From Corporate to Cash Flow

What happens when a military veteran realizes his job is limiting his ability to actually show up when it matters most? In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with real estate investor and veteran Mike Davis to talk about his unconventional path into investing, and how a few pivotal life moments completely shifted his priorities. Mike calls himself an “accidental investor,” get...

After 23 years on the force, Aaron Hoisington didn't ride off into retirement — he pivoted straight into real estate investing. In this episode of the From Corporate to Cash Flow Podcast, host Andrea Cannon sits down with Aaron to talk fix and flips, private money lending, creative financing, and his ambitious mission to solve New Mexico's affordable housing crisis through co-living. What makes Aa...

What if climbing the corporate ladder is actually keeping you stuck? This engineering scientist walked away from a stable W2 job to build a laundromat empire, and he’s just getting started. In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Benjamin Huang, a corporate engineer turned entrepreneur who realized he was building someone else’s dream inside a large medical device company a...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Courtney Johnson, a physical therapist who realized the “safe” career path wasn’t the only way to build wealth. After checking all the boxes — school, good grades, and a stable healthcare career — Courtney began exploring alternative income streams. What started as travel physical therapy quickly evolved into building an online busine...

What if the biggest threat to your career isn’t AI itself, but not knowing how to use it? In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Owen Mecham, the engineer behind enterprise web applications at Carvana, where much of his work has focused on AI and machine learning. Owen shares why this moment is less about fear and more about opportunity. He compares AI to a massive wave. T...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Kat Aguilar Smith, a capital matchmaker who works closely with family offices representing ultra–high net worth families with $100M–$200M+ in assets. Kat grew up in an immigrant entrepreneurial family and started working at just 15 years old. Determined to build her own path, she initially set her sights on climbing the corporate ladd...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Regan Sonnabend, a former corporate employee who walked away from her W2 to build a full-time real estate business focused on mid-term rentals. Regan’s journey started when she used a corporate bonus to purchase a vacation home for her family. When it came time to sell, she was facing a significant tax bill, which led her to explore 1...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Eric — a former university biochemical engineer working with nanoparticles to improve chemotherapy targeting — who made the leap from academia to real estate investing and private money lending. Eric and his wife originally purchased a condo to live in, but after starting a family, they pivoted, renting the condo on Airbnb and upgradi...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Chris Geddes to talk about his journey from working at Google to becoming a full-time entrepreneur and real estate investor. Chris started out the way many high-income W-2 professionals do—buying about one rental property per year. But he quickly realized that pace wasn’t going to create the freedom he was looking for. That search for...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Aaron Kirkham to talk about his journey from working several regular jobs to finding his niche in real estate through short-term rentals. Aaron shares how he first got started by renting out a portion of his own home on Airbnb, an experiment that quickly opened his eyes to the scalability of the short-term rental model and the possibi...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Matt Burnett, a former IT professional who walked away from the W2 world to build a real estate portfolio with a much bigger mission: providing affordable housing for 50,000 people in Birmingham, Alabama. In just one year, Matt went from zero properties to 32, proving that impact and scale don’t have to be mutually exclusive. He works...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, we sit down with Conrado Mendez to break down how lease options can be used to invest in real estate without managing properties, while still creating real impact. As an immigrant investor, Conrado discovered that the lease option strategy allowed him to buy his first house. Then he went on to help people get into homes who wouldn’t qualify through tr...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, hosts Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Soddee Knight to talk about he went from friends with Liz in 4th grade to law school to full time in real estate. Soddee took the leap from prosecutor to full time entrepreneur several years ago. In this episode he talks about how he went from saving up for a faucet for his properties to making the tran...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, hosts Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Whitney Parkhill to talk about investing in RV parks with a mission: rescuing 100,000 dogs through purpose-driven real estate. Whitney’s journey didn’t start in real estate. She began her career in fashion, then made the leap into investing by fix-and-flipping a property in the Bay Area. After experimen...

In Episode 35 of From Corporate to Cashflow, hosts Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Caleb Christopher, a real estate investor who didn’t just adapt to the gaps in the industry, he built solutions to fix them. After repeatedly running into broken systems while structuring creative finance deals, Caleb realized the services investors needed simply didn’t exist at the level they should. So...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, hosts Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Alex Murillo to unpack how he started investing in real estate as a college sophomore, without mentors, family connections, or prior experience. With no one in his circle investing in real estate, Alex decided to figure it out on his own. He and his wife qualified for their first property using her nurs...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Luke Van Der Veer to discuss buying businesses, a solution to his tax problem. Luke graduated with his MBA but it only took Luke about a month to realize that a W2 job was not a good fit for him. He immediately started side hustles like multi-level marketing, drop shipping, and other gigs in order to figure o...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Dustin Geroski to talk about why co-living real estate is one of the best cash-flow strategies today. We talk all about how Dustin and his partners are doing the co-living model differently than others and how they have their buy box and pipeline dialed in. Dustin has taught his co-living strategy to many inv...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Melissa Ryan to discuss her recent journey into RV park investing. We talk all about the "why" behind this particular asset class, how she shifted her mindset to thinking bigger, the plans for expansion within the RV park space, and the mission-driven investing component where each RV park will have an affili...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Adam Colburn to discuss his journey into entrepreneurship as a real estate investor and coffee shop owner. Adam started his career as a real estate photographer and doing specialized HVAC maintenance work in the pharmaceutical industry but realized that he wanted more to out of his life than what his his path...

  In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Kevin & Marcie Thompson to discuss their journey into investing in real estate and balancing their dynamic as a couple who is on this journey together. They have found their calling to help other couples navigate their own entrepreneurial journey and step into their best selves in their relationship. If...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Kristyn Cozad to discuss her journey into investing in real estate and buying businesses. As a flight attendant, she realized she wasn't building her own dream, she was building someone else's. After reflecting, she pivoted full-time into real estate and started fix & flipping houses. She shares some of h...

  If you’re working a full-time W2 job and wondering how to invest in real estate without becoming a landlord or quitting your career, this video is for you. We’ll break down the best real estate investing strategies for W2 earners who may or may not qualify for Real Estate Professional status, but still want to take advantage of tax benefits like depreciation, mortgage interest deductions, and 10...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Edgar Vargas to discuss his journey into investing in real estate through private money lending. Coming from an immigrant family, Edgar initially wanted to follow the traditional path of going to school and getting a job to be successful. Once he hit his career goals he decided to get into real estate after s...

In this episode of From Corporate to Cashflow, Andrea Cannon and Liz Schwab sit down with Cortlan Brown to discuss his journey into wholesaling real estate. With a strong entrepreneurial background, Cortlan decided to dive deep into the realm of creative real estate and wholesaling. After some initial success, deals stalled out so he joined forces with others local to the Utah market to form a who...