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Today is the 1,000th episode of Action Academy (: If you want to leave corporate America in the next 6-18 months - you should check out our Action Academy Community 👔🏝️ with over $500M in deals done across small businesses and commercial real estate, and over 600 members - we help you SCALE to your freedom. Schedule A Free 40 Minute Coaching Call With Our Team Here To Get "Unstuck" and...

If you want to leave corporate America in the next 6-18 months - you should check out our Action Academy Community 👔🏝️ with over $500M in deals done across small businesses and commercial real estate, and over 600 members - we help you SCALE to your freedom. Schedule A Free 40 Minute Coaching Call With Our Team Here To Get "Unstuck" and Learn More.  Follow Me As I Travel & Build: IG...

If you want to leave corporate America in the next 6-18 months - you should check out our Action Academy Community 👔🏝️ with over $500M in deals done across small businesses and commercial real estate, and over 600 members - we help you SCALE to your freedom. Schedule A Free 40 Minute Coaching Call With Our Team Here To Get "Unstuck" and Learn More.  Follow Me As I Travel & Build: IG...

If you want to leave corporate America in the next 6-18 months - you should check out our Action Academy Community 👔🏝️ with over $500M in deals done across small businesses and commercial real estate, and over 600 members - we help you SCALE to your freedom. Schedule A Free 40 Minute Coaching Call With Our Team Here To Get "Unstuck" and Learn More.  Follow Me As I Travel & Build: IG...

Brian breaks down the two real paths to buying a business with zero dollars out of pocket, why the one the internet obsesses over is a trap for most buyers, and the exact strategy he's used personally and helped hundreds of people execute. Brian covers: Why 100% seller financing is possible but wildly misrepresented online, and what the gurus skip when they pitch it How the SBA + capital part...

Ryan Pineda joins Brian to break down how he turned a $25 golf consulting offer into a half-million dollars in revenue and, eventually, a full mastermind business called M19 built entirely around business owners who love golf. Brian and Ryan cover: How Ryan went from charging $25 per round to $10K per session without running a single ad, just by posting one Instagram story Why his wife's offh...

This is the same presentation 40-50 members said fundamentally changed their businesses and lives. Brian shares the three-step framework he spent over $515,000 in personal development to build. Brian covers: Why acquisition alone will never get you to freedom, and the three-part Freedom Formula of Acquisition, Acclimation, and Architecture The State, Story, Strategy framework and why 80% of your b...

Most rental property investors are working off the wrong math. The internet says five to ten properties will replace your income. The real number is closer to 40 - and once you see why, everything changes. Brian covers: Why $200 a month per door is the honest number most investors don't want to accept The 2D framework: why the investors who replace their income focus on dollars per move, not...

Most buyers lose the business deal before they ever submit an offer. In this episode, business broker Jordan Kelliher breaks down what actually happens behind the scenes when a great business hits the market, why brokers ignore most buyers, and how to separate yourself from the 200+ people competing for the same deal.  Brian and Jordan cover: Why most buyers never get a call back How brokers actua...

Most people spend years trying to figure out which asset class is right for them. Ashley Lynds figured it out by ruling out everything that didn't light her up, and five months after joining Action Academy, she closed on a 9-key boutique hotel in Iowa with seller financing and a partner she found inside the community. In this episode, Brian and Ashley cover: How Ashley ruled out SBA business...

In this episode, Brian Luebben breaks down the exact framework he has used to work six months a year while building a business doing over $10 million in revenue. Brian covers: Why both corporate America and traditional entrepreneurship broke him The two seasons every high performer needs: acceleration and navigation How reverse goal setting and Parkinson's Law make him more productive in less...

College dropout Rob Beardsley started buying multifamily real estate at 21 years old. Today, his company manages over $1 billion in assets across 25 properties with more than 200 employees and zero investor losses.  In this episode, Rob breaks down: How he scaled to $1B AUM before 30 The biggest mistakes multifamily operators made during the boom Why most Class C deals aren’t worth the headache Th...

Tim Ensmann went from scaling 20+ Airbnbs to developing experiential boutique resorts across the U.S. In this episode, he breaks down how he transitioned from short-term rentals into boutique hotels, raised capital for multiple resort projects, and turned undervalued mom-and-pop properties into multi-million dollar hospitality assets.  We cover: Why bigger deals are often easier than small ones Tu...

In this episode, Brian Luebben breaks down the exact business philosophy he stole from Walt Disney's 1957 mind map and used to build a portfolio of companies now doing over $15 million per year. Brian walks through his own mind map live - the one he drew in 2023 before making his first dollar in business - and shows how Action Academy, Sexton World, Sexton Hospitality, and his business and re...

In this episode, Brian Luebben sits down with his girlfriend Nathalia Lopez for her very first podcast appearance on the Action Academy Podcast. Nathalia opens up about her journey from a high-powered corporate career in legal and board governance at the nation's largest municipally-owned utility company to leaving it all behind. Together, they share the raw, emotional process of Nathalia lea...

Zach Babischkin went from corporate sales and startup logistics to opening a boutique gym franchise in Nashville -- four days after his second child was born. In this episode, he and Brian break down the full acquisition journey: franchise discovery, a year of delays, and what it actually takes to go from W-2 to business owner. We cover: Why they chose a franchise over buying an existing business...

Most entrepreneurs don’t own a business. Their business owns them. In this episode, Brian breaks down the exact systems, frameworks, and operational changes he implemented to prepare Action Academy to run without him for 8 weeks while traveling through Europe.  He covers: The 8 systems every scalable business needs KPI scorecards and accountability frameworks How to stop being the “chief problem s...

Cody Berman reached financial freedom at 25 while spending just $24K a year. During that same stretch, his income doubled three years in a row from $96K to over $1M. In this episode, Cody breaks down the simple but powerful math behind his journey: 11 rental units producing $3,700/month in cash flow, a digital products business generating $10K/month, and $500K invested in the stock market by his m...

16 months ago, Zack Metcalf was listening to the Action Academy podcast while working in pharmaceutical sales and buying one rental property a year. Today, he’s developing boutique micro resorts, partnering on a 240-acre hospitality project in New York, and speaking on stages alongside entrepreneurs he once looked up to. In this episode, Zack breaks down: Why he outgrew traditional rental investin...

Over the last 5 years, Brian Luebben spent $889,000 on personal development across coaches, courses, masterminds, events, and agencies… and this episode breaks down exactly what happened because of it. From putting a $5K mastermind on a credit card to building a multi-million dollar business, Brian shares the real ROI behind the investments that changed his life, along with the ones that completel...

Justin and Ashley Eaton built a 4-store laundromat portfolio in just 2.5 years after realizing rental properties weren’t producing the cash flow they wanted. In this episode, they break down: Why they shifted from real estate to laundromats Buying “zombie mats” for as little as $25K Turning one store into $32K/month gross revenue How they automated operations and built systems The truth about “pas...

What does it really take to leave your W2 and build a life on your terms? In this episode, Brian sits down with Andrew Bennett to break down his journey from a stable corporate job to owning multiple businesses with his wife. Andrew shares why his first attempt at leaving his job failed, what changed the second time, and how a combination of pressure, vision, and environment finally pushed him to...

If you want to leave corporate America in the next 6-18 months - you should check out our Action Academy Community 👔🏝️ with over $500M in deals done across small businesses and commercial real estate, and over 600 members - we help you SCALE to your freedom. Schedule A Free 40 Minute Coaching Call With Our Team Here To Get "Unstuck" and Learn More.  Follow Me As I Travel & Build: IG...

If you’ve ever wondered how people raise millions of dollars to fund deals, this episode breaks it down step by step. Brian sits down with capital raising expert Adit Shah to unpack exactly how everyday professionals can go from small deals to raising serious money and scaling into commercial real estate and business acquisitions. They dive into the mindset shifts required to raise capital, why mo...