Fried on Business

Fried On Business: How To Create And Implement Your Plan For 2024... Episode 748 | 12.27.23 In their annual new year podcast show Jim and Bruce look forward together. They discuss great ways to build your business and personal brand in 2024. Want to make a change? Jim and Bruce lay our the road map. Want to fine tune your current efforts - they have ideas on that too.  Great fun. Great energy to s...

Pay For Christmas with A HELOC Episode 747 | 12.20.23 People are calling me to pull money out of their house right now. One client spent two months working with a money center bank to get a HELOC. We completed the transaction for him this month in five business days. We are also helping people pull money out of their homes using reverse mortgage loans. And... we are also helping a number of people...

How To Protect Yourself from the Tax Man at Year End  Episode 746 | 12.13.23 Today Jim is joined by Tom Handler. Mr. Handler is an advanced planning attorney focused on the analysis and structuring of sophisticated estate plans and family offices, and handling taxation and business planning issues for business owners, executives, professional athletes, celebrities and family offices. He has extens...

HELOCS Are Hot Episode 745 | 12.06.23 People are calling me to pull money out of their house right now. One client spent two months working with a money center bank to get a HELOC. We completed the transaction for him this month in five business days. We are also helping people pull money out of their homes using reverse mortgage loans. And... we are also helping a number of people qualify for tra...

The Debt Market is "Closed” - What Now? Episode 744 | 11.29.23 The debt markets are in flux and that drives instability in the equity markets. What comes next? Loan sales? Receiverships? What property type can be built and financed today at numbers that still make sense? What is a "WIN" in today's market for legacy sponsors? What is getting done on the residential mortgage side...

Land Development and Investing Episode 742 | 11.15.23 Lindsay Jarvis, Senior Partner and one of the founding members of BRD Land and Investment, and BRD Land and Investment's CEO, Maurice Johnson join Jim. As many of you know, Warren Buffett's recent stock purchases in DR Horton, NVR-Ryan Homes and Lennar support the view that phenomenal growth and success is expected for those who inves...

Blockchain From Basics to the Broker Dealer  Episode 741 | 11.08.23 Best Of Jim: What is "Blockchain" and Why Oasis Pro? THE FUTURE IS NOW As part of Jim’s continuing series profiling authors Jim interviews Harold Hughes author of : “A Kids Book About Blockchain” You’ve heard Jim talking about his Blockchain powered portal to finance real estate deals with Oasis Pro. Jim and Harold will...

Why Oasis Pro?  Episode 740 | 11.01.23 Why Oasis Pro? Today, Jim interviews Pat LaVecchia - CEO of Oasis Pro - Jim's new partner Jim is working with Oasis Pro to help his clients lower their costs, increase operating efficiencies and  potentially meet new investors. ************************************* About Our Guest: Pat LaVecchia is the Founder & CEO of Oasis Pro, a renowned blockchai...

BlockChain Basics Everyone Can Understand Episode 739 | 10.25.23 BlockChain Basics Everyone Can Understand Today, as part of Jim’s continuing series, profiling authors appearing at the Miami Book Fair, Jim, interviews Herald, Hughes, author of : “A kids book about Blockchain” You’ve heard Jim talking about his Blockchain powered portal to finance real estate deals. Jim and Herald will discuss the...

A Unique View of Miami  Episode 738 | 10.18.23 The Jewban Diaspora - A Unique View Rosa Lowinger Discusses Her Powerful Memoir: Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair  Join us as we discuss Ms. Lowinger’s new book - an illuminating debut memoir by one of the few prominent Latinas in the field of art and architectural conservation; a moving portrait of a Cuban Jewish family’s intergeneratio...

Tips For Thriving in Today's Market Episode 737 | 10.11.23 How To Deal With an Evolving Marketplace We all realize that the real estate market has changed - DRAMATICLY Many people were not around the last time we had market correction like this - 1984 Jim has seen this before - many times He has a number of approaches that he has been implementing to prepare for this type of market Jim discus...

Episode 736 | 10.04.23 Is A Reverse Mortgage Loan Right For Me And My Family ? Jim and Ed have been helping lots of families pull cash out of their home with this mortgage loan structure. New changes have made this type of loan more attractive. Tune in to get an update on the process and who is newly eligible Hear how this can be a real help reduce stress and bring you and yours PEACE OF MIND. ***...

Miami's Position In The World Marketplace Episode 735 | 09.27.23   Miami Is A Global City Now What? Alejandro Portes and Ariel Armony join Jim again to discuss Miami's place in the world economy  And what to expect as Miami challenges other world class cities for its place on the world economic stage. ************************************* About Our Guests: Alejandro Portes is a Howard Ha...

Why Get an MSRE from UF? Episode 734 | 09.20.23 Why Get an MSRE from UF? Jim interviews three students that recently started the University of Florida Nathan S. Collier masters in RealEstate program. We’ll see why they chose the program What they expect to study What careers they expect to pursue and Why … It’ll be a great chance to hear what the future holds for  all of us and to be inspired! ***...

Helping Women Find Success Episode 733 | 09.13.23 It’s not easy for women to find their voice or to find their place in the business community. Today’s guests discuss how they have broken through. Lauren Marsicano is an attorney, who overcame depression and thoughts of suicide from bullying because of her “size”. She’s created an organization and conference to help female founders kickstart their...

AI Block Chain and Real Estate Investing and Real Estate Development   Episode 732 | 09.06.23 AI #BlockChain and #RealEstateInvesting and #realestatedevelopment  The hot business topic is how technology will impact real estate investing and development.  Today’s best of Fried On Business  will bring together Olivia Ramos  and James McCarthy  to discuss the influence technology will have on real es...

The Importance of Mentoring our Young People Episode 731 | 08.30.2 The Importance of Mentoring our Young People In 2018 Jim won the Education Fund’s Public  School Alumni Achievement Award for excellence in Miami-Dade public schools. Since then, he has been teaching once a year in select classrooms and raising funds for the students and their teachers. Jim usually follows the teacher’s lead on the...

AI and Our Health Episode 730 | 08.23.23 AI is the hot new thing ... for our health. Charles Gellman CEO & Co-Founder of HiDO Health is our guest this week. He is one of the top voices on AI assisted robotics, digital health and the impact on care. Charles was recently featured in a full feature documentary, "AI Robotics... The HiDO Story." He publishes his analyses regularly in the...

Episode 729 | 08.16.23 Make More Deals Using AI AI is the hot new thing ... the bright shiny object for everything. For years, we’ve had Olivia Ramos, founder of Deep Blocks (one of the original AI real estate companies) on our show. Deep blocks is an AI prop tech firm that helps real estate practitioners mine data to make better Real Estate decisions. Olivia and I talk about how AI is rapidly cha...

Fried On Business: Jim’s New Partner and the IMN Family Office and Real Estate Event Episode 728 | 08.09.23 Jim’s New Partner and An Update on the October IMN Family Office and Real Estate Event in Miami Beach.  Jim Fried and Jim McCarthy, discussed their new partnership with Oasis Pro Markets.  The result of that partnership is a platform to help Jims’ clients reduce costs, increase efficiency, a...

Episode 727 | 08.02.23 Pulling Money Out Of Your Home A number of my friends and clients are working with me and my team at American Home Finance to pull money out of their homes and the homes of their parents.  HELOC People with terrific interest rates on their first mortgage are looking to get some money out to take advantage of the appreciation in their home without touching their lower interes...

Episode 726 | 07.26.23 Taking Real Estate Security Tokens to the Next Level Sandstone Realty Advisors has teamed with Jameson Capital and Oasis Pro Markets ! This new partnership will help real estate operating companies and high net worth investors Lower costs Increase efficiency and Reach new capital sources Today Jim will: discuss where the real estate tokenization marketplace stands today how...

Episode 725 | 07.19.23 Jim and Olivia, discuss artificial intelligence and its impact on commercial real estate.  ************************************* About Our Guest: Olivia Ramos is the founder and CEO of Deepblocks, which uses artificial intelligence to unlock real estate development potential across US cities. Olivia holds a master’s degree in Architecture from Columbia University and a secon...

Fried On Business: Miami Transplant Institute Changing Lives Episode 724 | 07.12.23 How You can Help?  Dr. Giselle Guerra and the MTI Saved Vivian Fried Hear How You Can Help Someone Get A Second Chance... ************************************* About Our Guests: Dr. Giselle Guerra, has been the medical director of the Miami Transplant Institute (MTI) for over 8 years; overseeing the kidney transpla...

The Best Of Fried On Business: Miami's Future Episode 723 | 07.05.23 From our Most Precious Resource - Our Kids -  To Our Location at the Center of the Global Business Expansion Miami is Set To Be a City of the Future  ************************************* About Our Guests: Alejandro Portes is a Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of (Emeritus) Sociology at Princeton Universit...