I'm a REAL mom and it is the greatest joy of my life, BUT, with that comes some really difficult times that alot of people never want to discuss- drugs, addiction, stress, school, teen sex, overdoses, losing parents, how siblings deal with the trauma their other siblings have caused. It IS A LOT!!! We are here to talk about it- no subject is off the table! My son overdosed, I lost my dad, I was diagnosed with cancer- here I am still standing AND smiling and you can too!!
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Remake is a podcast about Design, Systems, and Society. And I'm Eran Dror, a product designer and researcher of eastern religions. In each episode I interview someone who’s trying to change our lives for the better in some meaningful way, whether through a new product, new venture, or new way of looking at the world, and I try to understand how they came to it, what makes them tick, and what we all can learn from them. I truly believe Design is strategic, that it goes to the core, that it's ...
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Investor Creators’ Deals Podcast is where we show you behind the scenes of real estate investors that started off just like you, and now are seeing successful deals and sharing their success stories. Hosted by Brad Smotherman, a seasoned investor and educator who has experienced first-hand how the flexibility of real estate investing has afforded his family both financial and time freedom. This show provides genuine, actionable and practical lessons in real estate investing, focusing on the ...
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How Vincent Landed a 6-Figure Deal His FIRST WEEK!
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Vincent, a young real estate investor, shares his success story of closing a deal within ONE WEEK of implementing the strategies that we teach at Investor Creator. He had previously dabbled in real estate wholesaling and commercial real estate, but didn't find success until he decided to commit to the course and support calls. You’ll hear the detai…
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Apprentice Spotlight with Rachel and Eran
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Today, we're celebrating Rachel and Eran Sivan and their wins in the past year and a half. Prior to Investor Creator, they never ever bought a piece of real estate. But they did a million dollars net in less than 14 months of implementation of our processes and systems. In this episode, we dive deep into their success. We're talking about the lead …
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Tracking for $1M His FIRST Year! - Marcel Davis
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This is one of our Apprentice Spotlight episodes featuring Marcel Davis, who is on track to do a million dollars net his FIRST year! Marcel has been with us since December 2023. He started running ads about 30 days into his apprenticeship, and since then has been on an unbelievable trajectory. His best deal so far made him 🤑 $139,475.46! Here is Ma…
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Zero to 7 Figures in 14 Months - Eran’s Deal that Started it All
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Today, we’re going 14 months back in time. Eran has never bought a piece of real estate before. He hasn’t bought an owner-occupied house. He hasn’t done anything where he’s even been a part of a real estate transaction. He is not even from the United States, and he’s starting off with a number of limiting beliefs. But this episode showcases how one…
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How a 21-Year-Old Investor Kept His Seller Out of Jail
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Brandon Clemente was a sophomore in college trying to make some extra money, so he initially came to our team to do some video editing. He then came to the next mastermind event that we had since he joined us, and got so inspired by the testimonials and by how real this all was, that he decided to give it a try. Today, Brandon is sharing details of…
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$41,000 Profit with $0 on Repairs - Pranav's Deal
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Today’s dealmaker is Pranav, a data scientist with a PhD in applied physics and material science, working in corporate America. He is a really smart guy who is leaving the corporate world to go into the real estate world, and he'll explain why. The deal he is going to share with us is a little bit different, because it shows the value of not buildi…
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$170k in Equity from ONE Seller - Jen Baker
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Jen Baker is a home school mom of seven. Jen had not been in the workforce for years prior to jumping into investing with the Investor Creator system. She is approaching her two year anniversary with us, and this is one of the many deals she has done. Her seller didn’t come from paid marketing, yet she has created $170,000 in equity position, and s…
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Sierra Bailey is a 24-year-old young lady out of Nashville, Tennessee, and she's going to share with you how she made 💸 $99,600 on a deal where she did not want to call the seller back! ☎️ She's here to share all the details of this deal, and also a couple of key things that she learned in this process, that you can take and implement into your bus…
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Welcome to our new show, Investor Creator's Deals! I'm Brad Smotherman, a real estate investor based out of Nashville, Tennessee. I've recently moved to Seaside, Florida, because this business has allowed me and my family financial and time freedom, so that we can home school and take care of our children. I got into the educating people on real es…
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Psychedelic politics and humanities, with Oliver Davis
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What is the current arc of the psychedelic renaissance in Western society missing? How do psychedelic experiences affect politics? And what are the psychedelic humanities? To guide us through these questions, I speak with Oliver Davis. He's a professor of French Studies and director of graduate studies at the University of Warwick in the UK, a co-e…
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TODAY'S GUEST One of the most tragic aspects of the accelerating pace of change, and rapid evolution of new technologies — is that we as humanity have lost our elders. We begin to see older generations as detached from the current world of innovation, and have to discount advice and experiences gained in an age that feels so different from our own.…
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026. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie: Community, Ritual, and Creativity
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TODAY'S GUEST Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is an Israeli-born, Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist. He's the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. and the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in NYC, an artist-driven, everybody friendly, God-optional, pop-up experimental community for sacred Jewish gatherings. Amichai is a member of the Global Jus…
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047. Jerry Colonna: Why Better Humans Make Better Leaders
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TODAY'S GUEST Jerry Colonna is the CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm whose coaches and facilitators are committed to the notion that better humans make better leaders. For nearly 20 years, he has used the knowledge gained as an investor, an executive, and a board member for more than 100 organiza…
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006. Kathy Davies: Design Your Life to Get Unstuck
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TODAY’S GUEST Kathy Davies wears many hats - she’s a Design Lecturer at Stanford University. She's the Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design lab, where she and her team have trained 150 universities globally to use the life design processes on their campuses to help students design, prototype, and test the right career paths for them. She i…
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TODAY'S GUEST Vicki Tan is a Product Designer, a public speaker, a student of Behavioral Psychology, and a dog mom based in Brooklyn. She currently works at Spotify, and has previously worked at Headspace, Lyft, and Google. She cares deeply about the human aspects of design, and the insights that data cannot provide. In her spare time, she's workin…
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061. Geci Karuri-Sebina: Our Urban Future
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TODAY'S GUEST Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina is a futurist, urban planning thinker, and the author of Innovation Africa: Emerging Hubs of Excellence. She's a faculty member at Singularity University South Africa with a focus on urban futures, including smart cities, networks, urban planning, governance and development, and innovation systems. She's an asso…
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052. Dan Formosa: The Joy of Design
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TODAY'S GUEST Dan Formosa consults with companies and organizations worldwide on design and innovation. He was an early proponent of “design for all” (a.k.a. Inclusive Design). He lectures internationally on design, research, and the future of design, and is the recipient of numerous design awards. Dan holds degrees in product design, ergonomics, a…
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TODAY'S GUEST Greg Hoffman is Nike's former Chief Marketing Officer, a global brand leader, advisor, and speaker, and the author of Emotion by Design: Creative Leadership Lessons From a Life at Nike. In his book, Greg shares lessons and stories on the power of creativity drawn from almost three decades of experience within the company. It's a celeb…
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058. Richard Bartlett: Decentralized by Design
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TODAY'S GUEST Today, I'm speaking to Richard D. Bartlett, aka Rich Decibels. During the Occupy movement in 2011, Rich caught a glimpse of a different way of being together — more compassionate, more intelligent, more creative, inclusive, and animating than he'd experienced as a student worker or citizen up to that point. Since then, he's been on a …
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053. Irene Au: Bridging Design and Technology
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TODAY'S GUEST Irene Au is Design Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with early-, mid-, and late-stage startup CEOs. She is dedicated to raising the strategic value of design and user research within software companies through better methods, practices, processes, leadership, talent, and quality. Irene has unprecedented experience elevating…
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054. Jay McClelland: Networks That Learn
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TODAY'S GUEST Jay McClelland is a Computational Cognitive Neuroscientist and one of the founding fathers of the field of neural networks and deep learning in the 1980s, which led directly to today's explosion in AI and machine learning algorithms that are transforming our lives. He is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he was f…
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073. Eli Green: Gender Beyond the Binary
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TODAY'S GUEST Today we're talking about transgender issues. Specifically, what should the rest of us know about transgender people? This is a topic that I admit I know very little about, but one that feels important at the very least, if one wants to avoid causing unnecessary pain. Language itself seems to be changing when it comes to gender, and w…
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055. Tobias Rees: Transforming the Human
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TODAY'S GUEST Dr. Tobias Rees is CEO of Transformations of the Human School, and was formerly the William Dawson Chair at McGill University and the Reid Hoffman Professor of Humanities at the Parsons School of Design. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and holds degrees in philosophy, anthropology, and neurobiology. In t…
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How algorithms undermine consciousness, with Eran Fisher
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As algorithms rise to play larger roles in how we interact with the world, how are they recursively acting upon us to play larger roles in how we experience ourselves? What, in short, does an algorithmic society do to consciousness? Eran Fisher is a professor of sociology at the Open University of Israel, and has a recent book out titled: Algorithm…
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037. Karoli Hindriks: Redesigning the Passport
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TODAY'S GUEST Karoli Hindriks is the CEO and founder of Jobbatical, a startup Forbes named one of Europe's 10 Most Exciting Technology SMEs for 2018. Jobbatical is working on removing the friction of international relocation by making immigration processes seamless through technology. In 2020 the EU Council named her one of the 8 most inspiring wom…
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017. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf: Open Up to Innovation
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TODAY’S GUEST Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf is an Associate Professor at NYU Stern. She is also a faculty associate at Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science. Her work received the prestigious INSPIRE grant from the National Science Foundation, has been recognized to have a strong impact on industry, and has been taught at a variety of institutions around …
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046. Shari Davis: The Power of Participatory Budgeting
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TODAY'S GUEST Shari Davis is a TED speaker, a participatory budgeting facilitator, and as she defines it, a recovering local government employee. She joined the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) after nearly 15 years of service and leadership in local government. As director of youth engagement and employment for the City of Boston, she launche…
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003. Shahar Avin: Playing for AI’s Future?
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TODAY’S GUEST Dr. Shahar Avin is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge University, focusing primarily on risks associated with artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms. EPISODE SUMMARY We discuss: Shahar’s unique approach of discovering truths through simulation and gaming. His i…
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TODAY'S GUEST Today, we're talking about coliving. I've long believed that paying attention to the fact that humans evolved to live in tribes, as opposed to isolated nuclear families, was the key to unlocking a tremendous amount of latent needs, wellbeing, and happiness. Today, a convergence of different trends is making coliving a real movement in…
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022. Jordan Ellenberg: Math, Geometry and Life
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TODAY'S GUEST Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. His new book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, came out earlier this year. Jordan lives in Madison, Wi…
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036. Leidy Klotz: When Less is More
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TODAY'S GUEST Dr. Leidy Klotz is the Copenhaver Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, where he is appointed in the Schools of Engineering, Architecture, and Business. He co-founded and co-directs the university's Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, which engages and supports applied, interdisciplinary research. Leidy studies how …
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023. David Peter Stroh: Systems, Design, and Social Change
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TODAY'S GUEST David Peter Stroh is the bestselling author of Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide for Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results. For the past 40 years, David has helped leaders to apply systems thinking to organizational strategy, and achieve breakthrough, sustainable …
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071. Donald Robertson: On Stoicism and Outrage
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TODAY'S GUEST Today, we talk about anger. Everywhere you look, it feels like outrage and anger are on the rise. Populist politicians win elections based on popular anger, and when they lose, they claim their elections had been stolen to further sow outrage. Social media seems to feed on and amplify anger. So much so that we now have new names for t…
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013. Donatella Caggiano: Designing a Return Home
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TODAY’S GUEST Donatella Caggiano is a Global Creativity Hacker. With her methodology crossing design, storytelling, and strategy, she works at applying creativity to processes of change and transformation for brands, communities and people. She made a crucial decision to leave the high powered Business World of Corporate America in mid-life, return…
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070. Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy: The Design Practice
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TODAY'S GUEST Today, we talk about the practice of design, and how designers who learn to work with and understand technology can bring a humanistic, creative perspective to technology that can truly transform our understanding of what it can do. I've long believed that advanced technology can be beautiful, poetic, and philosophical in nature. In f…
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044. Bayo Akomolafe: Activism Beyond Words and Agendas
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TODAY'S GUEST Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is an academic lecturer, a spiritual leader, a disillusioned activist, and the author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home. He was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Soon after he was born, his family emigrated to Bonn, Germ…
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039. Max Rashbrooke: Time to Upgrade Democracy?
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TODAY'S GUEST Max Rashbrooke's TED Talk on upgrading democracy has touched a nerve, and has been viewed over 1 million times in a matter of months. He's a Wellington-based writer and public intellectual, with twin interests in economic inequality and democratic renewal. His latest book is Too Much Money, about wealth disparities in New Zealand, and…
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028. Alan Lightman: Physics and the Rarity of Life
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TODAY'S GUEST Alan Lightman is an American writer, physicist and social entrepreneur. He served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT, and was the first person at MIT to receive dual faculty appointments in science and in the humanities. Currently, he serves as professor for the practice of the humanities at MIT. In his scientific research, he has ma…
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TODAY'S GUEST Today, we talk about worthiness. Worthiness, and the lack of it, is something that's been a primary part of my struggles to start sharing more of my thoughts and beliefs, to allow myself to assume a leadership role in business and in other areas, and to search for an enduring romantic relationship. Lack of worthiness seems to be at th…
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042. Lee Mun Wah: Connecting Across Difference
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TODAY'S GUEST Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker, TED speaker, author, poet, folkteller, educator, community therapist, and master diversity trainer at Stir Fry Seminars and Consulting, a diversity training company he founded. He's most famous for his truly incredible documentaries, like The Color of Fear, Last Chance …
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025. Pia Mancini: Designing for Digital Democracy
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TODAY'S GUEST Pia Mancini is a co-founder and CEO at Open Collective, a chair of the Democracy Earth Foundation, and a democracy activist who helped create the DemocracyOS platform and launched a Net Party in Argentina. Her TED Talk, about upgrading democracy for the internet era, has exceeded a million views and helped reshape the conversation aro…
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035. Christian Madsbjerg: Why the Humanities Matter
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TODAY'S GUEST Christian Madsbjerg is a Professor of Applied Humanities at The New School and a co-founder of the pioneering Red Associates, a consultancy with offices in Copenhagen and New York City, which brings the human sciences to bear on strategic business problems, mostly dealing with companies in trouble. Christian writes, speaks, and teache…
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068. Lynn Novick: The Power of Knowledge
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TODAY'S GUEST Lynn Novick has been directing and producing landmark documentary films about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music for more than 30 years. The 80 hours of acclaimed PBS programming she has created in collaboration with Ken Burns include The Vietnam War, Baseball, Jazz, Frank Ll…
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Emancipatory Social Science, with Christian Arnsperger
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Christian is an economist whose work can help answer the question: how might economics become an 'emancipatory' social science? Christian holds a PhD in economics, is a professor at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, a former advisor to the alternative bank of Switzerland, and was a long-time researcher at the Belgian National Science Found…
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