The InvestHER Podcast

Jenn Patrino is co-owner and President of TierView Development. She joined TierView Development as the company’s third employee in 2013. Ms. Patrino oversees a $30 million portfolio, comprising several hundred thousand square feet of commercial, mixed-use and residential space in Austin, TX and Philadelphia, PA. In addition, Jenn is directly responsible for all acquisitions, design development and...

Native Texan, Melissa Johnson, knows what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Beginning with her professional start in the industrial gas business, she quickly learned the importance of organization and efficient processes and has successfully applied these principles in real estate investing. Melissa and her husband, Danny, began flipping houses in 2003, and have continued to grow and expan...

Palak Shah is Founder and Managing Partner at Open Spaces Realty Group. She is a real estate developer and blogger in Philadelphia where she focuses on the buy and hold strategy. In her previous life, she used to be a Mechanical Engineer and worked in corporate for 17 years climbing the corporate ladder. After starting a family, she realized she could not keep up with the intense travel and she wa...

Stephanie is a buy and hold investor of single family homes and duplexes in central Connecticut. She unknowingly discovered investing in 2012 when she bought and renovated a condemned duplex despite hefty student loans and a modest salary. Since she began intentionally investing in 2015, she's acquired 2 buy and hold properties each year, has done one flip, and one joint venture. All of her ac...

Welcome back to another MINIsode of the Real Estate InvestHER Show. These MINISODE episodes will be 10 minutes or less and be a real life story from Liz or Andresa! On this week’s episode, Andresa shares a story when bought a commercial building off market. This building was zoned commercial on the first floor and had two residential apartments above the storefront space. Due to the changes in the...

Ashley Wilson is the Co-Founder of HouseItLook LLC and Bar Down Investments LLC, two family owned and operated companies. HouseItLook specializes in flipping homes in Montgomery, Chester and Delaware County, PA. Bar Down Investments, provides investment opportunities for investors looking to passively own real estate. She controls over 225 units and has completed over 13 flips. Prior to starting H...

Beka Shea has a fascinating story. Before she became an entrepreneur with a large team flipping and wholesaling deals, Beka was in the Navy as a mechanical engineer. She had a great job but felt the travel was a lot with small kids. When her 3rd daughter was born in 2013, she decided to spend less time traveling and more time at home. She bought her first rehab, which was a hoarder house that we e...

Welcome back to another MINIsode of the Real Estate InvestHER Show. These MINISODE episodes will be 10 minutes or less and be a real life story from Liz or Andresa! This week, Liz shares a very emotional and tough situation that happened to her and her husband last year when $750,000 was stolen from them during a real estate transaction. This is probably the toughest thing that has happened to her...

“You can have anything in life if you help enough people get what they want.” One of the greatest motivational speakers of our time said this many years ago, Zig Ziglar. However, this quote is more true today than ever. On today’s jammed packed episode, we have the honor of chatting with the very famous Zig Ziglar’s daughter, Julie Ziglar Norman. Julie is an internationally sought out speaker, aut...

3 kids (including a 6 week old!), multiple growing businesses, working with her hubby, lifting homes, investing out of state….This powerhouse lady is doing it all! Pilialoha Yarusi is better known as Pili (Pee-Lee). Pili is originally from Hawaii and has also lived in California and New York before settling in New Jersey. After years working in the arts, managing restaurants, running bars and owni...

Welcome back to another MINIsode of the Real Estate InvestHER Show. These MINISODE episodes will be 10 minutes or less and be a real life story from Liz or Andresa! This week, Andresa shares a very powerful story about the time in her life that her visa for staying in the USA almost was denied. She talks about what this experience taught her and what is really means to perservere through anything....

Paige Panzarello is the “Cashflow Chick”. Having been a Real Estate investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years, Paige has been successful in completing over $150 million in real estate transactions to date. Her experience includes founding and running her own Residential and Commercial Construction and Acquisition companies, Buy and Hold residential and commercial real estate investing, Tax Deeds...

Can you really afford anything? Paula Pant quit her 9-to-5 job in 2008, long before she'd heard of financial independence. She just couldn't stand the cubicle life anymore. Her starting salary was $21,000 per year in 2005, and her highest salary was $31,000 per year in 2008. Despite her lower income, she managed to save $25,000 during her short career. She lived on these savings after she...

There is so much NOISE in this real estate investing world. But to be truly be successful in this business you need to create goals that work for YOU and stay true to these goals no matter what happens. On this week’s episode, we have the pleasure of chatting with Carissa Swanwick from Cultivate RE. Her real estate investment philosophy “Invest in homes I can be proud of and tenants want to show o...

Like most businesses, real estate investing takes commitment, hard work and perseverance. On today’s show, we chat with Nichole Stohler who is co-founder and managing partner at Gateway Private Equity Group, a real estate investment firm whose portfolio has included a hotel, multifamily, and residential properties. When Nichole and her husband Mike first started in real estate investing in 1999, t...

Today we sit down and chat with two powerhouse ladies from Chicago – Mary Derman and Brynn McNicholas. These ladies are realtors and investors and are making huge things happen in the Chicago area. Both Mary and Brynn were teachers prior to joining forces and both decided to take the plunge and transition into the real estate world. Although they teamed up only last year, they are growing exponent...

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. “ Maya Angelo Let’s face it, ladies. Everyone is busy. So Liz and Andresa are super excited to launch today a new type of minisode on the Real Estate InvestHER Show! These minisode episodes will be 10 minutes or less and be a real life story from Liz or Andresa. For our first minisode episode, Liz shares a story about when her and...

We are super excited to sit down with Michelle Bosch on this week’s inspiring episode. Michelle has been a full time real estate investor since 2002 and is co-founder and Managing Director of Orbit Investments, LLC. She and her partner Jack, have bought and sold over 4000 pieces of real estate and built the 3rd largest land investment and auction company in the United States bringing that company...

We all hear how important “networking” is to grow your real estate investing business. However, most people are not effective AT ALL when it comes to networking. They really don’t know how to “work a room” and leave with solid opportunities to build long lasting relationships. They just collect as many business cards as they can and think they have been successful at networking. It is not everyday...

She is a mom of three. Loves to hike and backpack. Host of an investing podcast. Building a multifamily and syndication portfolio and business. And most importantly is unequivocally committed to living life on HER terms. Today’s interview is with Tamar Mar, who is an entrepreneur, investor, and proponent of intentional lifestyle design. Tamar has been investing in real estate since she was 19, pur...

One of our favorite best selling authors, Marianne Williamson, once said: “It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.” Self awareness and self discovery are not always the easiest to explore about ourselves. However, if you want to be a successful real estate investor, it is imper...

We are super excited to have Kathy Fettke, one of the most respected real estate investors, on today’s show. Kathy is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of the Real Wealth Network, a California based real estate investment group with over 39,000 members. Kathy is also the best selling author of Retire Rich with Rentals. She is an active real estate investor, licensed real estate agent, and former mortgage...

What is really holding women investors back??!! Well, as you might guess, this is a loaded question! We have the pleasure of talking about this question along with other amazing topics with Carole Ellis on today’s show! Carole is editor-in chief of Think Realty Magazine, America's largest print magazine for individual real estate investors and editor for Self Directed Investor News. Carole has...

All parents would agree that when their children are born, their life is changed forever. Little did Nicole Pettis know that when her son was born back in 2011, this major life change would cause Nicole to begin a whole new chapter of her life – flipping homes! After watching a ton of flipping shows on HGTV and educating herself on BiggerPockets, she jumped into the business by starting a networki...

If you ask five different real estate investor’s opinion on “hard money” for real estate deals, you will get five different opinions! Hard money (like everything in real estate) has its time and place. Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Wendy Sweet on today’s show. Wendy is a Principal with Carolina Capital Management, LLC/Sweet Carolina Houses, LLC. Wendy has been lending money to investo...