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New York Times bestselling author and ghostwriter Michael Levin is the most prolific ghostwriter in the industry, having written, edited, published, or consulted on more than 1,000 books. Levin's own books have been published by Simon and Schuster, Random House, Penguin, and a variety of other top publishers. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, LA Times, Boston Globe, and many other top outlets. His ghostwriting clients include Boeing and Ford CEO Alan Mulally, baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, motivational speaker Zig Ziglar (he edited Zig's last book), NFL legend Pat Summerall, and countless other leaders in business, sports, broadcasting, real estate, finance, insurance, and many other fields.    Connect with Michael Here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebestearningauthor   ------------------------------------------------------------------ Want more Business Choreography?  Check out… Business Choreography Website  Join The Business Choreography Group  Text Us "CHOREO NOW" To Get Started: 385-442-7188   Need the tech to build your Business Choreography? Check out.... ChoreoSuite

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We used a new AI tool to create a “complete episode summary” (see below). Please take a read and see if you find it valuable. If you do, please respond to this email and like the post. If there is enough interest we can generate the summary for all future episodes (and previous ones if there is enough demand). It costs ~$5/episode for the service, so we will only do it if there is demand for it. Let us know!In this episode:Mike and Ed discuss how the Wasp is being treated while she is in critical condition and digress into trying to understand just how fast Thor can fly. He can cross the Atlantic in three minutes. That is faster than any plane, train, or automobile! Is it faster than a rocket? Does he light the air on fire? What would it be like to be saved by Thor at that speed? Do we need to worry about mid-air collisions? Should we apply speed limits to superheroes?Full episode summary (AI generated from audio):The Trouble with Thor's Speed - Controlling Velocity for Protection.1. The Wasp's Critical Condition: An Update2. Uncovering the Mystery Behind Thor's Travels3. Controlling Thor's Speed: A Discussion4. Speed Limits: The Need for Superhuman RegulationThe Wasp in Critical ConditionReports of the Wasp's condition have been grim, but optimistic. She is currently stable but in critical care. With the Avengers involved, it is unclear what sort of medical help she is receiving and what types of injuries she sustains. It could be something as common as a car accident or sports injury, or something more specific to what the Avengers do.The Mystery of Thor's TravelInterestingly, Thor has been reported to have been flying around the world, potentially looking for a specific doctor to help the Wasp. Reports also indicated that he flew across the Atlantic in three minutes, much faster than any plane could go. Whether he is flying suborbital, as some science fiction theories suggest, or following flight paths at a certain altitude to avoid mid-air collisions, it is remarkable to consider the speeds at which Thor is traveling. One aspect of Thor's power that often goes overlooked is his impressive speed. During a podcast discussion, the hosts discussed just how fast Thor can fly. They estimated that Thor can fly at about 80 times the speed of sound - Mach 80 - which is much faster than any mechanical aircraft on Earth, and even faster than a rocket to the moon.Controlling Thor's Speed:The hosts then discussed how Thor's speed might be useful in saving people. They concluded that Thor would need to understand how to control the speed. If he could fly to someone quickly but then decelerate to a stop, he could rescue them before they were injured. They also discussed the amount of power behind his speed, and the air displacement it could cause if Thor flew by someone on the street. All in all, Thor's speed is an extremely impressive part of his power set and is a major factor in why he is considered one of the most powerful superheroes., The speaker highlights the potential problem of an individual traveling at a speed far beyond what humans would normally experience. They discuss the potential damage that could be caused in the wake of someone flying at such a high speed.The speaker questions whether the superhero, Thor, should partake in control testing far away from other people, to see the damage that could be caused by traveling at such a high speed. They point out that although the idea of traveling from one place to another quickly may sound great, it could lead to destruction in his path. The speaker emphasizes the need for speed limits for a reason, to ensure that people are not traveling too fast, resulting in destruction.Behind the issue:This issue deals with the cliffhanger we were left with in issue #13, with the Wasp in critical condition. The story introduces a new alien race, the Kallusians, but they are not revealed to the human race, and they are never mentioned again in the Marvel Universe.In this issue:The Wasp is in critical condition, and with not a moment to spare, Thor flies to Norway to basically kidnap a medical specialist, Dr. Svenson, to hopefully save the Wasp's life. It turns out that Dr. Svenson is an alien in disguise, and when his mask is removed he dies. And so the Avengers are now on the hunt to find the real Dr. Svenson. They do that by tracking down the aliens in the North Pole; they have a futuristic city beneath the Earth's crust! The aliens subdue the Avengers and, being the bad guys, they monologue about themselves and their plans. They're the Kallusians, and they escaped an interplanetary war and hid out on Earth. They have trouble breathing on Earth, and when all looked hopeless, Dr. Svenson stumbled their way, and they kidnapped him, convincing him to help them figure out how to breathe on Earth. Dr. Svenson figured out how to help them, but the Kallusians have refused to release him. The Avengers break free, battle the Kallusians, and then find out that Dr. Svenson does not want to leave, as he has agreed to stay and help them with their breathing issues for as long as they need to hide out from their interplanetary rivals. And after that exposition is provided, the Kallusians' alien enemies locate them on Earth! What are the odds? Anyway, Thor basically scares them to leave the planet and fight their enemies in space, freeing up Dr. Svenson, whom they take to New York City to operate on the Wasp and save her life (he does). The Watcher also shows up at the end of the episode to explain how lucky it was for humanity that the two warring alien races did not duke it out on Earth.Assumed before the next episode:The Avengers are likely wondering what to do with the now-abandoned alien city beneath the North Pole.This episode takes place:After the Wasp's life has been saved!Full transcript:Edward: the wasp, is still in critical condition? Mike? They think she might recover, but we don't know her her state right now.Michael: No, but I suppose good news to find out that she hasn't passed away. She hasn't died in the line of battle. And our thoughts are obviously with her and the rest of the teamEdward: I think they're saying stable but critical. So she's in critical care. Mm-hmm. , but not getting worse. Stable. They're trying to find some sort of doctor to help her, and they're communicating with us. And so I think we're cautiously optimistic, right.Michael: But you gotta wonder, you gotta wonder what is it? We don't know exactly. We know that she was injured injuring battle. But is it something that is a run-of-the-mill medical issue that could happen to any of us if you're in a car accident or you're in a sports event or even in a regular military engagement?Or is there so. Specific to what the Avengers do, and if it is the latter I'd be curious because we've been following the superhero SUPERPOWERED community for so long, is there something unique that's being done for her? .Edward: We don't know. And it's nice of them to share at all. I think at this point, you don't want to give away too much of the secret sauce that makes them superheroes and what could possibly hurt them? What are things that can hurt the wasp? Probably the same things that can hurt you and I only, mm-hmm. , she's just far more athletic and capable and able to change.Michael: Key among them is that she changed the size. I mean, that seems to be, to be an inherently risky thing to do . So I'd be curious about what the injury is, and also it may affect the ability to treat her. I don't wanna speculate too, too much out of respect for the wasp, but I'd imagine that. There could be something complicated about her physiology now.Edward: We don't even know what size she is now. Is she being treated Yeah. As, a wasp or is she being treated as an adult human, or is she like a giant man? She's extra big. We don't know what size she is. And maybe that's part of the complication. Maybe she is mm-hmm. In a very small form and maybe a very special doctor who's able to treat her with special in.Michael: Well, and don't say this analogy too, too far, but it could be a regular surgeon who might be involved, or doctor, it could be a pediatric surgeon if she happened to be, you know, size, smaller size, quite frankly, it could be a veterinarian, you know what I mean? To deal with the idea of no, seriously, she, oh, sheEdward: has wings, , maybe her wings are anything.Michael: She, she has wings, but also she might be super small, like a small animal. Or she could be the size of a horse, you know? And both those were the fields of veterinarians. So I don't wanna, I'm not trying to suggest in any way anything more than she is a mammal who might be a different size and there are specialists that deal with that. And, on we go, good luck to the wasp .Edward: Do you think this is why, Thor is flying around the world? Is he looking for a specific doctor to help her?Michael: That's what I started thinking about, so we heard the news, that Thor was being tracked, flying across the ocean and by the reporting, and this is interesting, I hadn't heard this before. Thor traveled across the Atlantic Ocean within minutes, within minutes and , you know, and, and it's like, I would've thought he could have, if you believe he's is an as guardian, he's a, a Norse God from Asgard. that he would travel in some form of interdimensional, something rather, that we don't know about. But no, he didn't, and he didn't do that to go to Europe and said he just flew across the yo.Edward: We don't, we don't even know what, I think at one point people thought he has his hammer and he is just so strong that he swings his hammer around, throws the hammer and the hammer like, I dunno, the hammer's so powerful. It pulls him in a direction or people thought that he's the, got a thunder. He can control the weather and maybe he's using the winds to pull him around. But neither of those explanations make sense when you can cross the Atlantic in three minutes.Michael: No, and, the first thought I had is okay, number one, so air travel is carefully regulated. There's flight paths between say New York and London and miami and Dublin. And so there's gonna be paths, and the idea is it's very carefully regulated to make sure that you don't run into people. Uh, so planes don't run into each other as they're flying at the required altitude so is Thor flying? I would imagine Thor to be, if he wants to get there quickly, would probably fly to certain altitude, much like the planes to cut through the air as well as you can. Well,Edward: I'm sure again, Thor does not wanna be part of a mid-air collision. Imagine the news when Thor runs into an airplane and Families are destroyed and died because he was blasting through them with his hammer. And it seems like that's a very easy thing to avoid by just flying at a different height than airplanes fly at. I'm not sure what flight, I'm sure there's like certain flight paths and certain flight altitudes and he would just fly either like lower or presumably higher.Michael: Well, but think about this with my point is that I suspect that, and we should talk to an aeronautical engineer we probably could confirm this. There are heights you likely. for maximum, efficiency,Edward: well that depends on how you fly, right? So airplanes fly because they have engines that are shooting off exhaust that are propelling them forward, and then they have wings that are providing lift. So as they propel forward, the wings provide lift and they get lifted up into the air. And then they can control that up and down. There's no exhaust coming from. , at least no visible exhaust. Unless he's no I don't wanna be vulgar here on the radio, but I don't think there's like exhaust coming from his ass, like pushing out, pushing him through the spaceMichael: Too many beans ,Edward: too many beans. . If, if he's, if he's ever gets into shilling for products, he should definitely promote beans. Like Oh, get your, get your Aus Garan beans from Thor.Michael: It's a magical fruit. .Edward: The, the, the more you eat, the more you fly.Michael: fly. no, but, I'm getting a little bit away from what I really wanna talk about, I would think that there is, if you're Thor and you wanna get across the ocean quickly because your teammate. Needs you to do something, which is what Thor was doing, that you would probably do your best to fly the most efficient way across the ocean. But you're right, I don't think he'd irresponsible. So he is likely isn't flying that high.Edward: Or, I think he's flying probably higher. Like higher. Here's The Thing too. If, if he's. Given that he's like the mighty Thor, he probably is able to survive pretty high in the atmosphere. I dunno, can he survive in space? It wouldn't surprise me. He feels like he's like, he feels like he's the type of person who would survive in space, didn't he? He sent the absorbing man. Yeah. Right into space. Maybe Thor can survive in space and so if he can survive, he can go high enough. It depends if he's able to, if he's able to propulsion himself high enough, he doesn't need air to prop, repulse himself off of which he may not, then going higher is actually better for him cause it's, it's less wind, there's less wind resistance, less air resistance.Michael: Could he also, like, could he also break through the atmosphere and spike up and as the earth is, if he's going across to Europe, the earth is moving in his direction and he goes up and then down, that would be. Efficient way of getting, of getting across the earth quickly. Right.Edward: That's true. So instead of flying in a straight line, he could just fly suborbital that. That's, and there's been lots of science fiction written about that. If you wanted to go mm-hmm. to from London to Sydney as fast as possible, and we had the technology to do it, we would fly a suborbital flight that would blast off. It'd be a parabola, we'd basically a parabola from one to the other. Yeah. And so maybe if that's how Thor travels parabolas.Michael: I mean, in my head, I must say, I wasn't thinking of parabolas. I was thinking of Thor, kinda like just flying, just barely above the ocean. And hopefully not hitting a ship, but maybe he's the right height to not hit a ship either. But my thought was if he flies across, and this is what I really wanted to talk about, even though I'm kind of fascinated by the idea he'd fly into Pablo, which so cool. ,Edward: we, we, you, we should, we should have, we should think, talk more about paras. It feels like parabolas are under talked about topic on radio University.Michael: Our listeners love it. They love those parabolas, but if you are getting across the ocean within minutes, let's say it's about three minutes, and it's about over 4,000 kilometers. Well, you tell me are you applying so fast that you're we're gonna light the, like the air on fire. You know what I mean? That, that seems un unfathomably fast.Edward: It is remarkably fast. I, so yeah. Let's, let's, let's run through the math and so, okay. I know we are in America and we should be using, local imperial measurements, but when you start talking about the speed that Thor is flying at, we're gonna use that archaic metric system that the French use and cause the math is a lot easier. And so the ocean is like roughly, I think from North America through to Europe. We're talking at roughly 4,800 kilometers, 4,800 kilometers, 3000 and something miles, right? For the rest of us. And then, He did that in three minutes. So he's doing that at what, 1,200 kilometers per minute? That's, uh, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's doing three times that. So he's doing, yeah, in a minute he's doing 15,000 kilometers or 14,000 kilometers or something like that. Per, per, no, no, no, no. That was right the first time. No, no. He's doing a little over a thousand kilometers in a minute, and then in three minutes he gets all the way to the 5,000 kilometers. But that turns out that flying a thousand kilometers a minute is really, really, really, really fast. And like the speed of sound is about a third of a kilometer per second. . We do some math, dividing, whatever. I think it works out too, that he was flying at roughly 80 times the speed of sound. So, so mock 80. Mock 80. For those who are familiar with the mock termsMichael: And how fast, I mean, what's our fastest plane like, how fast did the rocket to the moon?Edward: Oh, that's a good question. I don't know I should know that to break the orbit, right? But like I know that planes, like passenger planes don't fly that fast. They fly no, significantly slower than the speed of sound. The really, really fast, like breaking the sound barrier, which we did before we went to the moon. Breaking the sound barrier was a big deal. And that by def the sound barriers was what, what we call mock one and I know we have planes that go faster than the speed of sound now, but not a lot. Fast mock two, mock three, something like that. Thor was going mock. It's fast.Michael: I don't think that that's fast. It's fast. And I don't think that when I, when we've seen the footage on, on our, the rockets to the moon. I don't, they don't, I don't think they were going that fast. At least visually didn't seem that they're . You get across the ocean. How high, how high is it to get to get, to break the atmosphere? Right. How, how high is it? It's not, how high is the atmosphere? Four. Yeah, it's not tough. 4,000 kilometers and it takes, it took a few minutes certainly to get above, to break the atmosphere. So they're not going as fast as Thor a Thor can get across the ocean.Edward: No, no. So, so the atmosphere, so I think the atmosphere is bigger than that man. I think the atmosphere is roughly 10,000 kilometers up.Michael: No,Edward: yeah, yeah. Like 6,000 miles or. And depends, depends where, depends where you, it turns out there's not like a line, there's not like a fence where like now you're, now you're in space and it slowly becomes less atmospheric all along. But when you start going the, the high atmosphere, it's like roughly, roughly 10,000 kilometers, 6,000 miles.Michael: Okay. Well, could you get up there in, I guess within 10 minutes? Does it, does the rocket take, did the rocket take 10 minutes to get above there? Which would be kind of similar to Thor flying across the ocean?Edward: Yeah, so he is going, I think faster than rockets. I think Rockets are going, yeah, I think so. Like somewhere under 10 kilometers. Like they, when they get going to speed, they're going about 10 kilometers a second. And what do we say Thor is doing? Thor's doing. 80 times the speed of sound. And the speed of sound is a third of a kilometer per second. So what's that 80 divided by three? He's doing 20 times, 25 times, times the times. 25 kilometers per second, something like that. And our rockets when they're like, when they're really, when they get this really going up there when they're really picking up speed. They're doing about 10 kilometers a second. And so he's roughly two and a half times faster than a rocket . And so that's, but, but as fast, it's fast. It's fast. But as fast as, rockets aren't setting air on fire. I don't think Thor is setting, he's not setting air on fire fast.Michael: No, no. But he's still going fast enough, like faster than any any mechanical device on earth,Edward: he's definitely the fastest human in any form of transportation that's ever happened.Michael: And it's funny because I guess we've always sort of, when we talk about Thor or any of these heroes, we focus on a few things, like for Thor, we've always focused on, he's a p he's very strong he's a God. But I've never thought much about him flying, which is funny because if you started flying, I would think that's incredible Ed. But it's, um,Edward: and, and if I started flying at 80 times a speed of sound, you'd be like that is, that is extra incredible. That is like more incredible.Michael: Yeah. That's worthy of a discussion. But, um,Edward: that could be don't, but your point is that could be a main power. If someone's power was flying 80 times the speed of sound, we would be. Wow. You are definitely one of the best superheroes on the planet. And yeah, the fact that that was Thor's, fourth or fifth power.Michael: Yeah. Like Thor. Let's just break it down. So if Thor, if you're walking across the street and you're carrying a coffee and you're not paying attention and a truck comes barreling at you, Thor could easily grab. You know, maybe that's not the most heroic thing, but move you from the, the crosswalk so you don't get struck. But there's probably something, there must be a better example, but I wouldn't even know who saved, you know what I mean? That fast,Edward: you know, like if he moved that fast on a human, Thor is very solid. He's a very strong human being who bullets bounce off him and that most bolts don't bounce off cars. And so he is big, he is stronger than a car, more solid than a more dense than a car. And if a car was. 80 times the speed of sound and ran into you. You would not be saved. Saving is not The. Thing. That would happen. .Michael: That's right. Well, is there a way to like, you know, when you catch a ball, someone throws you at a ball at you, right? You kind of grab it and you control the momentum of it. We think we talked about this before. Sure. So is there a way that. How about this? Let's slow it down. ,Edward: I think, I think if you were thrown at Thor, if someone like threw you at Thor and Thor, caught you, but then went with the motion, the way you went with a ball. Yeah. Then yeah, I think that he could stop you from, from being squished, but if you were flying at him and he said, you know what? I need to get to you quickly. I'm gonna fly towards you at 80 times a speed of sound. Like you're not gonna have a body left after.Michael: So if Thor is going at 80 times, the speed sound up to you thinking, oh, that person's in a crosswalk he's gonna get struck by that truck that's outta control. And he went up and just touched you. , , his finger would just go right, like right through your body as he just continued on. There must be a way that he could do it.Edward: Would, would you rather hit by a truck going at. 20 miles, 50 miles an hour. Or Thor going at like 1000 miles an hour.Michael: Oh, Thor. Thor. It'd be so much cooler to get blown up that way,Edward: but I guess if you're gonna die, go out in style .Michael: Well, could you do this? How about this? I'm still now thinking about it. What if Thor went very quickly and went. Under the ground and cut the ground out from underneath you and lifted you through or would like, there'd be so much wind resistance you'd be ripped apart by Well,Edward: if you move through the air Yeah. You're telling me what if the ground underneath me started flying upwards? Mm-hmm. Immediately at 80 times the speed of sound. Yeah, that would, that's not like, let's be human. When we, when, when, when we first started trying to break the speed of like, the sound barrier, like people died trying to make their break the sound barrier, and that's mock one. We're talking about mock 80. It's not, there's, there's no scenario, no world where, that is a helpful place for a human to be.Michael: Okay, let me loop back then, ed. I don't know if it's the most useful power then for saving people. Perhaps, but it's useful to get to where you need to go. As long as he's maneuverable and he can stop and maneuver and not run into things, then that part's useful but I was thinking like, what if he'd be a very useful superhero if he could just go really fast and get you outta danger, but if he just blow you up every time he touched you, ?Edward: No. I think the key is using his speed to get to you and he has to. He just, we need to understand how fast Thor can decelerate. That that's the key. If he can, that's critical fly, fly to you very quickly, but stop on a dime and pick you up gently. Fly away slightly faster than the truck is coming towards you.Michael: Here's another question then just think about how fast story. So, he's coming at you. Is air being pushed in your direction? Or is it not? Or is it, or is he cutting through it?Edward: I think generally he's cutting through air. He's moving so fast that I don't think, I think he's moving faster than any air particles getting pushed. I think if he blew pa, if you were like standing on the side of the road and he blew past you, I don't think you would experience anything until he passed you and then all the air he displaced would hit you and it's like a train. When a train comes by, you can feel the train coming after the fact, but it's not coming before the fact.Michael: Okay, so let's say again, using my example of I'm in the street. Flying on the street, what would happen if he's flying through and, then at that speed, or he is even slowing down, would not like, there would be a train, a trail of destruction right behind him. Things, you know what I mean?Edward: I, could see that I could see like a bunch of it. It, yeah I think what we're dealing at with is an order of magnitude of speed that I think us normal humans can't really comprehend. And, we just don't, we don't experience speed like this at any normal time in our lives.Michael: So I, I'd like to, I guess, Thor, I'd like you to maybe do some control testing far away from other people to see, because I mean, just in case you're attempted to like race to the scene of a crime or an incident or some event that you wanted to prevent at first. Seems like a great idea. But in second thought, it sounds like it might be complete, like it'd be fine flying across the ocean it doesn't run into anything. But it wouldn't be that fine if he's flying across North America, if he's getting too low to the ground, causing damage in his, in, in his wake, right.Edward: Yeah. Hey, hey, we have speed limits for a reason. Thor, we have speed limits for a reason.Michael: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. This is a public episode. 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Whitney is a real estate investor and personal finance trainer whose vision is to help thousands of families on their path towards financial independence. After purchasing her first rental in 2002, and hitting a home run, then nearly losing it all on her second deal, Whitney took control and figured out how to invest in real estate the right way. She realized that success must leave clues. So, she studied and using her skills in research,  business operations and training, she replicated the very personal finance and wealth creation strategies the wealthy use to create financial freedom. Today, Whitney is a partner in $900M+ of real estate assets, including 6,500+ residential units, 1,400+ self-storage units, including flipping over $3M in residential real estate. In this episode, she shares her journey and explains how to build the mindset, skills, and strategies necessary to succeed as a real estate investor, so that you live the way you want to. Episode Links: https://www.passiveinvesting.com/whitney/ https://ashwealth.com/ --- Transcript Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Michael: What's going on everyone? Welcome to another episode of the Remote Real Estate Investor. I'm Michael Albaum and today with me we have one of our favorite recurring guests: Whitney Elkins-Hutten and she's gonna be talking to us today about what do you need to be a badass rockstar, female investor? Let's get into it.   Whitney, what's going on? Thanks for coming back yet again for another episode of record with me really appreciate you.   Whitney: Yeah, thanks so much for having me on. I'm so excited.   Michael: Oh my god, this is… I'm more excited. I'm the most excited. So today, we're gonna be talking about your thoughts, advice, recommendations on how to become a badass rockstar, female investor, because you've done it. So curious to get your thoughts from a high level, you know, what is it that people are getting wrong with their mindset? Or is it something physical that they're doing?   Whitney: Well, yeah, so I don't know if it's something that somebody does wrong, right. I think there's really three key components to like being a successful investor period, but, and we can kind of like dive into like, you know, those nuances between females and males and like what females can do to like, kind of elevate themselves. But really, it boils down to three things: mindset, skill sets, and network. So I mean, if you've read any of the works, you know, thinking grow rich or anything by Kiyosaki, like it boils down to those three things. But just knowing those three words is not enough, like you have to understand how to act on them.   Michael: Here, I was thinking, man, I know the three words, I got the secret recipe now, I'm good.   Whitney: All right. Well, I wish it were that simple, right? You know, that's half the battle like, right, I know that right there. But um, you know, on the mindset piece, um, you know, that that's like the foundation like we're building a pyramid for like, your entire investing business to live off of, like, you have to have a good foundation. And that foundation is like your operating system, like what's in between these two years of yours. And unfortunately, like, or, I mean, we've evolved our society over the years, but this operating system still is like, you know, it's, it's, it's still like in the mastodon air, like, it hasn't like really caught up. Evolution is slow but you know, if you believe in evolution, but yeah, it's a little slow. So we have to, like really work on this on a daily basis and condition it daily and it's so hard in today's environment to do that.   Michael: So, yeah, what are some what are some tips or tricks or steps that you've taken, or you've seen others take to be successful to change their mindset?   Whitney: Well, I can speak for me personally and these are questions that like, I mean, I've had so many mentors and coaches in my life and these are like questions they've given me, too, that I have to continue to ask myself on a regular basis, sometimes daily, like if I'm going through a tough time.   But, you know, if you're getting into real estate, you have to know why you want it. Like why do you want to invest in real estate because real estate is a tool, right? There are some people that love real estate, and you know, you and I are chatting before the show, like, there's your strengths and then there's your gifts, right? For a lot of people, they they have a strength that a translatable skill they're bringing in it thinks that they might be good at investing in real estate, but end of the day, they don't want to own houses, they want the result that the houses give them, right? So know what you want, like, do you want time freedom? Do you want cash flow? Do you need a net worth bill do but I mean, even getting down to that, that freedom of choice, freedom of time, freedom to travel? Like, what is that freedom that you want? And then more importantly, why you want it?   And being able to answer those questions, you know, will reinforce what you're doing. It's like your North Star, like nothing will be able to derail you. Because no matter where you are in your investing plan, if you're just like, I know, I want to have control of my time and this is why because I want to spend it with my family, I want to spend it traveling. Like that's your north star and it can be like a filter for guiding all your decisions.   Michael: I love that.   Whitney: So that's like, yeah, it's like that's like, I mean, it really under it really boils down to getting the right questions in the right sequence, and then pass that deciding it's yours. Okay, just make giving yourself permission. I know for me as a female, like the way I was raised, um, um, you know, borderline millennial Gen Z, right? Like, my mom was very much, you know, pro feminist and stuff like that. You know, I have no problem with that, or very little problem with that, like, I mean, that's just the infighting meant that I was raised in but I'm not. That's not how everybody, everybody came on, right. But you have to decide it's yours. Like, I'm going to go after that, and I deserve it. And there are going to be things that knock you down. Yeah, that happened. throw you off course.   I was just speaking to one of my coaching clients earlier today. And, you know, she's going through divorce now. She's just like when I thought it was getting all this momentum. And I'm like, do you still believe in what you're doing? Yeah. Like, is it yours? Yes. I'm like, okay, great. Like, now let's focus what we can control. And, you know, but those types of things, you know, we feel we're very empathic, but yeah, those type of things get kind of, like derail you a little bit. But really, like just having this, you know, two key decision or two questions and a key decision, like, written down can really help you move forward in that mindset piece.   Michael: I love that and Whitney, I'm curious if we just take a step back for a second for making, you know, knowing your why, and kind of making that decision? How important is it and how granular do you recommend people get, because at the restart Academy, we talked about smart goals and use that acronym for goal setting. But I know so many people are like, oh, I want to invest in real estate because I don't want to work anymore, like, is that enough? Or like, how do they get?   Whitney: I mean, it's a good story. Tony Robbins has this like great exercise like we've ever done unleash the Power Within or any of his bracer series, like, it's the first time you do it, it might actually feel very unsettling and awkward. Like, it's called, like, the seven reasons and so you you name like, why do you want to invest in real estate, right? Because I don't want to work anymore. Why do you want that? Well, because I want to travel great. Why do you want that? Well, I want to see the world and like, you start getting people's puzzles looks on their face, they're like, see me…   And you're like, but that's that gets down to the core essence. Because, as I explained it to, you know, people like Coach is that first level knee jerk, why is what you're running from?   Michael: Hmm…   Whitney: When you ask seven layers deep, you finally figure out you might not be able to articulate the first two or three or four or 5-10 times that you sit down to do that exercise. It may take you months, or even a year or two, you're then figuring out what you're running towards and what is going to get you more motivated, okay, you know that day to day pain, it might be like, understanding what you're running from, like I want to get I don't want to work for you know the company anymore. I don't want to work for my boss, I want to have my time back, blah, blah, blah, right?   But what you're running towards is what's going to be your that Northstar guiding post for you long term, it's what is gonna have you help you build the right real estate business for you, right, because there's so many gets down to that last one, that seventh why and they like, I want my time freedom and they come to me and they're like, teach me how to flip. I'm like, thinking hold on…   Michael: We'll need a little bit of alignment.       Whitney: Yeah, well, that was like, now, you know, we can use flipping as a means to an end to build the real business they want. But you know, we have to understand, you know, you know, where different modalities fits into different phases of the business, but got a little off course in the wild, but that's why you want to make sure that you sit down and kind of go through the exercise. It's, it's hysterical. I mean, I went through the same experience, like, the first time you do it, you're like, why am I asking this question seven times, like I got it the first time…   Michael: I study for the test…   Whitney: It is not the same question. Because now you you're figuring out why you want the next thing that you named.   Michael: Hmm. That is very interesting, I like that, I like that a lot and so who do you who should be having these conversations? Who should be asking these questions of the potential and would be investors? Is it spouses, partners, friends, colleagues? I mean, who should who's a good person to have these conversations with?   Whitney: I mean, you know, you can some people are like introverts they want to do it with by themselves. If you have a good partner or a good friend that can help lead you through that exercise and interrogate reality with you… you know, kind of like, open and honest way, then fantastic. I think the more the merrier. My husband and I we sit down and we do a couple schools setting retreat every year and you know, normally we've like gone back answer the questions that what of what we want for the year ourselves and then come back together and we kind of formulate a plan.   This year, we sat down in the same room and did everything live with each other and I'm like, you know, like peeking on his paper. I'm like, well, yeah, like, what was that like? That but I get to learn so much more about you know, who he is and, you know, we're just gonna there are things that I learned about when we've been married, I mean, she's gonna kill me like, you know, we've been married for a really long time and he's just like, you know, we know everything about each other. I'm like, No, you don't. We don't at all. It was that's so much fun. But you know, really like, if you're open to like having helped, you know, somebody asked these questions with you, so you can help deepen your own like, it frees you up from being the the questioner and also the answer, answer or if you can bring somebody in in that process. You can just take on one role.   Michael: Yeah, I dig it, I dig it. Okay, so that was mindset and then you mentioned what was stuck to…   Whitney: Yeah… So that you know for you to do anything in life you have to have the right mindset you know, the the fact that you know what you want why you want it and that you are going to go after you have given yourself permission to go after it right, that's mindset.   Once you once you understand that you might be standing there going, the person on the street going, Grant, okay, I want real estate, I want financial freedom. Where do we go from here, right. Now you're down to the skill sets, okay? Like the kind of get into the how do we get things done? Now, here's the trick, I'm going to give you you know, people a couple of different ways to look at it first, we can look at what's what you have and what you don't. Okay, so, if you come from business, you've probably heard a SWOT analysis. So where you're, you're listing out your strengths, your weaknesses, your opportunities to your investment, like what can you bring that is really cool that you can really utilize in your threats, like, you know, um, you know, if you have a family like, I've got a nine year old at a time that can like bomb me anytime in any podcast, and I'm doing like the doors latch, right… Handle that threats what…   Michael: Threat destabilized…   Whitney: …disarmed, those are, you know, really sitting down on all seriousness, the strengths and the weaknesses, you know, focusing there first, and I don't like thinking of weaknesses, but those again, you know, that's what the acronym is, but those are areas that your blind spots, you know, what are what don't you have that, you know, that you need in order to succeed?   Okay, taking, taking, like 510 15 minutes, you know, to look at your strengths and weaknesses and revisit those on a regular basis because as you start, you don't know what you don't know. And as you start digging into, like, whatever path or real estate you're going to go down, you will uncover things like, oh, I need to have a property manager and I don't know how to interview great like, that's, you know, that needs to over here as an opportunity or like, you know, weakness that I need to fill in.   You were talking about strengths. I think there's a confusion that people have, right. Between strengths and gifts. Yeah, in strengths are things that we are good at, we have been trained, we have learned over time we have mastered them, you know, it can be through schooling, training, on the job training and stuff like that, it doesn't actually mean that it's a gift and then it's our net that it lights us up on the inside. Case in point: I'm an epidemiologist by training, I love thinking through critical things. You handed me like a regression analysis and like on software and spreadsheets and stuff, like like that, I can do it. I'm really fast at it, I'm really good at it, do I love it? No, it's a strength, but like, if you if I doubled down on that strength and just solely honed in on that, that being a core part of my business, I would struggle, right because it's not a gift of mine. Like I would eventually hit a wall and go I don't love doing this at all I need to reengineer my business. So even getting more granular so once you have your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, you know, written down on that strengths, separate them out of like things that you've been trained that that you're just good at but then also what do you love? What, what would you do, if you never got paid? Like for me like I love talking, I love educating like, you know, I could I get up I'll do it in the morning. I go to bed doing it at night. My husband is like, can you please just get off the phone? Like I'm on it… and like for women, you know, we have some you know, but there's some big differences between men and women like women we naturally come you know, probably more culture with like communication report building organizational skills, and attention to detail and not so much like being able to focus on detail, but also like handle like, you know, more and I hate the word multitask, but like attention to detail and multiple areas all at the same time, right. Yeah, that's, you know, we were the gatherer part of the chain. You know, we had to pay attention to the kids running around, is there a saber toothed tiger in the area? Where would I get those last berries, that didn't make me sick? Right like we had to pay that into all those details and that is part of our physiology, it's part of this operating system up here in our head.   Michael: It's so funny, you mentioned that yeah, the other day, we had some contractors at our house and I was outside chatting with them, we got along just fine and then I was gone for 10 minutes and my wife, Claire was outside, and they're like, best friends in 10 minutes and she's like, oh, yeah, we just get along, we're buddy, buddy, like, how do you do that? How do you build rapport people so quickly? So I love that you mentioned it. I'm like, yeah, first, first, it's really happening in my household…   Whitney: Yeah, I mean, it's in every, like I said, it's not like, it's not a blanket statement. But identifying what those strengths are and, you know, I think for women, when we're getting into like a very male dominated industry, I think there's an expectation that we have to go toe to toe with them, you know, with males, I'll give you an example: I was on a, speaking on a panel last month at a conference and two incredible male investors with me, I mean, couldn't be, you know, on the stage with more nice, nicer people and I was like, a little nervous, because I was like, these guys are gonna go over deal specifics and numbers, and they're gonna hammer home their deals and returns and I was just like, I'm like, I'm gonna take a different approach. And so whenever I got asked my questions on a panel, I turned back to the audience, and I, like engaged in a conversation with the audience and I had like them laughing and rolling over each other. Because I was in, you know, it was just a different way of connecting, right, like, so um, you know, in the in, you know, not what, there's not a one size fits all solution. But you know, some people would have resonated with that a little bit better, so…   Michael: Absolutely. Oh, how cool. That's great.   Whitney: And, and then, you know, so when we understand what the strengths are, we've got the strings, we've got the guests. Also, we have to switch back to that that awkward the weakness column, and I hate to say I hate the word weakness, I always want to call it opportunities, because it just feels better. Like, this is an area it's kind of my blind side is what area for me to get better. But when we're talking about scaling a business, really, do you just need to be aware of the blind spot and do you have to fix it? Or do you need to find out who to help you, right? So if you don't if you ever read the book, who not how? Michael: Yes, love it!   Whitney: …and the title says it all, who not how... Done, you don't have to read the book.   Michael: Yeah, we just saved you two hours' worth of reading...   Whitney: Right, but you know, really, you know, how can, you know, you really tap into understand what your blind spots are, and what how they might be limiting for you. If we all can do better in like, you know, fixing our blind spots, when you're building a business, you may not have that luxury or time, go find somebody that that you can bring in that has a complementary skill set.   Me, I found out really fast when I got my first like actual rental, like when we placed tenants in our properties. I was like, okay, I love talking to the, to the tenant, I could build a report, I could get them in, I have got sales skills, not a problem. But when it came to day to day communication with them, I wanted to have nothing to do with it, like I was just like, yeah…, I checked the box, right. Um, but it takes a very special person to do that right to, you know, to manage the tenant and obviously, I mean, I need a property manager, that's my who, like, take me out of this role. Like, I remember standing in the Children's Museum in Wisconsin, I hadn't seen my friends for two years, our kids are playing, and my husband's on the phone talking to our tenant for an hour and a half and this the whole experience of our kids playing because we didn't have a property manager. So that's what I mean by who, right, it was a blind spot for us, we thought we could power through it, but at the end of the day, um, you know, the tenant would have been better served with property management and so we would have we two totally needed to who, in our business…   Michael: When I'm gonna get real vulnerable with you and everyone for a minute, I am not the best identifier of my own blind spots, my wife can attest to that. So how I mean, so much of the who should this conversation be had with question that I was asking you previously? How can we identify or how can we get our blind spots identified and not be, not be rude about it not be you know, have our claws out when that conversation is happening?   Whitney: That is a little tricky, right? Like, who likes being told that you're not so good at this?   Michael: Tell me all the things I can't do well, yeah, it's not a fun conversation.   Whitney: Right, so I think, you know, um, you do having that conversation with somebody that you know, love and trust. I did this this is I started this off like years ago, I sent me an operator, ,I sent a survey out to like my best friend, like my 10 a small group of friends and I asked them, it was anonymous. They, they could say whatever they wanted on the survey, now, it's only 10 people, you kind of figure out who like said, What, but that, like, what do I have an opportunity to develop? And you know, it's really, it was really interesting, I got some great feedback and that's how you have to take it, it's feedback, right…   Michael: It's not criticism…   Whitney: …Like, we look in the mirror, we're looking at a direct reflection, but we're not seeing the back of our head, there's just no way for us to see, you know, around our body, like how many times you've walked out a bathroom got toilet paper stuck on the backside of your shoe, right? Like you just, there's just no way, so we have to get somebody that has seen all sides of us and the good guy, my ugly, right?   I'm also like, I love having those people in my life and it's just radical candor, okay, it doesn't mean that it's not love. I actually, you know, find it more endearing and more empowering. If I have somebody that's willing to tell me where I like with, you know, with some love and just like, hey, listen, like, you know, you move really fast up into topic, I know you and I know, you don't mean to do that but it'd be really cool if you could just like look me in the eye and say that you understood where I was coming from before you saw the problem and that that's for me, like, that was feedback that I got? No, I was just like, what do you mean? You know, my first I was, I was first taken aback and then I was like, you know, what, do you know how many thoughts went through my head before the words came out of my mouth? Like, I was like, thinking about her mom and thinking about this, like all these different situations and how I could help her and then like, I would love from her telling me what's wrong in her day to like me telling her, this is how we're going to fix it and I didn't… I, my problem is I don't actually like say all those things are going through my head first to create empathy. I think those are amazing things to hear back because it just gives us an opportunity to create a richer relationship with people…   Michael: Oh, that's so good, that's so good and I'm right there with you. I'm so guilty of the same thing, I'm like, oh, cool, here's the problem, well, here's the solution. It's like, well, maybe that's not always the best way to go about it. There's a lot of other things that we could do in the in the in between…   Whitney: Yeah, I mean, it gives you an opportunity to kind of put tools in place. When I was given that feedback. Um, I, I like when searching for tools, like, do I just need to, like, ask more questions. That's always a great thing and, but also, like, I, my question now that I asked is one I'm like, do you need me to help you solve this? Or do you just need me to listen, you know…   Michael: Yes, yes…       Whitney: And half the time, it's like, no, I just need you to listen, I'm like, okay, then, of course, I'm like, I got a solution.   Michael: I have the answer, it's a magic.   Whitney: Yeah, but anyways, you know, we've kind of like, you know, dove down a rabbit hole there but I think it can be a blind spot in any sort of way. Like, I think it's just, you know, again, you know, we're, it, we're having a human experience, right, I heard a quote from one of a, an old coach of mine, he was like, we're just here, you can have any human experience, we're all walking each other home and so you know, you just can't take that feedback about your blind spots too, personally, because really, at the end of the day, the person is, you know, really trying to tell you what you can do to improve yourself. I would be more worried if somebody said, you don't have any blind spots, right? You're just kind of like, really? There's nothing for me to work on, like…   Michael: Yeah, totally, totally. Awesome, okay. So we covered mindset, we just tackled skill set, what's the third thing to be aware of…   Whitney: Networks, right. So this is an extension of the who, not how, and I think women really excel at building networks and but I want to dive deeper, because it's not exactly building the network, but building the right network, right.   So the network is, you know, when you hit a level of achievement, you're missing, you know, a skill or a person to help you get to that next area. So I mean, I think this is a huge thing. You know, we've all heard the quote from Jim Rohn, you are the average of the five people that you surround yourself with. I would really challenge you, I do this with my coaching clients every single year and they they hate it and they love it at the same time. We do a purge exercise, I have them list out everybody everything in their life and move things to a purge column that just aren't serving them. Now, the first time they do this, they're just like, there's no way that I'm going to like stop talking to that family member and I'm like, I'm not asking you to stop talking to them, I'm asking you to identify those areas in your life, those toxic relationships, maybe like relationships that are holding you down, right? They're not elevating you to that next level of business where you want it be, they challenge, they challenge you in some way, they, they're holding you back.   Maybe there's double standards there, they can do it, but you can't, right. Or maybe they've just have a victim mentality, and you just need to throw them back the rope and be there be loving, be open, but like, You got to figure out your problems on your own because I, I gotta go solve this over here, not that, right. So, um, you know, surrounding yourself with the right people that need to be in your world in order to get to that next level. I know, when I got into real estate, that was super hard for two reasons: One, nobody around me was doing real estate, I didn't have, I didn't feel like I had permission. I was, I was crazy. I was like, you're buying your, you're spending how much on a house I'm like… I'm not spending, it's investing…   And two, my mom was still alive, bless her soul, I mean, it's such a strong, amazing woman to learn from. But I was, I was scared of my mom, like when I needed her permission to invest in you know, she finally just kind of like understood, like, before she passed away that I was I needed to do what I was gonna do. But we had, like, we had some odds there. But I eventually had to be like, you know what, we're gonna agree to disagree and I'm still gonna, I'm still here, I'm your daughter, I love you and you just need to let me do what I'm going to do. But that's hard, those are hard relationships to kind of set aside. But once you kind of create that space, right, you know, whether you actually put boundaries on those relationships, or eliminate the toxic… toxicity and double standards, you can you the first time you do that exercise, you may or may not actually take any action, but over time, you'll realize you have to in order to move up to the next level. Now you got to fill the void when you start moving those people out, now you got to fill the void and backfill with people that are, you know, maybe just right above you that are doing what you have are what what you want to do, go find a mentor, go find the quote, scope be part of a mastermind, right? When you help fill that void at the next level…   Michael: And how I mean, you mentioned it, and I think it's so applicable for so many people, especially a lot of our listeners, maybe who are just getting started who don't have five other people to surround themselves with. How do you build that network? How do you go? Yeah, how do you how do you build that network?   Whitney: So internet… You know, that's great. I love this question and I'm really glad you're one of my favorite ways is actually through podcast?   Michael: Oh, really…   Whitney: I'm in, you know, when we think of network, or a mentor, or coach, it doesn't actually mean that you have to exchange money, I think there needs to be a time at some point in time that, you know, if you really are serious about building your business and scaling, you're gonna find you want to short cut your path to growth, right, you want somebody like looking over your shoulder partnering with you. But when you're just starting out, um, you know, maybe it's like, choosing like, you know, visiting, like a math meetup, like locally finding some, a couple local investors that you resonate with and then like two or three podcasts, people that you love, and you follow, and you just, you know, these are the people again, it's kind of like you're the gifts part you just, like, want to listen to them all the time.   You know, that can even be like a great way to surround yourself in that environment until you can actually, you know, build out that the physical network and to do that, again, meetups can be great. And now that we have zoom, you know, it's proliferated in the past couple years, you know, meetups, a lot of meetups are still virtual. I love conferences, too because conferences, you get like a high density of like, like, a awesome, like investors and operators and stuff like that. So can you find those conferences? For me, I'm attending best ever conference here next week in Denver, Colorado. But that's geared towards multifamily and self-storage, new maybe you're more into single family homes, there's a, there's a conference out there for that, like attend those events. One, you can get your stuff around operators, which we've talked about in length, but too you can get around yourself around other investors that are doing bigger and better things and that you that you want to do…   Michael: That's so good and just one kind of piece of advice, piggybacking off that is when you go to these events, and you go to these in person conferences, or even just these zoom meetings, set an intention, and then follow up on it because I think so many people go to these conferences and it gets super excited and get super hyped and then go back home kind of bored. They might be isolated and don't have a network around them, they're like, oh, well, that was cool but now I'm you know, back to reality here and you never do anything with it…   Whitney: Well, it's all about execution, right? You don't go to the you go to the conference right to learn information, but how can you carry the whole point in building the network is to reger… is for regular engagement. How can you make two or three friends at that conference that you're going to maybe like, do put together a little mini mastermind yourself, you guys are going to meet monthly and hold each other accountable on your goals. You don't have to be doing the exact same thing, you're just like both kind of like, you're all just kind of, you know, going in the same direction in your build, right, your wealth build. You know, you can join, you can join paid masterminds for that type of thing. But it's just it's about the consistency and the persistency of staying engaged, right? You can't, you can't just like attend one conference and go, hey, I built a network.   Michael: I did it now…   Whitney: Yeah, now we just have to be cultivated. I mean, I think people hate the word networking, I actually do a module like with my coaching clients on this. Networking is just us having a conversation. It's really me just asking for directions, right? So how can we like you know, you know, make that just like a regular regular thing. I'm part of the women's go abundance and there's, you know, there's four of us that meet like, every two weeks, whether we have like anything that's for progress forward. We meet every two weeks, we set an intention and I know I've done this, I'm guilty of this. I know like our meeting is on Thursday, I committed to some things two weeks ago, they're not done… I got, I got a report on that, right… And why and it's sometimes it's just like, well, darn, it's just easier for me to get it done but it keeps you moving forward and that's part of the networking it's the accountability, too…   Michael: Totally! I think networking, so often has this connotation around me using someone or you being used by someone else but really, I think renaming it or reframing it to call it relationship building is that a stitious?   Whitney: Yeah, rapport building relationship building, like, there's you don't have, there doesn't have to be an exchange of anything other than just like report initially and, you know, I mean, we've all been to those events, that the networking events where somebody is like shoving all their cards in your hands, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about actually finding somebody that you just like, you know, at the core fundamental that you resonate with, like, either you guys are walking a similar path, or they're just like, I like put, I like being in the room, or I am the dumbest person in the room. Like, I love that, and it pushes me, but at the same time, I also put myself in situations where I'm the mentor, and I'm giving back and it's just as rewarding.   Michael: That's so good, that's so good. Whitney, we covered mindset, skill set, networking, anything else that you'd recommend to be a rockstar, badass woman investor?   Whitney: Well, I think it's just continuing to, like, revisit these questions on a regular basis, right, because every time you you, you level up a part of your portfolio or achieve a goal, you now have to change who you have to become to get to the next level. So the mindset that got me to buying my first one or two single family properties, compared to the mindset that I have to have it now is entirely different. So it is an evolving process. You're constantly having to level up your mindset, your skill sets in your next your network to reach the next level. So it's not stagnant, this isn't one and done, this is like perpetual work that you have to do on yourself.   Michael: That's so good because I think so many people think about it. If I can just get this one deal, I you know, I'm there if I can just do this one thing that I'm there but it sounds like that's not the case, it's this ever evolving kind of evergreen cycle.   Whitney: I mean, I knew very few investors that have gotten like four or five or 10 single family properties that didn't want didn't go hmm oh, I have a multifamily look great, now you gotta like level level up right? You got to learn or do at least a whole new skill set and you know, probably expand your network to like figure out how to do the multifamily property.   Michael: I love it, I love it. Really this was so good. If people have questions for you want to reach out to you what's the best way for them to get in touch?       Whitney: Yeah, so you can reach out to me at https://www.passiveinvesting.com/whitney/ and you know, I know there I have tons of free downloads on how to get started with passive investing in multifamily and self-storage, real estate. You guys can find me there, but also just happy to jump on the phone and answer any questions for people.   Michael: Oh my god amazing. Well, thank you again for coming on. Always a pleasure to see you and I'm sure we'll do this again soon.   Whitney: Alright, thanks so much, Michael.   Michael: Thanks Whitney, bye…   Alright, well, that was our episode, a big thank you to Whitney for coming on yet again. 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Sometimes closing on a deal is not so straightforward. Michael shares a nightmare closing scenario and we discuss how to mitigate struggles like these to stay on schedule, saving time and money. --- Transcript   Emil: Everyone, welcome back for another weekend wisdom edition of the remote real estate investor. My name is Emil Shour. And today I've got with me,   Tom: Tom Schneider,   Michael: and Michael Albaum.   Emil: And we're going to be talking about what happens when your closing goes sideways. So Michael recently had a refi on a triplex he owns and had some some challenges arise. And we're gonna just put them in the hot seat, learn what happened and learn how he deals with it. So you guys can get some tips and takeaways in case this ever happens to you down the road. So let's hop into this one.   Alright, Michael said, set the stage for us. What what happened on this refi on your triplex.   Michael: All right. Step back in time with me to December of 2020. So that's what I started this whole process. And my wife actually found this awesome lender out in the Midwest, they could land on this property that I owned inside of an LLC. And I was like, great, this is awesome. So we got the ball rolling. He got a couple different quotes. For me. He was a mortgage broker. That's what he did he so he wasn't the lender specifically. So he found a lender that was going to work. We said, Great, we got the ball rolling, we got the application process started.   And then they said, Oh, you're doing some rehab work. So they went out for the appraisal, that's when they learned learned, quote, unquote, about the rehab work. And I was like, I told you about the rehab work. And they said, Oh, well, we can't we have to go back and do another appraisal once the work is done. So keep us posted. I'm like, oh my god. So that slowed things down to start, then we were supposed to close. And they said, Oh, you filled out some paperwork wrong. Yeah.   Tom: Did you get charged for like a chip chart trip charge for the appraisal? appraisal.   Michael: So I got a second charge for the appraisal, which they didn't tell me about until the closing statement showed it. It was only a couple 100 bucks. But I was I was still a bit frustrated, because they didn't like tell me that. And I should have assumed like, of course somebody has to travel to go do these things. But also at the same time, it seems a bit frustrating that they said oh, here's the price for the appraisal when they quoted it to me. And then the final amount being taken out at the closing is different, because they charged more for the appraisal example back second time, which they should have done because they knew about the construction. So that was a bit frustrating.   Tom: Was the construction like really significant.   Michael: It was a total remodel of a unit of the biggest unit in the in the triplex so fairly.   Tom: King unit.   Michael: Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So then they tell me Oh, by the way, I know we're pretty close to closing, but you filled out some paperwork wrong. So on my statement of information to the Secretary of State of California, I put that the LLC was member managed. But when I initially filed and made the LLC, I put that it was manager managed. So those two documents didn't align. So they said, Oh, you got it, you got to change this. And I was like, all right. We should we're done about this earlier, but whatever. So I did that and filed an amendment with the Secretary of State, it really wasn't a big deal, like 25 bucks to do to do it all online. Good to go. Great.   So now fast forward, the closing has already been delayed. They finally got through the re inspection of the property, as well. And they say, oh, by the way, this same issue happened in Alaska, where the property is, is physically. So you need to update that as well with the the secretary of state or change the operating agreement. I was like, why didn't you bring this up when you were scanning the documents that you had for California a month ago? Like a So anyway, to file an amendment, the Secretary of State of Alaska was much more difficult. It wasn't able to be that online. It was a whole process. And then I didn't get verification that it was accepted and approved. Until 18 business days later, was there a timeframe?   So I said I can't wait 18 more days to close this thing. What options do we have? And they said, Oh, we can close load in your personal name. So I say Great, let's do that. And they said, Okay, well, now because it's gonna be a person's name, you have to click claim it out of your LLC and into your personal name. I was like, You got to be kidding me. So I quick claiming that out of the LLC into my personal name. And they said, Okay, yeah, now we're clear to close. So they reached out to the title company, and the title company was unresponsive. So then I reached out to the title company, the title, the closer I reached out to their manager, and everybody was giving me the runaround. Oh, we need more documents from the lender, and the lender saying, Oh, we need we gave everything to title. It's in title's hands. So days and days, days, this Thursday went on for like a week of trying to coordinate this thing with the title company.   The person who the lender had on my case on my file was on the East Coast, but the title company was on the west coast. So there was several hour time difference. I mean, it was just like, the amount of people that got added to the emails each day grew exponentially. And I think Like the final set of emails, there were 12 people CCD on this, like it was a joke. Like they just couldn't get it. Right. So the loan finally funded this Monday, this past Monday, yesterday. And on Thursday, I think I got an email saying, Oh, we hope that this is from title, we hope that the lender wires over the money by Monday. And I wrote back and I was like you hope in a nicer house like you hope I was like, stop hoping and get this done? Who need to take responsibility for this? The lender has told me they've already sent you the money, where is it? When or when should I be expecting it? Please do not respond with you hope. I would like a plan of action going forward and someone to take responsibility, and I was nicer about it. But that was the gist of it. And that was the inner dialogue I was having in my in my head.   So somebody wrote back to me, they said, We're so sorry for this confusion. It will be in your account Monday morning. And I say, Great. Thank you for the confirmation. I look forward to seeing my account Monday morning. So Monday morning rolls around, the lender emails me and says, Hey, confirm with us when you receive the funds. I said, Great. No problem. We'll do 10 o'clock rolls around no funds. 12 o'clock rolls around no funds, but as they're…   Emil: Keep hitting refresh.   MIchael: Yeah, refresh. I was like, Hey, you told me is gonna be my account. Monday morning. I know, we're in the same time zone. There's nothing here and there's nothing pending What's going on? And they said, Oh, it should be there. And I said, well, it's not. So there's a lot of money out in cyberspace that you need to figure out where it is, and tell me when I should be expecting it. And they said, Oh, we are our servers have been slow. You know, I did it personally, it should be there.   So then finally, about two o'clock, it shows up. And I say Great. Thanks, everybody. This was ridiculous. So that was a really long winded way of basically going through what was a nightmare close, and a lot of takeaways that I had from this and other closings that have gone semi sideways, as well as that you really have to be your own advocate so much of the time, just because the lender says they're working on it doesn't necessarily mean that they are or just because the title company says they're working on this. I mean, they necessarily are. And so don't assume I feel silly saying this, but like, Don't assume that people are going to do the things they say they do. You really have to follow up with them and really be the driver, and also making sure that everybody's communicating. At no point should I have had to step in to email, both the title company and the lender on an email together and say, hey, why aren't you communicating better? Why am I the intermediary for my own loan? This is ridiculous.   Tom: Michael, not a not a big hope guy just doesn't really believe in hope, it's just kidding. I'm just kidding. That's pretty funny. I hope it funds. Okay. So yeah. Yeah, question for you here. So did you select the title company, or did the lender select the title company? You obviously selected the lender?   Michael: Here's the here's the funny part. So I wanted to use Spruce Title, who we use a lot of Roofstock. And I have a personal relationship with we had them on the podcast. They helped me do some things in Southern California to do a quitclaim deed, which was awesome. And so I said, Hey, Spruce, can you do this? And they said, you know, we really don't do a lot of business in Alaska, we would prefer to have your lender, your lenders title company, do it whoever they use, but when in a pinch, let us know we can we can try to be of some assistance. So I thought that we were lined up. I thought we were using spruce. It wasn't until push came to shove at the end of this when they told me Oh, we're using this other our title company that we use a lot. And now I'm sitting here scratching my head, looking at hindsight, being like, Are you freaking kidding me? This is the company that you chose over mine, are you insane, so it was just really frustrating. It was really frustrating.   And then I also asked him, I was like, both the lender and the title company. So you're really going to charge me full price, you're really going to give me all these fees, and everybody keeps giving me the runaround Oh, well, it's the other company that's causing the delays. So you know, our fees are set. I said, Man, this is just unbelievable. So I don't think I'm done fighting that battle yet. More so over principle than anything else. I mean, the fees were not exorbitant. I think they were, you know, reasonable for what I got. But still to make me have to jump through all these hoops at the 11th hour to make me have to do all the communication and I'm like, Am I doing your job for you at the end of the day? Come on. This is This is ridiculous.   So and then not the lack of response, I think is what really gets my go. It really grinds my gears. When people are asking for things that need to happen in a timely manner and just lack of response and I get people are busy, but some acknowledgement of Hey, we're working on it. I mean, Emil, you and I talked about this all the time you sent me an email, it's crickets. If you can't get to it, just acknowledge that hey, won't get to it'll tomorrow. Or hey, we'll get back to you in a day, whatever. Something to let me know that someone on the other end has put eyes on this or is as has a pulse at least.   Tom: Are there other little tricks you do within your emails when you're responding to them like Hey, are you the right person to contact for this like Basically like having them, like accept ownership of whatever that like specifically. I mean, that's that's brutal Michael, that you had to kind of jump in and quarterback, you know, between these these two companies, but I love it. Do you have any kind of pro tips like on writing these types of emails? I mean, one of them, I would just chime in with, you know, be direct, but don't be a jerk. But is there any other kind of like thoughts you have in being proactive with email, which I think is like the right thing to do? And you can see that it's like, getting a little bit off kilter?   Michael: I think that's a really great tip that you offered almost in your question of Hey, asking, Are you the right person?   Tom: Thanks Michael.   Michael: Yeah, absolutely.   Tom: So I threw it off the backboard and just dunked it.   Michael: We read it the Roofstock Academy book club, a book by Chris Voss called never split the difference. And he talks about if you're not getting responses to emails, a way that you can write in the email is, have you given up trying to assist me in resolving this problem, or something to that effect? It's like, a little harsh, but   Tom: That sounds a little harsh. I like it. I like it.   Michael: It is it is a little bit harsh, but also how many times you're going to bang your head against the wall with somebody who's not responding to your emails, or phone calls, or any kind of other communication? That's kind of the the question that needs to be answered. Hey, are you are you done talking to me? Are we just giving up here? And so I've only done it a couple of times, and it tends to work pretty well. I've been cc on an email where that was sent. And I was like, hey, that seems pretty harsh. Not sure that was appropriate. So I would definitely make sure it's a last ditch effort. And, you know, there are ways to word that in a more light hearted manner. But I think absolutely, oftentimes, it is justified. I didn't come to that at this. But I think that that's a really great tip of Hey, asking, Are you the right person for me to be talking to, and then also see seeing anybody and everybody that can help?   So managers, managers, managers, because so often, if the chain isn't consistent, things get lost in the email thread. And so adding people and subtracting people mid thread is difficult. So I'd say just make sure everybody is on on the train and communication with one another from the start. And that's helpful.   Tom: Yeah, I'd say one thing too, when you're adding, you know, more and more people on email, I think sometimes people could see a lot of people in email and like, think like, Oh, this isn't necessarily me. So like, within the body of the email, you know, if there is a lot of people on it, I'll do an  @ Michael album, like or @ whoever you're talking to, just because sometimes if you you're looking at an email, and there's a dozen people on you'd be like, oh, somebody else is gonna pick this up totally. So you know, use that kind of wider spray, but then use the little, you know, direct shot within the within the body of the email.   Michael: Such a great point, such a great point.   Emil: So to summarize, the big takeaway, I think, here is that the buck stops with you, you kind of have to, like you have to quarterback the whole thing, right? Is that the big takeaway, that you should own the process? As much as you can?   Michael: Yeah, well, I think you should be, you should be ready, willing and able to quarterback the process should you need to, I don't think in 90% of the instances, this doesn't happen. And things go smoothly in the title, company and lender work cohesively together. And you sometimes need to nudge people along and make sure everybody is talking and playing nice, get in the sandbox. But I absolutely do think that if you are going to play in this space, you need to be willing to be able to do this kind of stuff. Because this stuff happens clearly.   Emil: Right? I wonder if this is more of a refi thing, because I had the same thing on my Indy refi, where I had to do a lot of communicating between lender title and even like mobile notary, I had to set it all up and like coordinate with everybody so that docs were getting to the right person at the right time so that I could sign and everything. So I don't know if it's a refi thing, or maybe that's just coincidence that both of us have had this experience with refinances, but yeah, interesting.   Michael: It's so funny, you mentioned that, I mean, I totally forgot that part of the story. So at the end, at the like, the 11th hour, the title company finally gets back to me says, oh, we're gonna schedule a mobile notary. And what's your address? And we're going to hit the mobile notary and they'll come out and do sign docs. I said, great. That's awesome. This is my address. And I was actually out in Colorado at the time. So this was I don't know, like, noon or two.   And I was like, it's getting late. So if I need to go to the local notary store, let me know they said it and I will schedule mobile notary so great. This is we'll get back to you when we have something that's perfect. So, five o'clock comes and goes six o'clock comes and go seven o'clock comes and goes, I don't hear anything from anybody. So I called her love to message their offices, of course close as an emails, Hey, didn't hear from you or isn't mobile notary. Nothing happens so I was like great. And in the morning, we were headed out to Utah to the National Park making our way back to California. So I get this call at like seven o'clock. And this guy's like, Hey, I'm Have a mobile notary, are you? Are you still okay to sign? I'm like, No, dude, I'm on my way out of town driving to Utah. Like, no, he's like, I got an email last night. I didn't see it. Can I? Can I be there in 20 minutes? I'm like, Yes, fine, come in 20 minutes. So he signed all the paperwork knocked it out. I was like, Oh my god, everybody's dropping the ball.   Emil: There's a lesson there. And that and this is something I've learned recently, if you're a remote investor, which if you're listening to this show, you most likely are, you're gonna have to deal with mobile notaries all the time, you can't, you can't sign in person typically, right? Because your lenders not local or whatever it is, find a mobile notary near you and add them to your team for anytime you have closing Doc's like, I use the same person now he lives, I think five minutes away from me, I coordinate with him, him and I like know each other now, and it's so much easier to handle that stuff and make sure they're in the loop when you know the person and you use them over and over again. So that's something I recently started doing.   Michael: I was in Tahoe, Nevada, on vacation, and I had to sign something and they're like, oh, it has to be a California notary. I was like, Oh my god, are you serious? So I had to drive across the state border and then look up like a mobile notary and find them and they were like you coming to me I just broke my back like, Oh my god, what is going on?   So I think there's other takeaways just be flexible, be versatile, you know, be willing to flex a little bit because not everything is going to be the same as it was in prior closings. And especially with the remote aspect, things just are different. So be aware of that and be willing to Yeah, to just be flexible.   Emil: And things don't go smoothly. We try to hammer that point home right? You got to you got to be ready and accepting of the unexpected because that's kind of just real estate and especially with just lenders and closing and docs and all this stuff. It never goes according to plan smoothly, at least from my experience.   Tom: Be comfortable being uncomfortable.   Michael: Yeah, that's it.   Emil: Alright guys, any any final words before we wrap this one up?   Michael: Just be in constant communication with everybody who's involved?   Emil: Yep. Alright everybody. Thanks for joining us on this weekend wisdom. We will catch you all soon. Happy investing,   Tom: Happy investing.   Michael: Happy investing.

My guest today on The Thrive Factor podcast is Michael Levitt.Michael Levitt is the founder & Chief Burnout Officer of The Breakfast Leadership Network, a San Diego and Toronto-based burnout media firm. He is an in-person and Certified Virtual Speaker, a Certified NLP and CBT Therapist, and is one of the world's leading authorities in burnout recovery and prevention. He is a Fortune 500 consultant, #1 bestselling author, and host of the Breakfast Leadership Show, a top 200 podcast on iTunes. He is a 2x Top 20 Global Thought Leader on Culture with Thinkers360. Michael is a former Healthcare executive, CIO, and CFO overseeing $ 2 Billion budgets, so he’s seen and done it all.Michael published 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenarios (Amazon link to book), to share his burnout journey of having a heart attack that should have killed him, losing his job during the economic recession, having his family vehicle repossessed by the bank, and finally, his home foreclosed, all in a year. It was the best thing to ever happen to him, because those experiences created his passion to launch the Breakfast Leadership Network, to address burnout with individuals and teams, so that they could avoid their own year of worst-case scenarios.We talk about the different stages of burnout. How simple steps, such as not having your phone in your room can help you sleep better. Michael also talks about effective strategies you can teach others in your work environment to avoid burnout.You can reach out to Michael Here:https://www.breakfastleadership.com/mediaIf you are a brand or business looking to get more leads or customers, I have a Social Media Marketing Agency called HighImpact that can help you grow your business.https://www.highimpactagency.com/You can also connect with me on Social Media here:Instagram, http://www.instagram.com/kmirouan.Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/highimpactagency/LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/highimpactagency/If you enjoyed this episode please leave a review here:Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-thrive-factor/id1475695133Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/79qbDmAVtQjBp4BAl8qyvzStitcher:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpswwwstitchercompodcastthethrivefactor/the-thrive-factor?refid=stprI-Heart Radio:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-thrive-factor-47834963/Tunein/Alexa:https://tunein.com/podcasts/Medical/The-Thrive-Factor-p1238253/Google:https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8zMjIwNjEucnNzDeezer:https://www.deezer.com/us/show/1008652Pandora:https://www.pandora.com/podcast/the-thrive-factor/PC:23248

Michael Arterberry, a seasoned motivational speaker for teenagers and adults since 2008 helps people to use what they have gone through to get to their breakthrough. He walks his audience through the effects of their past and present trauma, including the most recent impact of society's imbalance. He talks about shaking off the dirt and becoming a stronger person by using past trauma for inspiration and motivation. Connect with Michael Here: https://www.michaelarterberry.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.arterberry/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelarterberry/ Check out his website for a free copy of his book "Be Encouraged: 250 Days of Motivation and Encouragement". Thanks for your time, energy, and beautiful message Michael! Kelly Rompel

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On Today's Episode of “THee Fire Wolf Podcast” I am super duper excited to have on comedian and friend Michael Furr! He is such a strong staple in the Baltimore comedy scene! Between producing and performing in shows, training and directing improv troops, and writing and filming two of his own comedy specials, I've learned so much watching him do his thing!!! As an aside, I saw him prepare for and film his first special “Straight Acting” back in 2018 and it was such a wonderful experience to watch from the ground up! Michael runs the “Lou Costello Room” based out of Zissimos Bar in downtown Hampden, Maryland which for those who love Baltimore this is as “Hon” as it gets!!!

Hosted by multiple iTunes Top 10 podcaster James Burtt, Building The Brand is in-depth conversations with the entrepreneurs, founders, marketing and brand experts, PR specialists, CEO’s and CMO’s who have built some of the countries most successful companies and brands. This week on the show we have Michael Lane - MD of the world’s biggest business events brand Success Resources.  Michael have been on the show before (LISTEN TO THAT 1ST INTERVIEW HERE) but the world is a different place since then so this show give you an interesting insight in how to run a massive global business… from your living room! Michael shares: * From 525 events to zero pretty much overnight * Crazy three weeks from meetings in LA with Jay Shetty to working from home * What he feels personal development is all about * How he’s handling managing global staff with differing local rules * How the Success Resources brands are pivoting online * The opportunity of Coronavirus lock down * How to structure your day during this time Handling the process of going from 525 events to zero is no mean feat, and there are some real tangible takeaways from the insight of a man who is guiding his global team through this strange times. Connect with Michael HERE

Michael Mueller is one hell of an awesome guy!  This conversation is crazy and very entertaining!  Michael is director of a movie called E-Listers coming out in the next couple months.  He talks about the movie and how it came about.  In short, it's a movie about "extras" in movies. Make sure you watch for it and check it out! Michael and the guys take a trip back in time and talk about Sega, Nintendo, Super Nintendo and remembering gaming systems.  This brings back so many memories.  We also talk about growing up in the days without the internet and what fun that was when we actually had to talk to people. Michael dives into the evolution of TV and streaming services taking over.  He believes YouTube is the future of television, movies and everything. . This is a long conversation and full of fun, laughs, and entertainment... don't miss a minute! CLICK HERE FOR E-LISTER the movie (https://www.elistermovie.com/) Find out everything about Michael HERE (https://www.m3creative.net/) Visit the Jackwagon Express here! (https://www.pod30network.com/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejackwagonexpress/message

Michael Mueller is one hell of an awesome guy!  This conversation is crazy and very entertaining!  Michael is director of a movie called E-Listers coming out in the next couple months.  He talks about the movie and how it came about.  In short, it's a movie about "extras" in movies. Make sure you watch for it and check it out! Michael and the guys take a trip back in time and talk about Sega, Nintendo, Super Nintendo and remembering gaming systems.  This brings back so many memories.  We also talk about growing up in the days without the internet and what fun that was when we actually had to talk to people. Michael dives into the evolution of TV and streaming services taking over.  He believes YouTube is the future of television, movies and everything. . This is a long conversation and full of fun, laughs, and entertainment... don't miss a minute! CLICK HERE FOR E-LISTER the movie (https://www.elistermovie.com/) Find out everything about Michael HERE (https://www.m3creative.net/) Visit the Jackwagon Express here! (https://www.pod30network.com/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejackwagonexpress/message

Michael Boidy has worked alongside some of the top producers, directors, and cinematographers in TV and film. Mike broke his back in a helicopter crash. He healed it using sound. Mike specializes in shooting aerial footage, including National Geographic's “Great Migrations” documentary, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, plus the Ecuador, Israel, and Mexico episodes of “The Royal Tour” documentary series. Mike is producing "Heart Beat" a documentary about the healing power of sound. Watch Michael's TEDx talk HERE. Connect with Michael HERE. BeTheTalk is a 7 day a week podcast where Nathan Eckel chats with talkers from TEDx & branded events. Tips tools and techniques that can help you give the talk to change the world at BeTheTalk.com !

Michael Boidy has worked alongside some of the top producers, directors, and cinematographers in TV and film. Mike broke his back in a helicopter crash. He healed it using sound. Mike specializes in shooting aerial footage, including National Geographic’s “Great Migrations” documentary, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, plus the Ecuador, Israel, and Mexico episodes of “The Royal Tour” documentary series. Mike is producing "Heart Beat" a documentary about the healing power of sound. Watch Michael's TEDx talk HERE. Connect with Michael HERE. BeTheTalk is a 7 day a week podcast where Nathan Eckel chats with talkers from TEDx & branded events. Tips tools and techniques that can help you give the talk to change the world at BeTheTalk.com !

Want more with Luke and Michael? Here's some Patreon-only content on biohacking, supplements and more. Using himself as a human research lab, Luke Storey has explored a broad and sometimes extreme variety of measures to obtain optimal health, performance, and well-being. From surviving being injected with poisonous Amazonian frog venom, to enduring weeks of neurofeedback meditation in an isolation chamber, Luke has scoured the earth for the most cutting edge as well as ancient technologies of healing and personal transformation. Live in the New York area? Join Michael and Luke at the first ever WITMA event on Thursday, September 21st. Use the code HIGHVISION for 20% off.