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Dan Handford is managing partner with passiveinvesting.com. He and his wife, Dennae, along with their 4 children (3 girls and a boy), reside and work in Columbia, SC. Dan has an extensive successful background in starting multiple 7-figure businesses from scratch, including a large group of non-surgical orthopedic and sports medicine clinics located in South Carolina. He's the founder of the Multifamily Investor Nation where he educates a nationwide group of over 9,000 members of multifamily investors on how to properly invest in multifamily assets. He's the co-host, along with his wife, of the Tough Decisions for Entrepreneurs Podcast, which can be found on iTunes and Google Podcast.

Travis Jones is the founder of over 15 results-based training gyms across Australia and founder of the health tracking app, Keystone.fit, a business coaching FitPros for the last 8 years, and has a digital agency as well. He has an amazing wife, who really is amazing, and two boys under 5 years old. Jones, who played elite level rugby league as a teenager into his early 20s, opened his first RBT gym in south Melbourne in 2011 before growing it into a recognized Australian transformation facility, building a reputation of changing the lives of thousands of people every single year. Every year his goals get bigger and bigger.

Born in 1987, John Crestani has accomplished a lot in his 32 years. In 2009, Crestani, 21, traveled to Thailand to figure out his direction in life and find himself. During this time, he read a number of spiritual works, such as The Alchemist, that would later influence his life, but his saving grace turned out to be a business book. John was sitting on a beach in Thailand, poor and lost in life, when he opened a book that helped transform him into becoming a motivated and successful internet entrepreneur. This book was The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, the now classic manual for breaking free from the 9 to 5 workweek desk job by building an online business. After a number of years of trial and error building his internet business, Crestani finally managed to create a multimillion dollar business. He met his wife and traveled the world. He went from deep in debt to having a successful cash flow positive business that supports his life, his wife and their 3-year-old child. As of late, he's gone on to build an education empire, and now he's taken it upon himself to teach a handful of aspiring entrepreneurs how they too can transition to the new entrepreneurial economy and be their own boss.

Shawn Yesner is a Florida native, born in Tampa and raised in Miami. After graduating from Florida State University with a B.S. degree in accounting, Shawn enrolled in the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, graduating with a Juris Doctor degree in 1998. Since our last interview, Shawn's podcast, the "Crushing Debt Podcast", has continued to grow and now is in its fourth year. Shawn estimates that he's helped his clients eliminate a collective amount of over $10 million. In September 2018, Shawn published his first book titled, Crushing Debt: 9 Strategies to Eliminate Financial Bullies. The book is available right now on Amazon.

Marco Santarelli is an investor, author, and the founder of Norada Real Estate Investments, a nationwide provider of turnkey cash-flow investment properties. Since 2004, Marco and his team have helped thousands of real estate investors create wealth and passive income through real estate. He's also the host of the top-rated "Passive Real Estate Investing" podcast.

Jason Wright is the founder of the Intentionally Inspirational brand, which began as a podcast that was created to motivate and inspire entrepreneurs. Since its inception, Intentionally Inspirational has evolved to include a weekly blog, published resources, and a comprehensive offering of digital marketing services and consulting. Jason is the author of the book, The Backwards Route To Forward Progress, and the eBook, 15 Lessons for Surviving Your Startup. Jason is a lifelong serial entrepreneur who thrives on challenge and has an unwavering focus on participating in meaningful work, motivating and uplifting other people, and building a lasting legacy.

Tony Bradshaw is the author of The Millionaire Choice: Millionaire or Not. You Can Choose. Tony was 25 doing the same old stupid stuff with money that his parents had done. That's also when he made his choice to become a millionaire. He had what he called his financial awakening and began learning everything he could about money. Now he's helping people make their own choice to become a millionaire because he believes anyone can do it. Having grown up in a lower income family, Tony made his millionaire choice at 25. Now 2 decades later, he's teaching people how to make their own millionaire choice. His book, The Millionaire Choice, was inspired by his own vision of empowering anyone to become a millionaire no matter what their income, ethnicity, or financial situation. His mission is to create a movement of financially educated and wealthy people who will make it their mission to fight poverty and help those in need around the world.

Dmitriy Fomichenko is the founder and president of Sense Financial Services LLC, a boutique financial firm specializing in self-directed retirement accounts and checkbook control. He began his career in financial planning and real estate back in 2000. He owns multiple investment properties in various states and is a licensed California real estate broker. Over the years, he's taught hundreds of investment and financial planning seminars and mentored thousands of investors. Dmitriy founded Sense Financial Services to help his clients maximize their return on investment while protecting their hard-earned money. He's very passionate about helping families and individuals achieve financial freedom by following proven, biblical principles of financial planning and investing.

Ari Gunzburg is a wilderness liaison, motivational speaker, workshop facilitator, podcast host, long distance cyclist to fundraise for kids with cancer, and more. From a colored past to a colorful future, Ari is raising spirits and helping people build themselves into more than ever before.

Kenneth Ameduri has had a passion for truth from an early age. Finding trends and anticipating growth sectors has been his primary focus since he was in high school. After noticing the cracks in the underlying financial system, Kenneth became a proactive investor, purchasing investments that would hedge his portfolio against inflation. This lead him to investing in real estate, precious metals, stocks and cryptocurrency, establishing a personal multimillion dollar profile prior to turning 30. Kenneth has taken the knowledge he has compiled in the business world and is now pouring it into "Crush the Street" for the benefit of his members through the weekly newsletter, blog and podcast, focusing on market trends, precious metals, cryptocurrency and sound economics. Kenneth is the chief editor at crushthestreet.com, where all of his work can be found.

Jordan Goodman is known as America's "Money Answers Man" because he's been answering Americans' personal financial questions for almost 40 years. He's written 14 best-selling books including Master Your Debt, Fast Profits in Hard Times, and the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms. He was the Wall Street correspondent at Money magazine for 18 years, and he's currently the host of the national, weekly "Money Answers" radio show on the Voice America Business Network. He's a regular commentator on financial topics on national and local radio and tv shows across the U.S. He runs the personal finance website moneyanswers.com.

Monick Halm is the founder of the Real Estate Investor Goddesses. She's an educator and advocate for women to create real wealth through real estate and has made it her mission to help one million women achieve financial freedom through real estate investing. She herself is a real estate investor, syndicator and developer with over 14 years of real estate investing experience in multifamily, mobile home parks, RV parks, flipping, commercial, vacation rentals, syndication and ground up development. Together with her husband and her investors, she owns over 1,000 rental units across 5 states. She's also the best-selling author of the Real Estate Investor Goddess Handbook, and Wealth for Women: Conversations with the Team That Creates the Dream. She's host of the Real Estate Investor Goddesses podcast, real estate investment strategy mentor, sought after keynote speaker, recovered attorney, certified interior designer, yogi, avid world traveler, wife and mother of 3 amazing kids.

Rachel Marshall is the co-founder and chief financial educator of The Money Advantage. She's on a mission to help business owners create time and money freedom by keeping more of the money they make, protecting it and turning it into cash flowing assets. Podcaster, YouTuber, blogger and speaker, Rachel teaches cashflow strategies, infinite banking, and alternative investments in a simple, actionable way. Since 2011, Rachel's been a business owner motivated to control her time and destiny and help others do the same.

Bernard Reisz, CPA empowers individuals to optimize their finances using proactive and innovative strategies. He provides an integrated approach to tax and financial planning for real estate pros, focusing on their unique profiles and opportunities. Bernard is the founder of 401kcheckbook.com, which gives investors direct control of their tax sheltered funds for real estate equity and debt opportunities using checkbook control IRA's, solo 401(k)'s and checkbook life insurance. He's also the founder of agentfinancial.com, which provides tax, entity, and financial services to real estate pros including real estate agents, real estate investors and mortgage brokers.

Jason Hartman is the founder and CEO of Platinum Properties Investor Network, The Hartman Media Company, and The Jason Hartman Foundation. Starting with very little, Jason, while still in college at 19, embarked on a career in real estate while brokering properties for clients. He was investing in his own portfolio as well. Through creativity, persistence and hard work, he soon joined the ranks of the top 1% of realtors in the U.S., and in quick succession, earned a number of prestigious industry awards and became a young multimillionaire. Hartman now has been involved in several thousand real estate transactions, and he has owned income properties in 11 states and 17 cities. His companies help people achieve the American Dream of financial freedom by purchasing income property in prudent markets nationwide.

Daniel is a self-made multimillionaire and full-time fact finder. He credits his success to a strong desire to surround himself with the right people. After warning family and friends in 2007 about the coming market and mortgage collapse, he started his own YouTube channel, VisionVictory, which has received 10 million plus video views. On March 18, 2008, Daniel called for Dow 8000, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, AIG and Washington Mutual. During the mortgage crisis, he helped people buy put options on country-wide mortgage. These puts saw a gain of 1400%. His connections to insiders in the microcap space drive towards overdelivering to his readers is truly extraordinary and what separates him from other publishers. He is the co-founder of the Future Money Trends letter, "Crush the Street", and also the author of Don't Save for Retirement.

M.C. Laubscher is a "Cashflow Ninja". He is a wealth strategist, educator and financial freedom fighter. He is the president and CEO of Producers Wealth, and he is the creator and host of the popular and top-rated business and investing podcast, "Cashflow Ninja". His purpose and mission is to help producers and creators create, protect and multiply their wealth in any economy without getting ripped off by Wall Street and their governments. M.C. challenges existing societal belief systems and misinformation around concepts such as money, saving, investing, wealth, and retirement.

Gerri Detweiler is the Education Direct for Nav, which matches small business owners to their best financing options and gives access to free personal and business credit scores. Her articles have been widely syndicated. She's been interviewed in more than 3,000 news stories, and she's the author or co-author of 5 books, including her most recent, Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track.

Sean Zalmanoff is a respected speaker, coach, regional mortgage manager, mortgage influencer, and a founding member of Next Level Loan Officers. When not leading his mortgage business or coaching loan officers, Sean is an active real estate investor who both owns commercial and residential property, as well as flip homes. During his down time, Sean enjoys being in the outdoors with his wife and two sons to make memories with his family.

Mark Mascia has had over 17 years of real estate investment experience and a career portfolio valued at over $2 billion. Mark founded Mascia Development, LLC in 2006. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Mark oversaw half a billion dollars in development projects in Manhattan while he worked for Archstone, a former Fortune 500, publicly traded real estate company. From early on, Mark has been working closely with some of the country's wealthiest family offices and continues to do so today with his own company. Mark also has two Master's degrees from New York University and George Washington University and is an adjunct professor at NYU's Institute of Real Estate and has a deep appreciation for sharing his knowledge with everyone he meets.

James Kandasamy is the principal at Achieve Investment Group, a vertically integrated investment company actively engaged in multifamily acquisition, asset management, property and construction management. A well-known multifamily operator, James has over 4 years of multifamily experience, and 6 plus years of experience in real estate overall. In addition to his work, James has built a reputation for creative marketing tactics to find motivated sellers and unlock hidden value in multifamily operations. James has identified, underwritten and overseen the acquisition of over 65 million of quality multifamily investments over a total of 6 assets. He's also routinely lead passive investors to an average IRR of over 20% in the past deals he's done. Prior to real estate investing, James pursued a career in engineering, having earned a B.S. in electrical engineering with honors and an MBA from a reputable university.

Anna Myers is the vice president of Grocapitus Investments, LLC, teaches underwriting for MultifamilyU, and co-hosts a real estate investor meet-up in the San Francisco Bay area. With an extensive background as a programmer in systems architect in the tech industry, she uses these skills to evaluate multifamily deals, identify key investment markets, and implement systems and processes to acquire and manage multifamily assets. Anna partnered with Neal Bawa to purchase 500 units of apartment projects in 2018, and added another 300 units in the first few months of 2019.

Maneesh is the founder of Pavlok and Shock Clock, helping people change their habits for good. In 2008, Maneesh took a two year break from studying at Stanford to travel and start hackthesystem.com, a travel blog about credit card hacking and digital nomads. In 2012, his article, "Why I Hired a Girl on Craigslist to Slap Me in the Face- And How it Quadrupled my Productivity", went viral. In 2013, he took that idea to start a company that earned almost 8 figures in revenue over the last several years building devices that use psychology and sensory stimuli to help you change habits and wake up early. That company helped over 75,000 customers wake up in the morning, reduce cravings, quit smoking and defend against distractions, and, therefore, essentially helping people get fitter and healthier.

Vinney Chopra's success in real estate investment and syndication is a testament to the power of enthusiasm, passion, persistence and positivity. He came to the United States from India over 40 years ago. He had only seven dollars in his pocket, but he knew without a doubt that the opportunities offered by this country were within reach because he had a vision for his life plus the commitment to learn, work hard and sacrifice to achieve his goals. He has successfully completed 27 multifamily syndications over the years, controlling 3500 units valued at $220 million. He also has a new fund for accredited investors who want to invest in multifamily.

Fernando Angelucci is the 27-year-old senior managing partner of Titan Wealth Group based out of Chicago. He first read Rich Dad, Poor Dad when he was 16 and subsequently started his first business at the age of 19 while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When Fernando graduated with a bioengineering AG degree in 2013, he went on to work in a Fortune 50 company and immediately started investing in single family homes on the side. By the age of 23, he was able to replace his income and exit the "9-5" life to begin investing in single family and multifamily properties full time. By 24, he began purchasing value-add self-storage facilities and within two years began pooling funds from his investors to build ground-up, class A self-storage facilities to flip to publicly traded REITs.

Adam started investing in real estate in 2005 after repositioning his first apartment community in 2007 from a $2 million value to a $4 million value in 12 months as a property manager. Adam bought his first multifamily apartment building. Since then, Adam has managed several single family "fix-and-flips" and holds over 100 multifamily rental doors. Adam is the organizer of Colorado's most active real estate group, and he hosts the "Creative Real Estate Podcast". Adam has been a guest on countless popular podcasts, including the "Best Ever Show", "Investor Army", and the "Investability Podcast".

Jason Hull's personal mission statement is to inspire others to love true principles. This means he's all about figuring out what works and sharing it with others. Jason is the world's leading property management growth hacker, and enjoys helping property management business owners grow their businesses. He's the host of the "Door Grow Show", founder of the Door Grow Club, a free Facebook group for property management entrepreneurs, and the creator of The Seed Program: The Ultimate Foundation for Property Management Growth. His mission at Door Grow is to transform property management businesses and their owners.

Zach Beach works with smartrealestatecoach.com, located in Newport, Rhode Island. He works alongside his wife, Kayla, brother-in-law, Nick, father-in-law, Chris, and a great support team. He's a successful real estate investor, completing over 100 deals in under 3 years and continues to buy and sell property without using his own cash, credit or investor's money. Zach is co-authoring their second book, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing. At age 25, Zach decided to jump into the family real estate business. It was one of the first big risks he took in his life, and nothing was guaranteed. He didn't know anything about real estate, so through hard work, in-house training and implementation, Zach has now completed these 100 deals and growing. Additionally, he coaches students around the country on how to buy and sell property just like his family does.

Ian Ippolito is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of the investment analysis website called therealestatecrowdfundingreview.com. The site has over 12,000 visitors per month and has been featured in USA Today, Bloomberg News, Realtor.com, Curbed and more. Ippolito is also the founder of a private investor club for alternative investing, with over 1,300 members and over 1.35 billion in investable assets. In 2001, Ippolito created one of the first remote work websites from an extra bedroom in his house, rentacoder.com, which was later renamed vworker.com. Ippolito grew it to 450,000 users, 15 employees, and 11.1 million in revenue before selling it to freelancer.com for an undisclosed price in the millions. Before that, he created one of the first open-source websites for programmers, planitsourcecode.com. At its peak, the site had 1.5 million visitors per month. Ippolito has been awarded the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Company Award four years in a row, and named to the 100 Most Innovative and Brilliant Companies by Entrepreneur Magazine. Ippolito has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Time, Fast Company, Tech Crunch, CBS News, Fox News and many more.

With a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and appealing solution to the epidemic of chronic pain, Brendon Lundberg co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centers. He combines his mission to change the way chronic pain is treated with deep experience and healthcare management, marketing, business development and sales. Prior to opening the first center in 2014, Brendon played key operational and business development roles for two Portland-area Business Journal and Inc. Magazine growth award-winning companies and was the director of sales and marketing for another Portland-based medical device start-up. Brendon holds a B.S. in Business Marketing and an MBA.

Terry White is a long-time business owner and investor. He's a graduate of the University of New Mexico and began his career as the controller for the largest title company in New Mexico. In 1987, he started his first business, First Financial Escrow, Inc. Over the years, his business grew until in 1997 he purchased the real estate contract division from the largest bank in New Mexico. October 2017 marked First Financial's 30th year in business. In 2004, Terry started Sunwest Trust, Inc. to serve the needs of investors that wanted to invest their individual retirement accounts in investments other than what was widely offered. Sunwest is now one of the leading self-directed IRA custodians in the country with assets under custody exceeding $1.5 billion. Along the way, Terry has invested for himself in many areas of real estate and started several other businesses.

Brian Burke is president and CEO of Praxis Capital, Inc., a vertically integrated real estate private equity investment firm, which he founded in 2001. Brian is also a member of the Praxis Investment Committee. Praxis operates on multiple platforms, currently managing active syndications for the acquisition of single, multifamily and opportunistic residential assets in the U.S. growth markets. As a recognized real estate expert, Brian has been a frequent speaker at real estate forums and conferences, including the Opal Family Office & Private Wealth Management forum, the Keiretsu Forum, and the Institute for Private Investors. He has also served as co-host and real estate expert on the Fox News radio show, "The Best of Investing". Brian is married and has lived in northern California for over 30 years. An avid aviation enthusiast, he's a licensed instrument-rated airplane and helicopter pilot.

Lee Kearney is one of the nation's most active and successful single-family real estate investors, having flipped over 7,000 houses in the last decade, totaling over $500 million in property under his SPIN Real Estate company. Lee is known as the leading expert in understanding and leveraging real estate market cycles. He has been on the front lines of flipping homes, and his passion and expertise come into play as he inspires and educates real estate investors at all levels through his "Flip Your Income" training program.

Ellie Perlman is a real estate investor who owns 2,000 units across the U.S., worth over $250 million. Ellie is the founder and CEO of Blue Lake Capital, a real estate investing firm specializing in multifamily investments. At Blue Lake Capital, Ellie helps investors grow their wealth and get double-digit returns by investing alongside her in large multifamily deals that they wouldn't otherwise have access to. Prior to founding Blue Lake Capital, Ellie was a commercial real estate lawyer and a property manager. Ellie is the host of the podcast, "That REllie Happened", which highlights unbelievable real estate stories. She is an author for Forbes and a writer of a weekly blog you can find at ellieperlman.com.

AJ Osborne has been in real estate since the early 2000s. He created Bitterroot Holdings, a self-storage company that has a $100 million asset holding portfolio. He got his start in insurance running one of the largest brokerage firms in the northwest.

Scott Royal Smith is a real estate investor and asset protection attorney in Austin, Texas. He graduated from Albany Law School and began his career in high-stakes corporate litigation. Scott learned the key secret he now uses to defeat lawsuits, that they are a business. Through his defense work, he targets defeating lawsuits before they are even filed by making sure the business part of a lawsuit no longer makes financial sense for a plaintiff to proceed. Scott founded Royal Legal Solutions to offer tax, business and legal strategies to real estate investors. He spent the past 8 years of his career diving through case law, reading the ever-changing tax code, and analyzing real estate investment so that you don't have to. His claim to fame as an attorney is his uncanny ability to make his clients judgement-proof.

Joe Fairless is a full-time real estate investor that started buying multi-family properties in 2013 and now controls over $400 million of real estate, with a portfolio of over 4200 units. He's personally raised over $100 million from private investors for real estate investments. Prior to that, he was the youngest VP at an award-winning advertising agency in New York City. He's the host of the world's longest running daily real estate iTunes podcast, "Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever," where he's interviewed guests such as Barbara Corcoran, Robert Kiyosaki, Emmitt Smith and Tony Hawk.

Scott Meyers is the nation's leading expert in self-storage. After becoming a penniless landlord in the single-family rental and apartment business, he began investing in self-storage. He saw the light and quickly sold all of his single-family rentals and apartments to create a small empire of self-storage facilities nationwide. His company's focus on syndicating self-storage deals and helping others to launch their own self-storage business to enjoy a lifestyle free from toilets, tenants and trash. Scott is the principal in 16 facilities, totaling over 5,000 units and approximately 1 million square feet of storage. He is also the founder and president of selfstorageinvesting.com, a leading self-storage education company that offers courses, live events, mentoring and coaching. His company was started in 2006 for the purpose of acquiring, developing and operating self-storage facilities and has raised over 20 million in syndicates and private equity partnerships to fuel their growth.

Mike Zlotnik has been a debt and equity investor in real estate since 2000. He started his career and has spent nearly 15 years in the IT field, managing risk, business intelligence and software. Mike's passion has always been real estate investing because of its predictability and well-understood risks. In 2009, he joined Tempo Funding, LLC (Mortgage Pool Fund), as Vice President. In 2014, he assumed the role of CEO. Mike is the author of the book, How to Choose a Smart Real Estate Investment Fund. He also has a podcast called "Big Mike Fund".

Michael Levitt, with Breakfast Leadership and published author of 369 Days: How to Survive a Year of Worst-Case Scenarios, brings people back to life. He's focused on helping individuals and leaders within corporations learn boundaries in their work and personal life so they can accomplish more by doing less, which will save them and their careers, and possibly their lives.

Ryan McKenna is the founder of McKenna Capital, which is a private equity firm that helps accredited investors invest in recession-resistant real estate assets. He focuses on value-add multifamily, self-storage and manufactured home parts. Since starting McKenna Capital, Ryan has helped investors allocate capital to over 10 deals, which have a combined asset value of more than $250 million. Ryan has worked with some of the most experienced and well-respected operating partners across the U.S.

Kim Snider has spent 20-plus years as an entrepreneur, options trader, investment advisor, financial engineer, author, speaker, educator and financial talk radio host. Her investment firm, Snider Advisors, was on the Inc. list of "Fastest Growing Companies" 2 years in a row, in 2008 and 2009. Kim retired at 47 and sold her investment firm. In 2011, she moved to South Carolina with her husband and dogs, built a polo farm and planned to lived happily ever after. It all was going well, until Crypto came along. Motivated by the cascade of bad advice she saw pouring out all over the internet, Kim unretired to create Sane Crypto and help baby-boomers get properly positioned for what could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but not get wrecked if it turns out to be a big "nothing-burger".

Christian Chasmer empowers entrepreneurs to live their best lives and change the world. At 26 years old, this young entrepreneur has already built 2 successful companies and is now working on his 3rd, which is called Elevate Advisors. Starting in college, Christian built a franchise from 0 to 1.2 million in annual revenue, then he co-founded the real estate development company, CC Solutions, and grew it to 6 million in revenue in under 2 years. He's also the author of the #1 best-selling book, Lose the Limits: Break Your Limiting Beliefs, Become a More Productive You, Achieve Everything You Want in Life. The secret to his success lies in the systems he uses, both in his personal life and his business.

In this episode, Victoria Mavis shares the importance of finding the right people to work with. Don't be too trusting, but don't be jaded either. Victoria Mavis is a professional magician and podcast host of the show Pure Mind Magic. She is a published author of two books, has two academic degrees and is a consultant when it comes to mindset work. Now - brand new - she is also teaching you on how to deliver amazing podcast interviews worldwide - being prepared like a magician for a great show! Learn more at: www.victoria-mavis.com.

Oren Klaff is one of the world's leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation, having pitched and closed over $500 million of investor capital in recent years. His first book, Pitch Anything, is required reading throughout Silicon Valley, Wall Street and the Fortune 2000, and has been translated into over 10 languages, with over 1,000,000 copies in circulation worldwide. Today, Oren teaches leaders and organizations his hard-won real world methods. Additionally, Oren has written for Harvard Business Review, INC, Advertising Age, Entrepreneur and hundreds of periodicals, podcasts and blogs. Oren is an investment partner in a $200 million private equity investment fund. He lives in Southern California with his wife and son, and in his spare time is a motorcycle enthusiast.

Mike was laid off after almost 34 years from the high-tech industry at the age of 55. Instead of grieving, he took his 401k and turned it into a "self-directed IRA LLC" and then turned that LLC into a multi-million dollar company in less than 2 years. Now Mike gets to do anything he wants.

Cameron Herold is a top business consultant, best-selling author, and speaker. Named by Forbes Magazine as "the CEO Whisperer", Cameron has touched thousands of businesses directly and indirectly through his work. By age 35, he had built two $100 million companies, and by 42, he had grown 1-800-GOT-JUNK? from $2 million, to $106 million in revenue in just six years. Cameron has since gone on to help hundreds of companies grow, and exponentially increase revenue. He has earned his reputation by showing his clients how to double their profit in just three years or less—the process of which was the topic of his best-selling book "Double Double". His companies have landed over 5,200 media placements, including coverage on Oprah. Cameron is not just a theory guy. He teaches what he knows from experience and is passionate about sharing his expertise with today's most dynamic business leaders. He is currently channeling this passion through executive business coaching, international speaking events, and his work with the COO Alliance: the world's leading network for COO's.

Patrick Donohoe is the President and CEO of Paradigm Life, which he started in 2007 to teach investors, business owners, professionals and families sound financial principles. He is a firm believer that the more someone is educated, the better financial decisions they will make and the more financially free they will be. Patrick created a unique educational process which is conducted virtually, by way of video webinars and a no-cost eLearning program called Infinite 101. Along with founding Paradigm Life in 2007, Patrick also began hosting The Wealth Standard Radio, which continues to broadcast weekly.

Salem is the founder of Naked Capital, a private investment company focused on late cycle recession resistant assets and their underlying mathematics. To date, his company has $10M in assets and is growing rapidly with a target of $20M by the end of 2018. Prior to Naked Capital, Salem worked his way out of a challenging upbringing all the way to Wall street where he was building the math behind ultra-high net worth financial products at one of the world's largest investment banks. He has also consulted numerous global corporations on financial structures and built multiple real estate companies all along the way. Today, he's going to walk through how that math applies to real estate investing and portfolios more broadly.

Dr. David Phelps owned and managed a private practice dental office for over twenty-one years. While still in dental school, he began his investment in real estate by joint-venturing with his father on their first rental property in 1980. Multiple health crises suffered by his daughter, Jenna (leukemia, epilepsy and a liver transplant at age 12), caused David to leave practice so that he could spend time with his daughter. Unfortunately, a divorce and failed practice sale provided additional setbacks that he had to think and work through. Today, David is a nationally recognized speaker on creating freedom, building real businesses and investing in real estate. He also combines his professional and personal experiences to illustrate how the tactical and aspirational work together. David helps other logical, rational professionals become dreamers, then strategically manifest those dreams into freedom. He authors a monthly newsletter, "Path to Freedom" and hosts The Dentist Freedom Blueprint podcast.