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This is the Women of Influence Podcast Series, delivering next level insights and expertise live from GlobeSt's Multifamily Fall 2024 Event.The Women of Influence Podcast Series is an exclusive mini-series of The Crexi Podcast, an insider's look at all things commercial real estate, produced in collaboration with GlobeSt. The Crexi team visited GlobeSt.'s Multifamily Fall Event in Los Angeles, CA, and recorded interviews from the floor of the conference, highlighting movers and shakers in commercial real estate. The Crexi Podcast explores various aspects of the commercial real estate industry in conversation with some of the top professionals in the space. In each episode, we feature different guests to tap into their wealth of CRE expertise and explore the latest trends and updates from the world of commercial real estate. The podcast includes interviews with Kitty Wallace, Vice Chair at Colliers, Claire Johnston, CEO of LendLease Americas, Natalie Greenberg, COO of MJW Investments, and Laurie Morphin, Senior Managing Director at NewPoint Real Estate Capital. Each guest shares their journey into commercial real estate, discusses current market trends, the impact of legislation, the influence of technology on the industry, and their predictions for the future. Knowledge, preparation, and adaptability are emphasized as keys to success in the ever-evolving multifamily and commercial real estate sectors. 00:00 Introduction to The Crexi Podcast00:30 Meet Kitty Wallace: Multifamily Real Estate Expert01:22 Kitty Wallace's Career Journey06:37 Insights on Multifamily Market Trends11:21 Advice for Investors and Brokers13:25 Contact Information and Closing Remarks14:08 Introduction to Claire Johnston16:55 Claire Johnston's Background and Career18:29 Future of Multifamily Real Estate20:29 Emerging Trends in Multifamily Investments20:59 Building Sustainable Communities21:28 Connecting with Claire Johnston22:14 Introducing Natalie Greenberg24:19 Natalie's Journey in Real Estate25:33 Current Trends in Multifamily Real Estate28:17 Advancements in Technology in Real Estate30:29 Predictions for the Future32:48 Mentorship and Networking34:09 Introducing Laurie Morfin35:21 Laurie's Career Path37:36 Current Market Insights40:51 How Tech Will Shift the Multifamily Sector42:33 Closing Remarks and Contact Information About the Speakers:Kitty Wallace is Colliers' #1 internationally ranked multifamily broker, with over 800 transactions totaling $3 billion across the Western U.S., particularly in Southern California. Recognized as an industry leader, she has earned multiple accolades, including the Colliers Everest Award every year since 2010 and several other honors. A sought-after expert, Kitty frequently contributes to top publications and speaks at major real estate conferences while actively mentoring and serving on industry boards like USC Lusk Center and the National Multifamily Housing Council.Claire Johnston, CEO of Lendlease Americas, brings over 26 years of experience in real estate and investment management, overseeing all aspects of the company's regional operations. Previously, she led major projects, including Google Development Ventures' master plans in the Bay Area and Lendlease's military housing portfolio of 40,000+ units. A strong advocate for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Claire was named to Globe St. Real Estate Forum's Women of Influence list and recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as one of its Most Influential Women.Natalie Greenberg, Chief Operating Officer at MJW Investments, oversees strategy execution and key business functions, including acquisitions, asset management, and capital markets. Previously, she helped nearly triple Entrada Partners' portfolio as Senior Vice President and held leadership roles at Rexford Industrial, Colony Capital, and Wells Fargo. Active in the industry, she serves as President of the UCLA Real Estate Alumni Group and is a member of ULI's Multifamily Council.Laurie Morfin, Senior Managing Director at NewPoint, specializes in financing solutions for multifamily and commercial real estate investors, leveraging capital from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA/HUD, and other sources. With over 25 years in commercial real estate finance, she has originated more than $3 billion and previously held leadership roles at Bellwether Enterprise, PGIM Real Estate, Wells Fargo, and Nationwide Insurance. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.About GlobeSt. Women of Influence: The Women of Influence Conference is an exclusive two-day event that celebrates the women who drive the commercial real estate industry forward. These influential leaders will discuss the critical issues facing CRE now and in the future, what it means to be a woman in business today and how women CRE leaders can uplift and support each other on their journey to the top.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to our newsletter and enjoy the next podcast delivered straight to your inbox. For show notes, past guests, and more CRE content, please check out Crexi's blog. Ready to find your next CRE property? 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Colony Capital Founder Tom Barrack discusses what to expect from President-elect Donald Trump's second term. He is joined by Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before QSI, PSG's owners were a group of American private equity investors whose early years were an omnishambles. Tom and Bappo travel back in time to when PSG were (very) bad. And came so close to relegation au Stade Auguste Bonal... Good old Colony Capital Years!

We're thrilled to have Adam Gower ( @GowerCrowd ) on board for today's episode. Gower, the brains behind GowerCrowd.com, is no stranger to the world of syndicate and crowdfunding investing. Bringing a wealth of experience from his time managing a staggering $7 billion portfolio of non-performing loans at Colony Capital, he delves into the perplexing single-family home market in California. In a world of high-interest rates and market volatility, the Golden State continues to uphold its high prices, leaving homeowners afraid to sell.Continuing the conversation, we pry into the varying strategies of the fix and flip investors as compared to the buy and hold investors. How are they leaving their imprints on the current housing market? Let's dissect the puzzling equation of low inventory and high prices. With the housing market seemingly frozen, according to Mohammed L Arian, we ponder the influence of the Fed's actions and the imminent shifts that could be triggered by investors deciding to make their exit.Finally, we turn our focus to the opportunities that lie in real estate investment for accredited investors. What does it mean to be an accredited investor as per the SEC's standards and why understanding the market and having a clear investment thesis are paramount before jumping into the arena? We also expose the implications of financing on multifamily real estate, especially the assumptions nestled in the underwriting process that could potentially lead to cash flow problems and the downfall of property values. Gower passionately shares how this challenging scenario could pave the way for new opportunities and gives us a sneak peek into his upcoming book, 'Capital Calls and Rescue Capital'. An episode brimming with valuable insights and tips for everyone, from the real estate rookies to the seasoned investors.Timestamps: (0:00:03) - Real Estate Podcast(0:03:59) - Real Estate Investing and Capital Raising (0:08:59) - Home Prices and the Housing Market(0:09:25) - Real Estate Inventory and Pricing Stability (0:17:04) - Airbnb Market for Single Family Homes (0:20:54) - Real Estate Investment Opportunities for Accredited Investors(0:26:19) - Effective Multifamily Investing Strategies (0:34:30) - Overpayment and False Assumptions in Deals Website: https://gowercrowd.com/Newsletter: https://gowercrowd.com/subscribeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gowercrowd/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GowerCrowdYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/gowercrowdReal Estate, Syndicate Investing, Crowdfunding Investing, Single Family,  Housing Market, California, Fix and Flip Investors, Buy and Hold Investors, Low Inventory, High Prices, Interest Rates, Market Volatility, Accredited Investors, Investment Thesis, Multifamily Real Estate, Underwriting Process, Cash Flow, Funding Problems, Property Values, Opportunities, BRRRR, Market Crash, Marketing

Today's guest is Adam Gower.    Adam Gower Ph.D. is a 30+ year real estate veteran with over $1.5 billion of CRE investment and finance experience who today builds digital marketing systems for real estate professionals who want to raise equity capital online (aka ‘crowdfunding') and he   Show summary:  In this podcast episode, Dr. Adam Gower discusses his background in real estate and his transition to digital marketing. He emphasizes that while the medium may have changed to online platforms, the fundamental triggers that motivate investors remain the same. Dr. Gower shares his journey and how he now helps real estate professionals build digital marketing systems to raise capital online. He discusses the challenges of navigating the world of digital marketing and advises testing different marketing ideas. The conversation also touches on the importance of addressing investor concerns and maintaining open communication to attract capital in a challenging market.   -------------------------------------------------------------- Intro [00:00:00]   Introduction and background of Dr. Adam Gower [00:00:55]   Building digital marketing systems for real estate professionals [00:03:12]   The challenges of digital marketing [00:10:51]   Applying traditional marketing techniques to online platforms [00:12:38]   Testing and iterating marketing ideas [00:17:44]   Changing Capital Raising Strategy [00:21:23]   Addressing Investor Concerns [00:23:31]   Regular Communication and Education [00:26:22]   -------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Adam:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gowercrowd/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/GowerCrowd  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/gowercrowd https://www.youtube.com/gowercrowd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GowerCrowd/    Connect with Sam: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com   SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: Adam Gower (00:00:00) - And the way that people interact with sales materials and marketing materials hasn't changed the same exact triggers. Will will motivate somebody, an accredited investor, to want to learn more and then to actually act and invest with you. Nothing's changed. Even though it's online, the the techniques are the same. What's cool about the tech is figuring out how to how to read the data, right. And understand which ideas you have that you're testing are working better than others. But apart from that, nothing's really changed then. Welcome to the How to scale.   Sam Wilson (00:00:43) - Commercial real estate show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big.   Sam Wilson (00:00:55) - Adam Gower, PhD, is a 30 year real estate veteran with over $1.5 billion of commercial real estate investment and finance experience. Today, he builds digital marketing systems for real estate professionals. And for those of you that don't know, Dr. Adam Gower came back on the show. Oh gosh, it was earlier this year, April 10th, 2023.   Sam Wilson (00:01:15) - So we're catching you kind of right, mid quarter, first third of the year. Then we're catching the second quarter of the year. Adam. For those that didn't catch that first episode, there's three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show and I'm going to ask you to answer them again really quickly if you can, in 90s or less. Where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there?   Adam Gower (00:01:34) - Right. First of all, thank you for having me on. And I always I love being on these shows where the you know, the pre conversation is really mellow and quiet. And then you go into the introduction. Adam Gower is like, like it's like the radio voice.   Sam Wilson (00:01:51) - Absolutely, man, we got it. We got to make it entertaining for those that are listening. Otherwise they're going to put everybody to sleep.   Adam Gower (00:01:58) - I need to I need to take notes from your book, Sam, because I always do my introductions afterwards. But anyway, to answer to answer your question, where did I start? Okay.   Adam Gower (00:02:08) - I started hundreds of years ago, actually in the early 1980s. It was very interesting time to start because in those days, mortgage rates I remember Sam, when I first put money in the bank in the early 80s, I got 12% interest on deposit. Imagine that, 12% zero risk guaranteed money and and mortgage rates were pushing 20%. It was a very different time. Remember that might that might figure in what we're going to talk about later today. So that's where I started. I started pulling wires for an electrician and then eventually started raising money for a ground up multi-family developer. Second question was, you got a room? I've got a I've got a memory of, you know, whatever, a steel trap, a memory like a steel trap can only hold one thing at a time.   Sam Wilson (00:03:02) - And it's very difficult to get anything out of that trap completely. Exactly.   Adam Gower (00:03:06) - Yeah. It just. Just sits there kind of dormant. Weird.   Sam Wilson (00:03:09) - You start. Question number two is, where are you now?   Adam Gower (00:03:11) - Ah, right.   Adam Gower (00:03:12) - So spinning forwards, however many years that is unfortunately 40 odd years. I don't like to admit that it makes me seem really old. But anyway, so today, so what we do is we build a digital marketing systems and help people build digital marketing systems so they can raise capital online. We've focused exclusively on commercial real estate. Our clients manage probably over 35 billion AUM and have raised over $1 billion using our systems over the last few years. So that's that's what we do now. I just I got addicted to the idea of digital online syndication when it became legal. I raised over half a billion myself and it would all been in-person, sitting with people, traveling, having people travel. To me, it's just brain damage. So when it became legalized, I'm like, Goodness, that you could do it online. I just decided to switch and and that's what we do. It's what we do now. Yeah. It's I really enjoy it. It's like a hobby. I enjoy it so much.   Adam Gower (00:04:20) - Like a hobby. It's like.   Sam Wilson (00:04:22) - A hobby. Good for you. Yeah. I don't know that. Going to work as a hobby for me yet. So maybe I need to take a page out of your book.   Adam Gower (00:04:29) - Well, you know, it's what I tell my boys. You know, you got to do you? I've got, you know, three sons, and I'd tell him, you got to do what you really enjoy If you if you do what you enjoy, you'll never work. Right? It'll always be just joyful. And, you know, you just look spring out of bed in the morning and look forward to the day ahead.   Sam Wilson (00:04:49) - Oh, that's for certain, man. I've always wondered that about about people that watch the clock. Like when when 430 or 5:00 happens and I know I got to go hang not don't have to, but I get to go play with the kids because I know I can't leave all the kids at home with just my wife. So it's like, okay, I've got to wrap up work, but like, how in the world is it 430 or 5:00 already? Like, I never look at a clock and say, Gosh, I wish it would speed up.   Sam Wilson (00:05:11) - I'm always going, I wish it would slow down.   Adam Gower (00:05:13) - I need more time in my life. Right?   Sam Wilson (00:05:16) - I've never gotten to Friday afternoon. I'm like, Man, thank goodness it's Friday afternoon. I'm like, Is it really?   Adam Gower (00:05:21) - I got everything done. Yeah. No way. It says.   Sam Wilson (00:05:24) - Right ever.   Adam Gower (00:05:26) - Exactly. All right. So what was a question?   Sam Wilson (00:05:28) - Three questions. You already answered it, which is, Where are you now?   Adam Gower (00:05:30) - Oh, so that was question. Okay, good.   Sam Wilson (00:05:33) - Start. Where are you now? Oh, no, that's a lie. See, I can't remember my own question.   Adam Gower (00:05:36) - Where do you start? Where are you now and where you're headed?   Sam Wilson (00:05:38) - How did you get there? Oh, how.   Adam Gower (00:05:39) - Did I get that? All right, I will tell you that. But I'll connect the dots between pulling wires for an electrician and raising money for multifamily and what we do now. So the simple story is like this. So during the and it's important. It's a good question that you ask and it's.   Adam Gower (00:05:54) - Probably since the last time we spoke because of where we are in the in the cycle in the commercial real estate cycle at the moment. So the last major downturn and this is a major one. This one we're going through now was 2007, really is when it really started with a vengeance. And I in in summer of 2007, I sold everything I had actually really liquidated everything, just got out. And I ended up working for East West Bank. And one of the major actually the biggest regional bank in California. And they were really they had some challenges because they had, they had done, um, a lot of real estate collateralized lending. And a lot of those real estate deals were all those those loans were non-performing, right? People had stopped paying. There was a lot of problems. And so they brought me in to help clean the balance sheet by selling the notes. I did some workouts and then subsequently I ended up at I'll cut out a couple of steps, but I ended up at Colony Capital working on a $7 billion loan loan portfolio or portfolio of non-performing loans, and that was a whole different cycle as well.   Adam Gower (00:07:14) - Um, and um, and then when the, then when the market started to pick up. And around 2012, I started doing seed investing. Totally different. You know, I've made some money. The downturn actually treated me very well, and I started looking at these little startups. It was like a different world. I moved into a interestingly, you know, a lot of these things kind of dovetail into what's going at the moment. It wasn't a we work, but it was similar to a we work, it was a startup incubator. It was like this huge warehouse with open desks and open seatings, and you could rent a desk permanently. So I had all my stuff on my desk, but it was basically working in a warehouse. Sam I absolutely loved it. It was fantastic. I was surrounded by these bright students, you know, half my age and more. And I did some teaching at the university as well. But it was just the vibe in there and the energy. And you could hear people talking and doing presentations and walking around.   Adam Gower (00:08:23) - It was just really high energy. And so when the Jobs Act and I was investing in some of their little startups, I wrote some checks like, that sounds kind of cool, but they were talking a different language. I'd never heard this language before SEO and SOS and Google Analytics and you name it website. That was like everything was brand new. It seemed like rocket science to me, like it was completely impenetrable. Um, but the Jobs Act passed in 2012. So you said 90s maybe 90 minutes if you don't stop me. But the jobs that passed and it suddenly allowed sponsors just allowed anybody to technically sell securities online. What that meant was that you could raise money online. I just saw that and thought, Oh gee, this like my entire life has been chasing around, trying to find good investor leads and then nurturing them in person. And now I can scale that like absolute scale, perfect scale, right? You can reach everybody all or to everywhere, all the time online, instead of having to knock on doors like kind of literally knock on doors, Hey, is there somebody's home? Right? Do you want to invest? And so I started to learn the the art of digital marketing, of marketing online.   Adam Gower (00:09:52) - And I forgot your question again already, but I'll just kind of wrap up anyway. How did I get to where I am? And it just went from one thing to the other. In fact, I started some interest and I started with a podcast and, and I taught myself how to produce a podcast, how to build, which isn't trivial. You know, you're sitting there with lots of 800, how many ever episodes you've got on a big you've got a gorgeous mic and, you know, nice background. But when you started, you scratch your head, right? What do I do? Oh my God, how am I going to record? I'm going to clean up the audio. Is it going to be video? How do I get it out? Where do I put it? What is libsyn? How do I distribute? It's like a million different questions. So it's actually. Go ahead. It's like you don't. So I figured this out just like you did. And then I built websites and then I built marketing funnels.   Adam Gower (00:10:44) - Then I started putting them all together for clients. And that's what we've been doing. That's basically how it started.   Sam Wilson (00:10:51) - That's really cool. I think one one word that you used that is it's a common feeling as especially here recently on gosh, because we have our hands in the laundry business and then we have our hands in the RV resort business and, and then setting up all the marketing campaigns for those various businesses and hiring third party ad agencies to handle all of that online. You said impenetrable. Like, I look at this and literally I got the the the the I don't know what the wrong the word for it. You use the right word for it, but basically said, here's the plan of action. And like you said, they're throwing out acronyms, they're talking geofencing, they're talking this and that and the other and how we're going to I'm just like, Uh huh, yeah, okay. Just where do I can I just mail you? Can I just give me the credit card and just.   Adam Gower (00:11:38) - That's right. All I want is more business. Get it, get it, get it for me.   Sam Wilson (00:11:44) - Needs to be there. That's it. It's like, yeah, you know, I don't care if it's ten grand a month.   Adam Gower (00:11:48) - I actually find the whole process really interesting, actually. You know, what's what's particularly interesting about it? I'm looking at my as I look up here, I have books that my entire room is books, by the way, apart from this whiteboard behind me. But you know what we're talking about actually. These are tactics and techniques and strategies for selling and marketing and selling that have been around for a very, very long time. The reason I'm looking up here is there's a couple of books. There's Robert Collier. Book. This is amazing. It was written in 1920, I think. And then there's my life in advertising, scientific advertising. What is it called? Scientific advertising by John Hopkins. And there's a bunch of books like that. What's cool about it? Applied Business correspondence.   Adam Gower (00:12:38) - What's cool about is this stuff was written 100 years ago about the way that they did marketing direct mail where they'd send out literally send out mail to sell some of the things, you know, three by three feet of books as well. One of the things that's the coolest idea by three feet, five pizza box for your bookshelves, you know, whatever and pay on the drip and here's a coupon or whatever. But the tactics and techniques are exactly the same online. Why? Because human psychology is not changed now. The way and the way that people interact with sales materials and marketing materials hasn't changed. The same exact triggers will will motivate somebody, an accredited investor, to want to learn more and then to actually act and invest with you. Nothing's changed. Even though it's online, the the techniques are the same. What's cool about the tech is figuring out how to how to read the data, right. And understand which ideas you have that you're testing are working better than others. But apart from that, nothing's really changed then.   Sam Wilson (00:13:52) - Right? No. And that's and that's it. I mean there comes. What do you recommend to people? I mean, because there comes a point where we we all can't be experts in everything. I can't, I cannot and I don't have the mental bandwidth to become an expert in online digital, you know, paperclip marketing. I really don't. It's I know it's not rocket science. You know, as you said, it's you got to figure it out. But I don't have the the cognitive bandwidth to absorb and understand that. Right. Is that the gap you are filling in your business? Yeah, we.   Adam Gower (00:14:24) - We do that. I mean, the way to decide whether or not it's worth doing. Right. Just talking to you, it's interesting that you bring this up so we can talk hypothetically. We can talk very specifically. So being specific about your comment. So the way to do this is to you've really got to look at how much money you're putting in to the process and how much money you're getting out at the back end.   Adam Gower (00:14:48) - It sounds kind of, you know, a bit silly to say it's because it's so obvious, right? But that is what you want to do. So let's say you've got a laundry, a laundromat somewhere, and I'm not that experienced in laundromats, to be honest with you. But I imagine that you still you can do what you can advertise and you can get contracts, you know, from local sports teams. And there's all kinds of things that you can do to, you know, kind of scale the thing up. But you also want local students to know about that. You do coupons, promos, I really don't know. You put in tech, there's all kinds of stuff that you want to do, but you also want people to know about that, right? So whatever your total cost of advertising is, you want to be looking at what is the return on that spend, and the acronym is return on ad spend. So that's going to include however much you're spending on the advertising. By the way, this applies 100% exactly the same to raising capital for for equity.   Adam Gower (00:15:45) - Well, actually doesn't it's actually more technically it's harder for equity because in your case, you would you would say, okay, I'm going to run a campaign. I'm going to pay the agency however much a month. We're going to actually invest, however much we're going to invest in this in the you know, in the paid ad itself. I love emotional spending that let's say you spend 10,000 and I'm pulling this out. My. I have no idea how much money you make in a laundromat at $0.25 a pop. I don't know how that works. But anyway, let's say you spend 10,000 or $1000 on your advertising and your agency. You know, pretty much if you have made that money back, if you do the campaign properly, right, you could do a coupon, right? You do a coupon for a certain period of time and you can see how many people actually use that coupon. Was it worth the ad spend or wasn't it Right. Was it worth it? You've also got to look at lifetime value, right? Somebody comes in for the first time, they might only spend $10.   Adam Gower (00:16:45) - I don't know. Again, I've no idea. But now, suddenly, if they buy a membership, I don't know if you have membership, if you've got a recurring membership model and they sign up now, you know you've got this lifetime value. So you can start looking at it in that context and determine whether or not the campaign worked. The key, though, with any kind of marketing these days, as it was or even 100 years ago, was to test ideas. Don't be afraid of trying something. You know, I've just pulled an ad campaign that we've got on Facebook. It wasn't doing very well. All right. Most of my campaigns, you know, they run positive. I make more money than the campaign we're running. Just kill the campaign this morning. There wasn't losing money. It's like, you know what? Let's kill the thing. Can't be bothered and actually don't even want to revamp it. I'm just going to stop the campaign. But the key is to test and the chances are that you will test multiple different ideas and ways of let's get back to raising money for real estate.   Adam Gower (00:17:44) - You will test all kinds of different ways of raising money, finding accredited investors, nurturing them and converting them. And probably nine out of ten, those of those ways won't work. You know, nine out of ten ways that we try don't work. Oh, my goodness. But the ones that do, we double down on. And those are the ones that we roll out to our clients. So actually invest a lot of money testing different ways of marketing. Most of them lose. I know that fails, but the ones that win, those are the ones that we take to our clients. And then we we we double down on those.   Sam Wilson (00:18:18) - Right, Right. And that's and that's having that patience, that kind of that that kind of iterative patience to go, okay, we're going to put this campaign out there. We're going to see how it does. Do we like it? Did it perform? Yes. No. Analyze it. Start back over. I mean, that that process sounds like it's ongoing for you.   Sam Wilson (00:18:39) - I mean, really for the life of however long you're doing this.   Adam Gower (00:18:41) - Well, yes. But I think life is like that, isn't it? I mean, I was I just was reading your some of the stuff on your website before we connected. And you did multifamily and you did forget not mobile homes, but something else. And now you're focused on laundromats. Well, that is the same process, right? It's a process of trial and error. You try something, you work. It either does well, it doesn't work well. It sucks up your time. It doesn't suck up your time. You find that you've got a niche, something. So you double down on that and you just focus on it because it's the one that really worked for you. And everybody's different. So it's not anything. It's kind of got a little bit more esoteric, I suppose. If we talk about life, the universe and everything, but it is life. That's how you kind of deal with life. You test ideas, you test stuff, you go on vacation.   Adam Gower (00:19:29) - Let's why don't we try such and such? Never going back there. Right? You try it didn't work or you go somewhere and it's amazing. And you book the minute you get back home for next year, right? As life is like that, you just try stuff. And if it works, you do more of it. And if it doesn't, you move on.   Sam Wilson (00:19:47) - You move on. That's exactly. Yeah. I've got one of those vacation memories in my book here.   Adam Gower (00:19:53) - The good ones are the bad ones.   Sam Wilson (00:19:54) - It was a bad one. Unfortunately. I was like, You were never doing that.   Adam Gower (00:19:58) - I'll tell you something. I'm going to tell you right now. I went to a hotel. My kids were just at camp. I took my wife. I like to go to the you know, we kind of splurge when the kids are right. We went to this supposedly fabulous four star hotel resort. I figured we'd go away. I treat my wife, we spend a lovely time, kind of a staycation here in California.   Adam Gower (00:20:18) - The bloody room had duct tape holding the thing I could not sweat. Whose duct tape on the floor instead of a I couldn't believe it. I was absolutely disgusted. And I know this business. I know the owners. I know the management companies like guys, this is not cool. I got out and you know what they offered me? They came back. The manager, the hotel manager wrote and complained about this thing she offered me. She said, We'll give you a free night. But no, wait a minute. I'm just complaining. It's like going to a restaurant saying the food is dreadful. And they say, All right, I'll tell you what. Why don't you come back again? We'll give you some more dreadful food.   Speaker 4 (00:21:00) - What?   Sam Wilson (00:21:01) - That's. Oh, man, that's a very, very. Yes, very. Through the way you live and learn, though it's an iterative process. Just Hey.   Adam Gower (00:21:08) - Listen, hang on. Sorry. We're kind of going off on a bit of a tangent because I'm a bit hyper caffeinated, but what your what are your listeners want to hear about raising capital at the moment? Let's give them something really tangible and, you know, something you can use when you leave the call today.   Sam Wilson (00:21:23) - That's absolutely I'm glad we're making this segue because there's there's two things I want to talk about. One is how you are changing your capital raising strategy because capital raising has become immeasurably harder, I think, for everyone. I'm certainly seeing that in what we're doing. People are sitting tight. They're holding on to their wallets. They're just kind of going, Oh, crud. Like you said, maybe it was you that said this or maybe the last podcast Guest I think it was maybe the last one. We were talking a seven on a multifamily deal. Just isn't that compelling when I can get five and a half at the credit union, right? Like what? What are you guys doing? What are some strategies you're taking right now that are and again, not that we want to convince people to invest, but we want to give them compelling reasons to invest. What are you guys doing differently?   Adam Gower (00:22:12) - Well, yeah, I would say that it's not that you want to convince people to invest. You want to give people a solutions to the problems that they have, and that is if you've got a good asset class and you are able to make money, then you have what investors want.   Adam Gower (00:22:28) - You've just got to be able to articulate what it is that you have. That's that's kind of the way I think about this business, is that really, you know, a successful real estate sponsor has exactly what everybody wants, right? We've got ongoing income, passive income, which is just an IRS term, but you're offering ongoing income on your investment and to build wealth. Who doesn't want that, Right? Everybody wants that, Right. The challenge is that investors, everybody is skeptical. So they hear about you the first time and you say, here, I'm going to give you a passive income and build your wealth. That's what they want. But they're skeptical. They don't trust you. They want to be sure that you're not, you know, in a basement somewhere, you know, putting it in your pocket and whatever, buying Rolls-Royces all the time with their money. Right. Right. So you've got to get over that hurdle. Now, during the good times, it's actually not difficult because people are making money hand over fist and they're just looking for alternatives.   Adam Gower (00:23:31) - They're less skeptical because there's less bad news and in the news. Right. About what's going on. So during a downturn and this is also true, in fact, during good times, but particularly during a downturn, there are two things that you have to do, right? So these are practical with underlying this podcast to this point, whatever minute we're at here right now, this is something you can actually take away and use immediately. The first thing that you have to do is address the concern that your prospects have immediately. So whatever that concern might be, don't hide away. Don't hide that and pretend it doesn't exist. Deal with it immediately. Because if you don't deal with it immediately, no matter what else you say, the conversation that your prospect is going to be having in their own mind is, Yes, but what about this? And today and we know this from the advertising campaigns, we run for clients and also from a multi sponsor investor sentiment survey that we ran recently. Investors, including you, probably you as in you, dear viewer or listener to this podcast, are concerned mostly about protecting your money.   Adam Gower (00:24:50) - You don't want to be losing all your money when values drop. And and you're seeing the commercial real estate really hitting some some choppy waters. So the first concern you have is not to lose money, right? So when you communicate with sponsors I'm sorry, with prospects at the moment, the language you want to be using, language patterns you want to be using or specifically protecting the investment, protecting your investment. Don't use clever terms like principle preservation. You and I know what that means, but investors use a different kind of language and you always want to use the same language your investors use because you want to be understood. So protecting the investment is very important. So in your communications, this can be on any kind of ad campaigns that you have or any kind of newsletter you put out, any kind of pitch that you put out. Start with how you protect the downside. What are you doing exactly? How much debt are you taking on? Is it fixed? Is it a variable? If it's variable, why are you choosing to do variable today? What kind of leverage have you got? Have you underwritten your deal? Do you want me to stop? I see you.   Sam Wilson (00:26:09) - We are. We are in the final 30s and we got it. We got to hang hang it up, unfortunately. But this is gold. So I want you to finish out this thought because I think I will do our investors, but our listeners are really going to get something out of it.   Adam Gower (00:26:22) - Yeah. So this is really important. So. So you want to be addressing how you're going to protect their investment. That's the first thing. And then you can start or at least that needs to be the bulk of what you of your communication. The second thing that you need to do, communicate regularly. Oh, my goodness. Don't just not pitch all the time. Educate, talk about what's going in the market, what are going on, what are you seeing? How are capital markets? What's going on with interest rates? How are you dealing with them? What are you doing at cetera? Be don't pitch educate about these key issues. Those are the two things that we should have started with that Sam.   Sam Wilson (00:27:00) - Now think it's been great. Dr. Adam Gower, thank you for taking the time to come back on the show today. If our listeners want to get in touch with you and learn more about you, what's the best way to do that?   Adam Gower (00:27:08) - Gower crowd. Go to Crowd Gower. crowd.com. Sign up for the newsletter. You'll get an email from me on Wednesday with the latest newsletter. If you want to ask me a question, hit reply.   Sam Wilson (00:27:21) - Absolutely. Thank you, Adam. Do appreciate it. Have a great rest of your day.   Adam Gower (00:27:25) - Thanks, Sam.   Sam Wilson (00:27:26) - Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories. So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.

Dr. Adam Gower is a bilingual, 30-year veteran in real estate, banking, and finance who earned his Ph.D. in banking history at the University College London. He has held senior management positions at some of the largest companies and institutions in the world and is recognized as an industry thought leader on the impact of crowdfunding on real estate. During the 1990's he lived in Japan, working as the President and CEO of a major Hollywood studio developing their real estate portfolio throughout the Asia Pacific Region. After the financial crisis of 2008 had taken hold, Dr. Gower was recruited to advise the largest regional bank in California on their asset disposition strategy, assisting them to divest of a large portfolio of real estate collateralized loans, and subsequently in doubling the institution's size. He subsequently went on to work at Colony Capital, one of the world's largest private equity real estate firms, where he worked on assets acquired with the FDIC as a result of the global financial crisis. When the JOBS Act of 2012 was passed, Dr. Gower had been actively engaged in tech startup angel investing. He quickly realized that commercial real estate finance would be transformed by the new regulations by permitting equity to be raised online. Seeing that this would bring about a revolution in the industry he formed GowerCrowd, an agency geared to assisting real estate developers raise money for their projects, and to educating investors how to invest online. Dr. Gower lives and works in California and has taught the only fully accredited university course in the country that focuses on how to raise money by and invest in crowdfunded real estate syndications. The course was a ‘flipped course' allowing students to study the primary curriculum online, while engaging in practical learn-by-doing exercises in class. He is host of an internationally syndicated podcast focused exclusively on real estate crowdfunding, The Real Estate Crowdfunding Show, Syndication in the Digital Age, and publishes one of the most popular real estate investing blogs on the web. Dr. Gower is author of several books focused on the history of real estate crowdfunding, real estate investing, and risk mitigation, with sales worldwide. What you'll learn about in this episode: The difference between crowdfunding and real estate syndication What is an accredited investor Dr. Gower's approach for establishing relationships with high-quality leads What makes an effective project pitch deck The services Dr. Gower and his team provide for their clients When is the perfect time to go on the offense and start marketing hard Resources: Sign up for a Free Mentor Panning Session: https://www.ronlegrand.com/mentoring-application/?cid=TMP Free Training: www.Thementorpodcast.com/terms Get Ron's $599 Wholesaling course for FREE when you join his Gold Club for ONLY $59 a month! –https://thementorpodcast.com/GC142 Additional Resources: Website URL: https://gowercrowd.com/ Phone Number: 213-761-1000 Email Address: adam@gowercrowd.com

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In this episode Adam Gower shares his unique career path and experiences in different industries, including real estate and startup investing. Adam Gower is the foremost authority on real estate crowdfunding (aka syndication) and has published five books on the industry. Dr. Gower combines a lifetime of experience in real estate investment and finance with best-of-class digital marketing strategies. The conversation covers investment decision-making and using language that resonates with investors. Adam gives valuable insights for real estate investors and those involved in capital raising.   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   [00:00 - 02:35] Intro  [02:39 - 04:42] Adam's experience and business focus. [07:04 - 08:45] Adam Gower learned digital marketing skills, landed his first client, and developed the most advanced digital marketing systems for real estate sponsors. [09:22 - 13:42] Two ways the industry evolves: through technological advancements and changes in communication language. [14:12 - 17:23] Conduct regular surveys of  investors using tools like SurveyMonkey. [18:51 - 22:53] Current state of the real estate market [22:54 - 23:30] Closing   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Connect with Adam: https://www.facebook.com/GowerCrowd/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gowercrowd/ https://twitter.com/GowerCrowd Other resources from Adam:  Book: https://hub.gowercrowd.com/nows-the-time/ (not free but just $7)   Connect with Sam Wilson  I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: 00:00:00:06 - 00:00:23:11 Adam Gower You and I might use the terms principle preservation, but what you'll discover when you talk to your investors, they won't use that language. They will say, I want to protect my investment. So don't try and be clever and say we're big on principle preservation because no one will understand it. And they're not using that language anyway. We are focused on protecting your investment.   00:00:23:17 - 00:00:34:18 Adam Gower That's the language they use. Use that language back at them and that's how you will animate responses that you want in terms of getting investments.    00:00:34:18 - 00:00:58:18 Sam Wilson Adam Gower is the foremost authority on real estate crowdfunding and has published five books on the industry. Dr. Gower also combines a lifetime of experience and real estate, investment and finance with best of class Digital Marketing Strategy. Adam, welcome to the show.   00:01:02:18 - 00:01:05:06 Adam Gower Thank you for having me. Sam it's a pleasure to be here.   00:01:05:07 - 00:01:15:14 Sam Wilson Absolutely. The pleasure is mine. Adam There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90 seconds or less. You tell me, where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there?   00:01:16:00 - 00:01:46:20 Adam Gower I started pulling wires for an electrician in Southern California in 1982, and that's how I started crawling around in basements and attics with dust mites and spiders. But from there, I started raising capital from Japanese investors for multifamily ground up developments in San Diego. I ended up in Japan actually heading up Universal Studios, real estate development across Asia Pacific.   00:01:46:20 - 00:02:14:22 Adam Gower I was president of that division and in 2012 when the Jobs Act passed, coincidently I was doing some seed and angel investing actually in startups, and that's how I learned the language of digital marketing. And from there, I have built the actually the all modesty side, the foremost marketing agency for sponsors raising capital online.   00:02:15:10 - 00:02:34:02 Sam Wilson That sounds I mean, I got, like, a really colorful lot. I can't speak today. Colorful career. It's good. That's a problem here. When we're on a podcast and I'm on my own mouth to work. But it sounds like a really colorful career all the way. Not not the 2012 till now has it been, but it almost sounds like a shift. You know, one side of the business and then something completely new. Is that is that a fair summary there?   00:02:39:15 - 00:04:42:08 Adam Gower It sure is. I actually some you know, I went through the savings and loan crisis. I was when it hit. I was in my mid-twenties, mid to late twenties. And on paper I had I was a multimillionaire. I mean, I'd invested in all the deals that I was working on and considered myself to be very wealthy and successful and and the bottom fell out and I lost everything. I really went to zero. I actually went into that. It was worse than zero. Wow. And so that was my first experience of why this time it is different is nonsensical. I think about how this time is different. And then the second go around, after I finished at the studios running their real estate and Asia Pacific was the global. Oh my goodness me. Sorry, was the global financial crisis of 2007. And I had been lucky enough to sell my entire portfolio in oh seven. So I got out, I was cash rich, no legacy issues, and I was brought into a major bank to help them clean that balance sheet. And during that period, I saw hundreds, if not thousands of commercial real estate or the commercial loans collateralized by commercial real estate developments and value added, I mean, you name it, that had all gone bad.And so I saw the way that everything that was the second time I saw how stuff can go bad. And so I just it kind of made me gun shy, to be quite honest with you. And I just decided to become a somebody that produces the shovels for the miners. So I produced that. Yeah. Outside the gold miners, only very few made money consistently in the long run. But the guys that built the shovels, they're the ones that you still talk about today. And so that's what I'm doing, although I do do some investing as well, just to be clear.   00:04:42:22 - 00:05:09:07 Sam Wilson Right, that is. I love that. And yeah, I can only imagine, you know, having narrowly escaped because you're one of the few in the oh seven, oh eight or nine crisis that walked away with your shirt on. Certainly, I would say 95% of the guests that have come on lost the talk about that lost a pile of money in that period. Yeah. So you get out of that, that's actually very lucrative.   00:05:09:09 - 00:05:32:19 Adam Gower That was actually a very lucrative period for me. I'm sure what I was doing was transacting for both the bank and then subsequently for Colony Capital, who are one of the biggest private equity funds in the world at that time. Right. Real estate price, actually. And my job was to manage these last large portfolios of non-performing loans and to sell them, right? And so I made a lot of friends because I was helping people to buy distressed deals at discounted prices.   00:05:40:22 - 00:06:03:05 Sam Wilson Right. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. That's that sounds right. And we could probably spend the entire show focused on that. But I really want to hear what birthed your idea. Okay. You're going to sell shovels. You're going to. But this is this is kind of a left turn with a brand new set of people you're working alongside of. How did that come to pass?   00:06:04:10 - 00:07:03:12 Adam Gower Yeah, it's funny. I was actually telling one of my sons this yesterday that sometimes know you got a passion for something, but you don't really know where it's headed. Hmm. And the same was true. And I learned speak Japanese. People ask me, What are you going to do with us? Well, I'll figure that out when I speak it, right? When I got my Ph.D., people ask me what you're going to do with that. I've got I don't know. I'm going to get it and then I'll figure out how to use it. And the same is true of digital marketing. I actually started we were we bought a house up on the Central Coast and I was commuting back and forth from L.A., actually from Beverly Hills. So we had a house there. We had one on the Central Coast. And so spending a lot of time in the car and I figured, you know, I'm going to learn. I got I suddenly got this Ph.D. I want to do a podcast. So I started listening to how to do a podcast podcast. And I didn't really know where anything was going to lead.   00:07:03:18 - 00:07:04:08 Sam Wilson Sure.   00:07:04:08 - 00:08:45:11 Adam Gower But I learned how to produce a podcast, how to edit audio, how to build a website, how to create an email list, how to market analyst. And it started to snowball. I suddenly started finding that there were people coming to me that I didn't know, who knew who I was, who thought I was the bee's knees, because there was always the, you know, the few people as well. And I'm like anything at all that I have to say. But I then spoke to one of my friends who was a major sponsor, and I said, Hey, listen, I can do I can build a machine for you that attracts investors based on the models that I've developed for myself. Why don't you give me a shot? And he said, Well, have you ever done it before for a sponsor? And I said, No. And he said, Oh, I give ourselves. So he was my first client. And since then, if I can just wrap up, since then we've developed by far the most advanced digital marketing systems for sponsors in the industry. Nobody comes close and our clients manage over 35 billion, have over 35 billion of AOL and have probably raised and I say this now cautiously, I know they've raised at least 100 million because I have them on video saying that. But I don't have on video what they've really raised. And that is probably in excess of $1,000,000,000 in real estate equity capital. So we've we that's how we grew really was not really knowing what direction we were in and just going with the market and serving our clients basically what they need. Yeah.   00:08:45:20 - 00:09:04:11 Sam Wilson How, how much of what you do is just constantly in flux. I feel like there's this, this constant moving thing of like even, you know, I have a somebody that works for me, can't think of what our title is at the moment. Golly, I told you, I can't speak and I can't think. It's a tough day here.   00:09:04:11 - 00:09:12:12 Adam Gower On the show. So drink that does it. You know, some that's the problem. The only problem with that is I never know if it's too much or too little.   00:09:13:17 - 00:09:22:12 Sam Wilson Well, that that would be an electrolyte drink here today several of those and maybe that's maybe that's what's wrong the salts off in my head. No, but.   00:09:22:17 - 00:13:42:19 Adam Gower I think I can answer your question. I know what you're asking. And at my my drink of choice is heavy caffeine in the morning. So I'm hyper amped. So you ask me about, you know, what, what kind of variables or how how does the industry evolve? There are two ways that it does that basically. Sure. That are tech technology variances that are constantly changing, are constantly being upgraded, constantly. There are new opportunities to, you know, for tech platforms and techniques to exploit to maximize your performance. And we stay on top of all of those. We have a large network of developers who we work with. We have an inner circle, we share ideas, we explore everything, we test everything on the gold crowd dot com website. And if it works, we roll it out as clients, so we stay ahead that way. But if you are not a tech person, there is another profoundly important flux in the market that happens all the time, sometimes with much bigger impacts. And funnily enough, some this is what you and I touched on in our pre podcast chat and that's is the language of communication. So you have to as a kind of basic, basic rule, you need to be communicating with your network at least once a month. We did an investor sentiment survey at the end of last year and you got to be sending out newsletters at least once a month. And if you're if you've got deals that you're trying to raise money for, if you're sending out newsletters, if you're doing paid advertising, it really doesn't matter. Or you're on social media, LinkedIn or Twitter or Facebook. It doesn't really matter what the medium is that you're using to communicate, you have to be tuned in to what investors primary concern is today and now. So you can use the approach language to draw them into your ecosystem, into your network. And I will tell you that at the beginning of 2022, just to underscore this, I'll give you some very specific counsel now on this. At the beginning of 2022, you could still be talking about earning passive income and building wealth long term. And it's like falling off a log raising money since interest rates have gone up since the Russian invasion of of the Ukraine, since cap rates are going up, prices are coming down, the stock market has fallen, inflation is eating away at savings. Home prices are coming down, investors are feeling less wealthy and they are migrating to a principle preservation investment strategy. They are primarily focused on not losing money. So you have to use language that encourages your investors to understand that you are taking a defensive posture with your investing today. Explain how you're doing that and that's how you're going to draw them in. So, by the way, there is a second form of a second type, second language pattern that's working, particularly well at the moment. And that's, again, something that we talked about this on the live podcast, remarkably as hesitant as investors are today, and I'm talking about passive investors, our accredited investors to invest in deals. They can always be in, motivated to unlock their wallets when they think they are getting a bargain. So if you have distressed deals, if you're able to find a deal that has some kind of distress component, the seller's forced to sell for some reason, whatever the story is of the deal, particularly if it's some kind of forced exit that has yielded a better the market price, that is the kind of language that you want to be using in your marketing because that is how you will activate an investor base that is otherwise sitting passively waiting for opportunities like that.   00:13:43:23 - 00:14:11:15 Sam Wilson I like I like that a lot that you've hit on some really I think valuable things there. And when you said the primary concern today, I wrote the question how so? You've hit on a lot of things. I think that investors are thinking, are there other ways that or other mediums or channels that you're using that kind of let investors tell you what it is that their primary concerns are as well to kind of help craft that?   00:14:12:19 - 00:17:23:21 Adam Gower That's a really good question. So as a digital so what we do with our clients is we encourage them to communicate, as I mentioned to you regularly. Yeah, that means no less than once a month, right? Periodically. It's actually really useful for you to conduct a survey. Just conducts a survey sent out an email. You know, if you're doing a monthly or weekly or biweekly newsletter that goes out to all your investors. Yeah, every six months or so. Whatever you want to know the answers, what's going on, conduct a survey and say, well, no newsletter. In fact, says another Pro-tip in the subject line, which is what people drives people. To open the emails, use the subject line. I have a small favor to ask. Everybody opens those emails, but that's just the coolest thing. So I have a small favor to ask. We like to set them up. We've sat them out with Google Surveys or SurveyMonkey. I like SurveyMonkey because they provide you some nice analytics. Afterwards, you pay for a month, like on Dropbox to get more than 100 it some functionality, it's worth it. Just send out a survey to your investors and ask them. Actually ask them I want strong. But here's the thing to be really careful of when you do it. When you build a survey, make sure that the questions you ask elicit answers that are actionable. Don't ask questions that are like, okay, interesting, but what can we do with these answers? You can't do it. So think ahead. If we get a set of answers to this question, how will we use those answers? So, for example, one thing that you could ask is, oh, and also trying to use multiple choice. So what's driving your investment decision at the moment? What's your biggest concern is inflation? Is it wall is a politics is just ask a series and then always include a other option that somebody can fill out. So that's that's another kind of pro-tip it's just helps people move through faster and then always also include an open ended at least one open ended answer that doesn't have a checkbox, right? So whatever. It's I mean, just pick one question like that and then gather those answers and that's they will tell you. The other thing is that once you get those answers from your prospects or from your list, use their language. So, for example, you and I might use the terms principle preservation, but what you'll discover when you talk to your investors, they won't use that language. They will say, I want to protect my investment, so don't try and be clever and say we're big on principle preservation because no one will understand it and they're not using that language anyway. We are focused on protecting your investment. That's the language they use. Use that language back at them and that's how you will animate responses that you want in terms of getting investments.   00:17:24:12 - 00:17:42:16 Sam Wilson That that's really sound, sound advice because we do we get lost in our own little world of phrases and, you know, acronyms and all this stuff. And then, you know, the everyday investor, they need their care and they just get confused by it and they're like, okay, this is this is stupid. And they just stop.   00:17:42:16 - 00:17:53:21 Adam Gower Well, you know what they say don't that they say that if you want if you want to impress people, use fancy language. If you want to raise money, dumb it down. You know how to use fancy language.   00:17:55:05 - 00:18:08:11 Sam Wilson I like that a lot. So you've built this platform, you've mastered digital marketing on the capital raising side of things. I think, if I'm not mistaken, you've written, what would you say, five books on the dot.   00:18:08:11 - 00:18:17:09 Adam Gower I think five now have five at least. Yeah. Five maybe six six actually. But five, five about commercial real estate investing.   00:18:17:15 - 00:18:46:08 Sam Wilson That that is really, really interesting. I want to get your thoughts on really where we are in the economy. I know you've mentioned, you know, talking about how investors appetites have changed, how raising money maybe a year and a half ago was like falling off a log. Things are slowing down. You mentioned earlier you just you kind of chuckled when you heard you said when they say the phrase this time is different and you kind of just laugh at them a little bit like you're a bunch of idiots was kind of what the summary laugh is, what I, what I heard there. So give me kind of your thoughts on those three things I just threw out, if you don't mind.   00:18:51:11 - 00:22:03:06 Adam Gower Yeah, okay. I'm not sure if I can remember all of them, but there are a couple of things. So you asked what's going on in the market, by the way, just to come back to this this time is different. I didn't laugh. I actually cried in 1989 when the market collapsed or 99, 89, 90. I actually believed what everyone was saying about this time is different. The San Diego was in San Diego. The economy is booming. People are migrating here. Prices are going up. This time is different. Real estate prices are never going to come down. I really believed it. So it was a hard shock when I realized, no, actually things do come down and they come down hard when they do. So just to correct that now I know there's no such thing as this time is different. That's a whole different story. Two things you asked about. So what's going on in the market at the moment? So you mentioned that your listeners primarily are professional real estate investors, people who are raising money like capital raises, looking for capital to to, you know, to finance the deals. So there's two things going on. First of all, you've got a lot of distress. I don't care what anybody says. Everybody is starting to sweat bullets about interest rates, resets and debt and interest caps expiring. That's there's a lot of stress out there in the market. And so the first thing that that's sponsors needs to be thinking about is risk rescue capital, maybe putting in some equity to try to push down that leverage if your banks will allow you to do that, because they're going to want you to start paying down debt before they'll refinance it. And it's going to be very costly money as well. So you are going to need equity, end of story, right? Probably in Q3. Q4 is one, it's going to really hurt. And the second thing is opportunities. The flip side of that is people that are, you know, sponsors who have who are new to the game, who have figured out how to do multifamily investing from, you know, an online education program or something within the last ten years. They're going to lose a lot of assets and those assets are going to be considered distressed. They will sell at below market. They will, but they're going to be tricky to unwrap as well, especially if you're buying notes. But what it does speak to his opportunity to buy at below market period of wealth transfer both of these events or both of these factors in the economy require capital. You have to have equity capital and the best people to get that from today is individual investors, not institutions, not family offices. Everyone's on the sidelines, individual investors that your best alternative source for equity capital, both to save your own deals, buy it through recaps and also to capitalize on deal flow when distressed deals start coming down the pipe.   00:22:04:00 - 00:22:52:22 Sam Wilson Yeah, that's it. I mean, that goes back to your own personal experience in the 0708 period of being cash rich and seeing opportunity when it presented itself at that point in time. And it sounds like you think that's kind of where we're heading again, which I couldn't disagree with you on that front by by any stretch. This has been absolutely fascinating. I've learned so much from you today from the digital marketing standpoint, from just how you your your experience both in commercial real estate and then also master digital marketing, talking about things that investors are concerned about today, how to discover what our investors are concerned about today and how to speak to that. So many things here to learn from Adam. Certainly appreciate you coming on the show today. If our listeners want to get in touch with you or learn more about you, what is the best way to do that?   00:22:53:15 - 00:23:22:23 Adam Gower Thanks for asking, Sam. So really the best way is just to go to the website Gallup crowd dot com that's gio we are crowd galore. Crowd Dotcom. There are over a million words of content on sites and totally everything you need. There's all kinds of free courses and and training and sign up for the newsletter we have a newsletter, goes out every Wednesday covers the real estate syndication industry is free can always unsubscribe, but that's the best way to find me.   00:23:23:12 - 00:23:26:22 Sam Wilson Adam, thank you again so much for coming on the show today. I certainly appreciate it.   00:23:28:09 - 00:23:30:13 Adam Gower Thanks for having me, Sam. It's been a real pleasure.   00:23:30:13 - 00:23:51:23 Sam Wilson Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate Podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories. So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.

In this episode of Law, disrupted, John is joined by Michael Schachter, Partner and Co-Chair of the White-Collar Defense Practice Group at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.  Michael has an unparalleled record of victories in some of the most high-profile criminal trials in the United States. Describing Michael in 2022, Chambers USA stated, "The things he can do in a courtroom are magical.”  Together John and Michael discuss the high-profile defense verdict Michael obtained in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of client Tom Barrack, founder of the global investment firm Colony Capital.John opens the conversation by asking Michael about the background of the charges against Mr. Barrack. Michael explains that Mr. Barrack had served as the chair of the Inauguration Committee for former President Trump. In the course of the numerous investigations of the former president's affairs, the Inauguration Committee was examined thoroughly with no findings of wrongdoing. However, this brought Mr. Barrack under the government's scrutiny.The charges ultimately brought against Mr. Barrack alleged that he acted as an agent of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) without notifying the Department of Justice in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 951, obstructed justice, and made false statements to federal agents when they interviewed him. Michael explains that the allegations about acting as an agent of the UAE arose from meetings Mr. Barrack had with the UAE's National Security Advisor and the Crown Prince. Michael explains that Section 951 prosecutions are generally reserved for espionage cases, whereas lobbying cases, such as this one, are usually prosecuted under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). Prosecutions under FARA require the government to prove that the defendant knew of the registration requirement for foreign lobbyists. Michael speculates that the government proceeded under Section 951 to avoid having to prove this element.The conversation then turns to the evidence presented at trial. Michael explains that the government built its case primarily on text messages and emails taken out of context, particularly a text message in which Mr. Barrack discussed a proposal that he become a special envoy to the Middle East. In that text, Mr. Barrack suggested that if he had such a role, it would benefit the UAE. Michael explains that at trial, he has able to show that Mr. Barrack affirmatively declined the special envoy role. Michael also called former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to testify about a conversation in which Mr. Barrack spoke against the actions of the UAE in a dispute it was having with Qatar. John then moves the conversation to Michael's use of cross-examination during the prosecution's case to establish his own themes with the jury. Michael describes how the defense team used the cross-examination of an expert called to testify that the UAE was not a good ally to the U.S. to prove that it really was. Michael also recounts how the defense used the cross-examination of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who previously headed Exxon, to show that it made good business sense for the head of a global large global business, such as Colony Capital, to meet with members of royal families in the Middle East who are often key business decision-makers. Finally, Michael and John discuss the possible impacts this case might have on government policy. Michael suggests that the case might convince the government to return to a more restrained approach to prosecutions under Section 951, confining them to espionage cases as in the past. He also suggests that the cross-examination of the FBI agents at trial might lead the FBI to record their interviews rather than relying on an antiquated process of relying entirely on one agent making handwritten notes as their only record of the interview.

Estamos em contagem decrescente para o Mundial mais caro e, certamente, um dos mais controversos da História. A faltar menos de uma semana para o arranque do mundial 2022, previsto para domingo, 20 de Novembro, o habitual fervilhar ainda não se manifestou e surgem inúmeras polémicas em torno desta edição: direitos humanos, condições de trabalho, pegada ecológica ou ainda corrupção. "A questão do mundial no Catar começou com uma série de questões que foram levantadas pela rapidez como foram construídos os próprios estádios, como foi o processo de escolha", começa por explicar o docente universitário em Abu Dhabi, nos Emirados Árabes Unidos, Ivo Sobral, que acrescentando ter havido, "desde o início, factores que atraíram as piores atenções possíveis para o evento, ao contrário dos objectivos da diplomacia do Catar", que via neste mundial "uma estratégia de softpower de projecção do país na cena internacional". O docente lembra que através do futebol, o Catar quer passar uma imagem positiva para "garantir que o país possa, depois, atrair investimento económico e presença política ao mais alto nível". "Um mundial, um evento internacional desde género vale mais para a política externa do Catar que qualquer outra representação nas Nações Unidas. O futebol é identificado como um meio para obter uma maior visibilidade política na agenda do Catar. O país que tem uma grande ambição de se transformar em central regional, como capacidade negocial", acrescenta. O escândalo Catargate envolveu países como a Suíça, os EUA e a França. Em 2010, tem lugar no Palácio do Eliseu uma "reunião secreta", 10 dias antes da votação da FIFA para escolher o país organizador do mundial de 2022, entre Nicolas Sarkozy, o príncipe do Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, o Presidente da UEFA, Michel Platini, e Sébastien Bazin, representante da Colony Capital e proprietário do clube de futebol Paris Saint Germain (PSG), que na altura enfrentava dificuldades financeiras. Deste encontro resultaram a compra do PSG, contratos de venda de aviões de combate de Rafale com grandes empresas francesas. "Desde os anos 70 é tradição do Estado francês usar tudo o que seja necessário para vender as suas armas internacionalmente. Esta tem sido uma política estatal forte e eficiente na venda de equipamento militar. O papel do futebol, aqui, é uma outra carta, que está em cima da mesa, porque tudo é válido para vender material militar extremamente sofisticado e caro", lembra o docente. No Catar, as temperaturas podem subir até aos 50 graus celsius, o que obrigou ao adiamento da data por razões meteorológicas e para evitar expor jogadores e espectadores às temperaturas elevadas de 40-50 °C do verão do Catar. A prova foi, por isso, adiada para Novembro-Dezembro, meses de "inverno" do país anfitrião do Campeonato do Mundo. O balanço carbono vai ser oito vezes superior ao estipulado pela FIFA, apontam ONG's ambientalistas, obrigando o Catar a investir 3,6 milhões de dólares em crédito carbono. "A realidade do Golfo é esta. São sociedades completamente vocacionadas para a utilização de energias fósseis em massa, do qual o Catar é um dos maiores produtores do mundo. Quando se fala da pegada de 3 bilhões também temos de falar da pegada de 200 a 300 bilhões de euros que a Europa vai pagar ao Catar pela compra de gás natural. O Catar é o terceiro produtor de gás natural do mundo a seguir à Rússia e Irão, proibidos de vender gás à Europa", conclui o docente universitário.

In this episode, Nathan and Alison discuss: The importance of constructive communication within families Why inheritors need to understand family decisions The differences between a single-family and multi-family office The challenges and opportunities within family wealth succession    Key Takeaways: It is critical for inheritors to understand why decisions were made in order for them to become responsible stewards of wealth.  If you're looking for a CEO successor within a business, generally, there is a job description and a track record that you're considering for any candidate that comes in the door. It should be the same for family members.  Don't assume communication has occurred, have a plan, ask for feedback, and set expectations that open dialogue is an ongoing process. How Succession Advisors created an educational platform of wealth succession resources to meet needs of individuals and families.   "Creating a roadmap in a succession plan is critical. " —  Alison Marckstadt   About Alison Marckstadt: Alison Marckstadt is co-founder of Succession Advisors and has over 15 years of experience in private equity and family office, supporting successful entrepreneurs and investors alike. Most recently, she was a Vice President and Client Relations expert at Caprock, a multi-family office, SEC-registered investment advisory firm focused on developing and advising on customized wealth strategies for individuals and families. Previously, Alison worked for Tom Barrack the Founder/Chairman/CEO of Colony Capital, Inc, where she provided day to day oversight and management of the various aspects of his public and private businesses, in addition to being a Lead for his Family Office team. Prior to Colony Capital, Alison was at Leonard Green & Partners, a leading Private Equity firm based in Los Angeles who primarily focuses on companies providing services, including consumer, business, and healthcare services, as well as retail, distribution, and industrials; and formerly as the Chief of Staff for Marty Geller of Geller & Company a firm that provides custom strategic financial advisory and wealth management solutions for businesses, individuals, families and not-for-profit organizations, located in New York City. Alison graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in Philosophy and Chemistry and obtained her Series 65 license, known as the Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination, in 2019.   Connect with Alison Marckstadt:  Website: https://successionadvisors.com/ Email: amarckstadt@successionadvisors.com   Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-marckstadt-a07b0091/   Connect with Nathan Mersereau:  Phone: 248-645-1520 Website: www.dayinacanoe.com Email: nathan.mersereau@planningalt.com Twitter: @NathanMersereau LinkedIn: Nathan Mersereau Address: 36800 Woodward Avenue, Suite 200 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304   Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla   Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.    

Oftentimes you look out for investments that enable you to grow your income quickly, but are you sure those investments make you feel peace of mind? In today's episode, we have a great conversation with John Chelius on why investing in assets that make you feel comfortable is important. John is a managing partner at Montlake Residential, a firm that focused on value-add workforce housing in major US cities with high barriers to entry, strong job, and population growth, and favorable regulatory environments. John started his career in Los Angeles helping large institutional groups like Colony Capital and Tricon Residential buy, renovate, and manage large single-family home portfolios in Southern California. Starting in 2014 he started buying and managing workforce apartment buildings in California, Texas, and Arizona and has sponsored more than 1,700 units, most of which we still own.   Listen and enjoy! [00:01 - 04:11] Opening Segment John shares his background and work How The Boys in the Boat book influenced his career and life Why people should read The Psychology of Money [04:12 - 08:53] Making Investments Decisions that Bring you Peace of Mind  What you should keep in mind when making investment decisions  The importance of feeling comfortable with the investments you do John discloses his investment philosophy  Think about how investing is going to affect you daily  [08:54 - 10:11] Closing Segment  Want to connect with John? Follow him on LinkedIn. Go and visit Montlake Residential, and learn more about value-add apartment investments that deliver exceptional passive cash flow and long-term capital appreciation!  WANT TO LEARN MORE? Connect with me through LinkedIn Or send me an email at sujata@luxe-cap.com Visit my website www.luxe-cap.com or my YouTube channel Thanks for tuning in!   If you liked my show, LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, and subscribe! Tweetable Quotes "An important part of investing is knowing that your life is going to change, your needs are going to change, and what's important to you is going to change.” - John Chelius  "Peace of mind and being comfortable with what you have become is more important and affects your investing decisions.” - John Chelius

Title: Losing Nothing and Gaining Everything with John Chelius Here's a few introduction from John: I started my career in Los Angeles helping large institutional groups like Colony Capital and Tricon Residential buy, renovate, and manage large single family home portfolios in Southern California. Starting in 2014 I started buying and managing workforce apartment buildings in California, Texas, and Arizona and have sponsored more than 1,700 units, most of which we still own. Let's hear more of his story!   [00:01 - 09:15] Opening Segment Let's welcome my guest for today's show, John Chelius John shares how and why he got into the Real Estate Switching over to Multifamily How did John purchase 400 units?   [09:16 - 30:26] Wins, Losses, and Challenges of an Operator Refinancing from previous bumps On ratios and cash flow levels Lessons learned about renovating many buildings at the same time Learn what you ought to learn Build lasting relationships with your partners Creating a system that works Why John moved and what's about that market dynamics A challenging market and the LA market COVID-19 and tenants Adapting to constant change and stress   [30:27 - 32:52] Closing Segment  Final Words Connect with my guest, John, in the links below Tweetable Quotes "Each building is different.” - John Chelius   "We ended up establishing really solid relationships with not only general contractors but also subs to do individual line up at work... That took a while, but that's an important part of what we're doing.” - John Chelius   "It is extremely competitive right now, trying to buy any kind of apartment building.” - John Chelius   "We almost never buy buildings that have rent control… The entire state of California actually now has rent control.” - John Chelius ------------------------------------------------------------------------   Shoot John a message through his email, john@montlakere.com Connect with him through LinkedIn, and don't forget to check out their website www.montlakere.com for exclusive perks and resources   WANT TO LEARN MORE?   Connect with me through LinkedIn   Or send me an email sujata@luxe-cap.com   Visit my website www.luxe-cap.com or my YouTube channel   Thanks for tuning in!     If you liked my show, LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, and subscribe!

In this episode The Propcast talks to Vik Venkatraman, founder of Blueprint, real estate's premier event for tech startups, VCs, and industry players to connect. Blueprint is hosting an in-person live event this autumn in Las Vegas! They are joined on the podcast by Matthew Boras, from RXR Realty and Nima Wedlake, from Thomvest, both of whom are speakers at the Blueprint 2021 to find out what to expect from Blueprint 2021, who is attending, and some top tips for PropTech pitching to investors. Get your ticket for Blueprint here!   Key Insights From This Episode   (Blueprint ‘21) is going to be a gathering not to miss - Vik Venkatraman We are bringing together what we believe is the very best, the very brightest, the most active, the most prolific collection of folks who are on the technology side, the investor side, and the industry side of real estate – Vik Venkatraman We are focused on and excited to meet entrepreneurs that are building companies which ultimately serve as the backbone of the industry – Matt Boras This has been a very interesting time for the built environment, but we have also seen a lot of amazing advancement, adoption, and strength from the technology community – Vik Venkatraman At events like this, the density of connections you can make is really valuable – Nima Wedlake  We are excited about the opportunity that tech is unlocking across all aspects of the industry – Matt Boras There's always stuff to learn and that's one of the pleasures of this role is that I get to learn from talented entrepreneurs on a daily basis – Nima Wedlake One-to-one networking is a really important part of Blueprint – Vik Venkatraman My recommendation for folks is, be proactive about reaching out and making connections – Nima Wedlake Knowing your metrics as a founder and knowing where to invest your resources as a company in order to achieve your goals for growth is pretty important (when pitching) – Matt Boras There's no replacement for tenacity. I think in this game, just sticking with it can take you a really long way – Vik Venkatraman By almost any metric there's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur – Matt Boras   About Our Guests Vik Venkatraman  https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikvenkat/  Vik is a strategy and innovation management consultant, and a seasoned general manager. He currently serves as the general manager for Blueprint - the preeminent platform at the intersection of tech, venture, and real estate. At Bionic, he worked with a team of serial entrepreneurs to create and go after huge opportunities with F500 c-suites. He has lead multiple teams through the deployment of dozens of ecommerce sites, built multiple B2B sales & outreach machines, designed 2 hardware IOT products, and evaluated models ranging from SaaS to Marketplace. Vik has played a key role in building the $50MM Business Insights unit at American Express, and engineered the savings or growth of over $50MM in value for clients at Deloitte Consulting. Additionally, he built a beverage company, Star Power, to a business with over 500 accounts on no outside financing, and even published a book, Inspired! (Wiley, 2008). He graduated with honors from Columbia University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering.   Nima Wedlake https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimawedlake/  Nima Wedlake is a Principal at Thomvest Ventures, focusing on investment opportunities across the real estate & financial technology verticals. He currently serves as a Board Observer at LoanSnap, a mortgage technology company, Wholesail, a B2B payments network, and Singular, a marketing attribution provider. He also spearheaded Thomvest's investments in Ribbon, Tala, Blend, Mynd, Obie and PeerStreet. Nima was previously a Board Observer at Vungle (acquired by Blackstone in 2019) and DataXu (acquired by Roku in 2019). In 2020, Nima was recognized as one of 25 Rising Stars of Fintech VC by Business Insider. Prior to joining Thomvest, Nima worked as a management consultant advising technology clients on issues related to go-to-market strategy with the firm ZS Associates. He was also on the founding team at Sponge, a venture-backed customer engagement platform, where he led product development efforts. Nima is originally from the Bay Area and graduated from UC Berkeley, where he studied Business Administration and Operations Research.   Matt Boras https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboras/ Matt serves as Senior Vice President on the Investment team at RXR Realty and leads the RXR digital ventures investment strategy. RXR offers a dynamic array of innovative investment products across the risk spectrum for its investors. Coupled with a rich history of office and industrial development, our funds benefit from our strategic increase in the construction of residential, storage, telehealth and transportation facilities across the US. Prior to this Matt was Vice President a Colony Capital, VP at NorthStar Asset Management Group, and Associate at Five Mile Capital.    About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/?originalSubdomain=uk  Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE www.lmre.tech  LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the place at the time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community.   Resources Mentioned LMRE website www.lmre.tech  Blueprit website www.blueprint.connectiv.com Blueprint October 4-6 2021 event - get your ticket HERE Blueprint list of event speakers www.blueprint.connectiv.com/#speakers  RXR website www.rxrrealty.com  Thomvest www.thomvest.com  For full episode transcript head to www.lmre.tech/blog 

Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the charges against Trump ally Tom Barrack, the founder of investment firm Colony Capital, that he illegally lobbied the U.S. government on behalf of the United Arab Emirates and lied to the FBI about it. Michael Gerrard, a professor at Columbia Law School and faculty director of Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, discusses his article for Bloomberg Law, "Killer Heat Waves Warrant FEMA Action Under New Authority." June Grasso hosts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the charges against Trump ally Tom Barrack, the founder of investment firm Colony Capital, that he illegally lobbied the U.S. government on behalf of the United Arab Emirates and lied to the FBI about it. Michael Gerrard, a professor at Columbia Law School and faculty director of Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, discusses his article for Bloomberg Law, "Killer Heat Waves Warrant FEMA Action Under New Authority." June Grasso hosts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from billion-dollar deals to space interconnection. Natalie covers the news that Superloopis to acquire Exetel for $110 million and Patrick Drahi's Altice UK has taken a 12% stake in BT. However, it was subsea has dominating headlines this week following the news that installation for the NO-UK cable has begun; Infinera's ICE6 solution has been selected by PEACE Cable International Network and PCCW Global; while SubCom has been selected by Google to design, manufacture, and deploy its Firmina cable. Alan talks about Colony Capital's name change, Veon'smove to separate its services and investment unit, and Reliance Foundation's pledge to financially support the families of employees who lost their lives to Covid. Also in telecoms, Huawei's fortunes could be about to change following events in the US and the launch of its cyber security centre. In data centres, Natalie covers the news that Australia's DCIis building its first facility in New Zealand; Alibaba Cloud has opened its first data centre in the Philippines; FiberLighthas completed its fibre expansion in El Paso; and Blackstone's acquisition of QTS Realty Trust has put the industry on tack for a new M&A record in 2021. Joining this week's conversation, we also welcome Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX International who talks about Space-IX, the growing role of satellite and CDNs. Season 2, episode 19 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX International. At Capacitymedia.com you can catch up with our latest magazines, news and events.

2011 marque l'arrivée de QSI aux commandes du PSG, après des saisons de galère avec Colony Capital. L'ouverture d'une période faste mais aussi pour certains supporters de longue date une évolution dans les sentiments vis à vis du club. Raph, Jo et Nam's évoquent dans cet épisode leur histoire d'amour avec Paris et leurs regards sur l'arrivée du Qatar au PSG.  Podcast produit par Sports Content

Mark Patricof is a serial entrepreneur and media executive with extensive leadership and operational experience in the finance, entertainment, technology, and sports industries. A seasoned investment banker, he has advised and invested in a wide range of leading traditional and digital media and entertainment companies and transactions. He previously served as Managing Director and Co-Head of the Technology, Media, & Telecom practice at Houlihan Lokey, a publicly-traded global investment bank. Notable transactions while there include advising on the highly publicized bankruptcy auction sale of Gawker Media to Univision for $135 million, and the sale of iconic concert venue Webster Hall to AEG Presents and Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment. Mark was formerly a Co-Founder of Media and Entertainment Strategy Advisors (MESA Global), a boutique investment bank strategically acquired in 2015 by Houlihan Lokey. Founded in 2008, MESA served high-growth companies across the media and entertainment landscape, offering M&A advisory, private placement, and structured finance services. Core areas of focus included film, television, music, sports, live entertainment, and digital media, including key verticals such as games, interactive, advertising, and e-commerce. MESA advised on over 80 transactions including some of the most notable deals in the sector: Colony Capital's acquisition of Miramax, the sale of Songza to Google, the sale of IndiaGames to Disney, structured finance transactions for Relativity and IMAX, and equity finance transactions for Blue Man Group and FanDuel. Additionally, MESA advised multiple global corporations, including Discovery Channel, Time Inc., and Viacom. In 2012 Mark launched MESA Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on e-commerce, advertising technology, and digital content. The fund invested alongside established and top-tier early-stage VC firms, combining a unique data-driven ranking system with a co-investment strategy to create an “indexing” approach to seed-stage investing. Mark was a Co-Founder of , an incubator/digital studio that financed, designed, and built businesses for clients such as the BBC, CBS, Disney, Hearst, Sony, and Viacom. He served as President and CEO of the company until it was sold to Omnicom. Mark began his career at Creative Artists Agency (CAA). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toby-usnik/support

In this episode, Southeastern's London-based Senior Analyst and Principal, John Woodman, interviews Sébastien Bazin, Chairman and CEO of Accor. They discuss the short-term impact and long-term implications of COVID-19 on the hospitality industry [1:37 – 3:40], as well as steps Accor has taken to position itself to be a beneficiary of the travel recovery [3:44 – 6:20]. Next, Sébastien discusses the benefits of shifting to an asset-light model, [6:24 – 8:05] the recently announced merger with Ennismore and Accor's plans to build out its lifestyle business. [8:10 – 15:23] They then discuss the potential for the pandemic to accelerate consolidation in the industry and discuss the unexpected opportunities that COVID has created. [15:25 – 18:39] Next, they discuss Sébastien's unique background and his shift from engaged private equity investor in Accor to CEO and Chairman of the business, touching upon Colony Capital's and Southeastern's overlap as aligned shareholders during our prior investment in Accor and sharing what he has learned from sitting on both sides of the boardroom table. [18:43 – 24:14] They discuss how Accor's culture spans across a large and geographically diverse business, as well as Sébastien's views on capital allocation. [24:17 – 33:50] Next, they shift to discuss the importance of engaging with shareholders to ensure strong governance and drive positive outcomes and how shareholder engagement in the US differs from engagement in Europe. Sébastien discusses how he balances the competing interests of stakeholders to ensure long-term sustainability of the business. [33:52 - 40:16] He then discusses steps taken by the All Heartist fund to provide support for employees throughout the COVID crisis [40:18 – 43:46] and discusses the importance of ESG factors and diversity and inclusion at Accor in more detail. [43:48 – 48:58] Finally, Sébastien shares some personal insights in a short round of questions at the end. [49:00 – 55:20]

Find out what you need to know about Colony Capital's rotation to digital real estate. 

In these times of the COVID-19 pandemic, where almost all industries and infrastructures are taking a hit, the digital space has undeniably stood its ground and even became the connective tissue that is holding things together today. Speaking about the power of digital in this episode, Carrie Charles interviews digital influencer and infrastructure visionary, Marc Ganzi. He is a Managing Partner at Digital Colony, CEO-elect of Colony Capital, and the founder and CEO of Digital Bridge Holdings—a leading global investor and owner of mobile and internet infrastructure. Marc takes us deeper into what digital infrastructure is and what work he is doing with 5G. Addressing the elephant in the room, he then talks about the impacts of COVID-19 to digital infrastructures, where he thinks the industry is headed now, and how he has been adapting and rewriting the rules of leadership to help their employees and consumers better. There is so much to be learned from this conversation, so follow Carrie and Marc as they talk about the incredible resilience of digital infrastructures and more. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the 5G Talent Talk Community today:broadstaffglobal.comInstagramLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube

On today's episode of All in the Industry®, Shari Bayer is joined by Camilla Marcus, Chef/Founder of west~bourne, the popular all day, zero-waste restaurant in SoHo, Manhattan that operates with a unique, fully integrated philanthropic business model. Through a partnership with Robin Hood Foundation, 1% of every purchase made at the restaurant benefits The Door, an organization that supports local hospitality training for youth and from which west~bourne hires most of its team. A native Angeleno, Camilla created west~bourne’s menu to pay homage to California’s bounty, while every detail of west~bourne’s design has been thoughtfully sourced with California craftsmanship and sustainability in mind. Camilla is a co-founder of Relief Opportunities for All Restaurants (ROAR), an organization working to enact a sustainable future for the restaurant industry in New York. In partnership with Robin Hood, ROAR provides direct cash assistance to restaurant workers in New York City. Camilla is also a founding member of the Independent Restaurant Coalition (IRC).  Formerly the Director of Business Development for Union Square Hospitality Group, Camilla has also worked in real estate investing for Colony Capital and CIM Group. She trained in both business and law at the Wharton School and New York University, and earned a culinary degree from the International Culinary Center.  Today's show also features Shari's PR tip to be an activist; Industry News discussion, including COVID-19; and Solo Dining experience at Peeko Oysters in New Suffolk, NY on the North Fork of Long Island. Listen at Heritage Radio Network; subscribe/rate/review our show at iTunes, Stitcher or Spotify. Follow us @allindustry. Thanks for being a part of All in the Industry®. Stay safe and well. In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows from our homes all around the country. It was hard work stepping away from our little recording studio, but we know that you rely on HRN to share resources and important stories from the world of food each week. It’s been a tough year for all of us, but right now HRN is asking for your help. Every dollar that listeners give to HRN provides essential support to keep our mics on. We've got some fresh new thank you gifts available, like our limited edition bandanas.Keep All in the Industry on the air: become an HRN Member today! Go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate. Image courtesy of Emily Schnindler.All in the Industry is powered by Simplecast.  

In this week's episode we talk about Colony Capital's multi-billion-dollar partnership with Vantage data centres; Telkom Kenya's 4G balloon project with Google's sister company, Loon; and Seaborn's brush with bankruptcy.

1. Last week's options expiration is now over. That is always a time to be more on the neutral side. So this week it’s important to really see what kind of chart patterns are forming on the charts. This really means individual stocks, sectors and indexes. So now the real work begins.2. This week Nick will be watching the airline stocks very closely for positive chart patterns to form. Right now it seems like they are all raising capital. UAL, AAL and others are raising money, so we shall see how the charts set up soon in a couple weeks for these stocks. In the media we keep hearing about the spike in virus cases around the country, who would want to fly, but the charts will tell us the real story.   3. Nasdaq has been the leader. Apple is up $5 today. A few other names are up Google, Netflix, Invidia. Narrowing of the market, which can be a warning sign. Direction of the market is uncertain. We are holding trend. June 11 was a perhaps awaning sign. Any time you get a high volume decline from a high you need to on an alert.4. Gold and silver are both the big winners today so far. Money is continuing to go into precious. We broke the $1750 mark in gold. As long as we don’t see it break that $1788. There’s a lot more upside. Seasonality has changed for gold and 5. Travel sector has pulled back but they’re on Nick’s radar. Hotels are filling up for the holidays this year. Airlines are raising capital. Pattern will be interesting. Southwest appears to have an emerging pattern. $40 calls could be a good move. Colony Capital is consolidating isn’t something Nick would buy.6. Nick gives a little bit about his personal history. Started with a class in high school on investing. He’s mostly self-taught. He was a stock broker for a number of years and transitioned to trader.

What a juicy week it's been: AirBnB delayed their IPO and instead raised $1 billion in VC. Is this the canary in the coal mine for short-term rentals? Katherine Doggrell and Alexi Khajavy chat about the state of the hospitality industry with Philip Bacon of Horwath HTL and Yannis Ermilios of Colony Capital.

The commercial real estate market has been clobbered in this crisis, as restaurants and stores virtually shut down entirely throughout the month of March. On this week’s Odd Lots episode, we speak to Tom Barrack, the CEO of Colony Capital, on the crisis facing the industry, and what he feels needs to be done further to prevent the industry from going into a tailspin.

JSA TV is delighted to speak to Beanfield Technologies' VP of Sales and Commercial Development, Kal Benedict and Daniel Simmons, Director of Cloud Strategy.  Beanfield is an independent bandwidth infrastructure provider in Canada serving the enterprise, carrier and multi-dwelling units ("MDU") markets. Mr. Benedict and Mr. Simmons discuss the company's latest, exciting news, which include its recent acquisition by Digital Colony. Digital Colony is the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. and a leading investor, owner and operator of companies enabling the next generation of mobile and internet connectivity.

In this episode, you will learn: • Jake’s brief background • Jake’s light bulb moment • Some of Jake’s recommended books • Jake’s opinion on the future of opportunity zone developments • What Jake’s diet looks like • What Jake does to stay fit and healthy • Jake’s income and expenses • Plus, so much more! Jake Harris is the co-founder of Harris Bay. In 2003, Mr. Harris was involved in commercial construction as an estimator, superintendent, and later project manager. He was running millions of dollars of commercial property retrofits for clients including Equity Office Properties (EOP) in the Sacramento region and San Francisco Bay Area. He managed first-hand the value-added process of acquiring below-market properties to re-position them with cost-effective remodels. In 2004, Mr. Harris decided to transition his day-to-day operational experience into buying properties and rehabbing them for short-term profits. Based in the Bay Area, his first property was in the suburb of Phoenix, AZ. Soon after he relocated his full-time operations to the Phoenix, Arizona, region. After several years in Arizona he once again relocated back to Northern California in 2008. Over the years of investment management, Jake has been responsible for $200M+ across 100s of transactions. While working with several top Family offices and institutional investment firms like Invitation Homes, Tricon, Colony Capital and Wedgewood. In 2014, Harris Bay was formed when Mr. Harris and Mr. Bayer combined their decades of experience in real estate and wealth management to offer better and expanded opportunities to their clients. Creating a flexible investment strategy with strategic placement of capital into opportunistic assets and locations. Jake graduated cum laude from Rasmussen College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Entrepreneurship. He also received with Beta Gamma Sigma and honors a Master of Science in International Real Estate (MSIRE) from the Tibor Hollo School of Real Estate at Florida International University. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Accredited City-Builder Member of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU-A), and a licensed Real Estate Broker in California.

Episode 24 we discussed:- Marijuana laws and business moves in Michigan and Illinois- Viacom-CBS merger (staying tuned in for deets)- Google-Alphabet open letter- Industrial real estate investing-Prologis has acquired 107 million square feet of logistics space for $12.6 Billion-Blackstone bought GLP’s industrial warehouses for $18.7 Billion and the warehouse unit of Colony Capital for $5.9 Billion- Amazon's money moves- Robots are definitely taking your jobs: 4 million commercial robots expected in 2025- Warehouses are being repurposed for office space, events, and living- Amazon's injury investigationBuilding Blocks for Healthy Ecosystem, Culture, and Teams:Natasha covered 9 Building Blocks that you need to ensure you have in place, professionally and personally!Business Shout-Outs:Peach Label Costume 678-856-7905 Website at peachlabelcostume.com Email: peachlabelatl@gmail.comFollow and like them on FB and IG at @peachlabelcostumeClara Angelina DiazTo contact Clara for coaching or other services her phone number is 617-378-7355 , email is clara@claraangelinadiaz.com, and her website is claraangelinadiaz.com . She’s on Instagram at @claraangelinadiaz on Twitter @ClaraAngelinaDFacebook @clara.a.diaz and on LinkedIn at Clara Angelina DiazPhotography by Tasha Rose (Utah-based photography team)IG @photographybytasharose @associatesoftasharose FB @photographybytasharoseWebsite: photographybytasharose.comMobile Car Wash Services in Atlanta, GATop Notch Car Care 2 at (424) 264-3709 and ask for Drew. Business Events Highlighted:Purchase your tickets to the Lunch N’ Learn event with Dr. Belinda Johnson White, which will be this Thursday December 5th at 11:30am at The Georgian Club. Tickets are $16.95 and include a 2-course lunch. This Lunch N Learn will focus on Rethinking Authenticity: A Leader’s Dilemma”. This is an interactive workshop that will challenge you to embrace the collective power of spirit, soul, and body in becoming a transformational leader of influence and service. To RSVP please call (770) 952-6000Vino Van LLC’s wine making class for this Sunday, December 8th from 2-5pm go to Eventbrite.com More Than Music An All White Affair from 2-5pm ET Sunday, December 8th at the Patchwerk Recording Studios. Tickets are on sale through EventBriteDecember 15th Music Meets Business at the annual Music Is Giving Foundation’s Scholarship and Recital Gala. It’s going to be an evening of red carpet networking from 2-4pm, cocktails, entertainment, hor d’oeuvres, door prizes and live music. The program begins at 4pm. The event will be held at the Entrepreneurship Complex located at 3400 West Hospital Avenue, Atlanta GA. Visit MusicIsGiving.org for details.Book signing and meet & greet on Thursday December 19th from 6-8pm with author Dr. Lula Ballton at the Auburn Avenue Research Library, located at 101 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, GA. You will have the chance to meet Dr. Ballton and get her new book “Extraordinary Ministry in Ordinary Places: A Guide to Christian Community Development” signed.SHOW INFORMATION:Company: Foreman & Associates, LLCWebsite: ForemanLLC.comIG: @ForemanAndAssociatesFB: @ForemanAndAssociatesTwitter: @ForemanLLCPodcast Twitter: @ItAintSmall YouTube: user/ForemanAssociatesText-only Line: (404) 481-1849HOST: Natasha L. Foreman, CEO of Foreman & Associates, LLCWebsite: NatashaForeman.com IG: @NatashaLForemanFB: @NatashaLForemanTwitter: @NatashaLForemanLinkedIn: @NatashaLForemanTheme Song: “Higher Up” by Shane IversCopyright 2019. Foreman & Associates, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The Jelly Donut Podcast #1 - David Levine was recorded on October 14, 2019. David Levine founded Odin River in 2015. Previously, David served as CIO of Artivest, a venture-backed company that provides Insight and Access to exceptional investing. Before Artivest, David honed his investing experience at Paulson & Co., a hedge fund firm led by John Paulson. While at Paulson & Co., David made investments in industries including automotive, energy, software, hardware and Internet. David was previously on the private equity investment team at Colony Capital, making investments in gaming, hospitality and real estate. His investment experience also includes time at Canyon Capital and PAAMCO. David began his career in Lehman Brothers’ Mergers & Acquisitions Group where he focused on power. David received an MBA, with honors, from Harvard Business School and a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He graduated from Washington University, receiving an AB in Philosophy, summa cum laude, and a BSBA in Finance, magna cum laude. David is also the Vice Chairman of the Leadership Council of Year Up New York and is a member of the New York bar. David is an angel investor and advisor to startups in industries ranging from Clean Energy to Financial Technology. He has been an active tweeter and blogger since 2007 and has been quoted in publications like the NY Times and MIT Tech Review. He was named one of the top 55 undiscovered “rockstars” in tech by Business Insider and TechCrunch. David resides in the West Village of Manhattan with his wife and their young daughter. https://www.odinriver.com/ https://twitter.com/paranoidbull https://twitter.com/davealevine --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jellydonutpodcast/support

Forever 21 declares bankruptcy.  Blackstone Group and Colony Capital agree to a $5.9 billion deal that demonstrates two very different real estate visions at work. Jason Moser analyzes those stories, plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag to discuss strategies for rolling over a 401(k).

Let's talk about money honey. One of the most requested topics following last season was to talk more about financing options for new restaurateurs. Restaurants have notoriously slim margins and chefs aren’t known to have huge salaries. So how do you fund your project and what are potential investors looking for in your business plan? Our guest today is Camilla Marcus, Founder and Owner/Operator of West-Bourne, an accidentally vegetarian and decidedly mindful eatery in SoHo with a triple bottom line mission. Before opening West~Bourne, Camilla was the Director of Business Development at USHG, and worked in real-estate investing at Colony Capital and CM Group. Camilla is also an active Angel Investor and a co-founder of TechTable Summit. Opening Soon is powered by Simplecast.

Spain’s socialist party has won big in the country’s third general election in four years, US and UK airlines are bracing for a profit hit in the wake of the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max jet and Deutsche Bank chairman Paul Achleitner says the investment bank doesn’t need a fundamental strategic overhaul. Plus, the FT’s Mark Vandevelde talks about his latest profile of Colony Capital chief executive Tom Barrack and the real estate investor’s performance record. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Directeur d'investissement chez New Fund, Augustin a commencé comme investisseur chez Colony Capital aux Etats Unis avant de créer son entreprise au Mexique. Revenu en France, il devient directeur d'investissement chez New Fund, un fond crée en 2008 par François Veron et Patrick Malka. Avec lui on discute de la vision des entrepreneurs qu'ils ont financé et des différentes phases de levées de fonds. Pour le contacter : augustin@newfund.fr / @augustinsayer sur Twitter. Bonne écoute et a vos pitch-decks.

Bill Hughes, a managing director at Colony Capital, discusses real estate investment trusts (REITs) as a source of attractive returns and diversification in the latest edition of The Sherman Show™ podcast hosted by Jeffrey Sherman and Samuel Lau. However, ... Read More

Text Summary: Today we are joined by Jake Harris.  Jake is one of the most experienced investors we've had on our show with over 1000 real estate transactions to date.  In this interview we will learn about how to evaluate and execute deals in out of state markets, how to find reliable contractors and why if you are a new investor it is so important to get in the game now.   Biography: Jake Harris is a real estate investor with experience in almost every area of construction and development.  In 2003, Mr. Harris was involved in commercial construction as an estimator, superintendent, and later project manager. He was running millions of dollars of commercial property retrofits for clients including Equity Office Properties (EOP) in the Sacramento region and San Francisco Bay Area. He managed first-hand the value added process of acquiring below-market properties to re-position them with cost-effective remodels.   In 2014 Jake co-founded Harris Bay, a real estate investment firm.  Over the years of investment management, Jake has been responsible for $200M+ across 100s of transactions. While working with several top Family offices and institutional investment firms like Invitation Homes, Tricon, Colony Capital and Wedgewood.   What you will learn:   What were some of the biggest mistakes you make early on that new investors just starting out can learn from your experience? (21:01)   How did Jake rebound from the tough times in the beginning? (23:45)   What are the 3 buckets where Jake looks to invest? (31:40)   If an investor is looking to invest out of state how does Jake recommend they analyze that market.  (34:10)   What is a target return for Jake on one of his flips? (38:28)   What channels is currently Jake using to generate leads in outside markets? (40:40)   How is Jake sourcing contractors for his out of state deals? (43:38)   How much initial due diligence does Jake do on an out of state deal?  (50:55)   What are some red flags that will make Jake pass on a potential deal? (55:35)   What is Jake's view on the current real estate market and where there will be opportunity going forward. (1:01:55)   Why is it so important to get in the game now rather than wait for the next downturn? (1:05:50)   Quotes:   “If you haven't had any failures you aren't trying hard enough.”   “You have to have that mindset that you can do and learn anything.”   “I don't know another real estate investor that is not willing to help another one out.”   “The path to where you want to be, there's going to be some pain along the way.”   Resources: Help spread this uplifting content by leaving a review on iTunes: http://bit.ly/MMiTunesReview   Stay in touch with Matty A: Website: https://mattaitchison.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattyaitchison Instagram: @officialmattya YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCinIteUWBIk-ycgg5i7q99w/featured   Connect with Jake: His Website: http://www.harris-bay.com Dev webseite: http://essexmoderncity.com/ IG: @Jake.realestate

A Technology FoundationFred Tuomi was born in Minnesota, and went on to attend high school and college in Georgia, receiving a B.A. in Business Information Systems and a Masters in Business Administration from Georgia State University. While working for the Computer Sciences Corporation doing consulting, Fred connected with John Lie-Nelsen of Consolidated Capital and Johnstown Properties. This opportunity led to Fred creating the very first automated, apartment management system.“The idea was, let's use these things called computers that make everything more efficient and increase productivity… Let's put it where we have most of our people. To really get the benefits of productivity enhancement, you have to make as many employees as possible productive, not just a few back at the home office.”When the Tax Reform Act of 1986 killed the real estate limited partnership business, Fred connected with John Williams and John Glover of Post Properties, and then eventually was invited to join Equity Residential by Doug Crocker.Equity ResidentialFred and his family moved from Atlanta to Chicago, where he became President of Property Management at Equity Residential.“We were trying to build two things. One was a uniform platform that was highly efficient… Second thing was to build a company culture.”Fred shares how Sam Zell, Founder, and Chairman of Equity Residential (see our interview with Zell in Season One of Leading Voices), influenced and shaped its culture. Under Zell's vision for acquiring irreplaceable assets, the company's goal evolved from a gross asset accumulation model to a highly refined portfolio and operational platform. Technology also played a critical role throughout the business, including in revenue management, allowing them to study the relationship of supply and demand in a way that hadn't been possible before.Entering and Exiting RetirementIt wasn't long after Tuomi retired to spend more time with his grandkids and family, that he was approached by Tom Barrack and Justin Chang of Colony Capital. They wanted his advice on translating his apartment management strategy to the single-family rental business. While many doubted that a long-term ownership and management platform for the single-family market was possible, Fred was able to bring his experience from rolling up assets in the multifamily business and over time saw the business coming together with efficiencies and metrics comparable to the apartment industry. Each asset was bought with an eye on the long-term growth of stabilized income streams which meant that with the various mergers of the Waypoint, Starwood, Colony and Blackstone Invitation Homes portfolios, the footprint didn't just get wider, it got more deep and dense, improving efficiency. Technology in the hands of the consumer and the front line employee also made these efficiencies possible.“We are now running 2,200+ homes from one centralized property management team similar to an apartment property office. In terms of headcount to assets, we are much more efficient than the apartment business. But we have to employ a lot more technology to bridge that gap.”The Future of the MarketFred sees Millennials entering the housing market society's increased longevity as signposts for long-term market growth, and emphasizes the importance of developers stimulating the housing supply if we don't want pricing to increase.

Accusations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein haven’t just rocked Hollywood – they’ve also led to the potential destruction of his company, Weinstein Co. The privately-held independent film and TV studio is in talks to sell itself to Colony Capital, the private equity arm of Colony NorthStar, run by billionaire Thomas Barrack. News of an immediate sale after a crisis is rare, but Weinstein Co.’s corporate governance structure and small size leave it vulnerable, says Larry Hutcher, co-founder and co-managing partner at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron. Bloomberg entertainment reporter Anousha Sakoui also tells host Alex Sherman about Weinstein Co.’s recent box-office failures and traces the company’s history, from Miramax to today. 

On today's show: Weinstein's Hollywood sex scandal. How this scandal affects on the entire movie industry. Weinstein's unmentionable restaurant actions reported by PageSix.com. Social media's #MeToo campaign, has women posting "Me Too" if they were sexual harrassed and/or sexual assaulted in their life. Clinton Foundation will not return 250K of Weinstein's money. Trump associate, Tom Barrack of Colony Capital, may be buying out Weinstein. Also in the news: Lake Pontchartrain oil rig explodes, several injured. Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty of deserting his post, no plea agreement, now facing life in prison. To date, 40 deaths in California wildfires are confirmed with many more missing. U.S. Consumer Sentiment Index hits 101.1, highest since 2004. Over 300 dead from a truck bomb in a terrorist attack in Somalia. Thanks to Carlos Thomas for the plug in Brain Science and Neurophilosophy periodical. Stock Market hits an all time high in years. Trudeau is doing the opposite to Trump's tax plan and taxing the upper class. Western Canada is pretty fed up with no federal help with oil prices, yet we must continue to pay the east dividends. This raises talk of Western Separation, dividing Canada apart. Mitch McConnell and Trump have a lunch meeting today, hopefully the senate with do something on Trump's agenda. Colin Kaepernick sues the NFL. 01:55 On today's show: Weinstein's Hollywood sex scandal. 02:25 How this scandal affects on the entire movie industry. 03:50 Weinstein's unmentionable restaurant actions reported by PageSix.com. 09:00 Social media's #MeToo campaign, has women posting "Me Too" if they were sexual harrassed and/or sexual assaulted in their life. 11:45 Clinton Foundation will not return 250K of Weinstein's money. 13:15 Trump associate, Tom Barrack of Colony Capital, may be buying out Weinstein. 16:20 Lake Pontchartrain oil rig explodes, several injured. 17:00 Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty of deserting his post, no plea agreement, now facing life in prison. 17:35 To date, 40 deaths in California wildfires are confirmed with many more missing. 18:15 U.S. Consumer Sentiment Index hits 101.1, highest since 2004 18:55 Over 300 dead from a truck bomb in a terrorist attack in Somalia. 19:42 Thanks to Carlos Thomas for the plug in Brain Science and Nuero Philosophy periodical. 20:10 Stock Market hits an all time high in years. 21:45 Trudeau is doing the opposite to Trump's tax plan and taxing the upper class. 22:45 Western Canada is pretty fed up with no federal help with oil prices, yet we must continue to pay the east dividends. This raises talk of Western Seperation, dividing Canada apart. 24:55 Mitch McConnell and Trump have a lunch meeting today, hopefully the senate with do something on Trump's agenda. 25:15 Colin Kaepernick sues NFL. For a list of source links, visit http://therightleftchronicles.com/podcasts/858/dueling-dialogues-podcast-ep-26/

Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson.u0010u0010GUEST:u0010Chris Palmeriu0010Los Angeles Bureau Chief u0010Bloomberg News u0010Discussing Weinstein Co. entering talks with Billionaire investor Tom Barrack's Colony Capital on sale of movie and television assets. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On an extended episode of Bloomberg Surveillance, Tom Keene and David Gura discuss the election of Donald Trump. Mohamed El-Erian, Bloomberg View columnist and chief economic adviser at Allianz SE, says Trump's victory shows how quickly the improbable can become reality. Bob Hormats, Kissinger Associates' vice chairman, says if President-elect Donald Trump is wise, he will reach out to Hillary Clinton to repair the fractured country. Then, Tom Barrack, the founder of Colony Capital, says the cadence of Donald Trump as President will be much difference than the cadence of Donald Trump as candidate. Tim Pawlenty, CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable and former Governor of Minnesota, says a Trump presidency could benefit banks. Also, Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, says we will see an incredible amount of international hedging away from America. Finally, David Malpass, founder of Encima Global, says the GOP-led House and Senate will be critical for Trump's policy implementation. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On an extended episode of Bloomberg Surveillance, Tom Keene and David Gura discuss the election of Donald Trump. Mohamed El-Erian, Bloomberg View columnist and chief economic adviser at Allianz SE, says Trump's victory shows how quickly the improbable can become reality. Bob Hormats, Kissinger Associates' vice chairman, says if President-elect Donald Trump is wise, he will reach out to Hillary Clinton to repair the fractured country. Then, Tom Barrack, the founder of Colony Capital, says the cadence of Donald Trump as President will be much difference than the cadence of Donald Trump as candidate. Tim Pawlenty, CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable and former Governor of Minnesota, says a Trump presidency could benefit banks. Also, Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, says we will see an incredible amount of international hedging away from America. Finally, David Malpass, founder of Encima Global, says the GOP-led House and Senate will be critical for Trump's policy implementation.

This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an encore interview with John Pasqualoni, the new president of Resorts Atlantic City, on his property and the city's future.The return of John Pasqualoni to Atlantic City, where he started his career, took many years. A slot executive for most of his career, he left the Trump organization in the 1990s to join Foxwoods in Connecticut, where he spent many years running one of the most profitable slot floors in the world. Later, he joined the Seneca Gaming Corp., and became its president in 2005. He was appointed to lead Resorts in August, taking over a struggling property owned by Colony Capital's subsidiary, Resorts International. He spoke with Atlantic City Casino Connection Managing Editor Marjorie Preston in his offices at Resorts in September.