The Capitalizing Your Life Podcast

Join me as I sit down with returning guest Derek Vickers, a former insurance sales leader turned full-time mobile home park investor, operator, and educator. After years of building a high-performing insurance agency—with no equity to show for it—Derek had a wake-up call: real wealth doesn’t come from commissions, it comes from owning assets. That revelation launched him into the world of real est...

Episode 76 - Kyle Grimm Join me as I sit down with Kyle Grimm , a real estate investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Valcre Group , who started his investing journey while still in high school. At just 18 years old, Kyle purchased his first single-family property for $5,000—and hasn’t looked back since. Over the years, he’s built a diverse portfolio that includes multifamily properties, storage fa...

Episode 75 with Chad Freeman Join me as I sit down with Chad Freeman, a commercial airline pilot turned real estate investor, the CEO of MHPInvestors, and co-founder of Bright Harbor Homes. With nearly 30 years in aviation, Chad has mastered systems, risk management, and contingency planning—skills he now uses to help others build wealth and freedom through real estate. Chad's investing journey be...

Episode 74 - Joey Mure Join me as I sit down with Joey Mure, co-founder of Wealth Without Wall Street , a passionate educator and advocate for reclaiming financial control. After spending years in a traditional career, Joey realized that the typical path to retirement wasn’t built for freedom—it was built for dependence. Through a powerful mindset shift and a deep dive into the Infinite Banking Co...

Episode 73 - Chris Duffy Join me as I sit down with Chris Duffy, a construction pro turned real estate investor and advisor, and founder of Pioneer Property Partners, a Florida-based investment company focused on mobile home parks and multifamily properties. With a background in project management and international work experience, he brings a hands-on, boots-on-the-ground perspective to real esta...

Episode 72 - John Evans Join me as I sit down with John Evans, a seasoned mobile home park investor, strategic operator, and the Chief Project Officer at Six Rock Properties—a family-owned business managing over 600 lots across several communities. John’s journey from the oil and gas industry into real estate began with a single Craigslist ad and has since evolved into a mission-driven business ce...

Episode 71 - Jose Garcia Join me as I sit down with Jose Garcia, a mobile home investing expert, entrepreneur, and founder of Garcia Mobile Home University (GMHU). After facing challenges with traditional real estate, Jose pivoted into the mobile home space and never looked back. Today, he owns and manages a portfolio of over 900 mobile homes across 10 states, and he’s on a mission to help others...

Join me as I sit down with Jeremy Dyer, a seasoned real estate investor, former top-performing sales professional, and Partner at Rise 48 Equity. Jeremy is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Starting Point Capital, host of The Freedom Point Podcast , and author of The Fundamental Investor: How Passive Real Estate Investing Will Build Your Future . With over $750 million in passive real estat...

Episode 69 - Brian Seidensticker Join me as I sit down with Brian Seidensticker, founder and CEO of Tax Sale Resources and co-founder of Last Best Partners, to unpack the complex but rewarding world of tax lien and tax deed investing. With a background in aerospace engineering and systems design, Brian applied his technical expertise to build one of the most comprehensive platforms in the tax sale...

Join me as I interview Ruben Izgelov, a first-generation immigrant and powerhouse in the private lending space. Ruben is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of We Lend and States Capital, where he’s helped originate over $600 million in private real estate loans with zero principal loss. With a background in acquiring, developing, and financing more than $600 million in assets, Ruben brings a deep...

Episode 67 - Lauren Brychell Join me as I sit down with Lauren Brychell, the founder of Equity Elevated Consulting. Lauren is a capital raising consultant who began her professional journey in marketing before discovering her passion for helping entrepreneurs and real estate investors build the funding strategies they need to grow. Through her work, Lauren helps businesses navigate the complex wor...

Episode 66 - Hannah Kesler Join me as I sit down with Hannah Kesler, a second-generation Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) expert, real estate investor, and dynamic financial educator. By the age of 24, Hannah became a millionaire through smart financial moves involving private lending, real estate investing, and a strategic approach to life insurance. Raised in a household rooted in financial indepe...

Episode 65 - Michael Pansolini Join me as I interview Michael Pansolini, founder of Archangel Asset Management and co-founder of the MHP Pros. Michael has worked in the New York City Private Equity space for a decade. During his career, he has managed a portfolio of over 250 mobile home parks, improved fund financial operations, and implemented numerous process improvements. Michael strives to bri...

Episode 64 - Ryan Narus Join me as I sit down with Ryan Narus, co-founder of the Archimedes Group, a mobile home park owner, entrepreneur, and advocate for financial literacy. Ryan shares his journey of building a portfolio of over 85 mobile home and RV parks, totaling more than 4,600 lots. With a background in psychology and an MBA in operations and business analytics, Ryan brings a systems-based...

Episode 63 - Garrett Terrell "I kind of hit a home run on my first deal. And so I thought I knew everything. And I'm like, 'Nah, I just want to keep this lean and mean.' Like, I want to pay this park off and just have one park to deal with and all that stuff. And I don't know if anything necessarily just changed, but I think the more deals that we were looking at, and underwriting, and getting dir...

Because you know that the previous owner was just slamming people in there, probably just to get occupancy up. So we see that a lot, right? And it's sad because, you know, a lot of landlords would do that. And I always like to kind of make sure that when we buy something, or even if I go rent a car or something like that, like I'm always gonna return it or I'm always going to sell it in a better s...

"You have to engage in your monetary life, and this is a path for that. If you truly want to be free, you have to have a life by design, not just by default. And most people, unfortunately, are trained to be in default mode, hand their money over to somebody, work for 40 years, and hope they have money when they're 55 or 60."  Episode 61 – Damion Lupo Join me this week as I sit down with Damion Lu...

Episode 60 – Kent Sariano “This is one thing I've kind of liked about working with all these different clients is like, they're so entrepreneurial, right? And the ones who succeed always have the same mindset. They're very strategic about how they make their investments. Like they don't just fall in love with a deal and go into it. They have a plan. They have an investment thesis. And they know ho...

Episode 59 - Nick Kosko “But man, I tell you what, my curiosity about money was planted into fertile soil. And I went to work trying to learn about the real truth about money. You know, what my parents had taught me was not wrong, right? It just wasn't what was gonna work out for me. Go get a good job, work for somebody else for 30 - 40 years. And then when you “retire,” which that word's not in t...

Episode 58 – Mario Dattilo   “When you recruit people, you have to recruit people that are smarter than you and have more experience than you. And in the beginning, I hired people that didn't for the most part. And if I barely know what I'm doing, how am going to teach somebody? So now I only recruit people who have more experience. It's hard to do, but you got to stretch to kind of find really so...

Episode 57 – Kevin Murray   “Yeah, it's beautiful. We've got a chicken coop. We've got a community garden. We've got a clubhouse. We've got trails. We've got a creek going through it. Yeah, it's very different tenant situations I'm dealing with, just for instance,  in mobile home communities, a lot of things we deal with are noise complaints or like, you know, maybe somebody letting their dog off...

Episode 56 – Armand Violi “Dude, I can't [with] like new people in the industry. I can't communicate with them hard enough. Like, are you trying to just park your money somewhere? Or are you trying to make money? Because if you're trying to make money, you don't want 100% lot rents, direct build city utilities, 100% occupied renter at market at a seven cap because there's no upside. The whole poin...

Episode 55 – E.B. Tucker   “You have to get curious about things, right? Like my friend, Tom Morgan has a curiosity club that I joined, you have to pay to join this thing. His theory is that like the things that interest you, the things that capture your attention are trying to pull you towards like new magical realities in your life. And why not? Like people that are interested in a certain thing...

Episode 54 – Mohit Chopra “And again, that's what good partners do, right? They balance each other out and you find the right middle that again some… and this is where the good partnerships comes in. Like you have different, I guess, risk exposure or different understandings of the market as well. And based on your experience, you help each other out and formulate what really might be the best str...

Episode 53 – John Laine   “It is expensive. I mean we have a list of no less than 30 contractors, right? I mean, it's a paperwork nightmare. But the end result is you get to help somebody become a homeowner for the first time. I mean, yes, what we do is time consuming and costly, but the net result is you're stabilizing homes. You're giving kids a better chance to grow up in a better neighborhood....