Know Your Why Podcast with Dr.Jason Balara

Mark Willis, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ , a three-time #1 Best Selling Author, the Owner of Lake Growth Financial Services, a financial services firm in Chicago, Illinois and co-host of the Not Your Average Financial Podcast ™ . Over the years, he has helped hundreds of his clients take back control of their financial future and build their businesses with proven, tax-efficient financial solu...

Ash Patel left a 15 year long corporate career and has been a full time Commercial Real Estate Investor for over 10 years. He is a value add investor and has purchased retail, warehouse, office, industrial, land, mixed use, medical and restaurants. From vacant buildings to fully leased NNN properties, the consistent theme is extraordinary returns. He is a hands on property manager and also teaches...

Erik Oliver is a cost segregation expert and helps saving tax dollars for Real Estate Investors Nationwide. Cost Segregation is used by commercial building owners to increase cash flow by accelerating depreciation. Depending on the type of building, there can be anywhere from 20 to 35% and sometimes more of the depreciable basis that can accelerated, translating into tens of thousands if not hundr...

A sought after expert and gifted story teller with a contagious energy he inspires everyone around him with encyclopedic research. He can take complicated ideas and convey them simply and clearly for everyone to understand. Founder of an award winning commercial real estate firm, author of #1 bestselling book (Catching Knives). He has been featured in many publications including The NY Times &...

As a successful investor, Derek Dombeck has surfed the ups and downs of the market since 2003. Derek’s expertise ranges from creative deal structuring, wholesaling, flipping, and land lording, to lending and investing throughout the years. He has been involved in thousands of transactions in his career; and what sets him apart is his love for people and their success. Get in touch with Derek: Best...

David Richter is an active real estate investor who has been essential in closing over 850 deals over the last 10 years. He has experience with wholesale, turnkey, BRRRR, owner finance, rentals, lease options, and any other exit strategy you can think of. While growing and building a real estate business from 5 to over 25 deals a month, he realized that as much money was coming in, it was all goin...

Today’s guest, Chris Larsen is the founder and Principal of Next-Level Income. Chris has been investing in and managing real estate for over 20 years. While still a college student, he bought his first rental property at age 21. From there, Chris expanded into development, private-lending, buying distressed debt as well as commercial offices, and ultimately syndicating commercial properties. He be...

Blake Anthony Carter is a passionate and genuine human being but also a successful real estate professional. Blake is the co-founder of CRIBS. A full service, turnkey company for short term rental & co-living investors. They help their clients find, purchase, renovate, design and manage properties all in house. In addition, he is the co-founder of a non profit organization called ServeInspire, whi...

Brandon Turner is the founder and managing member of Open Door Capital, best selling real estate author with over 1 million copies sold, and past host of the BiggerPockets podcast with over 100 million downloads. Over the past decade, Brandon has established a strong track record investing in multifamily, including apartments and mobile home park assets. Open Door Capital currently has over $650 m...

Lucas lives in Austin, TX. His story includes graduating with a social work degree, working as a counselor with homeless youth, backpacking/volunteering in Central & South America for 1.5years and a half decade as a Director of Marketing in the healthcare industry. He eventually realized he could mix his two passions, helping people and traveling. June of 2021, Lucas left his W2 to launch a Vacati...

Flint Jamison spent 20 years in aerospace as an engineer and program manager. He is now finding a path to early retirement through commercial real estate investments. Flint moved quickly from his initial duplex and pivoted into syndications, where he does multifamily, fund management, and build-to-rent. Flint started his real estate endeavor with a duplex that he rehabbed in 2018. From there, he q...

Kevin Bupp is a Florida-based Real Estate Investor, Top iTunes podcast host and best selling author with over $250 million of real estate transactions. His extensive investment experience spans the gamut of apartment buildings, single-family portfolios, medical office, self storage, assisted living and his three favorites and by far the most profitable, Mobile Home Parks, Parking Lots, and Build-T...

Jonathan lives in Holland, MI, and began his career as a continuous improvement engineer for a multi-billion dollar automotive supplier. He started investing in real estate in 2020 and created an investment firm, called Provision Space, to partner with large multifamily operators around the country. As managing partner, he is responsible for building relationships with investors, vetting investmen...

Rob Chiang is the creator of the passive wealth coaching system. He has been managing apartments since the age of 16 and has 25 years of experience with all facets of real estate investing, including but not limited to: rent collection, accounting, maintenance, remodeling, leasing, buying, selling and owning. Rob Chiang holds a California broker’s license as well as a general contracting license a...

LEVI ALLEN is the Principal of Wealth Creation Asset Management, a real estate investment company that acquires residential multi-family properties. Levi studied at BYU- Idaho after returning home from a 2-year Church mission in Peru. He acquired his first property in 2012 and immediately developed a passion for the real estate industry. Levi has focused full-time on rental housing. He takes pride...

Saket Jain is a #1 bestselling author, investor, syndicator, tech enthusiast, and philanthropist. He's the Founder and CEO of Impact Wealth Builders where he’s passionate about achieving financial freedom through real estate. He has over 15+ years of experience in real estate investing.   Over the last 5 years, Saket has taken a particular interest in class B/C multifamily apartments in markets th...

Monika Jazyk is the founder of RPI Education, the world’s fastest growing investment community and is on a mission to help everyday people invest like the top 2% in order to fill the wealth gap experienced by middle class working people today. Monika is passionate about helping other people create wealth through real estate and alternative investments so they can reach their financial and personal...

Matt Fore is a part time real estate investor based out of Nashville, Tennessee. In his professional life, he has spent over a decade in sales and sales leadership positions at one of the largest technology companies in the world. After finding real estate, Matt was able to achieve financial independence in 3 short years by the age of 32. Today, Matt has invested in 750+ multi-family units and var...

Tamara N. Jones is the founder of Bucket List Stays LLC, a successful real estate and property management that provides excellent vacation and short-term rental services. She has created a trusted platform that gives excellent opportunities to real estate investors by utilizing properties and transforming them into beautiful spaces that are available for short-term rentals, strategically located i...

Evan Holladay is a real estate developer and investor with over $375 million and 1965 units of multifamily real estate developed and invested. Evan is Founder and CEO at Holladay Ventures where their team specializes in creating and investing in workforce, affordable and mixed- income communities. Their mission is to create quality housing opportunities and empower the residents to realize their f...

Litan is a former officer in the Israeli Navy, established and successfully sold "Segoma", a revolutionary technology that disrupted the global diamond industry. Following his exit, he became passive RE/PE investors with complex & diverse portfolios. With no existing technological solution to manage, track, and monitor his wealth and a full range of investment assets, he decided to build a startup...

Jason Griggs has become the biggest Short Term Rental investor in the Las Vegas / Henderson Nevada Area, he currently runs 18 active Airbnb rentals. He averages around $21K every month passively from these investments. Slowly, he turned his investments into short-term rental properties and found tremendous success. He is also helping other agents/ Realtors and investors with short-term rentals.  ...

After 15 years of being a part of the legal industry and working for several national and local nonprofits...Susanna decided to make a change in her career path. At the beginning of the 2013, she began to do some serious soul searching and wanted to find a path that could make the most impact in the current society. She realized that one of the biggest decisions in a person's life is buying a home...

David Toupin is a multifamily real estate investor and entrepreneur, based in Austin Texas. He started investing at the age of 20 when he bought his first property while in college, a 12 unit apartment complex. By the age of 26 David has purchased and developed over $100M in commercial and multifamily real estate as the founder of Toupin Holdings. He is also the founder of Real Estate Lab, a Multi...

Julie is founder of Three Keys Investment, helps people like you find their freedom through multifamily real estate investing so that they can live the life of their dreams! She has invested in single family homes, house-hacked before it had a name, managed properties from 1k miles away and passively invested in multifamily assets. Currently, Julie is passively invested in nearly 300 doors, strate...