Our Family Invests Podcast

Paul Moore sold his first company in his early thirties and thought that made him an investor. It didn't. A decade of speculating cost him everything, sliding from $1.5 million in savings to $2.5 million in debt. Facing bankruptcy, Paul and his wife did the opposite of what everyone expected. They committed to giving away a painful, set amount every week, starting January 1st, 2008, in the wor...

Sports medicine physician Dr. Annie Purcell spent 13 years running her own private practice before a COVID shutdown gave her something she hadn't had in over a decade: time to sit still. What she found wasn't clarity, it was insomnia, spiraling anxiety, and a body that had been sending warning signs for years while she stayed too competent to notice. Annie tells Mike and Caroline what it a...

Stephen Scoggins built and exited multiple companies, one approaching nine figures, and hosts the BUILD podcast with over 48 million views. But this episode isn't about that climb. It's about what happened after he got everything he thought he wanted and felt nothing. Stephen opens up about the season after his exit, when a comment from his son Tyler at a taco shop cracked open just how ab...

Whitney Elkins-Hutten is a partner in over $800 million of real estate and her team just crossed $560 million in loans originated through their debt fund. She breaks down the risk-tiering system she uses to sort a portfolio into cash, debt, and equity, so market volatility doesn't take her by surprise. She explains why she's valuing cash flow more than ever, how uninterrupted compounding a...

Redevelopment sits in a strange gap. It's too small for institutional developers and too complex for passive investors, which is exactly why Katie Neason has built a career inside it. Katie is a fourth generation Bryan, Texas native who left corporate banking after missing her son's first steps, and turned that decision into a decade of flipping houses, then over ten years redeveloping her...

Anna Lecat moved to China alone at 17 with no idea where the country even was, then built her first manufacturing company there at 19 in rooms with no other women. That same skill, building trust across difference, is what she teaches now as a conflict and intimacy consultant and author of Loving Conflict. Anna joins Mike and Caroline to break down how to fight better in marriage, business, and pa...

Sharon Lechter co-authored Rich Dad Poor Dad, the personal finance book that sold over 27 million copies in 51 languages. But it started as a brochure written to help sell a $200 board game, the one her husband Michael first saw scrawled on a roll of butcher paper in his law office. In this episode, Sharon and Michael trace the full arc: a 1992 credit card scare that turned into Sharon's lifel...

Chaz Wolfe sold the things most entrepreneurs spend a lifetime building. By 29, he was a multi millionaire who had scaled an Edible Arrangements franchise from one location to seven across three states. Then his wife pulled him aside and said she was still there. That conversation changed how he ran every business after it. On this episode of Our Family Invests, Chaz walks Mike and Caroline throug...

For 31 years, Neil and Lori Rogers believed their non-verbal autistic son Craig was listening, even when the world had stopped expecting him to respond. In this episode, they share how a method called Spelling to Communicate finally gave Craig a way to express thoughts that had been there his entire life. Craig was diagnosed with autism at two and a half. Neil and Lori spent three decades trying e...

Pat Hiban was the #1 real estate agent in the world in 2004, then did it again in 2006 at a different brokerage. He sold over $1 billion in homes before walking away from active selling at 46, with no buyer for the team he built and no big payout waiting on the other side. In this episode, Pat tells Mike and Caroline what it actually looked like to dismantle the machine he spent 25 years building:...

Most people open an AI tool, type a question, and move on. That's using AI like a search engine. Eliot Prince, UK-based AI educator and former SEO consultant, teaches thousands of business owners how to actually build with AI: creating systems, automating drudgery, and reclaiming real hours every week. Eliot joins Mike to break down the full AI skill-building framework: why there's a genui...

Raw land investing has produced 300 to 1,200 percent returns for Mark Podolsky across 6,500+ deals since 2001. He has never lost money on one. His business runs on about two hours a week. Mark, known as The Land Geek, joins Mike and Caroline to break down exactly how the system works and why most people talk themselves out of an investment vehicle that quietly keeps printing. Mark walks through th...

Bernadette Joy and AJ Maulion paid off $300,000 in debt in three years, became millionaires before 40, and retired together at 41 and 44. This episode covers how they did it and what nobody prepared them for once they got there. The mechanics are specific: the debt snowball applied across 12 separate student loans, a side hustle stack that included AJ doing background acting on Homeland, Bernadett...

In 2019, Matthew Efird and his wife Hannah learned their unborn son Noah had Trisomy 13, a condition incompatible with life. They chose to carry him to term. Noah lived 57 hours. What followed reshaped how Matthew leads his businesses, loves his wife, and spends his time. Matthew is the founder and CEO of three businesses, bestselling author of  Even Though We Will , a speaker, and host of the Pil...

Dr. Rob Yonover is a PhD geochemist, inventor of the military-approved SeeRescue Streamer, Shark Tank veteran, and full-time caregiver for 19 years while building a company, raising two kids, and carrying $600,000 in debt. His invention was rejected by all five Shark Tank sharks. It later flew to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket. Rob has taken the ALVIN submersible two miles belo...

Self-doubt doesn't go away when you get more successful. It just gets louder at each new door. Mike Neubauer opens up about the confidence gap that has followed him through every chapter of his life: the kid who worked out alone so no one could laugh at him, the guy who almost didn't apply to the real estate mastermind, the firefighter who paused at the door while everyone else ran in. Thi...

A massive wealth transfer is already in motion. Over the next 10 to 15 years, an estimated $60 trillion will move from the silent generation to baby boomers and Gen X. The question isn't whether you'll see some of it. The question is whether you'll know what to do when you do. Mario Sicari has been a wealth manager since 1994. He oversees more than $300 million in private client assets...

Brien Sonzogni is a nationally recognized marketing strategist who helped put Black Desert Golf Course on the PGA Tour map. Emily Sonzogni is the founder of Prickly Pear Pediatric Therapy and the first speech language pathologist in southern Utah certified in Childhood Apraxia of Speech. They are also two college athletes who sold their house on a Thursday, bought one on Monday, and moved to a cit...

74: A Bike Crash Built His Empire - Jens Nielsen | Our Family Invests Jens Nielsen left Denmark at 23 with a backpack and no particular plan. After 27 years building a career in IT and telecom, a mountain biking accident in Colorado put him in the ICU and forced a question he'd been avoiding: what do you actually want? By 2020, he walked away from corporate for good. Today he's a general p...

What does it actually take to build a marriage that thrives? Lee Baucom has spent 30 years answering that question for thousands of couples, and he's been testing his answers inside his own 38-year marriage the whole time. Lee is a PhD, marriage coach, author of seven books, and host of the Save The Marriage Podcast and Thriveology Podcast. In this episode he breaks down the Pause Button Marri...

Jeffrey Holst hasn't had a bad day since he was 17. Not through leukemia. Not through personal bankruptcy. Not through a divorce he didn't see coming. If that sounds like a bumper sticker, this episode will change your mind. Jeff is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and author of No Bad Days . He went from negative net worth to financially retired in six and a half years, has visited...

Susan Obrant is a Grammy-nominated illustrator, fine artist, and creator of wearable crochet sculptures so original they're unreproducible even by her. She built her career as a single mother, showed in galleries and museums, and dressed a New York City dance company. Through it all, including the years her husband Robert's Alzheimer's has quietly progressed, she hasn't stopped cre...

Functional medicine practitioner Ryan Kennedy breaks down the real reasons behind brain fog, chronic fatigue, and poor sleep and what you can actually do about them. This episode covers the gap between a standard 30-marker blood panel and the 120+ markers that reveal what's really going on in your body, plus why some of your "healthy" foods might be working against you. Ryan explains...

Jay Papasan co-authored one of the best-selling business books of the last decade. Wendy leads one of Austin's top real estate teams and co-founded Her Best Life. Together they have 18 rental properties, six businesses, and 26 years of building wealth as a couple. It started with a net worth of $2,200, including a Toyota Tercel. Six and a half years later, they crossed the millionaire threshol...

Bob Andersen woke up from a car accident with five dollars in his bank account and spent the next 40 years building over $1.3 billion in completed property developments. Hilary Saxton raised her kids alone, renovated her way out of survival mode, and eventually built a mentoring program that helps everyday people step into property development from wherever they are starting. They met on a plane,...