On FIRE Podcast - Financial Independence

Today’s ON FIRE podcast has guest, Chris, from The Stealthy Rich talk about where he and his business partner, Dave are on their real estate investing and financial independence journey. In the last 7 years, they have purchased over 75 single family properties and have just recently acquired 200 units in apartment buildings. Chris gives … Continue reading "Stealth wealth, Real Estate Yellow Letters, and BRRR-ing – with The Stealthy Rich"

Host of the Passive Real Estate Investing podcast and founder of Norada Real Estate Investments, Marco Santarelli, is on today’s episode. Building your power team, analyzing financials, and the importance of being a market agnostic are some of the very informative topics Marco discusses with Matt and Kellan along with what is passive turnkey real … Continue reading "Market Agnostic and Passive Turnkey Real Estate Investing – with Marco Santarelli"

The Fruitful Investor is on the podcast again! In the past three years, since Mat Piche last sat down with Matt and Kellan, his goals and ambitions have grown substantially. He’s a YouTuber, social media personality, big time real estate investor, real estate agent, and mentor with a focus on building a lifestyle business. After … Continue reading "The Fruitful Investor: Private Lending and Building his Best Life with his Lifestyle Business – Mat Piche"

Tesla enthusiast, Nathan Klym is an investor with 5 solely owned student rental and triplex properties in Ontario Canada. He has specific goals around cashflow and every property that he acquires has to meet those criteria as he works towards financial independence. Having multiple streams of income has always been his objective. Along with real … Continue reading "Working Towards Financial Independence with Multiple Streams of Income – with Nathan Klym"

Today’s podcast guest, Mina G, is a serial entrepreneur with multiple pharmacies and a massive real estate empire that he’s been scaling up quite quickly. At the time of recording, he had over 80 units in the Southwestern Ontario region. There are a lot of life lessons in this episode as Mina shares his intense … Continue reading "Money, Time, and Working Hard for What You Want – with Mina G"

Best friends, roommates, and business partners Josh and Ehren, from the Findlay Mortgage team, are mortgage brokers with FIRE goals. A huge part of their solutions based brokerage customer base is people focused on financial independence through real estate investing. They have created a great work life blend for themselves; levelling each other up by … Continue reading "Ambitious Business Owners, Real Estate Investors & Mortgage Brokers – with The Findlay Mortgage Team"

Mitch Pater is doing it all. He’s flipping houses, airbnbs, wholesaling, long-term rentals, and recently started scaling up multi family properties. Mitch has a particular focus on building a business and has some great words of wisdom to impart, that contribute to his success. Some of the highlights include holding yourself accountable with goals, paying … Continue reading "Wholesaling, Flipping, Airbnbs, Long Term Rentals, and the Power of Social Media – with Mitch Pater"

Austin Yeh recently made the front of Toronto Life with the headline: “I’m 25, live with my parents and own 20 rental properties, here’s how I did it”. Austin is a young, motivated individual who has stood out as an investor. He has documented his journey on Instagram and has very quickly scaled a portfolio … Continue reading "Real Estate Investing, Wholesaling, Podcasting, Networking, and BRRRR-ing his Way to FIRE – with Austin Yeh"

Mike Van Houdt has seen huge success in many different types of ventures. After quitting his day job, he is focusing on real estate investing, reviewing cars on his youtube channel, and countless other entrepreneurial ventures. Find out his latest business plan in the secret reveal at the end of this episode!

On today’s episode, Matt and Kellan catch up with Andrew Hines. Andrew hosts his own podcast, invests in real estate, and has a deep understanding of macroeconomics. He has some interesting things to share about politics, the current economic environment and what might be in store for us in 2021.

Michal is a husband, father, accountant, auditor, and real estate investor. Using the BRRRR method, he has acquired 5 properties and 10 units all while working a full-time job. Michal thrives on coaching and sharing information he has gained, through networking and his own journey, to teach others about investing, renovation, and mindset.

At 22 and 23, Jeremy and Taylor took the real estate investing plunge and in less than a year and a half have scaled up faster than 90% of their peers. At the time of recording they already had 12 properties and 32 rental units. This passionate duo loves buying undervalued small multi family buildings, … Continue reading "Young Power Couple Real Estate Investing and BRRR-ing their way to FIRE in Chatham, Ontario – with Jeremy and Taylor"

Matt and Kellan have been absent from the On FIRE Podcast for around 18 months – here is what they’ve been up to, and what’s in store for the upcoming episodes!

Chandler is a regional sales manager for a nationally recognized pest control company. He has recruited and mentored over than 1,000 sales reps and sold 40,000+ pest control accounts bringing in more than $20 million in gross sales. Chandler takes the capital from these earnings, and funnels it directly into cash flowing real estate. A … Continue reading "20+ Million In Pest Control Sales Funneled into Cash Flowing Real Estate – w/ Chandler David Smith"

Angie’s first year of real estate investing resulted in 8 different deals, including a variety of strategies like flipping, wholesaling, and BRRRR-ing, with the goal of reaching Financial Independence! Now she’s on a 3-month van trip around the USA, thanks to passive income, and FU-money.

Andrew Hines touches on it all: real estate investing with both student and family rentals, wholesaling, rehab, new builds, add-ons, social media, hosting his own podcast, hosting a local networking group – gold nuggets are throughout the whole episode.  

In a few short years, Dylan McLauchlan built up enough passive income from his real estate portfolio to retire from his day job, and pursue “firepreneurship” – building businesses and pursuing his passions without needing to worry about where the next paycheque will come from. Through the power of leverage with student rentals and multi-family … Continue reading "Reaching Financial Independence through Real Estate…In Your Twenties!"

Reaching financial independence through passive investments and tracking your spending, all while raising a family – Chris Urbaniak shows how it can be done. Since the episode has been released, Chris moved down to 3-day weeks at his job, leaving him with 4-day weekends every week – a fantastic transition to full retirement. FIRE can … Continue reading "Passive Investing using Day Job Income while Raising a Family – with Chris Urbaniak"

Taking a leap of faith. Today’s guest had a light-bulb moment, by surrounding himself with the right kind of people. He went from spending all of his money and going into massive debt, to buying two rental properties, living for free by house hacking in one of them, renting to students, hosting on AirBnb, and … Continue reading "From Spender to Frugal Investor – with Adam Martin"

College is not for everyone. While studying in school, Max flipped 192 cars by the age of 19. He had only one semester left of school – but after reverse-engineering his goals – despite the overwhelming pressure from his peers and mentors to finish – he decided that college did not align with his goals. … Continue reading "Dropping out of college, flipping cars, and the life of a young entrepreneur – with Max Karg"

Imagine leaving for a 3 month trip around the world, and coming back with more money in your bank account – this is the concept that sparked it all for Matt and Cassidy. Rather than simply investing to make money, investing should be about creating the lifestyle that we want – and these guys figured … Continue reading "Investing for Lifestyle, Learning, and Exploring – with Matt and Cassidy"

Matt and Kellan catch up on where they’ve been for the last few months, and their plans for 2019 – including lots of new episodes. Back to regular guest interviews next week!

On this episode, we dive into topics like software careers, real estate renovation projects, van life, and financial independence through simple living combined with passive income from rental properties. Adam Steeper has a fantastic outlook on FIRE, combining his small-town roots with big thinking and a relentless drive for designing the lifestyle he desires.

Today’s guest is Kool Kent. Kent is a YouTuber, drop shipper, and frugal traveler. He also invests in a rental property, which appears be a recurring theme in the On FIRE Podcast. Kent has a fantastic outlook on life, and dives into topics that none of our previous guests have touched upon – don’t miss … Continue reading "Frugal Travel, YouTube, Drop shipping – with Kool Kent"

Today’s guest is Kevin, aka Meet Kevin. Kevin is a real estate agent, investor, and YouTube creator sharing valuable knowledge in his videos, and providing a personalized service for his clients in a way that you don’t see very often in this field. Finding value, passion, and the “why” in his work has driven Kevin … Continue reading "Meet Kevin – Real Estate, YouTube, Investing, Construction, Cashflow, and Millionaire by 24"

Is it possible to successfully invest in rental properties, coach/mentor, host a podcast (among other things), and work a full-time job? Sarah Larbi is living proof, and has a lot to teach! While climbing her way from the ground-level to a 7-figure net worth, Sarah has had success BRRRRing rental properties, branding herself, and co-founding … Continue reading "Investing, Coaching, Podcasting, and Working Full-Time – With Sarah Larbi"

Ben – the Humble Wholesaler – is wholesaling real estate along his journey to financial independence. While his persona is wearing a gold chain and diamond grills, Ben is a down to earth, charismatic investor with unparalleled negotiation skills that have allowed him to execute on over 100 real estate deals – so far. There’s … Continue reading "The Humble Wholesaler – Wholesaling Real Estate"

Dan Desveaux, a real estate investor in Sarnia, Ontario is looking for the opposite of “Lean FIRE” – his goal is to retire with $10 Million Dollars, and has plans to realize this goal through the rapid growth of his real estate portfolio. His story is quite the roller-coaster, where he developed from a young … Continue reading "The $10 Million Dollar Retirement – with Dan Desveaux"

Aaron, the “Expat Dad”, is practicing “lean FIRE” in Singapore, showing people that you can reach financial independence and also raise a family. After being born in the USA, he spent time living in Australia, Indonesia, and all over the world, all the while building a nest egg in each respective country. Aaron has a … Continue reading "Building Nest Eggs Around the World – With the “Expat Dad”"

What’s your dream retirement location? Mat Piche dives into the path to $20,000/month in passive income through rental properties. Mat currently owns 11 properties, and has plans to continue through the power of joint venture (JV) partnerships. Join him on his path to retiring in Costa Rica!

What are you grateful for? Today we discussed Financial Independence with Paul Plumstead. Paul is experienced in a variety of money-making skills including construction, rental property investing, working as a realtor, and more – not to mention his full-time job. “No Time” is no longer an acceptable excuse when it comes to taking control of your … Continue reading "Grateful for the Grind! With Paul Plumstead"

Today we discussed mini-retirements with another fellow member, Tom Forsythe! Tom recently returned from a 6-month mini-retirement that was spent traveling the world. For those not interested purely delayed gratification – mini-retirements might be the answer, and Tom has quite an experience to share. Passive income and the concept of “F-You” money can allow you … Continue reading "F-You Money, Mini Retirements, and Traveling the World"

  Today we discussed Financial Independence with Jon Kepler. Jon has a wealth of experience with various stock investing, forex trading, businesses, online marketing, MLMs, and most recently has been very successful with rental property investing. Jon had some amazing stories to share, and showed us the value of creativity in business.

Today we discussed Financial Independence with Justin & Lara – or, Mr. and Mrs. DINK! (Double Income, No Kids). These guys left behind a beautiful single-family home to pursue financial independence through stocks, house hacking, rental property investing, and a few side hustles. When they’re not posting pictures of their cats on Instagram, they’re sharing … Continue reading "Mr. and Mrs. DINK – Justin & Lara!"

Today we discussed Financial Independence with Jeff Wybo – Jeff is a real estate agent and investor. After house hacking and living for free in a triplex for awhile, he decided to upgrade his lifestyle and become a real estate agent. Jeff shares the keys to his success, and dives into concepts like “ready, shoot, … Continue reading "Take The Shot! – Jeff Wybo"

Today we discussed Financial Independence with Barb – she had some amazing stories to share, and was a big inspiration to us in regards to the value of creating multiple streams of income, and turning your passions into successful businesses through hard (and smart) work. Check out Barb’s story!

Today we discussed Financial Independence with Peter Kloczko – aka, the “The Hungarian Experiment” – a YouTuber who is just starting on his journey to FI. Peter is an inspiration when it comes to the value of legitimizing oneself through things like social media and content creation, and his journey to financial independence is just … Continue reading "Beginning the journey to Financial Independence – Peter Kloczko"

Today we discussed Financial Independence with Dan Warren, who worked his way to FI by saving income from his job at a grocery store, and eventually investing it into student rental properties. Dan started working at a grocery store in 1996 with a high school education, began investing in real estate in 2005, scaled his … Continue reading "From Grocery Store to FI – Dan Warren"

Welcome to the London on FIRE Podcast! Today we discussed Financial Independence with Graham Stephan, who became a real estate agent in West Hollywood out of high school, and purchased 3 rental properties by the age of 22. Since 2008, Graham has sold over $100 million of Residential Real Estate, and became a millionaire by … Continue reading "Graham Stephan – Millionaire by 26"

Welcome to the London on FIRE Podcast! Today we discussed Financial Independence with Michael Rosehart, who FIREd before his 25th birthday. He can also be found on his website at www.25andfree.com We have an amazing community in London, Ontario all about empowering each other with financial education. We meet monthly to discuss ways to make … Continue reading "Michael Rosehart – Retired at 24"