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Kevin Nash made a SURPRISE appearance at Live 11 in Orlando at the Tin Roof. This interview is from a few years ago and it's one of the biggest surprises we've ever had on a live show. Big Kev is so relaxed and chill on stage the guys just shoot the shiz! To see the full show go to MajorMarks.com
Join Brent Daniels in this game-changing episode with special guest Logan Fullmer! Logan reveals his "Title Problem Strategy," a high-level approach to real estate investing that focuses on properties with complex ownership issues, tax delinquencies, and legal disputes—a blue ocean niche where the biggest profits are hiding.In this deep dive, Logan breaks down exactly how to navigate court dockets to find leads that other wholesalers miss. He shares his step-by-step process for skip tracing hard-to-find owners using genealogists, how to buy fractional interests to get your foot in the door, and why solving the most difficult problems can lead to six-figure paydays per deal.More wholesaling lessons if you join the TTP Training Program today. ---------Show notes:(0:56) Beginning of today's episode(2:40) Tax lawsuits filed in the last 5 years(4:38) The psychology of contacting a seller immediately after they've been served(6:05) Advanced skip tracing: Using Private Investigators and Genealogists to find heirs(7:35) The "Soft Pitch": How to approach sellers without being aggressive(10:01) Buying fractional interest: How to make money owning a small percentage of a property(12:42) Advice for beginners “Start with simple 2-3 owner disputes before tackling complex litigation”(21:11) The "Closing Package": Using specific affidavits to protect your deal(25:20) How to handle owners who refuse to sell (Partition actions)----------Resources:Working Capital ProsFollow Logan Fullmer on InstagramTo speak with Brent or one of our other expert coaches call (281) 835-4201 or schedule your free discovery call here to learn about our mentorship programs and become part of the TribeGo to Wholesalingincgroup.com to become part of one of the fastest growing Facebook communities in the Wholesaling space. Get all of your burning Wholesaling questions answered, gain access to JV partnerships, and connect with other "success minded" Rhinos in the community.It's 100% free to join. The opportunities in this community are endless, what are you waiting for?
Urologist William Lynes discusses his article "A urologist's perspective on presidential health transparency." William examines the medical plausibility of a former president being diagnosed with widespread metastatic prostate cancer just months after leaving office. He explains why the slow growth of this disease means it almost certainly existed during the presidency and challenges the narrative that it went undetected despite world-class health care. The discussion covers the standard of care regarding PSA screening and hormonal therapy while highlighting how symptoms like bone pain would likely have been obvious to any competent medical team. William ultimately questions the ethics of Dr. Kevin O'Connor and argues that concealing such a diagnosis constitutes a severe violation of the physician's code of conduct. Listen to understand the grave implications of medical transparency at the highest levels of government. Partner with me on the KevinMD platform. With over three million monthly readers and half a million social media followers, I give you direct access to the doctors and patients who matter most. Whether you need a sponsored article, email campaign, video interview, or a spot right here on the podcast, I offer the trusted space your brand deserves to be heard. Let's work together to tell your story. PARTNER WITH KEVINMD → https://kevinmd.com/influencer SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast RECOMMENDED BY KEVINMD → https://www.kevinmd.com/recommended
Special Guest: Scott Curry Enter Coupon Code PODCAST at Checkout for 50% Off: https://whop.com/faithroar/faithroarcommunity/ Welcome to Podcast Profits Unleashed, the show that inspires coaches and consultants to grow their business using podcasting—both as compelling guests and influential hosts. I'm your host, Karen Roberts, and in this powerful episode, we're joined by faith-driven entrepreneur, speaker, and educator, Scott Curry. Scott went from zero to six figures in just three months—but it wasn't luck. It was built on purpose, persistence, and powerful storytelling. In this episode, you'll learn how Scott turned personal heartbreak and professional setbacks into a thriving business that now helps others achieve financial freedom through smart investing and scalable content.
From the BBC World Service: New data shows that China's economy grew by 5% last year. While positive, it's not anywhere near the stellar growth figures China has had over years past, and the economy faces a weak housing market, a falling population, and ongoing trade tensions with the U.S. Plus, we examine what's driving the wealthy to the United Arab Emirates and how a boom in luxury real estate is changing Dubai.
From the BBC World Service: New data shows that China's economy grew by 5% last year. While positive, it's not anywhere near the stellar growth figures China has had over years past, and the economy faces a weak housing market, a falling population, and ongoing trade tensions with the U.S. Plus, we examine what's driving the wealthy to the United Arab Emirates and how a boom in luxury real estate is changing Dubai.
DIVERSE VOICES AND THE MILITIA MYTH Colleague Joseph Ellis. Ellis profiles key figures of 1774-1775, including the conservative John Dickinson, who sought to avoid war, and the revolutionary John Adams. He discusses the "delusion" created by Bunker Hill that amateurs could defeat professionals, a myth that persisted despite military realities. Ellis highlights Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which shifted the argument to natural rights and demonized the monarchy, arguing an island could not rule a continent and making independence seem inevitable. NUMBER 21799 LONDON
What if a simple LinkedIn message could get you on the phone with decision-makers immediately? In this episode, Jason Fishman shares how DNA has worked on over 500 investment crowdfunding campaigns that have collectively produced nine figures of capital. His agency specializes in investor marketing and user acquisition, helping brands raise capital through Reg CF, Reg A+, and Reg D filings. Jason's mission stems from a sobering statistic: nine out of ten businesses fail in their first year, and nine out of ten that survive fail the next year. Many of them fail because they're undercapitalized. By using his digital marketing skillset to bring the right investors to marketing funnels and measure actual conversion and return on ad spend, Jason helps companies that are having trouble meeting new investors access the capital they need to survive and thrive. He reveals how he met his business partner Tim Martinez at a 2009 conference after almost skipping a workshop. Jason waited in line 10-15 minutes just to talk to Tim, and that conversation eventually led to co-founding DNA together. Jason also shares his LinkedIn outreach strategy: send 25 invitations per day with customized messaging, look for a 20% acceptance rate, and include a scheduling link by message three. This simple tactic helped DNA connect with FINRA regulated portals and build the strategic partnerships that became instrumental to their success. [00:05:20] DNA: Investor Marketing and User Acquisition Focused on investor acquisition, targeting investors with advertising and outreach Worked on over 500 deals that collectively produced nine figures of capital Campaigns in 2025 alone have surpassed $100 million raised altogether Helps brands that are having trouble meeting new investors [00:06:20] Why Jason Does This Work Nine out of ten businesses fail in first year, nine out of ten that survive fail the next year Many fail because they're undercapitalized Can use digital marketing skillset to bring right investors to marketing funnel Measure conversion, return on ad spend, total transactional value [00:07:20] Background in Ad Tech Part of social gaming startup in Los Angeles, played role in capital raise Raised over $3 million in seed capital, created countless versions of deck Company merged with advertising network, started working with Fortune 500s Quickly found fundraising was common part of conversation [00:08:20] First Campaign: $2.83 Million First campaign through Reg D 506(c) which allows solicitation of accredited investors Able to target high net worth, high household income audiences with advertising Raised $2.83 million on first campaign for Rayon Solar back in 2015 Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) went into effect May 2016 [00:09:00] The Filings Available Today Can raise up to $5 million on Reg CF campaign Up to $75 million on Regulation A+ campaign (hoping for $150 million soon) Important to have specialization and niche as marketing agency Fell into this area, succeeded, kept getting introductions [00:11:00] What Inspires Jason Most Stat that nine out of ten businesses fail is not acceptable Part of LA accelerator community, works with universities and founders Want to make sure right eyeballs are on their products, companies, brands Funding could be make or break for them [00:12:00] Watching Companies Grow Watch clients' teams grow, their offices, their equipment, market share Seen groups go from $20 million valuations to $3.5 billion valuations Part of Crowdfund Professional Association working on tax credit for investors Would put Regulation Crowdfunding on tax form for every American [00:15:40] Meeting Tim Martinez in 2009 Met at SR Action Sports Retail conference in San Diego Almost didn't attend workshop, last minute walked into "50 Ways to Promote Your Skate Shop" Tim was professional skateboarder, worked in snow/skate/surf sports world 50-100 business owners taking notes on everything Tim said [00:16:20] Waiting in Line 15 Minutes Had to wait in line 10-15 minutes to talk to Tim after presentation First thing Tim asked: "How old are you?" (Tim few years older) Hit it off, had great discussion Tim said "I'm in Hollywood, you're in Hollywood, why don't we grab coffee sometime?" [00:17:00] The Path to Partnership Started pulling Tim into projects at agency, later worked for Tim's agency When Jason was at ad network, Tim asked if interested in starting new firm Tim was consulting companies with no idea about digital marketing Created DNA together, Tim has brought in countless introductions since [00:19:00] Don't Be Bashful Don't let self-doubt and little thoughts stop you ("maybe I'm too young or he's busy") Everyone wants to talk to speakers, why stick around? But Jason did Speakers are there for a reason, looking to have outcome for their time They're thought leaders, experts, probably things you can do together [00:20:40] How Tim Led to Crowdfunding Wouldn't have been possible without relationship with Tim Tim's relationship with Fundable introduced them to Reg D campaigns After success, Tim had friend in film industry with crowdfunding company That partner brought them to first Reg CF campaign in May 2016 [00:25:20] Building Strategic Partnerships Building strategic partnerships has been instrumental to success Would tell founder to incorporate into business plan, marketing plan, model Went to great lengths because saw how effective it was LinkedIn outreach in 2017-2018 got DNA on phone with portals right and left [00:26:00] The LinkedIn Strategy Can send 25 invitations per day from your profile Search by company, job title, company size, industry, zip code Send message with invitation, look for 20% or higher acceptance rate By message three, add scheduling link to streamline booking process [00:27:00] Customized Outreach Have very clear call to action, very visible opportunity on how to connect Every founder, if not every professional, should be doing this Start manually, really customize messaging Build relationships with people who can introduce you to target audience [00:30:00] Do More Don't think "I have a few relationships, I'll hit my goal" It's all about driving enough traffic at high enough conversion rate 50,000 visits per million raised at 2% conversion rate and $1,000-$2,000 average investment Engage experts, talk to people, do not be bashful KEY QUOTES "It's all about relationships. Your net worth is your network. Some people say it the other way around. Your network is your net worth." - Jason Fishman "Whether they're on television or a billionaire or leading a workshop or whatever it may look like, don't be afraid to go up to 'em and talk to 'em. There's no telling what it could look like 16 years into that relationship." - Jason Fishman "Building strategic partnerships has been instrumental to the success of our business, and it's something I would tell a founder to incorporate into their business plan, marketing plan, and their model." - Jason Fishman CONNECT WITH JASON FISHMAN
By the time Caroline was fourteen, she was used to moving. New houses, new streets, new routines — nothing ever stayed long enough to feel permanent. But one house changed that. It didn't look unusual. It didn't feel dangerous. It simply refused to stay quiet.At first, it was small things: faint music playing when no one was home, movement heard in the kitchen, shadows in the hallway that vanished when she looked directly at them. Then came the voice — cheerful, unmistakable, and impossible to explain.When Caroline and her mother moved again, she believed it would end there. Instead, the activity followed them in quieter, stranger ways. Lights that pulsed on their own. Figures standing over her bed. Voices that spoke her name in empty rooms.Years later, a message from strangers living in one of her old homes confirms what Caroline already knows — it wasn't just her.#RealGhostStories #TrueParanormal #HauntedHouses #GhostlyEncounters #UnexplainedVoices #ShadowFigures #ParanormalExperience #CreepyStories #HauntedHomes #UnseenPresence Love real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:
By the time Caroline was fourteen, she was used to moving. New houses, new streets, new routines — nothing ever stayed long enough to feel permanent. But one house changed that. It didn't look unusual. It didn't feel dangerous. It simply refused to stay quiet.At first, it was small things: faint music playing when no one was home, movement heard in the kitchen, shadows in the hallway that vanished when she looked directly at them. Then came the voice — cheerful, unmistakable, and impossible to explain.When Caroline and her mother moved again, she believed it would end there. Instead, the activity followed them in quieter, stranger ways. Lights that pulsed on their own. Figures standing over her bed. Voices that spoke her name in empty rooms.Years later, a message from strangers living in one of her old homes confirms what Caroline already knows — it wasn't just her.#RealGhostStories #TrueParanormal #HauntedHouses #GhostlyEncounters #UnexplainedVoices #ShadowFigures #ParanormalExperience #CreepyStories #HauntedHomes #UnseenPresence Love real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:
In the 934th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway, Mike Holtz, and Ben Ludlow talk about the two players who made it all the way to heads-up play and then agreed to play winner take all for the prize money. It was a wild story that saw one player walk away with a five-figure payday and the other leave empty-handed. The trio then discusses WPT Global's controversial signing of Ren Lin as an ambassador, which led to a discussion about ClubWPT Gold's social media strategy and how those two brands are related to the main World Poker Tour (WPT) brand. In between, former WPT Global Ambassador Xuan Liu called out the site for continuing to use her image in the Asia market. Chad then shares highlights from his adventure with Phil Hellmuth and his son Phillip Hellmuth III playing in a Wisconsin home game, Alex Foxen winning PokerGO Tour (PGT) Player of the Year, and winners from the PokerGO Tour Last Chance Series. Then there was Daniel Negreanu at the final table of the PGT Championship, which was won by Chad Eveslage. Other stories include GPI Player of the Year results, Maine becoming the ninth state to legalize online poker, and a look at Lost in the Shuffle, a documentary that explores the history of playing cards through the lens of magic. See the trailer and enter for your chance to win a limited edition deck of cards. Speaking of giveaways, learn who won a copy of Jonathan Little's new book The Complete Poker Workout. A new PokerNews Podcast drops every Thursday at 8a PT / 11a ET / 4p UK time. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you do not miss an episode! Time Stamps *Time Topic* 00:00 | Welcome to the Show 01:25 | Two players agree to "Winner Take All" 03:26 | WPT Global signs Ren Lin 08:15 | Is WPT Global different than WPT & ClubWPT Gold? 10:40 | Former Ambassador Xuan Liu calls out WPT Global 12:40 | Chad's adventure with Phil Hellmuth 20:02 | Alex Foxen wins PGT Player of the Year 22:29 | PokerGO Tour Last Chance Series winners 24:30 | Daniel Negreanu final tables PGT Championship 26:20 | Chad Eveslage wins PGT Championship 27:31 | GPI Player of the Year results 31:40 | Maine becomes 9th state to legalize online poker 36:55 | Lost in the Shuffle documentary 40:34 | PN Pod giveaways
Send us a textReady to celebrate a win… and notice what happens next?What if the very thing you've been quietly holding in your heart is ready to be shared—not perfectly, but now?In this episode of Unleashed & Unstoppable, Alex and Carol invite you into a deeply real, behind-the-scenes conversation about intention, visibility, and the courage it takes to bring something meaningful into the world. What starts as a celebration of Alex's children's book Free To Be Me officially opening for pre-orders becomes a powerful exploration of what happens in our brains, bodies, and nervous systems when we choose to go public with what matters most.This isn't just a conversation about launching a book. It's about launching yourself into the next level—without burning out, overcomplicating the process, or waiting for “perfect.”Together, Alex and Carol reflect on:Why done really is better than perfect—and how simplicity creates momentumWhat's actually happening in your nervous system when fear, tension, or doubt shows up during growthHow celebrating small wins releases the neuro-chemicals that help you move through resistance instead of retreatingThe power of declaring your intention out loud and letting your community support youWhy staying connected to the why matters more than obsessing over the howHow early beliefs around worthiness, safety, and love shape our leadership—and why it's so powerful to rewire them early (for ourselves and our children)You'll also hear Alex share vulnerably about the journey of bringing Free To Be Me to life—from the spark of an idea while nursing her daughter, to navigating visibility, discomfort, and expansion as the book enters the world. It's a reminder that growth doesn't have to feel forced—and that your body's reactions don't mean you're doing it wrong. They often mean you're doing something brave.As you listen, consider this:What's the idea, goal, or desire you've been holding close that's asking for air this year?Who's in your corner to help you celebrate, reflect, and keep moving forward?What would change if you trusted the process instead of trying to control every step?Tune in, reflect, and let this episode remind you that your dreams don't require perfection—just intention, support, and the willingness to take the next step.Pre-order your copy of Free To Be Me and be part of the movementContact Carol on IG to explore Carol's retreats and trans
Inflation eased slightly last month, but the price of many goods and services continued to rise. In December, prices were up by 2.8% when compared to the same month a year earlier.
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Data shapes our world—yet its sheer volume is often overwhelming. Simon Kuestenmacher, co-founder and director of “The Demographics Group” in Melbourne, is one of the leading experts who make figures understandable. The second episode of our three-part series of talks focuses on the state of the Australian economy, necessary structural reforms and why Germany may be facing significantly greater challenges. - Daten prägen unsere Welt – doch ihre schiere Menge ist oft überwältigend. Simon Küstenmacher, Mitgründer und Direktor von „The Demographics Group“ in Melbourne, gehört zu den führenden Experten, die Zahlen verständlich machen. In der zweiten Folge unserer dreiteiligen Gesprächsreihe geht es um den Stand der australischen Wirtschaft, nötige Strukturreformen und warum Deutschland womöglich vor deutlich größeren Herausforderungen steht.
Are you a “jump and the net will appear” kind of person, {{ subscriber.first_name }}? Personally, I like to have some sort of net. But, as this this week's guest on the Build Your Copywriting Business podcast taught me, you can get creative with that net. CCA student and copywriter extraordinaire Daniel is sharing how five days after he quit his sales job, he moved to Thailand. I know, you're like, “But Nicki, you said he had a net.”
Learn more about the next ReLaunch To A Rich Life Live event September 17, 18 & 19 in Scottsdale Arizona next year.https://www.relaunchtoarichlife.com Featuring Debra Morrison, Marley Jaxx, Christy Whitman, Bianca D'Alessio and Tina Sue Moser Debra Morrison is a Financial & Leadership Coach, and 3x best-selling author with over 42 years of experience empowering women to achieve financial freedom and build intentional wealth. Marley Jaxx is an award-winning filmmaker, the founder and CEO of Jaxx Productions, and a business strategist who helps women amplify their influence on the global stage. Christy Whitman is a Law of Attraction expert and the bestselling author of The Art of Having It All, whose work has helped millions align their beliefs with success. Bianca D'Alessio is the #1 Real Estate Broker in New York, and the CEO and founder of The Masters Division, a top-performing real estate leader. Tina Sue Moser is a business thought leader and strategist who helps high-performing women scale with clarity and sustainability. Today, these five successful women sat down with me to explore what success looks like behind the scenes, and why so few women (just 1.9%) ever reach the highest levels of success. They reveal exactly what stops most women-owned businesses from reaching seven figure success. We dive deep into the moment that forced these great women to relaunch their lives and businesses, the identities they had to shed, and the beliefs that had to be destroyed before they could grow. They explain how to overcome burnout and the pressure of building success intentionally. Join us today to learn what keeps women stuck below 7-Figures, and discover how to simplify your growth, redefine success on your own terms, and build a business that supports the life you want to live. Debra Morrison's Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/debralmorrisondotcom/ https://www.instagram.com/debralmorrison/ Marley Jaxx's Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/marleyjaxx/ Christy Whitman's Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/christywhitman1/?hl=en Bianca D'Alessio's Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/biancadalessio/ Tina Sue Moser's Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-sue-moser-540379aConnect with Hilary:Website: https://www.therelaunch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarydecesare/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReLaunchCoInterested in being a guest on the ReLaunch Podcast or booking Hilary as a guest? Email us at hello@therelaunch.comFind Us on Your Favorite Podcast App – https://the-silver-lined-relaunch.captivate.fm/listen
Happy New Year! Four morons are back for the first "Wins & Wiffs" episode of 2026 (Ep. 184 of FITT) to talk about the incredible toy pickups kicking off the new year—and one member is suspiciously missing!This week's Wins are all about big finds and bigger deals:• A great score on a new collectible from Star Wars.• Finally completing a difficult hunt for classic 80s TV show action figures.• The Deal of the Year contender: Getting multiple, premium high-end vehicle collectibles for a ridiculously low price after a store clearance!• Starting a costly, high-stakes journey collecting retired, valuable fantasy building sets from a decade ago.Which toy haul was the biggest W? Let us know in the comments!0:00 Intro & Chris is Missing3:50 Win of the Week: First Pick4:51 Funko Pop Star Wars Bobblehead7:26 1983 Galoob A-Team Action Figures12:37 Super7 Batman Super Cyborg Batmobile 1989 Vehicle Store Display14:32 Super7 Batman Super Cyborg Batmobile Tumbler Store Display18:07 Retired 2012 LEGO The Lord of the Rings 9469 Gandalf Arrives Set22:23 Outro#toycollector #Batmobile #lotrlego #Super7 #tumbler #supercyborg #lordoftherings #ateam #vintagetoys #thefellowshipofthering #toydeals #collectibles #toyhaul #funkopops #lego #funko #actionfigures #podcast #toytalk #batman #lotr #rarelego #funkopop #galoob #mrt #gandalf #froto #batmobile1989 #lego2012 #legominifigures #lego9469-----------------------
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We lay out President Donald Trump's options for Iran as the death toll grows massively. US inflation remained higher than expected last month. We have new details about Minnesota's lawsuit against the federal government over its immigration crackdown. The BBC is looking to dismiss Trump's defamation claim against it. Plus, we'll tell you which countries have banned Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Visiting the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) Dublin didn't earn its UNESCO City of Literature designation by accident. This is a city shaped – physically, culturally, and emotionally – by writers. Their words echo through streets, pubs, libraries, and public spaces, forming part of everyday life rather than sitting quietly on a shelf. One of the best places to understand how writers shaped Dublin – and why literature still matters here – is the Museum of Literature Ireland, known simply as MoLI. MoLI Exhibition; photo credit: MoLI, used with permission This article is based on podcast episode 3220featuring David Cleary, CEO and Director of the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).Use the player below to listen or scroll to continue reading the article and get resource links. Why Writers Matter in Dublin In Dublin, writers aren't treated as distant historical figures. They're part of the city's identity. As MoLI director David Cleary explains, Irish literature captures people first – their voices, humor, contradictions, and daily lives – and that human focus is what gives Irish writing its global reach. The rhythm and cadence of Irish writing are shaped by history, by language, and by place. Even when written in English, the influence of Irish language and speech patterns gives Irish literature a distinct flow that feels different on the page. First copy of Ulysses What MoLI Shows That Other Museums Don't MoLI focuses on writers as people, not just their most famous works. Visitors see: Drafts, notebooks, and creative planning How writers developed ideas and structure The trial-and-error behind finished books A highlight for many visitors is the first printed copy of Ulysses, paired with James Joyce's handwritten preparation notes – a reminder that even the most celebrated writers wrestled with their work. A Broader View of Irish Writing Rather than focusing only on literary “greats,” MoLI shows the range of Irish writing: Poets, playwrights, novelists, and children's authors Irish-language and English-language writers Contemporary voices alongside historic figures Rotating exhibitions explore different genres and themes, reinforcing the idea that Irish literature is living, evolving, and accessible. MoLI from St. Stephen's Green; photo credit: MoLI, used with permission Newman House — Place Matters MoLI is housed in Newman House, a set of Georgian buildings dating to the 1730s. Writers didn't just pass through here – they studied here. Figures like James Joyce, Maeve Binchy, and Flann O'Brien walked these same floors. That connection between place and writing is intentional, the building itself reinforces how closely literature and location are intertwined in Dublin. Behind the museum is MoLI's reader's garden, with access to the Iveagh Gardens – a quiet, green space that encourages slowing down and engaging with words rather than rushing on to the next sight. Planning a Visit to MoLI Booking: Recommended but not required Time needed: 1–2 hours Experience: Self-guided Location: St Stephen's Green (easy to pair with nearby attractions) Visit the Museum of Literature Ireland website for more information and follow on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook for more inspiration. MoLI works especially well as a flexible stop – something that adds depth to a Dublin day without feeling overwhelming. in the Long Room at Trinty College Three More Writer-Focused Stops in Dublin To continue exploring Dublin through its writers, consider adding: Trinity College Long Room – A visually stunning library tied to Ireland's literary heritage (only available with a Book of Kells Experience ticket) The Palace Bar – A longtime gathering place for writers and journalists Independent bookshops like The Winding Stair, where Irish writing is still very much alive MoLI makes it clear that Dublin isn't just a city with famous books – it's a city shaped by the people who wrote them. Visiting the Museum of Literature Ireland adds context to everything else you see in Dublin, from street names to pub conversations, and helps explain why words still matter so much here. The post Dublin – A City Shaped by Writers appeared first on Ireland Family Vacations.
Most women think hitting six figures requires a brand-new strategy, a massive audience, or working twice as hard. It doesn't. Getting to six figures isn't about what you do…it's about what you believe. In this week's episode, I'm breaking down the six beliefs every woman needs if she wants to cross the 6-figure mark (and actually sustain it). These are the exact beliefs I had to adopt on my way to six figures, and they're the same ones I now coach my clients on. During the episode, I talk about: Why success is repeatable (and not a one-time fluke) How to step into the CEO role and stop acting like an employee Why the right clients are paying attention even when it looks quiet The power of focusing on fewer, higher-impact actions If you're doing all the right things but still feel stuck below six figures, this episode will show you the mindset shifts you've been missing. Connect with me outside the podcast! Continue the conversation in the Market Like a Boss Facebook group. Give me 30 minutes and I'll show you how to add $5K–$10K/month…without adding a single hour to your schedule. Book your free Stability Audit now. Listen + Subscribe on ITUNES or STITCHER I'd greatly appreciate a podcast rating and review so that this podcast can reach more women! Search for the podcast in your podcast app (Market Like a Boss) Scroll down and click 5 stars Tap "Write a Review" & enter a brief review Press send
In this episode of The Marvin Francois Show, Marvin sits down with Patrice “Sway the Pro” McKenna, a leading salon suite expert and founder of Encore Salon Suites, to break down how everyday entrepreneurs can build profitable salon suite businesses without prior experience, licensing, or using their own money. Sway shares her powerful journey from basketball and music dreams to becoming a multi-location owner and mentor, revealing the mindset shifts, systems, and mistakes that shaped her success. The conversation dives deep into tenant improvement negotiations, using other people's money, marketing strategies, and avoiding costly lease and buildout errors. Whether you're a beauty professional or an aspiring business owner, this episode delivers a clear blueprint for scaling with confidence and creating long-term wealth.
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Juno-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez blew up nearly 10 years ago with a song called Figures. With her powerful voice, she eventually achieved worldwide success — something she'd dreamt about since she was a kid — but she soon discovered that the reality of fame wasn't what she expected it to be. On her new album, Paid In Memories, Jessie chronicles how she learned that true happiness doesn't come from money or stardom, but rather the memories we make with loved ones. She sits down with Tom Power to tell us what happens when you achieve your dreams and the view from the top isn't exactly sunshine and rainbows.
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When a mother uproots her children and returns to her family's ancestral property deep in rural Arkansas, she hopes for a fresh start. But the woods surrounding the trailer, the attic no one sleeps beneath, and the silence that seems just a bit too intentional tell a different story—one the family has quietly passed down for generations. Footsteps where no one walks. Figures on the staircase. Rules about not stepping outside after dark.For years, the land's strange inhabitants stayed at a distance—seen, felt, or heard, but never approaching. Until one night, on a moon-washed back road, something stepped out of the fields and began to move toward them with a shape and gait that didn't belong to any world they understood. And the thing that followed them home wasn't the only presence waiting in the dark.This is a story about inherited hauntings, old land that never learned to sleep, and the night something from the fields decided to take interest in one family. Some places don't just hold memories—they keep watch.#realghoststories #hauntedland #creatureencounter #paranormalexperience #darkwoods #ancestralhaunting #nightcreature #supernaturalencounter #unexplainedphenomena #ruralhauntingLove real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:
WWE CONFIRMED? Is the show OVER? Find out here....but first the boys get going with the major review and giveaways and then discuss last week's follow up! We then do the news (42:33) followed by the Ringside Top Ten (1:03:45). This week, we do our annual Year End Figure Awards (1:05:35) and then we do WEEKLY PURCHASES (2:04:19). We then finish out the show with the Q&A (2:32:02) and GOOD HOUSEKEEPING (2:42:14).This episode is brought to you by Ringside Collectibles ( https://www.ringsidecollectibles.com/ ). Wrestlingfigures.com is your one stop shop for all your wrestling figure needs! Use code major to save 10 percent! SCRATCH THAT FIGURE ITCH!When: Each Friday morningWhere: Wherever you get your podcastsdSocial Media:Twitter: @MajorWFPod , @TheMattCardona , @Myers_Wrestling, @majorpodnetwork @MarkSterlingESQ Instagram: @MajorWFPod , @TheMattCardona , @Myers_Wrestling, @MarkSterlingESQ , @majorpodnetwork
Send us a textAt what point did you stop trusting yourself?Somewhere between childhood and leadership, many of us learned to be quieter, smaller, more “acceptable.” We learned to perform, to overthink, to seek approval — and eventually, to doubt the very instincts that once came naturally.In this powerful and reflective episode, Alex and Carol explore how early experiences shape confidence, self-expression, and leadership long before we ever realize it, and why so many high-achieving adults are still operating from beliefs formed in their earliest years.What begins as a conversation about learning environments quickly opens into something much bigger: how identity is shaped, how fear gets wired in, and how safety — emotional and neurological — is the foundation for confidence at any age.Along the way, Alex shares a deeply personal realization sparked by her daughter's first parent-teacher interview in Panama — a moment that revealed not only what her child was learning, but the unconscious fears many of us carry based on stories we've absorbed from others' experiences.In this episode, you'll hear:Why being “met where you're at” is essential for growth — in childhood and leadershipHow language, feedback, and labels quietly shape self-talk and identityThe difference between breaking generational patterns and reclaiming generational giftsWhy so many high performers struggle with self-doubt despite external successHow simple morning and evening “bookends” can regulate the nervous system and build self-trustThis conversation also reveals the heart behind Alex's upcoming children's book, Free to Be Me — a book written to help children grow up knowing they are safe, capable, worthy, and free to use their voice, before self-doubt ever takes hold.If you're a parent, leader, educator, or coach who cares about confidence, self-trust, and raising the next generation — this book is for you.
In this episode, Nicole breaks down the three sneaky mindset blocks that hold entrepreneurs back from earning six figures in six months, blocks that often go unnoticed but have a major impact on your income. She shares real experiences from her own journey, insights from coaching hundreds of women, and the energetic shifts required to move from striving to receiving.You'll hear why raising your prices is essential, how overconsuming keeps you stuck, and why gripping too tightly to specific outcomes limits your growth. This conversation blends strategy and energetics to help you show up as the version of yourself who can truly hold six-figure success.Inside this episode, we'll explore:The subtle ways undercharging signals self-doubt and repels abundance.Why increasing your prices often brings more clients, not fewer.How consuming instead of creating drains momentum and delays sales.The visibility fears hiding beneath perfectionism and procrastination.Why fixating on how success should unfold cuts you off from bigger possibilities.The energetic practices that help you receive more with ease.Generating six figures in six months comes down to strengthening your identity, your energy, and your expectations. When you release old stories, take aligned action, and open yourself to support, your business begins to grow in ways that feel both expansive and inevitable.Press play to step into the version of you who's ready for six-figure momentum - starting now!My Aligned Purpose Podcast is your go-to space for women entrepreneurs ready to dream bigger, build million-dollar brands, and grow thriving businesses. For over 5.5 years, we've been guiding women around the world in combining strategy with soul—blending sales, marketing, manifestation, mindset, and community to create unstoppable growth.Each week, you'll leave feeling inspired, supported, and motivated to step into the next level of your vision. Whether you're just starting out or scaling into seven figures, this podcast is here to remind you that you're not alone—and that with the right mix of strategy and alignment, anything is possible.It's time to tap into community, embrace abundance, and grow your business on purpose.Follow along at:https://www.instagram.com/myalignedpurpose/https://www.myalignedpurpose.com/https://www.youtube.com/@MyAlignedPurposehttps://www.facebook.com/myalignedpurpose
In this episode, Davies Owens briefly steps into the archives to revisit a valuable conversation with Dr. Louis Markos on how the ancient world understood virtue, education, and human flourishing, and why those insights remain essential today.Dr. Markos explains how the Greeks and Romans, though lacking Christian revelation, asked the right questions about human nature, moral formation, and the purpose of education. Figures such as Socrates and Plato modeled humility, rational discourse, and civic responsibility, forming a vision of education aimed not merely at usefulness, but at virtue.Together, Davies and Dr. Markos explore why classical Christian education continues to draw from this ancient inheritance. Far from being outdated, a liberal arts education grounded in timeless truths prepares students to engage a modern, technology-driven world with wisdom, clarity, and courage.
In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxford UP, 2023), which inserts successive Irish-American identities--forcibly transported Irish, Scots-Irish, and post-Famine Irish--into American histories and representations of race. Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey how the Irish racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean, on America's frontiers and antebellum plantations, and along its eastern seaboard. This cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas examines the forcibly transported Irish, the eighteenth-century Presbyterian Ulster-Scots, and post-1845 Famine immigrants. Their racial transformations are indicated by the designations they acquired in the Americas: 'Redlegs,' 'Scots-Irish,' and 'black Irish.' In literature by Fitzgerald, O'Neill, Mitchell, Glasgow, and Yerby (an African-American author of Scots-Irish heritage), the Irish are both colluders and victims within America's racial structure. Depictions range from Irish encounters with Native and African Americans to competition within America's immigrant hierarchy between 'Saxon' Scots-Irish and 'Celtic' Irish Catholic. Irish-connected presidents feature, but attention to queer and multiracial authors, public women, beauty professionals, and performers complicates the 'Irish whitening' narrative. Thus, 'Irish Princess' Grace Kelly's globally-broadcast ascent to royalty paves the way for 'America's royals,' the Kennedys. The presidencies of the Scots-Irish Jackson and Catholic-Irish Kennedy signalled their respective cohorts' assimilation. Since Gothic literature particularly expresses the complicity that attaining power ('whiteness') entails, subgenres named 'Scots-Irish Gothic' and 'Kennedy Gothic' are identified: in Gothic by Brown, Poe, James, Faulkner, and Welty, the violence of the colonial Irish motherland is visited upon marginalized Americans, including, sometimes, other Irish groupings. History is Gothic in Irish-American narrative because the undead Irish past replays within America's contexts of race. Aidan Beatty is a historian at the Frederick Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
When a mother uproots her children and returns to her family's ancestral property deep in rural Arkansas, she hopes for a fresh start. But the woods surrounding the trailer, the attic no one sleeps beneath, and the silence that seems just a bit too intentional tell a different story—one the family has quietly passed down for generations. Footsteps where no one walks. Figures on the staircase. Rules about not stepping outside after dark.For years, the land's strange inhabitants stayed at a distance—seen, felt, or heard, but never approaching. Until one night, on a moon-washed back road, something stepped out of the fields and began to move toward them with a shape and gait that didn't belong to any world they understood. And the thing that followed them home wasn't the only presence waiting in the dark.This is a story about inherited hauntings, old land that never learned to sleep, and the night something from the fields decided to take interest in one family. Some places don't just hold memories—they keep watch.#realghoststories #hauntedland #creatureencounter #paranormalexperience #darkwoods #ancestralhaunting #nightcreature #supernaturalencounter #unexplainedphenomena #ruralhauntingLove real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:
Guest: Elizabeth Peek. Peek criticizes Democrats for defending figures like Governor Tim Walz despite a massive welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota. She argues it is politically foolish for Democrats to criticize the arrest of Maduro, given previous administration efforts to apprehend him and the disruption of dangerous gangs involved in the drug trade.
App Masters - App Marketing & App Store Optimization with Steve P. Young
How do you go from endless side projects to building a 7-figure business you love?The answer isn't a marketing hack, or even an app idea — it's community.In this video, Steve P. Young takes you behind the scenes of his entrepreneurial journey — from launching his first app while working full-time, to quitting his corporate job, to scaling App Masters into a global business.You'll discover how joining the right community changed everything — and how starting his own mastermind (that later became the App Founders Community) became the foundation for long-term success.You'll Learn:✅ The real reason community accelerates success faster than any marketing hack✅ How to find and join a community that supports your goals✅ Why mentorship and collaboration beat “solo hustle” every time✅ The framework Steve used to grow from $0 → 7 figuresYou can also watch this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKlscFzwNnA
I'm bending my own rule today and sharing summit results on the podcast. I think this angle will genuinely help so many of you who have felt held back from hosting a summit because of the size of your email list. If you've been telling yourself you need a bigger email list before hosting a summit, or if you've been doubting whether summits can work for smaller audiences, this episode will change that for you. I'm sharing exactly how we made this happen, the three keys to our success, and what it means for your summit potential - regardless of your current list size. For show notes, head to https://summithosthangout.com/313
This episode of Predictable B2B Success features host Vinay Koshy in conversation with solopreneur and agency founder Mike Moll. They discuss the strategies required to secure high-profile clients such as Volvo and the government of Canada, while maintaining focus and avoiding burnout. The conversation offers candid insights into the challenges and key breakthroughs that drive sustainable agency growth. Mike Moll shares lessons learned from ego-driven mistakes and explains how a significant mindset shift transformed his business. He and Vinay Koshy examine why attempting to serve everyone leads to inefficiency, and how focusing on core strengths can improve positioning, pricing, and overall success. The episode provides practical frameworks for value-based pricing, strategies to differentiate your business amid AI competition, and actionable guidance for future-proofing your operations with effective tools and processes. It is designed for those seeking to remain relevant, attract ideal clients, and build a business that supports both financial and personal goals. Some topics we explore in this episode include: Leadership and Mindset Shifts: Mike Moll's journey from ego-driven management to effective leadership.Niche Positioning: The importance of specializing rather than trying to serve everyone.Playing to Your Strengths: Delegating weaknesses and focusing on personal strengths.Founder Self-Awareness: Understanding your own vision and business style.Value-Based Pricing: Moving from deliverables-based pricing to charging for outcomes and results.Effective Discovery and Questioning: Uncovering the true value and needs for each client.Making Intangible Services Tangible: Demonstrating the value of hard-to-quantify services like design.Common Sales Call Mistakes: Not listening, not closing, and failing to connect solutions to pain points.Client Communication for Retention: Keeping clients engaged through ongoing, proactive communication.Leveraging Automation and Tools: Improving profitability with technology and automation, not just higher prices.And much, much more...
Kitty Cone and Brad Lomax were key players in the 1977 sit-ins which pressured the Department of Health and Human Services to establish policies to implement section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. Research: R.8070 - Rehabilitation Act of 1973. https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-bill/8070 Grim, Andrew. “Sitting-in for disability rights: The Section 504 protests of the 1970s.” National Museum of American History. https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/sitting-disability-rights-section-504-protests-1970s “Celebrating Kitty Cone: 1944-2015.” https://dredf.org/celebrating-kitty-cone-1944-2015/ Feingold, Lainey. “Disability Rights Leader Kitty Cone Dies at 70.” BeyondChron. 3/23/2015. https://beyondchron.org/curtis-kitty-cone-disability-rights-hero-dead-at-70/ Gardiner, Kathryn S. “Forgotten Foremothers: Kitty Cone - Disability Activist.” League of Women Voters of Indiana. 7/9/2022. https://www.lwvin.org/content.aspx?page_id=5&club_id=42001&item_id=77659 Lu, Wendy. “Overlooked No More: Kitty Cone, Trailblazer of the Disability Rights Movement.” New York Times. 3/26/2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/obituaries/kitty-cone-overlooked.html Center for Learner Equality. “Brad Lomax – Uniting the Civil Rights and Disability Rights Communities.” https://www.centerforlearnerequity.org/news/brad-lomax-uniting-the-civil-rights-and-disability-rights-communities/ Essien, Markus, director and producer. “Renegades: Brad Lomax.” PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/brad-lomax-documentary/33589/ Connelly, Eileen AJ. “Overlooked No More: Brad Lomax, a Bridge Between Civil Rights Movements.” New York Times. 7/20/2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/obituaries/brad-lomax-overlooked.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
INSIDE IRAN: CONFRONTING REVOLUTIONARY FIGURES AND UNCOVERING THE DOUBLE COUPColleague Craig Unger. Unger describes his 2014 trip to Tehran to find Iranian corroboration for the October Surprise. He visited the former US Embassy, now a "Den of Spies" museum documenting the 1953 CIA coup against Mossadegh, which remains a source of deep grievance. Unger secured a rare interview with Mohsen Rafighdoost, a founder of the Revolutionary Guards and Khomeini's driver. During the interview, Rafighdoost slipped, saying "If we met with the Republicans..."—a moment Unger captured on video. Unger also interviewed Abolhassan Banisadr, the ousted first president of the Islamic Republic, in Versailles. Banisadr provided documents confirming the plot, describing it as a "double coup": it removed Carter in the US and allowed hardliners to consolidate power in Iran by undermining moderates like himself. NUMBER 7
She has always been afraid of the dark — not in a way that fades with age, and not in places where fear can be explained. The darkness that unsettles her feels deliberate, as if it knows where to wait. And nowhere has it ever felt stronger than the house where she grew up. Even now, decades later, walking through that property at night feels different. The fear doesn't chase her when she travels. It doesn't follow her into other cities. It stays anchored to the land — to certain corners of the yard, to the orchard behind the house, to spaces that seem to remember her. Over the years, strange moments piled up. Unexplained panic. Silent phone calls. Figures seen in the dark. A dog reacting to something no one else could see. Some encounters felt threatening. Others strangely calm. One visitation brought reassurance instead of fear — raising questions she never expected to ask. This is the story about what happens when someone finally stops running from the dark — and realizes the haunting may not have the power they once believed it did. #Ghosts #HauntedHouse #RealHaunting #ParanormalExperience #FearOfTheDark #Unexplained #GhostStories #TrueParanormal #CreepyEncounters #HauntedLand Love real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:
She has always been afraid of the dark — not in a way that fades with age, and not in places where fear can be explained. The darkness that unsettles her feels deliberate, as if it knows where to wait. And nowhere has it ever felt stronger than the house where she grew up. Even now, decades later, walking through that property at night feels different. The fear doesn't chase her when she travels. It doesn't follow her into other cities. It stays anchored to the land — to certain corners of the yard, to the orchard behind the house, to spaces that seem to remember her. Over the years, strange moments piled up. Unexplained panic. Silent phone calls. Figures seen in the dark. A dog reacting to something no one else could see. Some encounters felt threatening. Others strangely calm. One visitation brought reassurance instead of fear — raising questions she never expected to ask. This is the story about what happens when someone finally stops running from the dark — and realizes the haunting may not have the power they once believed it did. #Ghosts #HauntedHouse #RealHaunting #ParanormalExperience #FearOfTheDark #Unexplained #GhostStories #TrueParanormal #CreepyEncounters #HauntedLand Love real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:
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“By Jove, I think I've got it!” A-ha moments can feel electrifying, but where do these bursts of insight come from? John Kounios is professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and director of the Creativity Research Lab at Drexel University. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what scientists understand about how the brain solves problems – and how we might tap into this phenomenon more often. His article “The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments'” was published in Scientific American. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
12/30 Pat Garofalo in as Deputy Mayor today with some interesting state wide figures regarding the new paid family leave act.Johnny Heidt with guitar news.Heard On The Show:Sen. Hoffman announces reelection bidFormer Viking Kevin Williams a finalist for Pro Football Hall of Fame‘Avatar: Fire and Ash' ignites box office for second straight weekendSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Send us a textTommy Mello shares his journey scaling his home service business from six to nine figures, breaking down the leadership, branding, hiring, marketing, and financial strategies needed to build a $20 billion company.Watch the full interview here - https://youtu.be/oi-dShQB5rkConnect with Tommy IG: https://www.instagram.com/officialtommymello/Website: https://homeserviceexpert.com/YouTube: @officialtommymello __________Join our private mastermind for elite business leaders who golf. https://www.mastermind19.comWant to scale your business? Attend our next Forge event! https://theforge.vipJoin a free Bible study for Christian business leaders. https://www.tentmakers.us__________CHAPTERS:0:00 - Letting Go to Grow1:46 - Scaling to 8 Figures 4:14 - Podcast Power & Learning from Experts5:04 - The Math Behind a Billion-Dollar Business6:22 - Dominating New MarketsLearn how to invest in real estate with the Cashflow 2.0 System! Your business in a box with 1:1 coaching, motivated seller leads, & softwares. https://www.wealthyinvestor.com/Want to work 1:1 with Ryan Pineda? Apply at ryanpineda.comJoin our FREE community, weekly calls, and bible studies for Christian entrepreneurs and business people. https://tentmakers.us/Want to grow your business and network with elite entrepreneurs on world-class golf courses? Apply now to join Mastermind19 – Ryan Pineda's private golf mastermind for high-level founders and dealmakers. www.mastermind19.com--- About Ryan Pineda: Ryan Pineda has been in the real estate industry since 2010 and has invested in over $100,000,000 of real estate. He has completed over 700 flips and wholesales, and he owns over 650 rental units. As an entrepreneur, he has founded seven different businesses that have generated 7-8 figures of revenue. Ryan has amassed over 2 million followers on social media and has generated over 1 billion views online. Starting as a minor league baseball player making less than $2,000 a month, Ryan is now worth over $100 million. He shares his experiences in building wealth and believes that anyone can change their life with real estate investing. ...
Today we meet a coaching student who says her number one tip for new Amazon sellers is, "Get a coach!" She has a motivated (and motivating) energy and she's most likely on a leadership path in our community! She was brand new to e-commerce when she hit a snag in her home flipping business. She jumped in with a great coach from our team and is now hitting consistent five figure months at great margins as you'll hear her share. She's excited about using 3PMercury and her business is scaling nicely! You'll be encouraged and inspired by the story of this busy mom who is building something beautiful with ProvenAmazonCourse.com strategies and guidance from our team! Show note LINK: My Silent Team Facebook group. 100% FREE! https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysilentteam - Join 82,000 + Facebook members from around the world who are using the internet creatively every day to launch and grow multiple income streams through our exciting PROVEN strategies! There's no support community like this one anywhere else in the world! SilentJim.com/bookacall - Schedule a FREE, customized and insightful consultation with my team or me (Jim) to discuss your e-commerce goals and options. ProvenAmazonCourse.com - The comprehensive course that contains ALL our Amazon training modules, recorded events and a steady stream of latest cutting edge training including of course the most popular starting point, the REPLENS selling model. The PAC is updated free for life! SilentSalesMachine.com - Text the word "free" to 507-800-0090 to get a free copy of Jim's latest book in audio about building multiple income streams online (US only) or visit SilentJim.com/free11 3pmercury.com/friends - Best price on 3PMercury 3pmercury.com/extension Today's guest: Chelsea Wesselmann
Flow State of Mind Podcast | Health | Fitness | Physique | Psychology | Business
I used to work 70 hours a week. Grinding to make 30-40K/ month. I used to wonder how I'd ever have a family AND the life that I wanted. In the 3-4 years before having my son… I figured it out. I was able to scale from 40K to 140K/month and I went from working 70 hours a week in that business to 4 hours a week in that business. Delegation and leadership played a part but the BIGGEST difference was learning how to increase LTV of every single client that came into my coaching (so I could work with LESS clients and make MORE money) and that's what I want to talk to you about today. We'll talk about what LTV actually looks like, what you need before you start running ads, how to not make the same mistake I made that costs me 6 figures, and more! Time Stamps: (0:45) 70 Hours A Week When I First Started (2:07) Increasing LTV (5:25) Upcoming January 4th Workshop (5:50) The Mistake That Costed Me Multiple 6 Figures (10:57) The Backend Offer (12:05) LTV and Ads (12:50) Your Offer (13:59) My Maturity Leave ----------
Keith shares a mindset-shifting quote from John D. Rockefeller that challenges the idea of trading time for money. He revisits some of the year's most powerful real estate investing lessons, and breaks down the big forces shaping today's housing market—affordability, supply & demand, demographics, and interest rates. All of this sets the stage for his data-driven national home price outlook for next year—without the usual crash-and-doom hype. Episode Page: GetRichEducation.com/586 For access to properties or free help with a GRE Investment Coach, start here: GREmarketplace.com GRE Free Investment Coaching: GREinvestmentcoach.com Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments. For predictable 10-12% quarterly returns, visit FreedomFamilyInvestments.com/GRE or text 1-937-795-8989 to speak with a freedom coach Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search "how to leave an Apple Podcasts review" For advertising inquiries, visit: GetRichEducation.com/ad Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— GREletter.com or text 'GRE' to 66866 Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Complete episode transcript: Keith Weinhold 0:00 Welcome to GRE. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, learn from a quote attributed to the world's first billionaire, it will change how you see wealth building. I'll explain why national home prices have never crashed. Then it's gre, 2026, home price appreciation forecast. You'll learn the future the exact percent that home prices will appreciate or depreciate next year. Today on get rich education Speaker 1 0:29 since 2014 the powerful get rich education podcast has created more passive income for people than nearly any other show in the world. This show teaches you how to earn strong returns from passive real estate investing in the best markets without losing your time being a flipper or landlord. Show Host Keith Weinhold writes for both Forbes and Rich Dad advisors and delivers a new show every week since 2014 there's been millions of listener downloads of 188 world nations. He has a list show guests include top selling personal finance author Robert Kiyosaki. Get rich education can be heard on every podcast platform, plus it has its own dedicated Apple and Android listener phone apps build wealth on the go with the get rich education podcast. Sign up now for the get rich education podcast, or visit get rich education.com Corey Coates 1:14 You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is get rich education. Keith Weinhold 1:30 Welcome to GRE from Lake Huron, Michigan to Lake Tahoe, California and across 188 nations worldwide. I'm Keith Weinhold, and you're listening to get rich education. You know something I love, quotes that shift your entire mindset, paradigm, and once your mind is shifted, actions follow. Actions develop into patterns. Those patterns become habits, and habits become the new, transformed you few quotes hit harder than the one from resource tycoon John D Rockefeller. He lived from 1839 to 1937 in fact, Rockefeller is widely regarded as the world's first billionaire. His quote, you might have heard it before. It is this, he who works all day has no time to make money. That sounds paradoxical, even provocative. It's sort of like it's inviting you to come in and want to learn more about it. And this is because most people's concept of income generating is to work 40 hours a week for a salary or an hourly wage. But what does that quote really mean? He who works all day has no time to make money, and be sure to capture the all day part of that quote that ties right back into the show that I did with you two weeks ago about the K shaped economy breakdown, where you learned about how capital compounds labor doesn't most people sell their time for dollars, but trading time for money makes you too busy to actually build Wealth. Working and building wealth. Those things are two separate distinct activities in how you're investing your time and energy. Now, most people start out with a wage or a salary job. I surely worked by pushing brooms and cubicle dwelling before investing in my first rental property. But if you're working all day in a job, physically or mentally well, then you're consumed by tasks that only pay you. Once you're occupied, you can often get exhausted and you're only concerned with short term output. You're focused on the next deadline, not the next decade, when all your hours are spent on labor, you have no bandwidth to do what you need to do, which is, create vision, acquire assets, build a portfolio, develop systems, learn tax strategy, evaluate investment deals, network with like minded investors, or refine your strategy with a GRE investment coach. Be cognizant that labor only pays today. Wealth building pays forever. Even if your work a day job, salary doubled, you would have to ask, how would that even build wealth? You could retire earlier, but you would have to keep working the hours, and let's remember that wealth equals freedom. You can't architect a wealth plan from the assembly line. Now, that's something that Rockefeller would have agreed with. Wealth requires less. Leverage and labor has none. So working all day means no leverage. You are the engine instead making money, that means using leverage, and instead of you being the engine, well, the engine is something else, like assets, systems, technology, other people's time, other people's money, and borrowing to inflation profit. Rockefeller believed and proved that leverage beats labor 100 to one. He's not discouraging work. In fact, it's just the wrong type of work, because he was one of the hardest working people alive. And really the bottom line here, with this quote, he who works all day has no time to make money, is that Rockefeller meant that if you spend your life doing tasks, you'll never rise high enough to own things that pay you for life. Earning a living is a different activity than building wealth, and once your mindset is shifted, actions follow, yep, actions develop into patterns, and those patterns become the new you. well as the last episode of the year on the show here, 52 weeks worth, I sure hope that I've helped you think, learn and grow your wealth, as have our guest contributors here early in the year, the father of Reaganomics was here, a man that frequently advised a president inside the White House. He told us how much he dislikes tariffs. Tariffs block free trade, and trade improves our lives. Major apartment investor, Ken McElroy, was here this year, and he predicted that the American home ownership rate will fall below 60% that would be major it's currently at 65 if the home ownership rate falls to 60% that would unleash millions of new renters into the market, and it has not been that low in decades, if ever you got a lot of mortgage insights with chailey Ridge, including learning how you can qualify for income property loans without a w2 job, without a pay stub or without tax returns by instead getting a DSCR loan. You'll recall this year that I discussed 50 year mortgages, and I did that before it even hit the news cycle, telling you that it could be coming and that it could be proposed. I explained why I like 50 year mortgages more than 30 year loans, but be aware it is not imminent that they're coming. Also this year, economist Richard Duncan and commentator Doug Casey discussed the Fed. Richard told us how the President is trying to totally restructure who serves on the Fed, trying to get low interest rate pushers in there. And then just last week, Doug and I discussed how fed decisions just keep hollowing out the middle class. A and E television star Todd drillette told us how to negotiate. I had four good discussions with our own investment coach, nuresh this year, more than usual, a pastor and I discussed a rare topic, what the Bible says about money. You learned how to use AI in your real estate investing and when not to. We had a few episodes about that. But above all the shows this year, they were about you, probably more than any other year that we've had here. I did more listener question episodes where I answered your questions as you wrote in, and I also had more listeners come right onto the show and tell me how this show has personally built their wealth. And of course, this year, I got to meet more of you in person when I served as a faculty member on the terrific real estate guys Investor Summit to see and I got to meet you personally for more than just a handshake. The event was set up so that chances are you had dinner with me as well. So rather than this show being a one way chat from me to you this year was more of a dialog between you and I and more two way communication. A lot of new topics are coming for next year, both me teaching and some great guests. If there's something on the show that you'd like to hear more of or less of, let us know. Write into us or use your voice to tell us either way you can do that. At get rich education.com/contact, let us know what you want to hear more of or less of. Do you like shorter term tactics like when and how to increase the rent? Or do you like mid range tactics like how to constantly do cash out refinances and get a tax free windfall from your properties every year. Or do you like more of the long term strategies like specifically how you profit from inflation? Let us know what you like again, at get rich education.com/contact, now, even if you're listening 10 years. Years from now, which I know you very well. May, I'm going to break down next year's home price appreciation forecast, but I'll do it in a way where you'll learn how to analyze a market for all time coming up. It's gre 2026, national home price appreciation forecast. Learn the future to the exact percent. First listen to this from Freedom family investments and Ridge lending group, because I'm a client of both myself and they can help you. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold Keith Weinhold 10:29 you know, most people think they're playing it safe with their liquid money, but they're actually losing savings accounts and bonds don't keep up when true inflation eats six or 7% of your wealth. Every single year I invest my liquidity with FFI freedom family investments in their flagship program. 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Start your prequel and even chat with President Caeli Ridge personally. While it's on your mind, start at Ridge lending group.com that's Ridge lending group.com Robert Kiyosaki 12:14 this is our Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Author Robert Kiyosaki. Listen to get rich education with Keith Weinhold. And there is, I respect Kate. He's a very strong, smart, bright young man. Keith Weinhold 12:35 Welcome back to get rich education. It's episode 586 the last show of the year. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, I am proud to present to you in this segment of the show gre 2026, national home price appreciation forecast, where I use my insight and experience so that you'll learn the exact percent that national home prices will either appreciate or depreciate next year. It's the fifth consecutive year that we're doing this. I nailed the first three spot on and then this year happened. I'll get to reviewing my track record, total accountability. First understand something, real estate values have never crashed in your entire lifetime, even if you're 90 years old, to grab eyeballs, slack jawed, tick tock. Call them crash talk. Economists keep making awful predictions about a housing price crash, and none of them have been worse than one that published last month in Newsweek, which outlines a as it's called, correction worse than 2008 and says national home prices will fall 50% five zero, starting as soon as next year. That's absurd, and I can't believe that a respectable publication would platform a view from an analyst like that, and I'm not going to call out that Doomsayer analyst's name. That's not my style. I'm sure you can find it that crash is about as likely as one social media post changing your political affiliation later today. Look, doomsayers don't care about you. They make dire predictions because they care about them. It elevates their clicks, their followers and their name recognition, and they never hang around to follow up on that prediction, but it harms you, because you miss out on the equity gains, and that's the real damage. In fact, this particular analyst also called for this year to have the second largest home price decline since World War Two. Well, national home prices have only fallen twice in that time period. In fact, going further back. Back to the 1930s Great Depression. They've only fallen twice. Yes, that means home prices have risen every single year since the 1930s except for two periods, a small decline of less than 1% around 1990 and then, of course, the severe downturn from the housing bubble and great recession from 2007 to 2011 or 2012 that's where prices dropped in total, 25 to 26% from peak to trough. Now why do I say that that period around 2008 was not a housing price crash. Well, because it wasn't. Instead, it was a slow bleed. The definition of financial crash is a sudden, sharp and widespread drop in prices. That's the definition. Well that can happen in some other asset classes like stocks or Bitcoin or perhaps even precious metals, but not real estate. It is neither sudden nor sharp. The worst year, 2008 saw home prices drop 12% in that one year and some of the other years bracketing it, home prices fell three to 4% in each of those years. So then during this time period of price attrition, during the global financial crisis, each month, real estate values fell just a few tenths of 1% maybe half of 1% or even one full percent, not a crash, a slow bleed. This means that it took about five years for values to fall, a total of near 25% I mean, that makes it really clear that it's not a crash. And again, this period was about 2007 to 2012 don't get me wrong, it was bad. I was a real estate investor both before and during 2008 but to call it a crash is hyperbolic, and that is because words mean things. I think a lot of media consumers get so conditioned to mass media sensationalism that they've forgotten what a crash even means. At some point, it begins to bend our very lexicon back around 2007 I remember I frequently checked a website called implode meter. Yeah, that's the name of it. It tracks, failing banks. I looked the other day and implodemeter.com is still in existence, even though it's not nearly as spicy as it used to be during the GFC, because lending has been pretty stable for a long time, and loans are well and carefully underwritten. So home prices are unusually stable over time, because, in a sense, housing is not a normal market. It is slow, regulated, credit driven, and it's emotionally sticky, even though rental property is less emotional. Well, the values of one to four unit property are tied to primary residence values, and that's where the emotion exists. So if you put all those together, you get prices that creep upward most years and rarely fall at all. Nationally. The real estate market moves too gradually to be crash susceptible. It is the place for real wealth building values also are not going to double annually if you want to scroll for dopamine hits from the couch. Well, you can do that with a prediction market like call she or in crypto with altcoins, while your real estate keeps leveraging dollars in a stable way in the background. That's how you can think about it. All right, so we've established since the Great Depression, home values have fallen twice and once substantially. Well, right now, home prices are up about 2% year over year. Most places have appreciated, especially the more affordable markets. Not only has home price growth been slow, though, rent growth has been slow as well. Single Family rents are up 1% per totality. Apartment rents are down one to 2% per Zumper. But back to our focus today, forecasting national home prices. Everything we're discussing is nominal price change, meaning not inflation adjusted, and it's single family homes up to fourplexes. Well, as we use context to build up to the big reveal today, where I'll tell you the exact percent that home prices will rise or fall next year. Could 2008 happen again any time soon? Let's isolate that out. It's important to look at history rather than. Having some uninformed hunch in both periods with price attrition around 1990 and 2008 these two falls have some attributes in common. So let's look at that. What led to these rare falls in home prices, irresponsible lending, forced selling, a vacancy issue and overbuilding. All four of those factors were in place during those two periods now leading up to 1990 the irresponsible lending was on the commercial side. That was the savings and loan crisis, but it did trickle into the residential market, and then in 2008 it was on the residential side. But of all four of those factors, none of them are in place today. Zero borrowers are strongly underwritten because they've got those full documentation loans, and virtually no one is forced to sell in a fire sale. In fact, homeowners still have these record equity positions of about 300k fewer than 3% of homeowners have a negative equity position, and there is no vacancy issue. Because, in fact, we've been under building. We'll look at that. So for next year, no substantial price of drawdown is coming. None's expected. We can isolate that out. Since I was investing directly in real estate through 2008 I know what happened is that when people walked away from properties, they did so because the economy got rough, their variable rate mortgages rose, they couldn't make their payments, or they just had no motivation to make their payments because they were underwater and had zero protective equity. In a lot of cases, it's almost impossible for that to happen today, homeowners can make their payments, and they're motivated to do so because they have that erstwhile equity to protect, like I said last week, through the Census Bureau data and realtor.com we know a couple things. Four in 10 homeowners have no mortgage at all. They own their property free and clear. Among the group with mortgages, 70% of borrowers still have a mortgage rate locked in at under 5% and blending those together for you means that then 82% of borrowers either have no mortgage or they've got a rate under 5% this translates to really affordable payments, along with The protective equity, even if inflation heats up again, it still cannot touch a borrower's mortgage payment amount because it is fixed. As we're leading up to the big reveal of next year's number, we're about to look at affordability, supply, demand and the effect of mortgage rates on prices. Of course, that word affordability, that has been the most central word to home buying for a couple years now, affordability will improve in three main ways. If either home prices fall, mortgage rates fall, or wages rise, it takes at least one of those three things, the good news is that this year, wages have been rising faster than both stated inflation and home prices. Wages have been rising close to 4% that looks to continue at least into the early part of next year. Well that improved affordability allows home prices to move up, and it gives room for rents to move up as well. Now when it comes to mortgage rates, if you're new to listening to me, it will be groundbreaking for you to realize that today, mortgage rates are low, and increases to mortgage rates usually lead to increases in home prices, not decreases. If you're new here, both of those facts might leave you saying what I thought it was the opposite. How can that be? I won't spend much time on this because longtime listeners already know these two things, but they do go into the forecast the long term 30 year fixed rate mortgage averages 7.7% per Freddie Mac thirst, that set goes back to 1971 and rates are lower than that now, and mortgage rates have risen 1% or more seven different times since 1994 and home prices increased all Seven times right alongside those rising mortgage rates. In fact, when rates more than doubled in 2022 what happened? Home prices soared to their highest appreciation year in a long time. It reinforced this so, yes, way higher rates equaled way. Higher prices. It's not that one directly causes the other. This is correlation versus causation. It's because rate increases confirm that the economy is doing well. I have discussed that extensively in previous episodes, so mortgage rates actually don't have that much to do with home prices, and that's why it is hardly going into the forecast for next year. I'll tell you what trying to forecast mortgage rates to then use that to predict home prices, that is a fantastic way to waste your time. Now, 1x factor that could make that different for next year is that this President, he imposes his will to make rates low no matter what. So even if the economy is good, which typically leads to higher rates, wholesale push to make rates low, and that's an artificial phenomenon. Wouldn't that make home prices boom if we had a strong economy and low rates? The fact that affordability is still historically low today, though, we appear to be off the bottom. Affordability is still historically low today, that has less to do with mortgage rates than most people think, since, again, rates are low when they're in the low sixes, like they currently are. Instead, affordability is soured, because over the long term, decades, wages haven't kept up with true inflation. That's what's really going on with affordability and what everybody misses, and because affordability is still strained, home prices cannot rise a lot, say 10 or 12% next year. That can't happen on a national basis next year, now, a bill is advancing through Congress now to make housing more affordable. It's got bipartisan support relaxing zoning requirements in such a bill that could help build more homes, but if the government tries to help by making access to loans easier, that is going to lead to even higher prices and really will not help with affordability beyond the short term. In fact, just this month, the Fed has resumed QE quantitative easing. And that effectively means that it is ramping up the number of dollars being printed. And these are just more dollars in existence coming in to chase real estate and every other assets values higher we look at the employment picture. Although unemployment has been ticking up lately, it is still low at under 5% what about housing supply versus demand? And future supply versus demand? Well, this is basic econ and it will totally affect future prices. Actually visited the home of the father of economics, Adam Smith in Scotland this year, the man that nearly invented the supply demand concept starting with supply. I think anyone in real estate knows that generally, over six months of housing supply is too much. Under six months is too little. Six months is sort of that balanced point. What does that really mean? Well, months of supply is how long it would take to sell all the homes currently for sale if no new listings came on the market. All right, that's all that means. Well, currently, that level is 4.2 months that is low, and that puts some upward pressure on prices as well. Another way to think about it is with the active listing count of single family homes and condos. All this means is the number of homes currently for sale and available to buy right now. That's what active listing count means when you see that statistic out there? Well, one and a half to 2 million is the normal level of units needed to adequately house our growing population, for single family homes and condos. Well, that figure bottomed out in 2022 and it's only hovered around one or 1.1 million for a few months now, we are under supplied, and it takes a long time to build our way out of it. Now, apartment buildings are a different story. They are oversupplied, but again, today, we're here focused on the future price direction of one to four unit properties. So that's supply, not as tight as it was, but still on the tight side, and then demand. Where is demand coming from? It comes from us. There's more of us. As our population keeps growing, there is a lot of housing demand coming. Not only is there pent up demand from those trying to afford a home as soon as they can, but more broadly. Demographically, I will point back to that period where there was a surge of us births from 1990 to 2010 there were over 4 million births every single one of those years, births peaked in 2007 if you add 40 years to that, because 40 years is now the average age of the first time homebuyer. That's still a mind blowing figure to me, 40 years the average age of the first time homebuyer. You add that to 2007 that peak birth rate year, and this demand won't even peak until about 2047 Speaker 2 30:36 and this doesn't even include additions from immigration, demand, demand, demand, propping up prices for decades, but for next year, improved affordability, which is expected that boosts the demand for those that have the capacity to pay. Well, considering everything we've covered, I'm about to reveal the number for next year. But first, I mean, gosh, don't you wish everyone actually followed up on their past forecasts, like I'm about to I don't think I've ever seen a price crash predictor follow up, because they're always wrong. Well, what is the track record of get rich, education, home, price appreciation forecasts. It's the fifth straight year I'm doing this, and I always release the forecast in the final days of the year in anticipation of the coming year, just like you and I are doing together now. For 2022 I said that prices would rise nine to 10% the year ended, and they came in at 10% 2023 a lot of people said home prices would fall because they had just seen a terrific run up. I said a price fall would not happen, largely due to that jaw droppingly low supply that we had then. I said zero, there wouldn't be any change. They came in at exactly zero. There was no price change in 2023 for 2024 I forecast 4% they came in at exactly 4% this is all documented. You can go back and listen to those episodes. They're all near year end. So yes, three straight years, I nailed it to the exact percent. How about this year? Just before the year began? Do you remember what my forecast figure was from listening here about a year ago, it was 5% home price appreciation. The year is not over yet, and real estate statistics move pretty slowly. Figures lag, but we pretty much know where it's going to end up. And as we look at this same stat set that I consistently use, which is the NARS national median existing single family home price, it is 2.2% as of late in the year, and it's almost certainly going to end up at 2% appreciation. So I would call that a miss, probably not a terrible call, but far enough apart to call that a miss, 5% forecast versus 2% actual for this year. That's the track record. So before I reveal the number for next year, in the last four I've nailed three of them spot on, and why was appreciation less than I expected for this year? Well, a few reasons. One of them is that inflationary pressure from tariffs was postponed. That Tariff Schedule was changed more times than anyone could have possibly forecast, and affordability stayed stubbornly low too. And here we go for 2026 how much home price appreciation or depreciation do I expect? Well, I haven't said this in any of the previous forecasts, because it's the easiest thing to say, and I often avoid saying the easiest thing, but this is just what I see coming, and that is, I expect more of the same. It's the first time I've said more of the same, which is drumroll here, 2% home price appreciation for next year. No wild figure or hyperbolic material here, in order to attract attention that is my best target for the truth, I'm here to do my best to be accurate and help you make the most informed decision, 2% for next year. So a 500k property today should cost you about 10,000 more dollars next year, and as we know, with a figure like 2% which is less appreciation than the long run historic 5% or so, with this 2% appreciation on new purchases, you leverage that five to one with your 80% loan, and you get a 10% return on your down payment. And you add in the other four ways real estate pays to your 10% leverage appreciation and at historic norms, you can end up with a 29% total ROI. That's realistic. I outlined the math of that in an earlier episode this year when I discussed how real estate pays five ways in a slow market, there you have it, 2% forecast home price appreciation for next year. If you want the charts that support the forecast and more, there's a way for you to get a hold of that, and also the best real estate maps, stories and investment opportunities that you won't see in any headlines. They are all in my free weekly newsletter. The newsletter also gives you access to my free real estate pays five ways. Video, course, that is it. GRE letter.com Get it all at one easy place. Gre letter.com I look forward to talking to you in the new year. I'm Keith Weinhold, don't quit your daydrem Speaker 3 36:06 nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax, legal, real estate, financial or business professional for individualized advice. Opinions of guests are their own. Information is not guaranteed. All investment strategies have the potential for profit or loss. The host is operating on behalf of get rich Education LLC, exclusively. Keith Weinhold 36:34 The preceding program was brought to you by your home for wealth building, GetRichEducation.com
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