Purpose-Driven Wealth

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, talks with Ruben Greth about how he took his capital-raising game to the next level. When Ruben interviewed and followed a small multifamily investor around in Phoenix, sharing stuff on YouTube, little did he know it would become the start of something bigger. He shares how he started on syndication with a local mom and pop, why people...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, talks with Louis O'Connor about the promise of diversifying your portfolios with strategic metals. Louis simplifies what strategic metals are and their many other names. He cautions on what buyers should keep in mind, explains what Tradium offers those who express interest in investing in these high-demand assets, and what forecasts tel...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina talks with Akhil Patel about the importance of an investor understanding his market cycles. Of course, markets have ups and downs. But if downs are overcome, how are there periods where it happens all over again? Here, Akhil simplifies how economic cycles repeat, the common theme with downturns, and his two cents on how relationships betw...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina is joined by Seth Bradley to talk everything about passive investing and why most young investors overlook investing in commercial real estate. He discusses how people generally see residential real estate; and how different people become when it comes to the commercial side. Seth speaks on the best performing asset class in the commercia...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina sits with M.C. Laubscher to break down how you can build the best cashflow niche for yourself. On the subject of promising hard assets, who would've thought that timber, especially teak, would get in the picture? M.C. discusses how he became his own banking system, why your relationships with people can't be overlooked, alternative assets...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, talks with Mark Podolsky about how investing in raw land took him out of the nine-to-five life. Mark got honest about how investing in land can be boring. For him, this is the reason why there are no reality shows about it. Mark explains how he makes investing in raw land irresistible, what wholetailing is about, their take on a deal a...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina talks with Seth Ferguson about his decade journey as a broker that made him transition to multifamily. After stumbling upon different stories and experiences in the single-family space, Seth realized that he 'was investing in the wrong asset.' Here, Seth shares how he transitioned from the world of hockey to becoming a multifamily investo...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina talks with the CEO & Founder of AKRU, Mohsin Masud, about the future of commercial real estate investing in the age of blockchain evolution. Blockchain and tokenization are everywhere. Here, Mohsin explains the tokenization of real-world assets, how investors benefit from integrating blockchain and real estate investing, and how blockchai...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina sits with Joel Friedland to talk about the uniqueness of industrial real estate in comparison to residential. Industrial real estate, normally, doesn't interact with the public in a way that residential assets do. This same reason is why it's challenging for most to get into the industrial market. Here, Joel discusses the types of busines...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina talks with Rick Allen of PaperStac to get a better understanding of how their technology help investors get the best out of note investing. What is note investing? Is it for everybody? Here, Rick explains the primary benefits of investing in notes, why note investing is an excellent strategy for building wealth, and why note investing may...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina is joined by Eric Shirley to explain what's conservative and what's not in conservative underwriting. Even with the current craze for cryptocurrency, with more and more governments adopting the technology, how come real estate investing still weathers the storm better? As an underwriter for Four Oaks Capital , Eric lets us pick his brain...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina is joined by Glenn Esterson to discuss the general setup for investors and those looking for affordable housing in the mobile home community. After sharing how Glenn transitioned from farming to being Marcus & Millichap's national team for mobile home communities vice president, he simplifies market terminologies, what's more important th...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina talks with Garrett Sutton about the many strategies investors and entrepreneurs can take to protect their assets. To be able to protect your assets, one should know what to protect them from. Here, Garrett explains how inside and outside attacks affect your LLC, the line of defense your LLC can have, what Garrett tackles in his upcoming b...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina is joined with Doug Fullaway to discuss why senior living real estate shouldn't be overlooked. Traditionally, businesses in senior assisted living tend to be on the stripped-down, basic side of operations. And that has contributed to its slow pace. But does "slow pace" also pertain to revenue? Doug shares why few retail investors invest i...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina and guest Richard Kent talk 'flexibility' in industrial flex spaces. When other assets started looking like ghost towns during the pandemic, industrial spaces were spared. In fact, in Avistone, vacancy rates didn't look any different from pre-pandemic numbers. Richard explains how industrial properties benefit from the industries they ser...

In this episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina and guest Phil Geiger discuss how governments and small-scale investors can leverage Bitcoin and everything you need to know about its security. From Phil's words, he's 'never been ever more bullish on Bitcoin than today." Here, Phil shares his thoughts on the roles that Bitcoin and cash could play hand-in-hand, talks about the most impor...

In the 14 th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina and guest Kevin Valley talk about how you can become investible using insights from metrics. In Trinidad, Kevin and his company, Become Investible , can be considered the only ones of their kind in the game. With experience and a firm market grasp, Kevin helps us understand what is private equity, the ways to evaluate a business's va...

In the 13 th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina and guest Danna Blumenau dig deep into everything a beginner needs to know about investing in mineral rights. Compared to other assets, an investor's entry to mineral rights may not be as 'fluid' as one might think. Here, Danna explains why mineral rights can be very time-consuming, what you need to stay away from when doing your due...

In the 12 th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina and guest Michael Osterhoff discuss why senior living communities are such a promising market sector. By a growing population of senior citizens, the demand for senior housing doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. Here, Michael explains the factors that challenge entry to the market, the essential components of senior care fa...

In the 11 th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina and guest Brian Burke talk about why the detail-oriented reader-investor would love the book The Hands-Off Investor . After sharing the basic formula for cap rates in one chapter of the book, Brian answers the biggest misconception most have regarding cap rates. Here, he also shares his two cents on core competencies, the qualificati...

In the 10th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina and his guest Troy Eckard drill deep into what makes up America's mineral industry today. When we turn our heads to media, often, we see oil and gas as a sector that's easily demonized. But today, Troy explains why oil, gas, and other minerals are ridiculously unique investments, what makes Saudi Arabia's oil industry different from t...

In the 9 th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host Mo Bina and his guest Neil Wahlgren talk about how value is achieved through sale-leaseback in the industrial real estate market. Unlike other asset classes, industrial real estate isn't the type investors consider "sexy." Nevertheless, in this discussion, Neil explains the major appeal to industrial real estate assets, the concept of sale-le...

In the 8 th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, hosts Mo Bina, Shah Ahsan, and guest Mike Grantis continue discussing bitcoin and blockchain 101. Being speculative of bitcoin is a normal move to take as for any theoretically new asset in the market. To get rid of the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubts), what cryptocurrency basics must one learn? Here, Mike talks about the entry coin to the entire cr...

In the 7 th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, hosts Mo Bina, Shah Ahsan, and guest Mike Grantis dive into the beauty of decentralized markets and the potential of blockchain technology. Of course, there's a lot of FUD or fear, uncertainty, and doubts that circle crypto. But where does it all come from? With seven years of experience in crypto advisory, Mike helps us understand how blockchain techn...

In the 6 th episode of Purpose-Driven Wealth, your host, Mo Bina, and guest Michael Flight discuss the thriving retail real estate market and the direction that it's leading. As Michael and Mo touch on the trend for drive-thrus in the US retail space, Michael explains why studying a business's foundation and what it's evolving to is fundamental to investing in any type of business. Michael also ta...