Know Your Why Podcast with Dr.Jason Balara

Ryan began investing in real estate in 2017. His experience includes land acquisitions, fix and flip projects, and small multifamily development. In 2020 he shifted his focus to acquiring and operating commercial multifamily assets. Ryan holds an M.S. in Anesthesiology and is a practicing Nurse Anesthetist in Houston, TX. Ryan leads the investor relations team at GenWealth Capital Group and also o...

Fred has positioned himself as an authority on investing in alternative assets and on building wealth using Self-Directed IRA accounts. Fred combines a 15 year career devoted to entrepreneurship and investing with a mission to helping people attain a higher level of financial literacy, resulting in the perfect combination of wisdom and experience providing value to aspiring investors from all walk...

Tommy Brant is a ‘recovering‘ electrical engineer and data scientist turned full time Real Estate Investor. He started TB Capital Group as a tool to buy real estate with family, friends, and partners. He helps busy professionals accelerate their wealth through passively investing in real estate. His goal is to help others achieve ULTIMATE freedom (which can’t be done without being financially free...

Emily Cortright co-founded A&E Real Estate Group, LLC in 2013 after holding various roles in operations management and manufacturing in the aerospace and automotive industries. Experience includes direct management of 15-30 member assembly and machining teams with daily output goals and a strong focus on safety, quality, cost, and responsiveness. Currently accountable for the comprehensive managem...

Accredited investor participating as LP in 18 (15 active) 1 GP syndicated deals. Over the past few years, he has become deeply passionate about learning about Real Estate Investing. He's an avid learner, continually connecting with as many like-minded people. He's now switching to being active and looking to be a GP / Asset Manager – Boots on the ground for syndications in TX.   Get in touch with...

Dan is head of Learning & Development for a technology company and is based in Lexington, Kentucky. He spent 26 years working for companies such as Microsoft, Dell, and Sony including six years in Latin America. Dan also invests in large apartment complexes and is Managing Partner of Avanza Investments (partner in 487 units). 'Avanza' means to 'move forward' in Spanish, and he is focused on helpin...

Bryce Stewart is a former Elementary School Teacher. He retired from W-2 at age 35 through real estate investments and wrote Amazon bestseller "House Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy". He went from $50k in debt to multimillionaire. If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara Audio Track: Back To The Wood by Audionautix is licensed under...

Clay Hepler is a fiancé, multifamily investor, educator, and cash flow specialist. Clay Hepler, Chief Wealth Strategist at the Creative Capitalist, helps entrepreneurs and real estate investors in 50 states create, protect and multiply their cash flow so they keep, control and amplify more of their hard earned cash in ANY economy. He scaled his family’s chocolate company from 2 states to 42 in 18...

Paul was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight (1996 & 1997). Contributor to BiggerPockets and Fox Business. Paul is the author of The Perfect Investment: Create Enduring Wealth from the Historic Shift to Multifamily Housing and Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with Stuff by Investing in Self-Storage. Paul also co-hosted a wealth-b...

A University of Miami graduate with a Bachelors in Atmospheric Science and former top Pentagon Air Force meteorologist, Kevin is not your typical Wall Street fund manager. Rather than pursue an expensive finance degree, Kevin spent years meticulously educating himself in every facet of multifamily real estate from syndications to underwriting to fund management. Apart from serving his country, Kev...

Mark England is a TEDx Speaker and co-founder and head coach of Enlifted. He has been researching, presenting and coaching on the power of words and stories for 15 years. Mark holds a Masters degree in education and was an elementary school sports Get to know more about Mark: www.enlifted.me Here is a link to his 2017 TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6as-5dxSs   If you want to know mor...

Kranti Ponman is an innovator. He always try to come up with new and innovative ways to do things. He loves to be creative and think outside the box. He never stops learning and there’s always something new to explore. Kranti owns 2000+ units, 3 passive companies and 2 active. He's the director of Capital at Four Oaks Capital & Seroda Capital.   Get in touch:https://krantiponnam.com If you want to...

Mike Desrosiers is a general partner in 12 multifamily properties with over 1000 units and 70 million assets under management. His properties are located in Texas, Las Vegas, Kansas City, and California. Mike has extensive experience in multifamily syndication, asset management, investor relations and acquisitions. Get in touch with Mike: www.growcaptoday.com If you want to know more about Dr. Jas...

Jeff Wickersham is a sought after mindset and confidence coach who helps guide clients to intentionally step into the best versions of themselves and unlock that inner hero waiting to be unleashed. Jeff’s a #1 best-selling author, Tony Robbins award winner, podcast host and a practitioner of what he teaches. He recently completed his second David Goggins 4x4x48 Mile run, has meditated for 1,612 st...

Travis Hill is an active-duty Marine stationed in California. His investing journey started 23 years ago while living in Las Vegas. After joining the Marine Corps, the Great Recession eliminated his portfolio. He started investing again in 2018 with the intent of retiring from the Marine Corps not needing a W-2 job. His goal is to become financially free from cash flowing real estate. He looks to...

Gary Lipsky founded Break of Day Capital at the end of 2016 with a mission to positively impact the lives of their investors and the communities in which they invest through the highest level of transparency and fiduciary responsibility. Significant achievements: Built a company that served over 9000 at-risk students daily. Wrote an Amazon best selling book Best In Class. Get in touch with Gary: w...

Whitney Elkins-Hutten is the Director of Investor Education at PassiveInvesting.com and a partner in $700MM+ in real estate — including over 5000+ residential units (MF, MHP, SFR, and assisted living ) and more than 1400+ self-storage units across 8 states—and experience flipping over $3.0MM in residential real estate. Get in touch with Whitney: www.passiveInvestingwithWhitney.com    If you want t...

Specializing in digital marketing for the hospitality and real estate industries, heather cox has been a wordpress website designer, social media manager & strategist plus an seo expert since 2011. Heather has worked closely with many award-winning restaurants, corporate entities, high end brands and well-known influencers to help them reach their target audience through organic social media and o...

Julio is a dual career real estate agent. He has 2.5 years of experience in real estate investing and he most recently house hacked a duplex. He also owns two new construction SFR with a partner in the Austin area. He is originally from Venezuela in South America; he immigrated to this country when he was 14 years old with his dad, and could not speak English at the time.   Get in touch with Julio...

Valentina Brega is Sales Director at Blackjack Real Estate LLC. Currently, she is also the founder of HireTrainVA, a human resource company that supports entrepreneurs and businesses in their operations by finding, hiring, and training the best virtual assistants in the market that can help handle different aspects of the business outsourced. Get in touch with Val: https://hiretrainva.com/  If you...

As a high school dropout and immigrant, Jon had no choice but to be resourceful. He has built a business from nothing that provides him the money and freedom to enjoy life the way he always dreamed of having. He owns PRYME Homes, an investment company out of San Antonio where they rehab over 18 houses per year, have built five homes, and have a portfolio of 14 doors. Jon's specialty is systems and...

Darin decided to get involved purchasing real estate in the fourth quarter of 2017. He first purchased a new construction duplex. He then searched for a way to go after larger deals. He was very familiar with the multifamily asset class but wanted to learn how to purchase larger deals. In total Darin invested in over 4,000 multifamily units. Seven deals passively with other sponsors, one deal as t...

Dane Espegard is a culture consultant who teaches, assists and executes the implementation of a Culture centered around Dream Achieving. The system is bottom-up and puts the emphasis on the development and personal lives of the team member. Dane works with companies in a very simple manner to get the culture started and leaves them with some very easy to implement steps. Connect with Dane at www....

Veena Jetti is a founding partner of Vive Funds, a unique commercial real estate firm that specializes in curating conservative opportunities for investors. Veena brings a dynamic perspective to targeting, acquiring, managing, and operating assets using best practices combined with cutting edge technologies. Her professional expertise includes driving corporate strategy and business development op...

Gino Barbaro is a multifamily investors, operators, and mentors who has created a vertically integrated real estate company that controls over $100,000,000 in assets under management. He has created the Jake & Gino community to teach others his three-step framework: Buy Right, Finance Right and Manage Right®, and to become multifamily entrepreneurs. Get in touch with Gino: https://jakeandgino.com...