Jonathan Mickles
Sovereign Systems Podcast
The Sovereign Systems Podcast explores how leaders design organizations and lives they fully own. Host Jonathan Mickles covers AI governance, operational sovereignty, real estate systems, and the mindset behind building structures that last — financially, professionally, and personally.
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Jonathan Mickles
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Jan 17, 2026
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Episodes
A Pause, a Recalibration, and What Comes Next 17.01.2026 1:53
In this short update, I share why the podcast has been quiet and what’s been happening beneath the surface. This pause wasn’t about disengagement — it was about depth. Over the past year, the work has moved into more complex conversations around systems, sovereignty, and long-term decision-making. Rather than rush content, I chose to step back and reassess what this platform should truly serve. I...
The Joys and Hardships of Real Estate Investing w/ Zach Zimmer 15.01.2025 1:16:35
In this episode of the Strategic Multifamily Investing Podcast, I talk with Zach Zimmer about the failures and successes in real estate. Here is what he says about himself. "I followed the standard path. Advanced degrees, career success, giving my all for my employers. Then one day my division was eliminated and a six-figure income disappeared with a baby on the way. That painful scare combin...
Climate Friendly Bitcoin Mining at Sazmining w/ Kent Halliburton 01.01.2025 39:09
In this episode of the Strategic Multifamily Investing Podcast, Kent and I talk about: - What is Bitcoin and why it is important? - Where does a Bitcoin come from? - Why Bitcoin (and Cryptocurrency is inevitable) - Why CDBCs, centralized digital currency, is the opposite of Bitcoin, decentralized currency? - Why freedom may be at risk with CDBCs? - How Sazmining (and other such companies) are prot...
New Education Platform from a Seasoned Operator w/ Randy Langenderfer 15.12.2024 55:33
Randy is Founder and President of InvestArk Properties and general partner in 1,500 doors representing $250M in assets under management. He has invested in a total of over 3,000 units in TX, OK, AZ, SC and LA. His investment strategy focuses on providing the passive investor significant returns by improving communities using a safe and time tested approach. He is passionate about helping the busy...
FlippBidd: New Mobile First Real Estate Investing Platform w/ Ken Singh 01.12.2024 38:16
Ken is an out-of-the-box thinker with twenty years background in software and technology, and the last 15 years in real estate sales and investments. As he became experienced in the real estate industry, he saw that the industry was lagging far behind the rest of the world in the creation and adoption of truly useful technology. All the real estate tech solutions that were available to Real Estate...
Flexible Light Industrial is Growing as a Commercial Class w/ Jeremy Friedman 15.11.2024 55:00
Jeremy Friedman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stoic Equity Partners. His primary roles include overseeing the company’s asset and project management teams and collaborating with its strategic legal and accounting partners. Jeremy co-founded Stoic in 2020 with his business partner, Grant Reaves. Stoic owns and manages a portfolio of Self-Storage and Flex industrial assets totaling $86M, 800,000 SqFt...
Deliberate, Consistent Action Builds Empires w/ Vessi Kapoulian 01.11.2024 1:07:25
In this episode of the Strategic Multifamily Investing Podcast, Vessi Kapoulian, Founder of Dream Believe Achieve Capital Group in Los Angeles, CA, overcame a challenging upbringing in Bulgaria under the Iron Curtain. Her determination to explore the world led her to learn English and earn a full scholarship to study in the US. Initially pursuing a corporate career, Vessi's path shifted toward...
Financing Deals (Residential and Commercial) in 2024 30.10.2024 27:15
Trevor Finn is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in television production and editing. Currently, he is working on his new business venture, Quixx Capital, a business consultancy that helps commercial and residential investors find funding for their projects. With a focus on helping others succeed through data-driven property analysis and creative financing solutions, Trevor...
Buy Rental Single Family Homes NOW Before It’s Too Late w/ Aaron Chapman 15.10.2024 1:05:04
Aaron Chapman is a veteran in the finance industry with 25 years of experience helping clients better understand, source, and finance cash-flow positive investment properties. He advises over 100 clients a month in the acquisition and financing of their investment properties and primary residences. Aaron is ranked in the top 1% of mortgage loan originators in the country, in an industry of over 1...
Reinventing Real Estate Transactions with Harold Heard 01.10.2024 49:36
In this episode of the Strategic Multifamily Investing Podcast, Harold discusses how real estate transactions will be transformed using blockchain from 30 - 45 days (or more for commercial real estate) to seven (7) hours. Harold Heard serves as the CEO, President, and Chairman of A Real Blockchain Solution (ARBS), a pioneering company that redefines the commercial real estate industry. With over t...
Reinventing Website Naming for Web3 w/ Frank Corsi 16.09.2024 36:50
Frank Corsi, Founder BlockchainNames.io Frank is a veteran software developer with an impressive track record spanning back to the 1980s. He possesses extensive expertise in cold fusion programming language, which he expertly employs to deliver precise execution of all projects, whether for his clients or his own creations. Moreover, Mr. Frank's ownership of data centers across the globe has e...
How Spouses Can Work Together to Build a Real Estate Empire w/ Mickey and Sherry Patterson 02.09.2024 40:50
Gorilla Capital partners, LLC is more than just a company; we are a collective of visionary capital raisers and investment strategists dedicated to crafting the future of investment. Our core expertise lies in bringing forth high-yield investment options across a multitude of sectors, including Tiny Homes, New Home Construction, RV Parks, Apartments, Fix n Flips, Rehabs, and Land Development. Thro...
Mid 2024 State of Multifamily w/ Charles Seaman 15.08.2024 1:05:29
In this episode of the Strategic Multifamily Investing Podcast, Jonathan talks with Charles again about the State of Commercial Multifamily as of August 2024. He resides in Charlotte, NC and serves as a Managing Partner of Cash Flow Champs. He’s responsible for building and maintaining broker relationships and performing and overseeing the company’s underwriting activities. He’s also involved with...
A Better Way to Negotiate w/ Derek Dombeck 15.08.2024 50:31
Derek Dombeck is a seasoned investor, speaker, and bestselling author with over two decades of experience navigating the market's ebbs and flows since 2003. With expertise spanning various real estate strategies such as creative deal structuring, wholesaling, flipping, and landlording, Derek has been involved in thousands of transactions throughout his career. What distinguishes him is his gen...
Alternative Tax Savings Not a 1031 Exchanges w/ Brett Swarts 01.08.2024 28:57
Brett Swarts is a leading expert in Capital Gains Tax Deferral, known for his expertise as an exclusive Deferred Sales Trust Trustee and as the Founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions. He is recognized for his informative speaking engagements across the United States and hosts the Capital Gains Tax Solutions podcast. Based in Sacramento, CA, and Saint Augustine, FL, Brett is also an eXp Commercial...
FIBREE - Blockchain and Real Estate w/ Jo Bronkers 15.07.2024 44:39
Jo Bronckers is President of FIBREE, the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise, the leading global community for Blockchain & Web3 and Real Estate & Construction Industry, a non-profit organisation. He gained his MSC-title at Eindhoven Technical University (NL), for Real Eatate Investment Management & Project Development, a graduate program of the faculty of...
From X Games to Multifamily Titan w/ Dan Brisse 01.07.2024 40:58
Dan was a professional snowboarder for over a decade. He is a four-time X-Games Medalist, earning two gold and two silver medals throughout his career. Dan is extremely well-known in the snowboard community and was featured in Snowboarder Magazine as the rider nominated #3 Rider in the World in 2012. Dan began investing in multi-family in 2012, then transitioned to a full-time real estate investor...
Preparing Commercial Real Estate for the New Age of Digital Transparency w/ Aaron Rice 15.06.2024 42:41
Aaron Rice is a Corporate Real Estate Advisor with eXp Commercial. Founder and CEO of Concairge.com. A Baltimore City based Climate Technology company that supports the movement to create workplaces that prioritize air quality and human health by providing the only real-time, continuous, performance based building certification driven by smart sensor data. Increasingly, we understand the key to be...
Helping Medical Professionals Get Financially Fit Through Real Estate w/ Savannah Arroyo 01.06.2024 19:39
Savannah Arroyo, CEO and Founder of Networth Nurse and her newest fintech startup - InvestHealth, Savannah started her real estate investing career at the beginning of 2020 after having her second daughter. Looking for additional income streams and alternative ways to build wealth, Savannah began educating herself about real estate. She has since purchased over $20M worth of real estate, partnerin...
From Multifamily to Residential While Building a Robust Team w/ TJ Korsen 15.05.2024 45:40
TCB Capital - Our 506(c) debt fund - lends on distressed real estate assets; and stabilized cash flowing assets - offering a generous preferred return to our investors while mitigating market exposure and minimizing risk of principal loss. Our portfolio consists of residential real estate notes; hard money / bridge loans and light value add properties. TJ has been in the market since 2006. He has...
From 3 To Thrive to Building Teams to Take Down Multifamily w/ Paul Thompson 01.05.2024 49:00
Paul has 17 years of experience in the Technology and Information Systems industry. During that time, he worked for 4 Fortune 500 companies as a computer engineer, Staff Manager, and Director of Engineering. In 2017, he retired from Corporate America to focus all of my attention on my real estate investments. He's been involved in over 500 real estate transactions. He enjoys applying his exper...
Using BRRR to Financial Freedom with Multifamily w/ Wyatt Simon 15.04.2024 40:07
Washed-up basketball player turned Investor. Wyatt Simon owns and operates a $20M+ vertically integrated real estate portfolio and has mastered the BRRRR strategy. Wyatt helps folks ditch their W2 jobs and transition to multifamily freedom. He is a member of Citylight Church, and the author of "0-100: A Real Estate Investor's Guide to Scaling a Rental Portfolio. LINKS: https://fcequitypar...
Rethinking How to Purchase Mobile Homes and Rethinking Scaling w/ Adrian Smude 01.04.2024 49:46
Adrian started his real estate career in 2002. He attributes much of his success to his passion for lifelong learning, which has led him to continue education courses and fostered relationships with respected mentors. He implemented what he learned, took action, and now has a successful business that fits his personality and lifestyle. Through sharing his ideas, success, and failures Adrian hopes...
Risk Management, The Post-It Method and Stage 4 Cancer w/ Carl Pritchard 31.03.2024 45:49
Carl Pritchard is the principal and founder of Pritchard Management Associates. He is recognized lecturer, author, researcher, and instructor. As a lecturer he is considered a leading authority on risk and communications management and presents on a variety of management topics, ranging from project essentials to the complexities of network diagramming and team motivation. As an author and researc...
Reverse Wholesaling and Rethinking Scaling w/ Nathan Payne 15.03.2024 24:40
Nathan grew up in Atlanta Georgia but currently lives in Salt Lake City Utah. At 19 years old, Nathan went on a church mission for 2 years in Portland Oregon where he strived to serve others. After his mission, he went to college at BYUI where he discovered his love for entrepreneurship. In college, Nathan started doing door to door sales and soon became one of the top salesmen in the company. He...
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