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For many business owners, often the fears associated with scaling a team can become a massive hurdle to their business's greater success. Today we discuss what it looks like when business owners don't want to get out of their own way to get some leverage so they don't have to do everything themselves. In this episode, our host, Chris Goodman, pulls back the curtain on what he's personally been working through as he explains how he recently brought on two new coaches. He breaks down the fears he had to work through in order to make this step, including the fear of failure, the fear of being too successful, and the fear that someone else may not be good enough at doing what he does. He describes how things began to fall into place for him after he started considering the question, “What if it works?” and why you should do this too. Tune in today to find out not only how to overcome this hurdle but also practical steps on what to do when you have decided to grow your team. Find out what important factors you should consider before hiring someone, how to build a good working relationship with them, and how to coach them to do a good job so you don't have to do everything in your business. For all this and more, tune in today!Key Points From This Episode:An introduction to today's topic on what happens when business owners don't want to take help from a team. Chris celebrates the win that he and Lindsay are having a baby.How this episode is aimed at those business owners who want to get out of their own way.How Chris recently brought on two new coaches. How hard it was for Chris to get over this hurdle.  The problem of perfectionism and someone else not being good enough at what you do. Thoughts on the fear of failure and the fear of being too successful. How Chris's desire to impact more people is what led him to overcome all these fears.Why you should consider “What if it works?” and how this worked for Chris.How the discomfort that comes with being responsible for others leads to growth.The power of the question: “What would be the one thing you could do that if you did it, everything else would be easier or totally unnecessary?”The temptation to fall back into the old fears when you start to scale your business.How more money doesn't solve the problem, it just changes what the fear looks like. The first tip to grow your team: get clear on your business and personal values so you can find someone who matches them. The importance of building a sense of trust, fostering accountability, and being clear on expectations.Why you need clarity of process. Why you should allow it to be messy and lean into the chaos. How to get permission to help someone improve their performance. The importance of coaching team members, training them, and equipping them to do a good job. Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Goodman CoachingChris GoodmanWork with Chris Here

Chris Brown is just 39 years old but has written some of the richest worship songs that are being sung all over the world.  He's got a huge platform. How does he keep his head on straight and make it about God?  I can't wait to share this conversation with this humble man who drops some wisdom that has stayed with me.  He's the real deal.   2:45- Chris's church experience3:50- What's it like being part of a megachurch 6:18-The Little Rascals    8:29- How Chris guards his relationship with God while being an influence             11:25- Songwriting         17:09- When the melody and lyric meet21:28- A topic and attribute about God Chris loves to write about              26:52- How Chris finds the middle ground being a worship leader and truly worship while he leads             31:47- Meaningful moments during the Pandemic and COVID shutdown37:07- Prayer for Chris and his family      

Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think differently about your money, your economy and your future. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and discovering a way to turn his debt into real wealth as he watched everybody lose their retirement savings and home equity in 2008, he knew that he needed to find a more predictable way to meet his financial objectives and those of his clients. Mark is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER, a two-time #1 Best Selling Author and the owner of Lake Growth Financial Services, a financial firm in Chicago, Illinois. Over the years, he has helped hundreds of his clients take back control of their financial future and build their businesses with proven, tax-efficient financial solutions. He specializes in building custom-tailored financial strategies that are unknown to typical stock-jockeys, attorneys, or other financial gurus. As co-host of the Not Your Average Financial Podcast™, he shares some of his strategies for investing in real estate, paying for college without going broke, and creating an income in retirement you won't outlive. Mark works with people who want to grow their wealth in ways that are safe and predictable, to become their own source of financing, and create tax-free income in retirement. What you will learn in this episode: How Mark will be speaking at QLS Live from September 15-17 this year, and how to register to save your seat to learn powerful wealth building strategies Why Mark has decided that ROI stands for “Rate of Income”, and why Wall Street is inefficient compared to other wealth building strategies How Mark has helped people create extraordinary success through his financial planning expertise Why the first question you should be asking yourself is “why am I chasing the dollar?” and why the second question should be “what am I trying to accomplish?” Why efficiency is the key to smart investments, and why cash value life insurance is far more powerful than putting your money in the bank Why cash value life insurance is an extraordinary vehicle for funding your real estate investments and major money needs How Chris and his family team use Mark's financial strategies to great effect, and how these strategies have been around for hundreds of years Why utilizing cash value life insurance is a “best kept secret” that few people are talking about How Mark's investment strategies work perfectly with Chris's “three paydays” real estate investing strategies How to get a free strategy call with Mark's team at Lake Growth Financial to see if his wealth building strategies are right for your needs Resources: Get a FREE strategy call with Mark Willis: www.notyouraveragefinancialpodcast.com Learn more about how to “Bank On Yourself”: www.bitly.com/boyrealestate Episode 124 of the Smart Real Estate Coach podcast: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/podcasts/mark-willis/ Episode 255 of the Smart Real Estate Coach podcast: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/podcasts/mark-willis-2/ Register for QLS Live September 15-17, 2021 to hear Mark speak: www.QLSLive.com Website: http://lakegrowth.com/schedule/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/lakegrowth/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marklakegrowth/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/lakegrowth/ Twitter: @LakeGrowth Additional resources: Follow Chris and Zach on Club House to learn even more about deal structures and how to get 3 paydays from your real estate investments. If looking to secure some lines of credit for your business, check out Fund and Grow – Visit our Resource page at https://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/resources Schedule a FREE Strategy Call: SmartRealEstateCoach.com/action Register for our free masterclass: www.SmartRealEstateCoach.com/mastersclass Real Estate on Your Terms by Chris Prefontaine SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoach.com/QLS Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast Sponsor: Paul G. Dion CPA, CTC

Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990's and selectively to date), has owned a Realty Executives Franchise (Massachusetts 1994-2000) as broker/owner which maintained high per-agent standards and eventually sold to Coldwell Banker in 2000. The 2000's included coaching ½ million and higher REALTORs® in order to scale & automate their business throughout the US and Canada. He also participated (and still does selectively) in doing condo conversions (multi-family homes to condos) and “raise the roof” projects (converting single-family ranches to colonials in growth neighborhoods). Chris has been a big advocate of constant education and participates regularly in high-end mastermind groups, as well as consults with private mentors. He runs his own buying and selling businesses with his family team, which buys 2-5 properties monthly, so they're in the trenches every single week. They also help clients do the same thing around the country. Chris and his family team have done over 80 million in real estate transactions. They mentor, coach, consult, and actually partner with students around the country (by application only) to do exactly what they do. What you will learn in this episode: Chris shares how the Smart Real Estate Coach and the Wicked Smart Community have been growing for more than seven years Why it takes many years to achieve true success and reach your stride in your business, and why “stacking” is crucial for making your way forward Why 2022 starts now, and why you must begin making choices that can set you up for success in the next year How Chris's business was named one of the fastest-growing privately owned companies by Inc. Magazine, as the only business in the real estate space to make the list How the Wicked Smart community has successfully completed over 300 deals that have positively impacted over 1500 families with more than $52 million in profits How Chris partnered with fitness pioneer and business leader Peter Taunton to create Wicked Smart Finance to help investors fund their investments How Chris and his team help prepare investors for any unexpected situations and disasters they may experience Why you should register for the upcoming QLS Live 2021 virtual event taking place from September 15-17 How Chris's “wealth stacking” process can help you tap into massive profit and maximize your deals Additional resources: Register for QLS Live 2021: http://qlslive.com/ Follow Chris and Zach on Club House to learn even more about deal structures and how to get 3 paydays from your real estate investments. If looking to secure some lines of credit for your business, check out Fund and Grow – Visit our Resource page at https://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/resources Schedule a FREE Strategy Call: SmartRealEstateCoach.com/action Register for our free masterclass: www.SmartRealEstateCoach.com/mastersclass Real Estate on Your Terms by Chris Prefontaine SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoach.com/QLS Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast Sponsor: Paul G. Dion CPA, CTC

In this episode, we have a totally mesmerizing guest, Chris Naugle. Chris is a pro snowboarder who became America's number one money mentor as well. He ended up working on Wall Street and financial planning, and then became a real estate mogul and got a pilot on HTTV. Tim and Chris talk about priceless insights from Chris' journey in snowboarding and how it molded him to become effective as a financial advisor. He shared incredible lessons and strategies on how to build your wealth and do it effectively. He teaches old-mindset-busting advice on reaching success and wealth. So, what are you waiting for? Hit that play button now and listen to this amazing episode, and get the best tips on money and life!   Quotes: “The only way to actually fail in anything is to quit.” - Chris Naugle “When you want something, it's not about your actual resources, it's about how resourceful you can actually be.” “If you believe you can't, you won't.” “The secret to success is you have you to give, and if you give, you get. ”   Mentions: https://www.facebook.com/TimShurr https://mesmerizingleadership.com/  https://powermindsetprogram.com   https://www.chrisnaugle.com/    ​   Show Notes: [00:00] Greetings and intro for Chris Naugle [01:37] How Chris got into snowboarding [04:13] Insights from Chris experience in learning and getting better at snowboarding [04:49] Dream about what you want to have and achieve and acting on it [08:27] Chris' journey in becoming a pro - Preparation + Opportunity = Success [13:59] Creating your destiny [15:54] How Chris dealt with fear - Take the leap [20:44] Getting up and healing from getting wrecked [23:00] From snowboarding to managing money [29:44] Figuring out to make it work [31:51] Doing what others didn't want to do [35:06] Work hard but learn to also work smarter     [41:27] Always make the money work for you [43:29] The best way to build wealth [49:39] The secret money multiplier methodology and what the wealthy do with their money [53:35] Learn to earn the compound interest  [56:43] How to set up your whole life account [1:00:00] The secret to success is to give more   Make Your Day Mesmerizing!  

About this episode My guest this week is Chris Ronzio, founder and CEO of Trainual. If you're unfamiliar with Trainual their product is the absolute easiest way to train and grow your team. In order to grow your business you have to establish processes, and those processes need to be documented. Well, that is if you want consistent results. Small and growing businesses across the world are using Trainual to build playbooks, train teams and scale their business. By using Trainual you can greatly accelerate your entire hiring, onboarding and training process. So that your new hires are up to speed in a full contributing fashion months ahead of schedule. That acceleration without a loss in efficacy is exactly how good businesses become great businesses. In fact, Chris is such an advocate for helping small businesses grow and scale that he and the Trainual team host their PlayBook events series every year. So whether do you need strategies to scale big, marketing ideas that really resonate, or hot tips on anything else small business-related. Their PlayBook events series has exactly what you need. In fact, registration is free so visit PlayBook2021.com to secure your spot. Chris will be having Gary Vaynerchuk and Shaquille O'Neal joining for this event. And if that wasn't enough, everyone who registers will receive a copy of Chris's upcoming book titled “PlayBook.” Alright, enough for the hype Machine let's jump into the early days of Chris Ronzio's entrepreneurial journey to understand exactly how he got to where he is today. In this episode, you'll hear: His first entreprenurial influence was from his uncle who owns a stain glass window shop. Chris shares how at the age of 14 he started a video company, which allowed him to have his first taste of entrepreneurship. Exactly what Trainual is and how it helps businesses with training and creating manuals. How a someone without formal technical training has developed one of the hottest new SaaS platforms on the market. What metric Chris needed to see in order to make the pivot to go all-in on Trainual, after he tried to sell it off! How Chris capitalized the business and how he was able to defer venture capital. His thoughts on whether or not anyone can be an entrepreneur. Resources from this episode Join Grindology: https://grindology.com/ ExpressVPN: Get 3 Months Free → https://www.expressvpn.com/startupstory Get Emails: https://app.getemails.com/referrals/newaccount?ref=R18HWW5 The Startup Story Inner Circle: https://www.thestartupstory.co/vip The Startup Story on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thestartupstory The Startup Story is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jamesmckinney The Startup Story on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestartupstory Trainual: https://trainual.com/grindology/ Playbook Event: http://playbook2021.com/ LYFT Marketing Automation Roadmap: https://grindologymagazine.com/mag/0633016001629394959/p6 Share the podcast The Startup Story community has been so incredible in sharing our podcast with others, and we thank you! We do have more stories to tell and more people to reach. So please keep sharing!

Positioning your brand correctly is the most powerful thing you can do to attract and retain customers. Effective copywriting is how you do it.  My guest on this episode is none other than The Email Copywriter, Chris Orzechowski, and he's here to deliver massive value about copywriting, positioning, and marketing strategy.  We talk about how to think about copywriting, ways to improve your emails, and different styles of email campaigns and flows. We go deep into positioning and ways to unlock advertising angles for your brand that are probably already inside your own head if you're passionate about your business and products.  Chris is a member of the Coalition, our community of 250+ eComm founders, and recently did a training on How to Make Your Emails Irresistible. It's one of our most popular trainings so definitely check it out. If you're interested in joining the Coalition to access this training and more like it, sign up here.  Episode Highlights: 4:08 How Chris became The Email Copywriter  4:54 Why Chris chose to focus on eCommerce copywriting 9:01 Where Chris's advertising inspiration comes from 11:36 Debunking the biggest misconception about email marketing - sending too many emails  15:18 Long form copy - why you should test it  19:28 Writing about your product with dimensionalized benefits  21:07 Levels of market sophistication and how to position yourself in your industry 24:21 Appealing to your market identity  26:26 Chris's favorite email testing opportunities 28:15 The process Chris uses to test copy  32:08 Copywriting that shifts people's mindset  33:17 Using your product knowledge to write inspiring copy  39:09 How to talk to your customers to inform your copywriting 40:49 The future of email marketing - what you should be thinking about 46:11 What's working right now in email marketing - things to test today 52:28 The new marketing copy opportunity - SMS  58:59 How to hire a copywriter  Resources: Chris's Website  Make Your Marketing Emails Irresistible Training Copychief.com The Coalition @a_brawn on Twitter Review or subscribe on iTunes

Chris Schultz has been the Voodoo Doughnut CEO since 2017, after being in the restaurant industry for 30+ years (including roles as Operations Manager at Starbucks and Sr VP at Mod Pizza). He has been quoted to “never have a bad day,” and in his time at Voodoo, he's focused on expanding Voodoo's offerings to new locations throughout the US. Voodoo Doughnut started as a quirky donut shop in Portland in 2003 with the mission of “world donut domination” and received its first mention in the national press in the first week of opening. Since then, Voodoo Doughnut has been featured on The Travel Channel, The Cooking Channel, MTV, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Tonight Show, Wheel of Fortune, Portlandia, Grimm, Leverage, The Amazing Race and Access Hollywood, and in print publications such as People, Playboy, Conde Nast, Spin, GQ, Jane, Maxim, Food & Wine, and more. In this episode, we focus on: All the adventurous flavors his team has tried (Pepto-bismol donuts??) Leadership lessons & how important it is to take credit for your mistakes (Pepto-bismol donuts..?) How Chris has maintained strong pillars of optimism & authenticity throughout his career We were so excited to share this episode- interviewing one of the most iconic donut brands was truly a dream come true! P.S. We love their PB&J and Chocolate Coconut flavors!!

Chris Olah has had a fascinating and unconventional career path. Most people who want to pursue a research career feel they need a degree to get taken seriously. But Chris not only doesn't have a PhD, but doesn't even have an undergraduate degree. After dropping out of university to help defend an acquaintance who was facing bogus criminal charges, Chris started independently working on machine learning research, and eventually got an internship at Google Brain, a leading AI research group. In this interview - a follow-up to our episode on his technical work - we discuss what, if anything, can be learned from his unusual career path. Should more people pass on university and just throw themselves at solving a problem they care about? Or would it be foolhardy for others to try to copy a unique case like Chris'? Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. We also cover some of Chris' personal passions over the years, including his attempts to reduce what he calls 'research debt' by starting a new academic journal called Distill, focused just on explaining existing results unusually clearly. As Chris explains, as fields develop they accumulate huge bodies of knowledge that researchers are meant to be familiar with before they start contributing themselves. But the weight of that existing knowledge ? and the need to keep up with what everyone else is doing - can become crushing. It can take someone until their 30s or later to earn their stripes, and sometimes a field will split in two just to make it possible for anyone to stay on top of it. If that were unavoidable it would be one thing, but Chris thinks we're nowhere near communicating existing knowledge as well as we could. Incrementally improving an explanation of a technical idea might take a single author weeks to do, but could go on to save a day for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of students, if it becomes the best option available. Despite that, academics have little incentive to produce outstanding explanations of complex ideas that can speed up the education of everyone coming up in their field. And some even see the process of deciphering bad explanations as a desirable right of passage all should pass through, just as they did. So Chris tried his hand at chipping away at this problem - but concluded the nature of the problem wasn't quite what he originally thought. In this conversation we talk about that, as well as: * Why highly thoughtful cold emails can be surprisingly effective, but average cold emails do little * Strategies for growing as a researcher * Thinking about research as a market * How Chris thinks about writing outstanding explanations * The concept of 'micromarriages' and ?microbestfriendships? * And much more. Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world?s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80,000 Hours into your podcasting app. Producer: Keiran Harris Audio mastering: Ben Cordell Transcriptions: Sofia Davis-Fogel

One of the things about working in the post production industry is that a huge opportunity can suddenly come knocking without any notice. It certainly has happened to me. On episode 21 of the Hollywood Editing Mentor podcast, editor/assistant editor Chris Cavanagh joins me to talk about the importance of putting in the work to prepare ourselves for big opportunities, which he recently got when he was asked if he was ready to co-edit an episode of the hit Netflix show, Narcos: Mexico. We'll hear all about his experience and some cool stories from the past 5 years because that's how long I've known Chris. It was five years ago that Chris and I landed in Los Angeles and started our journey to transition from unscripted to scripted television. We met at a networking event not long after we both arrived in LA from New York City and instantly connected and became friends. We supported each other during this transitional period, eventually broke into scripted television editorial in Hollywood, and now we actually got a chance to work together on Narcos: Mexico. Chris was my assistant editor on season 3 and we ended up co-editing an episode. So now that he's getting his first scripted co-editing credit, Chris is also going to share his strategy for making his way to the editing chair full time.Chris and I will also be discussing ideas that can help you get out of your comfort zone in order to achieve your goals, how you can take ownership of your career and develop a vision for your future, ways to build trust with colleagues, the importance of putting yourself out there and communicating your interests, how we can find emotional support by being part of a community, why it's important to give a job 100% effort even if you know it's not suited for you, saying ‘no' to work that is not going to lead us down the right career path, and much more practical advice and stories from two people that made a career change to pursue their dreams.Other topics discussed in this episode include:How Chris learned Spanish to prepare for working on season 3 of Narcos: MexicoCreating a financial plan to make a career change when you have a family and move to a new cityHow Chris got his first big break in scripted television as an assistant editor on the hit Netflix series, Cobra KaiCharacter-building moments at a Spartan RaceGetting hired on a scripted television series even though you don't have the right experienceNot being an expert at a job, but being able to find solutions to problemsMaking mistakes at work doesn't define who you areDoing everything possible to not make the same mistake twiceLearning new skills by simply talking to people and asking questionsHow episode 2 with Auggie Rexach influenced ChrisFinding support through mentorshipChris' experience working on season 3 of Narcos: MexicoIncorporating yourself into a new post production teamNegotiating a co-editing credit as an assistant editorCLICK HERE to join the Hollywood Editing Mentor community!SUBSCRIBE  and leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts!Original Music: "Apollo's Haze" by JesusdapnkFacebook: www.fb.com/jesusdapnkSoundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/jesusdapnkInstagram: @jesusdapnk

Curious about the secrets of the wealthy? In today's episode, we're going to dive into them!  Chris Naugle has dedicated his life to being America's Number One money mentor.  His success includes managing over $30 million in assets in the financial services and advisory industry and tens of millions of real estate businesses with over 300 transactions on an HDTV pilot show in 2016.  Chris is also a nationally recognized speaker and author.[00:01 - 04:19] Opening SegmentLet's get to know today's guest, Chris NaugleMom taught me to dreamHigh school entrepreneur leading to financial advisor[04:20 - 21:25] Nuances of Privatized Banking The Secrets of the WealthyAsking the right questions as advisorsA 90-minute video story and privatized bankingChris talks about his Whole Life Policy Insurance experienceDebt to DeathCumulative return You can never EVER have a million cash value and a million in death benefit[21:26 - 29:08] Future-Proofing and Money LendingMoving forward, planning for the future in real estate Flipping houses and using a lot of moneyChris' cash flow problems91-units: Keeping enough rentalsThe Private Money ClubMoving his money to the private lending club[29:09 - 31:25] Final Four SegmentWhat Chris would invest in with only $20,000 “Other people that know how to do what I want to do.”How Chris would help in a real estate mistake“Stop focusing on you.  Start focusing on how you can solve other people's problems and give.”Chris' way to make the world a better place“Giving more.”Reach out to our guest - see links below Final wordsTweetable Quotes“Your ego and your knowledge isn't what it needs to be.” - Chris Naugle“When you're just flipping, you always, always, have cash flow problems.” - Chris Naugle-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with Chris Naugle through Chris@flipoutacademy.com, Instagram, and LinkedIn.  Check out his book Mapping Out the Millionaire Mystery and his website https://www.chrisnaugle.com/ and insure your future in comfort.Connect with me:I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.  FacebookLinkedInLike, subscribe, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on.  Thank you for tuning in!Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com 

Today's guest is Chris Herd, the CEO and founder of Firstbase which is an all-in-one SaaS platform for the supply and management of assets and equipment to remote workers. After founding a remote financial technology company, Chris discovered the challenges of having a remote team which led him to found Firstbase. Since late 2019, the company has now raised over $15 million, a lot of which can be attributed to Chris's presence on Twitter. Today he explains how he managed to generate 80 million Twitter impressions in the space of a year and how he has used the platform as his primary acquisition channel, as well as a great tool for building relationships with key decision-makers at some of the biggest investment companies and venture capital firms in the world. Tuning in you'll hear Chris's advice on what type of content to share, the importance of consistency, the role of spontaneity, and how to inspire conversation through the platform. Chris also shares some profound insight into the future of remote work or ‘remote living'. Hear some practical advice on remote work that most people wouldn't know about and find out which companies are doing it really well. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:14] An introduction to today's guest Chris Herd, CEO and founder of Firstbase. [01:09] Some of Firstbase's marquee clients. [02:04] Chris's background and what makes him different from other founders. [02:59] How the challenges he faced having a remote team led him to found Firstbase. [03:59] How Firstbase is making money. [04:34] How quickly the company has grown and how much money it has raised. [05:20] Some of the core challenges they faced scaling the company. [06:13] The role of Twitter in building distribution. [07:54] How Chris achieved 80 million impressions through his tweets in the last year.  [08:54] Chris's advice on how to market your business through Twitter. [09:51] How Twitter has benefited Firstbase. [11:21] What Chris's cadence is like on Twitter and the role of spontaneity.  [12:28] The two most important data points to Chris and what they say about the future of work.  [14:25] The role of in-person connection in the remote work playbook post-pandemic. [15:51] How Chris is recruiting the best people right now through Twitter and Flocknet. [18:09] Practical remote work advice that most people wouldn't know about. [19:08] Companies that are doing remote work really well. [20:12] Remote work playbooks available online. [20:56] A business tool Chris's recommends: Figma. [21:38] Insight into the size of Chris's sales team and thoughts on whether or not they should be co-located. [22:47] Chris's must-read book: No Rules Rules. [23:35] The most compelling thing that he's watched, read or listened to: Loki. [23:55] How to get in contact with Chris.   Resources From The Interview:   Firstbase  Remotive AngelList  Flocknet  Zapier  GitLab    Darren Murph  Figma  Miro  Mural Must read book: No Rules Rules  Project Hail Mary  Loki   Chris Herd on Twitter   Chris Herd on LinkedIn   Leave Some Feedback:     What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review here Subscribe to Leveling Up on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed     Connect with Eric Siu:      Growth Everywhere Single Grain Leveling Up Eric Siu on Twitter Eric Siu on Instagram    

Chris Van Vliet is a 4-time Emmy award winning TV Host, Entertainment Reporter and YouTuber based in Miami, FL. He has traveled the world reporting from events like the Oscars, Grammys and the Cannes Film Festival. You may be familiar with the interviews that Chris posts on YouTube, but calling them “interviews” doesn't seem fair because they are so much more than that. Chris dives deep into interesting topics with his trademark conversational approach that makes it feel like two old friends catching up. This is the case when it's a wrestling superstar like John Cena, The Rock or Hulk Hogan or a Hollywood A-Lister like Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise or Will Smith. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:  02:45 How Chris started off in the entertainment industry 09:56 What it's like to interview major celebrities  18:37 The most inspiring interview story Chris heard 29:07 The adversity of being disconnected from other people 45:30 The secret sauce for interviews and conversations

BIG THROWS ENERGY FOR THE BIG THROWS GUYS. Chris, Kyle and Dana unpack the biggest action from the Tokyo Olympics highlighted by Ryan Crouser's mega day where he unleashed six throws that either tied or broke the shot put Olympic record and repeated as Olympic champion. Andre De Grasse finally gets the gold medal that Puma shelled out millions for. The United States' men's 4x100-meter relay team faltered again. Courtney Frerichs went for it and put together the Gutsiest Performance of the Day for a silver in the women's steeplechase. Also discussed in this episode: – The semifinals of the women's 1,500 meters were drama-filled and fast – The men's 800 meter final kind of felt ehhh – Hansle Parchment's longevity is super impressive in the men's 110m hurdles – The men's hammer throw isn't as fun when Rudy Winkler isn't winning – How Chris feels as a member of Team Throwvacs after adding another silver in the men's shot put to Joe Kovacs' career resume + Much More TUNE IN AND LISTEN TO TORCH TALK WITH CHRIS, KYLE AND DANA. Our daily podcast covering the Olympics is presented by Hayward Magic. Hayward Magic is a really unique and fresh editorial channel on IG that captures the magic and intensity of track & field. Their mantra is #makeittohayward because Hayward is not just a place. It's a state of mind. It's where guts meet magic. All athletes, fans and feats of guts welcome! @HaywardMagic on Instagram. HOW TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST

The Prolific Investor is Chris Odegard. Chris is an average guy who had a white-collar job in the corporate world and followed the only thing he knew for decades, conventional wisdom and conventional investments. This worked relatively well until 2009 when he experienced an illiquidity event where he lost 55% of his assets and thousands of dollars per month in cash flow. Then, Chris read Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad, and his mind was opened to a different type of investing, investing in real assets and private deals mostly insulated from the volatility, risk, and taxation of the stock market. In just nine years, Chris recouped the 55% he had lost and multiplied it many times over and now shares his experience and knowledge with you through this alternative investment blog. Let's listen to Chris and learn more about why "alternative investments" blow conventional investments away.   [00:01 – 06:40] Opening Segment Let's get to know Chris Odegard. Chris shares his background and how he got to where he is today. The recovery journey. [06:41 – 14:00] Why "alternative investments" Blow Conventional Investments Away Chris talks about the difference between conventional and alternative investments. The mountain of money theory The hierarchy of investors. The ability to use the leverage The insurability. The only advantage of conventional is the liquidity. [14:01 – 25:29] Financial Education and Awareness Chris talks about his blog and how he shares the financial idea. Chris's upcoming book titled “Get off your ass, and manage your money; why you need an alternative Investments.” Steps by steps why alternative investments are better. The importance of teaching the new generation about alternatives investments. 4O1K vs. single-family rentals. OPM benefits. Educate yourself more on alternative investments. The benefits of alternatives investing. How Chris helps people to become aware of alternative investments. Thirty minutes virtual coffee - free consultation program. Chris talks about the people that he is working with, especially the younger generation.   [25:30 – 30:55] Closing Segment If your great-great grandkids are to write a book about you, how would you like it to be titled?  He kept his commitments big and small. The power of discipline. If you have incredible discipline, you could do anything. Connect with Chris See the links below.  Final words from Chris and me.   Tweetable Quotes: “When something sounds too good to be true, don't just run away from it, because it might be true.” - Chris Odegard. “Yes, it requires more education, and you got to be smarter, but the benefits of alternative investments outweigh the extra work that's involved .” - Chris Odegard. “If you have incredible discipline, you could do anything.” - Chris Odegard.   Find out more and connect with Chris on Linkedin, Instagram, Facebook and visit his websites at https://theprolificinvestor.net/.   LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode. I believe that you only need a small axe to build a lasting empire. Let's start building yours! To know more about me and all the real estate opportunities you can find, you can connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook or check out my website https://smallaxecommunities.com/ and book a call with me.

Chris Kneeland is the co-founder of Cult Collective, a marketing service firm that teaches how to build a cult following, a fanbase of raving fans that absolutely love your brand, purpose and mission —and that will buy anything you put out. Chris is on a mission to rid brand leaders of archaic beliefs and practices regarding internal and external audience engagement. He wants to stop the insanity of wasting obscene amounts of money on mass media and markdowns, since he knows that money is best used making products, programs and people more remarkable. Chris is also the author of FIX: A new prescription to cure disengaged customers, prospects or staff and the co-founder at The Gathering, a Forbes top rated virtual summit for business owners. Bullet points (00:35) Intro (03:28) The start as an entrepreneur (05:40) The client concentration problem (07:10) How Chris rebuilt his agency into something better (08:10) First: Eliminating media commissions (09:04) Second: Scaling back the production team (09:46) Third: RFP (10:35) The problem in the media industry (13:06) The Domino's Pizza turnaround (14:38) &BAM (16:27) What does building a cult and attracting raving fans mean, and how does a brand start down that path? (18:19) The four ways to get people to interact with you brand (20:02) What are cult brands doing that others aren't? (27:22) The problem with markdows (30:36) Should you do flash sales? (34:12) Where to find out more (35:41) Rapid fire question round (35:57) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money? (36:12) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make? (36:23) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why? (36:50) How do you hire top talent? (37:26) How do you identify a good business partner? (37:50) What is one of your proudest moments? (38:18) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know? (39:02) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful? (39:37) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life? (40:34) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about? (41:46) What advice would you give your younger self? (42:04) What was your biggest challenge starting in business and how did you overcome it? (43:11) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out? (43:51) What makes you happiest? (44:44) Any asks or requests of the audience?

Chris Hanley speaks out about the importance of mental health management in business to Grace Ormsby. The CEO of First National Byron Bay and the chairperson of RISE shares why the most important thing a leader can do is listen, explains how a leader's duty of care can go a long way in a business, and highlights how technology can now offer agents and property managers an innovative, new way to take care of themselves and each other.   In this episode, you will hear:   How Chris approaches care in the workplace   Why uncertainty is okay when you don't know what the future holds     How the Real Care app aims to support the real estate sector Make sure you never miss an episode by subscribing to us now on Apple Podcasts. Did you like this episode? Show your support by rating us or leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (REB Podcast Network) and by liking and following Real Estate Business on social media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you have any questions about what you heard today, any topics of interest you have in mind, or if you'd like to lend a voice to the show, email editor@realestatebusiness.com.au for more insights.

Chris Larsen is the founder and Managing Partner of Next-Level Income, through which he helps investors become financially independent through education and investment opportunities. Chris has been investing in and managing real estate for over 20 years. While completing his degree in Biomechanical Engineering and M.B.A. in Finance at Virginia Tech, he bought his first single- family rental at age 21. During his subsequent career in the medical device industry, Chris expanded into development, private-lending, buying distressed debt as well as commercial offices, and ultimately syndicating multifamily properties. He began syndicating deals in 2016 and has been actively involved in over $225 million of real estate acquisitions. In addition to real estate, Chris has invested in equities, oil & gas, and small business lending, as well as being active in Venture South, one of the nation's Top 10 Angel Investing groups. Chris lives with his wife and two boys in Asheville, NC where he loves spending time with them in the outdoors and enjoying the food and culture that the region has to offer. What you'll learn about in this episode: How Chris lost his father at just 5 years old and lost his best friend at 19, and how those losses had a dramatic impact on Chris's life and future How Chris first got started in investing, and what key money lessons he learned along the way while growing his portfolio Why Chris sees the multi-family space as “the Holy Grail of investing” with the best risk-to-return ratio What Chris's business looks like today, and why “following where the moving trucks are going” is a great way to find a market to target Why it is important to build relationships and develop trust in a market before you get started How Next-Level Income's mission is to help people achieve financial independence through education, and how he sponsors a financial literacy program for kids How Chris has structured an allowance system for his kids to teach them money lessons about investing, saving, and growing their money Chris highlights some of the best (and worst) deals he has done over the course of his real estate investing career Why one of the key money lessons Chris learned through experience is that you shouldn't diversify your portfolio just for the sake of diversification What advice Chris would share with brand new real estate investors, and why the first step is to find and learn from a mentor Resources: Website and a Free Book from Chris Larsen: www.nextlevelincome.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nextlevelincome/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/nextlevelincomeshow Instagram: @thenextlevelincomeshow Skype: chlarsen_3 Additional resources: Follow Chris and Zach on Club House to learn even more about deal structures and how to get 3 paydays from your real estate investments. If looking to secure some lines of credit for your business, check out Fund and Grow – Visit our Resource page at https://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/resources Schedule a FREE Strategy Call: SmartRealEstateCoach.com/action Register for our free masterclass: www.SmartRealEstateCoach.com/mastersclass Real Estate on Your Terms by Chris Prefontaine SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoach.com/QLS Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast Sponsor: Paul G. Dion CPA, CTC

Chris Prefontaine is a three times Best Selling Author of Real Estate on Your Terms, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, and Moneeka Sawyer's Real Estate Investing for Women. He's also the Founder and CEO of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. In this episode we talked about: How Chris got into Real Estate The “On Terms” investment strategy Non-bank financing Owner financing Principal only payments Family run businesses Importance of value and mission statements The value of discipline The power of self accountability The impact of Great Recession on Real Estate profitability Searching for Deals Distribution of Team Roles Opportunities in 2021 Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned Useful links: https://smartrealestatecoach.com Transcription: Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name is Jesper galley. And on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to working capital the real estate podcast. My name is Jesse Fragale and my special guest today is Chris Prefontaine. Chris is a three-time bestselling author of real estate on your terms, the new rules of real estate investing and when Nika Sawyer is real estate investing for women, he's also the founder and CEO of smart real estate coach.com and the host of smart real estate coach podcast.    Chris, how's it going?    Chris (47s): I am doing awesome. Thanks Jesse. Thanks for having me on.    Jesse (50s): Yeah, my pleasure. Like I was saying before the show, we're very happy to have you on, I did get a copy of your book. I believe the one I received was new rules of real estate investing. I brought that into, into the brokerage into the office. So a lot of good stuff in there. I found it really interesting just because it took a little bit of a different approach as it was kind of a best or greatest hits of different people and different experts giving their view. So hopefully we can get into that. How's everything been. I mean, we're in a bit of a unique world right now.    How have you, how have you been fairing over the last, the last year or so?    Chris (1m 27s): Yeah, we're super busy. I hate to, I hesitate all the time to say that, cause I know some people get hurt, but literally from April 1st, 2020, we have crank and it got a little tight with the market being so crazy these last few months, but we're literally, as of this morning, seeing the people commenting and the deals going up through the roof again all across north America. So that's kinda neat. We built this to kind of hit all markets and it's doing well with it, you know, it's been tested.    Jesse (1m 54s): Yeah, for sure. So for listeners, a little bit of a background, your experience ranges back into the nineties for those, you know, that it's the first time hearing your name, hearing you speak. Maybe you could talk a little bit about your history and how you got into real estate. Obviously, you know, you've seen more cycles than a, well, I'd say a few of the guests that we have on more than I wanted to probably yeah. So high    Chris (2m 20s): Level, right? Cause it would be 30 years. It'd be here too long, but I, I journeyed into real estate doing some building. I never was a builder, had a partner who ran the field. I ran inside. We did everything on terms back then without knowing it without calling it terms, I was in my twenties. So we, we found lots. We pre-market them. We sold a finished package and everybody could pay it a day and it was pretty cool. I then bought a Realty executives, franchise, mid nineties, sold that to Coldwell banker, ultimately in 2000. And then I started coaching people throughout U S and Canada, heavy Canada at the time, coincidentally up in Toronto, but 48 clients or so up there that while that was going on, I started doing some of my own investments from 2000 up to the crash.    And then that brought us to today in the sense that the crash has beat us up. I mean that I was on personally on signature in the U S on loans, 23 properties or so. So in the values drop where they come in, they're coming to me, unfortunately. So that caused us though, Jesse to rewrite the rules. So to speak, not to use the book, no pun intended there, but causes us to recreate what we're doing. Re-engineer what we're doing. And that is now we buy everything on a terms. We do not use banks. We don't sign personally. We very rarely if ever used that capital and that way I can go to sleep at night, knowing that we're not at risk, if we were a pre crash, you know?    So we've gone through all those storms that you alluded to and rebuild this model to only buy on terms.    Jesse (3m 43s): So before we get into that, the clear follow up question is would, is on terms. But before we do in the nineties and subsequent to that, w w was the wheelhouse for you in real estate? What, was there something that, that, you know, gave you the bug of, of wanting to get into real estate, as opposed to, you know, other areas,    Chris (4m 4s): You know, the bug so to speak was when I was younger, my dad was not in real estate. He would, he had a welding business, but he had branches. And as he would expand, he personally would build the building and lease it back to the business. And I was young and I go, whoa, you're the same person. How does it, like, how do you do that? So that's where I started to learn real estate. And it was kind of cool. He always said that up until a few years ago. So then he would find land tracks of land engineer, do the engineering and flip them. So he just always tinkered. And I had, I really was around that environment a lot. And then, so as soon as he sold the company back in 91, I think he sold his company where I was working.    I went into real estate. That's when I started building    Jesse (4m 41s): Right on. Awesome. So let's move on to that for, for listeners. W w you know, you hear in the industry, I mean, not so long ago, the first time I heard that on terms, you know, you alluded to a little bit about getting non-conventional financing. Why don't you give listeners just kind of an understanding of what that means?    Chris (5m 1s): Yeah. So for us terms means a better word that people would recognize as creative real estate, right? So terms for us means three things. We buy, lease, purchase, owner financing, or subject to existing financing, lease purchase being, in my opinion, the simplest entry, if you're new, we're looking to expand what you're doing, because you're not taking title. Your risk is definitely minimal. You are in our agreements. Anyway, you are putting up $10 for at least prejudice. All our properties.    We could show about 80 million with our students in our own, and there's not more than a few thousand spent total on all the 80 million control, because a lot of us that own these purchase on a freelancing niche is a little bit different niche. We drill down deeper than just regular on a pricing. We look Jessie for a free and clear properties. So owners that are free and clear, they're in a good spot. Most of them not even in the market and they want longer term, they want the, the, the, the estate planning or the tax planning to be longer term my building. I'm not in it today, but my building right, five minutes from my house was bought from an investor who had this building for 120 years, 18 years, it was free and clear.    And he sold to me on owner financing. You know, I don't care where you are. If you go for a mixed use building loan right now, it's grueling underwriting. I didn't do any of that. It was a handshake quick PNS closing in 30 days done. So just,    Jesse (6m 23s): Just to recap there, lease purchase owner financing, and what was the third one subject    Chris (6m 28s): To existing finance. So sub two for slang, sub two. So that means I buy your house for those listening and you owe some money on it, but I'm buying it. And the loan is staying in your name, even though deeds transferring. And so, again, I own the house. I don't have a lease purchase on it. I own it. And I'd appreciate it. And I get all the owner benefits, but the loan stays in your name until someday I cash it out.    Jesse (6m 49s): Interesting. I, you know, I've, I've heard, I've heard this recently called something different, but that, so in the, in, so it's not, it's outright ownership. It's not a lien on the house. It's you actually owning and being like you said, being able to depreciate.    Chris (7m 2s): Yeah, no, definitely own it. It, you know, disclosure do, do people who have a ton of equity typically, are they okay with entering into that with their name and alone? No. Do do sellers who don't know you that well, gladly jump into that environment. No, not all of them. Now, many of them will enter a lease purchase. We'll build up the trust will build up the credibility and we'll transfer that to a sub to later that happens a lot or someone needs immediate debt relief, and frankly, they don't care.    They want it done. They'll do sub two.    Jesse (7m 35s): Yeah. I could see that. I mean, the logical movement from owner financing where, you know, sometimes you have two, three year debt and then having a track record and building up, and then being able to push the relationship further, the lease purchase th this, this piece here is this, would this be similar to an assignment or a wholesale or, or is this something different?    Chris (7m 57s): Good question. So the way at least purchase works and you can circle back and say, yup, bingo or no, I didn't hit it. So all these purchases like this, let's say your house, we agree it's worth about 300 grand. You owe about two 50. My lease purchase says, I'm going to start making your underlying debt payment on your behalf, but everything stayed in your name. Once I find my buyer, we put tenant buyers in these homes rent down. So once I find my buyer, I got, and I stopped making payments on your property with the promise that on or before the end of the term, I'm going to pay off your loan, which is less.    Now that's my benefit. And I'm going to give you a 50 grand equity that we agreed. You had some projecting that as long as you can wait for it. So what's the difference between that and maybe an assignment or a wholesale. We get paid three ways on all our deals. So we trade rocked out in the United States. So we get, we get payments upfront. We get payments over time. We get payments when we sell versus one payday. So, which I did for years, it's lucrative. But I don't know if that answered your question. Yeah.    Jesse (8m 52s): I think it did. In terms of, you know, you hear so many different terms in real estate and really trying to drill down on what exactly it is. And that could go from, you know, everything changes from country to country, state, to state province, the province. And, you know, there might be just a wrinkle. That's a little bit different. You mentioned patented or certain trademarks. How did you go about that process? Having that trademark? Are you talking about the, just the term itself?    Chris (9m 15s): Yeah. Three paydays. So we created that after we re-engineer things after the crash to get paid three times, I just started saying, wait a minute. It's like, I'm on a treadmill. Real estate treated me really good, but it's like, you're on a treadmill. Every January, you start over, right. If you're doing building or wholesaling or you're real tight, did that for years. So this way we get paid three times and yeah, we had attorneys file in the United States, took awhile for three pay days. We have all the things like our logo and things that in the company, but three paydays was an important one because no, one's had it.    Jesse (9m 43s): Yeah. It's almost like you want that recurring revenue in the real estate version of that. Yep, absolutely. So for, for yourself, Chris, when, at what point did you make the move or maybe it was at the beginning, but if not, what point did you make the move from going into real estate? Full-time that, that this was your full-time gig?    Chris (10m 3s): I started tinkering with it around, well, I've always tinkered with it, but late eighties, I started tinkering with it on the side, so to speak like a lot of people do. And then when my father sold his company, 91, the company lasted as a corporate structure. I was used to entrepreneurial mindset. I lasted about maybe three weeks before they fired me. And my kids were probably a two and three at the time. So that, that, you know, you get a severance practice for four weeks and then you're out. So I had to kind of move fast. Luckily I had a couple deals going and then we just ramped it up right    Jesse (10m 34s): On. So for, for the comparison, you know, we talk a lot on this show about real estate, flipping wholesaling, apartment buildings, commercial real estate is the space that I live in. You know, what's, what's the difference, you know, what's the value add here, or what's the, the value proposition or difference with this type of investing?    Chris (10m 54s): Well, first I'll say, cause I have, I have all of those niches that you just said on my podcast, good friends. So I'm not, I'm not against any niche. They're all wonderful. And they're meant for some, all the lessons are going to attach to what they want, in my opinion, why I gravitate towards this and stay with this after all the things I've done is the, the minimal risk. I'll never say none, but the minimal risk because I'm not going on any loans. That's the Milan number two from going to get paid. Why not create three pays per one deal? It's real simple. So if I do a deal today and it's, even if it's a hundred thousand all day, I'm just using that number.    It's over. If it's a build or flip or wholesale, if I do a deal today, and it's three pay days, I've got somewhere around 75 is our average, but 75 to 250 grand paying me over the next three years, next deal next three or four years or five years or 10 years. So you have this spreadsheet. Eventually we have all this income coming in. You can take six months off if you want predictably, and you can see where to, once you track all this. So the three payday and the low risk is the, is the main reason. The third is it was built. Jesse, if you remember my steroid coming out of the crash, it was built not just to kind of weather the storms and then COVID slapped us.    And then we went, okay. Work, not only at work, but we thrive. So it's a great tool for up down and flat markets really is. So    Jesse (12m 7s): What was it about the, the crash or the great recession that, that really amplified or put a spotlight on how lucrative or beneficial this type of investing can be?    Chris (12m 20s): It wasn't, it was from a defense mode. I wish I could tell you that I brilliantly thought of this thing was going to be great after, but I didn't. I, what I said was all right, I just had four years, it took from oh eight til 12. I had four years of just garbage, you know, loans being called for colleges workouts the whole bit. That was, that was stressful. So it was more, what can I do that? Doesn't go that way ever again. It wasn't, oh, I got this brilliant light bulb then organically. It evolved to the three paydays and to building what we, what we built today to be doing deals all over the country.    Jesse (12m 52s): So Chris, when, when you put these deals together, if from a high level, what type of structure do you typically use? You've talked a little bit about that. You know, you have different people on your podcast, you hear corporate structure, LLCs partnerships. W what would you use for this?    Chris (13m 9s): Ah, good question. So in the lease purchase is pretty simple, Jesse, because you're not taking title, nothing's even going to show up on record. So we just had that and we started in an LLC. It's your comfort level? It's like my attorneys to say, when the basket tips over, are you comfortable with what's in it? Right? So we would do a 10 or 12 deals in one LLC on the sub two deals. It gets a little bit more, I won't say complex. It gets a little more detailed. We take it in a land trust. A company is the beneficiary. So it's a little bit more anonymous and on the, on a Francine deal, same thing, LLC.    Jesse (13m 43s): Got it. One of the biggest things that we hear, and I'm sure you've heard it on your podcast, especially at this point in the market, even with, with the, you know, the last 18 months is just the ability to find deals or inability to find deals. How do you approach that? What's the, what's the method for yourself when you're looking at it through the context of terms.    Chris (14m 5s): I agree with you, first of all, wholeheartedly it's we are talking to more sellers to get a deal. Now there's no question about it. So I always tell my students, like literally today, we're talking about this, a fish in a different pond. So I love fishing in the pond of these free and clear properties, for example, because usually they're not dying to sell that are harder to sell. They don't want to pay a relative they're free and clear. They just have, I'll call it an ego. It's a healthy one, but it's usually I want this price. I don't care what's going on. We don't care about price if I, if we get the term.    So they love that because you're satisfying their price issue. So that's one point deficient. The second one is unfortunately now, just so you know, this, there's a lot of people that need help right now. They're kind of like below the radar, they got beat up a little bit with COVID or they had these forbearance agreements that are now coming an end or stressing about. So we're finding a lot of those finding us where we've, where we've set up our name properly in these markets. Those are two great areas to fishing because they want you, they, they want a guy and they want different, do I fight for MLS properties or properties that are, or else is going to have to know?    It's just to your point, too competitive right now.    Jesse (15m 10s): Yeah. And what I found, you know, when you described this type of investing and even in your book, what I think just comes to mind, right. Or right or wrong is I always think of more push marketing or sorry, pull marketing rather than push marketing. I feel like you put, you go out there and you put yourself, you put your name out there and have people come to you at a certain point, but it is first of all, is that, is that the case for what you do and has that evolved since you, since you started,    Chris (15m 39s): That's a great observation. So what happens is typically for us is we'll start a new student. I just had two brand new ones on today, and I'll have them doing what you just referred to as push, because they've got to start cultivating something. And as they rise in the ranks, I'll say for lack of a better expression, we teach them how to become what we call the authority so that yes, now you get more of a pull. You're establishing yourself more and more. You're layering in all this authority stuff, whether it's a book or a podcast or a blog or whatever it might be. So you are the local expert. So when these national companies come in, they're in every market we're in by the I buyers, are we calling all these other companies?    They don't really affect us because we're the local expert once we've got established. So the answer is, it's both it just transitions to more pull a little bit later on in the career. And it usually takes a good couple of years.    Jesse (16m 27s): And from a, a, you draw out a well-oiled machine now, just from a, a cost perspective, you know, does the marketing take up a large, you know, percentage of, of what you do in terms of costs? You know, after a while, I think people that are in your space seem to seem to have a knack for what they're doing. Do you guys put a lot of resources and effort into the marketing?    Chris (16m 49s): We don't mailing wise. I know like the wholesalers that I know, oh gosh. How was that? How was that a group of private group wants, and someone was spending 10, 20, 30 grand a month. Yeah. We spend to do ideals that they create three paydays. And that average us a low of 45,000, a high of two 50 per deal. All three we're spending overhead wise about a grand a month. Our students were spending more now. So what's the ramp up the ramp up would be more, I'd rather put a VA on a virtual assistant, calling more houses than I would put mailing pieces of the door only because I know, I know the metrics now, you know, he was doing terms 30 years in the biz.    I know the metrics. And then a little bit more predictable, in my opinion, in number two, I don't want a new student. It's a bummer. When you have to say to a new student, Hey, you know, you have a budget of five or 10 grand a month. So we don't do heavy marketing. Believe it or not. If we do it's in the hundreds per month, not thousands of tens of thousands.    Jesse (17m 41s): Have you found that this type of approach has, has had a, a state or two that it's something that really works and is, is really conducive to in other states not so much. And what's, if so, w what, what are those?    Chris (17m 60s): Okay. And this is a good question. You're hitting some good high points that I usually don't get. So this is awesome. It's usually not the state. It's usually, I don't care if we're in a flat or down or up market. It's usually going a little bit on the outskirts of, of kind of like, let's say, New York city, would you be doing a lot of terms deals right in the city? I'd rather you go out a little bit, cause you're gonna have a little, it's gonna be a little hectic. I want to go into the outskirts. I want to go where even in a hot market, you have some expired listings in the MLS that, you know, I want to go out a little bit to get out of the frenzy. That's all.    Jesse (18m 31s): Okay. And w w what's the, what's the rationale there? It's just that there's, there's more volume. There's, there's more of what you're looking for there. As, in terms of a,    Chris (18m 40s): You need our guidance more, you know, right now everything's selling so quickly. So like you said, we got a fish in different ponds, but one of those ways to fish differently is just go out a little bit from the frenzy. Now, keep in mind. Remember I said, one of my favorites is free and clear. Yeah. Well, a third of the property in the United States, roughly a third are free and cliff really that's all the, all the country. So how about, how about just talk to the free and clear people. They want to talk to you. They're awesome to deal with. They don't need money, quote unquote. And they would've pulled it out already. Right? So the fun to deal with,    Jesse (19m 9s): That's fascinating. Three out of four, three to four properties that are owned in the states are free and clear.    Chris (19m 16s): One, one third, one third are free and clear. Third. Yeah.    Jesse (19m 20s): Yeah. You haven't even 33%. That's pretty, that's pretty amazing. Now for, for your process to find these, whether the, you know, is it secretary of state, is it a land registry? Where do you go to find the properties that you know, are, have a mortgage paid off?    Chris (19m 35s): We have two different softwares we use that are free in our resource center, but the one that does the free and clear very well is prop stream. Let me do a great job. And then freedom soft is, is where we pull a lot of, out of the less. It's crazy. Now you can, you know, I can only set to the sky today to show. You said, you could find out, you can go geographically and go. I want everybody in this zip code that has a mortgage of this much percentage. And you know, where's pink socks. I mean, you can buy any data now. It's crazy.    Jesse (20m 3s): All right, one sec, let me make a note of pink socks here. You know, what it is, it is pretty amazing how the, I think it's a good thing. A lot of this information has been democratized, just my, you know, myself being a broker. I've never been of the mind that having this stuff unavailable to the public was, or having it just available to us with some sort of, you know, competitive advantage. I feel like if people want to get information and, and can use it properly, I mean, if it really came down to access, we would all be millionaires and ripped because, you know, w where was Google 30 years ago.    So take us to the book. I, I, like I said, in the beginning, it's, it's a very interesting book in the sense that it's, it's kind of a amalgamation of different viewpoints experts. And for those that, that want a link, we can definitely put one in the show notes, but yeah, take us back to this process. Every person I've talked to that has, has written a book. I know it's a long and challenging process. How did that go for you?    Chris (21m 1s): Okay. So here, here's how it went. And here's why, so the first book we did, and then we we've since revised it, and it's a bestseller it's called real estate on your terms. And it was very us like very niche. How do you do what we just talked about? You and I, and so some people on my show said, well, that's great, but you seem bias. I said, I'm biased because that's what I do now, but I'm not so naive to think everybody has to do that. So then we said, all right, so let's take all the podcasts interviews that we have a majority of at the time, and let's take the 24 or so that we love the most that we think that can be the most broad.    And let's have everybody do a chapter. And so that people could look at us and say, it's free info. We're going to go look at the 24 different experts in this book, we did the new rules of real estate. And then we get to pick where we want to go. And if it's termed great, if it's tax liens, great, whatever you want to do, I just want it to be more out there of prosperity mindset versus no, this is the only way you do it, even though clearly I believe that because I'm in it, but that, that everybody has their fit, right. Here's a quick formula. I say, when you read the book, do this say, okay, what niche can I get behind?    Like what, what do I get rubbed about too? Can I find someone in that niche that already did what I want to do with success? Leaves, clues. There's no reason for you to reinvent it, right? I didn't create terms. It was available in the 18 hundreds. And then third then put blinders on for 36 months. If you do that, you'll have a great experience at any niche. So I wanted to expose them all. If that makes sense. Long answer to a good question.    Jesse (22m 25s): No, it does make sense in terms of how you want about picking your, your list there. What was it, what was that process    Chris (22m 32s): Like? I wanted similar to my show recently, I'm really picky with this. Now. I wanted people that have been through market cycles and, or life events, both a great, so example for me, my son had a head injury and no three doctors told my wife and I had never walked talk or eat again. He's running the business with me then nine 11, and then COVID, and then the different market. Okay. So this some crap thing, right. That people can learn from while same in this book. If you look in there that one of the, the guy that does tax lanes, I think he's like 82 years old and still doing it.    Well, you can learn a crap load from him. Like I just wanted to experience versus brand brand new. And it's not that, that bad. My son's been, my son-in-law has been at this for seven years. He knew do hundreds of deals now, but, you know, he learned from some great mentors, but, but by and large, I wanted a lot of experience. That's all. Yeah.    Jesse (23m 18s): I, I live really like that format. I think it's, hopefully I don't butcher this, but I think it's the Titans of real estate. A book I read recently that was similar in layout. You know, it was real estate, but you would have on one side of developer, another side, a investor in industrial and other side office. So it was really good to get every perspective. And like you said, it's, I mean, it's not gonna appeal to everybody. You're gonna be biased in certain ways. There were some chapters where halfway through, I'm like, yeah, you know what? Good, nice to know. Not really, not really my cup of tea. You talk a little bit, or you, you talked a little bit about your son there.    One thing I thought was really cool, just like when we got Jake and Gino on a very family-oriented, I'm the same way your team, you picked some of, some of the people closest to you. Maybe you could talk a little bit about the team that you have in what you're doing and how that's, how that's impacted you and, and just day-to-day life. Yeah. And by the    Chris (24m 9s): Way, I hung out with them too. I think I was on their show on vice versa, that fun Jacobs, you know, they're good guys. You know what? It's somewhat of the answer I gave you that when I said I didn't brainchild that the niche and kind of organically happen, what happened to this business? And the family was, Nick has always been around me. He witnessed a lot of the stuff I went through in oh eight. We literally share an office. That's my son. So when I get busy and 14 ish, I think it was, he started as a broker at the same office as me. I'd go, Hey, I can help you on the buyer side, I get it. I not do this online. And they said, great. We started slow.    He then went full time. And then my son-in-law and my daughter, Kayla were in the bartending and personal training business in this area. That's big, it's a tourist area. And money was good lifestyle crappy. So they said in 15, is there any room for us to come in? I said, you have game for like incentive. We do deals. We make, we don't, we don't, you don't get paid if you're good for that. So they came in, everyone kind of organically took what they like, Nick does buyers still, Zach loves doing what I didn't duplicate me. Kayla ran the office. She's busy with the kids now, but the point is, they all organically, when it wasn't like I had this massive plan kid said, Hey, let's hand fuck these people.    Right. So it's good. That way it's helped because everyone does what they really like to do in their own zone. That's how it started. And now I've got a team of like 12 or 14 people.    Jesse (25m 23s): Yeah, that's great. What are you? You know, what are the opportunities at this point? And we're in 2021 or halfway through the year, it's been a tumultuous 12 to 18 months for a lot of people. But I think every person that's been on this show has talked about opportunities. We're where are you setting your sights on right now?    Chris (25m 42s): Hey, this is what I've been screaming about. And to this day, I think tomorrow night, I'm talking about it with a group. And that is, I think, as the market slowly starts to turn again. And who knows when, if you and I knew we wouldn't run the show together, it would be on a beach somewhere. But when it does, I think in the next nine to 12 months, anyone in the terms, niche or Marietta reasons for another show, and it's the opportunity to get probably a decade worth of income. And the reason I'm saying that is this. I look back to like 13 or 14.    Some of those deals are now cashing out, literally like this month. And I can equate all of the next six weeks, probably half a million to a million more in cash outs for our personal team, not the students all coming from a few years ago. Well, the, the market right now is screaming for deals outside of the conventional bank. My opinion, the amount of deals being done in the us outside of banks used to be like one or 2% in the nineties. It's I don't know the percent now, Jesse, but it's big. It's like in the teens, that's a lot of deals and need the guidance and they, they there's tied a lot of the bank crap going on.    And so I think there's a big opportunity that in our niche, that's why I'm putting full gas pedal down, starting April 20. We just not doubling down versus pulling back.    Jesse (26m 56s): Yeah, I wish there was, there was more re like there are tons of resources out there for real estate, but ones that you can trust because, you know, we're in this space I've been investing for, for quite a number of years. You have been, I have the benefit of being in brokerage. So a lot of these contracts and these things that you do outside of the normal normal realm of financing, or you know, who you're dealing with in real estate, or just something that we're surrounded by. And I think people, you know, that say the PR the private or exempt market for instance, is just one example.    I think people generally speaking are afraid to, to deal with that because it is something that looks like the gray market, something that they don't normally do every day. So that's a good point. I think that that opportunity is, is something that we're going to see more and more of and, you know, leading, leading into my next question with that in mind is you teaching or coaching you mentioned is, is that part of what you're trying to do right now is kind of explain or demystify this type of investing to others.    Chris (27m 58s): Yeah. You said it right. We literally our mission, we have a mission called the kingdom town mission. Our mission is to dominate the, the education field and real estate by helping associates. That's what we deal with. That's what we do deals with. We call them associates by helping them complete 500 deals by 2022, and then we'll rewrite that. But the reason I shared that relative to exactly what you said is so far, we've helped about 1400 families between the deal with the buyer and seller and our students do the deal outside of a bank, right?    It's a lot of families. So then you start affecting them generationally that disruptive market a bit. So we're out on a mission to do that. I know it's a long road. There's only a small percent of younger 20 of these deals that are being done and where we're a tiny fraction of that. But that's where we're going with that because lives are being changed because of it. And you said something about trust. The big thing right now is like, I call it bridging the gap from the time someone does a real estate seminar or course, but when they actually do a deal, some people don't get out of it. I get calls weekly saying I never did a deal.    I follow so-and-so. It's crazy. So, so we don't focus on selling a course. We focus on doing these deals and affecting lives. It's pretty cool. And it's rewarding as heck.    Jesse (29m 9s): Yeah. I, you touched on something great there. And I think there is, I mean, there's oftentimes a analysis paralysis and you have people that listen to podcasts and read books, and it's one thing to, that's all great stuff, but a certain point you got to take action. You don't want to be that guy or gal that three years, you know, you're hearing the same podcast. You're hearing the same people, but you've never actually taken action.    Chris (29m 30s): Yup. So    Jesse (29m 32s): For, I do have just a side question here. You were, again, like I said, you were fortunate to send me, send me the book, wicked smart is I have something to do, set it. Well, I was going to say, so for listeners, I got a shirt and a book, and I was like, you can't look at that shirt and not say wicked smart. You just think so. I think of like Goodwill hunting or a Bostonian accent is that, I mean, it tells a little bit of the background of that you're in Rhode Island right now. So I got to feeling that it's something to do with that. Yeah.    Chris (30m 2s): It's fun. It's yeah. Boston area, wicked smart. We w smart real estate coach was first. And my wife thought of that way back in like 13. We, so we started that. And then we recently trademarked the name. And then, and then the LLC, we changed names to wicked smart. It's our brand. Now the, the, the wicked smart community is all associates. The wicked smart listeners as the podcast list says, it's nothing more than kind of a new England. It don't work because the name was already smart, real estate.    Jesse (30m 29s): Careful here. I've heard a trademark three times here. I've got to be careful. What I put in the show notes. Am I to get a couple of calls from your lawyers? So we, we asked four questions to all the guests that we have on the show before we wrap up. And if you're cool with that, we, we can hit you with those. Then after we'll, we can go over, you know, where people can reach you and a little bit about what we, what we'll be putting in the show notes. Awesome. Okay. Number one, what's something you know, now that you wish    Speaker 2 (30m 57s): You knew at the beginning of your career    Chris (31m 0s): With certainty, the fact that everything you possibly could think of that you want to do, someone's done it. And I know that's easier said than done. I thought that when I was younger, but the only two times I ran into trouble in the rockets and had a tough time. I look back. If he isn't going to realize I didn't have that mental, because I got too cocky. Like I know, and I know literally everything you can think of, it's someone did it go find it and model it    Jesse (31m 23s): Right on ties in nicely to the second question we ask our guests, your view on mentorship for the guys and gals, young and old, what are, what's your take?    Chris (31m 35s): Well, look, I'll give a good example. A direct example. Again, Jesse, we have stuff we can sell people and they can disappear. Never talk to us. It's okay. But the fact is without the hands-on guidance with us or anyone else like that, formula Gabriel, you have three steps. You will leave money on the table. So why not do it more profitable, more, more quickly than the opposite? Why not? It's crazy. So I can attribute. I could pick out in the last 10 years, it'd be at a time I could pick out each mentor I've had in literally attribute for a million million to that particular relationship.    So it's, it's, I couldn't stress that enough. And people say, I can't afford it. Yes, you can. If you simply get resourceful. When I came out of the doldrums of the crash, I found some of that. I said, look, I'm going to crush it with this particular mentor. And as I do deals, I will give you a third or half whatever I told them until you're a hundred percent return on your money. You can get resourceful. If you believe in yourself and your mentor, you can go find the money when it's not certain,    Jesse (32m 33s): For sure another good lead into a resources. So right now, stuff that you've had, you know, whether it's a book, whether it's a podcast, what's a resource you're you're into right now that you'd recommend to, to listeners.    Chris (32m 47s): Okay. Depends on what stage of the business they're at. So it's, so instead of being a general and say, mentor, if you're at a stage where it's at least you and one person on your team, at least two people, and you're at a stage where you're kind of have a goal to get to that seven figure, mark, there's a group I follow still to this day. Since the day I met him at 17. Although he entrepreneurs amazing group, I attribute most of our scaling and success to them. If you're a smaller entrepreneur, solopreneur, it's back to what you and I already talked about. Find someone specifically, that's doing what you're doing and go latch on with them.    Jesse (33m 20s): Great answer. Final question. First car, make and model    Chris (33m 25s): 1978 deep wagon there Jeep wagon ear.    Jesse (33m 31s): I like it right on. Okay, Chris, you've been really generous with your time here for listeners. Where could they find you? What, what can we put in the show notes?    Chris (33m 43s): I just thought of two things, as you were talking, you asked some really cool questions about the book. So one is wicked smart, sorry. Smart realestate coach.com is the main site. So you can hit the webinar there. It's free. You can get a lot of free resources there. I'm big on free. Find out if you want to do this niche, right? Secondly, because you have so many cool questions with the book I tell you what we can do, and my support will love me. But you can put in the show notes, I'll give you the support email. I'll have you want to do it. They can get the hard copy so they can get the hard copy of the new rules and the hard copy of real estate on your terms, we'll mail or our expense.    You won't put a in, we just need an address. So put that in the show notes. And then if they want a free call, there's a really cool strategy expert we have now. And just 18 months ago, he wasn't even in real estate. His name is Brian. And if you've got a smart realestate coach.com forward slash action, you'll get a free strategy call with him. They'll tell you a story and see if it's a fit for you. And you can keep digging free until you decide what you want.    Jesse (34m 38s): My guest today has been Chris Prefontaine, Chris, thanks for being part of working capital. Thanks buddy. Thanks. Pleasure. Thank you so much for listening to working capital the real estate podcast. I'm your host, Jesse for galley. If you liked the episode, head on to iTunes and leave us a five-star review and share on social media, it really helps us out. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on Instagram, Jesse for galley, F R a G a L E, have a good one.  Take care. 

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How does someone rebound from a childhood catching rattlesnakes to deadlifting and squatting 1,001 pounds multiple times?World renowned powerlifter Chris Duffin shares his true passions, how he found real strength in showing his emotions and why steroids are a lifelong problem in this inspiring Living 4D podcast.Learn more about Chris at his website and on social media via Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.For Living 4D listeners: Chris is offering Living 4D listeners 2 months free access to his Kabuki Movement Library by using access code Chek at checkout. Save 20 percent on any order you make at Chris' Bearfoot and Build Fast Formula websites by using the code Chek at checkout. Download a free audiobook of The Eagle and The Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention plus one additional audiobook when you sign up with Audible.Show NotesChris grew up in so much poverty that he was capturing and handling wild rattlesnakes at age 6. (4:02)The origins of Kabuki Strength and Chris' transition to exhibition weight lifting. (10:16)Chris' true passion: Building people up. (18:42)How Chris dealt with addictions. (27:42)The fearlessness Chris feels about expressing strong feelings, like crying, publicly. (38:31)Lifting heavy weights won't help you find the right mate, be popular or earn more respect in ways that really matter. (49:03)Anti-fragile training. (1:00:49)Chris describes the consequences of using steroids for a lifetime. (1:03:16)Strength is resilience. (1:15:18)The importance of neurological training with strength training. (1:37:34)Chris is writing a book that shares his philosophies —including Kabuki — about business and life. (1:45:29)A shift away from group training and toward owning your own fitness. (2:03:27)Chris and Paul share their philosophies on strength development for kids. (2:11:33)ResourcesThe Eagle and The Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention by Chris DuffinMore resources for this episode are available on our website.Thanks to our awesome sponsors: The CHEK Academy, Organifi (save 20 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout), Paleovalley (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code chek15 at checkout), BiOptimizers (save 10 percent on your purchase by using the code Paul10 at checkout), Cymbiotika (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK15 at checkout), One Farm CBD Oils (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK at checkout) and Essential Oil Wizardry (save 10 percent on your purchase by using the code living4d at checkout)..As an Amazon Associate, we earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

How do you move from professional golf to full-time forex trading? In this episode of How To Trade It, Chris Pulver shares his unique journey from a golf professional that traveled the world to a successful Forex trader. He also talks about his long-term trading approach, how he makes decisions, and even different trades that he looks at. Don't miss it!Subscribe to How To Trade ItYou'll want to hear this episode if you are interested in...[1:36] Chris's transition from professional golfer to trader[5:26] Trading Forex (and navigating the FIFO rule)[11:55] Taking a long-term approach to Forex[21:55] How Chris makes trading decisions[26:42] The recent moves on the US dollar[28:42] What Chris is looking at right now[32:06] How does inflation affect the dollar?[34:45] How to learn more from Chris PulverResources & People MentionedOANDAFinancial JuiceConnect with Chris PulverWatch on YouTubeConnect on LinkedInFollow on TwitterConnect With Casey StubbsWebsite: https://caseystubbs.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TradingStrategyGuidesYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/caseystubbsTwitter:  https://www.twitter.com/caseystubbsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TradingStrategyGuidesLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caseystubbsSubscribe to How To Trade ItDisclaimer: Trading carries a high level of risk, and may not be suitable for all investors. Before deciding to invest you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment. Therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. You should be aware of all the risks associated with foreign exchange trading, and seek advice from an independent financial advisor if you have any doubts.Support the show (https://caseystubbs.com)

Chris Stolt is one of the original founders of Enterprise Heroku Support and the co-founder of Elm Insights. Today we are sitting down to talk with both him and his fellow co-founder, Phil Ripperger. In our conversation, we talk through the early days of Enterprise Heroku Support including some of the horror stories they've been through. We also discuss their current product, Platform Experts, over at Elm Insights.   These two men were a part of the original customer support team for Heroku when it was first bought by Salesforce and have worked together ever since. Tune in for an incredible conversation between us three.   Show Highlights:   How Chris and Phil built the customer support department for Heroku during its acquisition. The benefits of engineers going into customer support. The unique technical challenges Heroku presents. How the Enterprise Heroku Support team had to practice transparency. How Shaq boosted their traffic. How they plan for big events like Shaq's Twitter announcement.  How they supported Trailhead's success. Why they started Elm Insights and what Platform Experts does for developers. Why Slack was their tool of choice.    Links: Platform Experts: https://platformexperts.dev Platform Experts Heroku Add-On: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/platform-experts Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherstolt/ Phil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdsphil/

On today's episode of Ritter on Real Estate, we get together with a very special guest, Chris Miles. Chris is a cash flow expert with an established reputation. His company Money Ripples has helped countless clients achieve fast, quality financial results. In the past ten years, his clients have increased their cash flow by more than 200 million dollars! He positions himself as an anti-financial advisor and is a leading authority in the field and is teaching a growing number of entrepreneurs and professionals how to get their money working for them immediately. He is also an author, podcast host of the Chris Miles Money show and has been featured in US News, CNN, Money, Entrepreneur on Fire. Tuning in you'll hear how Chris first became interested in real estate after becoming disillusioned with his work as a financial advisor. Chris shares why traditional approaches like investing in a 401K are illogical and why he advocates for alternative investment strategies. Later Chris outlines some of his tips for freeing up cash today and what he has learned from his favorite authors. For all this and more, tune in today!Key Points From This Episode:A bit about Chris's background and how he first became interested in real estate.How Chris became skeptical of financial planners and their strategy for financial freedom.Chris explains what led him to become the anti-financial advisor.Why traditional financial planning advice does not ensure financial freedom.The strategies Chris teaches on how to ensure financial freedom.Chris breaks down the options out there for a good return on investment, like multi-family and syndication.Chris explains why he advocates looking for alternative investments and avoiding the status quo.How financial institutions benefit from their clients investing in a 401K.Why investing in a 401K to have a good life when you're 70 is illogical.How creating cash flow increases your income.Chris outlines some of his tips for freeing up cash, today.Using a program like Mint to track your finances.We hear from Chris about his book recommendations.How persistence has helped Chris be successful in his financial life.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Chris Miles on LinkedInTurnkeyRich Dad's Who Took My Money?: Why Slow Investors Lose and Fast Money Wins!The Chris Miles Money ShowMintThe Pumpkin PlanProfit FirstMoney RipplesPaul RossKent Ritter

#095 - Chris Bryant's well-paid finance job was having a seriously detrimental effect on his mental health.  He explains how the Covid pandemic made him reassess his career and gave him the confidence to start his own pizza business.What you'll learn[1:40] What ‘Lost Nomads Pizza' is and their business model during the pandemic.[3:36] Chris's background in finance and banking, and what it was like working in that field.[7:08] The career progression that was available to Chris at his old job.[9:48] Why it's so difficult to leave a high-paying job.[12:06] What made Chris reassess his priorities and change his lifestyle.[14:36] How counseling helped Chris realise what was causing the problems in his life.[19:20] How Chris ended up quitting his job and started studying online.[21:32] What helped Chris overcome the fear of being unemployed.[24:30] What the first steps of retraining in a new field looked like for Chris.[25:50] The deadline Chris set himself for when he needed to be back making an income.[27:52] How Chris had the idea to start a pizza business.[31:43] How Chris avoided feeling too much pressure starting a hospitality business during the pandemic.[35:39] Chris's plans for the future of his business.[38:02] The quotes that have most inspired Chris.Resources mentioned in this episode:Reed CoursesUdemyFor the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:https://changeworklife.com/covid-stories-reassessing-your-lifestyle-and-career/Re-assessing your career?  Know you need a change but don't really know where to start?  Check out these two exercises to start the journey of working out what career is right for you!Take me to the exercises!Also, make sure to join the Change Work Life Facebook group and check out all the resources mentioned by our guests on the Change Work Life Resources page.Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.I'm running a short survey to find out a bit more about you, my loyal listener, so I can provide content better to help you with your career journey.It will take you less than a minute to complete (it's literally three questions) so please go ahead and complete the survey here:https://changeworklife.com/surveyThank you so much for your time!

Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990's and selectively to date), has owned a Realty Executives Franchise (Massachusetts 1994-2000) as broker/owner which maintained high per-agent standards and eventually sold to Coldwell Banker in 2000. The 2000's included coaching ½ million and higher REALTORs® in order to scale & automate their business throughout the US and Canada. He also participated (and still does selectively) in doing condo conversions (multi-family homes to condos) and “raise the roof” projects (converting single-family ranches to colonials in growth neighborhoods). Chris has been a big advocate of constant education and participates regularly in high-end mastermind groups, as well as consults with private mentors. He runs his own buying and selling businesses with his family team, which buys 2-5 properties monthly, so they're in the trenches every single week. They also help clients do the same thing around the country. Chris and his family team have done over 80 million in real estate transactions. They mentor, coach, consult, and actually partner with students around the country (by application only) to do exactly what they do. What you will learn in this episode: How Chris's life was turned upside down by the 2008 crash, and how Chris's wife suggested he use his experience in bouncing back to help others How the 2008 crash forced Chris to “redefine the rules” of how he does business by cutting out the banks How getting into real estate investing again after his big losses during the 2008 crash meant learning to do things differently How Chris created and fine-tuned his methods and was able to trademark his three payday system, and how he began teaching his system to others Why bank loans are an unnecessary headache that the terms niche allows you to avoid, and how the terms niche can change your life How to get a free copy of Chris Prefontaine's upcoming book “Sell With Authority for the Real Estate Investor” How investor Brian O'Neill lost $36,000 in home equity through bank and real estate agent fees, and how he found a better way through the real estate terms niche How to find help getting into real estate investing the right way, by working with Chris Prefontaine and the Wicked Smart Community How the Wicked Smart Community is currently controlling upwards of $80 million in real estate deals, and how they are completely disrupting the market and changing lives Why getting into the terms niche can help you create generational wealth for your family, and how you can begin learning with Chris and his family team Additional resources: Follow Chris and Zach on Club House to learn even more about deal structures and how to get 3 paydays from your real estate investments. If looking to secure some lines of credit for your business, check out Fund and Grow – Visit our Resource page at https://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/resources Schedule a FREE Strategy Call: SmartRealEstateCoach.com/action Register for our free masterclass: www.SmartRealEstateCoach.com/mastersclass Real Estate on Your Terms by Chris Prefontaine SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoach.com/QLS Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast Sponsor: Paul G. Dion CPA, CTC    

Chris Pratt is an actor, comedian and multiple award winner who is impacting millions of lives through his movies and charitable endeavors. Listen to this episode and learn:   How Chris got into acting and advice he has for aspiring actors.  His favorite movie to film and his favorite actors to work with. Who made him laugh the most on Park and Recreation and how he was able to shoot lines without laughing.  Why it's important to Chris to visit and support children's hospitals.  About his son's premature birth and how young kids going through health challenges inspire him.   

During Chris's 24-year tenure in the Bureau, he was trained in the art of negotiation by not only the FBI but Scotland Yard and Harvard Law School. He is also a recipient of the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement and the FBI Agents Association Award for Distinguished and Exemplary Service. Chris has taught business negotiation in the MBA program as an adjunct professor at University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.    Chris Voss is the best FBI Hostage Negotiator of our time and discusses what the real definition of that is as well as why it is so important to Never Split the Difference!   00:00 Intro 01:30 Brad's sworn in cop story 03:30 Chris Voss' journey on becoming a cop 05:45 How Chris became interested in Negotiation with the FBI 11:00 The problem with police officers today… and why it is counterproductive 11:44 “Nothing is natural and everything is trained, but that might be 100% accurate.” - Chris Voss 13:45 “Negotiation should be an information gathering process.” - Chris Voss 14:21 “People love to be listened to, not talked at.” - Chris Voss 15:09 Go get Chris' book, “Never Split the Difference” 16:36 Bomb 1: “If you make a deal, you are in a relationship for the duration of the deal so having the other side unhappy is a recipe for losing.”  18:22 “Nobody ever has a problem with the price, the problem is what they are getting for the price.” - Chris Voss 19:32 20-50% of all salespeople are not open to learning and will not make it in every group 21:00 The process of becoming a master negotiator https://www.blackswanltd.com 27:08 An expansion of the definition of negotiation 32:00 The most valuable result from mastering negotiation 33:35 Bombs 2: It's not just one and done, and if you treat it like it is you will leave money on the table for a long time. 35:55 Bombs 3: If you're playing golf and you're not out on the range shooting balls then you won't be as good as you want to be 37:19 Bomb 4: The companies that PRIZE learning are more profitable (training has to be in your value system) 42:54 Bomb 5: Do something right three people know about it, do something wrong and twelve people know about it. 44:39 Bomb 6: We don't give people a hard time on price, we want to know what goes with the price.

Fashion retailers have been through a difficult period, but at this point, their customers miss them as much as they miss their customers. Chris Kaighn is the Senior Vice President – Boutiques, Real Estate, and Strategic Partnerships at Francesca's. Listen in to hear what she has to say about changes she's seen in the landscape during her time in this role, the top demands of her customers, and what to look for in associates. Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode: ✔ Chris's background and current role ✔ Who Chris serves in her role at Francesca's ✔ Recent changes Chris has seen ✔ What parts of the experience Chris focuses on ✔ Top demands of customers ✔ What “free to be you” is all about ✔ What differentiates Francesca's ✔ Technology that needs to be implemented in Francesca's locations ✔ How important it is to address diversity and inclusion ✔ Top skills that Chris looks for in associates ✔ Empowering the workforce ✔ How to get people excited about coming back to locations ✔ How Chris is thinking about the future of Francesca's ✔ Experiences that Chris loves from other brands ✔ What Chris thinks people should do in Columbus Resources: Chris Kaighn QUOTES: “I think for that customer, it's critical that we stand for something.” “We need to make our brand the employer of choice out there.” “How we serve is just as important as who we serve.”

Chris Barrett is the Clinical Director for Britely Dentures + Implants Studio, a practice that exclusively offers implants and dentures services. Some of the services they offer are full mouth dental implants, traditional dentures, and single tooth replacement. He has provided over 1,000 implants to his name and over 1,000 hours' worth of continuing implant education. Chris also serves as a clinical instructor at Implant Pathway to guide other dentists to safe and effective implant treatments. Today, Chris joins us to share why he chose to exclusively offer implants in his practice and the significance of mentorship. He describes why he had to travel around the country a lot and why he eventually settled down in Arizona. He explains why he initially found no interest in doing implants and why implants piqued his interest. He shares his experience in looking for a dental coach and the importance of networking in the dentistry industry. He also discusses building your team and the roles you want to fill to maximize efficiency."Realistically, if you want to build a mentorship, figure out how to make life easier for the other person." - Chris BarrettThis week on T-Bone Speaks Dentistry Podcast:How Chris overcame the fear of moving from one city to another.Why Chris initially thought implants looked boring.What Chris would recommend to those who don't have connections to mentors.What it's like being an implant-only practice and opening in the year of COVID-19.How Chris structures his work week for efficiency and customer satisfaction.The experts you should be actively searching for to build your team.Our Favorite Quotes:"Make it a point to build relationships to get into other surgeons' offices." - Chris Barrett"It's imperative to have an onsite removable lab technician." - Chris Barrett"For every case you do, there are so many patients you have to see and screen to get to this point." - Tarun AgarwalConnect with Chris Barrett:Britely Dentures + Implants StudioImplant PathwayInstagramSubscribe, Connect & Share Your Favorite EpisodesThanks for tuning into this week's episode of T-Bone Speaks Dentistry. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music to subscribe to the show and leave your honest review. For more great content and helpful tips to grow your dental practice, visit our website. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn, subscribe on YouTube, and don't forget to share your favorite episodes with other dental practitioners.

The power to become successful lies within you, and in today's episode, we dive deeper into the power of your mindset with Chris Ross. We chat about some powerful topics that will literally change the way you look at life and success. We also talk about leading with your heart, the dripping faucet analogy, and living a life of integrity. Chris drops a great tip on how to make sales without actually selling for anyone who is in sales. Curious? Make sure you tune in!   Chris Ross is the creator of 2 Nationally Accredited Sales/Business programs that he made a deal to sell to a trade school corporation that operates in over 60+ locations online and on-campus. Throughout the time it took to make that deal, he started his podcast show to train admissions staff with over 12,000 employees to adopt my "Win-Win Effect" methodology. He was blown away and blessed with having over a 2+million downloads in his first year across all major platforms.    If you are a purpose-driven influencer and you want to gain more exposure to Focus on Community, Collaboration to make a Collective Impact -

Chris Boyd is the Co-founder and CEO of Drink Monday, a company bringing delightful, alcohol-free adult beverages to consumers globally. The alcohol-free industry is not a trend. It's a movement that refuses to choose between good health and great taste, with a mindset toward self-care, staying sharp, and living life without compromise. Monday means people no longer have to deal with that dilemma. With Monday Gin™ and their Monday Whiskey, you can drink delicious cocktails, socialize without stress, and wake up feeling fresh and hangover-free.Chris and the Drink Monday Team believe their products can compete with alcohol, and industry data, like the fact that brand growth in that sector has increased by 506% in the last six years, seems to back up that idea. Join us in this episode to learn more about Drink Monday and how they managed to rank in the top 1% of Shopify sites, with a conversion rate 2x the industry average.Key points discussed- The vision that's powering the non-alcoholic movement (00:00)- Why did you choose to crowdfund with Republic? (00:53)- How Chris got started with non-alcoholic beverages (03:25)- Persistence was indispensable for this project (08:46)- Reasons why the alcohol-free industry is so promising (12:40)- How does this compare to buying alcoholic drinks? (20:42)- Drink Monday's experience raising on Republic (22:39)- The next steps for Drink Monday (25:57)Additional resourcesLearn more about Drink Monday and its work here:https://drinkmonday.co/To keep in the loop for the latest developments in crowdfund investing, make sure to follow this podcast and listen in every week. Leave a rating and a review and let's bring profit back to the people together.Ready to start investing in your future? Then head over to www.republic.co and find a startup you're passionate about.This content is provided for educational purposes only by Republic. Nothing discussed should be construed as legal, tax, accounting, or investing advice. The views of the presenters may not be the views of Republic and its affiliates. Always consult with trusted professional advisors before making investments. Private investments are inherently illiquid and may result in a total loss. All rights reserved.

There are a handful of Sundays each season in which fantasy players have crucial decisions to make around weather. Instead of reacting then, Chris Allen helps us understand what to look for ahead of time. This is an evergreen episode.   Show Notes In this episode, we discuss: How Chris found this weather/fantasy football niche What weather actually affects player performance How certain stadiums and fields change the narrative Myths about weather   Links mentioned in the episode:   Silva's Top 150 - https://establishtherun.com/evan-silvas-fantasy-football-top-150/ ETR's Underdog Best Ball Top 300 Rankings - https://establishtherun.com/etrs-top-300-for-underdogfantasy/ 2021 Rankings Homepage - https://establishtherun.com/2021-draft-kit-rankings-homepage/ Subscriber-Only Discord Instructions - https://establishtherun.com/my-account/discord/   Want ETR on your team this season?  Our 2021 Draft Kit has you covered with continuously updated: Best Ball Rankings Dynasty Rankings Evan Silva's Top 150 Custom Cheat Sheets Strategy, Analysis, and More... All in one place.    Join the team and gain instant access to fantasy football's premier playbook. BUY NOW: $34.99 - https://establishtherun.com/subscribe/   Note: Our Bundle Package is live! It includes the Draft Kit and the In-Season package at a discount. If you already purchased the Draft Kit and wish to add In-Season, email support@establishtherun.com.    IMPORTANT: All ETR Draft Kit subscribers get a free credit at Underdog Fantasy. If you've purchased a sub, visit https://establishtherun.com/how-to-claim-your-free-10-underdog-fantasy-credit/ for instructions on how to claim your credit.       - Follow ETR on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EstablishTheRun    - Follow Adam on Twitter - https://twitter.com/adamlevitan    - Follow Evan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/evansilva    - Follow Chris Allen on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChrisAllenFFWX Timestamps: Chris' start in weather + football (4:00) | What weather matters? (12:08) | Explaining wind data (20:23) | Best and Worst stadiums for wind (23:17) | When rain impacts games (28:41) | Strong Arm QBs and weather (30:39) | Coaching tendencies in bad weather (35:00) | Wind impacting Deep Threats (36:44) | Weather induced bad beats (38:57) | Using weather as a tie-breaker (40:56) | Warm weather teams playing in cold weather (42:31)

Chris Voss is CEO of the Black Swan Group and author of the national best-seller “Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It,” which was named one of the seven best books on negotiation. A 24-year veteran of the FBI, Chris retired as the lead international kidnapping negotiator. Drawing on his experience in high-stakes negotiations, his company specializes in solving business communication problems using hostage negotiation solutions. Their negotiation methodology focuses on discovering the “Black Swans,” small pieces of information that have a huge effect on an outcome. Chris and his team have helped companies secure and close better deals, save money, and solve internal communication problems. Chris has been featured in TIME, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company, Fortune, The Washington Post, SUCCESS Magazine, Squawk Box, CNN, ABC News and more. What you will learn in this episode: How Chris's fascination with the art of negotiation led to his career as a hostage negotiator and crisis responder Why poor negotiators often do things that work against their own best interests due to arrogance, and why developing your business negotiation skills is crucial How Chris has made the transition from hostage negotiator to business and real estate negotiator Why as much as 20% of all deals and opportunities are “fake” and are only being used for research and testing purposes How Chris and Black Swan Group offer a number of free resources and options to give you a taste of how developing your negotiation skills can benefit your deals Why getting your mindset right is a crucial step for developing your negotiation skills, and why you need to see how others have achieved success to achieve your own success What steps Chris follows to negotiate in any given situation, and why his strategy starts with being playful How Chris's son running late for a flight and missing it led to a new negotiation strategy they call “thought-shaping questions” Resources: Check out Chris Voss's previous appearance in Episode 118 of the Smart Real Estate Coach podcast: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/podcasts/chris-voss/ Website: https://blackswanltd.com/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/thefbinegotiator/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/christophervoss/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-black-swan-group/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/BlackSwanLTD YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/Blackswanltd1 Twitter: @VossNegotiation Additional resources: Follow Chris and Zach on Club House to learn even more about deal structures and how to get 3 paydays from your real estate investments. If looking to secure some lines of credit for your business, check out Fund and Grow – Visit our Resource page at https://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/resources Schedule a FREE Strategy Call: SmartRealEstateCoach.com/action Register for our free masterclass: www.SmartRealEstateCoach.com/mastersclass Real Estate on Your Terms by Chris Prefontaine SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoach.com/QLS Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast Sponsor: Paul G. Dion CPA, CTC

Today's guest is not someone who started traditional non-profit or initiated a movement for social good, but they live their life in such a way that they have inspired many of their followers to follow their hearts, to do what they love, and to take leaps of faith; and you know by now that your host, Light Watkins, is all about a good leap of faith! Please join in in welcoming Chris Classic, father, founder, perfumer, artist, creative director, and personal inspiration. In today's episode, Chris shares how he took a stand on what he wanted for himself and literally leapt out a window to pursue his vision, which turned out to be one of the best decisions of his life.Key Points From This Episode:Chris talks about his childhood, growing up as a Jehovah's Witness in Long Island, New York.Why Chris says he learned to separate himself from rejection at a young age.He shares his first idea of a dream job; to write commercials for an advertising agency.How rap music sparked his decision to run away from home and live with his aunt.Hear about the relevance of 310 Riverside Drive, which was the address of Zoe Ministries.How witnessing Rev Run become a minister confirmed for Chris that rap wasn't unholy.What the beginning of Chris' career as a rapper looked like and where his name originated.Chris shares how he viewed success as attainable and inevitable at that point in his life.What he learned from Run DMC about keeping the crowd engaged.How he learned that he could be professional and still have a self-identity.The experience of collaborating with Run on the Let's Get Married remix and how it launched Chris' career as a songwriter.Why Chris says his life would've taken a different trajectory if Jam Master Jay weren't killed.Find out how Millésime Impérial by Creed got Chris into exploring niche fragrances.Where his following on social media came from: his life as a dad and a creative and a sociable person in New York City.How Chris came to create his own perfume thanks to an encounter with one of his followers.Chris' belief that his perfume brand has been successful because it is a service to others that comes from a place of love.Someone connecting with his fragrances versus someone licensing one of his songs.How the name, Savoir Faire, reflects the plight of Black creatives.Discover what the significance of the crown is on Savoir Faire's bottles.The trick to selling something as experiential and subjective as a fragrance online.The legacy Chris hopes to build for Black men and women to aspire to create for themselves.Find out what he has learned after 10,000 orders: that he is still knocking on doors.Chris reflects on his core audience, which isn't one that he targets.Hear his advice for other aspiring perfumers (and creatives in general): make something you absolutely love!How Chris views success these days: the ability to control his time and spend it with family.

Coming off of an enormous series C, and a rebrand, we have Clearco (formerly Clearbanc) and their Agency Partnerships Lead Christopher Vigmond. Along with Chris is one of his top producing agency partners T. J. Jones, Co-Founder at EmberTribe. TJ and Chris have been partnered for 2 years now, but things really took off when they started working together to refine Clearco's partnering process. Quote: “For now, I need to take a month or two and drive value to TJ and his team and not ask for anything in return.” - Christopher Vigmond In this episode, we uncover: What TJ and Clearco realized that they can do for agencies for the agency clients to build partnerships around. How Clearco increased the close rates for their referrals to and through their agency partners. What partner persona's Clearco focused on and why. Where Clearco's data plays a role in new services TJ and other agencies sell clients/brands/ How partnerships played a factor in Clearco's series C. What about Clearco's partner program was so attractive to TJ. How Chris and Clearco integrates into the agencies processes. When partnerships have gone wrong for TJ's agency and why. When and how Clearco features new partners to their audience. And finally, both of their advice to new partner teams. Sections: [00:04:38] Intros [00:07:54] The state of Clearco's partner program [00:13:23] How much of a factor did partnerships play in Clearco's series C [00:15:01] Partner enablement at Clearco [00:19:55] How TJ justified hours into partnerships [00:23:32] Activating partnerships for Clearco [00:27:14] Co-marketing [00:33:30] Types of partnerships that work well for TJ/EmberTribe [00:39:04] What's next for sales/marketing partnerships at Clearco [00:43:06] Closing remarks on partnership best practices Resources: Sendoso.com - The leading sending platform. Partnerstack.com - Partner tracking and payouts. Sharework.co - A free account mapping solution.

Resources: ✅ Join the Sales Revolution: If you're ready to do sales differently, you're in the right place. This community is for entrepreneurs and sales pros to connect, grow, + learn the new (and highly improved) connection-based way of selling. https://www.facebook.com/groups/salesrevolutiongroup   Today's consumers want to feel seen. They want to deal with sales people that understand them and listen to their hopes, dreams, and pain points. Effective selling today requires you to use empathy and emotional triggers to tap into the feelings that motivate buyers.    In this episode, Chris Ross and I will teach you how you can feel the emotion of the sale while guiding the prospect toward the close.   What are you waiting for?  Let's dive in.   In this episode, we cover:   Introduction [00:00] How Chris got into sales & how he got good at it [02:43] The story behind Chris' $100,000+ per month in commissions [04:55] Using empathy & emotional intelligence to sell [06:37] The most pervasive issue in sales today [07:54] Crafting sales presentations that have emotional punch [09:56] Hopium: Hope is not a strategy [13:08] Don't fall in love with the solution you are selling [13:58] How to stand out in sales [17:12] Differences between selling 20 years ago vs. now [22:08] Role of trust in sales & persuasion today [26:52] Importance of knowing the science of effective selling [30:37] Keep moving, growing and learning [36:31]   ✅ If you're looking to take your sales to the 7th level, book a “Clarity Call” below and let's see if you're a good fit for our sales training program!

Chris Blec is a researcher and the founder of DeFi Watch, a project dedicated to identifying points of centralization and risk factors in DeFi, in particular the presence of admin keys. In this episode:  How Chris got interested in DeFi  How he first noticed the risk of admin key usage  The changing nature of admin keys and multisigs  Whether project multisigs reduce dependence on trust  Why worry about Admin keys in the first place?  Have DeFi projects improved their key management and trustlessness over time?  Chris' letter to 0xPolygon Chris' plans with DeFi Watch  Should Bitcoiners care about DeFi? About admin key failures?  Why transparency is a self-regulatory measure    Sponsor notes: Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets by developing award-winning custody and next-gen trading infrastructure. Headquartered in London, the firm is scaling rapidly across Asia and North America to bring its suite of products to a wider pool of institutional investors. To learn more visit copper.co or reach out on Twitter, @CopperHQ Aave is a decentralized, open source, and non-custodial protocol where users can deposits and borrow digital assets, and earn interest on those assets. Head over to aave.com to experience and learn more about DeFi.

Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990's and selectively to date), has owned a Realty Executives Franchise (Massachusetts 1994-2000) as broker/owner which maintained high per-agent standards and eventually sold to Coldwell Banker in 2000. The 2000's included coaching ½ million and higher REALTORs® in order to scale & automate their business throughout the US and Canada. He also participated (and still does selectively) in doing condo conversions (multi-family homes to condos) and “raise the roof” projects (converting single-family ranches to colonials in growth neighborhoods). Chris has been a big advocate of constant education and participates regularly in high-end mastermind groups, as well as consults with private mentors. He runs his own buying and selling businesses with his family team, which buys 2-5 properties monthly, so they're in the trenches every single week. They also help clients do the same thing around the country. Chris and his family team have done over 80 million in real estate transactions. They mentor, coach, consult, and actually partner with students around the country (by application only) to do exactly what they do. What you will learn in this episode: Why you shouldn't follow the masses or listen to anyone who tells you they know what the future holds or who tries to predict the unpredictable Why you should focus not on “how” but on finding your “why,” and how focusing on that “why” will lead you to “how” you'll get there Chris shares his “why,” what motivates him to do the work he does, and he shares how the month of April 2021 illustrates his dedication to his why Why it is important to avoid getting caught up in what Tony Robbins calls “the tyranny of the how” and letting limiting beliefs prevent you from achieving your goals Why you should embrace the challenges you face and understand that they are opportunities to grow and create new successes Why we all start out curious, hungry learners as kids before life and all its distractions get in the way, and why we should try to recapture that hunger to learn Why “exposure” and who you choose to spend time with makes a tremendous difference to your success and your future What big successes Chris has experienced, and how he and the Wicked Smart community can help you achieve your own incredible rewards if you're ready to do the work How Chris and his team use “stacking” to keep growing and mastering new skills, and why you should read “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Dr. Carol Dweck Why unplugging completely (no email, no phone) from your business will give you clarity on where you are and what you need to do Recommended Reading: Mindset by Dr. Carol Dweck: https://amzn.to/3f3AkA8 Additional resources: Follow Chris and Zach on Club House to learn even more about deal structures and how to get 3 paydays from your real estate investments. If looking to secure some lines of credit for your business, check out Fund and Grow – Visit our Resource page at https://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/resources Schedule a FREE Strategy Call: SmartRealEstateCoach.com/action Register for our free masterclass: www.SmartRealEstateCoach.com/mastersclass Real Estate on Your Terms by Chris Prefontaine SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoach.com/QLS Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast Sponsor: Paul G. Dion CPA, CTC

Today we have some extra BEAM magic for all of you! Joining us on the show is Chris Miller, who currently works as an Associate Software Engineer at Corvus Insurance. We get into a great conversation with Chris about his history with programming, his long-held interest in mathematics, and how he is trying to bring these two worlds closer together through his work. Chris weighs in with some very important expert perspectives on a range of subjects, from monads and monoids to Vim and Emacs, before we get into the different avenues of Chris' work. Along with an old college friend, Chris runs the informative YouTube Channel, Coding Cave, helps other coders through mentorship and tutoring, and is also multilingual, speaking Mandarin, Spanish, German, and English! We get some illumination on interesting and important concepts such as Turing completeness, programming language theory, and more, all delivered with an accessibility that belies the high level of the material. So for all this, plus our bonus mini-segment with Semsee employee, Sidney Leatherwood, at the end, be sure to listen in today! Key Points From This Episode: The story behind Chris' Twitter handle and his admiration for Leonhard Euler! How Chris is bringing his love of math into his programming work. A crash course on monads and monoids! Chris' teaching and tutoring work and his aim of bringing fun examples into learning. The YouTube channel that Chris runs with an old friend, called Coding Cave. Chris' take on the Vim versus Emacs debate. How Chris learned to program from his father, and his return to it during college. Unpacking programming language theory and the idea of Turing completeness. Chris clears up the difference between computer science and mathematics. Reasons that Chris enjoys working in Elixir compared with other languages. Chris' goals for his YouTube channel and his hopes to spread advanced education. Magic and languages; a programming language theory perspective. Chris' day job as a software engineer at Corvus Insurance using Elixir and Elm. The array of languages that Chris can speak; Mandarin, German, and Spanish. The process of language acquisition and Chris' methods for learning. Why Chris believes starting with the function is the best way to learn a new programming language. The aspects of Elixir and the BEAM that have Chris the most excited at the moment! This week's mini-feature with Sidney Leatherwood and his use of Elixir in production. The comparative rating service that Semsee offers their customers. Hiring in Elixir currently; perks, challenges, and resources in the space. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ Chris Miller on Twitter — https://twitter.com/blackeuler Elixir Wizard Conference — http://smr.tl/conf-podcast Leonhard Euler — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeonhardEuler Curry–Howard Correspondence — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howardcorrespondence Haskell — https://www.haskell.org/ Brooklyn Zelenka — https://medium.com/@expede Coding Cave — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwIO8jv71cbOyEwJdrYovg Conversations with the Creator: José Valim — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpoKKkqAX4 Functor — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor Spacemacs: Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil — https://www.spacemacs.org/ hlissner/doom-emacs — https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs Turing Completeness — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turingcompleteness Cal Newport — https://www.calnewport.com/ Boolean Algebra — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booleanalgebra Clojure — https://clojure.org/ Corvus Insurance — https://www.corvusinsurance.com/ APL — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL(programming_language) Gleam - https://gleam.run/ Sidney Leatherwood on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/leather-s Semsee — https://semsee.com/ Special Guest: Chris Miller.

Welcome to today’s show!   WHAT WE’LL LEARN: Chris described his deepest roots as being introduced to spirituality by way of “special event Catholicism” God and the idea of a higher power was a novelty to Chris How his relationship with sobriety was one of coercion by being court ordered into fellowships, group therapy, jail, and house arrests. Chris describes his high school locker as a small black marketplace for anything he needed. How being “uncomfortable in his own skin” led to finding relief from alcohol. How Chris fell into a 12 step meeting around his hometown and had friends in that meeting-all young people. This was the first time Chris said to himself, “This could be fun. Sobriety can be cool” How his last year of addiction was the darkest place he's ever been. This led to a call for help from God laden with curse words. From that day on, Chris has been sober. Chris states he did not find spirituality until he found recovery. When going to Hazelden, Chris flashed back to the 1st time he really got sober and hearing the professionals say, “The disease is doing pushups in the parking lot while you’re inside trying to get sober.” Chris clenched onto sobriety as tightly as he could during his stay. Even though his default thoughts were negative. What Chris’s first spiritual experience was like on his walk “taking the long way home.” How the gift of recovery helps one take pause to live a better life. Key Quotes: “The disease is doing pushups in the parking lot while you’re inside trying to get sober.” “I was really self-conscious in addiction and found my voice in recovery.” RESOURCES MENTIONED   A.I.R. Survey Please take this 45 second survey to help direct the future of the AIR podcast.  Taking The Long Way Home by Chris Blavelt Augustine Recovery Augustine Recovery-Facebook Augustine Recovery-Instagram Chris@augustinerecovery.com    For more info, head over to atheistsinrecovery.com and subscribe to our email list. And thank you for listening!   Leave an honest review on ITUNES.  Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.   Subscribe to the A.I.R. newsletter where you will learn to identify patterns of dysfunctional thinking, change the dysfunctional thinking into something more positive, and find hope in recovery.   If you enjoyed today’s episode, please share it with friends, family, and other professionals by using the social media buttons on this page.

Highlights:  “We're learning that Chris Cuomo didn't give us the full reason why he was barred by CNN from covering his brother's scandals. It is not just a matter of Chris being Andrew's brother it's also because Chris Cuomo actually served as an advisor to his Governor brother over his scandals.”“How ironic, given that Chris Cuomo markets himself as the purveyor of uncomfortable truths on his show Cuomo Primetime, he presents himself as all about speaking truth to power and we now know that’s all BS.”"It gets even worse when you realize that Chris Cuomo was the champion of women, the champion of the Me Too movement. He actively pushed back against that movement and deliberately defended his brother against the onslaught of sexual misconduct allegations.""CNN has blatantly crossed the line between covering politicians and carousing with them and as long as Chris Cuomo is the face of CNN they will be without a doubt the most distrusted name in fake news."Timestamps:       [03:03] How Chris Cuomo blurred the lines of journalism ethics[05:42] Washington Post’s report on how Chris is advising his brother on his scandals[06:45] How Andrew Cuomo rose to prominence because of his appearances to Chris’ show[07:42] How Chris's colleagues are distancing themselves from him and Erik Wemple’s response to CNN’s statement[09:40] Why this full-blown scandal may end Chris Cuomo's careerResources: Join us for our NEW PATRIOT ENTREPRENEUR LIVE Benefit Conference June 4-5 from the comfort of your OWN HOME! Seating is LIMITED! Get your EARLY BIRD Registration Special here: https://conferences.turleytalks.com/june-patriot-liveGet Your Brand-New PATRIOT T-Shirts and Merch Here: https://store.turleytalks.com/Become a Turley Talks Insiders Club Member: https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com/welcomeThank you for taking the time to listen to this episode.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review.Do you want to be a part of the podcast and be our sponsor? Click here to partner with us and defy liberal culture!If you would like to get lots of articles on conservative trends make sure to sign-up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts.  

In episode #122 of The CXChronicles Podcast we welcomed Chris Hull, Chief Product Officer at Otus in Chicago, IL. The all-in-one K-12 learning platform to teach, grade, analyze, and plan.With Learning Management, Assessment, and Data in one place, educators and families can communicate with each other easily, reducing the chaos of multiple platforms.Episode #122 Highlight Reel:1.) How Chris and his founding team came to build Otus 2.) Learning about our education system 3.) Injecting technology into the classroom 4.) Education experience curation in today's world  5.) How feedback is the single most important driver in positive change Huge thanks to Chris for coming on the show and featuring his work and efforts in pushing the education technology space into the futureClick here to learn more about Chris Hull Click here to learn more about Otus If you enjoy The CXChronicles Podcast, please stop by your favorite podcast player and leave us a review, this is the easiest way we can find new listeners, guests and future CX'ers!Watch  The CXChronicles Podcast On Youtube HereSupport the show (https://cxchronicles.com/)

Day Trader Mastering Forex, Stocks, and Options In episode 298 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, I sit down with full-time day trader Chris Capre. We discuss a variety of topics that will be very useful if you aspire at mastering Forex, stocks, or options trading in the near future. Don't forget to share this trader interview with other people who might benefit from it! Watch the video interview! Previous Interview with Chris Capre 054: Work Harder On Your Mindset Than You Do On Your Strategy Previous interview with Jason Graystone (#131) Topics Covered In This Episode 0:15 Introduction 0:29 How Chris Capre trading has changed since his last interview with Etienne 5:35 Chris trading philosophy for all asset classes 7:14 Would Chris trade the same assets if he was in different time zones? 8:14 How was Chris learning curve from FX, to Stocks to Options 11:03 How Chris learned to trade Options 14:58 How Chris decides which market to trade every day 18:38 What tools Chris uses to filter the stocks he trades 20:40 Chris advice to traders who want to stick to 1 market 23:25 How to get a good "scanner" for forex [For the screen share please check the youtube video interview] 25:30 How Chris prepares and filters his trades (screen share) 27:45 Analysis of NMRD, how Chris traded it and the value of a scanner 31:20 How to use options to get paid in trading (with trade example) 36:24 How can you manage your risk using options 42:28 How Chris sometimes enters options trades without a spot position 43:38 How to get started with trading options 45:55 The key importance of adapting to the market and much more What is one thing you are going to implement after listening to this podcast? Leave a comment below, or join me in the Facebook group! Desire To Trade's Top Resources DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!) Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist One-Page Trading Plan (free template) Recommended brokers: Pepperstone (use our link to get a special bonus) AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus) Desire To TRADE Academy How To Find Chris Capre? 2ndSkiesForex Facebook Twitter What is one thing you are going to implement after listening to this podcast episode? Leave a comment below, or join me in the Facebook group!  

Chris Thomas is a Co-Founder at Partner at Assembly Ventures and he previously co-founded Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute. Key topics in this conversation include: Rethinking the mobility ecosystem The ISA framework for identifying and creating value for mobility The unique approach taken by Assembly Ventures The importance of candor in Chris’s life and career How Chris built a lasting relationship with Bill Ford during an internship Links: Show notes: brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/christhomas Chris’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopherthomas/ Assembly Ventures Medium page: medium.com/assembly-ventures Chris’s bio: Chris Thomas is a Co-Founder at Partner at Assembly Ventures, the first trans-Atlantic mobility fund in the world based in Detroit and Berlin. Prior to Assembly Ventures he co-founded Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute, entities dedicated to helping Detroit become one of the world’s foremost future mobility ecosystems and creating the future of mobility talent in North America. Prior to the Detroit Mobility Lab and the Michigan Mobility Institute Chris co-founded Fontinalis Partners and for over a decade worked to build it into one of the premier investment firms in next-generation mobility. While at Fontinalis, he served as a board member for nuTonomy (acquired by Aptiv in October 2017) and Karamba Security, and as a board observer at ParkMe (acquired by INRIX in September 2015), Parkmobile (acquired by BMW in January 2018), Life360 (IPO in May 2019), Ouster (SPAC in December 2020) and SmartKargo. Prior to Fontinalis, Chris served in the U.S. Army as a communications officer in the U.S. and Iraq. Before joining the military, Chris worked as an investment banker at UBS within its Technology and Energy groups in San Francisco and New York. Additionally, Chris acts as a senior advisor to the COMMIT Foundation and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100 expert panel. He is also a co-owner of Buddy's Pizza, the birthplace of original Detroit-style pizza, and an avid angel investor. Chris has previously served as the chairman of Read to a Child, a national children’s literacy and mentoring nonprofit in the United States and acted as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Personal Transportation Systems. Chris earned his master’s degree in business administration from the Yale School of Management. While at Yale he served on the Honor Committee and graduated with distinction in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s seminar on Faith and Globalization. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both economics and international relations from Michigan State University. Chris is a resident of the city of Detroit where he lives with his wife and sons. He is a staunch advocate of connected communities, early childhood literacy, and the doctrine of the strenuous life. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/ brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/ Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Delian Asparouhov (@zebulgar) of Varda and Founders Fund, and Chris Power (@2112Power), founder and CEO of Hadrian, join Erik on this episode to discuss:- What they're working on and how they're bringing tech to industrial manufacturing.- How Chris navigated the idea maze with Hadrian, a company with aims to build space and defense components 2X faster.- The three types of space companies: satellite operators, launch operators, and supply chain companies. - Where they would be investing in space today.- Their requests for startups, including a "Dell for satellites."- The challenges of low-frequency iteration cycles.- The aim to create software that provides "an API for the supply chain."- Why it's important to build full-stack solutions in low NPS industries.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at www.villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Want to get updates from us? Subscribe to get a peek inside the Village. We’ll send you reading recommendations, exclusive event invites, and commentary on the latest happenings in Silicon Valley. www.villageglobal.vc/signup

Real estate is fun and rewarding, but success in this game is no walk in the park, so it is of utmost importance to have a mindset of unshakeable positivity. Chris Salerno has achieved some remarkable things in a short space of time and today we talk to him about what they are and the role of mindset in his success. Our chat begins with an introduction to Chris, his journey into real estate, and how he realized that multifamily was the niche for him. He talks about excelling quickly in his first job and then going on to start CQ Capital which now has over $55 million and 500 units under management. Chris gives us the lowdown about the markets and asset classes he focuses on and his efficient method of vetting deals to stay afloat in the competitive niche he has chosen. He also shares a few golden nuggets for how to plan and set deadlines to ensure that time gets used as efficiently as possible. In the next part of our conversation, we ask Chris about the habits he practices and the resources he consults to keep operating on such a high level. Here he drills down on the absolute necessity of taking care of the mind by meditating, thinking positively, and doing what you love! For a conversation packed with actionable tips from Chris today, be sure to tune in!Key Points From This Episode:An introduction to Chris and his impressive growth in the real estate space.Why Chris loves multifamily and a window into the assets CQ Capital has under management.The different markets and asset classes Chris focuses on and why.Strategies Chris uses to stay afloat in such competitive markets.The passion Chris feels about competing in this competitive market.The importance of mindset for Chris and habits he uses to stay so energetic.How to nurture and nourish your mind and use it to grow your business and success.Shifting to a mindset of positivity and how this brings in opportunities.How Chris prepares for his busy schedule by factoring in downtime with family.The value of intentionality and planning ahead for being more efficient and productive. Squeezing the most out of meetings and projects by setting time limits and deadlines.Why the most important question investors should ask sponsors is about collections.Pride Chris felt when he realized he was good at learning after finding real estate.Why Chris recommends Think and Grow Rich and Mistakes Millionaires Make.Final words from Chris about the main key to success.How to get hold of Chris and learn more about QC Capital!Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Kent RitterChris SalernoQC CapitalWarren BuffettThink and Grow RichMistakes Millionaires Make

Chris Hutchins (@hutchins) is the Head of Autonomous Financial Planning at Wealthfront. Previously he was co-founder and CEO of Grove (acquired by Wealthfront), co-founder of Milk (acquired by Google), and a Partner at GV, where he focused on seed and early-stage investments. 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[01:52] If anyone knows how to get the most out of his credit card points, it's Chris. Between credit cards, bank accounts, and brokerage accounts, how many accounts does this Pointsmaster have -- and why? [02:38] Thoughts on new cards that offer Bitcoin instead of cash-back rewards, and why Chris has changed his mind about them over time. [03:39] What Chris considers to be the best way to pack your finances. [05:18] How do Square's Cash App "boosts" work? [06:43] How Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey continues to pleasantly surprise us with his forward-thinking entrepreneurial prowess. [08:38] Remember how hard it used to be to accept credit cards as a business? We do. [10:13] Why does Chris have such good credit? [10:57] How does someone get on the waitlists for BlockFi and Gemini cards? [11:54] What goes into building a diverse crypto portfolio. [12:32] Gemini offers interest on crypto. [16:41] Chris shares his tragic CryptoPunks story. [19:35] My mission with this podcast. [21:11] How you can keep your finger on the pulse of DeFi. [21:43] Why I consider Yearn to be an insanely well-run project. [23:19] How Chris is earning interest on his crypto right now, and why the current low-regulation climate makes it lucrative -- but not without its risks. [24:37] My own interest-earning strategies tend to be lower risk. A little primer on stable coins, how staking works, and why I trust Coinbase. [26:24] Why Chris wound up converting a lot of his random altcoins to USDC. [30:37] You can learn the basics of trading crypto without betting the farm. Sometimes it even pays back with interest (just don't depend on it). [31:17] What Chris considers to be the best way to optimize your dollars now. [33:38] Are DeFi "gas fees" the new payday loan? [33:56] Hot deals Chris is seeing right now (including how he snagged an Oculus Quest 2 for $150). [36:35] Cashback Monitor: better than Rakuten? [42:33] Dude, I got a Dell! (Well, Alienware.) [43:19] What is ShopRunner? [43:41] Where does Chris find his coupons? [44:38] Four stocks we each like. [48:04] Even though he didn't use the top-notch name I suggested, I'm excited that Chris is starting his own podcast: All the Hacks! What's it going to cover? [59:10] Parting thoughts. [1:03:54] The first episode of this podcast was auctioned as an NFT! [1:05:00] All show notes are available here. If you have 20 seconds to spare, could you please consider leaving us a five-star review there so this podcast gets heard by more ears? [1:05:31]PEOPLE MENTIONED Jack Dorsey Adam D'Augelli Winklevoss Twins Babe Ruth Brian Armstrong Darya Rose Daniel Burka

Chris Sonnenday is the Transplant Center Director for Michigan Medicine. As Peter’s senior resident while at Johns Hopkins, Chris made a lasting impression on him with his remarkable leadership and ability to maintain his humanity through the stressors of that challenging environment. In this episode, Chris tells the incredible backstory of the history of transplant medicine, focusing on the kidney and the liver. He discusses the surgical and immunologic developments that launched the field forward, but also lays out the challenges ahead for the field, such as the rising prevalence of chronic kidney and liver failure. Chris also tells many stories of tragedy and triumph that comes with working in organ transplantation, but ultimately explains the rewarding nature of being a witness to the gift of organ donation.   We discuss: What attracted Chris to medicine, and his leadership in residency (3:30); How Chris maintained his empathy and humanity through the stresses of med school and residency (8:30); Why Chris chose a complicated field like transplant medicine (23:15); Explaining kidney transplantation to showcase the challenge of organ transplantation surgery (28:00); Overcoming the immune-based challenges of transplant surgery (37:00); How the discovery of cyclosporine transformed the field of organ transplantation (49:00); Rising chronic kidney failure due to the prevalence of pre-diabetes and metabolic syndrome (53:45); Why living kidney donations are superior, and the possibility of a market for kidney donation (59:30); Designing a fair system of organ distribution (1:17:30); The debate on what constitutes “death” when deciding when to take organs from a registered organ donor (1:21:45); Reflections on the gift of organ donation (1:33:15); The history of liver transplantation and why it’s so complex (1:39:15); Addressing acute liver failure and the amazing baboon experiment (1:46:15); The potential for the rising prevalence of NAFLD and NASH to overwhelm the liver transplant infrastructure in the US (1:54:45); The importance of teamwork in successful organ transplantations, and the most tragic event Chris has ever witnessed (2:05:45); and More. Learn more: https://peterattiamd.com/ Show notes page for this episode: http://peterattiamd.com/ChrisSonnenday Subscribe to receive exclusive subscriber-only content: https://peterattiamd.com/subscribe/ Sign up to receive Peter's email newsletter: https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/ Connect with Peter on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram.