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On this episode of the Best Ever CRE Show, Slocomb Reed interviews Jeremy Long, founder and managing partner of Axia Partners, a vertically integrated investment firm based in Salt Lake City. Jeremy shares his unique journey from door-to-door sales executive to real estate investor, including his experience taking Vivint Solar public and later being acquired by Sunrun. He explains why he and his partner Dave decided to launch with a fund model rather than individual syndications, allowing them to raise capital to a thesis and acquire multiple properties simultaneously. Jeremy discusses their initial investment focus on value-add multifamily in tertiary markets with strong migration patterns, and why they've expanded into RV parks for their consistent cash flow. He also provides candid insights on their challenges transitioning from retail investors to institutional capital, the importance of property management selection in smaller markets, and why they're now narrowing their asset focus after initially diversifying across multiple property types. Sponsors: Vintage Capital Capital Gains Tax Solutions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Feedback is a gift.” "You do what is best for your career, not what's comfortable for other people." “We trust the people who tell us the truth.” “I really subscribe to the idea that you should do something once a year that scares the crap out of you.” Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Tessa White and Her Journey 02:51 Navigating Career Challenges and Generosity in Leadership 05:45 The Birth of The Job Doctor and Accidental Influence 08:58 Overcoming Adversity: Tessa's Personal Story 11:57 Writing 'The Unspoken Truths for Career Success' 14:54 Playing in the Gap: Prioritizing What Matters 17:51 Managing Workload and Setting Boundaries 21:55 Finding Balance: Something's Got to Give 25:59 The Gift of Feedback and Performance Lies 27:41 The Importance of Feedback 30:19 Seeking Honest Feedback 33:44 Understanding Power and Influence 36:36 Identifying and Solving Gaps 39:50 Navigating Conflict in the Workplace 43:31 Celebrating Success and Book Launch 45:45 Evaluating Career Opportunities Episode Summary: In this conversation, Tessa White, founder of The Job Doctor, shares her journey from a secretary to a leading HR executive and now a career coach. She discusses the importance of navigating workplace challenges, the power of feedback, and the necessity of prioritizing what truly matters in one's career. Tessa emphasizes the significance of personal growth, setting boundaries, and understanding the dynamics of workplace politics. Her insights are drawn from her extensive experience and her new book, 'The Unspoken Truths for Career Success.'  In this conversation, Tessa White discusses the critical role of feedback in professional development, the importance of seeking honest feedback, and the dynamics of power and influence in the workplace. She emphasizes the need for individuals to identify and solve gaps within their organizations, navigate conflict effectively, and evaluate career opportunities based on personal values. Tessa also shares her personal experiences, including her book launch and the significance of resilience in career growth. R.O.G. Takeaway Tips: Setting boundaries is essential to avoid burnout. Feedback should be viewed as a gift for personal growth. Understanding what your manager values can help prioritize tasks. Personal experiences shape professional insights and advice. Women and men both need support in navigating their careers. It's important to make decisions that keep you whole and healthy. Feedback is essential for career growth and understanding perceptions. Seeking feedback from diverse sources can yield more honest insights. Perception is reality; changing how others perceive you is crucial. Power and influence are necessary for credibility in the workplace. Identifying gaps and solving problems can lead to career advancement. Conflict is often avoided, but addressing it can build trust. Assuming good intent in conversations fosters better communication. Start small when trying to make changes in your organization. Resilience is a valuable trait in overcoming career challenges. Evaluate career opportunities based on personal values and goals. Guest Bio: Tessa White, the founder of The Job Doctor, and author of The Unspoken Truths for Career Success. Her thought leadership on the modern workplace makes her a frequent guest on national television shows and in top tier publications. She has amassed more than 1 million followers on social media, and she is ranked in the top 2% of creators on her LIVE career sessions on TikTok. The Job Doctor is a company dedicated to moving employee performance from average to extraordinary and building strong company leaders with highly engaged employees. Tessa is recognized nationwide as a media expert on people strategy and career navigation, and has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Apple News, and Inc.  Frequently used by investors to assess the people strategies of many companies, she has led multiple restructures, acquisitions, and prepared companies for initial public offerings. She has worked at the highest levels in both small start-ups and Fortune 50 companies. At United Health Group she led company-wide talent management and people strategy redesign project, which helped shape her ideas on creating an engaged workforce. In 2016, she helped lead the Vivint Solar team to be recognized as one of Glass Door's Top 20 Companies to Work.  She is a frequent television guest on Career Navigation and is featured on Season 2 of The Social Movement on Amazon Prime. Tessa also won the President's Award at PowerQuest /Symantec for Innovation, awarded only to the top 2% of the company. She has led the company Human Capital interests on multiple Boards including Vivint Solar's partnership with Blackstone, one of the world's leading investment firms Today, she is an active advisory board member to one of the nation's top entrepreneur programs, Utah State University's Huntsman School of Business; she also serves on the boards of Utah Valley University Women's Center and Dahlia's Hope (https://www.dahliashope.org), a center that helps sex-trafficking victims recover and rebuild their lives. If there is time leftover, she loves fly-fishing. Resources: Tessa's Website: TheJobDoctor.com Tessa's resources and links: Tessa White on Stan CareerRx Where to find R.O.G. Podcast: R.O.G on YouTube R.O.G on Apple Podcasts R.O.G on Spotify 5 Year Gratitude Journal: Grounded in Gratitude on Etsy How diverse is your network?  N.D.I. Network Diversity Index What is your Generosity Style?  Generosity Quiz Credits: Tessa White, Sheep Jam Productions, Host Shannon Cassidy, Bridge Between, Inc. Coming Next: Please join us next week, Episode 221, Special Guest, Justin Jones-Fosu.

Join John Taylor & Reno Mendenhall in the first Grit Lecture Series. Reno has mastered what so many aspire to achieve—leveraging the door-to-door (D2D) sales model to grow, evolve, and create massive value for himself and those around him. With an impressive 13-year career at Vivint and Vivint Solar, Reno transitioned into entrepreneurship, launching a tech company revolutionizing the roofing and solar industry. Hear his journey, lessons, and strategies for success in sales, business, and life. This is one episode you don't want to miss!

Dave Allred is Managing Partner and CEO of Axia Partners, a public speaker and executive business consultant, and a prominent figure in the real estate world. Allred's life reflects what a person can do when they live with intentionality and a willingness to "do today what others won't, so tomorrowyou can have what others can't."Born into a destitute family and entirely on his own at age 17, Dave first reset the standards of his life by becoming a millionaire at age 26 during his 15-year leadership career with Vivint, the nation's largest smart home security company. After eight years as Regional VP of Sales, he then transitioned to help grow sister company Vivint Solar. Dave led 121 sales teams across 41 states over his leadership career, contributing to both companies going public with multi-billion dollar valuations.At age 30, after reverse engineering how much passive income from real estate he'd need for true financial freedom, Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40. He achieved his goal and then launched Axia Partners, a fund focused on recession-resilient commercial real estate.Along the way, Dave has created a life focused on family, freedom, value, and purpose. He's traveled to over 55 countries, a Mt. Everest expedition, spoken on stages worldwide, and mentored thousands to live life fully with purpose and freedom through his unique “Lifestyle Design” system.Today, Dave's mission is creating value and inspiring others to achieve freedom through lifestyle investing, and is committed to helping as many people achieve financial freedom through passive income real estateas possible. And, along with his ride-or-die wife and four beautiful children, he's launched the Allred Family Foundation to give back and help the charitable causes his children have chosen to support.Allred's extensive experience in real estate includes single-family, flips, hard money lending, Airbnb, multifamily, self-storage, senior housing, landacquisition and entitlement, distressed debt, joint ventures, syndications, and fund management.

Pete Gutierrez has been in the sales industry for over 20 years. In 2009, he ventured into door-to-door sales with Alarms with Pinnacle. In 2013, he expanded his expertise to the solar industry, working with Vivint Solar in South Bay, CA. Pete is currently with Legacy power in Accelerated Growth where is is systemizing recruiting process at scale.  Pete  is a proud father of three daughters and enjoys staying active by running, surfing, and snowboarding. He has a passion for continuous learning and reads over 30 books a year. Additionally, Pete engages in day trading as a side hustle.

In this episode, we meet Pooja Goyal: Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of Carlyle Global Infrastructure, Co-Head of the Carlyle Global Infrastructure Opportunity Fund (CGI), and Carlyle's Head of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. With over $381 billion assets under management (AUM), Carlyle is one of the world's largest investment firms — a megafund that specializes in private equity and private credit.Prior to joining Carlyle, Pooja was the Head of the Alternative Energy Investing Group at Goldman Sachs, where she led investments in the renewables sector. She joined the group as an associate in 2005, was promoted to Managing Director in 2012, and took over as Head of the group in 2013. Under her leadership, the group built a portfolio of investments dedicated to the renewable energy and sustainable resources sector. Pooja has held several board and committee positions, including on the boards of Vivint Solar and the American Council of Renewable Energy and the investment committees at Altus Power and Goldman Sachs' Special Situations Group. Prior to 2005, Pooja was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. She holds a BS in finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and a BAS in computer and cognitive science from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In this episode, Simi explores Pooja's role as an influential investor shaping the future of energy at one of the foremost private equity firms in the world.For more episodes, visit us at southasiantrailblazers.com. Subscribe to our newsletter to get new episodes and updates on our latest events in your inbox. Follow us @southasiantrailblazers on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Youtube. 

In today's episode, our guest is Tessa White. She is an expert on career and company transformation with more than 20 years of experience in human capital strategy. She helps individuals successfully navigate careers and companies reimagine their workforce potential. [2:27] Why should I listen to you? You should listen to me because I believe I can help you avoid decades of struggling to navigate the difficult corporate workplace. I can provide shortcuts to some of the problems I've encountered on my own journey, drawing from my unique perspective as a former head of HR who has overseen the careers of tens of thousands of people. I have had numerous backroom conversations and learned valuable lessons about how to promote smoother career growth, which can be highly beneficial and even life-changing. Overall, I'm confident that my insights can make a real difference in your life. I hope you find them as useful as I do. [3:42] Do you mind taking us back and walking us through that? Sure. Well, if I go back far enough, I ended up as a single mother with three children, no college degree, and the daunting task of figuring out how to provide for my family. I had no real career to speak of, so I decided to pursue a job in HR because I believed that I had good communication skills and typing ability. It just so happened that I landed a job working for Stephen R Covey, the well-known author, and speaker who was a pioneer in the field of personal development. I learned a tremendous amount from him, which set me on the path to success. Fast forward 25 years, and you would find me as the head of HR at a Fortune 50 company, working with Blackstone in New York, and driving board meetings. However, the journey from nothing to something was far from easy. When the pandemic hit, I decided that I wanted to focus on helping people navigate their careers, rather than just protecting companies. This led me to start a business called 'The Job Doctor,' which I launched from my own home. On day three, my daughter shared some of my advice on TikTok and it quickly gained popularity, with 10,000 people following me in just three days. Since then, I have been able to help thousands of people navigate their own career journeys, which has been a truly rewarding experience. [6:16] Prior to that, what was your plan to get out into the world?  When I worked at Vivint Solar, I had the opportunity to work with young millennials and Gen Z salespeople who were doing door-to-door sales with 4000 rows and flat build caps. I noticed that they were learning and thinking differently, and I had to quickly adapt to their unique styles. After leaving Vivint Solar, I realized there was a need for short-form learning that could be easily accessible through social media. Traditional long training sessions wouldn't work for these young people. So, I decided to meet them where they were by utilizing social media to provide quick, bite-sized learning opportunities. It wasn't a matter of being smart, it was just being wise. [10:00] Where did you start?  I believe that people often underestimate themselves, especially women. They sell themselves short and think they're not capable of achieving their dreams. As part of my coaching sessions, which I call "read my brain," I help people take the first step and guide them with my knowledge about different career paths to help them pick the right one. I act as a cheerleader in the background, encouraging them and telling them they can do it. It's amazing to see how capable people are when they believe in themselves. I had a client who was a single parent cleaning hotels for a living, and now she's making over $100,000 a year as a software engineer. The name "the job doctor" comes from my role as a doctor who comes in to help people with their careers. [11:25] How would you explain your job?  I assist individuals in various aspects of their careers, such as interview preparation and resume building to increase their chances of getting hired. I also provide support to those who are experiencing difficulties at work and help them develop a career strategy for future growth. My approach is practical and focused on actionable steps rather than theoretical concepts, and I offer specific scripts and advice on how to navigate tough conversations and situations at work. Overall, I aim to help people have smoother and more successful careers. [12:13] Where do you think the wealth of that knowledge came from to be able to teach it? Having worked in the HR field for many years, I have seen a wide range of situations and challenges that companies face when it comes to managing their employees. I have had to deal with everything from minor performance issues to serious ethical violations, and I have seen firsthand how these situations can impact the company as a whole. One of the things that set me apart as a consultant is my ability to draw on this vast experience and use it to help my clients navigate these issues. I can provide them with insights into how companies typically handle various situations, and I can help them develop strategies for dealing with these situations in a way that minimizes risk and protects their interests. Overall, I believe that my wealth of knowledge and experience allows me to provide valuable guidance to my clients as they seek to navigate the complex world of HR and employment law. Whether they are facing a difficult employee situation or simply looking to improve their overall HR strategy, I am confident that I can help them achieve their goals and succeed in today's competitive business environment. [16:10] What are some key attributes that contribute to success in a career? As someone who has observed and been frustrated by the pattern of hiring employees who seemed promising but were let go shortly thereafter, I have developed a system to help individuals progress through the five stages of career growth. By identifying essential skill sets for each stage, individuals can anticipate what is required to succeed in their current role and prepare for the next level. For example, in mid-management, conflict resolution and the ability to have difficult conversations that foster safety are crucial. Unfortunately, some individuals may not develop these traits and their career progress may be hindered. Through my system, individuals can learn how to develop these necessary attributes and enhance their overall career trajectory. [18:10] What are these five skills?  The first stage is all about following instructions and being a doer. You need to be able to take direction and complete tasks efficiently. In the second stage, you need to learn how to work independently. You'll be given broad guidelines, but it's up to you to figure out how to get things done. This stage is all about developing independence. Once you get to middle management, you need to learn how to work with others. Collaboration is key, and you'll need to be able to build relationships with other departments to achieve your goals. The next stage is all about being a builder. You can't just focus on completing tasks anymore; you need to be able to define strategy and get buy-in from others. This stage is all about developing your sales and communication skills. Finally, in the most senior role, you need to be able to focus on the big picture. You can't just focus on your own department; you need to spend time working with outside boards of directors and exploring new business opportunities.  [20:58] What are some of the things that stand out to you?  Some of the things that stand out to me from the conversation are the importance of understanding the different stages of a career and the necessary skills needed for each stage. It's also crucial to be aware of the environment you're operating in and to have a clear understanding of your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as seek feedback regularly to improve and grow. Additionally, building good partnerships and collaborating with other departments is essential for success in middle management, and having a clear strategy and the ability to pitch and gain buy-in is vital for those in a builder role. Finally, senior leaders must focus on not just their own department but also spend time with outside boards of directors and seek new business opportunities to ensure the success of the company. [43:17] What promise did God make to the world when he created you?  I guess the promise was that you'll meet somebody who you'll never have a dull moment around her and she's going to dream big. Key Quotes  [9:20-9:25] Stop waiting for things to be perfect and do it.  [9:40-9:44] People care less than we think they do.  How to connect with Tessa White Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/JobDoctorTessa  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJobDoctor  Twitter: https://twitter.com/JobDoctorTessa   

This week Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by Jordan Lundskog, a Product Manager at Ancestry.com. The two discuss using the new story feature in the Ancestry.com app. A partnership with Photomyne allows users to add and edit photos within the app. Jordan explains how it all works and how easy it is to create a story.Related Episodes:Episode 177: Wild about Wildcards with Amy Johnson CrowEpisode 98: Collect Stories with StoryGloryLinks:Ancestry.comSign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About My Guest:Jordan Lundskog is a Product Manager at Ancestry focused on finding ways to explore and build tools to help people protect, preserve and enhance memories before they fade away. Jordan has been part of the Ancestry team since 2018. He enjoys finding ways to solve human problems with technology and most recently he has been working on a free set of tools to help anyone upload, enhance, and share photos, stories and other types of media on Ancestry. Prior to Ancestry, Jordan held product management roles at Vivint Solar, PlanSource, and ApplicantPro.About Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She's the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The Taking a DNA test is a fun summer activity for the whole family. You can discover new relatives through MyHeritage DNA, learn about your origins, and expand your family history research. MyHeritage DNA is on sale for $44 if you use the code Photo5 at myheritage.com/DNA. This is a special offer for Photo Detective listeners from August 22 until August 25, 2022. I wanted to remind you all that I run one-on-one Photo Consultations, that help identify photo clues that you may have missed, in order to help you better understand your family history. Not many people realize that the saying is true - and that a photo can tell a million stories. All sessions are recorded, and there's a discount for bulk image sessions. Find out more on my website at https://maureentaylor.com. Support the show

As a leader, have you ever asked yourself if you are a micromanager? Many might justify such actions due to the lack of initiative or accountability from team members. Finding the right person to the right seat is no easy task.In this episode, Tessa White to further dive into what exactly a micromanager is. She gives actionable advice on how to recognize your management style and improve your leadership. She also emphasizes the importance of creating a safe space within the team in order to build trust and open communication and naturally develop accountability among your people. Tessa White is a human resource expert with over 20 years of designing human capital strategies. She brings a level of creativity that has led her to some of the most innovative publicly traded companies today including Vivint Solar, which was recognized by Glassdoor as one of the Top 50 Companies to Work in the nation. A keynote speaker, she has taught over 10,000 people in industries from high tech to healthcare to direct sales and teaches people how to move from invisible to exceptional and become top-tier talent in the workplace.Tessa is the founder of The Job Doctor, a company dedicated to moving employee performance from average to extraordinary, building strong company leaders with highly engaged employees. Her straight talk helps job seekers and employees excel in the workforce.Quotes• “You're micromanaging your team and what happens is you train your people slowly to do nothing except what you say to do because they don't like doing rework. So you train them to get instruction from you on every little step until, at one point, you shut down your team's creativity.” (10:37-:1056)• “It's really hard as a manager not to redo something. So if you're redoing the entire approach, that's a problem. If you're asking someone clarifying questions about the approach just to make sure they thought it through, that's okay.”(16:30-16:45)• “You need to treat other people that you work with as partners. View them as partners, not silos, not people who are getting in your way, but actual partners. And the way you change your language with them as a partner will affect the outcomes you get.” (21:51-22:07)• “The next stage of growth in a career, you have to get comfortable with conflict.” (25:10-25:15)• “It's very important… that people can trust that what you say is what you mean. And so then it gives you the freedom to share both good and negative feedback. It builds trust rather than breaks trust.” (27:01-27:14)• “Learning to work on the right things and see what's broken and fix, it is probably the most valuable skillset anybody can bring to a business.”(37:32-37:41)• “You got to align your people so they know what winning looks like. If they don't know what winning looks like, they're going to choose what they think winning looks like. And it might not be what winning looks like for you.” (41:25-41:25)Connect with Tessa WhiteWebsite: https://doctortessawhite.com/IG: @jobdoctortessaTwitter: @jobdoctortessaTikTok: @jobdoctortessaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessawhitejobdoctorResources mentioned: How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Marshall Goldsmith and Sally HelgesenThe Power of One by Bryce CourtenayInvestHER CON Time: June 23-24 Place: Charlotte, NCInvestHER CON is a full circle transformational experience created with the women investors' needs, desires, and schedules in mind. The event brings top-notch experts in Real Estate Investing, Business Strategies, and Self-Care who will push the boundaries, expand the mindset, and promote deeper connections among the attendees. Learn from real teachers who will share actionable strategies so you can leave the event with the knowledge, connections, and confidence to grow your investing business and live life on your own terms.Get your ticket today: https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/investherconHow To Join the InvestHER Movement 1) The Real Estate InvestHER Podcast - The weekly show details the journey of some of the most amazing women real estate investors around the world, who open up their lives and share practical and strategic tools for growing a rental portfolio, flipping houses, and the mindset that allows them to run a successful investing business while taking care of their families and most importantly taking care of themselves. Subscribe via:Apple Itunes SpotifyAmazon MusicAndroid Stitcher 2) The Real Estate InvestHER Membership STRIVE is a one-of-a-kind membership for experienced women investors looking to make deeper connections and take their Real Estate business to the next level. It is more than a transactional membership, and it is a transformational experience for women looking to live life on their own terms.Apply today. We open doors in June. https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/reserve 3) InvestHER Community on Facebook We have thousands of members in our Facebook InvestHER Community (and growing!) This is a safe place for women to ask real estate investing questions and gain the support they need to achieve their goals! 4) InvestHER Meetups Around the Globe We have Investher Meetup members attending in-person meetings across the country and Canada. Meetups are being held monthly by experienced InvestHER Leaders! Learn more about our InvestHER leaders, meetup locations, and how to become an InvestHER Leader HERE! 5) InvestHER™ eXp TeamOur mission is to empower women in Real Estate to live a financially free and balanced life, and we are extending our support to Real Estate agents worldwide. We have created exclusive content and support for the InvestHER™ eXp Team:*Top skills and strategies to grow YOUR business*How to utilize your “real estate agent” advantage to become a real estate investor*Monthly live masterminds*Become part of Libertas Organization with top coaches, Tim and Julie Harris.Jonna Hall Weber is leading our team. If you have any questions or are ready to join our team, click here to schedule a call with her.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As a leader, have you ever asked yourself if you are a micromanager? Many might justify such actions due to the lack of initiative or accountability from team members.  Finding the right person to the right seat is no easy task. In this episode, Tessa White to further dive into what exactly a micromanager is. She gives actionable advice on how to recognize your management style and improve your leadership. She also emphasizes the importance of creating a safe space within the team in order to build trust and open communication and naturally develop accountability among your people. Tessa White is a human resource expert with over 20 years of designing human capital strategies. She brings a level of creativity that has led her to some of the most innovative publicly traded companies today including Vivint Solar, which was recognized by Glassdoor as one of the Top 50 Companies to Work in the nation. A keynote speaker, she has taught over 10,000 people in industries from high tech to healthcare to direct sales and teaches people how to move from invisible to exceptional and become top-tier talent in the workplace. Tessa is the founder of The Job Doctor, a company dedicated to moving employee performance from average to extraordinary, building strong company leaders with highly engaged employees. Her straight talk helps job seekers and employees excel in the workforce. Quotes • “You're micromanaging your team and what happens is you train your people slowly to do nothing except what you say to do because they don't like doing rework. So you train them to get instruction from you on every little step until, at one point, you shut down your team's creativity.” (10:37-:1056) • “It's really hard as a manager not to redo something. So if you're redoing the entire approach, that's a problem. If you're asking someone clarifying questions about the approach just to make sure they thought it through, that's okay.”(16:30-16:45) • “You need to treat other people that you work with as partners. View them as partners, not silos, not people who are getting in your way, but actual partners. And the way you change your language with them as a partner will affect the outcomes you get.” (21:51-22:07) • “The next stage of growth in a career, you have to get comfortable with conflict.” (25:10-25:15) • “It's very important… that people can trust that what you say is what you mean. And so then it gives you the freedom to share both good and negative feedback. It builds trust rather than breaks trust.” (27:01-27:14) • “Learning to work on the right things and see what's broken and fix, it is probably the most valuable skillset anybody can bring to a business.”(37:32-37:41) • “You got to align your people so they know what winning looks like. If they don't know what winning looks like, they're going to choose what they think winning looks like. And it might not be what winning looks like for you.” (41:25-41:25) Connect with Tessa White Website: https://doctortessawhite.com/ IG: @jobdoctortessa Twitter: @jobdoctortessa TikTok: @jobdoctortessa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessawhitejobdoctor Resources mentioned:  How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Marshall Goldsmith and Sally Helgesen The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay InvestHER CON  Time: June 23-24  Place: Charlotte, NC InvestHER CON is a full circle transformational experience created with the women investors' needs, desires, and schedules in mind. The event brings top-notch experts in Real Estate Investing, Business Strategies, and Self-Care who will push the boundaries, expand the mindset, and promote deeper connections among the attendees. Learn from real teachers who will share actionable strategies so you can leave the event with the knowledge, connections, and confidence to grow your investing business and live life on your own terms. Get your ticket today: https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/investhercon How To Join the InvestHER Movement  1) The Real Estate InvestHER Podcast - The weekly show details the journey of some of the most amazing women real estate investors around the world, who open up their lives and share practical and strategic tools for growing a rental portfolio, flipping houses, and the mindset that allows them to run a successful investing business while taking care of their families and most importantly taking care of themselves. Subscribe via: Apple Itunes  Spotify Amazon Music Android   Stitcher    2) The Real Estate InvestHER Membership  STRIVE is a one-of-a-kind membership for experienced women investors looking to make deeper connections and take their Real Estate business to the next level. It is more than a transactional membership, and it is a transformational experience for women looking to live life on their own terms. Apply today. We open doors in June. https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/reserve  3) InvestHER Community on Facebook  We have thousands of members in our Facebook InvestHER Community (and growing!) This is a safe place for women to ask real estate investing questions and gain the support they need to achieve their goals!    4) InvestHER Meetups Around the Globe  We have Investher Meetup members attending in-person meetings across the country and Canada. Meetups are being held monthly by experienced InvestHER Leaders! 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The great resignation is/isn't anything new depending on who you talk to. Dr. Tessa White doesn't particularly mind either way. She's helping millions navigate the new world of work on platforms like TikTok. From getting raises, managing up, managing out, Dr. Tessa is helping people make work work for them. On this episode of Mouthwash, we're talking everything management, leadership, teamwork and more. ABOUT TESSA (@jobdoctortessa)Tessa is the founder of The Job Doctor, a company dedicated to moving employee performance from average to extraordinary, and building strong company leaders with highly engaged employees. Tessa is recognized nationwide as a media expert on people strategy and career navigation, and has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Apple News, and Inc. Frequently used by investors to assess the people strategies of many companies, she has led multiple restructures, acquisitions, and prepared companies for initial public offerings.She has worked at the highest levels in both small start-ups and Fortune 50 companies. At United HealthGroup she led company-wide talent management and people strategy redesign project, which helped shape her ideas on creating an engaged workforce. In 2016, she helped lead the Vivint Solar team to be recognized as one of Glass Door's Top 20 Companies to Work. She is a frequent television guest on Career Navigation and is featured on Season 2 of The Social Movement on Amazon Prime. Tessa also won the President's Award at PowerQuest /Symantec for Innovation, awarded only to the top 2% of the company.She has led the company Human Capital interests on multiple Boards including Vivint Solar's partnership with Blackstone, one of the world's leading investment firms Today, she is an active advisory board member to one of the nation's top entrepreneur programs, Utah State University's Huntsman School of Business; she also serves on the boards of Utah Valley University Women's Center and Dahlia's Hope (https://www.dahliashope.org), a center that helps sex-trafficking victims recover and rebuild their lives.Find out more about Tessa here. SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave first started investing in real estate 18 years ago and has since scaled hisbusiness into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estateacross the country. At age 30 Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rentaldoors by age 40. Having executed this goal, he's now launched Axia Partners, areal estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passiveincome.Dave launched a highly successful 17-year career with Vivint, the nation's largestsmart home security company. He served 8 years as the Regional Vice President ofSales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar, where he's led over 100sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually goingpublic with multi-billion dollar valuations. Dave now consults several small to medium size high-growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting.Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living lifefully with freedom and purpose. Along with his wife and 4 young children, Dave recently launched the Allred Family Foundation which focuses on giving back and supporting multiplehumanitarian causes. His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedomthrough lifestyle investing, all things high adventure, and living life all in.You can follow him on:Instagram: @daveallredWebsite: www.axiapartners.com★★★★★Subscribe to The Bull's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCeJKFFE1iqI_OzfK5dPuaA★★★★Subscribe to The Bullpen podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bullpen/id1588663242★★★Subscribe to The Bullpen podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6BnmfXofFG0x0bdrzpNfcn?si=7220fabe105c40b9&nd=1#TheBull #TheBullevans #TheBullpen #AlphaInfluence►Follow Jeremiah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebullevans/?hl=en►Follow Jeremiah on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeremiah.evans.906►Follow Jeremiah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebullevans?lang=en►Follow Jeremiah on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremiah-evans-6976ba156►Follow Jeremiah on Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebullevans?lang=en

Dave Allread joins #Clockedin with Jordan Edwards and teaching us how to grow a real estate portfolio from start and how he grew to 1000+ doors.  Dave launched a highly successful 17 year career with Vivint, the nation's largest smart home security company, where he served 8 years as a regional Vice President of Sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he's led over 100 sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually going public with multi-billion dollar valuations.Dave now consults several small to medium size high growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting. Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose. Creating value and inspiring others is his life purpose, and over the last two decades Dave has mentored and lead thousands of others to optimize their results and level up. Along with his wife and 4 young children, Dave recently launched the Allred Family Foundation which focuses on giving back and supporting multiple humanitarian causes.Dave first started investing in real estate 18 years ago and has since scaled his business into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country.At age 30 Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40. Having executed this goal, he's now launched Axia Partners, a real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income. His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, all things high adventure, and living life all in.Now Dave is helping people reach financial freedom through Axia Partners. To learn more about Dave Allred: Dave Allred Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daveallred/Email: Dave@Axiapartners.comWebsite: https://www.axiapartners.com/Hope you find value in this. If so please provide a 5-star and drop a review. Complimentary Edwards Consulting Session: https://calendly.com/jordan-555/intro-call

This podcast has 19 articles with dozens of terrific reviews! Companies include Enphase Energy, First Solar, Netflix, Canadian Solar, ChargePoint Holdings, Brookfield Renewable Corporation, NextEra Energy Partners LP. Funds include iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF, SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF, Fidelity Select Biotechnology Portfolio, and VegTech Plant-based Innovation & Climate ETF PODCAST: Best ESG Stocks and Funds for 2022 Transcript & Links, Episode 74, January 14, 2022 Hello, Ron Robins here. I hope you had a good time over the holidays -- despite the virus concerns -- and are now ready to prosper in the year ahead. So, welcome to podcast episode 74 published on January 14, 2022, titled “Best ESG Stocks and Funds for 2022” — and presented by Investing for the Soul. investingforthesoul.com is your site for vital global ethical and sustainable investing news, commentary, information, and resources. Remember that you can find a full transcript, links to content – including stock symbols, quotes, and bonus material – at this episode's podcast page located at investingforthesoul.com/podcasts. Now, just a reminder. I do not evaluate any of the stocks or funds mentioned in this podcast. Furthermore, if you're concerned about the ESG and sustainability ratings of any stock or fund included in this podcast, check your broker's online site for such information. If your broker doesn't have this information, signup for free with Morningstar and you can gain access to company and fund ESG-sustainability ratings. Please note, I receive no compensation from Morningstar or anyone else covered in these podcasts. Also, if any terms are unfamiliar to you, simply Google them. ------------------------------------------------------------- Now it seems the New Year has spurned many new articles recommending ethical and sustainable stocks and funds. So, I'm going to do something different in this podcast. For each of the 19 articles -- yes 19 articles -- I'm going to give the title, name of the author or authors, the site in which it appeared, and the stocks or funds recommended in that article. Articles will be appropriately grouped, though not in any order. I might seem a little repetitive, but I believe you'll find it terrifically informative with great investment ideas. Incidentally, do go to this episode's podcast page for links to all the articles, stocks, and funds. So, let's begin! Starting with those articles that don't fit any defined category. ------------------------------------------------------------- A) ‘General' in nature. 1. Title The Just 100 List by JUST Capital. Found on cnbc.com. Quote “Research nonprofit JUST Capital's annual analysis of corporate performance is a comprehensive ranking of companies on ESG issues critical to stakeholders, from their workers and shareholders to customers, communities and the environment. These are the 100 top-performing companies across all industries for 2022, evaluated across a wide range of metrics, including efforts to combat climate change; diversity, equity and inclusion; worker wellness and local job creation; and customer privacy.” End quote. 2. Title Three funds for investing in the transition to a sustainable economy by Melissa Scaramellini. Appeared on whatinvestment.co.uk. Funds reviewed and recommended are Legal and General Future World ESG Developed Index Fund, BMO Responsible Global Equity Fund, and Regnan Global Equity Impact Solutions Fund. These are UK or European funds. 3. Title 2 Stocks to Buy When the Next Market Crash Comes. By Rich Duprey. Seen on Nasdaq.com. Stocks featured are Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). 4. Title VegTech plant-based innovation & climate ETF launches on NYSE (EATV). By Olivia Nelson on foodingredientsfirst.com. Quote “'We are excited to be what we believe is the first pure-play ETF that invests in companies innovating with plants and producing animal-free products,'” says VegTech Invest CEO and CMO Elysabeth Alfano.” End quote. 5. Title Top 10 most-popular investment trusts: December 2021 by Kyle Caldwell on ii.co.uk. These are UK funds. 6. Title Start ESG Investing in 2022 With These 5 ETFs by Catherine Brock on fool.com. ETFs recommended are Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEMKT: XLF), Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF (NYSEMKT: ESGV), iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF (NYSEMKT: DSI), iShares Global Clean Energy ETF  (NASDAQ: ICLN), and SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF (NYSEMKT: SPYX). 7. Title Wahed Debuts First Shariah-Compliant and ESG-Aware ETF on Nasdaq. Press release was seen on businesswire.com. Quote “The Wahed Dow Jones Islamic World ETF (Ticker: UMMA)… seeks long-term capital appreciation and looks to provide investors access to international, ex-U.S. investments that seek to better align with their values.” End quote. 8. Title Investment Themes to Play Heading Into 2022: 4 Fund Picks by Zacks Equity Research. Their fund picks are Fidelity Select Biotechnology Portfolio (FBIOX), Calvert Equity Fund Class A (CSIEX), New Alternatives Fund Class A (NALFX), and Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund - Investor (PARNX). 9. Title Invest With Your Conscience: 7 Socially Responsible Investment Funds by Sarah Lozanova. Found on earth911.com. Her fund picks are Parnassus Endeavor Investor (PARWX), Parnassus Mid-Cap (PARMX), SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index (SHE), Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Investor Shares (VFTSX), Invesco ESG NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQMG), ESG NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF (QQJG), and Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF (ESGV). The article has a good comparison chart of these funds too. ------------------------------------------------------------- B) Under Alternative Energy 1. Title 5 Best Solar Energy Companies of 2022 by unknown sponsor on dmagazine.com. Companies reviewed and recommended are quote “SunPower – Overall Best Solar Energy System; Vivint Solar – Premium Services For Residential Solar Energy Systems; Sunpro Solar – Most Affordable Solar Power Systems; Tesla – Most Efficient Solar Panel On The Market; and Sunrun – Best For Customized Solar Energy Systems.” End quote. 2. Title My Top Renewable Energy Stock to Buy Right Now by Reuben Gregg Brewer. Appeared on fool.com. His stock pick is Enbridge (NYSE: ENB). 3. Title 3 Alternative Energy Mutual Funds for 2022 by Stephanie Thompson on dailyinvestorhub.com. The three picks are Guinness Atkinson Alternative Energy Fund (GAAEX), New Alternatives Fund Class A (NALFX), and Shelton Green Alpha Fund (NEXTX). 4. Title 3 Alternative Energy Stocks to Buy Amid Insufficient H2 Investment by Aparajita Dutta. Found on zacks.com. Her picks are Evergy (EVRG - Free Report), Chesapeake Energy (CHK - Free Report), and Ameresco (AMRC - Free Report). 5. Title 5 Clean-Energy Stocks to Watch Amid US Renewables Revolution. Again, by Aparajita Dutta and on zacks.com. Her choices, in addition to those above, are Enphase Energy (ENPH), and First Solar (FSLR). 6. Title 3 Top Renewable Energy Stocks for 2022. Found on Nasdaq.com. Authors Travis Hoium likes SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR), Howard Smith picks Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure (NASDAQ: AY), and Daniel Foelber chooses ChargePoint Holdings (NYSE: CHPT). 7. Title Think Lucid and Rivian Are Overvalued? Buy These Alternative Energy Growth Stocks Instead. It's by Travis Hoium, Howard Smith, and Daniel Foelber. Quote “Three of our Fool.com contributors think First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR), Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH), and Brookfield Renewable Corporation (NYSE: BEPC) are well positioned heading into 2022.” End quote. 8. Title 3 Renewable Stocks Set to Continue Their Winning Streak in 2022 again by Aparajita Dutta. Her choices are Evergy (EVRG), Ameresco (AMRC), and Texas Pacific Land (TPL). 9. Title Top Alternative Energy Stocks for Q1 2022 by Stephanie Thompson. Stocks include Daqo New Energy Corp. (DQ), Renewable Energy Group Inc. (REGI), SunPower Corp. (SPWR), Advent Technologies Holdings Inc. (ADN), Canadian Solar Inc. (CSIQ), Ameresco Inc. (AMRC), NextEra Energy Partners LP (NEP), and NextEra Energy Inc. (NEE). ------------------------------------------------------------- C) Under Infrastructure 1. Title 2 Under-the-Radar Infrastructure Stocks to Buy in 2022 and Beyond by Brett Schafer on fool.com. The two stocks are Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) and American Tower (NYSE: AMT). ------------------------------------------------------------- Ending Comment Well, there we are for this podcast titled “Best ESG Stocks and Funds for 2022.” 19 articles full of great ethical and sustainable investing ideas. To get all their links, stock symbols, or to read the transcript of this podcast -- and more -- go to investingforthesoul.com/podcasts and scroll down to this episode. Also, be sure to click the like and subscribe buttons in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you download or listen to this podcast. And please click the share buttons to share this podcast with your friends and family. Let's promote a better post COVID world through ethical and sustainable investing! Contact me if you have any questions. Stay well and healthy—and conscious about the ethical and sustainable values of your investments! Thank you for listening. Talk to you next on January 28. Bye for now. © 2022 Ron Robins, Investing for the Soul.

Welcome to Real Estate (Un)Success Stories. Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Dave Allred on valuing opportunities, considerations in attaining financial freedom, and the value of sheer determination over motivation in attracting bigger goals.   Dave launched a highly successful 17 year career with Vivint, the nation's largest smart home security company, where he served 8 years as a regional Vice President of Sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he's led over 100 sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually going public with multi-billion dollar valuations.   Dave now consults several small to medium size high growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting. Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose. Creating value and inspiring others is his life purpose, and over the last two decades Dave has mentored and lead thousands of others to optimize their results and level up. Along with his wife and 4 young children, Dave recently launched the Allred Family Foundation which focuses on giving back to multiple humanitarian causes.   Dave first started investing in real estate 18 years ago and has since scaled his business into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country. His extensive experience includes single family, multifamily, joint ventures, hard money lending, equity and debt sourcing, self storage, senior housing, flips, land acquisition and entitlement, distressed acquisitions, inline retail, syndications, and fund management.   At age 30, Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40. Having executed this goal, he's now launched Axia Partners, a real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income. His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, all things high adventure, and living life all in.     Main Takeaways   Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable How Dedication Trumps Motivation     Connect with Dave Dave@axiapartners.com Axiapartners.com 801-362-6386 https://www.instagram.com/daveallred/?hl=en   LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone hear the challenges we went through so they can avoid the same mistake by sharing this episode or listen to our previous episodes. Check out our website https://www.venduecapital.com/ Connect with Cody on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcodylewis/ Don't forget to subscribe and leave a 5-star review!

Visit Solciety.co now!Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:41):What's up Solarpreneurs. Today, we're going to be talking about how to plan your week like a boss, how to plan your week, like a Solarpreneur, how the top solar dog has do it. So we're going to jump in and up. But before we get into the topic, I want to invite you to tune in to next Tuesday's episode, because we have a very special announcement. We've been working on a top secret project. I know you guys are gonna love it. So make sure you tune in to next Tuesday's podcast. So let's jump into the topic today. It's going to be a quicker one, but the reason I am thinking so much about planning lately is because as some of you know, I'm in the Knockstar training, which talked about it before highly recommend, then Pepsi came in, Rick, Curphey those guys over there, they do some great training.Speaker 2 (01:33):So go follow them on Instagram if you're not already, but I am in there a coaching group right now, we have calls every week. And this last call, we had the opportunity to listen to someone that's if you've been endured or for any amount of time, you know, this guy he's like the guy, one of the godfathers of door to door sells his name's. Jeff Mendez walked to get him on the podcast here, but he talked about, um, just some keys that he's had to six his success. But one of the biggest takeaways that I got from that call that he and a lot of other top guys are doing is they are planning like insane amounts. They plan their days, very specific. They know what they're doing every 15 minutes. And again, another thing, um, I went to this conference about a month ago and a lot of the top guys there, a lot of the, you know, business leaders, entrepreneurs, um, they were talking about the same thing that if you don't have clarity in, if you're not planning, if you don't know exactly what you should do every 15 minutes, then you're probably not clear enough on your goals on the directions you want to be taking.Speaker 2 (02:45):And I'm not to that level yet. And maybe you're not either, I don't know. I'm not to the level of clarity where I know what I should be doing every 15 minutes, but hopefully I'm going to get there. And that's the goal. But as I was listening to Jeff Mendez, talk about all this stuff. I realized that man, I plan every once in a while, you know, once probably once, twice a month, I'll go and do some planning, but it's not a consistent thing. And as they listened to him, talk about all this, just like, man, I'm letting my days just basically tell me what to do. I'm reacting to events, every phone call that comes in every customer that hits me up. I'm just reacting. So what if I flip the script on that? What if I made it? So the day reacts to what I tell it to do?Speaker 2 (03:32):And this is what Jeff was talking about, how we need to get to that level, where we tell our days, what did you wear? We are the ones being proactive, not reactive. And so I decided to try it out this last Sunday, Mike, all right, Jeff Mendez talked about it. I'm going to get a little deeper in that planning session. Watch some YouTube videos studied some books I had about the topic. And I want to share with you guys a few things I had forgotten about that were really effective for me as I plan my week. And matter of fact, happy to report that as I did this time session, I, that next Monday, I got probably three times as much done as I had the other Mondays. So pretty cool. So if you haven't been planning that I want to invite you to start in the most important thing with this is to do it consistently for me.Speaker 2 (04:29):It's yeah. I just noticed a huge difference. Um, as it's consistent versus not consistent, like I've been doing once a month, isn't really gonna cut it. These things need to be weekly and then daily, right? You need every weekly and daily planning sessions. So I'm talking about weekly today. And then on a future episode, we'll talk about some daily planning tips, but your weekly planning session, couple of things with it here. Um, there's a great video. My guys over at art of Manliness. It's another cool podcast. You don't have to be a man to listen to it, but anyone can go take some cool, um, tips from this it's by Brett McKay, he does just kind of like men's lifestyle, tips, tricks, and secrets, but he put out a YouTube video on this and highly recommend it. In fact, I'm going to link it here on the episode.Speaker 2 (05:22):So go check out the show notes on wherever you're listening to this, but he breaks it down. So I want to give you a few highlights that I took from him. And then you can go watch the video. If you want to get more in depth, another tool and resource with this, I would definitely suggest you go read the book. Seven habits of highly effective people. It's one of the classics of self-development, uh, by my man, Stephen Covey, go read it. But he breaks this down in his book. And if you want to take him to an extreme level, he goes like in depth, I'm not doing it the level he does, but that's how you can really plan out your entire like life direction, where you want to go. Stocks talks about things like that. So I would suggest going first, go check out this video on weekly plan, but then go read seven habits of highly effective people if you haven't already.Speaker 2 (06:15):So here's the weekly planning session, couple things there. Um, first things first, you need to set aside the time to do it. And so whatever you're using, I use Google calendar. Just put a recurring event. That's going to happen every single Sunday I do them on Sundays. So I would suggest Sundays, but you could do it any day. So set a time and make it recurring in your calendar and then make sure you stick to that and then, um, pick your calendar tool. So I like to go digital. Some people use the paper stuff, but, uh, digital is cool. You can have all your obviously customers showing up on there. So if you're not having some sort of calendar sync with your, you know, solar appointments and all that highly suggest that as that's the first two steps. And then the another, another huge thing with this is make sure you're performing what people call a mind dump.Speaker 2 (07:11):So this is where you just take all the things that are on your mind. Just put them on a piece of paper, slap them down, anything that you need to do. So for me, it was like, I didn't get my oil changed. I need to fix one of the lights on my car. That's out. I need to, uh, go. Yeah, well, a lot of stuff on there, but all the things you need to do, just perform a mind, dump all the tasks you need to do. Um, so this podcast, it was on there. Every single thing in the think I've put it down and then this is another place I would suggest doing it, like on your phone or something, maybe in a notes app, because if you're like me, you're going to be probably have add like most salespeople have, okay. That's that's the, uh, curse and the blessing of being a salesman.Speaker 2 (08:00):A lot of us have very short attention spans. If you don't then, then great. I mean, you're one of the lucky ones, but put it in a place you can always access because chances are, you're going to forget to add things to the list. And you're going to think of something now, or, oh, I need to do this too. And then what that does it frees up your mental capacity, your mental space. So you can focus on what you really need to, and this is crucial because then throughout, as you go throughout your week, you're not just, again, reacting to things, you have it all written down and you know, what needs to be done. And then after that, just for you review your goals, review your life plan again, if you want to get more in depth, this is where, um, obviously before even doing all this stuff, if you can have like a life direction, then even more so effective review those goals though, and then review the previous week and then the planner I've been using for this, um, hour, once again, linked to it, but it's called the best self planner.Speaker 2 (09:04):You can go get it@bestself.ceo. I use the one called self journal, a lot of other great ones. And I don't think it's as important. You know, which planner you use. A lot of them are great ones. I've used brilliant cartoons, 10 exponent or in the past. Um, I've used Brendon Burchard is high performance planner. Think you use that one for a little bit. Um, this one I like, I just got off Amazon actually from, um, suggestion from Taylor Turnbull, one of the, uh, regional managers over it, Vivint Solar, I guess Sunrun. Now he actually suggested this one to me. So I picked it up like it a lot. So we can go get this a best self.ceo. It's the self journal, but what's really cool is they have weekly review sections in there where you can review everything, how it went for the week. And then you can track habits.Speaker 2 (09:55):You can set daily targets. So I think it's cool because you can set, you know, your numbers for the week weekend and set yourself goals in there. Put how many contexts you want to make, how many appointments you want to sit down with for the week, how many closes? And like we've talked about on the podcast before, this is how you really make cells. Not so much, I guess, in game, but as science is, you start tracking those numbers. So it set some goals around that, but get some type of planner that you can use. So I'll link to that one. If you guys want to go check it out, that's the best self planner. Hey and so review the previous week makes it easy. If you have a template set some weekly goals, and this is going to be a lot easier when after you've done the mind dump, right?Speaker 2 (10:40):You know, which tasks you want to take from, um, pretty easy usually to recognize what are the most important things, what things are not so important, you can go and put, I don't know, EBC, if you want focus on the most important ones first and the things that are going to actually move the needle. And then, like I mentioned set some cells goals that were solar sales people. So you can set, recruit recruiting goals in sets. Um, how many homeowners you want to talk to every day and maybe you want to talk to 15 homeowners a day, set that goal and then track it to every day. That will be a difference maker for you. And then after you figure it out, all the things you need to accomplish for the week, the non-negotiables put those in the calendar block out the time, as soon as you can.Speaker 2 (11:26):And that's where you can just throw them in your Google Calendar, right? If you know, you need to get your oil change, figuring out what's the day that you can do that. What's the morning you have free and then go ahead and put it in the calendar. And, um, yeah, Stephen Covey, he talks about the concept of big rocks. So if you haven't heard that, um, analogy he talks about, it's just putting in the big rocks, the most important things first, and then you imagine them in a jar, you pour the pebbles around them. You're going to fit room for everything, right? Where if you put in the pebbles first, you're not going to fit the big rocks in there. Okay. So that's really the essentials of this main thing is just get a planner and make it consistent. Hey, it doesn't have to be some complicated, long thing with it.Speaker 2 (12:16):Just be consistent, whatever you do set aside time. Every single week. I remember when I did my, uh, church mission, we had their two year mission in Columbia. I was on their plan and in Spanish had no idea what people were saying, but they made us do this. Every single week. We had to set plans for who we're going to visit, how many people were going to baptize. And then every single week we had to do this two hour long thing where you apply on your entire week. And then you did this thing. We were in companions there. Um, so I was with, you know, Mexicans, uh, you know, Peruvians, all different, all different walks of life down there. They pair off with one of them. And then you have to like say what you liked about that person this week, and then bringing up the stuff that was bugging you, pretty intense sessions.Speaker 2 (13:07):Okay. So, um, if you're married, maybe do that to maybe get your spouse down and, uh, get them to do some planning with you. Hey, but I promise this will pay dividends. If you're not doing that already, I noticed a huge difference. So I'd love to hear what other systems you guys have. What other planners have worked, go and shoot me a message or post it in the Solarpreneur or Facebook group, if you're a part of that. And that's pretty much it guys. So just a crash course on the weekly planning. They'll let me know if you like this kind of stuff and we can go more in depth on the weekly and the daily plans and then get digging some deeper stuff with it. Let me know what you think though. And don't forget next to today. We're going to be dropping the big announcements. So tune in next Tuesday, tell your friends, tell your mom, tell your grandma, listen to the podcast. Next Tuesday. You will not want to miss out. So with that being said, thanks for listening. Appreciate you guys. Love you guys. And we will see you on the next episode.Speaker 3 (14:10):Hey, Solarpreneurs quick question. What if you could surround yourself with the industry's top performing sales pros, marketers, and CEOs, and learn from their experience and wisdom in less than 20 minutes a day. For the last three years, I've been placed in the fortunate position to interview dozens of elite level solar professionals and learn exactly what they do behind closed doors to build their solar careers to an all-star level. That's why I want to make a truly special announcement about the new learning community, exclusively for solar professionals to learn, compete, and win with top performers in the industry. And it's called the Solciety, this learning community with designed from the ground up to level the playing field to give solar pros access to proven members who want to give back to this community and help you or your team to be held accountable by the industry. Brightest minds four, are you ready for it? Less than $3 and 45 cents a day currently Solciety is open, launched, and ready to be enrolled. So go to Solciety.co To learn more and join the learning experience. Now this is exclusively for Solarpreneur listeners. So be sure to go to solciety.co and join. We'll see you on the inside. 

Visit Solciety.co now!Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:41):What's up Solarpreneurs. Today, we're going to be talking about how to plan your week like a boss, how to plan your week, like a Solarpreneur, how the top solar dog has do it. So we're going to jump in and up. But before we get into the topic, I want to invite you to tune in to next Tuesday's episode, because we have a very special announcement. We've been working on a top secret project. I know you guys are gonna love it. So make sure you tune in to next Tuesday's podcast. So let's jump into the topic today. It's going to be a quicker one, but the reason I am thinking so much about planning lately is because as some of you know, I'm in the Knockstar training, which talked about it before highly recommend, then Pepsi came in, Rick, Curphey those guys over there, they do some great training.Speaker 2 (01:33):So go follow them on Instagram if you're not already, but I am in there a coaching group right now, we have calls every week. And this last call, we had the opportunity to listen to someone that's if you've been endured or for any amount of time, you know, this guy he's like the guy, one of the godfathers of door to door sells his name's. Jeff Mendez walked to get him on the podcast here, but he talked about, um, just some keys that he's had to six his success. But one of the biggest takeaways that I got from that call that he and a lot of other top guys are doing is they are planning like insane amounts. They plan their days, very specific. They know what they're doing every 15 minutes. And again, another thing, um, I went to this conference about a month ago and a lot of the top guys there, a lot of the, you know, business leaders, entrepreneurs, um, they were talking about the same thing that if you don't have clarity in, if you're not planning, if you don't know exactly what you should do every 15 minutes, then you're probably not clear enough on your goals on the directions you want to be taking.Speaker 2 (02:45):And I'm not to that level yet. And maybe you're not either, I don't know. I'm not to the level of clarity where I know what I should be doing every 15 minutes, but hopefully I'm going to get there. And that's the goal. But as I was listening to Jeff Mendez, talk about all this stuff. I realized that man, I plan every once in a while, you know, once probably once, twice a month, I'll go and do some planning, but it's not a consistent thing. And as they listened to him, talk about all this, just like, man, I'm letting my days just basically tell me what to do. I'm reacting to events, every phone call that comes in every customer that hits me up. I'm just reacting. So what if I flip the script on that? What if I made it? So the day reacts to what I tell it to do?Speaker 2 (03:32):And this is what Jeff was talking about, how we need to get to that level, where we tell our days, what did you wear? We are the ones being proactive, not reactive. And so I decided to try it out this last Sunday, Mike, all right, Jeff Mendez talked about it. I'm going to get a little deeper in that planning session. Watch some YouTube videos studied some books I had about the topic. And I want to share with you guys a few things I had forgotten about that were really effective for me as I plan my week. And matter of fact, happy to report that as I did this time session, I, that next Monday, I got probably three times as much done as I had the other Mondays. So pretty cool. So if you haven't been planning that I want to invite you to start in the most important thing with this is to do it consistently for me.Speaker 2 (04:29):It's yeah. I just noticed a huge difference. Um, as it's consistent versus not consistent, like I've been doing once a month, isn't really gonna cut it. These things need to be weekly and then daily, right? You need every weekly and daily planning sessions. So I'm talking about weekly today. And then on a future episode, we'll talk about some daily planning tips, but your weekly planning session, couple of things with it here. Um, there's a great video. My guys over at art of Manliness. It's another cool podcast. You don't have to be a man to listen to it, but anyone can go take some cool, um, tips from this it's by Brett McKay, he does just kind of like men's lifestyle, tips, tricks, and secrets, but he put out a YouTube video on this and highly recommend it. In fact, I'm going to link it here on the episode.Speaker 2 (05:22):So go check out the show notes on wherever you're listening to this, but he breaks it down. So I want to give you a few highlights that I took from him. And then you can go watch the video. If you want to get more in depth, another tool and resource with this, I would definitely suggest you go read the book. Seven habits of highly effective people. It's one of the classics of self-development, uh, by my man, Stephen Covey, go read it. But he breaks this down in his book. And if you want to take him to an extreme level, he goes like in depth, I'm not doing it the level he does, but that's how you can really plan out your entire like life direction, where you want to go. Stocks talks about things like that. So I would suggest going first, go check out this video on weekly plan, but then go read seven habits of highly effective people if you haven't already.Speaker 2 (06:15):So here's the weekly planning session, couple things there. Um, first things first, you need to set aside the time to do it. And so whatever you're using, I use Google calendar. Just put a recurring event. That's going to happen every single Sunday I do them on Sundays. So I would suggest Sundays, but you could do it any day. So set a time and make it recurring in your calendar and then make sure you stick to that and then, um, pick your calendar tool. So I like to go digital. Some people use the paper stuff, but, uh, digital is cool. You can have all your obviously customers showing up on there. So if you're not having some sort of calendar sync with your, you know, solar appointments and all that highly suggest that as that's the first two steps. And then the another, another huge thing with this is make sure you're performing what people call a mind dump.Speaker 2 (07:11):So this is where you just take all the things that are on your mind. Just put them on a piece of paper, slap them down, anything that you need to do. So for me, it was like, I didn't get my oil changed. I need to fix one of the lights on my car. That's out. I need to, uh, go. Yeah, well, a lot of stuff on there, but all the things you need to do, just perform a mind, dump all the tasks you need to do. Um, so this podcast, it was on there. Every single thing in the think I've put it down and then this is another place I would suggest doing it, like on your phone or something, maybe in a notes app, because if you're like me, you're going to be probably have add like most salespeople have, okay. That's that's the, uh, curse and the blessing of being a salesman.Speaker 2 (08:00):A lot of us have very short attention spans. If you don't then, then great. I mean, you're one of the lucky ones, but put it in a place you can always access because chances are, you're going to forget to add things to the list. And you're going to think of something now, or, oh, I need to do this too. And then what that does it frees up your mental capacity, your mental space. So you can focus on what you really need to, and this is crucial because then throughout, as you go throughout your week, you're not just, again, reacting to things, you have it all written down and you know, what needs to be done. And then after that, just for you review your goals, review your life plan again, if you want to get more in depth, this is where, um, obviously before even doing all this stuff, if you can have like a life direction, then even more so effective review those goals though, and then review the previous week and then the planner I've been using for this, um, hour, once again, linked to it, but it's called the best self planner.Speaker 2 (09:04):You can go get it@bestself.ceo. I use the one called self journal, a lot of other great ones. And I don't think it's as important. You know, which planner you use. A lot of them are great ones. I've used brilliant cartoons, 10 exponent or in the past. Um, I've used Brendon Burchard is high performance planner. Think you use that one for a little bit. Um, this one I like, I just got off Amazon actually from, um, suggestion from Taylor Turnbull, one of the, uh, regional managers over it, Vivint Solar, I guess Sunrun. Now he actually suggested this one to me. So I picked it up like it a lot. So we can go get this a best self.ceo. It's the self journal, but what's really cool is they have weekly review sections in there where you can review everything, how it went for the week. And then you can track habits.Speaker 2 (09:55):You can set daily targets. So I think it's cool because you can set, you know, your numbers for the week weekend and set yourself goals in there. Put how many contexts you want to make, how many appointments you want to sit down with for the week, how many closes? And like we've talked about on the podcast before, this is how you really make cells. Not so much, I guess, in game, but as science is, you start tracking those numbers. So it set some goals around that, but get some type of planner that you can use. So I'll link to that one. If you guys want to go check it out, that's the best self planner. Hey and so review the previous week makes it easy. If you have a template set some weekly goals, and this is going to be a lot easier when after you've done the mind dump, right?Speaker 2 (10:40):You know, which tasks you want to take from, um, pretty easy usually to recognize what are the most important things, what things are not so important, you can go and put, I don't know, EBC, if you want focus on the most important ones first and the things that are going to actually move the needle. And then, like I mentioned set some cells goals that were solar sales people. So you can set, recruit recruiting goals in sets. Um, how many homeowners you want to talk to every day and maybe you want to talk to 15 homeowners a day, set that goal and then track it to every day. That will be a difference maker for you. And then after you figure it out, all the things you need to accomplish for the week, the non-negotiables put those in the calendar block out the time, as soon as you can.Speaker 2 (11:26):And that's where you can just throw them in your Google Calendar, right? If you know, you need to get your oil change, figuring out what's the day that you can do that. What's the morning you have free and then go ahead and put it in the calendar. And, um, yeah, Stephen Covey, he talks about the concept of big rocks. So if you haven't heard that, um, analogy he talks about, it's just putting in the big rocks, the most important things first, and then you imagine them in a jar, you pour the pebbles around them. You're going to fit room for everything, right? Where if you put in the pebbles first, you're not going to fit the big rocks in there. Okay. So that's really the essentials of this main thing is just get a planner and make it consistent. Hey, it doesn't have to be some complicated, long thing with it.Speaker 2 (12:16):Just be consistent, whatever you do set aside time. Every single week. I remember when I did my, uh, church mission, we had their two year mission in Columbia. I was on their plan and in Spanish had no idea what people were saying, but they made us do this. Every single week. We had to set plans for who we're going to visit, how many people were going to baptize. And then every single week we had to do this two hour long thing where you apply on your entire week. And then you did this thing. We were in companions there. Um, so I was with, you know, Mexicans, uh, you know, Peruvians, all different, all different walks of life down there. They pair off with one of them. And then you have to like say what you liked about that person this week, and then bringing up the stuff that was bugging you, pretty intense sessions.Speaker 2 (13:07):Okay. So, um, if you're married, maybe do that to maybe get your spouse down and, uh, get them to do some planning with you. Hey, but I promise this will pay dividends. If you're not doing that already, I noticed a huge difference. So I'd love to hear what other systems you guys have. What other planners have worked, go and shoot me a message or post it in the Solarpreneur or Facebook group, if you're a part of that. And that's pretty much it guys. So just a crash course on the weekly planning. They'll let me know if you like this kind of stuff and we can go more in depth on the weekly and the daily plans and then get digging some deeper stuff with it. Let me know what you think though. And don't forget next to today. We're going to be dropping the big announcements. So tune in next Tuesday, tell your friends, tell your mom, tell your grandma, listen to the podcast. Next Tuesday. You will not want to miss out. So with that being said, thanks for listening. Appreciate you guys. Love you guys. And we will see you on the next episode.Speaker 3 (14:10):Hey, Solarpreneurs quick question. What if you could surround yourself with the industry's top performing sales pros, marketers, and CEOs, and learn from their experience and wisdom in less than 20 minutes a day. For the last three years, I've been placed in the fortunate position to interview dozens of elite level solar professionals and learn exactly what they do behind closed doors to build their solar careers to an all-star level. That's why I want to make a truly special announcement about the new learning community, exclusively for solar professionals to learn, compete, and win with top performers in the industry. And it's called the Solciety, this learning community with designed from the ground up to level the playing field to give solar pros access to proven members who want to give back to this community and help you or your team to be held accountable by the industry. Brightest minds four, are you ready for it? Less than $3 and 45 cents a day currently Solciety is open, launched, and ready to be enrolled. So go to Solciety.co To learn more and join the learning experience. Now this is exclusively for Solarpreneur listeners. So be sure to go to solciety.co and join. We'll see you on the inside.

Welcome to Real Estate (Un)Success Stories. Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Dave Allred on valuing opportunities, considerations in attaining financial freedom, and the value of sheer determination over motivation in attracting bigger goals.   Dave launched a highly successful 17 year career with Vivint, the nation's largest smart home security company, where he served 8 years as a regional Vice President of Sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he's led over 100 sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually going public with multi-billion dollar valuations.   Dave now consults several small to medium size high growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting. Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose. Creating value and inspiring others is his life purpose, and over the last two decades Dave has mentored and lead thousands of others to optimize their results and level up. Along with his wife and 4 young children, Dave recently launched the Allred Family Foundation which focuses on giving back to multiple humanitarian causes.   Dave first started investing in real estate 18 years ago and has since scaled his business into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country. His extensive experience includes single family, multifamily, joint ventures, hard money lending, equity and debt sourcing, self storage, senior housing, flips, land acquisition and entitlement, distressed acquisitions, inline retail, syndications, and fund management.   At age 30, Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40. Having executed this goal, he's now launched Axia Partners, a real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income. His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, all things high adventure, and living life all in.     Main Takeaways   Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable How Dedication Trumps Motivation     Connect with Dave Dave@axiapartners.com Axiapartners.com 801-362-6386 https://www.instagram.com/daveallred/?hl=en   LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone hear the challenges we went through so they can avoid the same mistake by sharing this episode or listen to our previous episodes. Check out our website https://www.venduecapital.com/ Connect with Cody on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcodylewis/ Don't forget to subscribe and leave a 5-star review!

Joining us today on the Get in the Cashflow Game with K&K is Dave Allred. Dave launched a highly successful 17-year career with Vivint, the nation's largest smart home security company, where he served 8 years as a Regional Vice President of sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he's led over 100 sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually going public with multi-billion dollar valuations. Dave now consults several small to medium size high growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting. Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose. Dave first started investing in real estate 15 years ago and has since scaled his business into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country. His extensive experience includes single-family, multifamily, joint ventures, hard money lending, equity, and debt sourcing, self-storage, senior housing, flips, land acquisition and entitlement, distressed acquisitions, inline retail, venture capital, and syndications. At age 30 Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40. Having executed this goal, he's now launched Axia Partners, a new real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income. His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, being a professional adventurer, and living life all in. You can find out more about Dave at: Email: Dave@axiapartners.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daveallred/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/daveallred_?lang=en You can check out Get in the Cashflow Game at: Website: https://getinthecashflowgame.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getinthecashflowgame/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKCq8ChflxF7qWPfV395eag Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getinthecashflowgame You can find more information about Kenny Simpson at: Website: https://www.simpsonmortgage.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennybsimpson/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kenny-Simpson-111871733890408 You can find more information about Krystle Moore at: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/krystlerosemoore/ Website: www.pacificshorecapital.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pacificshorecapital/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Krystle-Moore-273576823172681 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PacificShoreCapital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest in this episode is Dave Allred. Dave launched a highly successful 17 year career with Vivint, the nation's largest smart home security company, where he served 8 years as a regional Vice President of sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he's led over 100 sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually going public with multi-billion dollar valuations. Dave now consults several small to medium size high growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting.  Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose. Dave first started investing in real estate 15 years ago and has since scaled his business into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country.  His extensive experience includes single family, multifamily, joint ventures, hard money lending, equity and debt sourcing, self storage, senior housing, flips, land acquisition and entitlement, distressed acquisitions, inline retail, venture capital, and syndications. At age 30 Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40.  Having executed this goal, he's now launched Axia Partners, a new real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income.  His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, being a professional adventurer, and living life all in. Connect With Us: Website: http://cashflowninja.com Podcast: http://cashflowinvestingsecrets.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cashflowninja/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mclaubscher Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecashflowninja/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mclaubscher/cashflow-ninja/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mclaubscher/ Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/Cashflowninja Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/cashflowninja/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-329875 LBRY.tv: https://lbry.tv/@Cashflowninja:9?r=DoJHKKGqTbf8sdChMP1oLtCrJWEYK3ZM Brighteon: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/cashflowninja Brandnewtube: https://brandnewtube.com/@cashflowninja Parler: https://parler.com/profile/cashflowninja/ Gab: https://gab.ai/cashflowninja Minds: https://www.minds.com/cashflowninja Biggerpockets: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/mclaubscher Medium: https://medium.com/@mclaubscher Substack: https://mclaubscher.substack.com/

After a successful career in the home security and solar space leading over 100 sales teams, Dave decided to start building a real estate empire with over 1000 rental doors and founded Axia Partners, a real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income. His passion lies in helping inspire others gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, being a professional adventurer, and living life all in. Dave launched a highly successful 17 year career with Vivint, the nation's largest smart home security company, where he served 8 years as a regional Vice President of sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he's led over 100 sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually going public with multi-billion dollar valuations. Dave now helps different businesses across the country increase profitability and expand through executive business consulting. Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose. Dave first started investing in real estate 15 years ago and has since scaled his business into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country. At age 30 Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age40. Having executed this goal, he's now launched Axia Partners, a new real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income. His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, being a professional adventurer, and living life all in.

Tune in now and don't forget to sign up for www.solciety.co!Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. online teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:43):What's up Solarpreneurs Taylor Armstrong here to change your life as a soar sales professional, we are back with another show today, got an exciting topic, and we're going to jump right into it. I hope you enjoyed the previous episode. We have Lenny Gray the master of door to door on. So if you didn't go listen to that, go check it out. He's written two books, amazing episode have gotten great feedback. So thanks again, Lenny, for coming on the show with us in this episode, we're going to do something that I don't think I've actually done before. And that is actually take a topic suggestion from our audience, from our Solarpreneurs. So guys, if you have a topic suggestions, people you want to bring on things you want to talk about things you want to jam on. Hit me up. I'm on Instagram, I'm on Facebook trying to be more active on there.Speaker 2 (01:37):So I'm send me a message. Let me know if you have suggestions, feedback, just anything really appreciate the comments and tips that you guys give me. And it's nice to be able to interact with, with my crew, with my solar peeps. So this tip actually comes from, um, someone that doesn't actually have their name on Instagram and talk to him. So I apologize that I never got to your name on here, but Instagram is WVRRVN. Give them a shout out if you want to go follow them. One of our solar friends and he sends me a message. Um, so it was about three weeks ago. He says, Hey brother, been listening to your podcast over the past few months, getting tons of value, have an idea for a topic, no one discusses too much on overcoming negative online reviews. Is this something you can help the community discuss?Speaker 2 (02:34):Well, my man WVRVN I hope that's not your real name unless you're some kind of droid. Okay. But, um, that's his Instagram handle. That's what we're going to cover today. We're going to jump into it. And it's something that has at times come back to bite me negative reviews. I know a lot of people, especially guys with our bigger companies. Sometimes they struggle with these and it's something that, um, guys have to learn how to overcome. Guys, have to learn how to really turn in a strength. How can we overcome this objection? So I've got three tips. I want to share with you going to be quicker episode. We're going to jump right into it. Share three tips. Things that I do that have helped me and things that I've also heard from guys at larger companies specifically, specifically at Vivint Solar. I know that's a huge company.Speaker 2 (03:27):I have a lot of friends that are managers over there. Um, I guess I should say Sunrun now because they are now Sunrun direct, but they're a large company. Um, had some pretty terrible reviews. I know that I looked him up and one time I was considering going in selling with them and this was something I always came back to is like, how do you guys sell with so many negative reviews? Like I lose deals myself with negative reviews, but how are guys over a Vivint Solar, some of these larger companies they're selling dozens and dozens of deals every quarter. And I mean, they, they seem to be just fine with the negative reviews. So I'm gonna tell you a few things that I heard from these guys, a few things that have helped me and hopefully they help. Okay. So let's get into it.Speaker 2 (04:16):Tip number one is bring it up before they do. Okay. A lot of, a lot of guys have heard this. Hopefully you've had training in your sales organization that something we all should be doing is bringing up objections before our customers. Our clients can, if you have a great book on this, go read Sam Taggart's ABC's at closing. He has a whole section on this. He calls it eight. Milling your customers, right? It comes from the eight mile movie where a M and Eminem is, you know, bringing up all the objections. The rappers can throw out them that you grew up in a trailer park. They use white trash, all this stuff. So we need to do the same thing. And this is something specific specifically for this objection that I think works great. Bring up the negatives before they can. Cause if you bring it up and if you bring it up while you're in the home, they can't go look it up.Speaker 2 (05:12):Matter of fact, pull it up on your computer right there while you're in the home with them. Mr. Customer, I know we don't have the greatest review. Here's here's why. Um, and then you can explain to them what's going on. A lot of the reviews you see anyways, are just completely false. Like things that never happened. So, okay. It's that's another point is know your online presence. You should always know exactly what is written about them. You should always know exactly what potential negatives your clients, your customers could find about you. You should know what dirt they can dig up on you. So go look that up. I'm constantly Googling my companies, my installers I'm Googling. Cause I want to know exactly what people could possibly find negative. Okay. You gotta be in the know because if you don't know it, then it's going to be surprised to you when they bring up a negative and then that's when you're screwed.Speaker 2 (06:07):Okay. So bring it up. No, your views. A good example of this. I know a lot of guys, myself included are so on. Um, so Noah, right? So Noah as the financer, as the lender. So if you go look up Sunnova they don't have great reviews. Okay. And so you've got to know this people. When I sell a deal through some Nova PP, we are alone. I almost always will bring it up. Hey, so nowhere they're the lender for this, just so you know, you can look them up. Um, but yeah, unfortunately they've done, um, they've done their own installs. They've done deals all over the country. So they have a huge client base, but they are just the ones financing this case. You're not working with them and really stress that they're working with the installation company, they said no is simply the lender.Speaker 2 (07:00):Hey, and then focus it on the installation company on the installers. And so that's something I do when I deal with Sunnova specifically. Okay. So tip number two is bring up how many customers you have. Okay. This is something that comes from again. I mentioned my Vivint Solar guys, my, my buddies that sold with Vivint Solar, while these larger organizations they're going to have tons of negatives. Okay. Sunnova is a no way as an example of that. That's just the fact of the matter. When you get hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of customers of clients, you're always going to have names. So what do you do? Bring up examples, do math with them right on the spot. Okay. So you can go. Um, I mean, in the Sunnova example, they have thousands and thousands of customers across the country, right? So if you look on there, you're going to see what maybe a couple hundred reviews, negative reviews.Speaker 2 (07:56):So for example, let's say there are a hundred negative reviews. Maybe you've done 5,000 installs. You have 5,000 customers. You do the math on that, a hundred divided by 5,000. What is that? That's only 2% of your customers, right? So, I mean, do the math, show them on the calculator? You look, Mr. Customer, this, um, represents about 2% of the people we've done. See, I understand there's going to be mistakes. Um, fortunately there's, um, issues that happened, but let me ask you, Mr. Customer, how many times have you had a positive experience and not written? Yeah. About it. Like you probably went to Starbucks yesterday. Got your coffee. Just fine. Did you write them a good review? Probably not. Right. So how many people are out there that had a fantastic experience, that everything went super smooth. Write about it. And guess what those, those people were working with, I'm going to take care of you.Speaker 2 (08:57):We're going to make sure everything goes smoothly. I can pinky promise you if you want you on pig. You want me to pinky promise you. Okay, great. So we'll make sure everything goes good. So right now we're just going to get a few documents submitted. Boom. That's how you do it. Okay. So bring up the math, bring up, um, ask them, ask them how many times they've written positive reviews and that's going to, that's going to call them out on the spot. I mean 99.9% of people do not go right in positive reviews about every interaction they've had. That's just the fact of the matter. So if you can do the math with them, if you can get them to realize that people do not just, you know, write pure positives, that it's a business, then that's going to help. Okay. So that's the second tip.Speaker 2 (09:41):Bring up how many customers you have do some math with them and then get them to realize that there's going to be negatives, but we're going to get it figured out. Okay. And then the third and final tip I have is tell stories of neighbors close by. And this is where testimonials come in. If you haven't listened to the episode from a couple of weeks back about video testimonials, go listen to that and that's going to change the way you sell. Okay? And that's going to probably prevent you from even having, having to overcome objections like this, because if you can solve, um, show them solid video, testimonials of neighbors, of especially people in the neighborhood they're in, then they're not even going to bring up these things because they're going to trust people in their neighborhood a way more than anything they can find online.Speaker 2 (10:27):Right? That's why I suggest getting a video testimonial with every everyone that you can. Hey, and then another thing I learned from a lot of my guys over at these bigger companies, Vivint Solar is pull up maps. If you can get your start tracking, have your company start keeping a spreadsheet or keeping track on a map of all your installs, okay? A reference sheet sheet, utilize them, make sure you have pins on a map, something where you can pull up, pay this, how many people we've done in the area. Do you think this many people would have gone with us? If things were terrible? Probably not. And that's, what's so powerful about some of the software that's Vivint Solar, or some of these other companies have access to Sunrun is on their proposals or in their knocking apps. They can see every past customer. Right?Speaker 2 (11:19):How powerful is that? If you're in a home mean, say, um, Mr. Homeowner, this is all your neighbors that actually are already on the program. So yeah, there is, uh, negatives, but look, there are six people just in your neighborhood that are already on the program. So rather than trusting all these online shenanigans that may or may not be true, why don't we drive by? We can go look at the people that are installed in your neighborhood and we can go off of that. Okay. Obviously, if you're a smaller company company, you don't have installs, then you're not going to say that, but I mean, still can use references in the neighborhood though. Even if it's from another company, you can say, Mr. Homeowner, do you think your neighbor across the street would have solar? If things were all terrible? Okay. You can talk to these people beforehand.Speaker 2 (12:10):I've gotten lots of times, people that aren't, even with my company that just have solar on the roof. Hey, would you recommend your solar to your neighbors? Great. Do you mind if I use your name as a reference? There you go. You got a name, you got a person you can use as a reference right there, and that's going to help out a ton. So make sure you're just collecting as much social proof as possible. Get pictures out as a last resort. Um, something I heard from, um, my friend river Skinner. If he's listening to this, uh, my referencing him from one of his, uh, Instagram stories, but what's really cool is he will send out a thank you card with his picture in the customer's in it. And this is kind of off topic, but that's something super powerful. You can do get pictures with your customers.Speaker 2 (12:59):Send out cards.com I think is a website where you can actually just create online cards. You can throw your picture in there, send your customers so sort of off topic, but make sure you're collecting all the social proof as possible. This is going to help reduce cancellations and help you continue to dominate out there. So thanks again for the topic recommendation. Let me know what you guys thought. Let me know if you guys have any other, uh, ideas on, um, overcoming negative reviews, things you have done and love to hear your feedback again, shoot me your topic suggestions. Let me know what you thought and send me your guest suggestions as well. If you guys know of anyone that is absolutely dominating that we need to have on the show, let's get them on. So hope that helped hope you'll tune in for the next show. And we will see you on the flip side.Speaker 3 (13:53):Hey Solarpreneurs. Quick question. What if you could surround yourself with the industry's top performing sales pros, marketers, and CEOs, and learn from their experience and wisdom in less than 20 minutes a day. For the last three years, I've been placed in the fortunate position to interview dozens of elite solar professionals and learn exactly what they do behind closed doors to build their solar careers to an all-star level. That's why I want to make a truly special announcement about the new solar learning community, exclusively for solar professionals to learn, compete, and win with the top performers in the industry. And it's called Solciety. This learning community was designed from the ground up to level the playing field and give solar pros access to proven mentors who want to give back to this community and to help you or your team to be held accountable by the industry's brightest minds. For, are you ready for it? Less than $3 and 45 cents a day currently society's closed the public and membership is by invitation only, but Solarpreneurs can go to society.co to learn more and have the option to join a wait list. When a membership becomes available in your area. Again, this is exclusively for Solarpreneur listeners. So be sure to go to www.solciety.co to join the waitlist and learn more now. Thanks again for listening. We'll catch you again in the next episode. 

Tune in now and don't forget to sign up for www.solciety.co!Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. online teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:43):What's up Solarpreneurs Taylor Armstrong here to change your life as a soar sales professional, we are back with another show today, got an exciting topic, and we're going to jump right into it. I hope you enjoyed the previous episode. We have Lenny Gray the master of door to door on. So if you didn't go listen to that, go check it out. He's written two books, amazing episode have gotten great feedback. So thanks again, Lenny, for coming on the show with us in this episode, we're going to do something that I don't think I've actually done before. And that is actually take a topic suggestion from our audience, from our Solarpreneurs. So guys, if you have a topic suggestions, people you want to bring on things you want to talk about things you want to jam on. Hit me up. I'm on Instagram, I'm on Facebook trying to be more active on there.Speaker 2 (01:37):So I'm send me a message. Let me know if you have suggestions, feedback, just anything really appreciate the comments and tips that you guys give me. And it's nice to be able to interact with, with my crew, with my solar peeps. So this tip actually comes from, um, someone that doesn't actually have their name on Instagram and talk to him. So I apologize that I never got to your name on here, but Instagram is WVRRVN. Give them a shout out if you want to go follow them. One of our solar friends and he sends me a message. Um, so it was about three weeks ago. He says, Hey brother, been listening to your podcast over the past few months, getting tons of value, have an idea for a topic, no one discusses too much on overcoming negative online reviews. Is this something you can help the community discuss?Speaker 2 (02:34):Well, my man WVRVN I hope that's not your real name unless you're some kind of droid. Okay. But, um, that's his Instagram handle. That's what we're going to cover today. We're going to jump into it. And it's something that has at times come back to bite me negative reviews. I know a lot of people, especially guys with our bigger companies. Sometimes they struggle with these and it's something that, um, guys have to learn how to overcome. Guys, have to learn how to really turn in a strength. How can we overcome this objection? So I've got three tips. I want to share with you going to be quicker episode. We're going to jump right into it. Share three tips. Things that I do that have helped me and things that I've also heard from guys at larger companies specifically, specifically at Vivint Solar. I know that's a huge company.Speaker 2 (03:27):I have a lot of friends that are managers over there. Um, I guess I should say Sunrun now because they are now Sunrun direct, but they're a large company. Um, had some pretty terrible reviews. I know that I looked him up and one time I was considering going in selling with them and this was something I always came back to is like, how do you guys sell with so many negative reviews? Like I lose deals myself with negative reviews, but how are guys over a Vivint Solar, some of these larger companies they're selling dozens and dozens of deals every quarter. And I mean, they, they seem to be just fine with the negative reviews. So I'm gonna tell you a few things that I heard from these guys, a few things that have helped me and hopefully they help. Okay. So let's get into it.Speaker 2 (04:16):Tip number one is bring it up before they do. Okay. A lot of, a lot of guys have heard this. Hopefully you've had training in your sales organization that something we all should be doing is bringing up objections before our customers. Our clients can, if you have a great book on this, go read Sam Taggart's ABC's at closing. He has a whole section on this. He calls it eight. Milling your customers, right? It comes from the eight mile movie where a M and Eminem is, you know, bringing up all the objections. The rappers can throw out them that you grew up in a trailer park. They use white trash, all this stuff. So we need to do the same thing. And this is something specific specifically for this objection that I think works great. Bring up the negatives before they can. Cause if you bring it up and if you bring it up while you're in the home, they can't go look it up.Speaker 2 (05:12):Matter of fact, pull it up on your computer right there while you're in the home with them. Mr. Customer, I know we don't have the greatest review. Here's here's why. Um, and then you can explain to them what's going on. A lot of the reviews you see anyways, are just completely false. Like things that never happened. So, okay. It's that's another point is know your online presence. You should always know exactly what is written about them. You should always know exactly what potential negatives your clients, your customers could find about you. You should know what dirt they can dig up on you. So go look that up. I'm constantly Googling my companies, my installers I'm Googling. Cause I want to know exactly what people could possibly find negative. Okay. You gotta be in the know because if you don't know it, then it's going to be surprised to you when they bring up a negative and then that's when you're screwed.Speaker 2 (06:07):Okay. So bring it up. No, your views. A good example of this. I know a lot of guys, myself included are so on. Um, so Noah, right? So Noah as the financer, as the lender. So if you go look up Sunnova they don't have great reviews. Okay. And so you've got to know this people. When I sell a deal through some Nova PP, we are alone. I almost always will bring it up. Hey, so nowhere they're the lender for this, just so you know, you can look them up. Um, but yeah, unfortunately they've done, um, they've done their own installs. They've done deals all over the country. So they have a huge client base, but they are just the ones financing this case. You're not working with them and really stress that they're working with the installation company, they said no is simply the lender.Speaker 2 (07:00):Hey, and then focus it on the installation company on the installers. And so that's something I do when I deal with Sunnova specifically. Okay. So tip number two is bring up how many customers you have. Okay. This is something that comes from again. I mentioned my Vivint Solar guys, my, my buddies that sold with Vivint Solar, while these larger organizations they're going to have tons of negatives. Okay. Sunnova is a no way as an example of that. That's just the fact of the matter. When you get hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of customers of clients, you're always going to have names. So what do you do? Bring up examples, do math with them right on the spot. Okay. So you can go. Um, I mean, in the Sunnova example, they have thousands and thousands of customers across the country, right? So if you look on there, you're going to see what maybe a couple hundred reviews, negative reviews.Speaker 2 (07:56):So for example, let's say there are a hundred negative reviews. Maybe you've done 5,000 installs. You have 5,000 customers. You do the math on that, a hundred divided by 5,000. What is that? That's only 2% of your customers, right? So, I mean, do the math, show them on the calculator? You look, Mr. Customer, this, um, represents about 2% of the people we've done. See, I understand there's going to be mistakes. Um, fortunately there's, um, issues that happened, but let me ask you, Mr. Customer, how many times have you had a positive experience and not written? Yeah. About it. Like you probably went to Starbucks yesterday. Got your coffee. Just fine. Did you write them a good review? Probably not. Right. So how many people are out there that had a fantastic experience, that everything went super smooth. Write about it. And guess what those, those people were working with, I'm going to take care of you.Speaker 2 (08:57):We're going to make sure everything goes smoothly. I can pinky promise you if you want you on pig. You want me to pinky promise you. Okay, great. So we'll make sure everything goes good. So right now we're just going to get a few documents submitted. Boom. That's how you do it. Okay. So bring up the math, bring up, um, ask them, ask them how many times they've written positive reviews and that's going to, that's going to call them out on the spot. I mean 99.9% of people do not go right in positive reviews about every interaction they've had. That's just the fact of the matter. So if you can do the math with them, if you can get them to realize that people do not just, you know, write pure positives, that it's a business, then that's going to help. Okay. So that's the second tip.Speaker 2 (09:41):Bring up how many customers you have do some math with them and then get them to realize that there's going to be negatives, but we're going to get it figured out. Okay. And then the third and final tip I have is tell stories of neighbors close by. And this is where testimonials come in. If you haven't listened to the episode from a couple of weeks back about video testimonials, go listen to that and that's going to change the way you sell. Okay? And that's going to probably prevent you from even having, having to overcome objections like this, because if you can solve, um, show them solid video, testimonials of neighbors, of especially people in the neighborhood they're in, then they're not even going to bring up these things because they're going to trust people in their neighborhood a way more than anything they can find online.Speaker 2 (10:27):Right? That's why I suggest getting a video testimonial with every everyone that you can. Hey, and then another thing I learned from a lot of my guys over at these bigger companies, Vivint Solar is pull up maps. If you can get your start tracking, have your company start keeping a spreadsheet or keeping track on a map of all your installs, okay? A reference sheet sheet, utilize them, make sure you have pins on a map, something where you can pull up, pay this, how many people we've done in the area. Do you think this many people would have gone with us? If things were terrible? Probably not. And that's, what's so powerful about some of the software that's Vivint Solar, or some of these other companies have access to Sunrun is on their proposals or in their knocking apps. They can see every past customer. Right?Speaker 2 (11:19):How powerful is that? If you're in a home mean, say, um, Mr. Homeowner, this is all your neighbors that actually are already on the program. So yeah, there is, uh, negatives, but look, there are six people just in your neighborhood that are already on the program. So rather than trusting all these online shenanigans that may or may not be true, why don't we drive by? We can go look at the people that are installed in your neighborhood and we can go off of that. Okay. Obviously, if you're a smaller company company, you don't have installs, then you're not going to say that, but I mean, still can use references in the neighborhood though. Even if it's from another company, you can say, Mr. Homeowner, do you think your neighbor across the street would have solar? If things were all terrible? Okay. You can talk to these people beforehand.Speaker 2 (12:10):I've gotten lots of times, people that aren't, even with my company that just have solar on the roof. Hey, would you recommend your solar to your neighbors? Great. Do you mind if I use your name as a reference? There you go. You got a name, you got a person you can use as a reference right there, and that's going to help out a ton. So make sure you're just collecting as much social proof as possible. Get pictures out as a last resort. Um, something I heard from, um, my friend river Skinner. If he's listening to this, uh, my referencing him from one of his, uh, Instagram stories, but what's really cool is he will send out a thank you card with his picture in the customer's in it. And this is kind of off topic, but that's something super powerful. You can do get pictures with your customers.Speaker 2 (12:59):Send out cards.com I think is a website where you can actually just create online cards. You can throw your picture in there, send your customers so sort of off topic, but make sure you're collecting all the social proof as possible. This is going to help reduce cancellations and help you continue to dominate out there. So thanks again for the topic recommendation. Let me know what you guys thought. Let me know if you guys have any other, uh, ideas on, um, overcoming negative reviews, things you have done and love to hear your feedback again, shoot me your topic suggestions. Let me know what you thought and send me your guest suggestions as well. If you guys know of anyone that is absolutely dominating that we need to have on the show, let's get them on. So hope that helped hope you'll tune in for the next show. And we will see you on the flip side.Speaker 3 (13:53):Hey Solarpreneurs. Quick question. What if you could surround yourself with the industry's top performing sales pros, marketers, and CEOs, and learn from their experience and wisdom in less than 20 minutes a day. For the last three years, I've been placed in the fortunate position to interview dozens of elite solar professionals and learn exactly what they do behind closed doors to build their solar careers to an all-star level. That's why I want to make a truly special announcement about the new solar learning community, exclusively for solar professionals to learn, compete, and win with the top performers in the industry. And it's called Solciety. This learning community was designed from the ground up to level the playing field and give solar pros access to proven mentors who want to give back to this community and to help you or your team to be held accountable by the industry's brightest minds. For, are you ready for it? Less than $3 and 45 cents a day currently society's closed the public and membership is by invitation only, but Solarpreneurs can go to society.co to learn more and have the option to join a wait list. When a membership becomes available in your area. Again, this is exclusively for Solarpreneur listeners. So be sure to go to www.solciety.co to join the waitlist and learn more now. Thanks again for listening. We'll catch you again in the next episode.

We are pleased to introduce this weeks guest. Troy set many records at Vivint. He sold over 400 alarms in just 18 weeks. He dominated many summers and provided a lot of value to the Authentic region. Troy found breaking the mold and knocking in areas people didn't to be one his greatest assets in his success. After some time he went to Vivint Solar and ultimately ended up at Solar City where he would lead the door team as VP until Tesla chose to take their sales department in a different direction. Troy is an avid hunter and all who know who well know hunting is where his heart lies. Troy is now the CEO & Founder of Huntwarz. A modern take on hunting where teams compete for a top prize. You can find more information at huntwarz.com, YouTube, and all social media platforms. We hope you enjoy and as always, thanks for listening! Please give us a review one Apple Podcasts! Like & Subscribe! Follow us on all socials @thedoorknockerpodcast.And catch video recordings on Youtube! Links below: https://linktr.ee/thedoorknockerpodcast

If you're going to listen to any podcast, listen to this one. Dave is a living LEGEND in life and business. Dave launched a highly successful 17-year career with Vivint, the nation's largest smart home security company, where he served 8 years as a Regional Vice President of sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he's led over 100 sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually going public with multi-billion dollar valuations. He now consults several small to medium size high-growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting. Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose. Dave first started investing in real estate 15 years ago and has since scaled his business into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country. His extensive experience includes single-family, multifamily, joint ventures, hard money lending, equity, and debt sourcing, self-storage, senior housing, flips, land acquisition and entitlement, distressed acquisitions, inline retail, venture capital, and syndications. At age 30 Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40. Having executed this goal, he's now launched Axia Partners, a new real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income. His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, being a professional adventurer, and living life all in.

Scaling your real estate game to the Max with Dave Allred!   Dave launched his career with Vivint where he served 8 years as a Regional Vice President of sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he led over 100 sales teams across the country.   Dave now consults several small to medium size high-growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting.  Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose.   Dave first started investing in real estate 15 years ago created an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country.  His extensive experience includes single-family, multifamily, joint ventures, hard money lending, equity, and debt sourcing, self-storage, senior housing, flips, land acquisition and entitlement, distressed acquisitions, inline retail, venture capital, and syndications.     At age 30 Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40.  Having executed this goal, he’s now launched Axia Partners, a new real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income.   We met through mutual friends in deals and real estate and realized we both were entrepreneurial maniacs.

Guest Bio:Former VP at Vivint Solar and was one of the originals with Vivint and starting their success. Now, he has a popular supplement company that is doing well over 8 figures a year.Dan has started a training program for individuals and groups that is called "The 10 Lies That We Tell Ourselves" that helps people get out of their comfort zones and truly be able to create the life that they want to create.

Amadou has been selling solar with Sunrun since 2019, and has been leading a team in Maryland since 2020. Amadou hails from Mali in west Africa, loves basketball, speaks 7 languages, and is always happy! Amadou has an amazing story of dedication and hard work, going from a very humble upraising to find success in direct solar sales. Plus, listen in as he tells an incredible story of first meeting David Bywater 13 years ago in Mali, and then meeting him again at a Vivint Solar conference.

In our 10th episode, we talk to Lyle Webster from Vivint Solar, a SunRun company. Lyle has been with Vivint for almost 6 years and he has loved every minute of it! Selling solar traditionally has been door to door but with the pandemic that wasn't really an option so Lyle had to get creative to keep moving forward. With the rising cost of utilities, Lyle and his solar solution is the way to go to be in control. Learn about some of the details regarding solar energy from Lyle and if you have more questions reach out to him to learn everything you need to know. Contact Information:Tye Jordan https://www.linkedin.com/in/tye-jordanhttps://cinchit.com/locations/marlborough-maLyle Websterlyle.webster@sunrun.com(978) 339-3590https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyle-webster-07807524/https://www.vivintsolar.com/

Enjoy this EPIC interview with the legend Brandon Holmes as he tells us how he made millions of dollars by knocking over 250,000 doors! Brandon Holmes has spent the last 15 years in the direct to home sales space, with the last 9 years specifically focused in the Solar industry. He started in the renewable sector as one of the first District Managers, Sales Directors, and Director of Talent Acquisition for Vivint Solar. Under his leadership, his teams have installed over 10,000 residential homes in over 20 states. 9 of which he opened for solar. Before that, Brandon was the President and CoOwner of EPC, a residential Smart Home Automation and Security company, that was successfully sold to CPI in 2012. Leading up to that point, he was a Regional Sales Manager for APX/Vivint and Atlas, starting in 2004. Brandon got his start in door to door sells when he was 7, by taking his mother's food storage in his wagon, and he and his brother Chris sold them to the neighbors at a price they couldn't refuse Brandon considered his greatest accomplishments to be his amazing marriage to his wife Elizabeth, and their 4 beautiful children. He served a 2-year mission for his church in Oklahoma and Texas where he spent his time with the Kiowa, Apache, Comanche, and Delaware Tribes. He has his degree in Business Management from Brigham Young University- Idaho. He feels deeply passionate that ALL of these experiences and amazing adventures has prepared him for this role as CEO of the UNTD companies. After all, he's done, He is convinced, that now, with the platform of UNTD, they are able to fulfill their mission: ‘Building value in lives, while enduring all things', and be a driving force for positive change, in all those they touch. FOLLOW OMAR AND BRANDON HOLMES HERE: OMAR'S INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/Omar_TheRockstar/ BRANDON'S INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bholmes1125​ P.S... WANNA BE INTERVIEWED ON “THE PASSIONATE FEW” APPLY HERE: https://podcastmastery.activehosted.com/f/10 (Options for both ZOOM or IN-PERSON packages) *Plus, the EXTRA cool news is that if you're selected for this paid package to get an interview on the show, you will ALSO be getting a bunch of content to use for building your personal brand on social media + a consultation w/ Omar + we will be feeding 5,000 - 12,000 people IN YOUR NAME through our official partnership with w/ FEEDING AMERICA! For context, FEEDING AMERICA is the largest non-profit in the country that specializes in providing donated meals to men, women & children who are food-insecure in this country in a time where people need help more than ever! Pretty cool huh? Wanna learn more? Apply now & our team will circle back w/ you within 48 hours for this win-win-win opportunity! As always, live strong & live with passion! - OMAR _____ HOW TO CONNECT w/ OMAR & OUR TEAM FURTHER_____ Wanna Learn The #1 Strategy To Profitably Grow Your Personal Brand OR Business Brand In 2021? JOIN "THE PASSIONATE FEW ACADEMY" (FREE) ON-DEMAND TRAINING HERE: It's totally free and you can sign up here to be the first to get notified now https://www.tpfacademy.com/sign-up-v1​ ***3 Ways You Can Connect w/ Omar & The Passionate Few Academy's Team Further *** Wanna Ask Omar Your #1 Life, Business or Branding Question? 1) TEXT ME: +1 (310) 564-8140 (or join my community w/ 1-click here: https://my.community.com/omarelattar!​ ) Wanna Be Interviewed On The Show To Share Your Story & Business (Via ZOOM or IN-PERSON)? 2) INTERVIEW APPLICATION: https://podcastmastery.activehosted.com/f/10 (P.S. If Selected, Your Interview Package Would Help Us Feed 1 Million People In Our “1 Million Meal Challenge” Partnership w/ FEEDING AMERICA. Apply For More Info.) Wanna Get 1-On-1 Consulting To Grow Your Personal Brand or Business Brand Online? 3) CONSULTING APPLICATION: https://thepassionatefew.clickfunnels.com/4-survey (APPLY HERE FOR CONSULTING W/ OMAR's TEAM & YOUR CUSTOMIZED CONTENT-TO-PROFIT COACHING PROGRAM)

Amber has been a full time recruiter for Vivint Solar for 3 years, and has also been in sales and recruiting for Cutco as well as Vivint Smart Home. In total, she has been in the direct sales industry for 19 years! She has brought in over 600 new recruits to the team, who have generated nearly 4000 installs. Tune in to see how she can spot top talent and get them on the ground running.

Bryce has more than 400 career installs, and is coming off the heels of being one of the most successful sales representatives at Vivint Solar during Covid shelter in place. Tune in to hear how he adapts and learns from his experiences, as well as how he uses a $2 bill to create more solid customers!

Jason is one of the original sales reps at Vivint Solar, and has been running a market since January 2015. He also has around 700 career solar installs, putting him at #11 all time at Vivint Solar. Running an office at the same time as having 8 children, Jason must be able to manage his time efficiently. Tune in to hear the non-negotiables with his family and how he juggles his work and home life, and why he decided to pursue direct sales over being a doctor.

Grant went from selling expensive home upgrades, to crawling under mobile homes, to now being one of the top producers at Vivint Solar. Tune in as he opens up about battling depression, staying positive, and building relationships. He attributes his success simply to caring about others. This is an episode you don't want to miss.

Will has been selling solar for about 5 years, and was responsible for opening a new state (Virginia) to solar installations. Will is regularly a top producing rep & leader, and does it in a loan-only market. After losing his job with Boeing, he met a Vivint Solar rep, who invited him to a team meeting. Will showed up in a suit and tie, and nearly walked out, but saw the culture and fell in love. Listen as he talks about making an impact on those around him, getting out of your comfort zone, and overcoming challenges.

Earlier this month, Sunrun, the largest residential solar company in the U.S., declared its intent to acquire Vivint Solar, the second largest installer. It's an all-stock transaction that would value the combined entity at over $9 billion.It's a big deal -- literally. The enterprise value attached to Vivint is $3.2 billion, which makes it the largest single transaction in the history of the distributed energy market. It's also a big deal because of what it says about the state and future of distributed solar, plus adjacent markets like energy storage and maybe even electric vehicles.So that's what we're going to talk about today. Shayle sits down with Austin Perea, a senior solar analyst for Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, to talk about the strategy behind this deal and what it tells us about the next phase of the market.Assuming the acquisition goes through, how big will this new entity be?The Interchange is brought to you by Fluence, a global leader in battery-based energy storage technology and services. From commercializing the first grid-connected battery systems in 2008 to the multi-gigawatt fleet being deployed for customers globally today, the Fluence team is ensuring that storage is the cornerstone of the electric future. Learn more.

Adler was on his way to a successful collegiate football career, when injuries sent him looking elsewhere. He was recruited by a teammate's brother, hopped on a plane for the first time by himself, and tried out the opportunity presented to him. He hasn't looked back and has had a life changing experience with Vivint Solar. Now managing a top office, he motivates everyone around him to "pay rent" every day. He is a fiend for competition, and figures that if he gives it all he has in an incentive and loses, he still wins with the production gained. Tune in for Adler's incredible story and why you should always be reaching out to people you know to take advantage of this opportunity.

Joe is a farm boy from Missouri who has been with Vivint Solar for years and has hundreds of installs. With no door to door sales experience, he started selling for Vivint Solar in 2012 based on the opportunity presented to him - and he has taken advantage of that opportunity. He's one of the best recruiters at the company, and that success comes because he values relationships and true friendships. Listen to his tips on how he makes friends and builds teams.

Darrell has been in direct sales since 2007 and has been a top producer every year he has sold. While at Vivint Solar, he's been a district manager, a director, and now VP of Sales. Listen as he talks about his main role is to get his leaders promoted, not to get himself promoted. He focuses on grabbing hold of his responsibilities and making those around him look good. "It is okay to not be perfect. It is not okay to not pursue perfection."

Founder and Executive Director Samira Harnish gets together (virtually) with a few women leaders from the forcibly displaced community in Utah to discuss their experiences with COVID-19, the economic recession, and the distinct needs of women during the pandemic. Also on the call, Anju Thapaliya from Nepal who is a Lead Medical Technologist at ARUP Laboratories, Taiba Amer from Iraq an Electrical Engineer working at Vivint Solar, and Sarah Alsahyem also from Iraq an engineer studying business in Utah.

Kevin & Jeremy & Casey sit down with Dave Allred.  Dave started in the industry 18 years ago knocking doors for APX.  He since has been a manager, regional, Regional VP and VP with Vivint & worked on the West Coast over Vivint Solar program.  Currently he is continuing to grow his book of business through Real estate and coaching.  Get your pen and paper out for some notes because this podcast is great!

Ty Williams is Regional VP of sales for the west coast of Vivint Solar. He helped grow the company from 4 reps when he started in 2013 to now dozens of offices and hundreds of reps. Hear his secrets to success and the things he has done to help grow his company and build teams while maintaining great culture. Connect with Ty on social media and be sure to subscribe to his podcast Electric People too!

Ty Williams is Regional VP of sales for the west coast of Vivint Solar. He helped grow the company from 4 reps when he started in 2013 to now dozens of offices and hundreds of reps. Hear his secrets to success and the things he has done to help grow his company and build teams while maintaining great culture. Connect with Ty on social media and be sure to subscribe to his podcast Electric People too!

Terry has nearly 400 career installs, has been a DM in 3 different markets, and recently joined the Franchise while opening a new market. Terry has been an entrepreneur for years and faced many ups and downs. He's also multilingual, socializes with rock stars, and was nearly a professional tennis player. Tune in to hear how Terry is using Vivint Solar to catch up on lost years.

Born in Nigeria, raised in Houston, attended law school in Phoenix, and now one of the top solar sales leaders at Vivint Solar. It's been quite the journey for Rich. He understands that there are many things out of his control, but he can control how many hours he puts in - and it's put him on a path of huge success. Eliminate distractions and be disciplined!

Taylor leads from the front in one of the most successful offices in Vivint Solar history. He has around 250 career installs, and is a DM in San Diego South, which had nearly 500 office installs in Q4, and are the 4x Bigs champions. Tune in to hear what motivates him and how he works even when he doesn't want to.

Guest Bio:Chance Allred wants to live in a world where everyone thinks two or three generations down the road, where businesses actively invest in humanity's future, and where people have a say in how they create and consume electricity.As Chief Sales Officer at Vivint Solar, Chance is at the forefront of the residential solar power revolution, where has grown his team of 1,500 sales professionals into a world-class sales organization that specializes in direct-to-consumer, retail, and inside sales channels with a lower customer acquisition cost than competitors in the industry.With a compound annual growth rate of 225% between 2011 and 2015, Chance's sales organization vaulted Vivint Solar from startup to the second largest residential company in the U.S. in less than four years, enabling Vivint Solar to go public with an IPO of $1.5B in 2014. SunEdison announced its intention to purchase Vivint Solar for $2.2B in 2015.When Chance isn't out building winning sales engines, you can find him constructing solar-powered huts in third-world countries, chumming with his friends and family, or obsessing over whatever sport he is currently playing.

Taylor is currently a Director of Sales in Southern California, but he also was one of the original employees at Vivint Solar. Tune in to hear how the company was started, and the path that has taken to get to where it is now!

Brendan Smith has been with Vivint Solar for nearly 5 years, and has a ton of experience in solar field operations. He is a man who is determined to provide the best service possible to customers, and is dedicated to helping our salesforce succeed. Tune in to hear from this solar giant!

Ty Williams is the VP of West Coast sales for Vivint solar and the host of one of our favorite podcasts: Electric People. We chat in a stateroom of a cruise ship heading north from Cabo San Lucas to LA. He unlocks the back door to the mindset of the largest and fastest growing solar company on the planet. Ty Williams gives us access to their sports management philosophy  for their athletes in Vivint Solar. The advice is not just fascinating but it is actionable and applies to every other sports and business person and organization that wants to succeed in 2020.  Merry Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza and New Year.

Cassel is one of the top up-and-coming leaders at Vivint Solar. Listen to his story of going from a small town farmer to a top earner selling solar, and the sacrifices he made to get out of debt. Cassel's positivity and energy is contagious, so don't miss this one!

Troy is a director in New England and is one of the longest tenured solar sales reps at Vivint Solar. He has over 400 career installs and has really, really nice hair. Tune in to hear from one of the legends of door to door.

Ryan Sheckler is a professional skateboarder (since age 13!) and an entrepreneur. He has been labeled as one of the 15 most influential skateboarders of all time, and uses that influence to push his foundation, the Sheckler Foundation. This foundation was created to assist children, and injured/recovering athletes. He is also a huge advocate of renewable energy and a Vivint Solar customer!

Join Mitchell Levy and co-host Josh Jones together with special guest Justin Hibbard to learn how "voice" can help in D2D selling and in life in general. Justin Hibbard launched and directs LA's JustTheVoice Productions, Inc. and he's described as a "VOICE OVER TITAN" (Ramar Comm.) who helps major medical, medical device, and pharmaceutical clients ENGAGE, EDUCATE, EVEN ENTERTAIN industry pros. He has also amassed a varied multimedia portfolio include text-to-speech (TTS), IVR-On Hold, Live Event Hosting, Public Address, Corporate Branding, Digital & Broadcast Promo - Imaging - News - Doc, and Commercial creative productions that capture the eyes, ears, and spending power of the coveted 18-49 demo. Connect to Justin Hibbard on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/justinshibbard Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7. Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first AHA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments:  https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com AHAthat Radio: https://AHAthatRadio.com LinkedIn: https://Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam is one of the most tenured direct salesmen in the industry, having over 13 years of door to door experience. He is one of the very original sales reps at Vivint Solar and has amassed over 700 career installs. Tune in to hear about how he has turned his failures into success, and what keeps him so consistent!

Compassion is a vital skill not only in life but in D2D selling too. Mitchell Levy and Josh Jones further discusses this point of view with special guest Laura Jack.   Laura Jack is an International Best Selling Author and Founder of The Marriage Upgrade, her signature, transformational coaching program that provides in-depth training to super moms on exactly how to become the emotional leader in their life and take their existing marriage to its fullest potential. Connect to Laura Jack on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurajackcoaching/ or email her via laura@laurajack.com. Josh Jones' door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7. Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments:  https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com AHAthat Radio: https://ahathatradio.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitchell Levy and co-host Josh Jones had a spectacular conversation with special guest Richard Howell about achieving and sustaining success in door-to-door sales and in life. Richard Howell is the Director of Sales at Vivint Solar (vivintsolar.com) and is known to have always worked hard and found a why to accomplish huge goals and improve efficiencies and profits in the departments he has been responsible for. Connect to Richard Howell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-howell-9a3a3316/ Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7. Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments:  https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com AHAthat Radio: https://AHAthatRadio.com LinkedIn: https://Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a powerful session that will surely help you on your journey to success. Josh Jones and Mitchell Levy are joined by special guest Clint Cushing who talks about his success in door to door sales as an individual salesperson and as a sales manager. Clint Cushing is currently the CEO at Nomo Hub,  a company that connects sales reps and sales companies with solutions that provide efficiency and ultimate scalability. Clint as introduced by co-host Josh Jones was one of the top rookie alarm sales representative in the industry. He was also the former Director of Revenue- East Coast at LGCY Power and former Regional Sales Manager at Vivint Smart Home. Connect to Clint Cushing on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clint-cushing-98b45425/de. Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7. Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments:  https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com AHAthat Radio: https://AHAthatRadio.com LinkedIn: https://Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's the one who started it all. Tune in to hear what it took to build Vivint Solar into the dominant business it is today. Paul provides incredible insights and tips for success. Don't miss this one.

In this episode, John Voris shares his knowledge on how to connect with prospects effectively as a salesperson using the power of relatability. John W. Voris, CEO at Authentic Systems, brings together ancient wisdom, European philosophy and psychology for the purpose of empowering humanity. He is a seasoned salesperson and consultant helping salespeople dramatically improve their sales. He talks about how a salesperson should look out for symbols that indicate what type of person their prospect is. John also discusses why salespeople should learn to pre-qualify their prospect before meeting them and why knowing their authentic identity can help close a sale. To connect with John Voris contact him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvoris/ or via email at john@authentic-systems.com Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones via email at joshuahutchinsjones@gmail.com. Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments:  https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com AHAthat Radio: https://AHAthatRadio.com LinkedIn: https://Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mitchell Levy and co-host Josh Jones interviewed Barbara Beckstead Burnett where she shared the important things you need to think about and act upon to achieve a tax-deductible life. Barbara Beckstead Burnett is the owner/CEO at Robinson Burnett and Assoc. Inc.  which was established in 2008 in the greater Salt Lake area. The company consists of professionals who have technical expertise in the field of taxation (individual, business and trusts) as well as in QuickBooks, tax seminars, payroll and financial consultation, Offer In Compromise services and company set ups with small businesses. Many of their clients work with direct sales all over the United States and they offer them customized services and tools for their particular industry. Barbara is also an expert financial analyst who help individuals and companies make business decisions. Connect to Barbara Burnett Beckstead on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/barbara-beckstead-burnett-68659814. Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on:LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/ AHAthat: AHAthat.com Speaking site: MitchellLevy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Adam McClellan shared how his life experiences made him stronger, how he got inspired to be the best version of himself and become the charismatic leader that he is today. Adam McClellan, Regional Vice-President at Vivint Solar, is a veteran sales leader with almost 20 years of direct-sales experience. He is a great example of a leader in the company with over four hundred personal solar installations within his first three years working for Vivint. Adam has more than six hundred sales professionals under his wing; he is overseeing half of the company's production and revenue. Connect to Adam McClellan via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-mcclellan-5783b76b/ Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on:LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/ AHAthat: AHAthat.com Speaking site: MitchellLevy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Jones and Mitchell Levy are joined by special guest former MMA fisher Brad Kohler. Brad talks about his transition, falling down, getting up, setting goals and what it takes to be successful. Here’s an episode you don’t want to miss. Brad Kohler is a former amateur wrestler, Professional Athlete, Business owner and inventor of the Combohitter and he’s enjoying this stage of his life sharing such a great product. The Combohitter at Combohitter.com has made an impact in the fitness industry by being so versatile. It is not only a great workout, fun to hit but most important, it is very safe for all ages and levels of athletes. His  aggressive work ethic and passion fuels my continued growth. Connect with Brad Kohler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradfightmn/ or via email at: bradfightmn@yahoo.com. Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/ AHAthat: AHAthat.com Speaking site: MitchellLevy.comThe knockout secrets to success with Brad Kohler (MLP029) Consulting Site: THiNKaha.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we met with Rene Ramirez District Manger for Vivint Solar. Do you have questions or have thought about switching to Solar? Rene does an amazing job breaking down the questions and process!!

Don Gomez is part of the heart and soul of the East Coast at Vivint Solar. Month after month, quarter after quarter, you can find his name at the top of every list of top performers. He embodies hard work and leading from the front. In this episode, DG opens up about how he finds success and keeps on ticking!

In today's world, uncovering your true calling seems a difficult thing to do. But did you know that it isn't impossible to achieve? In this episode, Mitchell Levy and co-host Josh Jones together with special guest Nick Temple talked about how to find, live, and make your passion happen. Nick Temple is the Marketing CTO at Temple Rocks Inc. (https://temple.rocks/). He is a number one international best-selling author, mentor, serial entrepreneur and badass technologist. Nick now works with evolved entrepreneurs to help them grow their business through capturing, identifying and executing on their best ideas. Available for high-perspective management, engineering and devops consultation, software and app development, roadmap creation and planning. Connect to Nick Temple on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicktemple/ or his website: https://www.nicktemple.com/. Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 or through his website: Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/ AHAthat: AHAthat.com Speaking site: MitchellLevy.com Consulting Site: THiNKaha.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitchell Levy and Josh Jones are joined by special guest, Michael Griego, the President and Founder at MXL Partners. They had an insightful conversation about how structure and routine can help salespeople, entrepreneurs, or anyone increase their revenue. Michael Griego has over 35 years of high-technology sales and management experience at companies ranging from IBM, StorageTek, Gartner Group, IntelliQuest to Workshare. He founded MXL Partners (http://www.mxlpartners.com) in 2002, a Silicon Valley-based sales effectiveness consulting and training firm. He is a world-class sales trainer and sales effectiveness management consultant and an internationally recognized Sales Expert for TopSalesWorld.com and The Sales Experts Channel. He’s conducted sales management consulting for companies around the world and has lead sales training for thousands of salespeople in companies ranging from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500 firms. To connect to Michael on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michaelgriego Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/ AHAthat: AHAthat.com Speaking site: MitchellLevy.com Consulting Site: THiNKaha.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He is the one who started it all... the Godfather of Solar. Jeremy was the very first Vivint Solar sales athlete to pave the way for thousands of others. Tune in to hear some of the ups and downs and why he has stuck with it after all these years. This is one you don't want to miss.

In this episode, Mitchell Levy and co-host Josh Jones had an inspiring conversation about having a "laser-focused mindset" with special guest Steven Spencer Elliot, the Senior Director Client Development                    at Branded Entertainment Network. They talked about how it can help entrepreneurs, salespersons, and anyone who want to get things done properly and successfully. Steven is very observant and likes to pay attention to people’s best practices. He finds ways for him, along with others, to live those practices. His objectives are for him to become his potential, be an aid to those he works with, and not become complacent. He loves hard work, feedback, and knows how to push himself. Success is a motivator for him. Whether it's his own personal success or that of those close to him. You can reach Steven Spencer Elliot on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenspencerelliott/ or you can text him at: 801-819-6888. Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on:LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevyFacebook: Facebook.com/HappyAboutTwitter: Twitter.com/HappyAboutGoogle+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevyPinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKahaInstagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/AHAthat: AHAthat.comSpeaking site: MitchellLevy.comConsulting Site: THiNKaha.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a sales person or as an entrepreneur, processes are very important to be successful. Lori Payne tells us why using simple tools, like taking notes on a piece of paper is essential to keep yourself on track.  Lori Payne, the President at Payne Consulting & Coaching Inc., loves puzzles and loves to build. She has worked in building and management of programs in aircraft and energy generation gas turbine engine maintenance, people and process development for many years. She has created thousands of contracts, needs analysis, estimates, technical workscopes, reports and service plans for engines, components, accessories and people. She is fluent in quality procedures, in working with people from different cultures to translate and design programming. Connect to Lori Payne on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/loripayneconsulting Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/ AHAthat: AHAthat.com Speaking site: MitchellLevy.com Consulting Site: THiNKaha.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitchell Levy and Josh Jones had a great exchange of ideas with special guest Michael Caruso on how to succeed in business and in D2D selling in the long term. Michael  is a high-end closer and he’s amazing at what he does. He also shared in this episode the value of "closing". Michael Caruso is the president at MC ² Consulting, a company that provides business strategy, business development, advisory, mentorship, sales set up, investment prep and introductions for small to medium size companies to grow their business. Michael is also a co-founder and the CEO of ClickFacts (clickfacts.com), a SaaS ad malware detection company that helps develop industry standards for brand safety, viewability, and cybersecurity. He has contributed to many trade publications as well. You can contact Michael Caruso on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-caruso-a0613/ Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/ AHAthat: AHAthat.com Speaking site: MitchellLevy.com Consulting Site: THiNKaha.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitchell Levy and Josh Jones talk about change management as an entrepreneur and as a D2D salesperson. They have laid out some great points why you need to crave for change in your working environment especially if you are unhappy or if you feel that you're skills are being limited. This conversation has amazing takeaways for everyone and most especially for entrepreneurs. Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.  AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/ AHAthat: AHAthat.com Speaking site: MitchellLevy.com Consulting Site: THiNKaha.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's the one who started it all. Chance Allred is the Chief Sales Officer of Vivint Solar, and knows a thing or two about building strong sales organizations. With nearly 20 years of experience in direct sales, Chance knows the ins and outs, the ups and downs of the industry. In this episode, he shares some priceless insights into his experiences and how they have shaped him. You don't want to miss this one.

Jordan LaPlace was successful, but he wasn’t quite living up to his potential. He always had the bug to sale, as a kid he even sold hot dogs just to satisfy the need to achieve. In college, he got his first real sales job selling B2B office products and decided that his future was in selling and he no longer needed to spend time on schooling. Jordan spent about 5 years selling various services, before ending up in solar energy sales. He was well established and had seen some success, but in the end of 2014, he made a decision that would change his life. He put together a plan that helped him to earn in excess of $1 million in commissions, and plans to create $3 million in 2016. Jordan made way more than just your average shift; in this episode, he tells us exactly what he did and how you can start crushing it too Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7 Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first APA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. To learn more about creating and sharing your AHA moments, go to AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jimmy Rex is a real estate expert and manages one of the top real estate firms in the state of Utah. This episode dives into the real estate market and how you can take advantage of various markets. *The information presented on this podcast is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice. Vivint Solar does not solicit, recommend, endorse, or offer any financial instruments discussed in this podcast. Any listeners assume the sole responsibility of evaluating the merits and risks associated with the use of any information presented on the podcast before making any decisions based on such information.

As the CEO of Vivint Solar, and having managed dozens of companies, David Bywater knows a thing or two about being a successful leader. David has over 20 years of experience managing and building businesses such as Bain & Company, Xerox, ACS, and Vivint Smart Home. When he speaks, you should listen. Tune in to hear about: - David's dedication to the renewable energy revolution - Incredible examples of leadership - The importance of integrity in business - His goals for the company going forward

We can often feel tempted to use the word 'but' when relaying bad news or disagreeing with someone which can backfire and hamper conversations. Fortunately, there is a better way. Josh and Mitchell talk about the concept of replacing the word 'but' with 'and' to transform our conversations. They reveal the advantages of adopting this approach and the best way to apply it.  Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7  Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, a self-publishing book platform for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. In addition to these accomplishments, he's been happily married for 28 years and regularly spends four to five weeks annually in a European country with his family and friends. Mitchell is committed to aliveness, joy, and AHA moments. To learn more about creating and sharing your AHA moments, go to AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on:LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/AHAthat: AHAthat.comSpeaking site: MitchellLevy.comConsulting Site: THiNKaha.com LinkedIn Thought Leadership Best Practices Group: aha.pub/t-l-b-p  Thought Leader Life: ThoughtLeaderLife.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Jones and I talk about the topic of passion and how it can change your results and satisfaction in work and life. Josh Jones's door-to-door (D2D) career began with a 2 year service mission for the LDS church. Shortly thereafter, he spent 3 years selling alarms and smart home tech for Vivint Inc. For nearly 4 years after that he has been selling and managing a sales team for Vivint Solar. Josh has worked in CA, AZ and CT. He has personally installed nearly 3 MW. In 2017 Josh's team installed around 5MW. The crowning achievement of his career thus far is authoring two books on sales and achieving off-the-charts success. The titles are "$300K @ 26" and "Don't Knock it Till You Knock it". A fundamental belief Josh has is, as Zig Ziglar said, "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Josh is always looking to surround himself with the most passionate people he can find because as John C. Maxwell said, "One person with passion is greater than 99 with only an interest. Passion gives you energy." Connect to Josh Jones on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/josh-jones-2b65a8b7  Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, a self-publishing book platform for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. In addition to these accomplishments, he's been happily married for 28 years and regularly spends four to five weeks annually in a European country with his family and friends. Mitchell is committed to aliveness, joy, and AHA moments. To learn more about creating and sharing your AHA moments, go to AHAthat.com/Author where you can also find a link to book a strategy call. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on:LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/MitchellLevy Facebook: Facebook.com/HappyAbout Twitter: Twitter.com/HappyAbout Google+: Plus.Google.com/+MitchellLevy Pinterest: Pinterest.com/THiNKaha Instagram: Instagram.com/Mitchell.Levy/AHAthat: AHAthat.comSpeaking site: MitchellLevy.comConsulting Site: THiNKaha.com LinkedIn Thought Leadership Best Practices Group: aha.pub/t-l-b-p  Thought Leader Life: ThoughtLeaderLife.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing Cameron Wake, PhD in Earth Sciences. As one of the nation's leading climate change researchers, Cameron gives some insight into the world's pollution, and how we can combat it. Cameron is a huge supporter of solar power, and loves what Vivint Solar is doing as a company. Cameron's passion shines through in this episode, so don't miss it!

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David Bywater is the Chief Executive Officer at Vivint Solar, a leading full-service residential solar integrator. Prior to joining Vivint Solar, David served as COO at Vivint Smart Home and was executive vice president at Xerox. Earlier in his career, David was a consultant with Bain & Company and the Monitor Group. In our discussion David shares his thoughts on: How to make failure a positive; The importance of a plan and momentum; Helping ordinary people do extraordinary things; Incentivizing your team members effectively; The upside and downside of data; Bending light and running towards the fire; Staying curious and questioning the status quo; and What happened when he was 14 years old that changed the course of his life. Complete show notes and a transcript of the podcast are available at - https://brettpinegar.com/seekingexcellence   The best ways to connect with David are: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidbywaterceo Email: davidhbywater@yahoo.com    You can follow Brett Pinegar on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/brettpinegar LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettpinegar/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brettpinegar/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/brettpinegar/   Subscribe to SEEKING EXCELLENCE now and if you love it, rate, review, and if you feel so inclined, please share it with folks you think would be interested.  iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1364727844?ls=1 Google Play - https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ieeuey3tmjmrycs5wjukbwc7yne Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/brett-pinegar/seeking-excellence-with-brett-pinegar Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/15NBZQtezyMyhQl1DtZrPN?si=WWlV6wHfRN2NyHLEgaY9TA YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-jPkKXsvOfmwabnv7aHc0w Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/channels/seekingexcellence

Vivint Solar is a leading full-service residential solar provider in the United States with more than 100,000 solar systems to its credit. Vivint Solar uses MicroStrategy on AWS to keep track of internal processes, including operations, finance, customer support, and human resources. With MicroStrategy on AWS, Vivint Solar could deploy a fully configured MicroStrategy environment in just an hour, giving their IT team more time to focus on other high-value projects. Today, Vivint Solar uses over 25 different AWS tools and services including, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodeDeploy to track and analyze their data. Join us in this session to learn how Vivint Solar is using analytics to transform the way they do business and revolutionize the way people think about renewable energy. Session sponsored by MicroStrategy

Adam sits down with Chris Devin to discuss Solar Energy and how it can save you a lot of money!

Adam and Chris Devin discuss how the Real Estate community uses solar energy as a selling point.

This week we spoke with Michael Morosi from Avondale Partners, an analyst that covers solar stocks. We spoke with Michael about most of the public companies which means we went a little long in our conversation that you don’t want to miss. Michael previously worked at Jetstream Ventures which was an investor in Sungevity so we spoke about the bankruptcy filings and what that means to the other residential companies in solar. He thinks Vivint Solar has potential upside as they turn around after their debacle with Sunedison. When it comes to stock prices, he sees a possible drop for First Solar. They are replacing their manufacturing capacity globally for their new product which means $1-$1.5billion in capital investments. A solar manufacturer with a $2billion private equity division is how Michael sees this. We end the conversation with some prediction and he’s had me thinking ever since our conversation with his foresight. As we have seen with previous episodes, the predictions are well educated guesses so I am interested to see this one come true. Find this episode on iTunes, Soundcloud and Stitcher Radio. Leave a review and subscribe today!

Rangeley Capital's Portfolio Managers, Chris DeMuth and Andrew Walker, discuss Sunedison, Terraform, and Vivint Solar in the wake of today's news that banks may not fund their merger. More on the banks balking: http://www.wsj.com/articles/sunedisons-takeover-of-vivint-solar-in-jeopardy-as-banks-balk-1456951636

It's been a tough summer and fall for the world's biggest renewable energy developer. Since SunEdison announced its acquisition of Vivint Solar in July, the company's stock price has fallen by 70 percent. Just this week, executives announced they are laying off 15 percent of the company's workforce -- amounting to a cut of around 1,000 people. How did a leading renewable energy company riding so high earlier in the year reverse course so quickly? In this week's podcast, we'll discuss the factors behind SunEdison's recent woes and look at its new plan to get back on track. Later in the show, we'll provide updates on Exelon's bid to buy up Pepco, Shell's decision to abandon Arctic drilling, and some energy bills making their way through Congress.

SunEdison is on a mission to become one of the biggest energy companies in the world – built entirely on renewables. It still has a ways to go. SunEdison has a $9 billion market capitalization. The two biggest oil companies, PetroChina and ExxonMobil, are worth $376 billion and $342 billion respectively. And Duke Energy, America’s largest utility, has a market cap of $50 billion. But with a slew of billion-dollar acquisitions of wind and solar companies – most recently Vivint Solar -- SunEdison believes it is on the path to rivaling the world’s supermajors. "We are building the next generation of the biggest energy companies on earth," said Julie Blunden, SunEdison's chief strategy officer, this week after announcing plans to buy Vivint Solar for $2.2 billion. In this week’s show, we will discuss SunEdison’s business strategy and ask if the company is on a sustainable growth path. In the second half of the show, we’ll talk about a new report showing renewables outpacing nuclear power, and look at a scientific study of climate records that were shattered in 2014. This podcast is sponsored by ReneSola, a Tier 1 solar cell and module manufacturer with a decade of experience in the cleantech industry. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussions between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Media Editor Stephen Lacey.

Greg Butterfield, CEO of Vivint Solar, talks about what he sees as the best value proposition going today: residential solar power. In this episode of Contractors Corner, Butterfield breaks down the key to Vivint Solar’s explosive growth.