The On The Rise Podcast
Hello and welcome to The On The Rise Podcast! We created this podcast to educate you on passive investing in real estate whether that's active or passive investments, residential single family homes or commercial apartment buildings. Our goal is to provide clarity, insight, and practical guidance as you work toward growing your wealth, expanding your real estate portfolio, and continuing your journey upward. This is where investors come to learn, take action, and stay on the rise.
Episodes
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast’s Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall sits down with Todd Bowen, a Michigan real estate investor and founder of Trinity Investment Group. Todd shares how a podcast-fueled education and a surprising conversation with his financial advisor led to his first rental in 2017, and how an early wave of evictions pointed him toward partnering with local agencies that house domest...
On this session of the On The Rise Podcast’s “Passive Investing Made Simple” series, host Jeremy Dyer, VP of Capital Formation at Rise48 Equity, is joined by Chad Ackerman, a longtime passive investor, educator, founder of Chad Ackerman Real Estate, and co-founder of Left Field Investors, acquired by BiggerPockets. Chad breaks down the capital stack using a simple bucket model, explaining how senior debt, preferre...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast’s Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall sits down with Angela Wang, a finance professional with 20 years of experience who now calls herself a “finance missionary.” Angela shares how her family’s faith took root in China, why she resisted God’s call to leave a stable career for two years, and how a series of personal “exoduses” shaped he...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast, host Jeremy Dyer talks with Scott Jones, who has spent over 30 years in franchising as a multi-unit franchisee, a franchisor executive, and CEO of a supplier serving 80,000+ locations. For the last 21 years he's advised mid-career professionals and business owners on whether franchise ownership fits their portfolio. Scott explains why he treats franchising as an alternative asset class ra...
Why would a multifamily operator keep buying apartments while so many peers are handing properties back to lenders? In this sit-down, Rise48 Equity Capital Formation Manager Jason Kish asks CEO Zach Haptonstall how the firm has kept operating through what Zach calls "multifamily purgatory," and why Rise48 keeps acquiring in the Sunbelt.
Zach starts with the factor he believes matters most: the team. Many sponsors bought at t...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast's Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall talks with Wes Lyons of Eagle Venture Fund, who leads the firm's counter-trafficking vertical. A missionary kid turned Naval Academy rower and naval aviator, Wes shares the 2018 mission in the Philippines that convinced him evil is structural and worth fighting. He explains what impact investing actually is, why he separates the "root" of ...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast, host Jeremy Dyer talks with Nathan Jameson, who scaled a homebuilding company from $30 million to $160 million before moving into manufactured housing. Now on his third fund, Nathan explains why mobile home communities stay uncorrelated to economic cycles, how cost segregation makes returns largely tax-deferred, and why supply keeps shrinking as demand climbs. He breaks down the three tie...
William Walker, a Nashville-based real estate developer, licensed general contractor, and CPA, shares how he went from underwriting large multifamily transactions at Ernst and Young to acquiring more than 1,500 apartment units, exiting that portfolio, and now developing a luxury wellness condo project on Music Row. The conversation covers faith in the workplace, leadership in a fast-growing real estate business, and what it looks l...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast, host Jeremy Dyer talks with Ryan Hermansky, president and co-founder of Private Money Funding, a Scottsdale-based private lender that has deployed over $42 million in commercial real estate. Ryan explains why banks avoid commercial and land deals, how private lenders move in weeks instead of months, and what "first lien position" and loan-to-value really mean for investor safety. He walks...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast's Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall talks with Mitchell "Mitt" Morgan — entrepreneur, fund manager, and self-described financial architect who has structured over $1 billion in equity and debt. Mitt shares how he cut his teeth building capital stacks in a mentor's "war room," why he went out on his own in 2009, and how he recently shifted from structuring deals to beco...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast, host Jeremy Dyer talks with Eric Chu, co-founder of Trade Desk Securities and a 20-year veteran of Wall Street and digital infrastructure. In the show's first deep dive on AI, Eric explains what people are actually buying when they "invest in AI" — the software layer of large language models versus the data centers and infrastructure that power all of it. He breaks down why AI's exp...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast's Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall talks with Matt Star — real estate investor, creative-finance educator, and founder of the Telos multifamily mastermind. Matt shares a remarkable testimony: from an immigrant kid told by his doctor he'd die of obesity, to losing 125 pounds, to letting arrogance and a transactional mindset cost him everything and leave him homeless. A...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast's Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall talks with Ryan Carriere, CPA and founder of Carriere Tax Consulting, who estimates he's saved clients over $10 million in taxes. Ryan traces his path from corporate accounting to real estate investing and tax advisory, and shares the strategies he uses for high-income earners — the short-term rental strategy, real estate professiona...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast, host Jeremy Dyer talks with Dani Lynn Robison, CEO and founder of Freedom Family Investments. Dani traces an unlikely path — from professional musician to Walt Disney World, cruise ships, and art auctions, to falling in love with real estate in 2008 (and with her husband "Flip" along the way). She explains why she scaled back turnkey rentals for needs-based syndications in senior ho...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast's Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall talks with Jeff Hasselman — who built a multibillion-dollar crypto business line at Amazon Web Services and now runs 926 Ventures and Kingdom Bitcoin, a faith-forward platform on money, sovereignty, and biblical stewardship. Jeff shares why he stepped aside from a startup to protect his team, how his faith deepened over the years, an...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast, host Jeremy Dyer talks with Alan Fruitman, founder of 1031tax.com and president of Real Estate Foundation, who has spent 33 years specializing in single-tenant, triple-net-lease real estate. Alan explains why chasing yield means chasing risk, and why quality — the best location and a national-credit tenant like McDonald's or Chase — builds lasting wealth. He breaks down why tr...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast's Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall sits down with Zach, founder and CEO of Rise 48 Equity, for the story behind the company. Zach shares how he walked away from a $200K job in 2018 with no roadmap, lost his identity, and was drawn back to his faith through adversity and his now-wife Grace. He opens up about his daily prayer of gratitude and surrender, the "warrior" mindset ...
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast, host Jeremy Dyer talks with Jennifer Tuggle — a 19-year ER nurse and single mother of three who is transitioning into multifamily syndication and capital raising. Jennifer shares the resilience she built working her way through nursing school while raising
On this episode of the On The Rise Podcast's Faith Driven Leaders series, host Nick Stromwall reconnects with his friend Max Herman — a Salesforce account executive and co-founder of Catapult Careers. Max traces an unlikely path: a disqualified Air Force dream, coming to faith through Campus Outreach, and a winding climb through tech sales. He shares how he makes big decisions, why he built a personal "board of directors," an...
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