The Educated Investor

In this episode, we sit down with Avery Carl, an entrepreneur who turned accidental real estate investing into  a thriving business empire. Join us as Avery shares her journey, insights, and the strategies behind her success. Discover how she built The Short Term Shop, her mission to simplify investing for others, and her tips for creating sustainable wealth through rental properties. Don't miss t...

This episode's guest is Pasha Esfandiary.  Pasha has been a Professional Poker Player, Emotional intelligence Coach, and over the past 10 years a successful Real Estate Developer and investor.  In Real Estate, Pasha's experience spans the breadth of buying properties at Auction, Hillside development, and now Mobile Home Park acquisition and management. Pasha's drive and focus were extremely inspir...

This episode's guest is Richard Mercado who went from 0 to 14 doors in 4 years after starting his investing journey at age 50.  Richard has done everything from house hacking, full gut rehabs, long distance investing and is now doing ground up construction in South Pasadena.  Richard shares the lessons that he learned from:investing in a flood zone where a property that he purchased was destroyed...

Joe Ramos describes himself as a financially free beach bum, and is the host of the  Land Shark Financial Freedom Podcast. He has a Real Estate portfolio with properties in southern California, Georgia, Ohio, and Florida. Joe has done everything from commercial deals, to starting a fix and flip fund with private money for short term rentals in Florida.

Jason Malabute is a Real estate investor and former CPA. He shares his journey investing in real estate long distance, pursuing real estate full time in the multifamily syndication world, and how he has navigated these worlds also born with Cerebral Palsy.  Jason has not let his cerebral palsy limit his vision for his life, and continues to lead the multifamily masters meetup in Pasadena every mon...

Sarah Weaver has been relentless on her journey to financial freedom.  To list the number of successful business that Sarah has developed all with her living as a digital nomad is beyond impressive.  She has a successful business that furnishes medium term rentals for real estate investors, she leads real estate investors on international trips, self manages her portfolio using systems and process...

Joe Hara is proud to say that over 40 years in business, he has never been issued a W2.  Joe Hara had done everything from selling hair care products in Africa, Lingerie throughout the U.S. and industrial warehouse space in Los Angeles.  He nearly lost everything through different booms and busts, and now owns over 60 multifamily units in Los Angeles by himself.  Joe shares the highs and lows of a...

From a young age Jaden Sterling knew that his path would involve empowering other to take control of their life through financial education.  As a financial advisor he consistently helped his clients achieve outsized returns, and learned from his wealthiest clients the focus necessary to achieve financial freedom.  Jaden has done everything from affordable housing development to developing an app...

Ross Szabo has built a thriving business career as an author, speaker and the founder of a school that puts mental health advocacy and mental health education first.  After experiencing traumatic events in his youth Ross struggled openly with Bipolar disorder and depression.  His own journey towards healing and sharing his challenges publicly led to a speaking career at age 17 and eventually to th...

Aaron Bernbach was waiting tables and touring as a musician when he caught the real estate bug and decided to go all in.  He shares his story of what it takes to build a thriving business as a real estate agent doing everything from cold calls to door knocking to get his first leads, to building strategic partnerships to take down apartments through syndications. https://www.mbpropertyla.com/ Ig:...

Cole Shephard is the founding partner of Legacy Group and the Green Coffee company.  Cole started his journey working with Price WaterHouse Cooper coordinating large capital transactions of everything from purchasing Gold Mines, and skyscrapers to international Banks.  After feeling constrained in his position, he chose to start his own investment firm, and in 5 years went from flipping houses in...

This episode we interview Eric Chebil the founder and CEO of CHER whose goal is to  make first-time homeownership simplified through co-ownership. By providing access to loans, homes, realtors, legal documents, and acting as a digital co-buying concierge, Cher enables low to middle income (LMI) renters an opportunity to transition into co-ownership and build equity.   Eric takes us on the journey...

Matt Faircloth is the author of "Raising Private Capital, how to build your real estate empire using other people's money". As the founder of the De Rosa Group he has built a real estate portfolio worth over $250 million in Assets under management.    In this episode we talk about the ups and downs of being an apartment syndicator, and what it takes to be successful in multifamily investing. https...

Mary Ta has long held an unflinching belief in the power of the spaces we live in to elevate our lives. In 2004 she founded the Los Angeles flagship of legendary luxury Italian furniture brand Minotti.  Although Mary travels the world to discover new brands, products, and designers, she is a passionate connector in Los Angeles, the city she has called home for three decades where she has designed...

Brooke Burgstahler has created docuseries for Snoop Dogg, and been a leading journalist in the budding cannabis media scene since its early days of legalization. (pun intended). She shares her journey of creating her own media brand, being her own boss in an industry with no blueprint for success, and managing the stereotypes of what it is do be a consumer of Cannabis while building her business.

Chris Barker and Nida Rinthapol are the definition of "educated investors" Chris was a practicing attorney, and Nida a Phd data scientist before they owned their first rental.  By happenstance Nida's first purchase was from an investor that later became their mentor on working with clients that needed subsidized housing.  With their mentor's help they went on the journey of navigating the world of...

Hoan Thai has been in the real estate space for over 10 years.  He does everything from flips, to BRRRS, rentals, multifamily, seller finance, creative finance, and more.  Hoan's key to success can be summarized in his book measure once, cut twice!  The key to learning and growing as an entrepreneur for Hoan has been a story about running the numbers and then taking action.  Since buying his first...

Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In his 18 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including personal finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing.  Dan launched SheeksFreaks in late 2019, which is an online community dedicated to helping young people learn money management skills, st...

Laura Blosser graduated from College with an architectural degree and $180,000 in student debt.  They were overwhelmed  y the prospect of paying such a burden at the start of their career, until they found a program that would forgive all of their student debt, and later found another program that provided them with a $30,000 grant towards purchasing their first duplex.  Come on the journey as Lau...

Herve Francois enjoyed a career in the high stakes world of wall street investing for two decades.  When he finally decided to start a new path in Real Estate investing, his first venture lost him nearly $30,000.  Through strategic partnerships, education and consistent action he took this loss as a lesson, and developed the skills to become a top syndicator, and with the Derosa Group has been a p...

Emma Rose Cohen is the founder of Final, whose mission is to create reusable Foreverables™ (responsibly made, badass products) that reduce the need for plastics, empower individuals to change their buying habits, and raise awareness of the impacts of our everyday decisions.  In our interview she shares about what it takes to raise 2 million via kickstarter and learn on hyperspeed how to run a mult...

Justin Fraser exemplifies the ethic of putting in work and being of service first.  After being laid off by his company his wife gave him 3 months to fully commit to real estate, or find a new job. Justin shares the work that he put in to make his dream of financial independence a reality. https://www.linkedin.com/in/fraserjm/ https://www.truemultifamily.show/  

Sammy Lyon caught the Real Estate Bug in 2018 and struggled to balance a demanding job in education with Real Estate investing.  Sammy shares their story of going all in on Real Estate, transitioning from an educator to an Entrepreneur and what the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) movement means to them https://lyonideas.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lyonideas/  

Jason Pero and his wife purchased their first duplex in 2001 while he balanced a high pressure job in medical sales.  He and his wife continued to balance the growth of their portfolio with a demanding work schedule, and the challenges of balancing their work life balance, and with their own investing grew their portfolio to 300 units by 2012.  After leaving his work Jason, began to scale dramatic...

K Trevor Thompson has invested in everything from Land development, Condo Conversion, Storage Space, Class A new development to workforce housing.   In his previous life he did everything from opening up haunted houses, to dozens of iFLY's indoor skydiving centers around the US.  He shares his journey, and the lessons learned along the way. His current offerings can be found via Niagara investment...