The Educated Investor

This episode's guest is Pasha Esfandiary.  Pasha has been a Professional Poker Player, Emotional intelligence Coach, and over the past 10 years a successful Real Estate Developer and investor.  In Real Estate, Pasha's experience spans the breadth of buying properties at Auction, Hillside development, and now Mobile Home Park acquisition and management.

Pasha's drive and focus were extremely inspiring as well as his commitment to th...

This episode's guest is Richard Mercado who went from 0 to 14 doors in 4 years after starting his investing journey at age 50.  Richard has done everything from house hacking, full gut rehabs, long distance investing and is now doing ground up construction in South Pasadena.  Richard shares the lessons that he learned from:investing in a flood zone where a property that he purchased was destroyed 4 months after purchasing it, deali...

Sarah Weaver has been relentless on her journey to financial freedom.  To list the number of successful business that Sarah has developed all with her living as a digital nomad is beyond impressive.  She has a successful business that furnishes medium term rentals for real estate investors, she leads real estate investors on international trips, self manages her portfolio using systems and processes that allow her to operate them r...

Joe Hara is proud to say that over 40 years in business, he has never been issued a W2.  Joe Hara had done everything from selling hair care products in Africa, Lingerie throughout the U.S. and industrial warehouse space in Los Angeles.  He nearly lost everything through different booms and busts, and now owns over 60 multifamily units in Los Angeles by himself.  Joe shares the highs and lows of a lifetime as a serial entrepreneur.

From a young age Jaden Sterling knew that his path would involve empowering other to take control of their life through financial education.  As a financial advisor he consistently helped his clients achieve outsized returns, and learned from his wealthiest clients the focus necessary to achieve financial freedom.  Jaden has done everything from affordable housing development to developing an app for selecting the stocks aligned wi...

Ross Szabo has built a thriving business career as an author, speaker and the founder of a school that puts mental health advocacy and mental health education first.  After experiencing traumatic events in his youth Ross struggled openly with Bipolar disorder and depression.  His own journey towards healing and sharing his challenges publicly led to a speaking career at age 17 and eventually to the launch of Books, wellness curricu...

Aaron Bernbach was waiting tables and touring as a musician when he caught the real estate bug and decided to go all in.  He shares his story of what it takes to build a thriving business as a real estate agent doing everything from cold calls to door knocking to get his first leads, to building strategic partnerships to take down apartments through syndications.

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Cole Shephard is the founding partner of Legacy Group and the Green Coffee company.  Cole started his journey working with Price WaterHouse Cooper coordinating large capital transactions of everything from purchasing Gold Mines, and skyscrapers to international Banks.  After feeling constrained in his position, he chose to start his own investment firm, and in 5 years went from flipping houses in Colombia to founding and expanding ...

This episode we interview Eric Chebil the founder and CEO of CHER whose goal is to  make first-time homeownership simplified through co-ownership. By providing access to loans, homes, realtors, legal documents, and acting as a digital co-buying concierge, Cher enables low to middle income (LMI) renters an opportunity to transition into co-ownership and build equity.   Eric takes us on the journey of what it takes to start a company...

Mary Ta has long held an unflinching belief in the power of the spaces we live in to elevate our lives. In 2004 she founded the Los Angeles flagship of legendary luxury Italian furniture brand Minotti.  Although Mary travels the world to discover new brands, products, and designers, she is a passionate connector in Los Angeles, the city she has called home for three decades where she has designed for everyone from Commercial develo...

Chris Barker and Nida Rinthapol are the definition of "educated investors" Chris was a practicing attorney, and Nida a Phd data scientist before they owned their first rental.  By happenstance Nida's first purchase was from an investor that later became their mentor on working with clients that needed subsidized housing.  With their mentor's help they went on the journey of navigating the world of subsidized housing, and found a bu...

Hoan Thai has been in the real estate space for over 10 years.  He does everything from flips, to BRRRS, rentals, multifamily, seller finance, creative finance, and more.  Hoan's key to success can be summarized in his book measure once, cut twice!  The key to learning and growing as an entrepreneur for Hoan has been a story about running the numbers and then taking action.  Since buying his first 6 unit property in 2012, he has sc...

Dan is a high school Business/Marketing teacher, real estate investor, and personal finance advocate in Denver, CO. In his 18 years of teaching high school, he has taught a variety of business subjects including personal finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing. 

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Laura Blosser graduated from College with an architectural degree and $180,000 in student debt.  They were overwhelmed  y the prospect of paying such a burden at the start of their career, until they found a program that would forgive all of their student debt, and later found another program that provided them with a $30,000 grant towards purchasing their first duplex.  Come on the journey as Laura shares the lessons learned and o...

Herve Francois enjoyed a career in the high stakes world of wall street investing for two decades.  When he finally decided to start a new path in Real Estate investing, his first venture lost him nearly $30,000.  Through strategic partnerships, education and consistent action he took this loss as a lesson, and developed the skills to become a top syndicator, and with the Derosa Group has been a part of raising more than 10 Million...