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If you’ve ever wondered how to create both meaningful impact and reliable cash flow through real estate, you’re going to love this conversation. I sat down with Terri Arcieri, a past client of mine, who has built a unique real estate model focused on clean and sober housing. Her story weaves personal transformation, nonprofit strategy, and savvy investing into a model that’s not only profitable but deeply purposeful. We dig into how she secures grant funding (including $450K last year alone), structures her for-profit and nonprofit entities, builds systems, and manages operations across multiple recovery homes. This is a must-watch for investors ready to scale with heart.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

I am here with Terri Arcieri. Thank you for joining me today, Terri.
Thank you for having me.

Terri is a past client that I’ve gotten to know well, and I’m really excited for her to share her story and experience with us. It’s a really unique story. It’s very personal. I’m excited to dig in. So let’s start, Terri, with sharing for our listeners: what does your real estate investing look like, big picture?

So big picture, I buy single family houses and they’re unique because they usually have five bedrooms, at least three bathrooms, and are close to public transportation because I service a clean and sober community. The houses I buy are that type.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re stuck at 3–5 properties, unsure of how to scale your portfolio without losing your mind (or your W-2 job), this conversation with my long-time friend and investor George Mina is a must-watch. George shares how he built a 750+ unit portfolio while still working full-time in IT leadership. We dig into how to overcome fixed-mindset beliefs, build systems, scale with virtual assistants, and use tech as an ally—not a barrier. Plus, he shares his mindset transformation, how he found his personal “why,” and how he now helps other high-achieving professionals follow the same path to real estate freedom.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Hello everyone, and I’m very excited to have George Mina with me today.

Thank you so much. Happy to be here.

We’ve known each other for years, and I’m really excited to share your story. You bring a lot of wisdom and experience to the table. Let’s start for our listeners: can you tell me, what does your investing portfolio look like?

Great question, and thanks again for having me. We’ve got a large portfolio ranging from single-family to commercial and large multifamily. We started with small multifamily and single-family homes in Chattanooga.

 had the opportunity to sit down with powerhouse attorney, real estate investor, and bestselling author of The Power of OPE, Bethany LaFlam. Her journey from burned-out law practice to pioneering boutique hotel investments is filled with lessons about scaling, communication, and leveraging the right partnerships. If you’ve ever wondered how to move from passive deals to building multimillion-dollar funds—or how to scale without losing yourself in the process—this conversation is a must-watch.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Welcome everybody. I’m excited to have with me a powerhouse attorney. She’s a real estate investor and she’s the bestselling author of The Power of OPE. So I’m excited to have her share all of her story with us. Get ready for insights to help you scale, systemize and create more freedom. Let’s jump in. So, where I like to start is how did you get started with real estate investing?

So I’ve been practicing law for 25 years now and I was on the tech side venture. I did mergers and acquisitions. I was working with all the tech bros in Silicon Valley. So I didn’t really know about real estate as an investment. I mean, of course everybody knows about real estate, but I didn’t really know the value of it. I was in the middle of it’s either like 10X or nothing, you know? And I left that world really, really burnt out. And I met my former law partner and was just kind of licking my failure and was trying to figure out what I was gonna do next. I thought I was going to leave the law, and he was doing real estate syndications, which is just a fancy way to say helping real estate investors leverage other people’s money safely.

If you’re scaling your real estate portfolio and assuming your insurance agent has it covered, this episode is a must-watch. I sat down with Bailey Brown, an investor-focused insurance broker in Austin, to dig into the costly mistakes investors are making when it comes to their policies. From flips to short-term rentals, from builder’s risk to liability limits, Bailey breaks down exactly what you need to know to protect what you’re building. If you’ve got more than two doors and you’re serious about wealth preservation, this is a conversation you can’t afford to skip.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Hello everyone and welcome back. I am coming at you today from Portugal and I’m very excited to share with you our special guest for the week from Austin, Texas. So thanks for joining us today.

Yeah it’s great to be here. I appreciate you for having me on.

What I’d like to start with as always is how did you get involved in real estate investing?

It’s a funny story actually. My parents have always been in the real estate space since I’ve been a little kid. My dad was a developer and builder for a number of years. My mom was a builder and then in the flooring space for a number of years. And then they kind of jumped into their own personal investing journey in the long-term rental space. So that’s kind of how I got involved. Just personally, I was working on those projects with my dad growing up. So I really developed a passion for real estate and then went to school for real estate finance, kind of learned as much as I could there and now I’ve kind of transitioned into my own personal journey over the last two, three years since graduating from college.

Most investors know how to make money—but very few know how to keep it, grow it, and build a lasting legacy with it. In this powerful conversation with Melissa Lindsay Freedman, we dig into the systems and mindset shifts that separate constant hustle from true financial freedom. Melissa shares her personal journey from financial confusion to intentional wealth creation, and we get real about the traps investors fall into when they ignore the back-end of their finances. If you’ve ever felt like your portfolio is scaling but your wealth isn’t, this is the episode you need to watch.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Hello everyone. Today, I am excited to have Melissa Lindsay Freedman with me. Thank you for being here.

Hi, thank you for having me.

I’m really excited for our conversation because for those who do not know Melissa, she really specializes in helping her clients create personalized financial game plans. We’re going to talk a lot about the importance of financial planning, wealth building, being intentional about it, and the wisdom that can help you as a real estate investor—wherever you are in building, maintaining, and growing your financial wealth. So I’m excited.

I sat down with Julia Myers, a pharmacist-turned-investor who rebuilt both income and identity after a sudden retinal detachment changed everything. In this conversation, Julia walks through how she used short-term rentals (and smart depreciation strategy) to solve a tax problem, why aligning to a clear “why” beats shiny-object investing, and how her family’s money values—generosity, discernment, and a written “family constitution”—create real freedom for the next generation. If you want a candid, actionable look at wealth, parenting, and purpose, you’ll love this one.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Hello everyone and welcome back. I’m so excited today to have with me Miss Julia Myers. Thanks for being here.

Thank you so much, and I am so excited to be here as well.

Get ready guys, because Julia’s gonna have practical insights that are gonna help you build wealth and freedom through real estate. Now Julia has a really cool story, but let’s start at the beginning with where did real estate investing, where did that happen for you and how does that fit into your story?

In this episode, I sit down with Christina Suter to talk about how she built financial freedom through real estate investing—starting as a teenager with her first property. We get real about college stories, early money lessons, and the reality of losing (and then rebuilding) millions during the 2009 downturn. Christina opens up about flipping homes, investing out of state, doing hard money lending, and the mindset that’s been key to her success. If you’ve ever felt stuck or overwhelmed about how to build wealth in real estate, this conversation is going to give you clarity, strategy, and inspiration.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Hello and welcome back. I’m so excited to have you listening today. I’m Adrienne Green and today I have with me Christina Suter. Thank you for being with me.

I’m so excited to be here and thank you for having me on the show. I just love how you’re really trying to help people move forward and trying to understand what it means to create your financial freedom and giving them real stories about how to do that. It’s all about stories and it’s all about grit, right? Like what can we do? How can we do this? We’re all human beings trying to get it done. And I love that you bring that element to it.

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jason Muth, a former media executive turned thriving short-term rental entrepreneur. In this conversation, Jason opens up about transitioning out of corporate life after decades with powerhouse companies like NBCUniversal and iHeartMedia. We dive deep into his first real estate deal (which included a casino win!), building a successful STR business from the ground up, handling nightmare water leaks, navigating complex regulations, launching a co-hosting company, and what it really takes to succeed behind the scenes. This is a candid, practical, and inspiring conversation for anyone who’s thought about using real estate to create freedom and flexibility—especially while still working a full-time job.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode. I am excited to have with me Jason. Welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for having me. That is so much more exuberance than I have on my podcast when we launch the very intro of ours. I’m going to have to take a page out of that. Thank you for the intro. Your setting is great. We were just talking off camera about where you’re recording this from—a house that’s older than the United States. How inspiring is that? Whatever is behind you looks beautiful. I have boring drywall, right?

What does it look like to go from just starting to closing 379 units in under a year—while living overseas? In this conversation, I sat down with real estate investor Suzy Sevier to dive into her incredible journey from lockdown curiosity to full-blown multifamily syndicator. Suzy shares how she and her husband Michael turned quarantine into opportunity, the mindset and systems behind their success, and how they used community, grit, and 1% improvements to transform their lives. This is a real, unfiltered look at scaling quickly, staying grounded, and building a business with purpose.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Hello everyone and welcome! I’m very excited to have Suzy Sevier with me. Thanks for being here.

Yeah, thank you for having me join. I’m super excited.

I’ve known Suzy for years and she has been an awesome real estate investor and syndicator who’s been hustling since the minute I met her. So I’m excited to have her share her story with us today. Now, Suzy, we’re going to start at the beginning—and to be honest, I feel like I’m going to learn a lot here too because I know part of your story, but how did you really get started in real estate investing?

I sat down with Kaaren Hall to dig into a topic that blows many experienced investors’ minds—self-directed IRAs. Kaaren is a real estate investor, the author of the BiggerPockets book on self-directed real estate investing, and founder of Udirect IRA Services, which manages around $1 billion in assets. We walked through how she got started in real estate, why most people don’t realize they’ve been able to self-direct retirement accounts for 50 years, and exactly how to roll over funds from a 401k or IRA into a self-directed account. Kaaren shared surprising investment strategies, including syndications, private lending, and even some unexpected past deals, along with critical rules to avoid prohibited transactions. If you’ve ever wondered how to unlock the retirement capital you already have and put it into assets you know and trust, you’ll want to hear every detail of this conversation.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Freedom Blueprint! This essential tool walks you through ten key steps for organizing a profitable property portfolio. Click here to get your copy today!

Kaaren is amazing. I’ve known her for years. I remember the first time I heard her speak about some of the stuff she’s going to share with us here today. She is a real estate investor herself. She is the author of the Bigger Pockets book on self-directed real estate investing. And she is going to talk to us today about her experience and also these self-directed IRAs or STIRAs.

It’s gonna be a lot. It’s gonna be amazing. So make sure you listen to the whole thing. And let’s start at the beginning. So Kaaren, how did you get involved with real estate investing in the first place?