The Gentle Art of Crushing It!

Have you ever found yourself staring down the face of adversity? Mike Morawski has, and in this episode, he shares his incredibly inspiring, if not harrowing, journey with us. Mike Morawski is a 30+ year real estate investment veteran who has controlled over $285M in real estate transactions.  Mike is an entrepreneur, author, real estate trainer, public speaker, and personal coach with a stro...

Self-storage investing is one of the most profitable value-add opportunities in real estate, but few people know how to jump into the space.  In this episode, we speak with Sean Graham, the founder, owner, and operator of Maven Equities, a commercial real estate syndication company focused on self-storage opportunities. He started his real estate journey by house-hacking small multi-family pr...

Are you ready to start investing but don't know where to start? Get VIP access to the top investment strategies, active and passive, from today's guest, Real Estate Investor, #1 Best-Selling Author, and Tony Award Winner Matt Picheny! Matt went from earning less than $8,000 a year as an actor to generating half a billion dollars of real estate transactions. In just six years, Matt invested in over...

Trade your W2 job for passive income, life-long financial security and a life of complete freedom! Sound like a dream? Today's guest proves it is possible. In this episode, Marta talks with Karen Chenaille, an EXP ICON real estate agent and private investor specializing in short-term rentals.  She has been investing in and operating short-term rental accommodations since 2015. Her cash-flowin...

Accountability is one of the greatest secrets to entrepreneurial success. In this episode, Derek talks with Tanya Rooney, an active visionary in a few small businesses. She owns and operates 5 Short & Mid Term Rentals in St. Paul & Minneapolis, MN, where she focuses on hosting and the guest experience. She worked at a Global Corporate Real Estate company for 9 years doing owner’s rep proje...

Are you looking for investment opportunities but unsure where to start or how to navigate the tax laws surrounding them? You don't have to find the answers alone! In this episode, Randy talks with Dan Kryzanowski, an active capital raiser, equity owner, and passive investor, generating double-digit yields and lower taxes via commercial real estate.  Dan has personally raised millions of dolla...

Is a fear mindset holding you back from success? In this episode, Nathan talks with Michael Albaum, a former fire protection engineer and now a veteran real estate investor with experience in everything from single-family buy-and-hold to commercial real estate, NNN lease, and short-term rentals. He invests in the USA as well as internationally. Michael is also the head coach of the Rooftstock Acad...

Hello, and thank you for joining us today on "The Gentle Art of Crushing it!" podcast, where we focus on learning and sharing with our listeners all there is to know about how to create success in our lives.  This show stands on the shoulders of Giants.  Our mission is to empower and inspire our listeners to create the life of their dreams whilst having a blast in the process. Let's cele...

David Lyons is a husband, avid leaner and full-time commercial real estate investor in Atlanta, Ga. Founder at Redfox Investment Group, he focuses on buying retail, medical office and industrial properties with triple net leases, providing strong and passive returns that allow him and his investors to live life on their terms.   Website: www.redfoxinvestmentgroup.com  Instagram: @itsdavi...

Ryan Stieg started down the path of passive investing like many of us did, after he picked up a little purple book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad. The problem was that he did that in college and didn't take action on it to start investing passively until many years later when that itch to invest passively crept back up.   Since 2016, Ryan has focused (or should we say lack thereof) on all differen...

Matt Teifke - Home of the real enTREpreneur!  Helping enTREpreneurs get the most out of real estate for themselves!  Discover Matt's SECRET TO SUCCESS!   👉 Connect and Follow Matt Teifke   @Teifke Real Estate    https://www.facebook.com/teifkerealestate/ https://www.instagram.com/teifkerealestate https://www.linkedin.com/company/teifkerealestate/ https://twitter.com/...

   Christine started her career as an R&D Food Scientist working at Fortune 100 companies. Thirteen years later, she realized the freedom real estate brought to her and her family and pursued that direction full-time in 2020. She currently owns 6 rental properties in Philadelphia, PA and Westchester, NY, is a JV partner on 3 deals across 50 units in NC, SC and OH. She is an acti...

     Matt and KellyAnn Copes met in San Diego and have always been drawn to salt water. They left San Diego in exploration of more things wild: mountains to climb, waters to kayak, trails to run, perspectives to encounter.  Then they spent 3 years on the road, living out of their car and exploring North America’s public lands and communities, stumbling upon spaces, pl...

Nathan Murith is a husband and father all the time, a technology executive by day, a real estate investor by night, a coach and mentor as often as possible, and sometimes a podcaster. He specializes in remote single-family buy-and-hold in the Midwest. When he is not acquiring new properties, he is helping others start investing in real estate.  Nathan's Website below https://undoor.com/ ...

K Trevor Thompson is an accredited investor participating as LP in 20 (15 active) 2 GP syndicated deals. He is invested in multifamily apartments (1,250+ doors) retail strip mall, 1 Townhouse to Condo conversion (28 units), 1 Single Family Rental Portfolio Fund (250 homes), 1 ground up Multi Family Fund (100 doors), and a medical office building, land development  near the new Tesla factory i...

Mark has provided cost segregation services for property owners nationwide since 2010.  His projects include multi-family apartments, single tenant (NNN), industrial, retail, hotels, office, etc.  His previous background is in upper management overseeing supply chain and operations for large manufacturers and a retail chain. Mark Gross contact info National Account Executive CSSI Cost Se...

Tim Fergestad previously used his Ph. D. in Neuroscience to study diseases in the Genetics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He has since transitioned into a full-time real estate investor and now lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife and their two children.  Tim has broad experience in real estate including being a licensed agent, single family rentals, land wholesal...

Andrew Rosenberg is a fourth-generation entrepreneur, and he and his father invested in single family homes as a backup plan as a secondary stream of passive income. As out of state, remote investors, the number of homes became too unwieldy, and they decided to go the syndication route. They are now invested in 20+ syndication deals, primarily in multifamily and over 3K doors. Connect with our hos...

 Aileen Prak is a real estate investor and the Co-Founder of Bonavest Capital. Her focus is on investing in multifamily syndications both actively and passively across different markets in the US. Aileen is also the co-host of the weekday podcast How Did They Do It? Real Estate, where they have interviewed over 500 real estate experts. Website: bonavestcapital.com   Linkedin: https://www...

Joe Giuliacci and his wife Robin have been married for 25 years, and have two sons. Tyler is 20 and studying Political Science at Gonzaga University, and Ryan is 17 and finishing his Senior year of high school. Joe just retired from a 31-year engineering career designing commercial airplanes. Robin also retired this year from a career in education teaching the elementary ages.  The Giuliacci'...

Jarod Alexander is an amazing 33 year old from Fayetteville, NC who works Full-Time as a flooring sales consultant. He is happily married with 2 amazing kids. Jarod has found his passion for real estate and loves to listen to podcasts about passive investing, growth mindset, and financial freedom. Together with his wife, they started their real estate journey buying a turnkey single family home an...

Sara is the Executive Director and Founder of the New Teacher Collective. An inclusive, online community built for teachers in their first five years to get support and development on their terms. Sara Jean is a master teacher who has won several awards including Denver Public Schools “2015 Teacher of the Year” and is an expert in Project-Based Learning and new teacher support and development. She...

Randy Smith is an expert in Passive real estate investing. His real estate and passive investing journey began with investing in SFR's and quickly lead to the low stress passive investing vehicle of Syndications.  Listen to this episode and learn more then reach out to him using one of the links below! https://www.linkedin.com/in/randallmsmith/ https://www.instagram.com/salesguyinvestor/ http...

Randy Smith is the Founder of Impact Equity which was formed to help investors achieve strong results in their passive real estate investing strategies.  Randy’s main responsibilities include introducing and assisting investors with investment opportunities offered by various real estate investment firms. Randy currently resides in Peoria, Arizona with his wife Jenny, regularly visits his dau...

Jeff Long started investing in 2018 but had to overcome limiting beliefs and a lack of financial understanding. He bought 11 properties in his first 3 years and is continually adding more to his portfolio. He's done most of this with private lenders and creative financing. Jeff loves sharing his insights and helping people move from wanting to get into real estate to becoming actual real estate in...