Dealmaker Catalyst

In this solo episode, host Jason Seward steps away from the usual interview format to make an announcement: Dealmaker Catalyst is wrapping up its first season. Jason walks through the six months since the show launched in March, from hundreds of weekly downloads to standout guest conversations, and explains why the podcast is shifting from a weekly format to a seasonal one. Jason gets honest about...

In this special recap episode, Jason Seward sits down with Jim Ingersoll, the founder of the entire Dealmaker community, to look back on some of the standout guests and lessons from recent episodes. They revisit Zach Shepard's early hustle flipping saxophones, Lori Eubanks' fearless approach to opportunity, and the father son story of Chuck and Stephen Glover, while Jim shares his own early hustle...

Lori Eubanks started investing in real estate in 2012 as a single mother on one income, looking for any way to make ends meet. Since then she's built a portfolio of more than 120 properties across Richmond, Virginia, using seller financing, strategic partnerships, and a habit of buying properties in bulk rather than one at a time, all while raising three kids and eventually retiring from her corpo...

Augie Byllott has completed more than 600 real estate transactions using traditional bank financing only twice, built five businesses, and authored four books, but this conversation with Jason Seward centers on something else entirely: what he calls real estate's role as a "wheelchair," a vehicle that carries you toward a deeper purpose rather than an end in itself. Augie traces that idea back to...

Stephen Glover didn't grow up dreaming about property management, he fell into the industry in 2018 through a business partnership and had to learn the entire field from scratch. Today he's CEO and Principal Broker of Peak Property Management, one of the fastest growing property management firms in central Virginia, managing nearly 1,500 rental units across a team of almost 50 people, all built by...

Zach Shepard is only 24 years old, and he's already built a portfolio of roughly 240 to 255 rental units across central Virginia, spanning single family homes, apartments, small multifamily, and mobile home parks. He's the owner and operator of James River Rental Property, a vertically integrated investment and property management company based in Lynchburg, and his path there started with flippin...

Isabelle Guarino runs one of the only education companies teaching a real estate niche most investors have never even considered: residential assisted living. As CEO of Residential Assisted Living Academy, she's spent over a decade helping investors convert large single family homes into licensed senior care residences, a business her late father Gene started years ago and passed on to her. In thi...

Jason Balin has been in the private lending business for nearly two decades, co-founding Hard Money Bankers with his business partner Chris Haddon back in 2007, when there was almost no organized competition in the space. In this conversation with Jason Seward, he steps back from loan mechanics to talk about private lending as an actual business, the kind of decisions that separate a sustainable o...

Jennifer Steward has spent the last decade doing something most real estate investors avoid entirely: personally cold calling off-market property owners, thousands of hours of it, until she'd built a repeatable system worth teaching. Today, she runs Phone Phoenix Agency, leading a team of more than 200 trained virtual assistants who handle cold calling, lead management, and appointment setting for...

Lindsey Jensen built a $12 million real estate portfolio in under eight years, and she did it as a brand new mom running a marketing business from home. In this episode she sits down with Jason Seward to explain how one weekend creative finance event in 2016 rewired her thinking, how she negotiated a first deal at 0% interest with nothing down, and why she chose to keep properties instead of flipp...

Brian Biernat spent 28 years as a telecommunications executive before real estate ever crossed his mind. Then 2016 happened. A prostate cancer diagnosis a few months into a new job, and four months later his wife was hit while riding her bike on the Natchez Trace Parkway. Those two events changed the question he was asking. He and his wife did not just want a 401k and a life insurance policy. They...

Caleb Luketic has spent the last decade obsessed with one question: where do deals actually come from? He runs Favor Home Solutions, an active investing operation out of Nashville, alongside Steel Marketing, the agency he built specifically for investors. Since 2017 he has managed over $20 million in ad spend across Google and Facebook, and in 2025 his team closed 154 contracts using nothing but S...

Most people who've ever taken a vacation somewhere beautiful have had the thought: what would it take to own a piece of this? On this episode, Jason Seward sits down with Michael K. Cobb, founder and CEO of ECI Development and one of the most recognized names in international real estate, to answer exactly that. Since 1996, Michael has built residential communities across Belize, Nicaragua, Panama...

Chuck Glover didn't start building wealth until he was 70 years old. Six and a half years later, with no prior background in real estate or investing, he's a private money lender, author of The $5,000 Millionaire, and the architect of a "massive achievement" philosophy that has funded mission trips across the globe. In this episode of Dealmaker Catalyst, host Jason Seward sits down with Chuck to p...

David Richter is the author of  Profit First for Real Estate Investing , founder of Simple CFO Solutions, and one of the most recognized voices in real estate financial management. After working inside a company doing 25 deals a month and watching the money disappear anyway, he spent years helping real estate investors stop the bleeding and build actual financial systems that put cash in their poc...

Jon Schoeller has spent 20 years building businesses, flipping over 400 real estate deals, and lending on more than 100 — but the move that changed everything was pointing a camera at what he was already doing. Starting from scratch documenting his house flips in Charleston, West Virginia, he grew to over 1 million YouTube subscribers and 2 million followers across all platforms, generating betwee...

David Greene is a former Bay Area police officer turned nationally recognized real estate authority — bestselling author of  Long Distance Real Estate Investing , Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat , Pillars of Wealth , Better Than Cash Flow , and The Top Producer Trilogy — whose work on the BiggerPockets podcast helped build the investing foundation of an entire generation of operators, includin...

Ten episodes in and Dealmaker Catalyst is already stacking up a guest list that reads like a masterclass series — from new construction and note buying to buy box clarity, creative deal structures, and the mindset behind building real wealth. In this episode, host Jason Seward sits down with Jim Ingersoll to look back at the first ten shows, highlight the moments that hit hardest, and give listene...

Leon Johnson has been building businesses and stacking assets since before most people even start thinking about financial freedom. At 73, he holds a portfolio that includes decades of buy-and-hold real estate, H&R Block franchises he ran for 20 years, and independent insurance agencies — built on a simple philosophy that employees come first, customers come second, and the right deal structure ca...

In this episode, host Jason Seward sits down with Major Hillard — founder of MH Estates and one of the most operationally experienced mobile home park investors in the country. Starting with just $1,500 and a dusty book found in his father's attic, Major built a $50 million-plus portfolio across 1,026 lots, sold 523 homes, and closed over $70 million in combined transactions. Major's story runs fr...

In this episode, host Jason Seward sits down with Alie Murphy — business operations strategist, consultant, and founder of Let's Talk Business — for a practical deep dive into the bottlenecks that stall most growing businesses and the systems that break them open. Alie helps founders turn chaos into clean, scalable operations. Her background spans healthcare administration, real estate, and high-g...

In this episode, host Jason Seward sits down with Tom Olson — licensed general contractor, investor, developer, and founder of multiple real estate businesses operating out of Gary, Indiana. With over 2,000 transactions, 1,200-plus flips, 700 investor rentals, and 45 mid-term rentals under management, Tom has built one of the most vertically integrated real estate operations in the Midwest — and h...

In this episode, host Jason Seward sits down with Dr. David Phelps — dentist turned real estate investor and founder of Freedom Founders — for a conversation about what it really takes to break free from a high-income career that's quietly running your life. David's story starts in 1980 when, as a broke first-year dental student, he convinced his father to co-invest in a rental property at a 30.5%...

In this episode, host Jason Seward sits down with Eddie Speed — founder of Note School and one of the most experienced note investors in the country — for a high-level introduction to a corner of real estate that most investors have heard of but few fully understand. Eddie has been buying mortgage notes for over 45 years, has been involved in more than 50,000 note transactions, and built an entire...

In this episode, host Jason Seward sits down with Tony Moreno — mechanical engineer, real estate investor, and Huntsville, Alabama-based father of one — for a conversation that is equal parts origin story and tactical playbook. Tony was born in the Dominican Republic, moved to Cleveland at nine, bounced back to the DR, and eventually landed in Huntsville when his father Googled "best places to liv...