Real Estate & Investing for entrepreneurs

“He who do not have the money does not have the choices.”

Lane Kawaoka on Real Estate Wealth Building for Entrepreneurs · 3:30· listen →

“Sophisticated investors don't invest in the sexiest of places or even the best areas. They don't invest in the— they're not a slumlord, right? But there's a nice little sweet spot in the middle.”

Lane Kawaoka on Real Estate Wealth Building for Entrepreneurs · 10:31· listen →

“Once you get to accredited investor status, it's just too much liability to own these silly rental properties and they're just not scalable.”

Lane Kawaoka on Real Estate Wealth Building for Entrepreneurs · 12:33· listen →

“This era of free money that real estate was in from my inception, from 2010 to 2022, is gone.”

Lane Kawaoka on Real Estate Wealth Building for Entrepreneurs · 31:28· listen →

“You know, John, like we say always, money doesn't buy happiness. And I know that this is a very— we always say it after we make money. And I think the problem is it's because we don't have the right definition of happiness.”

Georges Karam: From War to Wealth to Purpose · 16:33· listen →

“And a lot of people sometimes tells me, ah, you know, you're lucky, George, you're doing this for others. And I say honestly, no, I'm doing for myself. I'm like selfish. I do it because I feel good by giving back, and I feel less guilty because whenever I travel with my kids and I see how they live and how we go to some countries sometimes and how much there is inequality— me, maybe not everyone the same— it bothered me.”

Georges Karam: From War to Wealth to Purpose · 24:17· listen →

“After it happened, it was probably the most difficult period of my life. I mean, even more difficult than growing and scaling the company because like, as I said, when you're like, when you're in it, John, you don't realize how much you're in it and how much of your every living drop of energy is going into it.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 15:57· listen →

“Money is energy. It's everywhere. Everybody can be as rich as they wanna be. That is kind of the easy part.”

Ashley Black: Necessity, Near-Death & High Vibration Living · 39:16· listen →

“Close your eyes and think that you're starting a new business, you have 2 kids, you have a mortgage, you had a stable job, and you decide to quit your $150,000 to $200,000 job. You take a mortgage on your house. You have absolutely no idea if you're gonna make income. Then how do you feel about it? Does it excite you or does it scare you?”

Georges Karam: From War to Wealth to Purpose · 5:45· listen →

“Something about the construction, it, it just speaks to me. Like right now my goal is I want, when I'm done playing, I want to, one, I don't want to take a pay cut, which like that's a very high bar. And then 2, like, I, um, I want to be passionate about what I do, um, but I want to— I want to also make mailbox money.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 40:23· listen →

“You just got to remember it probably doesn't matter in the big grand scheme of things. Any decision you make right now, you're probably going to be wrong in, and that's totally fine. It's called the no tax. It means you got to do 500 things wrong and get 500 nos before you get a yes.”

Grayson Cross on Scaling E-Commerce, AI, and Burnout · 29:37· listen →

“Don't be greedy at the beginning, especially for startup. I see a lot of companies that they do— somehow they learn to do this evaluation based on a future value times 20 times their revenue, whatever. And say, guys, don't be greedy at the beginning because the first investors, especially let's say if you're like in the seed money or like angels, those are the most important ones. They're taking such a huge risk.”

Georges Karam: From War to Wealth to Purpose · 33:14· listen →

“He said, George, I'm not going to give you fifty thousand dollars right away. I'm going to give you ten thousand every month, not because I don't trust you, but because if I give you the fifty thousand dollars right away, you're going to think that you're rich and you have money, and you're going to spend it.”

Georges Karam: From War to Wealth to Purpose · 36:32· listen →

“So much of it's about storytelling and in a way, vision dumping, because that's what gets people excited. That's what gets people to buy in. And that's a lot of what I was doing in the early stages of raising money. It was really just pitching the vision that I had for where this could go.”

Jack Adler on Building Out2Win and Raising $1.3M Young · 7:37· listen →

“The valuation is going to always be the most speculative thing you can do in the world... So the 2 tips is find a way to find any way to justify some kind of valuation. But also find investors that are going to believe in what you're doing because creative stuff like might work, it might not.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 47:35· listen →

“That next big win is a weird thing... it's like doing drugs. And when you're doing things like that, you get this high and you're thinking to replicate it. If you keep chasing it that way, it's only going to destroy you.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 4:34· listen →

“You know, it was years until I replaced my salary. You know, I think, I think people, I think a lot of people have the wrong idea about entrepreneurship. They think that, oh, you got a business, you must be rolling in the cash, right?”

Jeff Knauss: AI Employees, Bootstrapping & Exit Lessons · 17:35· listen →

“It was so stressful that I had an autoimmune disease kind of sitting somewhere in my body, and it brought it out. And it's called pemphigus vulgaris, which sounds more like a Harry Potter curse than a disease. It's this thing that if I had gotten 50 years ago, John, I would have died from it.”

Jeff Knauss: AI Employees, Bootstrapping & Exit Lessons · 25:02· listen →

“I think that's a big mistake with serial entrepreneurship is people see it as diversifying their risk. But because the root cause of startup failure is the internal mismanagement that derails decision-making, what will happen is that you're going to be fighting fires everywhere.”

Phil Neil: Emotional Mastery & Entrepreneurial Reinvention · 16:46· listen →

“Versus if I have this narrative that I am unblockable, I am comfortable in space, I am a seatbelt in coverage, I'm hard to deal with, I'm— I cause problems for the offense, I'm one step ahead of everyone. Like, you just tell these things to yourself.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 0:06

“Now, like, wanting it more doesn't actually make you better. It's all the other stuff. Like, are you staying consistently focused on the right goals? Are you working on the right goals? Are you efficiently using your time and your energy?”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 23:17

“As long as it's not the knockout punch and there's still time on the clock and there's still breath in my lungs and there's still this and there's— it's like, it's truly like— It's never too late. Like, it's really just never too late.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 31:24

“I read this book, Psycho-Cybernetics. That was the book I read before my fourth year. I just had this like kind of— I revived my career. It was because of that book. And the whole essence of the book was like talking about reworking the self-image you have for yourself and how like you can only do as much as your self-image allows you to do.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 29:53

“You might have this occupation that tells you this is where I'm at, this is where I need to be. But don't let that ever, ever, ever get in the way of your vocation, of your purpose. And I felt like, you know, I started playing football. It was a scheme to make friends, win influence, get girls, all the things.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 36:22

“If you break yourself down just to be successful in business, it's not even about enjoying the benefits of money and those things, it's about enjoying your life. And, I think that gets lost. We learn about the so-called hustle culture, #hustle. Everybody's like, grind, grind, grind. But, that really isn't accurate.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 2:51

“First just make something cool and then worry about how you get it in front of people. It does not work the other way. That's where you see like the Hawktua girl... She had a shot and then didn't do anything with it because she wasn't prepared. So first, prepare your ideas and your cool content, and then worry about getting the people to see it.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 14:58

“Everyone is afraid to fail and they fear failure more than they love success... Failure, she and I, like we go way back, right? We all fail more than we succeed. A great baseball player bats .300. That means they failed 70% of the time.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 19:03

“Most of us suffer from imposter syndrome, right? Your skill level's going like this, your confidence level's going like that, and there's this gap.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 19:03

“I talk to myself sometimes and I would never talk to a friend like that ever. I forgot my flash drive. You piece of shit. Like, how are you not prepared for this? You know? And it's trying to stop yourself from doing that.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 21:50

“You manage them like you manage a plant. You won't water a plant if it's raining for a week. So, just as you don't have to water your energy if you've been at a Spartan Race boot camp for a week.”

Phil Neil: Emotional Mastery & Entrepreneurial Reinvention · 18:50

“It's okay to let the world burn for a while. So, you think you need to fight every fire, but if you let it burn, usually it's not as bad as you think. And then in stillness, you find clarity.”

Phil Neil: Emotional Mastery & Entrepreneurial Reinvention · 19:58

“I believe entrepreneurship is a hero journey, which means that you step into the unknown. But the way we're approaching entrepreneurship right now is we're doing it in reverse. We're aiming for tactics, tools, skills that we can plug and play into a trail that's known in our forest.”

Phil Neil: Emotional Mastery & Entrepreneurial Reinvention · 21:44

“I think part of the answer is acknowledging that the real treasure is not the exit. It's the broken icons that you had when you started the journey about how it should play out, who you are, what are your skills that are being destroyed by the reality of the experience that you can now integrate into wisdom.”

Phil Neil: Emotional Mastery & Entrepreneurial Reinvention · 28:20

“We confuse hustling with business and entrepreneurship. To me, they're all different.”

Phil Neil: Emotional Mastery & Entrepreneurial Reinvention · 26:13

“You don't get the journey you want, you get the journey you need. And so my journey was nothing like what was— nothing came up that gave me any indication about what was next for me. What came up for me were a lot of things from my past that I thought I had processed, but I didn't process.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 20:26

“So I quit my job that day. I felt it so strongly, John. I knew what was happening and I just didn't want to be there. I'd come off the street with complete strangers feeling a deep connection and I got into this workspace and I was like, this isn't my environment.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 10:22

“We as entrepreneurs and leaders, that's what gets us where we are, is we think we have this energy above our neck most of the time. We're comparing, we're contrasting, we're judging, doing all the things that make our companies better, that make us better. And so I have to coach them to let go of that and to relax and be vulnerable and release expectations.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 32:05

“He came out of that journey just crying and very in touch with this realization that he needs to let go more and let people be who they are because they're all, they all have their own ways of expressing love and affection and respect and get out of his own way of how he thought he should be happy.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 43:12

“It's important just when associating yourself with an athlete and having them represent your brand to the public eye that you just have the full 360 view of like, where are they going to be showing up and how are they going to be showing up? Is this who I want to represent my brand?”

Jack Adler on Building Out2Win and Raising $1.3M Young · 4:28