Brandon Richards
The Fearless Pursuit of Freedom Podcast
Welcome to the Fearless Pursuit of Freedom Podcast; I am your host Brandon Richards. I am a real estate investor and avid entrepreneur based out of Flagstaff Arizona. My wife and I run a real estate investment company, The OPF Group and the brokerage, OPF Realty. We focus on land acquisition across several states, flip and build houses, acquire and wholesale apartments and we are now the proud owners of the real estate investor software, Deal Manager Pro. Deal Manager is a real estate investor CRM that we are building based off of our 10 years of experience in the game. Listen in as I intervie...
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Aug 11, 2025
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David Richter on building a real estate company with a solid foundation. 04.12.2019 37:49
David brings on his CFO and explain how he built his business and why. After years of working for largely known and successful companies, he decided to branch off on his own to help other companies. David has a knack for getting down to the dollars and cents to show you how your company is truly performing. Dialing in the numbers or KPI's while tell you were to place money for better returns. ...
Elizabeth Navarrese on how fear inhibits newbies from starting in real estate. 27.11.2019 41:55
Elizabeth has been through the ups and downs in business and has come back up stronger than ever. Learning from her mistakes, she's been able to build an even stronger business, but more importantly, a stronger financial foundation. She goes over why she decided to join hands and launch Wholesaling Live, her call center and much more! Elizabeth can be found on Instagram at: https://www.insta...
Steven Libman on going from high volume house flipping to $70+ million in commercial deals in 2019a 20.11.2019 41:25
Had a great time learning how Steven went from flipping 15+ houses a month to phasing the company into what it is now. Just 14 months ago, he flipped the switch and in 2019 alone, he's been a part of $70million in commercial deals ranging from storage facility builds in Florida to housing in Ohio. Listen in to see how he made the switch and brought all his private with him from one asset clas...
Mike Hambright's take on real estate investing and power of mentorships/masterminds 13.11.2019 48:18
Mike runs several podcast, masterminds and a successful investing company out of the Dallas market. But he wasn't able to achieve all of this without the right people in place and an evolution of trial and error. He started up FlipNerd and over time has evolved into several podcasts, a nationwide mastermind community and a sizable portfolio. Listen in as we discuss those obstacles, growth min...
Rob Swanson on living a life of Freedom through virtual Real Estate Investing 06.11.2019 52:40
We do our best to capture as much knowledge as could be from a 20 year Real Estate rockstar. Rob graduated college with a degree in engineering. But after taking the knowledge from a real estate seminar, he stumbled through his first transaction and found a passion in real estate. After going full time, spent a few years "figuring it out", before gaining traction and expanding into multiple mark...
Scaling multiple businesses through leadership with Greg Dickerson 30.10.2019 46:28
Based out of Virgina, Greg started in real estate in 1997. Since then, he's been able to build, scale, and sell multiple businesses. From plumbing companies, to pool maintenance, to real estate brokerages, Greg has developed a great talent of sculpting people and businesses to operate at their best. Listen in to see what fuels Greg, how he's been able to grow, scale and build a life on his terms....
The King of Lease Options, John Jackson. 02.10.2019 35:25
John goes into why he started doing lease options back in 2003 and how he's gotten over 650 transactions under his belt. John left the day trading world of stocks and options to become one of the nations leading coaches in lease options. He explains how this model differs from Sub2 wraps, rent to own and sandwich models. Find more info at www.leasingtobuy.com www.leaseoptionclasses.com
Dax Ferguson walks us through how he built a Multi-Family construction and consulting business in several states. 07.08.2019 26:58
Dax Ferguson walks us through how he built a Multi-Family construction and consulting business in several states. Dax explains the reasoning and process behind moving from single family renovations to multi-family remodels. We speak on what makes an apartment complex a community, which in return gives the property what Dax calls "sticky factor". Tenants tend to stay longer when there is a sol...
Connor Steinbrook, how his eXp Realtor team has grown to 22 states and Canada in 18 months 31.07.2019 55:09
Today we sit down and set the record straight on all the benefits of eXp Realty and why all the Mega Real Estate Teams, Investors and Real Estate coaches are hanging their licenses with the brokerage. We talk a great deal on wealth creation, creating a path to retirement as an agent and passive income. Connor breaks down the 3 income streams of eXp, and how the rev share compares/relates to a r...
Millionaire Mailman Tom Nardone on tax free investing and recession proof assets 24.07.2019 42:43
I had the honor of having the one and only Millionaire Mailman on the show today, Tom Nardone. I met Tom early last year on an investor cruise and had the pleasure of doing a swamp tour on his fan boat whilst we all prepared to depart on a week long cruise to soak up rays and knowledge. Tom has been in the real estate world since the mid 80's and started out the gate buying rentals from owne...
Crypto investing basics with Seth Maniscalco. 03.07.2019 39:47
After a short audio interruption, we are able to dive into what mining means, where the coins are stored, and good portion of the basics of how to invest in crypto currency. Seth does an excellent job handling my ignorance in crypto. I ask all the dumb questions to help gain an idea of how the blockchain space operates. Learn more about how to work with Seth here: https://bit.ly/2XuyErP
Chris Jefferson on building a team to dominate real estate. 26.06.2019 43:45
Chris walks us through how he has spent his last 10years investing in real estate, from wholesaling to rehabbing to building houses. Chris left college to pursue his passion in real estate and with his work ethic, it has paid off in a big way. Just as many others who venture into real estate, he started out with wholesaling. After building up some capital and relationships, he was able to sta...
Winning Deals in Heels with Nancy Laabs 19.06.2019 45:11
Nancy dropped it all, sold the house, quite her job and moved across the country with her husband to start a new life in real estate. As any new entrepreneur, she had struggles learning her craft and knew she needed to find guidance. Finding a mentor was an obvious choice, which led to a 9 year partnership in property management, and then on to buying rentals, flipping houses and creating notes....
Gary Boomershine on a lifestyle by design through Real Estate Investing 05.06.2019 50:31
Gary has been in the real estate world since 2004. In that time he's flipped hundreds of houses and been through a couple market cycles. Aside from learning to change directions during shifts, he found that building systems and get coaching from those he looked up to, became far more important to build a sustainable long term business. So Gary took on personal and business coaches, joined seve...
Anson Young, on how to build a successful fix n' flip business! 15.05.2019 1:05:38
Anson has been in real estate for about 10 years now and has built an incredible model based around wholesaling, flipping and wholesaling single family houses. In the beginning, he had an abundance of leads, as they were as simple as going on the MLS around that time. Since then however, he's had to learn marketing and acquisition. We speak briefly on the marketing aspect of his business and t...
Troy Fullwood on generational wealth through note investing! 09.05.2019 1:16:10
Troy has been in the real estate industry for over 23years now. He knew that real estate was his way to freedom and generational wealth, but didn't know exactly how to achieve that right off the bat. As a child, his punishment was painting the house. Ultimately, he became a very good painter, but knew that house flipping was NOT the way he was going to attack real estate. After much thought,...
Tucker Merrihew, from rehabbing to Multi-Million dollar New Builds! 01.05.2019 52:52
Tucker has been in the real estate world in some form since he was 22 yrs old. He started out just as a good portion of us investors do, by wholesaling and rehabbing single family houses. But as the years progressed and his name, brand and capital raising skills improved, so did his companies projects. 2011 marked the year it all changed for him when he bought a house that had blue clay undernea...
Dustin Miles on Multi-Family Apartment Buying. 24.04.2019 44:03
Dustin has been in the Real Estate world 10+ years in some form or fashion, but moved into Apartment investing about 7 years ago. Dustin is a master at problem solving, systems and lowering costs within a business. He dives in deep on a recent sale, from acquisition, financing, rehab, the freakin office burning down and to now, a stable asset which has just sold at a significant upside for him...
John Martinez on how to optimize sales to boost monster revenue! 17.04.2019 44:22
John has been in some form of sales training for over 20 years now and has within the past 4 years turned his focus to 100% real estate. With the help of his team has trained thousands of entrepreneurs on how to boost company income by helping them improve their inbound and outbound sales. He's done so by perfecting the face to face and over the phone tactics from is 20 years of experience. In thi...
Chad Wittfeldt on living a life of freedom through apartment investing. 10.04.2019 40:29
Selfishly, Chad caught my eye because he was always making FB posts about going snowboarding, dirt biking, mountain biking and everything else outdoors. Knowing he was into real estate investing, I had to have him on to learn more! Chad and I talk in depth about how he got started in the real estate world, and how/why he chose apartments as his niche. He expressed the importance of building sy...
Michael Zuber, from w2 employee to over 100 rentals and financially free, One Rental at a Time. 03.04.2019 55:22
Based out of California, Michael and his wife, Olivia decided to take their future into their own hands and figure out a way to leave the 9-5 rat race. After reading countless real estate books and finally jumping into the game, they grabbed a rental shortly after. Years went by as they acquire another handful before discovering the power of a 1031 exchange and mark appreciated properties! A q...
Dave Marsh on apartment investing and decluttering our lives for a better life 13.03.2019 1:06:42
Dave tells us why apartments have been his target and why being an out of state operator works for him. We discuss what makes a long distance asset profitable and the systems/people he put in place to continue to cashflow amidst a troubled tenant base. Seems we both have the "Squirrel Syndrome", so the topic quickly diverts to how the entrepreneur can declutter things in life to save on stress...
Lance Wakefield on 0 deals to 170 in his first year! 06.03.2019 54:33
Lance goes back in time with us to show us why real estate, and what he did to go from 0 deals to 170 in the first year. We discuss many times that you need to learn to adapt to the every changing landscape of marketing. Learning to be creative within the business, but also when making offers. What fears are holding you back? Oh, and we talk about a 120 day cruise that we will eventually go...
Carlos Reyes on mindset and what it takes to survive in business and life! 20.02.2019 46:26
Love the interviews where we talk a lot on mindset, as most entrepreneurs have many internal battles of "Am I doing it right?", "Am I growing, making progress?", "What is my why?". We discuss what it takes to grow in business and continue to run a successful, profitable business. We talk on how money is just a tool to leverage and buy back time, to live the life we were meant to live. Live is shor...
Todd Fleming on cashflow and how to obtain it! 13.02.2019 47:37
I had Todd back on on to talk about CASHFLOW. We had such a great time talking about wholesaling last time, that I just had to have him back on to talk about his new book, "If you can't cashflow after this, I've got nothing for you". We also spill the beans on a new project he's designed to help the future generation of America. In this episode we talk about notes, second lien positions, storage f...
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