Before the Millions

Today's guest, Curtis May, has been wealth planning for individuals for over 35 years taking the "anti wall street" investing approach to educate the masses. On the episode we'll discuss how to help you save money while becoming financial free by reshaping your viewpoints on your action plan to freedom.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Why Curtis is the anti wall-street financial advisor
• Why you shouldn't listen to Suze Orman or Dave Ramsey
• 4 Rules that make banks work against you
• Accumulation theory vs. velocity strategy
• When cash flow is more important than Equity
• Privatized/Infinite banking and its role in your finances
• 5 Personal Finance Principles
• 3 Rules of Investing

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Curtis’ Website

Recommended Book:

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

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Blake Templeton, today's guest, has built a financial fortress through real estate and cryptocurrency investing. Learning from the ancient secrets of King Solomon, he's created a 3-dimensional investment model that has become recession proof.

On todays show, we'll discuss Blakes humble beginnings and how he grow to create a real estate business that has completed over 300 transactions with 100M assets under management with self storage and mobile home parks.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Blakes start: Renovations and Foreclosures
• Pro's and Con's of Hedge Funds vs. Syndications
• Today's Strategies: Self storage & Mobile Home Parks
• "34% of all money in history was printed in the last 18 months"
• Explanation of Bitcoin and Blockchain
• How and why to implement 3-dimensional investments
• Why bitcoin is "digital gold"
• Becoming a 3rd party consultant (when feeling overwhelmed)
• 6 step process for overcoming

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Blake’s Website

Recommended Book:

Scale by Jeff Hoffman and David Finkel

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Today's guest, Cody Bjugan, has a been developing raw land and residential homes for the past 20 years.

His land developing model is rather unique. Instead of the traditional land development deal or land flipping deal, Cody find off-market raw land with development potential and take it through the steps (entitlement and political approvals) to sell it to homebuilders. Being involved at the beginning of a land deal but only in on a sliver of the process has allowed Cody to create 7 figure returns on some deal.

Today we sit down with Cody to discuss this unique business model and exactly how it works.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Cody's outlook on purpose, impact and fulfillment
• Examples of political approvals
• Why Cody stopped doing horizontal construction on his deals
• How Cody is making 10X returns and 7 figure exits
• Value-Add on land deals

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Cody’s Website

Recommended Book:

The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey

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Growing tired of building bombs and traveling for the Air Force, Tyler Austin - today's guest, got started in real estate when he was 24 as a way to achieve personal and professional freedom. After a failed $10,000 marketing campaign for his first deal, he’d built a successful investing business that broke him out of debt over the next 2 years. Soon after Tyler founded REISift, a bootstrapped SaaS in Proptech helping real estate investors scale their sales and marketing.

Key Points From This Episode:

• $10,000 "wasted" in first Direct Mail campaign
• The $30,000 profit deal that made Tyler quit his job
• The importance of List Stacking
• How to properly run your CRM
• How to systematically account for your motivated seller leads
• How to get the most profit out of your list
• www.beforethemillions.com/sift

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Tyler's Website

Recommended Book:

The Go Giver by Bob Burg

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Today's guest, Chad Keller, is a real estate investor and Facebook marketing expert. Chad has extensive experience doing Facebook marketing for both large and small companies, but after investing some of his agency profits into rental properties, he and his business partner realized that true wealth comes from real estate investing. Now, in addition to investing in real estate, Chad uses his Facebook ads experience to help other investors find quality leads. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• How to target motivated seller using facebook ads
• What is the facebook special ad category for real estate
• The ad, copy and targeting mix for high performing ads
• How to track and measure conversions
• Creative financing and facebook ads

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Chad Website

Recommended Book:

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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Walli Miller, financial coach, entrepreneur and today's guest is passionate about all things money - including spending it. This wasn't always the case - growing up Walli picked up traits from her environment that hindered her success with money early on. She became self aware of her relationship with money and bad money habits as she approached 6-figures at her 9 to 5 job. Doubt, shame and self sabotage began to creep in.

As Walli started to course correct, she submerged herself with knowledge from books, podcasts and other financial coaches. She started investing more and saving less. She started to foster an actual relationship with her money and take control of her life. Today she makes more money with her investments than at her 9 to 5 job and is on track to exit the rat race any moment from now.

Key Points From This Episode:

• 5 Way to establish a better relationship with money
• How to systematically achieve financial independence
• The power behind affirmations and positive thinking
• Wealth building 101

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Walli’s Website

Recommended Book:

The Simple Path To Wealth by J.L. Collins

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Other Resources:

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BTM Episode 202 on Financial Therapy

Today is an amazing opportunity to review your money beliefs and preconceived notions. On this show Daray and today's guest, Bob Wheeler, help conquer your money shame as an entrepreneur.

Bob Wheeler’s crusade for personal growth has cross-pollinated with his accounting practice to create a new approach to personal finances. His passion is to help others gain insights about how their emotions trigger financial decisions. Combining finances with behaviors, Bob explores his personal concept of creating a healthy relationship.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Bob’s Website

Recommended Book:

The Power of Focus by Jack Canfield

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When it comes to the world of real estate investing, there doesn't have to be a difference between doing well and doing good. Enter Dave Holman, today's guest, a man on a mission to use real estate to solve problems and improve communities.

More specifically, Daray and Dave discuss the use of real estate to help place new immigrants and asylum seekers in affordable housing - they discuss the advantages and disadvantages of opening your rental or home for sale to international immigrants settling on new soil. There's a bit more money to be made but more importantly, there's a "do good" component attached to each case. Whether tenant or buyer, you're placing individuals that would otherwise have no access to housing and home ownership in each one of your units (sometimes even at a premium).

Key Points From This Episode:

• How to increase your rental rate by working with Governmental housing programs
• How to create more predictable income, even during a recession
• The housing problem for refugees in America
• The macroeconomic effects of the government continually printing money

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Dave’s Website

Recommended Book:

7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey

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Other Resources:

Office for Refugee Resettlement - Key State contacts

Get Paid to House Refugees

In this episode Antonio and Daray take a look into the inter-workings of an investment club started by friends for friends. If you and your friends have considered putting your resources together to invest in something profitable for passive income but haven't yet figured out how to structure everything then this episode is for you.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Antonio's Club Intake Process
• Operating Agreement considerations
• The types of investment opportunities Antonio has pursued
• Schedule, minutes and communication channels
• Title, roles and responsibilities of each club member

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Wave Accounting

Kiva Lending

On today's show, Jeff Badu, real estate investor and entrepreneur joins us to discuss all things business and passive income.

After quitting an unfulfilling corporate job as a Big 4 accountant, Jeff started renting his personal car for $1,000 to aide in the growth of his upstart tax business. Through this process Jeff quickly realized the power of passive income and grew the car rental fleet to produce an automated 6-figure business before fully focusing on building out his tax business. His segue into real estate came as a desire for more passive income and to restore underserved communities.

Today this serial entrepreneur has acquired over 100 units of residential and commercial real estate and sits with Daray to discuss life as a former employee turned business owner.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Jeff’s Website

Recommended Book:

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

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