Geoff Woods is the Vice President of The ONE Thing. After hearing the Jim Rohn quote that “you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with” Geoff set out on a mission to surround himself with high level CEOs and successful entrepreneurs. Fast forward just 10 months, Geoff went from employee to entrepreneur, launching a company with the co-authors of the best selling book The ONE Thing. Geoff has been featured in Entrepreneur.com and is on a mission to teaching people how to live a life of focus so they can have more by doing less.

P.S. Apologies for Paul's audio quality in this episode. We strive for excellence so we will do our best to make sure this never happens again!

You NEED to find the right product (or service) to sell. In this episode, Michael shares his tips and lessons about finding the right thing to sell.

Michael Zipursky is an author, lead-generation and marketing consultant, and entrepreneur. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, FOX Business, Maclean's, HR Executive, MarketingMag, Management Consulting Journal, and in several other media and publications.

Michael runs Consulting Success, the leading consulting resource for people that want to become successful consultants. The site has over 700 articles, interviews, guides and products and serves 30,000 readers each month from around the world.

Not taking responsibility for your actions and words can lead to a world of pain. In this episode, Trevor tells his story and aims to help people avoid some of the mistakes he made.

Trevor Crane is a 11-time #1 bestselling author and the founder of Epic Author Publishing. Trevor helps business owners, speakers, coaches and consultants become IRRESISTIBLE to their ideal target clients, and consistently grow their LEADS, SALES and REVENUE. Host of the Greatness Quest podcast, Trevor can help you build your IDEAL BUSINESS so you can live your IDEAL LIFE.

What is your time worth? Doug McCormick offers actionable steps to avoid wasting time and how to value life's most precious asset: your time. 

Doug McCormick has a lifetime of experiences that provide the foundation for the framework, principles and tools in Family Inc. As a professional investor, he has spent two decades managing money for institutional clients such as insurance companies, pension funds, entrepreneurs and high net worth families.

As Managing Partner at HCI Equity, Doug oversees all aspects of the firm’s strategy, investments and operations with his partners. Before joining HCI Equity, he worked in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley. Doug previously served as a Captain in the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division where he earned the Airborne, Air Assault, Expert Infantryman, and Ranger qualifications. Doug holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from West Point.

Do you need to raise money for your business to grow? Not always. But in same cases, as Anika describes, it is essential.

Anika Janelle Pettiford is the founder of a group of companies under the Elani brand; including a creative agency, a publishing house and a digital retail empire that spans an array of categories. She also co-founded Iolani Research Lab, an engineering consulting firm with her husband Dr. Pettiford. Her illustrious career began in the tech field where she worked for the top technology company in the world. Her entrepreneurial instincts kicked in when she launched her own business with $500 and quickly led the company to over $1 million in sales.

If you are interested in real estate investing, early retirement, and personal finance Todd shares practical tips to help you succeed in areas that he experienced failure.

Todd Tresidder graduated from the University of California at Davis with a B.A. in economics and a passion for creating successful businesses. A serial entrepreneur since childhood, Todd went on to build his own wealth as a hedge fund investment manager before “retiring” at 35. He grew his net worth from less than zero at 23 to the point of financial independence just 12 years later.

Todd has maintained his wealth by remaining an active investor and utilizing statistical and mathematical risk management systems for investing. Through his website at FinancialMentor.com, he teaches advanced investing and advanced retirement planning principles. Take the next step beyond conventional financial advice and discover what works, what doesn’t, and why, based on years of proven experience.

We have all heard the saying "start with the end in mind" but few of us actually live that out. Jason shares practical insight about how to strategize and win in your business!

Jason 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. He is also 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.

Are you the kind of person who is prone to act first and ask questions later? This episode is for you!

Kimberly Nguyen is a Co-Founder and Partner with DreamVest Capital Management and is primarily focused on overseeing operations, sales, and investor relations. This same belief is what inspired her to start her own real estate business over 12 years ago, and ignited her passion to create passive income in real estate for both herself and her clients.

Despite her success in real estate sales, Kimberly has primarily been focused on building her own portfolio over the past 6 years, and has put together first-rate teams, alliances, and operating partners, in various high potential markets throughout the United States, and currently has ownership interests in over 30 residential and commercial properties.

Dr. Phillip Carson is a Registered Pharmacist, Doctor of Pharmacy with license in MS and TN, and graduated from the University of MS School of Pharmacy. Phillip Carson, the Co-founder of the Life Transformation Medical Center and President of Carson Natural Health, LLC is a Pharmacist who thinks outside the box of traditional medicine.

He believes in helping people find natural alternatives and integrative medicine solutions to their health problems. He is committed to leading people to finding the root cause of their health problems and not just treating the symptoms. Phillip is passionate about encouraging and teaching people how to live more balanced, healthier and vibrant lives. He believes in equipping people with the knowledge to make the right choices for optimal health and he does this weekly as host of The Feeling Good Podcast and Feeling Good Friday, Facebook live broadcast.

Timing is everything, or so they say. Warren has decades of experience in investing and brings invaluable knowledge on this episode of How to Lose Money. 

Warren Hogarth is the Co-Founder and CEO of Empower, a new consumer finance app that was one of Time’s best new apps of 2017. The Empower app helps entrepreneurs and side hustlers stay on top of their finances, get personal recommendations and save hundreds to thousands of dollars per year.

Prior to launching Empower, Warren spent eight years as a Partner at Sequoia Capital one of the worlds leading venture capital firms. Investments where Sequoia was the very first investor include Apple, Google, WhatsApp, AirBnB, and Linkedin. The value of these companies now represents over 20% of the NASDAQ. Warren was a lead investor and Board member helping many entrepreneurs build companies from zero to over $1 billion.

Not charging enough for your goods or services is a trap many entrepreneurs fall into. In this episode, hear how to avoid this pitfall and get insight on hitting the right price point.

Joe Kashurba grew the freelance web design business that he started in high school into a digital agency with a virtual team and clients around the world. He went from building $300 websites to building $30,000 websites and managing 6-figure digital advertising budgets for some of the largest manufacturing and construction companies.

You NEVER want to be the smartest person in the room. Learn why. 

Mark J. Podolsky (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the Country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States.

He has been actively investing in Real Estate and Raw Land since 2001 and has completed over 5,000 unique transactions. Mark has achieved this level of success largely due to his core business philosophy – “Happy Customers Guaranteed.” Mark is the host of one of the top rated podcasts in the Investing Category on iTunes aptly titled The Best Passive Income Model and The Art of Passive Income. He is also the host of the Land Geek Podcast- Work Smart. Earn More. Learn How.

In this episode, Paul and Josh reminisce about how this podcast got started as well as the overarching themes that emerged from the past 100 episodes. Later in the episode, Brandon Hall tells a great story with actionable advice for anyone who regularly signs contracts. 

Brandon Hall is the founder and CEO of The Real Estate CPA, a CPA firm that works exclusively with individuals and businesses in the real estate industry. He previously worked for two Big 4 Accounting Firms and he has intricate knowledge of various aspects of accounting, finance, and investing including taxation, entity structuring, financial modeling, and financial planning. Brandon's pricing and new client intake form can be found here: www.TheRealEstateCPA.com/clients.  

In this episode, Jason shares tips for choosing the right title company, but these tips can apply to anyone looking for a service provider in any business.

Jason Payne is a hard money lender in Texas and works for ISB Capital. ISB Capital has been in business for 15 years and has lent over 400 million dollars to real estate investors doing flips and for new construction. ISB Capital is one of Texas’ leading sources of financing for new construction and real estate investor loans. ISB provides creative financing options for opportunistic real estate transactions. Through their process, they are able to quickly fund loans that make sense.

Happy New Year! We look forward to bring you more high quality, helpful, and actionable content in 2018. If you have any questions or recommendations for the show, please email us at info@howtolosemoney.com.

Matt Faircloth, Co-founder & President of the DeRosa Group, is a seasoned real estate investor, licensed broker, and developer. Matt, along with his wife Liz, started investing in real estate in 2004 with the purchase of a duplex outside of Philadelphia with a $30,000 private loan. They founded DeRosa Group in 2005 and has since grown the company to owning and managing over 165 units of residential and commercial assets throughout the Greater Philadelphia area. DeRosa has completed $15 million in real estate transactions involving private capital including fix and flips, single family home rentals, mixed use buildings, apartment buildings, office buildings, and tax lien investments.

In this episode, Lane Kawaoka explains how important it is to take time for due diligence when looking for investment opportunities. Anyone looking to grow their wealth will benefit from this episode!

Based in Hawaii, Lane Kawaoka still works his day job as an engineer, but he is quickly growing passive income streams via multifamily investing. After graduating from college with a degree in engineering, he got a job in construction management that required a lot of travel. In 2009, Lane bought a primary residence in Seattle—but he was never there. He decided to rent out his A-class property, and the cashflow generated from that enterprise inspired him to purchase more. Lane journals his experiences in the Simple Passive Cashflow podcast.

Crushing your sales quote is a good thing right? Not in this case!

Matt Miller spent the first 9 years of his career as an Air Force pilot, before entering the private sector to work in both the medical device and advertising industries. While a top performer in the corporate world, his long term desire was to be his own boss. A good friend one day mentioned the gum ball machines he and his young daughters owned, and that conversation began a 10 year business quest that has brought Matt’s company, School Spirit Vending, to the cutting edge of both the vending and school fundraising industries. Today, School Spirit Vending’s franchising program provides a proven and profitable business system for busy professionals and their families looking to develop secondary income streams with a limited time commitment.

Jim has led two companies from $1 million to more than $10 million and one from $1 million to zero. He has started eight companies and been a part of several others. Some have been wildly successful and others, well, not so much.

But all of it has empowered Jim with lessons on what works and what doesn’t, and helped him become one of the most highly sought after sales coaches in the tech community.

Often it's the basics of business that cause us to fail. Hear how Mac Prichard learned some tough lessons about the importance of details but rebounded to success.

Mac Prichard is the founder and publisher of Mac’s List, an online community for people looking for rewarding, creative, and meaningful work. More than 80,000 people a month visit the site, which includes a job board, and a blog and courses about the nuts and bolts of job hunting and career management.

Mac is proud to own two registered B-Corp companies, which use the power of markets to solve social and environmental problems. He is the author of Land Your Dream Job Anywhere and hosts the weekly podcast, Find Your Dream Job.

Do you invest in the stock market? Do you actually know what you're doing? Successful entrepreneur and investor Noah Kagan shares timeless advice about investing, growth tips, marketing, and more. 

Noah Kagan was employee #30 at Facebook, employee #4 at Mint.com, and is the Chief Sumo (founder) at SumoMe, which offers free tools to help grow website traffic. To keep things extra spicy, he’s become a taco connoisseur and created 4 separate products that have generated more than 7 figures.

Vinney (Smile) Chopra’s success in real estate investing and syndication is a testament to the power of enthusiasm, passion, persistence and positivity. He came to the United States from India more than 40 years ago with only $7 in his pockets.

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 those goals. He has successfully completed 26 multifamily syndications controlling 3,100 units valued at $172 million. 12 of them were accomplished in last two years!

Amy Wan is Founder & CEO of Bootstrap Legal, which automates the drafting of legal paperwork for real estate private equity, syndication, and crowdfunding deals. Previously, she was a Partner at Crowdfunding Lawyers and General Counsel at Patch of Land, a real estate debt crowdfunding platform. Amy is also the founder and co-organizer of Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of the one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014; and was nominated as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal.

Hilary L. Jastram is the founder of J. Hill Marketing & Creative Services, an agency specializing in premier copywriting, editing and book editing for Fortune 500 brands and the “one-percent,” superstar entrepreneurs.

She's an author, editor at The Good Men Project, and contributor to Influencive, The Huffington Post and The Mighty, among other large-scale publications.

She is also the founder of Sick Biz, “An organization dedicated to providing support, resources, hacks, and hope to entrepreneurs affected by chronic illness, pain, disability, and sickness.

Donald has a belief that “anyone” can sell, if they have the desire. Early on in his sales career, Donald struggled with sales, but through the proper training and coaching, he became a top performing seller. He has since taken it upon himself to “evangelize” the message of effective selling to new and struggling salespeople and entrepreneurs close more deal. Donald hosts a popular sales podcast called The Sales Evangelist.

He works with small companies in developing effective sales processes as well as training their teams. He is an award winning sales and motivational speaker. When he’s not training, speaking or selling, he love spending time with his family in South Florida.