Best Mike Butera Podcasts (2024)

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Davielier Turner - From Jail To Real Estate Investing 24:07

24h ago24:07

24:07

Davielier Turner started out his adult life in jail from selling narcotics. Once he got our of jail, he decided to make a change. Fast forward and Davielier is now a real estate broker, instructor, and investor in New Jersey. He has been selling real estate and flipping homes for more than 20 years. He is the owner of Pinnacle Real Estate Group and…

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Jordan Moorhead - House Hacking & Mobile Home Parks 26:55

8d ago26:55

26:55

Jordan Moorhead is a real estate agent and investor experienced in house hacking, BRRRRs, as well as mobile home parks. In addition to that, he's moved around the United States a bit, allowing him to build strong real estate investing connections and teams in multiple states. This has allowed him to invest in Kentucky, Minnesota, as well as his cur…

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Dan O'Halloran - Running A Real Estate Team & Investing 27:13

16d ago27:13

27:13

Dan O'Halloran leads the O'Halloran Group, a residential real estate team based out of the Lake Sunapee Region of New Hampshire, along with his wife Christina. In addition to their team, consisting of a handful of agents and admin staff, they also own the office building that they use, as well as a few other properties and a lake home that also ser…

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Laura Gisborne - Running 9 Businesses Starting At 23 Years Old 29:09

23d ago29:09

29:09

Laura is a highly successful business expert with over 25 years experience. From small boutique businesses to a multi-million dollar wine business and a real estate empire, Laura has owned 9 businesses in her career, with the first starting at 23 years old. She is also an internationally recognized speaker through her company, Limitless Women, and …

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Charisse Walker - From Food Stamps & 400k In Debt To Financial Freedom 27:50

25d ago27:50

27:50

Charisse Walker is not your typical real estate investor. Her journey from living on food stamps and being 400k in debt to financial freedom, she had to scrape and claw her way to success. With a determination to succeed, she began investing in real estate and now resides in a home that her passive income pays the mortgage for. She has helped over …

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Amy Terry - Starting Real Estate at 16 To Becoming Managing Broker 27:43

1M ago27:43

27:43

Amy Terry began her real estate career at just 16 years old! From answering phones to a top producing agent, to a Managing Broker, to helping others create phenomenal careers, Amy really has done it all. She's bought, sold, rented, flipped, developed, and invested in many properties. She is passionate about helping people build long term wealth thr…

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Flint Jamison - From Boeing To 2200+ Units 28:10

1M ago28:10

28:10

Flint spent 20 years in aerospace as an engineer and program manager. He helped design the wing structure on the Boeing 787 before leaving in 2014. Having endured a great deal of burnout, he turned to purchasing real estate in 2018. He quickly pivoted to commercial real estate, which allowed him to reclaim his time and quit his day job. Having foun…

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Jeff Anzalone - RV Park Investing Success From The Debt Free Doctor 24:41

1M ago24:41

24:41

Jeff Anzalone is a successful doctor. His journey from being a periodontist with $300k in student loan debt to thriving real estate investor started with a wake up call. A skiing accident that injured his wrist made him realize how fast something like that could take away his ability to earn an income and provide for his family. He shifted his mind…

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Pam Butera - Building Time Freedom Through Virtual Assistants 21:10

1M ago21:10

21:10

Pam Butera has been able to find a ton of leverage and time freedom through her role of running the operations of the Greater Philly Cyberbacker franchise. In a market that went down by 30% last year, Pam's real estate business with The Butera Group, went up by over 10%. Plus, she also had the time to pour into this franchise role giving business o…

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Josh Fonger - Get Control Of Your System 26:56

2M ago26:56

26:56

Josh Fonger is founder and CEO of WTS Enterprises. Based on the book "Work The System" by Sam Carpenter, Josh helps ambitious business owners break free from the day-to-day by getting control of their systems. His specialty is taking stressed-out entrepreneurs from working "in" their business to working "on" their business using systems so that pro…

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Mike Swenson - 5 Takeaways From Hunter Thompson's RaiseFest 21:34

2M ago21:34

21:34

A week ago I had an opportunity to attend RaiseFest, which was put on by Hunter Thompson, author of the book "Raising Capital For Real Estate." Held in Phoenix, AZ, this conference was attended by over 1,000 people looking to raise capital for their real estate ventures. I had an amazing time, made some great connections, and learned a lot about th…

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BEST OF: Bryce Robertson: Negative Net Worth To Time, Financial & Location Freedom in 2.5 Years 28:23

2M ago28:23

28:23

Not many people have the Freedom Trinity - financial, time and location freedom. For Bryce Robertson, this is his reality, however it was not always the story. Growing up in Australia, he was a high school dropout with no knowledge of business and entrepreneurship. After working a few years in gold mines and traveling the world, he ended up in the …

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Anders Jacobson - From $0 To Millionaire At 27 28:17

2M ago28:17

28:17

After winning a college basketball national championship and receiving MVP honors, Anders Jacobson felt on top of the world. However, just weeks later he overdraft his bank account, found out he'd have to pay his own way for school, and hit an all-time low. In just a few years, he entered the door-to-door sales industry, became the #1 producer, sta…

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Jodi Nielsen: Unlocking The Power of Cost Segregations On Your Real Estate Investments 28:43

2M ago28:43

28:43

Benjamin Franklin famously said back in 1789 "Nothing is certain but death and taxes." Jodi Nielsen would quickly chime in "I can help defer one of them." Jodi is a Sr. Account Executive for Cost Segregation Services Inc (CSSI) which has performed over 40,000 Cost Segregation studies. The goal of having a cost segregation study on your investment p…

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Rob Natale - Helping Medical Professionals Passively Invest 26:22

2M ago26:22

26:22

Rob Natale is the founder of North Square Capital, a privately held real estate investment firm in Boston, Massachusetts. He spent numerous years at Columbia Threadneedle Investment, collaborating with financial advisors and their teams, overseeing assets from $20M to $3B. He felt that the financial services industry poorly served a more sophistica…

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Gladys Diaz-Jourdain - Finding The Money To Build My Dreams 26:31

2M ago26:31

26:31

Gladys Diaz-Jourdain, is a bilingual Cuban American residing in vibrant Miami, and is a dynamic figure in the world of real estate. She specializes in affordable housing finance. Co-Founder and Managing Director of Urbaniza Group since 2001 (along with her husband Ray), Gladys has guided growth of this mult-million dollar business across business d…

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Sonny Moyers - Solving Problems In Real Estate 37:59

2M ago37:59

37:59

Sonny Moyers has been a real estate agent since 1971. Based out of the Dallas Fort Worth area, he's a top 1% agent in Texas for many years in his career. He was named by D Magazine as "Best In Dallas" for sixteen straight years. He is President of The Renaissance Group, a real estate brokerage, consulting, and publishing company. He authored the bo…

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DJ Olojo - Helping Homeowners Successfully Navigate Foreclosure 29:29

3M ago29:29

29:29

DJ Olojo is a real estate investor, Realtor, podcast host of "The Foreclosure Fix" and Managing Director of ASO Custom Homes, LLC. His mission is to help 1 Million homeowners successfully navigate foreclosure. With more than 15 years of real estate experience, including purchasing foreclosure properties on the courthouse steps, he is the go-to expe…

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Bill Ham - Creative Financing To Acquire 402 Units 32:56

3M ago32:56

32:56

Back in 2005, Bill Ham walked away from his lucrative career as a corporate pilot. After buying his first deal via creative financing, he quit his job and went full-time into real estate. He grew from $300/mo in cashflow and 10k in savings and built a large portfolio of single and multi-family rental properties. He later built out a large property …

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Nishant Sondhi - Build To Rent Investments 29:32

3M ago29:32

29:32

Nishant Sondhi is a dynamic entrepreneur who embarked on a remarkable journey from India to the United States In 2018. He started his real estate career in the heart of New York City as a real estate agent in 2019. After experiencing success as an agent, he realized his true passion was combining the great relationships he was developing in real es…

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Michael Messner, Nick Haraden. & Marc O'Bryan - Achieving Your Real Estate Goals By Working Together 35:57

3M ago35:57

35:57

Michael Messner, Nick Haraden & Marc O'Bryan form Mattanza Capital Partners, an investing group that focuses on multi-family properties in St. Louis, Missouri. As a group, they've closed 5 successful deals, raised over $10M in capital, and currently have almost $20M in assets under management. These 3 discuss how they got their start, how each of t…

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Chris Dewilde - Being An Investor Focused Agent in Chicago 27:47

3M ago27:47

27:47

Chris Dewilde is a real estate agent in the Chicago area that serves real estate investors. With a 10 year contracting background, Chris has a ton of knowledge to help investors pick great properties, know and understand renovation costs, and see opportunities in properties where others may pass. We discuss how Chris adds value to those he works wi…

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Eric & Melissa Broughton - Saving Thousands of Taxes In Real Estate 29:04

3M ago29:04

29:04

Busy Bee Advisors was established in 2017 by Melissa Broughton, a seasoned accountant. Identifying the benefit to business owners of having a single resource for their accounting and tax services, husband Eric, a tax professional, joined the company in 2020. Together, with more than 20 years of combined bookkeeping and tax experience, they are livi…

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Troy Meyers - From 1 Foreclosure to An 18 Unit Apartment & 2 Short Term Rentals 28:10

3M ago28:10

28:10

Troy Meyers is a former college athlete that got his start flipping motorcycles in college. After buying & selling over 20 motorcycles in college, he turned his attention to flipping houses. Along with his wife, they've flipped single family homes, multi-family homes and are also working on short-term rentals. Troy still works his W2 job and after …

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Ahmed Seirafi - Building Better Through Finding Great Opportunities 28:58

3M ago28:58

28:58

Ahmed Seirafi, principal of Andalusia Development Company, oversees all aspects of the acquisition, deposition, and development processes for his company spanning more than $100 Million in commercial assets in multi-family and retail throughout the SW United States. As a second-generation real estate investor & developer, Ahmed has successfully lau…

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Clint Harris - Turning 2 KMarts, a Piggly Wiggly, and 3 Warehouses Into Profit Machines 28:50

3M ago28:50

28:50

Clint Harris originally was in medical sales and used real estate as a way to build income & wealth on the side. He built a portfolio of single-family homes, BRRRR's, small Multi-Family, short-term rentals. You name it, he's dabbled in it. What he found was all of these may have helped build income & wealth, yet didn't necessarily give the location…

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Greg Mohr - Grow Your Wealth Combining Franchising & Real Estate 27:54

4M ago27:54

27:54

Greg Mohr got his start working for a master franchisor for Taco Bell. He quickly saw how a franchise can be a vehicle to build the live you want and strive towards financial freedom. His path eventually led him to pursue a master's degree and work in engineering. He also purchased a dry cleaning business and some rental properties on the side. He …

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Mike Swenson - Top Real Estate Investing Tips For 2024 22:52

4M ago22:52

22:52

The REL Freedom Show turns 200! That's right, this is our 200th episode. With it being the beginning of 2024, we wanted to share with you some of our top tips to help you achieve real estate investing success in 2024. Whether you're looking to get your first deal, or looking to scale larger, these tips will help you align for growth, help you with …

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Adit Shah - Navy Veteran & Real Estate Entrepreneur Living In Columbia 29:43

4M ago29:43

29:43

Adit Shah is a real estate developer, syndicator and military veteran that now enjoys financial and location freedom living life on his terms in Columbia. After getting out of the military, he worked for a real estate developer for free to gain crucial experience and build key relationships. He's helped develop nearly $3M of properties in San Diego…

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Jenny Rojer - From Higher Education To Real Estate 29:17

4M ago29:17

29:17

Jenny Rojer enjoyed a career in higher education before beginning her journey into real estate. About 5 years ago she got involved with a group that provided real estate education, which allowed her to learn a lot about the industry and different strategies. She decided to make the jump in as an agent in the summer of 2022. Since then, she's worked…

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Spencer Hilligoss - From Golden Handcuffs to 20,000 Units 36:45

4M ago36:45

36:45

Spencer Hilligoss was an operations and sales junkie working for 5 high growth Fintech companies in 13 years. He decided to break free from the golden handcuffs, quit his job, and work on growing his investment group, Madison Investing. Since then, he has become a full-time investor by partnering with in-market, vetted operators and has $2.3 billio…

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Clifton Corbin - Helping Your Raise Financially Literate Children 30:29

4M ago30:29

30:29

Clifton Corbin left his business consultant gig after 2 decades of experience to become a full-time stay-at-home dad. He is the author of "Your Kids, Their Money: A Parent's Guide To Raising Financially Literate Children," which provides parents with the skills and tools to teach financial literacy to kids. He also wrote "The Richest Person In Baby…

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Ryan Luthi - Funding unBankable Real Estate Buyers 27:16

4M ago27:16

27:16

Ryan Luthi has worn a lot of hats in the real estate space. From agent, to investor, and now working with buyers who many banks would deem "unBankable." Not every buyer fits the cookie cutter box that lenders have in place. Ryan has rolled up his sleeves to meet a need to help buyers purchase property that traditional banks and lenders may have tur…

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Caroline Hobbs - Bringing Silicon Valley Tech To Real Estate 24:16

4M ago24:16

24:16

Having a mom who was a successful Realtor, Caroline Hobbs has set a goal to transform the process of finding homes and making it an enjoyable journey. Living in Silicon Valley, she has a prime seat to make that happen. Caroline is the visionary founder and Chief Broker of Reward Realty, established in 2013. She works closely with families and inves…

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Lauren Keen Aumond - How I Quit My 9-5 Job From Real Estate Investing 24:50

4M ago24:50

24:50

Lauren Keen Aumond is a content creator and real estate investor based in Tampa Bay, Florida. She recently quit her 9-5 job and manages her short-term and long-term rentals. Along with her husband, Aric, they built a portfolio that helped them achieve financial independence in their early 30's. She's also the host of the Adulting Is Easy Podcast an…

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Robert Taylor - McDonalds Crew Member To 30 Flips A Year 27:43

5M ago27:43

27:43

Robert Taylor is a former McDonald's employee who went from a humble crew person to real estate superstar. He set out with a goal to create $5k/mo in income from flipping, while still maintaining his job at McDonald's. He scaled to 4-5 flips a year while still working full time, and grew to 17 flips his first year on his own. Today he flips 25-30 h…

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From Rhythm & Hues to Dancing Atoms: Saraswathi “Vani” Balgam 47:53

5M ago47:53

47:53

We have the pleasure of sharing the adventures of Saraswathi “Vani” Balgam -- from pioneering visual effects in India to founding her studio, Dancing Atoms, and mentoring future talents. From her early beginnings in the visual effects industry in India, Vani's drive and curiosity propelled her into careers at Rhythm & Hues and DreamWorks. Vani foun…

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A Creative Maestro: Mark Brymer Talks Show Production and Choral Arranging 39:47

5M ago39:47

39:47

I'm joined by the multitalented Mark Brymer, a creative entrepreneur with hands-on expertise in turning musical concepts into spectacular shows. Mark brings a wealth of experience — from arranging a vast collection (400,000) of choral pieces with Hal Leonard to producing dazzling shows in theme parks. We’ll get a deeper look at his journey from hig…

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Merrill Chandler - The New F* Word.....Fundability 27:10

5M ago27:10

27:10

For many people, building and growing a business in the real estate space is going to require some sort of funding. How much do you know about fundability? Merrill Chandler is THE expert when it comes to knowing what lenders are looking for to approve you for funding. Since 1997, he has led the transformation of the personal and business borrowing …

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From Immersive Theater to VR Innovation: Deirdre V. Lyons' Journey 49:49

5M ago49:49

49:49

Today's guest is a true pioneer in the burgeoning field of virtual reality theater: Deirdre V. Lyons. She'll share her groundbreaking work in VR at the Ferryman Collective, such as her innovative productions like "Welcome to Respite" and "Gumball Dreams," and discuss the intricacies of producing entertainment ranging from films to webisodes. Deirdr…

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Risk, Reward, and Representation in Hollywood with Harry Abrams 37:17

5M ago37:17

37:17

In this conversation, we are joined by a long-time innovator and entrepreneur in talent management — Harry Abrams. At the venerable age of 88, Harry reflects on a career where passion eclipsed paychecks, taking a step into adventure from lawnmower manufacturing in Indiana and instead taking a gutsy $40/week step into the glitz and competitiveness o…

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BEST OF: Michael Elefante - Finding Financial Freedom Through 6 Short-Term Rentals 41:45

5M ago41:45

41:45

Michael believes that all it takes is one short-term rental to help set you financially free. How about 6? Michael shares his journey to financial freedom in just ONE YEAR by leveraging short-term rentals. He and his wife now own 4 properties in TN and 2 in FL and just moved into a $2 Million home in South Carolina and are expecting their first chi…

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BEST OF: Eric & Deven Wohlwend - From Legos To Millionaire By 16 Years Old 31:55

5M ago31:55

31:55

Eric and Lila Wohlwend started out sleeping on a mattress on a warehouse floor. They educated themselves in real estate and taught it to their kids. Deven the oldest son, began real estate investing at the age of 7 with no money from his parents and became a millionaire and accredited investor before he could drive! The Wohlwend family has rehabbed…

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Mike Swenson - How To Invest In A 20 Unit Property 23:18

5M ago23:18

23:18

We are so excited to share that we closed on a 20 unit property! What excites us the most is that we got to have over a dozen people INVEST WITH US! These people wanted to passively invest in a property without having to do all the work themselves. They wanted to achieve economies of scale that they couldn't do on their own. They didn't want to hav…

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Dave Foster - Tax-Free Investing Through The 1031 Exchange 27:35

5M ago27:35

27:35

Dave made a 30k mistake on this first investment, a duplex in Denver, CO, one that ended up costing him over 200k in future missed opportunities. He learned that every real estate investor has a silent partner - Uncle Sam. If you're not careful, Uncle Sam can make more money than you do. But Dave soon learned the incredible value of tax-free saving…

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Whitney Elkins-Hutten - Investing In Car Washes & More 28:08

5M ago28:08

28:08

Whitney Elkins-Hutten serves as the Director of Investor Education at PassiveInvesting.com, and national passive real estate investment firm that holds $1.4Billion in assets under management. After making 52k after her first sale of real estate, nearly losing it all on her 2nd deal, she focused on how to grow her portfolio the right way. Today Whit…

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From our sister show: Creative Innovators, featuring Mike Butera, Artiphon 52:14

5M ago52:14

52:14

Mike Butera has gone on some intriguing journeys, connecting music performance passions, philosophy and sound studies, and tech in creating new musical instruments for regular people to get into music. He shares his path to launching Artiphon after years in academic circles, ways he learned how to market new devices and thrive with Kickstarter, and…

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Creating New Musical Instruments . . . with Mike Butera 52:47

5M ago52:47

52:47

Mike Butera has gone on some intriguing journeys, connecting music performance passions, philosophy and sound studies, and tech in creating new musical instruments for regular people to get into music. He shares his path to launching Artiphon after years in academic circles, ways he learned how to market new devices and thrive with Kickstarter, and…

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Discovering New Artists and Building Your Own Path . . . with Jason Kramer 59:18

5M ago59:18

59:18

Jason Kramer shares his journey to being an EMT during the AIDS Epidemic, LA Riots, and Northridge Earthquake to Fox Sports to KLOS and KCRW. He talks about the magic of Sunday nights, how he created and drove his own luck through persistent work, asking for opportunities, and taking on new challenges. He shares a bit of his experience being presen…

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From our sister show: Creative Innovators, featuring Jason Kramer, KCRW and more 58:44

5M ago58:44

58:44

Jason Kramer shares his journey to being an EMT during the AIDS Epidemic, LA Riots, and Northridge Earthquake to Fox Sports to KLOS and KCRW. He talks about the magic of Sunday nights, how he created and drove his own luck through persistent work, asking for opportunities, and taking on new challenges. He shares a bit of his experience being presen…

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