The Collective Genius Podcast

Tyler Vinsand is a Virginia Beach real estate investor who recently promoted from CG Select to CG Premier after four years in the Collective Genius. With an accounting background and a team he calls exceptional from lead to close, he just posted back to back record months in Q2 and Q3. Recorded live at the Q3 Collective Genius event, this conversation covers the leadership lessons that hit hardest...

Hossein and Hamed Tavakoli are brothers and Collective Genius members who run Shiny Homes, a new construction company building in Hood and Tarrant Counties on the west side of Dallas Fort Worth, along with land acquisition, brokerage, and financing companies. They immigrated from Iran on student visas and earned master's degrees in civil engineering and computer science, then moved from house flip...

Kyle Eisenbarger is a Kansas City real estate investor who just promoted from Collective Genius Select to Premier with his business partner Joe, after almost three years in Select. The two spent two years trying to push their business past the $3M to $3.5M revenue mark, and their first Premier meeting showed them exactly what was holding them back. Recorded live at the CG Q3 event in Dallas, this...

In this episode of the Collective Genius Podcast, host Leon Barnes talks with Rafa Loza, a CG Legacy member who is building five ultra luxury short term rentals at about $2 million each while running boutique hotels and long term rentals. Rafa started in 2017 with rental arbitrage, scaled to 16 units in his first nine months, watched COVID take his reservations from about $76,000 to $600, then reb...

John Heisler is a Collective Genius Premier member from Georgia who started in single family wholesaling and flipping, then pivoted his team into commercial real estate, buying eight commercial deals last year. Recorded live at CG's Q3 event in Dallas right after his Legacy room presentation, John breaks down how he brought residential acquisition systems into industrial and retail investing. He w...

In this episode of the Collective Genius Podcast, host Leon Barnes sits down with Clay Hepler, a Collective Genius member who acquires rural recreational and rural residential land an hour or more outside major cities. Clay started in house flipping, rentals, and wholesaling in Pittsburgh, acquired over 85 rental units in about a year, then rebuilt after rising rates and weak property management h...

Tim Vitale is a commercial multifamily operator and CG Legacy member who has built his reputation on low income LIHTC properties, with his last five deals all coming from the same seller. Recorded live at the Q3 Collective Genius event in Dallas, he returns to the show after presenting on acquisitions, even though he hasn't bought a deal in over two years. Tim breaks down why a tight buy box makes...

Kevin Ramirez is a longtime Collective Genius member who runs a fully virtual real estate investing company out of Raleigh, North Carolina, doing wholetail, fix and flip, and wholesale deals statewide. Since joining CG Select in 2020, he has nearly tripled his transactions and is on pace to roughly quadruple revenue, all while running lean with overseas talent. Kevin and host Leon Barnes talk thro...

Jordan Samuel Fleming is the chairman of Smrtphone, the phone system and CRM integration platform he bootstrapped to nearly 60 employees with zero investors, and the author of The AI Workforce: How to Redesign and Scale Your Business with Intelligence . After eight years as CEO, he stepped into the chairman seat and now spends his time helping real estate investors understand how AI agents actuall...

Jason Reynolds is the founder of Home Run Home Solutions in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and a Collective Genius Select member. He's also a former Division I pitcher who was drafted in the 32nd round and played up to High-A ball before going full time in real estate at the end of 2022. Jason shares how he used his draft signing bonus to buy his first duplex during Covid, then spun his wheels trying to...

James Heartquist runs Property Leads, a pay per lead company that delivers motivated seller leads from homeowners looking for cash offers, with live transfers and branded seller handoffs built for real estate investors. Recorded on day one of the Collective Genius Q3 event in Dallas, James gives a preview of the live PPL account audit he's running in the marketing track. Leon and James break down...

Avi Ohana and Moshik of Atlas Residential went from New York day jobs to building a Charlotte, North Carolina real estate business. Along the way, Avi went from going broke twice to running sales and acquisitions, while Moshik, a Special Forces veteran, spent 20 years in development, including a 400,000 square foot Amazon warehouse in Brooklyn. Today their fix and flip operation runs alongside thr...

Levi Gurno is an executive coach, keynote speaker, and workshop facilitator who coaches CEOs and executive teams on leadership and culture, including Collective Genius member Chad Young as he scaled from $2 million to $5 million. Recorded live at the Collective Genius Q3 event in Dallas, this conversation follows a keynote that brought the whole room to its feet. Levi breaks down leadership audits...

Travis Copeland is a Columbus, Ohio real estate investor who left an eight year career at OhioHealth, where he rose to system manager of customer experience, to go full time in wholesaling and fix and flip. His business now runs about 75% flips and 25% wholesaling across central Ohio and Dayton, and bringing design in-house helped him hit 9 days on market in a tough year. Travis shares how a $9.95...

Chad Young is a seven-time Collective Genius belt winner whose real estate investing business hit $2 million gross in year two and $5 million in year five, growing from CG Select to Premier along the way. His company scaled to 150 transactions a year within three years and now mails 100,000 direct mail pieces a month at a 4.5x to 5x ROI. Recorded live at the Collective Genius Q3 event in Dallas, C...

Elizobeth Lunsford spent nine years at Honeywell working on the International Space Station's habitation node, earned a Six Sigma Green Belt, then went on to management consulting for Fortune 100 companies like Chevron and Shell before co-founding True Homes with her husband Ryan in Colorado. Today she runs a fix and flip, wholesale, and rental operation across Denver Metro, Colorado Springs, and...

Matt Miller is co-founder of Fair Trade Real Estate, a California-only wholesale brokerage launched in July 2020 that now runs five offices and roughly 60 team members alongside his partner Deke Blake. A former Army paratrooper who enlisted at 17 and served nearly five years including deployments to South Korea and Iraq, Matt brings 14 years of real estate experience to one of the most competitive...

Tim Vitale is a Wilmington, North Carolina based multifamily investor who owns 28 properties and roughly 1,100 units across the Southeast, 25 of which are LIHTC affordable housing. A former Wall Street accounting and finance professional who hit assistant vice president at 28, Tim walked away from the corporate ladder and will mark five years as a full time real estate investor this September. In...

Vance Courtney is an AI implementation expert who co-led two overflowing AI masterclasses with Steve Trang at Collective Genius Select and Elevate in Clearwater Beach, May 2026. His focus is practical: building agents that audit 100 percent of your sales calls, and giving operators a repeatable framework for prompting AI like they'd lead an employee. In this live episode, Vance walks through the R...

Adam and Paul Vincent are brothers and real estate attorneys behind Vincent Esquire, a Northeast Ohio law firm they founded a little over ten years ago after walking away from their old jobs to represent a bulk tax lien buyer. Today the majority of their practice is securities work: private placement memorandums, syndications, and debt funds for flippers, multifamily buyers, and business acquisiti...

CJ Moss runs a wholesale only company on the Rhode Island and Massachusetts line, operating out of a hub in Seekonk with a stated goal of becoming the biggest wholesale company in the country. He was named Collective Genius Newcomer of the Year in his first year, and this conversation was recorded live on stage in Clearwater Beach right after his track presentation on disposition. CJ breaks down h...

Colby Kirk has spent eight years building a Kansas City real estate business across three buckets: wholesaling, multifamily repositions, and private lending. Before real estate he was, in his words, a failed entrepreneur, running a custom suit company out of Georgetown with product made in Pakistan after a Peace Corps stint in Costa Rica. In this episode Colby walks through the 33 unit package he...

Steve Casamassima spent 14 years as a police officer in South Jersey, becoming the youngest sergeant ever promoted at his department at age 30, all while quietly flipping roughly 100 houses on the side. Today he is the closer at Hall of Fame Real Estate, where he personally drove $5 million in gross profit in 2025, his first full year in the business. This episode breaks down how he did it, includ...

Dan Rivers is the co-founder of Synergy Stays, a short term rental revenue management company operating in 45 markets including Mexico, and a CG Legacy member out of Charleston, South Carolina. He started in Tampa in 2005 with 600 units handed to him on his first day at 25 years old, spent 13 years in property management, and has since done over 350 deals across flips, rentals, wholesaling, and pr...

Stella Han is the founder and CEO of Fractional, a platform that lets real estate operators legally raise capital from both accredited and unaccredited investors without setting up a fund or a syndication. Her investment club model runs about $3,500 and can be live in a day, against roughly $30,000 in securities attorney fees and a month of paperwork for a traditional fund. Recorded live at the Co...