Funny thing happened over the last few weeks—I learned how much people love the idea of getting rich fast! I’m sort of half way joking about this but we had two funds—both Reg D 506c offerings so I’m legally clear to talk about them. Anyway, one was a highly speculative crypto fund. I emphasized several […]

Ray Dalio, legendary Hedge Fund Manager and over-all smart guy has been talking about the coming “financial winter” for the last few years. He’s looking at the same things we talk about on this show all the time–near zero interest rates for a decade, ballooning asset prices, quadrillion dollar derivative markets, etc. Neither Ray Dalio […]

The Chinese word for crisis and opportunity is one and the same. I know this from personal experience. My entrepreneurial career was launched because of a crisis. It was 2009 and I had my first job out of training at a company called Lifestyle Lift.  You may recall late night infomercials showing miraculous rejuvenation of […]

Why the heck did I start a podcast anyway? A lot of people ask me that. Well, it went something like this. I used to listen to podcasts all the time—most of them real estate related. But after a while, I realized a few things. First of all, even if I liked a particular podcast, […]

I don’t have an IRA or a 401K. In fact, most people I know who are higher net worth do not. You see, what I’m realizing more and more as I continue to gradually climb up this wealth ladder is that there seems to be a separate set of rules at each stop. Don’t get […]

You know, one of the interesting things about getting older is that you have the ability to look back and tell a story about yourself—to create a narrative about the moments and the people that, for better or for worse, changed the course of your life. I remember the day I decided to become a […]