Our Family Invests Podcast

In 2019, Matthew Efird and his wife Hannah learned their unborn son Noah had Trisomy 13, a condition incompatible with life. They chose to carry him to term. Noah lived 57 hours. What followed reshaped how Matthew leads his businesses, loves his wife, and spends his time. Matthew is the founder and CEO of three businesses, bestselling author of  Even Though We Will , a speaker, and host of the Pil...

Dr. Rob Yonover is a PhD geochemist, inventor of the military-approved SeeRescue Streamer, Shark Tank veteran, and full-time caregiver for 19 years while building a company, raising two kids, and carrying $600,000 in debt. His invention was rejected by all five Shark Tank sharks. It later flew to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket. Rob has taken the ALVIN submersible two miles belo...

Self-doubt doesn't go away when you get more successful. It just gets louder at each new door. Mike Neubauer opens up about the confidence gap that has followed him through every chapter of his life: the kid who worked out alone so no one could laugh at him, the guy who almost didn't apply to the real estate mastermind, the firefighter who paused at the door while everyone else ran in. Thi...

A massive wealth transfer is already in motion. Over the next 10 to 15 years, an estimated $60 trillion will move from the silent generation to baby boomers and Gen X. The question isn't whether you'll see some of it. The question is whether you'll know what to do when you do. Mario Sicari has been a wealth manager since 1994. He oversees more than $300 million in private client assets...

Brien Sonzogni is a nationally recognized marketing strategist who helped put Black Desert Golf Course on the PGA Tour map. Emily Sonzogni is the founder of Prickly Pear Pediatric Therapy and the first speech language pathologist in southern Utah certified in Childhood Apraxia of Speech. They are also two college athletes who sold their house on a Thursday, bought one on Monday, and moved to a cit...

74: A Bike Crash Built His Empire - Jens Nielsen | Our Family Invests Jens Nielsen left Denmark at 23 with a backpack and no particular plan. After 27 years building a career in IT and telecom, a mountain biking accident in Colorado put him in the ICU and forced a question he'd been avoiding: what do you actually want? By 2020, he walked away from corporate for good. Today he's a general p...

What does it actually take to build a marriage that thrives? Lee Baucom has spent 30 years answering that question for thousands of couples, and he's been testing his answers inside his own 38-year marriage the whole time. Lee is a PhD, marriage coach, author of seven books, and host of the Save The Marriage Podcast and Thriveology Podcast. In this episode he breaks down the Pause Button Marri...

Jeffrey Holst hasn't had a bad day since he was 17. Not through leukemia. Not through personal bankruptcy. Not through a divorce he didn't see coming. If that sounds like a bumper sticker, this episode will change your mind. Jeff is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and author of No Bad Days . He went from negative net worth to financially retired in six and a half years, has visited...

Susan Obrant is a Grammy-nominated illustrator, fine artist, and creator of wearable crochet sculptures so original they're unreproducible even by her. She built her career as a single mother, showed in galleries and museums, and dressed a New York City dance company. Through it all, including the years her husband Robert's Alzheimer's has quietly progressed, she hasn't stopped cre...

Functional medicine practitioner Ryan Kennedy breaks down the real reasons behind brain fog, chronic fatigue, and poor sleep and what you can actually do about them. This episode covers the gap between a standard 30-marker blood panel and the 120+ markers that reveal what's really going on in your body, plus why some of your "healthy" foods might be working against you. Ryan explains...

Jay Papasan co-authored one of the best-selling business books of the last decade. Wendy leads one of Austin's top real estate teams and co-founded Her Best Life. Together they have 18 rental properties, six businesses, and 26 years of building wealth as a couple. It started with a net worth of $2,200, including a Toyota Tercel. Six and a half years later, they crossed the millionaire threshol...

Bob Andersen woke up from a car accident with five dollars in his bank account and spent the next 40 years building over $1.3 billion in completed property developments. Hilary Saxton raised her kids alone, renovated her way out of survival mode, and eventually built a mentoring program that helps everyday people step into property development from wherever they are starting. They met on a plane,...

Rob and Alexia Hoffman built an 80-door rental portfolio in four years, including a converted elementary school turned into 10 apartments and a 13-bedroom fraternity house that cashflows better than most conventional rentals. They had four daughters in 30 months. And somewhere in the middle of building all of it, their marriage hit rock bottom. This episode is an honest conversation about what hap...

Ben Gottfredson started with a pickup truck and a trailer in St. George, Utah. Less than a decade later, Big Storage Ventures manages 15 self-storage facilities across the Mountain West and Southeast, and Big Ben's Moving has scaled into a regional fleet operation. The business is real. So was every rejection, depleted savings account, and moment of not knowing what came next. But this episode...

What does it actually take to build wealth without sacrificing your marriage, family, or peace of mind? In this episode of the Our Family Invests Podcast , Mike and Caroline Neubauer sit down with Robert Fukui and Kay Lee Fukui , founders of Thriving in Tandem and advisors to married entrepreneurs who want to grow their business without destroying their relationships. Robert spent 25 years launchi...

She gave him 90 days to quit his job. Cliff Ravenscraft was next in line to take over his family’s insurance business. Stable income. Predictable future. Three kids at home. A financial crisis unfolding. Stephanie Ravenscraft looked at him and said, “It’s time.” In this episode of The Our Family Invests Podcast, Cliff and Stephanie Ravenscraft share the real story behind walking away from security...

What do you do when there is no safe path forward? In this episode of the Our Family Invests Podcast, we sit down with Levi and Stephanie Ware, founders of the Melodic Caring Project , a nonprofit bringing live music into hospital rooms for children facing serious illness. What began as one improvised livestream became a 15-year journey built on patience, belief, and alignment. Along the way, Levi...

What does growth actually cost ambitious couples? Jeremy and Shelly Beland sold their home, downsized with five kids, and started building a real estate business with $11,000 and a decision most people would never make. Today, they’ve completed more than 500 off-market real estate deals. But this episode isn’t about tactics. It’s about alignment under pressure. In this conversation with Mike Neuba...

At 21 years old, Zac Spencer became a father while feeling broke, overwhelmed, and unsure he was built for the responsibility in front of him. Then Zoe McDonald entered his life, and became the green flag he couldn’t ignore. In this episode of the Our Family Invests Podcast, Mike and Caroline sit down with Zac and Zoe to explore what it really takes to build belief before proof... in business, in...

What happens when you leave a six-figure career to buy a failing business and invest in real estate at the same time? In this episode of the Our Family Invests Podcast, Mike and Caroline sit down with Luke and Morgan Hoffman to unpack the hardest year of their entrepreneurial journey. Luke walked away from a fast-rising corporate role, bought a struggling manufacturing company, and started buildin...

What happens when your business is growing, but you’re the one carrying everything? In this episode, we sit down with Mike and Ashley Coates , builders of multiple businesses where standards matter and leadership can’t disappear. From residential care facilities to construction, real estate, and a long-standing restaurant, they’ve lived the pressure of being the bottleneck. At one point, everythin...

They went to bed believing they were set for life. They woke up with everything gone. In this episode, we sit down with Brent and Daniela Phillips , founders of Milk and Honey Ranch , to share one of the most honest and intense stories we’ve ever recorded. After selling a software company, Brent and Daniela thought the financial pressure was finally behind them. Overnight, the acquiring company co...

Mike Brockway and Gabriell “Gabby” Carney are the couple behind some of Denver’s most sought-after luxury Airbnbs. These are top 5% stays where design, systems, and guest experience are dialed all the way in. Then life got louder. While managing 20+ short-term rentals and expanding their real estate business, Mike stepped into the national spotlight on Netflix’s Love Is Blind . Overnight visibilit...

Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen, bestselling authors of Quit Like a Millionaire , have been financially independent for over a decade after leaving their engineering careers in their 30s. In this episode, we talk about financial runaway , the moment compounding starts working so powerfully it feels like your money grows faster than you can spend it. Bryce and Kristy also explain how geographic arbitra...

Morgan and Ashlin Shaver, founders of Orchard Avenue Designs , don’t just build homes. They build a life with intention, one bold project at a time. In this episode, Mike and Caroline sit down with the husband-and-wife team behind the design-and-build studio that’s turning rundown buildings into vibrant community anchors, crafting East Coast-inspired homes in rural Utah, and raising four kids thro...