The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast|Real Estate Investing

Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990's and selecti...

Evan Carmichael #Believes in entrepreneurs. Gary Vaynerchuck called him the DJ who inspires people and Ed Mylett called him the modern day Napoleon Hill. At 19, he built and then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a venture capitalist raising $500k to $15M. He now runs a YouTube channel for entrepreneurs with over 2 million subscribers and 300 million views, wrote four books, and speak...

Henry Kaminski Jr. is the founder of Unique Designz, a full-service design, branding, and digital marketing agency that is dedicated to helping personality brands, coaches, consultants, influencers, speakers + authors design to grow their brands, scale their profits and increase their exposure. He is the author of the Amazon best seller "Refuse To Give Up." He's also the host of the popular "Brand...

Rocky Lalvani serves as Chief Profitability Officer for business owners. He teaches them how to ensure they get paid and they make profit a priority! As a certified Profit First Professional he implements Mike Michalowicz and Profit First System. They change the accounting formula of "Sales – Expenses = Profit" to "Sales – Profit = Expenses". This ensures Profit comes first! (PS: It's not about mo...

Steve Prefontaine is Chris's brother. Steve started his career at Quaker Oats as a regional sales manager and then moved to Kraft General Foods, before changing gears and working with Bob at Skaff Cryogenics from 1995 to 2018 as Vice President and a partner in the company. What you'll learn about in this episode: Why Steve made the leap from working in a corporate job to becoming an entrepreneur a...

Matt Shields is co-founder of a real estate investment company called Significan LC. With Significan LC, he and his co-founder set out with a big hairy audacious goal of changing the world, one community at a time, one person at a time. They feel the way to truly do this is to change the language they use to communicate with the members that live in the communities that Significan LC manages and b...

Tyler Jensen is an avid Real Estate Investor, International House Flipper, Philanthropist, Coach, Husband, and Father to three amazing boys. He has been flipping houses for more than 10 years. He started flipping houses in college and has never looked back. He loves real estate and gets satisfaction from taking an old dumpy crack house and turning it into something truly amazing that a family will...

Michael Sjogren is a husband, father, investor, entrepreneur, CPA, mentor, podcast host and short term rental expert. Michael and his wife Krysten founded Occupied, LLC, a national short-term rental investment and management company in 2017, as a vehicle to build passive income so they could stop trading away time from family for a paycheck. That vision came to fruition within 18 months when their...

Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990's and selecti...

Brad Blazar is an effective sales leader who over a decade ago set out on a mission to compile stories from his prior business experience as founder & CEO of a small oil company and the encounters from meetings and speaking events with some of the world's best leaders in sports, business, and politics. He is the founder The Art of Beliefology™ – believing that you have the power to change your bel...

Brian was born in New York and moved to Florida at age five and spent most of his life there. He attended Florida State University, and then at the age of thirty he moved to Chicago. Brian has been there for seventeen years now and has a wonderful wife, Katie, who he's been married to for ten years. They have a nine year old son named Will. They love spending time together and taking family vacati...

Chris's Bio: Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of  Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit . He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 199...

Mike's Bio: Mike Makredes is from Fresno, California. He has been in sales all his professional life, and currently working in the Ag industry for the largest melon, broccoli, and corn grower in the US. He handles sales for over 12 million cases ($150 million) of produce per year. What brought him to Chris and the Smart Real Estate Coach team was the thought of getting out of the rat race and into...

Chris's Bio: Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of  Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit . He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 199...

Peter Taunton is a pioneer in the fitness industry. In 2003, he had a vision for Snap Fitness: to create an affordable, 24-7, results and value driven gym concept that was differentiated from the impersonal, expensive big-box experience. Today there are Snap Fitness franchises open or in development in 2,500 locations in 26 countries. Taunton, as the Founder and CEO of Lift Brands, didn't stop the...

David Nurse is an NBA life optimization coach, future bestselling author, and worldwide motivational speaker. As a former professional basketball player (both international and domestic) and coach for the Brooklyn Nets, David has helped more than 150 NBA players with their personal and professional development both on and off the court. He has been invited to speak in more than 50 different countr...

Chris's Bio: Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of  Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit . He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 199...

Max Keller is a real estate investor, bestselling author, and highly sought after consultant, speaker, and expert panelist on the topic of lead generation and marketing for real estate investors. In just a few short years Max went from being a full-time high school Math Teacher to flipping over 100 houses. Max's unique marketing approach landed him onstage with Robert Kiyosaki being presented with...

A veteran with over 20 years of experience working in the finance industry, Aaron Chapman previously worked in mining, heavy equipment operation, welding and long haul driving. Aaron isn't your average Real Estate Lender! Currently ranked #14 in an industry of over 300,000 licensed loan originators for transactions closed annually; Aaron is that battle worn partner every real estate buyer needs to...

Aaron Fragnito has been helping people passively invest in Real Estate for 10 years. Aaron is a Co-Founder of Peoples Capital Group (PCG) which holds a $10M portfolio, host of the New Jersey Real Estate Network, host of the Passive Cash Flow Podcast, a licensed NJ Realtor and a full time real estate investor. Aaron has completed over 250 real estate transactions, totaling more than $40,000,000 in...

Russell Ham was born in Southern California about 10 minutes from Disneyland. He is the youngest of four boys all born in the 60's. After graduating high school, he began coaching high school boy's basketball. He continued to coach for 30 years until last year. Russell is a high school PE teacher and is married to his beautiful wife, Emily, and they have two children. Lacie, who's 17 years old and...

Sean Morrissey is a "buy and hold" investor and real estate broker/owner who resides in Aurora, Illinois with his wife, two children, dog, and cat. Sean started his real estate journey as a landlord in 2003. He earned his real estate license in 2006 and opened his real estate brokerage, Chicagoland Realty Group Partners LLC, in October 2011. Since 2010, Sean has managed up to 200 single-family hom...

Bradley Franc is the creator of The Succession Solution. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, business coach, strategist, business lawyer, and CPA (inactive). As an entrepreneur he has formed four separate companies which have been named nine separate times in INC Magazine list of fastest-growing companies in the U.S. Bradley has been named by Worth Magazine as one of the top 100 attorneys in the U...

Gene Guarino speaks in over 50 cities and 5 countries on Residential Assisted Living and the opportunities for business owners, operators, investors and entrepreneurs. He has trained over 300,000 people over the past 30 years on topics ranging from real estate investing, starting your own business, entrepreneurship and he has focused exclusively on Residential Assisted Living for the past 7 years....

Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990's and selecti...