of lemmings to follow Trump phenomena over a phantasmagoric cliff.   The more important question to contemplate is how this will impact yourself and average citizens. What happens elsewhere around the world can no longer be viewed in isolation. Globalization is perhaps the most holistic phenomena within the matrix of financial capital movements and post-modern social restructuring. China has the means to socially control most of its population, especially in urban areas. On the other hand, China would be unable to succeed in this endeavor without the direct assistance, trade and technological development of Silicon Valley and the private innovators of intelligence and surveillance applied science. China has already launched social scoring, a nefarious means to reward and penalize public activity. If a person protests the lack of personal freedom, democratic values and free speech, his or her social score decreases. And through digital networks, authorities can monitor and identify every Chinese citizen's movements. All of this technology is ready for launch in the US and other developed nations. However, rather than social scoring, it is block chain, the digital database that gathers any information it is programmed for. Block chain has already been employed for almost a decade.    At this moment the federal government and individual states are blindly over-reacting to Covid's health threats, the climate and environment, and the collapse of social cohesion. These threats are eliciting government mandates, such as vaccination. A Biden federal vaccine mandate would overrule individual state laws. The fact that this is being publicly stated should quell many conspiratorial theories. It is part of a more comprehensive and long-term agenda for expanding government social control under the pretense and propaganda of keeping Americans safe under the banner of national security.   New laws are under construction that would redefine hate speech. Censorship of free speech for criticizing official narratives and policies to tackle the pandemic are being enforced. Any criticism towards the failures of the Covid-19 vaccines is redefined as threats to public health. People raising such critiques may eventually find their names on domestic terrorist lists. This scenario is not beyond the imagination. Wikileaks revealed that environmental, animal protection, and human rights groups have been labeled as domestic terrorist organizations. Guilt by association laws, for example buried in Obama's National Defense Authorization Act, are in place. Expanding a law's scope is far easier than erasing it from the books. Consequently, it is not unlikely that these laws may eventually widen to include charges of subversion based solely on the emails you read, the videos you watch or the broadcasts you listen to. This would inevitably lead to the death toll for any residue of integrity in journalism. Silicon Valley's collusion with the government has canceled the voices of some of our best investigative journalists, such as Chris Hedges, Sharyl Attkinsson, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal and Craig Murray. These are only a few of many examples. The new unstated law is that original investigation must support the official narrative, otherwise it will be prohibited from accessible public view.    We may recall that under the second Bush administration, the justice department created “free speech zones,” fenced off or confined areas where demonstrators were only permitted to exercise their Constitutional rights of free protest and expression. Today we are only several small amendments away before the right to assemble being banned altogether.   Faced with growing condemnation by many nations, the US' hegemony on the world geopolitical arena has waned considerably. Biden's administration and its return to neocon foreign against Russia and China and neoliberal market policies will likely make every effort to regain the dominance it lost during the past four years. What has vanished in the US' former full spectrum dominance over the geopolitical landscape is now being inverted to strengthen federal hegemonic reign over the American population.   Finally, we need to awaken to modern technologies' remarkable sophistication and its certain threats to the health of our societies, and even to our definition of being human. Sadly, this is an industry each of us has been complicit in advancing. Coining a term by one of the planet's most important and forgotten 20th century prophetic voices, the Trappist monk Father Thomas Merton, we are facing a great Unspeakable, a spiritual crisis contributing to the existential vacuity of modern American culture. Few are aware that in his 1964 collection of meditations, Seeds of Destruction, Merton predicted that the civil rights movement would confront a catastrophic impasse and may find itself without leadership. Four years later, Martin Luther King Jr, who Merton had a deep correspondence with, was assassinated. Merton would die suddenly later that same year under very mysterious circumstances in Thailand.   Another way to describe the Unspeakable is criminal Sovereignty, with a capital S, to convey its almost numinous qualities. If alive today, Merton would look upon both the extreme right and left as mere expressions of the meaninglessness of American life manifesting as a turbulent ocean of afflictive emotions and thoughts. Instead of technology serving the needs of humanity, Americans are being increasingly conditioned to willingly bow as slaves to technology. The public, Somerset Maugham warned, “are easily disillusioned then they are angry or it was the illusion they loved.” The Unspeakable's unspoken mantra is: technology must progress regardless of how many people fall destitute, jobless, debt ridden and physically ill with only suicide as a recourse to escape. “American democracy today,” Merton observed over 55 years ago, “is just cheap pressed wood fiber, cardboard and spray paint.” Consequently, the elite sitting in the global control tower view the Great Reset's technological regime as preferable to democracy's kabuki theater. Advanced surveillance, artificial intelligence, intelligent robotics, transhumanism, a 5G internet of everything, genetic engineering, and weather modification should be our guiding avatars. The solutions, he would argue, can no longer be found in civil discourse or the rights of human beings gathering in assembly. For the ruling elite, the masses are blind sheep wandering in search of a shepherd. This is what author Ronald Wright called the “progress trap” – progress' unending efforts to feed technology's hunger to devour natural and human capital, interest free. And the mainstream press and news media, in its' malady of cognitive dissonance, serves as its unreflective cheerleader for our march towards civilizational collapse.    Merton was keenly aware of technology's dangers to social stability. In a 1967 letter he took aim at the “universal myth that technology infallibly makes everything in every way better for everybody. It does not.” However, Merton was by no means a Luddite. “Technology could indeed make a better world for millions of human beings,” he wrote. Yet there remained the nightmare of technology transforming the world into a “more collectivist, cybernated mass culture.” Decades before the first desktop, Merton foresaw a complete fragmentation of the nation's moral and spiritual fabric when people will begin basing all of their political and ethical decisions on computers. Prophetically he wrote to a friend, “just wait until they start philosophizing with computers!” That was 1967. He even foresaw technology becoming a means to elevate the slaves of technology's false self, to satisfy narcissistic appetites for admiration and status. In other words, the woke social media.   “The greatest need of our time,” Merton wrote in his Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, “is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see we cannot think. The purification must begin with the mass media.”   For this reason we urgently need to penetrate the illusions of propaganda and popular falsehoods, across the entire political spectrum as well the self-appointed pontificating Pharisees who are ushering a new socio-economic era where endless technological innovation has precedence over human lives. Despite its newness, it has also been clearly predictable. No doubt, if Orwell were penning his great novel today, the emergence of this new American era we are witnessing would not be fiction.

Paul Moore, founder and managing partner of Wellings Capital, steps in for Jason Hartman today to talk about self storage and why it's so popular right now. Self storage has done remarkably well through the pandemic and Paul will take you through the underlying fundamentals that drive self storage and why it captures inflation better than any other real estate asset class. Key Takeaways: 0:45 What's driving the boom in self storage? 2:22 Four Ds of self storage: death, downsizing, dislocation, divorce 4:32 Self storage facilities in the United States 4:57 The value formula in commercial real estate deals and value adds 6:59 Self storage is recession resistant 8:35 Self storage is an inflation capturer 10:08 Dynamic pricing and ancillary income 11:50 Additional value adds: boat and RV storage, truck leasing  14:19 Flexible lease terms lead to easy evictions 14:30 Institutional investors are running after self storage right now Mentions: JasonHartman.com WellingsCapital.com   Paul Moore's Latest Book: Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage Tweetables:  Self storage captures inflation better than any other real estate asset class. Paul Moore Self storage is recession-resistant. Paul Moore  

Americans seem obsessed with young talent. It seems as time goes on, people are becoming stars at younger and younger ages and no one seems to point out that there are severe repercussions to projecting such young minds into the public eye. From mental health issues to being told to act like adults, young athletes and stars are held to an impossible standard at such a young age.

On this Episode Chino, Homeboy, & Hate Jones talk with guest Dead Eye Lotus about defecating during a bathroom remodel, America's Obsession with Incest Porn, and Tony Hinchcliffe. Credits: Intro & Outro Music: "Pirate Mutiny" by The Sovereigns Font: "Luckiest Guy" Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute Cover Art: Alston Novak Chino & Homeboy Created by: Sabino Cruz & Phillip Ezpeleta Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChinoAndHomeboy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chinoandhomeboy/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chinoandhomeboy/support

Vox's Zack Beauchamp talks with Columbia law professor Jamal Greene about his book How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession With Rights Is Tearing America Apart. They discuss how the US obsession with rights and their protections gives too much power to judges and the courts, makes it difficult for ordinary citizens to find reasonable solutions to legitimate problems, and has made this country's legal system not only nonsensical but dangerous. Host: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), Senior Correspondent, Vox Guest: Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene), Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School References:  How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession With Rights Is Tearing America Apart by Jamal Greene (HMH Books; 2021) "From Guns to Gay Marriage, How Did Rights Take Over Politics?" by Kelefa Sanneh (New Yorker; May 24) Lochner v. New York, 198 US 45 (1905) Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 US __ (2018) District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 US 570 (2008) "Texas's radical anti-abortion law, explained" by Ian Millhiser (Vox; Sept. 2) Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Conversations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Vox Conversations by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Support Vox Conversations by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by:  Producer: Erikk Geannikis Editor: Amy Drozdowska VP, Vox Audio: Liz Kelly Nelson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Todays #RitterOnRealEstate guest is Paul Moore. After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul Moore co-founded a staffing firm where he was finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight. After selling the staffing firm to a publicly traded company, Paul Moore began investing in real estate, founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and eventually completed 85+ real estate Investments and exits, including a large multifamily development. He has contributed to Fox Business and is a regular contributor to Bigger-Pockets, producing live video and blog content regularly. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he's been a featured guest on 200+ podcasts. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Key Points From This Episode: Stumbling into real estate in 2000 after working for Ford Motor Company and selling a staffing company. Early interests in real estate syndication. The importance of good margins when buying and selling deals.Acquiring assets from Mom & Pop sellers.The value-add opportunities that come with buying from Mom & Pop sellers.Undercapitalized and mismanaged deals.Why mobile home parks are underrated investments. Forced appreciation and why it's important when investing in real estate. The importance of time management. Books Mentioned:Mastering the Market Cycle by Howard MarksThe One Thing by Gary Keller

My guest today is Paul Moore. After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was a finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years in a row. After selling the staffing firm to a publicly traded company, he began investing in real estate, founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and eventually completed 85+ real estate investments and exits, including a large multifamily development. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm, and he has contributed to Fox Business and is a regular contributor to Bigger Pockets. Paul first shares his background story and how he got into real estate. After getting his engineering degree and his MBA at Ohio State University, Paul worked at Ford Motor Company. Soon, he decided to start his own staffing company that was doing really well for the next few years. Eventually, he decided to sell it to a publicly traded firm. Paul found himself at 34 years old, with a couple of million dollars and absolutely no sense of investing. He moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, started a nonprofit organization, and started flipping houses and waterfront lots as well as ground-up construction. In 2010, he got involved in commercial real estate that led him to write a book on multifamily investing, and then later expanding into doing a number of commercial real estate funds for people who want to invest in commercial real estate but don't have the bandwidth to do it full time. We then move on to discussing some of the struggles that Paul faced in 2007 that led to him being 2.5 million dollars in debt. In 1997, Paul had a million and a half in the bank. Exactly a decade later to the month, he had two and a half million in debt. He explains that they were able to give their way out of debt. Following the premise of one of his heroes, George Müller, who was a 19th-century Christian evangelist with radical views on generosity, Paul and his family started to donate their money pretty radically on January 1st, 2008 while they were facing bankruptcy. Four weeks later, Paul found a loophole in the law that allowed him to split one of his waterfront lots and sell the parts individually. He sold four in the fall of 2008, and the fifth eight months later. After that, he was debt-free. Next, we talk about how Paul got into multifamily and the benefits of apartment buildings with 80+ units. Paul shares that he first got into multifamily with a four-unit building and a couple of duplexes. He then hired a business mentor who convinced him to only do apartment buildings with 80+ units. Paul explains that it is much easier to own an apartment building with 100 units than owning 100 different houses. With a 100 unit building you only need one property manager, you have one location, you have more control over your tenants, you can get a 3%, Fannie or Freddie loan, and you can get an FHA loan with a 35-year term. Paul then shares his opinion on real estate investing at the moment. He explains that currently 93% of multifamily above 50 units are owned and operated by corporations who have typically run the value out. The problem is that if the value has already been run out, then you're going to be running on a thin margin, hoping and praying for inflation. And if inflation doesn't come or if there is a bump in the economy, that thin margin is going to go to zero. Paul's advice is to invest in assets that have a mom-and-pop ownership base, like self-storage and mobile home parks. Paul also goes on to say that if he could invest in only one thing today, it would definitely be mobile home parks. We then talk about Paul's books: The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul explains that he wrote his first book five years ago after he went through his mentoring program for multifamily housing. He discovered that there were actual mechanics of how it all works and that there was a value formula, and he wanted to share that with the world. He wrote his second book in 2020, based on his experience with self-storage and the number of benefits it offers. Eventually, we dive into discussing Paul's thoughts on inflation. Any of us who grew up in the 60s, 70s, 80s, remember the horrors of inflation. Paul explains that inflation paired with high-interest rates was disastrous, and can create stagflation. But he also believes that inflation in the face of low interest rates can be a goldmine for real estate investors. If you have inflation and you can create a fixed cost in your company or your property, then that margin increases a lot over the years and your largest cost is fixed even though utilities and maintenance might go up with inflation. So, if you can lock it for a long time, whether it's in your private residence or in an apartment building, or a bunch of single-family homes, you can make a ton of money. Lastly, we talk about the importance of finding your WHY. Paul shares that he woke up on October 7th, 1997 in Troy, Michigan realizing that he's got a couple of million dollars in his bank account, but he doesn't feel that much different than he did yesterday or last week. He felt like there has to be more to life. So now, he encourages people to start doing something now, no matter where they are in life. Don't miss this incredibly fun and knowledge-packed episode of the Just Start Real Estate Podcast with Paul Moore, who is all about giving back and helping others! Notable Quotes: “If you don't know how to tighten the doorknob on your own house, you probably shouldn't build a house.” Paul Moore “I thought I was a full-time investor, but I was a full-time speculator.” Paul Moore “If you play double or nothing long enough, you're going to end up on nothing at some point. And then what will you have left to double?” Paul Moore “Good investing is a little bit more predictable, a little bit more boring.” Mike Simmons “The perfect Investment is not perfect if you can't buy it at a good price.” Paul Moore “That's the best question anyone has asked me on a podcast in a long time.” Paul Moore “It's the only asset class I've ever seen in my life that has a shrinking supply, but an increasing demand every year.” Paul Moore “Those closest to the money are the ones who benefit most from inflation. And those closest to the money are the Federal Reserve and Big Government.” Paul Moore “You can get wealthy if you think like they do. And that is: getting low-rate debt, locking it in for a long time, and letting inflation do its work.” Paul Moore “I like to encourage people to start doing something now, wherever you are - at age 20 or 50 or whatever - that you want to do, to leave a mark on the world for the rest of your life.” Paul Moore Links: Paul on Facebook Paul on LinkedIn Paul on Instagram Paul on Twitter The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing by Paul Moore Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage Paperback by Paul Moore Exodus Cry Wellings Capital Free Resources 7 Figure Flipping Return on Investments Just Start Real Estate JSRE on Facebook Mike on Facebook Mike on Instagram Mike on LinkedIn Mike on Twitter Level Jumping: How I Grew My Business to Over $1 Million in Profits in 12 Months

My guest today is Paul Moore.  After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was a finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years in a row. After selling the staffing firm to a publicly traded company, he began investing in real estate, founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and eventually completed 85+ real estate investments and exits, including a large multifamily development. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm, and he has contributed to Fox Business and is a regular contributor to Bigger Pockets.   Paul first shares his background story and how he got into real estate. After getting his engineering degree and his MBA at Ohio State University, Paul worked at Ford Motor Company. Soon, he decided to start his own staffing company that was doing really well for the next few years. Eventually, he decided to sell it to a publicly traded firm. Paul found himself at 34 years old, with a couple of million dollars and absolutely no sense of investing. He moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, started a nonprofit organization, and started flipping houses and waterfront lots as well as ground-up construction. In 2010, he got involved in commercial real estate that led him to write a book on multifamily investing, and then later expanding into doing a number of commercial real estate funds for people who want to invest in commercial real estate but don't have the bandwidth to do it full time.   We then move on to discussing some of the struggles that Paul faced in 2007 that led to him being 2.5 million dollars in debt. In 1997, Paul had a million and a half in the bank. Exactly a decade later to the month, he had two and a half million in debt. He explains that they were able to give their way out of debt. Following the premise of one of his heroes, George Müller, who was a 19th-century Christian evangelist with radical views on generosity, Paul and his family started to donate their money pretty radically on January 1st, 2008 while they were facing bankruptcy. Four weeks later, Paul found a loophole in the law that allowed him to split one of his waterfront lots and sell the parts individually. He sold four in the fall of 2008, and the fifth eight months later. After that, he was debt-free.     Next, we talk about how Paul got into multifamily and the benefits of apartment buildings with 80+ units. Paul shares that he first got into multifamily with a four-unit building and a couple of duplexes. He then hired a business mentor who convinced him to only do apartment buildings with 80+ units. Paul explains that it is much easier to own an apartment building with 100 units than owning 100 different houses. With a 100 unit building you only need one property manager, you have one location, you have more control over your tenants, you can get a 3%, Fannie or Freddie loan, and you can get an FHA loan with a 35-year term.   Paul then shares his opinion on real estate investing at the moment. He explains that currently 93% of multifamily above 50 units are owned and operated by corporations who have typically run the value out. The problem is that if the value has already been run out, then you're going to be running on a thin margin, hoping and praying for inflation. And if inflation doesn't come or if there is a bump in the economy, that thin margin is going to go to zero. Paul's advice is to invest in assets that have a mom-and-pop ownership base, like self-storage and mobile home parks. Paul also goes on to say that if he could invest in only one thing today, it would definitely be mobile home parks.   We then talk about Paul's books: The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul explains that he wrote his first book five years ago after he went through his mentoring program for multifamily housing. He discovered that there were actual mechanics of how it all works and that there was a value formula, and he wanted to share that with the world. He wrote his second book in 2020, based on his experience with self-storage and the number of benefits it offers.    Eventually, we dive into discussing Paul's thoughts on inflation. Any of us who grew up in the 60s, 70s, 80s, remember the horrors of inflation. Paul explains that inflation paired with high-interest rates was disastrous, and can create stagflation. But he also believes that inflation in the face of low interest rates can be a goldmine for real estate investors. If you have inflation and you can create a fixed cost in your company or your property, then that margin increases a lot over the years and your largest cost is fixed even though utilities and maintenance might go up with inflation. So, if you can lock it for a long time, whether it's in your private residence or in an apartment building, or a bunch of single-family homes, you can make a ton of money.   Lastly, we talk about the importance of finding your WHY. Paul shares that he woke up on October 7th, 1997 in Troy, Michigan realizing that he's got a couple of million dollars in his bank account, but he doesn't feel that much different than he did yesterday or last week. He felt like there has to be more to life. So now, he encourages people to start doing something now, no matter where they are in life.   Don't miss this incredibly fun and knowledge-packed episode of the Just Start Real Estate Podcast with Paul Moore, who is all about giving back and helping others!  Notable Quotes:   “If you don't know how to tighten the doorknob on your own house, you probably shouldn't build a house.” Paul Moore   “I thought I was a full-time investor, but I was a full-time speculator.” Paul Moore   “If you play double or nothing long enough, you're going to end up on nothing at some point. And then what will you have left to double?” Paul Moore   “Good investing is a little bit more predictable, a little bit more boring.” Mike Simmons   “The perfect Investment is not perfect if you can't buy it at a good price.” Paul Moore   “That's the best question anyone has asked me on a podcast in a long time.” Paul Moore   “It's the only asset class I've ever seen in my life that has a shrinking supply, but an increasing demand every year.” Paul Moore   “Those closest to the money are the ones who benefit most from inflation. And those closest to the money are the Federal Reserve and Big Government.” Paul Moore   “You can get wealthy if you think like they do. And that is: getting low-rate debt, locking it in for a long time, and letting inflation do its work.” Paul Moore   “I like to encourage people to start doing something now, wherever you are - at age 20 or 50 or whatever - that you want to do, to leave a mark on the world for the rest of your life.” Paul Moore Links: Paul on Facebook Paul on LinkedIn Paul on Instagram Paul on Twitter  The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing  by Paul Moore Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage Paperback by Paul Moore Exodus Cry  Wellings Capital Free Resources  7 Figure Flipping Return on Investments Just Start Real Estate JSRE on Facebook Mike on Facebook Mike on Instagram Mike on LinkedIn Mike on Twitter Level Jumping: How I Grew My Business to Over $1 Million in Profits in 12 Months

Paul Moore is the Founder & Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm focused on mobile home parks and self-storage facilities.  He is an author, podcaster, a regular contributor to Bigger Pockets and an experienced real estate investor. In this episode, Paul talks about forcing appreciation, speculating versus investing, and some of the metrics he looks at for mobile home parks and self-storage facilities.Paul talks about forcing appreciation and compressing cap rates as reliable ways to increase the value of an investment.  He explains what a cap rate is and how it works when forcing appreciation. He describes commercial real estate investing as buying an income stream and working to increase the income.Paul talks about his decision to move from multifamily to self-storage and mobile home park investing because he saw there was significant undervalued opportunity in those asset classes.  He likes asset classes with mom-and-pop owners because a good operator can dramatically increase efficiencies. He estimates around 85% of mobile home parks and 50% of self-storage facilities are owned by mom-and-pop owners.Paul discusses how he diversifies by operator, asset class and market, as well as how he does due diligence and vets operators.  He also talks about the advantages and disadvantages of investing in funds.Paul talks about the difference between in investing and speculating – investing is when principal is safe with a chance to make a return.  Speculating is when principal is not safe and there is a chance to make a return.  Paul discusses some of the metrics he looks at when evaluating a deal.  For self-storage – he looks at the density of self-storage in an area, requires the property to be on a main road and visible from the road, and the average income for the area should be equal to average income near the facility.  For mobile homes – he only looks at parks in a town with 5000 or more people, within five miles of a Super Walmart, and no private water or sewer.Podcasts he recommends:The Real Estate Guys Radio ShowBigger Pockets Bigger Pockets Business  Books mentioned on the show:Storing Up Profits: Capitalizing on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage The Hands-Off Investor Paul mentions his work fighting against human trafficking, below are the educational resources he recommended:Nefarious Exoduscry.comTo connect with Paul go to wellingscapital.com.If you would like to contact Jim Pfeifer, you can email him at jim@leftfieldinvestors.com or if you would like to find out more about Left Field Investors go to www.leftfieldinvestors.com.  Our sponsor, Tribevest provides the easiest way to form, fund, and manage your Investor Tribe with people you know like, and trust.  Tribevest is the Investor Tribe management platform of choice for Jim Pfeifer and the Left Field Investor's Community.    Tribevest is a strategic partner and sponsor of Passive Investing from Left Field.  

Episode Topic: In this episode of Not Just A Transaction, host Nick Prefontaine speaks with real estate investor Paul Moore of Wellings Capital. He explains the importance of focusing on one business idea, and he shares how his company helps make commercial real estate investing easy for beginners. Glossary of Special Terms Used in this Episode: Diversified funds – an investment that is spread across multiple markets or assets What you'll learn about in this episode: Why Paul Moore wishes he was not a serial entrepreneur What most billionaires have in common How to get started in commercial real estate with minimal effort What decision Paul made starting his entrepreneurial journey that he wouldn't do again How Paul Moore hopes to help decrease human trafficking Resources: Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulMooreInvest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellingscapital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wellings-capital-llc Website: https://www.wellingscapital.com Free special report: https://www.wellingscapital.com/resources Additional Resources: Pre Property Solutions website: https://www.prepropertysolutions.com/ Contact Us: https://www.prepropertysolutions.com/contact/ Paul Moore's Bio: After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight. After selling the staffing firm to a publicly traded company, Paul began investing in real estate, founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and eventually completed 85+ real estate Investments and exits, including a large multifamily development. He has contributed to Fox Business and is a regular contributor to Bigger-Pockets, producing live video and blog content regularly. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-building podcast called How to Lose Money and he's been a featured guest on 200+ podcasts. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment – Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm. Nick's Bio: In 2003, Nick Prefontaine was in a snowboarding accident that left him in a coma for over 3 weeks. The doctors told his parents that he probably wouldn't walk, talk, or eat on his own again. Less than 3 months later, he was running out of Franciscan Children's hospital. Now Nick speaks to groups that benefit from his message of overcoming adversity. Nick grew up in the real estate industry and got started at an early age. Most notably, he was knocking on Pre-Foreclosure doors at 16, doing up to 50 doors a day. This experience helped shape Nick's real estate career. When someone opens the door you better have something compelling to say. Now, Nick specializes in working with lease purchase buyers to get them into a home and on the path to home ownership. That includes working with them throughout the entire deal which ends in them being able to get their own loan. Getting buyers to the finish line is something Nick and the entire Pre Property Solutions team take pride in. That is something that separates them from their competition. Regardless of a buyer's credit situation, he looks at their complete financial picture and comes up with a plan to get them into a home. Zachary's Bio: Zachary is an Amazon Best-Selling Author of The New Rules of Real Estate Investing and revised edition of Real Estate On Your Terms. He has been an authority in real estate for 7 years now and has personally completed hundreds of real estate transactions and has mentored investors to complete thousands of transactions. At the age of 25, Zachary decided to leave the world of bartending and personally training and jump into the family business. Now he is an equal partner and runs the acquisitions department, focusing on helping sellers accomplish their goal of selling their property. If Zachary is not working, you will find enjoying the outdoors or spending time with his wife Kayla and two kids Remi and Bellamy. His passion for family and business is what keeps him motivated and excited to take on each day.

As a kid... I still remember the aroma of dark roasted coffee every morning. I'd run downstairs and pour a bowl of cereal while my dad was on his second (or fourth?) cup. He was a Maxwell House guy. And sometimes a Folger's fan too. I used to ... (Read more).

In today's episode, Damian and Varoon bring on two of their friends from ACLU youth to speak on recent efforts to restrict Americans' access to the ballot, President Biden's proposed withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the road to progressive dominance in the 21st century. Visit www.polititeen.com for the video version of our podcast, and for more amazing content from our crew.

America's Obsession w/ Symbolism, The Robert E. Lee Statue Removal, Vaccines and Variants, Anarchy and more with the great Glen Rockney from the Rare Candy podcast!

One of the Republicans' favorite words is FREEDOM. And on this episode, Terry & Alexa talk about how it has become a code word for some pretty bad behavior that impacts ALL of us. We use as our framework an excellent article by Scott Galloway titled The Myth -and Liability - of America's Obsession with Rugged Individualism.   

After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul Moore co-founded a staffing firm where he was a finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight. After selling the staffing firm to a publicly traded company, Paul began investing in real estate, founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and eventually built and co-managed a successful multi-family development. Paul is also the host of How to Lose Money Podcast and the contributor to Fox Business and Bigger Pockets, producing live video and blog content on a weekly basis. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment – Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investigating Self-Storage. Paul is the Managing Director of three commercial real estate funds at Wellings Capital. Let's listen to Paul as he shares his inspiring life story and gain more knowledge about investing in multifamily, self-storage, and mobile home parks. [00:01 – 04:15] Opening Segment  Let's get to know Paul Moore. Paul shares his background and how he got to where he is today. Speculating vs. investing  The benefits of investing over speculating. [04:16 – 14:15] Speculating vs. Investing Paul shares his definition of speculating and investing. The exception of speculators that are exposed in movies and books. The misconception of being financially free and getting wealthy fast. Speculation in using leverage. Why Multifamily investing is a great place for investment. The benefits of the multifamily coaching and mentoring program. Paul talks about his book ‘The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing.' The supporting factors of Multifamily. The overpopulation and other recent issues on multifamily. [14:16 – 29:35] Create Profit Machine from Self-Storage and Mobile Home Parks Paul talks about his pivot to self-storage and mobile home parks. Create a profit machine by upgrading self-storage and mobile home parks. The effect of a massive compression of cap rate to Mom and Pop mobile home parks owners. The potential upsizes and the criteria list of mobile home parks. Evaluating the value of mobile home parks. the net operating income derived from lot rent: the cap rate + the based depreciated value of the mobile homes Value add opportunities to self-storage facilities. The main criteria to buy a self-storage facility. Reasons why we should not build a self-storage facility from the ground up. [29:36 – 40:00] Go From Riches To Rags Back To Riches Again Paul talks about his ‘How to Lose Money Podcast' and how he started it. Sharing the true story of pain and struggle. Paul shares the story of how he got out of 2,5 million dollars debt by faith in 13 months. What would George Müller do? Paul talks about his friendship with Whitney Sewell. Why we should have our ‘Big Why' in life. The importance of having the bigger why that is much bigger than ourselves and what we are doing. [40:01 – 42:45] Closing segment If your great-great grandkids are to write a book about you, how would you like it to be titled?  Paul Moore, an Honorable man. Connect with Paul. See the links below.  To get access to his ebook, visit www.wellingscapital.com/resources  Final words from me.   Tweetable Quotes: “ If you keep playing double or nothing with most or all of your capital, you'll eventually land on nothing then you'll have nothing left to double.”- Paul Moore. “Our goal is to give people hope. If they know that the successful people had pain too, they will realize hey I can make it too.” - Paul Moore. “ I think it's really important that we all have a bigger why, that's much bigger than ourselves, what we are doing, our bank account.” - Paul Moore.    Find out more and connect with Paul on Linkedin Or you can visit his website at https://www.wellingscapital.com/. LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode. I believe that you only need a small axe to build a lasting empire. So let's start building yours! To know more about me and all the real estate opportunities you can find, you can connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook or check out my website https://smallaxecommunities.com/ and book a call with me.

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Welcome Back to another successfully awkward episode of Wisdom by Design. The podcast for the Corporate Dropout who found a new path or maybe a passion, that has taken on a life of its own. This week, on Episode 9, Jess & Kam discuss their "Struggle of the Week". If you're looking for a reminder that business owners are human? This is it. Let's cover the anxiety that surrounds 2021, setting realistic expectations, working with a chemical imbalance, discussing what the human race will potentially look like in the year 3030 and how the Fairly Odd Parents were preparing us for a little self-reflection. All of that and so much more - Thanks for tuning in. 11:15 - Jessa gives a "moving your home" tip (Uhaul plug?? LOL) 13:30 - Time to get real & Kam starts his Struggle of the week 18:20 - Setting Realistic Goals to form habits 19:50 - Kam talks about the book "The Big Leap" 20:50 - America's Obsession with Binging & Restricting Culture 22:10 - Quote Miki Collier 22:30 - Jessa tells her Parenthood struggle (The lost generation during quarantine) 25:09 - Jessa's Fear of Success 25:38 - Your Zone of Genius – Putting tasks in others hands that do not serve you! 27:25 - Business Phone or No Business phone, that is the question 29:00 - Being a morning person may not be for you 34:00 - There is a different way – Delegate!! Advise!! Pass off!! 36:00 - Delegating becomes a superpower – you have to be strong enough to give up control 36:35 - Bonnie; Photographer – how retouching and photographing are two different skill sets 40:00 - Kam getting honest 41:00 - 23 AND ME PLUG lol 43:00 - National Geographic Plug of what we will look like in 3000 AC 48:25 - Connect with us; Instagram Join the Conversation Wisdom by Design Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wisdombydesignpodcast/ Kam: https://www.instagram.com/pwr.design/ Jess: https://www.instagram.com/jbalough_photog/

At any stage in your investment career, perhaps one of the most illuminating, honest, and challenging questions to ask yourself is, “Why?” Why am I choosing this investment? Why am I starting this fund? Why do I want to take this route to financial freedom? Being able to locate and define the “whys” that all investors encounter throughout their lives and careers can not only help you better understand your investments, but better understand yourself. Paul Moore is no stranger to the benefits and the pitfalls of real estate investing in all of its forms. His history and background led him to discover the benefits of real estate, build and co-manage a successful multifamily development, and become Managing Director of three commercial real estate funds at Wellings Capital. Moore's education efforts as a co-host of two podcasts, his weekly contributions to Fox Business and BiggerPockets, and his book The Perfect Investment - Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage have helped investors develop strategies to earn higher, safer returns, partner with the IRS to reap significant profits, and discover, determine, and execute their “big why”. Join us as we sit down with Paul to discuss his journey and how he discovered his own “big why” as an investor.More Form CamaplanWebsite: https://www.camaplan.com/More From Paul  MooreWebsite: https://www.wellingscapital.com/ Call the number below during business hours (8:30 AM - 5 PM EST) to schedule a phone consultation: (215) 283-2868 Toll Free: (866) 559-4430 For a limited time, enrollment is FREE. Follow the link below to start your account application today: https://enroll.camaplan.com/login.aspx?rd=UTUBE

On todays episode, Smellech and I discuss elephants, growing up Jewish in the mistake on the lake (Cleveland), and gold bond. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rafael-pinsky/message

Paul Moore co-hosts two wealth-building podcasts including How to Lose Money, and he's a contributor to Fox Business and BiggerPockets. Paul is the author of a popular multifamily book The Perfect Investment as well as Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Managing Director of three commercial real estate funds at Wellings Capital. In this episode he gives advice on how not to lose money during COVID-19 times when the US government is printing trillions of dollars trying to keep the economy going. If you enjoyed this episode with Paul, make sure to share it with a friend! Learn how to create financial freedom through passive real estate investing: http://bit.ly/ToolsForFinancialFreedom #money #investing #advice

Paul co-hosts two wealth-building podcasts including How to Lose Money, and he's a contributor to Fox Business and BiggerPockets. Paul is the author of a popular multifamily book The Perfect Investment as well as Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Managing Director of three commercial real estate funds at Wellings Capital. In this short clip he talks about how low-interest rates will affect the cap rates and the property values long term. If you enjoyed this episode with Paul, make sure to share it with a friend! Learn how to create financial freedom through passive real estate investing: http://bit.ly/ToolsForFinancialFreedom #interestrates #investing #realestate

After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul co-founded a staffing firm where he was Finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight. Paul later entered the real estate sector, where he founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and eventually built and co-managed a successful multifamily development. Paul co-hosts two wealth-building podcasts including How to Lose Money, and he's a contributor to Fox Business and BiggerPockets. Paul is the author of a popular multifamily book The Perfect Investment as well as Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Managing Director of three commercial real estate funds at Wellings Capital. If you enjoyed this episode with Paul, make sure to share it with a friend! Learn how to create financial freedom through passive real estate investing: http://bit.ly/ToolsForFinancialFreedom #PaulMoore #RealEstate #Investing

Paul Moore is a co-hosts two wealth-building podcasts including How to Lose Money, and he's a contributor to Fox Business and BiggerPockets. Paul is the author of a popular multifamily book The Perfect Investment as well as Storing Up Profits - Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul is the Managing Director of three commercial real estate funds at Wellings Capital. In this episode he talks about his personal reasons that made him invest in real estate. If you enjoyed this episode with Paul, make sure to share it with a friend! Learn how to create financial freedom through passive real estate investing: http://bit.ly/ToolsForFinancialFreedom #investing #passion #realestate

What's the answer to America's obsession with guns? Will Congress take action when it returns this month in response to multiple mass shootings over the summer in Texas, Ohio and California? Learn what one mainstream US church denomination is doing to bring opposing sides together to talk about the crisis and to take steps to limit the rampage of gun violence. I sit down with the Rev. Deanna Hollas, who recently was installed in the Presbyterian Church as Minister of Gun Violence Prevention, and she talks about her new mission.

In his new book, Apocalyptic Anxiety: Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World” (University Press of Colorado), Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader historical framework, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past.