The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast

Sarah Larbi is a real estate investor, speaker, coach, mentor and podcast host. She specializes in helping take the mystery out of home ownership for Canadian’s who thought real estate investing was going to be out of reach. She has earned their trust and respect by having the drive and focus to embark, build and grow a seven-figure, 10 property investment portfolio by her early 30’s. Sarah’s goal...

Sahil Jaggi is a Toronto-based realtor, homeowner, real estate investor and landlord. Sahil shared his story with Toronto Life magazine and it went viral. At 32 years old he owns 10 homes in Toronto and he did it without any direct help from his parents. When he was younger, Sahil left his home country of India to pursue his dream of being an investment banker, but when he got there he realized it...

Michelle Hung is the founder of the Sassy Investor and the author of the same-named book available for purchase on Amazon . She empowers women to take control of their finances by providing them the education and support in order to gain the confidence they need to make their own investment decisions. Michelle is also a real estate investor. She purchased her first investment property, a student r...

Kevin Cochran is a sought after speaker on the necessity of money management for families, teens and young adults. Having been featured on radio and television programs across the country, he has spoken to well over 100,000 people including professionals, students, schools, communities and corporations on the importance of financial literacy and how to create a foundation for personal wealth. Kevi...

Kay Keovongphet is the owner of Wise Penny Saver . Learning how to save money and make more money changed Kay’s life. It allowed her to pay off a $260,000 mortgage in 3 years, start her own business and put her on the path to financial independence. In my interview with Kay, we discuss investing in real estate as a single woman, the important role of real estate mentors and living a minimalist lif...

Robinson Smith , financial strategist and author, reveals how Canadians can mitigate the challenges that homeowners face in raising their families, raising their net worth and raising their level of financial security in the face of rising costs of life. Robinson, a consultant with over 15 years in the investment industry, creator of a number of financial educational courses and the author of, “Ma...

Leanna Haakons is a financial strategist and wellness expert, entrepreneur, and bestselling author . She founded her firm Black Hawk Financial in 2014 and has over 12 years of experience working alongside numerous funds, private, and public companies listed on multiple worldwide exchanges, in various sectors including financial services, media, alternative assets, real estate, and clean tech. In m...

Rahim Madhavji is the President of KnightsbridgeFX.com . After graduation, he worked four years as an investment banker, when he decided to quit his $200K job to start his own business. But things didn’t turn out as he imagined. A year in his co-founder quit for a competitor. Instead of letting it break him, he used it to fuel him. Rahim worked hard and struggled for years, but his persistence pai...

Dale Roberts is a still-recovering former advertising writer and creative director who packed up his pen and laptop in early 2013 and made the move to Tangerine to help Canadians discover lower fee index investing. While at Tangerine he discovered his love of helping Canadians save money on investment fees, so he left his full-time job to start his own blog to show Canadians how easy it can be to...

Saxon Funk is a Winnipeg-based real estate investor. After graduating from high school, Saxon tried door-to-door selling and selling insurance. He discovered day trading and foreign exchange trading in his early 20s but despite some success, learned that the activity was just as apt to leave him broke. Ultimately, real estate became his preferred road to financial freedom and helped enable him to...

Ben Le Fort is a Canadian personal finance blogger on Medium . Ben has quite an interesting riches to rags to riches story. Ben had a comfortable upbringing – until the financial crisis happened. With no savings, both his parents, who were successful real estate agents at the time, were forced to file for bankruptcy. Despite the setback, Ben managed to pay off $50,000 in student debt and 2 houses...

Peter Majthenyi and Kola Ifabumuyi are both mortgage planners with a combined 40 years’ experience in the industry. As a mortgage broker myself, I thought it’d be interesting to pick their brains. Peter started out with a degree in economics and investments and quickly realized he preferred giving money to clients to invest rather than asking for it to invest. Over the last 20+ years he has helped...

Liz Enriquez is the founder of Ambitious Adulting , a website to help Canadian millennials understand personal finances so they can save more, earn more and reduce stress about money. As the name of her website suggests, Liz is quite ambitious herself. After paying off her university tuition at age 22, she saved over $50,000 and bought a house at age 24. At age 26, her net worth grew to 6 figures...

Paula Pant is the founder of the award-winning website Afford Anything and a writer and speaker specializing in money, business and real estate investing. At 34 years old, she owns 8 homes. Through her rental properties, she has been able to achieve financial independence and leave her 9-to-5 job. In my interview with Paula, we discuss Paula’s rags to riches story, metrics to determine if a proper...

Warren Mascarenhas is the director and co-founder of feeDuck , a website that helps home buyers and sellers easily find qualified real estate agents and save big bucks. The idea for feeDuck came about when Warren and his three neighbours who had recently moved into the area were having beers in the backyard and brainstormed a better way to find a good agent and negotiate on commission. In my inter...

Steven Trieu is the mastermind behind the blog YoungVestors . After bouncing around eight jobs in different industries within two years of graduating, it was at this point Steven became a YoungVestor, a person in the early stages of learning how to achieve financial independence. He’s set himself the ambitious goal of reaching financial independence before age 40 and real estate plays a big part i...

Danielle Kubes is a millennial personal finance journalist and blogger. She eats an avocado every day because she will never be able to afford a house in Toronto anyway. You can catch her trying to improve the financial literacy of Canadians (without making them hate their lives) on Twitter and Facebook. In my interview with Danielle, we discuss why Hamilton is a good long-term investment for real...

Mark Seed is passionate about personal finance and investing and is the blogger behind My Own Advisor . Mark is currently investing in dividend-paying stocks and low cost ETFs on his journey to financial freedom. In my interview with Mark, we discuss key considerations when deciding to leave one home for another, decluttering your home when downsizing and Mark’s top mortgage-burning tips.

Cory Matthews is the founder of Straight-Up Realty Group, a Real Estate Homeward Brokerage that focuses on helping people buy real estate outside the city, as well as helping people in Toronto sell their properties at fair commission rates. In my interview with Cory, we discuss affordable places to buy real estate outside the GTA, owning a rental property without the responsibilities of being a la...

Octavia Ramirez is a personal finance and entrepreneurship writer from Toronto. She's also the Founder and CEO of Paper & Coin , a financial literacy and coaching company for Millennials, and co-hosts a weekly podcast with her husband, called "About That Life." In my interview with Octavia, we discuss buying a home with consumer debt, saving up an emergency fund and prioritizing your mortgage paym...

Janine Rogan is a passionate finance professional and CPA. She’s the founder of JanineRogan.com and runs her own YouTube channel . Over the years she has dedicated countless hours to sharing her knowledge through writing and speaking, and she’s passionate about educating individuals and businesses about their money. Janine lives in Calgary, Alberta giving back through a number of local and nationa...

Martin Dasko is a 30 year old dude that loves personal finance, making money, and getting the most out of life. He’s a real estate investor and landlord. He writes Studenomics , a DIY personal finance blog in Canada. The site is unique because Martin “drives” the content - he writes from his own perspective, using personal pronouns and anecdotes from his own life experience. In my interview with M...

Kornel Szrejber is a contributing editor for Canadian MoneySaver Magazine , and is the host of the Build Wealth Canada Show , a top personal finance and investing podcast created specifically for Canadians. There he interviews the top personal finance experts to share their best strategies, tips and tactics when it comes to investing and financial planning in Canada. Kornel’s mortgage burning stor...

Stephen Weyman is the founder of HowToSaveMoney.ca and creditcardGenius , sites dedicated to helping Canadians maximize their money. In my interview with Stephen, we discuss how Stephen burned his mortgage at a young age, buying a forever home and why the Maritimes is a good place to invest in real estate.

Adeola’s episode is the first in a new series of podcast shows on “Women in Real Estate.” In the coming weeks I’ll be interviewing successful female real estate investors like Adeola to help encourage and inspire more women to get into real estate. After experiencing a life altering layoff when she was a junior lawyer at the age of 27, Adeola Omole was forced to deal with her six figure debt. Less...