The Educated Investor
by Philip Hernandez
Each episode we interview successful entrepreneurs and real estate investors to learn about the journey that unlocked financial freedom for them. We share insights that will help you gain financial freedom and control over your life from folks that have done it.
Episodes
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Rocking Short-Term Rentals: Avery Carl's Blueprint for Success
In this episode, we sit down with Avery Carl, an entrepreneur who turned accidental real estate investing into a thriving business empire. Join us as Avery shares her journey, insights, and the strategies behind her success. Discover how she built The Short Term Shop, her mission to simplify...
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Chips to Keys, How a professional poker player built a real estate empire
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…
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Educated Investor ep29 Late Bloom, Big Boom 14 doors in 4 years starting at age 50. Richard Mercado
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...
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Lessons on becoming a financially free beach bum
Joe Ramos describes himself as a financially free beach bum, and is the host of the Land Shark Financial Freedom Podcast. He has a Real Estate portfolio with properties in southern California, Georgia, Ohio, and Florida. Joe has done everything from commercial deals, to starting a fix and flip…
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From CP to ROI: A Real Estate Investor's Journey with Cerebral Palsy
Jason Malabute is a Real estate investor and former CPA. He shares his journey investing in real estate long distance, pursuing real estate full time in the multifamily syndication world, and how he has navigated these worlds also born with Cerebral Palsy. Jason has not let his cerebral palsy…
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Financial freedom, epic adventures and managing a portfolio from thousands of miles away
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…
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From Lingerie to Apartment buildings. Lessons learned doing business from recessions to boom times.
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,...
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A lifetime of empowering investors to take control of their financial future
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...
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Building a thriving business as an educator and mental health advocate for youth.
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…
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From touring musician to 300 units of AUM in 5 years
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...
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How to go from 0 to the biggest coffee producer in Colombia in 5 years
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...
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How renters can become owners through co-ownership of real estate
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)...
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How to build your Real Estate Empire using Other People's Money
Matt Faircloth is the author of "Raising Private Capital, how to build your real estate empire using other people's money". As the founder of the De Rosa Group he has built a real estate portfolio worth over $250 million in Assets under management. In this episode we talk about the ups and downs…
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Building a design firm that shakes up an industry.
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...
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How to build a media brand that pushes cultural boundaries
Brooke Burgstahler has created docuseries for Snoop Dogg, and been a leading journalist in the budding cannabis media scene since its early days of legalization. (pun intended). She shares her journey of creating her own media brand, being her own boss in an industry with no blueprint for…
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Doing well by doing good. Building a thriving portfolio serving tenants with subsidized housing.
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...
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Unlimited deal flow and unlimited capital through relationships
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...
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How anyone can achieve financial independence; from teens to teachers
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. Dan launched SheeksFreaks in late...
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180k in student forgiven, and 30k in grants for purchasing investment property
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...
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From Losing 30k on his first flip to raising 10 Million for profitable syndications
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…
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Raising 2 Million dollars through Kickstarter for a business that puts the environment first
Emma Rose Cohen is the founder of Final, whose mission is to create reusable Foreverables™ (responsibly made, badass products) that reduce the need for plastics, empower individuals to change their buying habits, and raise awareness of the impacts of our everyday decisions. In our interview she...
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Laid off to $200 Million AUM by being of service first
Justin Fraser exemplifies the ethic of putting in work and being of service first. After being laid off by his company his wife gave him 3 months to fully commit to real estate, or find a new job. Justin shares the work that he put in to make his dream of financial independence a reality....
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10 units in 10 months on a Teacher's Salary
Sammy Lyon caught the Real Estate Bug in 2018 and struggled to balance a demanding job in education with Real Estate investing. Sammy shares their story of going all in on Real Estate, transitioning from an educator to an Entrepreneur and what the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)…
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How to build a portfolio of 2,500 units
Jason Pero and his wife purchased their first duplex in 2001 while he balanced a high pressure job in medical sales. He and his wife continued to balance the growth of their portfolio with a demanding work schedule, and the challenges of balancing their work life balance, and with their own...
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Lessons learned from 17 deals as a passive investor
K Trevor Thompson has invested in everything from Land development, Condo Conversion, Storage Space, Class A new development to workforce housing. In his previous life he did everything from opening up haunted houses, to dozens of iFLY's indoor skydiving centers around the US. He shares his...
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From College Side Hustle to Venture Capital Tech Startup
Madline Fraser is the CEO of Gemist, her second tech startup. Madeline shares her journey from starting her first company with two friends from college, being mentored by the founder of Tinder Sean Rad, and the ups and downs of building a business at the highest level.
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Building $35 Million portfolio one day at a time
Sanjeev Bhatia has grown his personal portfolio from a single duplex to over thirty five million dollars in personal assets through consistent action. Sanjeev likes to say that working his w2 9-5 give him enough to live, but working real estate during his "off hours" is what led him to financial...
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From Restaurant Hostess to Successful Entrepreneur
Sandra Plata shares her story of coming to the US as an immigrant raising her daughter as a single mom, and taking on the life of an entrepreneur. Sandra's first work in the US was as a hostess at California Pizza Kitchen, and through her customer service skills, began to rise up in the corporate...
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High School Teacher to founder and CEO of EQ Schools
Roni Habib is an expert in helping leaders, educators, and parents become happier, more resilient, more connected to their purpose, and more playful. The founder of EQ Schools, he leads workshops and speaks in organizations nationally and abroad. Early in his career, Roni struggled with the high...
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From $150,000 in student debt to Millions in Real estate and a thriving business
This episode of the educated investor we interview Shiva Bhaskar. Shiva Bhaskar graduated law school with hundreds in thousand of student debt, then chose to ignore his payments, and ended up with a credit score so low he couldn't qualify to rent in the city where he lived. After working to…
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From driving for Uber to 250 units in 3 years
Tal Tamir's journey to 250 units under management has been one of vision and consistent work, underwriting hundreds of deals to find the right one.
About this show
Each episode we interview successful entrepreneurs and real estate investors to learn about the journey that unlocked financial freedom for them. We share insights that will help you gain financial freedom and control over your life from folks that have done it.
Hosted by
Philip Hernandez
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