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Most real estate entrepreneurs don’t struggle because of a lack of opportunity. They struggle because they’re trying to scale without the right support, systems, or structure. In this conversation, I sit down with Leo Young to unpack what it really looks like to move from hustle into a business that can actually grow. We talk about leadership, burnout, building teams, and why manufactured housing is one of the most overlooked yet durable asset classes. If you’ve been feeling stretched thin or unsure how to scale beyond yourself, this will give you a clearer path forward. 

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

I’m Adrienne Green and here we help real estate entrepreneurs escape the grind with private lending and virtual assistance. And today I have with me Leo Young with Cornell Communities. Thanks for joining me, Leo.

Thanks for having me, Adrienne. Very excited to be here.

I know we have so much to talk about that is really going to benefit people. Before the call, we were talking about lessons learned from Tesla, community building, and manufactured housing communities, which is something we haven’t talked about yet, so I’m excited for all of that. As we get started, Leo, for people who don’t know you yet, can you give us a quick snapshot of your real estate business?

If your real estate business feels heavier as it grows, there’s usually a reason. In this conversation, I sit down with Matt Medrano to unpack what’s really happening behind the scenes as deals scale and complexity increases. We talk about why so many entrepreneurs feel stuck even when they’re doing more deals, how capital structure impacts your ability to grow, and what shifts when you remove friction from the process. This is a grounded conversation about building a business that can actually support growth instead of constantly straining under it.

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

Hello guys and welcome to another episode. I’m Adrienne Green and today I have with me Matt Medrano. We’re going to talk about how real estate entrepreneurs can escape the grind and create the life of freedom that they got into real estate for in the first place.

So Matt, thank you so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me on.

To ground us, can you start with a quick snapshot of what you focus on today at Dynamo Capital?

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing all the right things in real estate but still not building the kind of wealth or stability you expected, this conversation will give you clarity. I sat down with Dr Danica Cicmil to unpack the difference between how most investors operate and how institutional investors think, and the shift is simpler than most people realize. We talk about strategy first, not deals, how to evaluate risk properly, why staying busy is not the same as building wealth, and what it actually looks like to create a repeatable investing system that supports long-term growth.

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

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode. I’m Adrienne Green and today I have with me Dr. Danny. Thanks for joining me.

Thank you so much for having me.

And as you know, listeners, what we do is help real estate entrepreneurs escape the grind so they can really live the lives of freedom that they got into real estate for in the first place. Dr. Danny has a really cool background and perspective with a PhD in finance and all of this great experience that she’s going to share with us. So, Dr. Danny, let’s start. Can you give people a quick understanding of how you help your clients today when it comes to building long-term wealth?

I sat down with Chris Miles to unpack a question I see so many real estate entrepreneurs wrestle with: why does success still feel like a grind? In this conversation, we go deeper than doors and deal volume and talk about what actually creates freedom. Chris shares his journey from chasing scale to rebuilding around cash flow, liquidity, and true leverage after losing everything in the recession. If you’ve built something that looks successful on paper but still depends on you to run, this will help you rethink how you approach growth, income, and the role of support in your business.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Time + Freedom Starter Pack! 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 Adrienne Green and today I have with me Chris Miles. Today we talk about how real estate entrepreneurs can escape the grind and create the freedom that they usually got into real estate for in the first place. So Chris, I’m excited to have a conversation about your life and how you escaped the grind and created some freedom.

Yeah, it’s gonna be a fun conversation. I can already tell.

So now to ground us, can you give us a quick snapshot of your real estate investing focus right now?

Yeah, I’m now more of a hands-off passive real estate investor at this point and various forms of real estate. Not just having turnkey rentals where I have property managers around the country that help take care of properties, but I also have things from raw land partnerships where somebody else is doing the raw land, but I finance it. I’m doing hard money lending and debt funds and things like that. Oil and gas, where I get paid on the lease of the land and things of that nature. So I do a pretty wide variety in the real estate space.

If your business has ever felt like it was growing and then suddenly stalled, this conversation will likely resonate. I sat down with Paul Salter to unpack what’s really happening beneath the surface when real estate entrepreneurs hit plateaus, struggle to delegate, or feel stuck despite doing all the “right” things. What stood out most is that these challenges aren’t just operational. They’re deeply tied to identity, belief patterns, and how we relate to control, success, and growth. This is a grounded, practical conversation that will help you see what might actually be holding you back and what it takes to move forward in a more sustainable way.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Time + Freedom Starter Pack! 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 Adrienne Green and today I have with me a very special guest, Paul Salter. Today I have with me a very special guest, Paul Salter. I’m excited for what you’re going to share to help people do that.

I’m thrilled to be here, Adrienne. I’m excited about our conversation.

For our regular listeners, Paul is a little different of a guest and I am really excited to bring his wisdom here. So Paul, before we dive in, give us a quick snapshot of what it is that you do.

So I am a high performance hypnotherapist and mindset coach and I work with top level executives, entrepreneurs and professional athletes to help them get unstuck out of their own way, specifically by helping them unlearn the collection of beliefs and behaviors that’s holding them back from achieving their potential.

If you’re a real estate entrepreneur, there comes a point where the business is working… but your life isn’t. You’re closing deals, making money, and still feeling stretched thin, reactive, and stuck. In this conversation with Erin Bradley, we unpack what’s really happening behind burnout, why more success often creates more pressure, and the shift that allows your business to finally support your life instead of consume it.

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

Hello everyone, welcome back. I am Adrienne Green and today I’m really excited to have with me my long time friend, Erin Bradley. In this conversation we talk about how you take your real estate entrepreneur business and get it to give you a bigger life, a bigger business, instead of keeping you in the weeds. Erin has a lot to share on that. Thank you so much for joining us today, Erin.

Thank you for having me. I’m one of your number one fans and a huge admirer of the life you’ve built and the way that you’ve been so intentional about designing it. This is an honor to get to share this space with you.

You’re so sweet, Erin. For our listeners, Erin has a podcast called Pursuing Freedom. If you don’t already listen to that, go check it out wherever you listen to podcasts. Erin and I obviously have like minds. We are all about how we can create a lifestyle that gives you freedom, and we’ve both done this in the real estate entrepreneur space. Erin, for our listeners who are new, can you give us a quick snapshot of your real estate business today and where you started?

I regularly talk with real estate entrepreneurs who are trying to grow their portfolios while still managing the daily pressure of operations, partnerships, and market uncertainty. In this conversation, I sit down with Christina Kovacs, a real estate investor who started in lending at just 20 years old and has built a diversified portfolio that includes multifamily, private lending, and joint venture partnerships. We talk about what she learned early in the lending world, how she evaluates deals today, why she focuses on the often-overlooked 5–50 unit multifamily space, and the systems and partnerships that help investors scale without losing control of their time.

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

Hello everyone. I’m Adrienne Green and today I’m really excited to have with me Christina Kovach. Here we focus on how real estate entrepreneurs break free of the grind using leverage, support and smarter strategies. Let’s dive into Christina’s story. Christina, thanks for being here today.

Hey Adrienne, thank you so much for having me.

Now for listeners who are meeting you for the first time, can you give us a quick overview of your real estate world today? The types of assets you invest in and your current portfolio.

Sure. Right now I’m very diversified within real estate. Some of the things that were flips early on became long-term rentals instead of the flip. I decided to hold them. I have a short-term rental. I sold off a few in the past and realized that my passion lies in one true love and not juggling multiple of those. Then multifamily. I have a lot of LP positions and I am also a JV partner as GP in multiple acquisitions throughout Missouri and a little bit in Pennsylvania. I also do some private money lending and I have an RV park that I invested in a couple years ago.

If you are a real estate entrepreneur who feels stretched thin, buried in admin, and wondering how other people seem to scale faster without burning out, this is the story of how I changed the trajectory of my business. I share exactly how I integrated virtual assistants into my real estate agent business, how that decision multiplied my production in a brand new market, and how it ultimately helped me build a business I could sell. This is the behind the scenes of what actually shifted when I stopped trying to do everything myself.

For a complete guide on optimizing and scaling your real estate investments, download my Time + Freedom Starter Pack! 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. I’m Adrienne Green and today I’m excited because I’m going to share my own story of how I got started with virtual assistants as a real estate entrepreneur.

This is something I’m really passionate about, helping other real estate entrepreneurs use virtual assistants within their business. I want to show you why and tell you how transformational it was for me. I first brought in virtual assistants to my real estate agent business before I brought them into the investing side. It really was what led me to go from a solo agent to a team leader to then having a business that I could sell. It was transformational in the amount of income it brought in and the amount of impact I could have for the people I worked with. That is why I love helping other people get virtual assistants through my virtual staffing company, Workergenix.

If you are a real estate entrepreneur who has closed a few deals but still feels the pressure of doing everything yourself, this conversation will resonate. I sat down with Cameron Philgreen to talk about what it actually looks like to grow from one house to a 25 property portfolio without burning out. We discuss contractors, capital, delegation, guardrails, leadership, and what it means to build a business around your investing instead of just chasing the next deal. Cameron shares practical systems, honest lessons, and a bigger mission that drives his decisions. If you want your portfolio to grow without your life feeling heavier, this is one to watch.

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

Hello everyone. I’m Adrienne Green and today we’re here with Cameron Philgreen. Here we focus on how real estate entrepreneurs break free of the grind using leverage, support and smarter strategies. So let’s jump in. Cameron, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you for having me, super stoked to chat.

Well, to set the stage for our listeners, can you give us a quick snapshot of your real estate portfolio today?

Yeah, I’m about 25 properties, something like 35 units. 80% is residential, about 20 to 25% commercial, depending on how you calculate, whether it’s square footage or units. I have about 60,000 square feet of commercial space, less square footage of residential, and I’ve been on the real estate investing journey for about six years. From one owner-occupied house to about 25 to 30 properties in six years. It’s been a great and super fun journey.

When you’re building and scaling a real estate portfolio, it’s easy to assume that more data equals better decisions. In this conversation, I sit down with Kevin Shtofman to unpack why that isn’t always true. We talk about how institutional investors think about data, how individual investors can avoid costly blind spots, how to use AI as a strategic partner instead of a shortcut, and what it really takes to build trust with capital partners. If you want to scale with more clarity, stronger systems, and smarter decision-making, this is a conversation you’ll want to listen to closely.

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. Welcome back. I’m Adrienne Green. And today we’re here with Kevin Shtofman. Here we focus on how real estate entrepreneurs can break free of the grind using leverage, support, and smarter strategies. And Kevin, I know you’re going to talk about that a lot. So as we get started to ground the conversation for listeners, how does your work intersect with real estate investing today?

I mean, I’m living in it.

With my day job, I’m the head of corporate development for a software company that sells into large real estate institutions. So think sovereign wealth funds, the real estate arm of a bank, the real estate arm of an insurance company, publicly traded REITs. And then outside of the day job, I’ve been slowly, methodically building a real estate portfolio myself with a handful of friends.