Our Family Invests Podcast

Rob and Alexia Hoffman built an 80-door rental portfolio in four years, including a converted elementary school turned into 10 apartments and a 13-bedroom fraternity house that cashflows better than most conventional rentals. They had four daughters in 30 months. And somewhere in the middle of building all of it, their marriage hit rock bottom. This episode is an honest conversation about what hap...

Ben Gottfredson started with a pickup truck and a trailer in St. George, Utah. Less than a decade later, Big Storage Ventures manages 15 self-storage facilities across the Mountain West and Southeast, and Big Ben's Moving has scaled into a regional fleet operation. The business is real. So was every rejection, depleted savings account, and moment of not knowing what came next. But this episode...

What does it actually take to build wealth without sacrificing your marriage, family, or peace of mind? In this episode of the Our Family Invests Podcast , Mike and Caroline Neubauer sit down with Robert Fukui and Kay Lee Fukui , founders of Thriving in Tandem and advisors to married entrepreneurs who want to grow their business without destroying their relationships. Robert spent 25 years launchi...

She gave him 90 days to quit his job. Cliff Ravenscraft was next in line to take over his family’s insurance business. Stable income. Predictable future. Three kids at home. A financial crisis unfolding. Stephanie Ravenscraft looked at him and said, “It’s time.” In this episode of The Our Family Invests Podcast, Cliff and Stephanie Ravenscraft share the real story behind walking away from security...

What do you do when there is no safe path forward? In this episode of the Our Family Invests Podcast, we sit down with Levi and Stephanie Ware, founders of the Melodic Caring Project , a nonprofit bringing live music into hospital rooms for children facing serious illness. What began as one improvised livestream became a 15-year journey built on patience, belief, and alignment. Along the way, Levi...

What does growth actually cost ambitious couples? Jeremy and Shelly Beland sold their home, downsized with five kids, and started building a real estate business with $11,000 and a decision most people would never make. Today, they’ve completed more than 500 off-market real estate deals. But this episode isn’t about tactics. It’s about alignment under pressure. In this conversation with Mike Neuba...

At 21 years old, Zac Spencer became a father while feeling broke, overwhelmed, and unsure he was built for the responsibility in front of him. Then Zoe McDonald entered his life, and became the green flag he couldn’t ignore. In this episode of the Our Family Invests Podcast, Mike and Caroline sit down with Zac and Zoe to explore what it really takes to build belief before proof... in business, in...

What happens when you leave a six-figure career to buy a failing business and invest in real estate at the same time? In this episode of the Our Family Invests Podcast, Mike and Caroline sit down with Luke and Morgan Hoffman to unpack the hardest year of their entrepreneurial journey. Luke walked away from a fast-rising corporate role, bought a struggling manufacturing company, and started buildin...

What happens when your business is growing, but you’re the one carrying everything? In this episode, we sit down with Mike and Ashley Coates , builders of multiple businesses where standards matter and leadership can’t disappear. From residential care facilities to construction, real estate, and a long-standing restaurant, they’ve lived the pressure of being the bottleneck. At one point, everythin...

They went to bed believing they were set for life. They woke up with everything gone. In this episode, we sit down with Brent and Daniela Phillips , founders of Milk and Honey Ranch , to share one of the most honest and intense stories we’ve ever recorded. After selling a software company, Brent and Daniela thought the financial pressure was finally behind them. Overnight, the acquiring company co...

Mike Brockway and Gabriell “Gabby” Carney are the couple behind some of Denver’s most sought-after luxury Airbnbs. These are top 5% stays where design, systems, and guest experience are dialed all the way in. Then life got louder. While managing 20+ short-term rentals and expanding their real estate business, Mike stepped into the national spotlight on Netflix’s Love Is Blind . Overnight visibilit...

Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen, bestselling authors of Quit Like a Millionaire , have been financially independent for over a decade after leaving their engineering careers in their 30s. In this episode, we talk about financial runaway , the moment compounding starts working so powerfully it feels like your money grows faster than you can spend it. Bryce and Kristy also explain how geographic arbitra...

Morgan and Ashlin Shaver, founders of Orchard Avenue Designs , don’t just build homes. They build a life with intention, one bold project at a time. In this episode, Mike and Caroline sit down with the husband-and-wife team behind the design-and-build studio that’s turning rundown buildings into vibrant community anchors, crafting East Coast-inspired homes in rural Utah, and raising four kids thro...

Kyle and Ariel Tresch have helped businesses scale into the tens of millions, yet the biggest growth lesson they ever learned came from inside their marriage. When the pressure of entrepreneurship nearly pulled them apart, they rebuilt their foundation and created a framework that has now helped thousands of couples grow stronger as they grow their companies. In this episode, we explore the idea t...

What happens when your life hits a breaking point and the old plan stops working? For founders Adam Cirlincione and Rachel Bacheler, that moment became the beginning of Dr.’s Remedy, a doctor-developed clean nail and foot care brand now serving customers around the world. With a newborn at home, financial pressure rising, and career paths shifting, they chose to build something new in the middle o...

What happens when you walk away from a thriving real estate career to raise your kids for a decade? Trey and Erika Stone did exactly that. After 21 exits and more than 139 million dollars in created value, they pressed pause on multifamily investing to pour everything into family, presence and purpose. In this episode, Trey and Erika share how they met, why they stepped away at the peak of their c...

What if financial independence wasn’t the end of the story, but the beginning of a more meaningful one? In this episode, we sit down with Stephanie Myers + Gillian Batt , the couple behind Our Freedom Years , who reached financial independence in their 30s and 40s, sold nearly everything they owned, and spent four years traveling the world with their two dogs. Their journey took them from Toronto...

What if the hardest seasons of your life were actually the ones shaping you into the strongest version of yourself? In this episode of The Our Family Invests Podcast, we sit down with Brody and Andrea Fausett, a Maui-based couple who built their life on faith, family, and intentional growth. From door-to-door sales to financial freedom, from nursing to building a movement for women, and from the L...

Grant and Laura Francke share how they built a family-first life through real estate, intentional routines, and a strong sense of why. Grant spent over a decade working unpredictable railroad shifts before discovering real estate and building a path to financial freedom. Laura is a CPA who brings stability, clarity, and structure to their journey while raising their kids and balancing a career she...

What if freedom wasn’t something you waited for… but something you built on purpose? In this episode of The Our Family Invests Podcast , we sit down with Steven + Lauren Keys , the couple behind Trip of a Lifestyle . They reached financial independence in their 20s by living intentionally, investing consistently, and keeping their happiness tied to simplicity, not spending. Steven + Lauren break d...

Today we’re sitting down with Dustin and Megan Bunnell , a husband-and-wife team who built a family-first life that actually works. He runs Jum-Pawn-It , a thriving chain of pawn shops across California and Arizona. She’s a life coach helping women hustle less and sparkle more. Together they’ve traded corporate comfort for freedom, structure, and a life built on intention. In this episode, we dig...

Ever feel like everything hits at once? Finances, family, and faith all being tested at the same time? That’s the season Kyle and Danie Wallitner are currently walking through. A government shutdown, a property fire, and an empty home still carrying a mortgage. Instead of breaking under pressure, they are choosing calm, alignment, and gratitude. In this episode, we talk about what it means to lead...

Jonathan and Jynafer Yanez built their dream life two hours at a time. Between bestselling novels, film productions, homeschooling, and marriage, they’ve learned that consistency creates freedom and structure fuels creativity. In this episode of The Our Family Invests Podcast , Mike and Caroline sit down with the couple behind Wolf Pack Entertainment and Archimedes Books to talk about what it real...

High school sweethearts lose $35K on their first flip, then build a thriving remote real estate business while raising their baby boy. In this episode, Janelle and Don Carlson share how they flipped that failure into freedom, managing 30+ deals a year from anywhere in the world. From systems and schedules to mindset and marriage, they break down the real steps to building wealth that doesn’t cost...

Most people live in reaction mode. They wake up to notifications, scroll through chaos, and let everyone else set the tone for their day. But real growth comes from alignment, not more hustle. In this solo episode, Mike Neubauer breaks down The Elevate Method , a simple seven-step framework to help you realign your energy, mindset, and purpose when life feels off track. You cannot elevate what you...