Carson's Corner: Entrepreneurship & Investing

Send us Fan Mail Most first-time buyers fall in love with their first deal. David Jones says that's the one you should walk away from. David spent 20 years in the Army and has built nine companies over 21 years. He started his first one while he was still on active duty. Today he owns self-storage facilities and runs the Veteran Business Community, where he helps veterans and entrepreneurs bu...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to cut through the noise when the rules of media, marketing, and AI change every week? In this episode of Carson's Corner: Entrepreneurship & Investing, Carson Jones sits down with Dominick Miserandino, a serial entrepreneur and media advisor with seven partial and full exits who has advised more than 200 businesses, from startups to names like NASA, Hea...

Send us Fan Mail Dusten Hendrickson has been building apartments since 2003 — and unlike most of the multifamily world, he never stopped. While Sun Belt developers overbuilt and syndicators scrambled to recapitalize, Dusten kept putting units in the ground across South Dakota, Minnesota, and the upper Midwest. Today he has roughly 1,350 stabilized units, 400+ under construction, another 1,000 in p...

Send us Fan Mail Brandon Eaton came to Knoxville in a $600 car with holes in the floor and slept in it off North Broadway. Today he runs Eaton Construction Services, a commercial general contractor covering the entire Southeast, from Texas and Arkansas across to the Carolinas, with offices in Knoxville and Charleston and a current project at the University of Tennessee's student union. In thi...

Send us Fan Mail Whitney Elkins-Hutten is the Director of Investor Education at PassiveInvesting.com and the author of Money for Tomorrow: How to Build and Protect Generational Wealth (BiggerPockets). She's done 40+ fix-and-flip projects herself, and today she helps investors diversify across the capital stack instead of stacking all their chips on equity. In this episode of Carson's Cor...

Send us Fan Mail Most real estate owners treat insurance like a tax — money you light on fire every year and hope you never need. Nicolas "Nico" Lares built a company that hands it back. In this episode of Carson's Corner, Nico breaks down the model behind Insur3Tech: "real estate insurance, syndicated." Instead of paying premiums to a carrier whose shareholders are somebo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Carson's Corner, Carson sits down with Mark Khuri, co-founder of SMK Capital Management, a private equity firm invested across 32 states in mobile home parks, self-storage, industrial, and multifamily. With 21+ years of real estate investing experience, Mark breaks down how his team reviews two to three deals every single day — roughly 700 a year — and inve...

Send us Fan Mail Tim Elizer started sweeping floors at a 1,500 sq ft sign shop at 16 years old. Today he owns that company — Magnitude — and has done over $30 million in business, wrapping national vehicle fleets and handling signage for 30,000+ multifamily doors across 20 states. But the road there nearly cost him everything. In this episode, Tim opens up about getting rejected by 11 banks before...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you fire your property management company? Angel Williams learned the hard way: don't poke the bear on their way out the door. In this episode, Carson sits down with fellow Baylor Bear Angel Williams — longtime investor, coach, and co-founder of The Academy Presents — for an unfiltered look at what diversified real estate investing actually looks like behind...

Send us Fan Mail The Deal Makers Roundup is headed to Knoxville, Tennessee! Join us September 10th at The Vault — a stunning repurposed bank vault in downtown Knoxville — for an evening of authentic networking with investors, business owners, developers, and property owners. Request your invitation at https://dealmaker.events In this episode, Carson Jones sits down with co-host Adrian Del Rio (PCG...

Send us Fan Mail Linda Holtz arrived in the U.S. from France at 22 with no network, no real estate experience, and a door-to-door sales job. Today she syndicates 200+ unit multifamily deals across Texas with her husband through Married 2 Real Estate. In this episode of Carson's Corner, Linda shares how a property management job taught her the operations side most investors never learn, how ho...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Shannon walked away from corporate America in 2019 and built a 200+ unit portfolio through deep value-add deals. Then he did something most operators never do: he stepped back — right at the peak of the 2021 euphoria, when floating-rate bridge debt and 18% IRR projections were everywhere. That unpopular call saved his investors from the wipeouts that followed, and it shaped t...

Send us Fan Mail What if you could earn the kind of returns banks make — without tenants, toilets, or 2am repair calls? In this episode of Carson's Corner, Carson sits down with Shawn Muneio of Bequest Asset Management to break down how everyday investors can "be the bank" and build genuinely passive income. Shawn shares his journey from building some of the largest data centers in...

Send us Fan Mail Brian Walter has been trading markets since 1996 — through the Russian crisis, the dot-com bubble, the '08 financial crisis at the epicenter of credit at UBS, COVID, and the fastest rate hike in recent memory. Today he's Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fairbridge Asset Management, where he runs portfolio management, finance, and operations, and sits on the credit comm...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you buy a business, do everything "right," and it still blows up in your face? Jed Morris knows. After 10 years in Air Force financial management and acquisition (rising to the Pentagon), an NYU Stern MBA, and software engineering work at Microsoft, Jed jumped into entrepreneurship through acquisition—and his first deal, a landscaping company, failed sp...

Send us Fan Mail Most investors think you have to be a national homebuilder to profit from America's housing shortage. Brandon Cobb built a business proving otherwise. In this episode of Carson's Corner, Carson sits down with Brandon Cobb — founder of HBG Capital and creator of the Land Development Accelerator — to break down what he calls the fastest-growing secret in real estate: Ameri...

Send us Fan Mail What does it look like to buy a business with zero industry experience, nearly go broke twice, and still build a 10-company HVAC roll-up out of McKinney, TX? Nathan Lindley lived it. In February 2020 — just weeks before COVID shut down the world — Nathan closed on his first HVAC acquisition using his own equity, his dad's retirement, and an inheritance loan from a friend. The...

Send us Fan Mail A bucket on a fishing pole. That's how Gregg Trosper first watched a Nashville band collect tips, and that's the moment Band Buddy was born. In this episode of Carson's Corner, I sit down with Gregg Trosper, founder of Band Buddy, the mobile platform turning live performances into interactive, cashless, revenue-generating experiences for artists and venues. After a...

Send us Fan Mail The era of "extend and pretend" is winding down — and for borrowers staring at distressed multifamily and office loans, the next move could define the next decade of their portfolio. In this episode, Carson sits down with Shlomo Chopp, Managing Partner of CASE and one of the most respected voices in distressed commercial real estate, to break down exactly how borrowers c...

Send us Fan Mail Impact investing isn’t just about returns—it’s about changing lives while building real cash flow. In this episode, Dave Seymour shares how he went from firefighter and paramedic to starring on Flipping Boston —and ultimately into one of the most compelling impact investment models in real estate today: sober living facilities. Now 36 years sober, Dave is combining purpose and pro...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to win a Pitch Slam in front of seasoned investors at one of real estate's biggest conferences? Justin Spillers — attorney, e-commerce entrepreneur, and founder of Real Estate Alpha — just did exactly that at the Best Ever Conference 2026, and in this episode he breaks down exactly how. Justin's journey is anything but a straight line. He spent seven ye...

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually take to build a $2.7 billion real estate platform from scratch? Joe is the co-founder of Ashcroft Capital, a firm managing roughly $2.7B in assets across 14,000 doors through large-scale multifamily investments. He's also the creator of the world's longest-running daily real estate investing podcast, co-author of the Best Ever Apartment Syndication...

Send us Fan Mail Salvatore Buscemi , is the founder and managing partner of Brahmin Partners , a capital strategist operating at the highest levels of global finance. From SpaceX and Stripe to AI.io, and institutional commercial real estate , Sal doesn’t just analyze big deals — he’s often in the room where they happen. Two of his portfolio companies have secured investment from Saudi Arabia’s Pub...

Send us Fan Mail Carson’s Corner with Logan D. Freeman — Managing Broker at Midwest CRE Advisors , former NFL athlete, and a leader who brings a rare level of discipline and clarity to commercial real estate. This conversation goes far beyond brokerage and deal-making. It’s about leadership. It’s about showing up for your family, your team, and your clients — especially when the pressure is on. Lo...

Send us Fan Mail Eddie Austin BEX   is a serial entrepreneur, Author,  and CEO behind JE Capital Investments! We covered allot in this episode.  Eddie isn’t just a leader in commercial real estate — he’s building and scaling businesses that generate strong revenue and has a unique perspective on acquiring, growing, and integrating companies for long-term success.  In this episode, we go deep into:...