REL Freedom Podcast

Having completed over 28,000 professional coaching sessions, Derek Schenck knows how to help people. He is the founder and executive coach of Peak Performance Coaching, a coaching and consulting company laser-focused on the pursuit of excellence. Derek has the unique ability to entertain and inspire while guiding his audience on an engaging journey of self-discovery to create lasting change that m...

Kevin Link started out as an attorney for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He wanted to be able to take control of his career and stop working for other people, so he launched into real estate in 2017 by co-founding 4 Brothers Buy Houses, based out of the Washington DC area. This investment firm brings in over $5 Million in revenue per year with a team of 25. In addition to tha...

What options do you have when you have a strong love for technology and real estate? The possibilities are endless, yet for Marla Harmon, she took her passion and formed an amazing real estate investor CRM. This digital marketing wizard is the CEO and founder of REISoftware, an all-in-one CRM designed specifically for the real estate investor. She talks about how she took her high-level understand...

Eric and Lila Wohlwend started out sleeping on a mattress on a warehouse floor. They educated themselves in real estate and taught it to their kids. Deven the oldest son, began real estate investing at the age of 7 with no money from his parents and became a millionaire and accredited investor before he could drive!  The Wohlwend family has rehabbed and repositioned over a thousand units, grown mu...

Chris Miles, the cashflow expert and Anti-Financial advisor is a leading authority on teaching entrepreneurs and professionals how to get their money working for them today. He retired very early in life, lost it due to the housing crash, built up his cashflow again and thus was able to retire twice by the age of 39. Chris runs Money Ripples and is host of The Chris Miles Money Show. His personal...

Mat worked as a chemical engineer for 12 years before recently becoming a full-time real estate investor in 2022. He got a Master's degree in International Management  at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. While working his regular job, Mat would spend his nights and weekends looking for foreclosures, learning and asking questions about real estate investing, and working on his personal fin...

Agostino Pintus is a former INC 500 Technology Chief Executive, with a masters degree and 2 bachelors degrees, made a life-changing decision to walk away from a six-figure corporate career to pursue his true passion: real estate. In the span of 5 years, he's built a diverse portfolio of multifamily, development, and net lease assets. He is the founder and CEO of Bulletproof Cashflow, where he...

Eric and Lila Wohlwend started out sleeping on a mattress on a warehouse floor. They educated themselves in real estate and taught it to their kids, including them buying their first investment properties at the age of 7 with no money from their parents! This episode highlights mom Lila and their youngest son Ethan (currently 13 years old), who shares how he started out by purchasing a mobile home...

Venkat came to the United States back in 2002 to get his Masters Degree. After spending 14 years in the corporate IT space as an Electrical Engineer, Venkat pivoted to real estate investment to be able to take control of his career and future. He started in real estate by acquiring 20 single family properties in the Dallas area over a 3-4 year span. Today, his company Stryker Properties is focused...

To get better, you have to get started, and that's what Edwin Carrion did. Born in Ecuador, raised by a single mother, Edwin migrated to the US at the age of 12. He enlisted in the Marines, and after he was done, he was trying to figure out what his next step was to build the life he wanted. He was given advice to get into real estate development to make money. Not knowing how to do it, he le...

You'd be surprised to learn that Knolly Williams, The Business Healer, known for wearing a cowboy hat all the time, had aspirations to be a rapper at the age of 13. He was also reading at a sophomore level in the 5th grade. Knolly grew up as a "scared kid" and had a lot of challenges to face. He got into sales at the age of 12 selling hand-crafted jewelry at flea markets and the ent...

Building financial freedom sometimes seems incredibly challenging and elusive. We build it up as this incredibly difficult and sophisticated plan. However, it can happen gradually as you're going about your normal life. For Investor Mama Jen Narciso, building a $2M portfolio started with purchasing a duplex for 200k in 2013. Live in one half, rent out the other, fix up, cash out refi, and rep...

When investing in real estate, you can never have enough great lender connections, especially someone like Malcolm Turner who specializes in financing the deals that banks won't touch. He is a highly respected and accomplished executive, having founded Castle Commercial Capital in 2007. Malcolm has developed a deep understanding of commercial lending, capital markets, and investment strategie...

Are you considering getting a short term rental for your real estate investing portfolio? We're in the same boat! Get a sneak peek into our lives as we discuss our short-term rental purchase set to close within the next week in the Finger Lakes region of New York!  We talk about our overall investing strategy, what we're looking for in a short-term rental opportunity, what we liked about...

Jim has done a lot with his time in real estate, literally going coast to coast. He started with his first property in California for 152k to now living in Florida having completed over 2,000 rehabs and focusing on the Build To Rent niche building Single Family Homes, Duplexes, and Quads throughout Florida through his company Southern Impression Homes.  His real estate accomplishments are great, h...

Jerry Miller is a real estate investor with almost 20 years of experience doing a wide variety of strategies ranging from single-family homes, BRRRR's, rent-to-own and utilizing Section 8 through his company Largo Group. A couple of years ago he was introduced to real estate syndications as a limited partner investing in value-add projects as well as new development. Because of the success he...

Having done flips, single-family rentals, multi-family rentals and short-term rentals, Josh Lawlor has experienced a lot of real estate investing opportunities. He was looking for some additional opportunities and ways to be able to complement his rentals. Josh eventually learned about an opportunity to be able to rent our your home, or rental property, for film shootings. In many cases, these are...

From graduating at 16 to buying her first property at 18 to growing up in a family that works in the real estate investment and syndication space, Staci Gray has seen and experienced a lot. She understands how entrepreneurs get trapped by operational chaos and don't know how to properly grow their real estate businesses. She founded Organize To Scale to align with mission-driven leaders to de...

Having worked as teachers for years, Ken and Rachael Wick first purchased a triplex and a duplex 20 years ago as a way to supplement their education salaries. Being educators, they understood the value of growing and educating themselves on their real estate investing journey, essentially getting their  "2nd Master's Degrees". They have also focused on partnering with others further...

What makes every REL Freedom story exciting and interesting is that everyone is taking a different approach to building their income and wealth. For Jack Duffley, he's using a few different techniques and combinations on his journey to financial independence. By day, Jack is an attorney who recently opened his own practice after spending time previously working for a large law firm doing comm...

As a plumber, Conor Kelly was making over 100k/yr, but wasn't able to live the life that he wanted. He decided to get his real estate license and committed to doing 2 Tiktoks per day for 2 years and has now turned that into 30k+ followers and 57 transactions in his first year of real estate. He now manages and coaches a team of 25 agents in the Vancouver area on how to do that same and is the...

Growing up in a family that did fix & flips and buy & hold properties, Alison Alston saw the benefits of real estate investing at an early age and how it can open up opportunities for generational wealth. However, she didn't pursue that path right out of college and ended up becoming very successful working in the Northeast in education and donor relations. Not wanting to travel all t...

Known as "The Elite Strategist", Martin Perdomo is host of the Latinos In Real Estate Investing Podcast, the top hub for Real Estate Investors and entrepreneurs within the Latino community. Martin talks about his journey growing up in the Dominican Republic with no running water in his house, moving to New York City and getting kicked out of the house by his mother at the age of 16, to b...

Ed Parcaut has been an experienced and respected professional with over 25 years of experience as the founder and CEO of Lending For Living. Ed's best-selling book "Financial Freedom: Building Personal Wealth Through Homeownership" provides practical advice and insights on how to create personal wealth through real estate. He is also the host of the iHeartRadio talk show Real Estate...

If you live in their franchised territory, inevitably you have seen billboards and commercials for "We Buy Ugly Houses" also known as HomeVestors of America, Inc. They are the leading home buyer in the country, helping more than 10,000 people sell their homes every year. What does it look like to run one of their franchises? Jeff Hotz is a top franchisee of the company, is based out of C...