The Good Success Podcast

Jay is a "hands-on" real estate investor, mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, inventor, and conference speaker. He specializes in fix/flips, rentals, seller financing, and creative deal structuring. Since leaving the corporate world in 2015, he has completed over 50 deals ranging from vacant land to 6 figure flips. He is a person that seeks continuous improvement and believes in investing in self-development to grow his knowledge base, his network, and his net worth. When he's not working a deal, you can find him shredding mountain bike trails or building a vintage motorcycle.

After graduating cum laude with a degree in finance from the University of Florida, Todd started working for a Fortune Global 500 company. Less than a year later, he got laid off due to the Great Recession. During this difficult period, he committed to living on his terms and becoming financially independent. Todd dreamed of working less, experiencing more, and spending time with the most important people in his life. For the next 11 years, he worked in financial services, guiding thousands of people through the mortgage approval process. All while, he saved, invested and built passive income for the fate. Then, at 35 Todd accomplished his goal and became F.I.! He went on bucked list adventures around. The world and eventually started TightwadTodd.com. This coaching business is a way for him to follow another passion, helping others. It’s mission is financial education, so everyone can achieve their goals faster, live free, and have more fulfilled lives.

Amy Ransdell is an Executive Execution TRANSFORMATION & Peak Performance COACH, active real estate investor, real estate investment mentor, real estate agent trainer, investment strategist, licensed real estate broker, brokerage owner, SALES trainer, national speaker, marketing lead for multiple companies, and *NLP Certified Master Practitioner BREAKTHROUGH COACH.

Derick Van Ness is a Wealth Strategist who is passionate about helping people reach their full potential. His company, Big Life Financial is focused on removing the mystery and misinformation surrounding money and financial strategy so people can live their BIGGEST LIFE!

Jared Williams is on a mission to revolutionize Christian personal finance. Passionate about teaching Christian families a Biblical (and better) approach to investing, Jared has dedicated his career to shedding light on the fact that most Christian families are invested in companies that support (and, shockingly, even profit from) unbiblical practices like abortion, pornography, and addiction. His mission is simple: to make sure families know that they have alternatives.

Clint Howard is the owner of Cold River Marketing and Web Design and the Director of Design for InteractRV, the premier RV dealership website platform and marketing firm. Clint specializes in helping small businesses attract new customers and build customer loyalty through brand building and strategy, website design and optimization, and digital marketing. He also partners with his local Chamber of Commerce to provide small business marketing workshops and "shop local" marketing campaigns.

They build beautiful websites … for free that other agencies charge thousands of dollars for. If you want to know more about "Free Website Guys" listen to this episode where John Miles will explain it all!

Lane partners with investors who want to build their portfolio, but are too busy to mess with “tenants, toilets, and termites” by curating opportunities in his “Hui Deal Pipeline Club” where his investors have personal access to him and know that Lane is personally putting his money on the line too. The Hui Deal Pipeline Club has acquired over $250 Million dollars of real estate acquired by syndicating over $25 Million Dollars of private equity since 2016.

Neal Bawa is a technologist and an entrepreneur who is universally known in the real estate circles as The Mad Scientist of Multifamily. Besides being one of the most in-demand speakers in commercial real estate, Neal is a data guru, a process freak, and an outsourcing expert. Neal treats his $320+ million-dollar multifamily portfolio as an ongoing experiment in efficiency and optimization. The Mad Scientist lives by two mantras. His first mantra is that We can only manage what we can measure. His second mantra is that Data beats gut feel by a million miles. These mantras and a dozen other disruptive beliefs drive profit for his 400+ investors.

Dr. Paul White, founder and CEO of White Orthodontics has published several books including his best-selling book, “Beyond Straight Teeth”, and has been recognized in local magazines and publications. Dr. White is one of the country’s leading authorities on Bio-Esthetic Smile Design and frequently teaches other orthodontists and dentists in Virginia and throughout the country.

ShawnQ helps extraordinary clients create world-class businesses through high-ticket sales. He is an author, keynote speaker, high-performance coach and the creator of Clients With Purpose, one of the top sales programs for coaches, consultants and service providers in the industry, as well as the creator of the One Client Away challenge, a 5-day challenge to help you land your next (or first) high-paying client in just 5 days.

For more than 30 years, Steven Goodman, President and CEO of SHG Planning, has provided insightful solutions to the challenges of business succession, wealth preservation, retirement, and charitable planning. He currently services hundreds of clients focusing on the needs of owners of closely-held businesses and high net worth individuals. Steven Goodman is the author of Business Succession Planning: A Guide to Transfers, Sales, Family Harmony, and Minimizing Litigation, and has also written numerous articles for leading trade journals. He has paired with some of the most respected names in banking and finance to sponsor some 150 seminars about business succession and wealth preservation. His accomplishments have brought the attention of such publications as the New York Times. Steven Goodman is a CPA who was vice president of the Trust and Investment Division of JP Morgan Chase and a supervisor for KPMG Peat Marwick. He holds an MBA from Fordham University. In addition to his work with SHG Planning, Steve has been a Big Brother for the last 15 years and is passionate about supporting charities that fund the education of underprivileged children.

Nicky Billou is the #1 International Best Selling Author of the book: Finish Line ThinkingTM: How to Think and Win Like a Champion, and The Thought Leader’s Journey: A Fable of Life. He is an in-demand and highly inspirational speaker to corporate audiences such as RBC, Lululemon, Royal LePage, and TorStar Media. He is and advisor and confidante to some of the most successful and dynamic entrepreneurs in Canada. He is the co-founder of eCircle Academy (www.eCircleAcademy.com) where he runs a yearlong Mastermind & Educational program working with Coaches, Consultants, Corporate Trainers, Clinic Owners, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers and other service-based Entrepreneurs, positioning them as authorities in their niche. He is the creator of the Thought Leader/Heart LeaderTM Designation.

Mark Ritter is the CEO of MBFS and an expert in credit unions and business lending . His primary role at MBFS is overseeing the strategy of helping credit unions assist members with business needs and consulting with credit unions on planning the delivery of services to their membership.

In today's episode we have our host Tom Olson talking about how has COVID-19 changed real estate.

Bob Lachance is a nationally recognized speaker, mentor, and trainer who specializes in helping customers build their businesses through automation and outsourcing. Bob currently owns four businesses and helped start one of the nation’s largest real estate coaching programs.

Bob is the owner of REVA Global LLC which focuses on offering trained real estate virtual assistants to real estate professionals. Over the years he has experienced various setbacks where others would have simply thrown in the towel. Through the ups and downs both in business and life, his humble commitment to the daily process is something listeners can gravitate towards.

By utilizing the power of virtual assistants real estate professionals are able to leverage and scale their businesses. Investing in virtual assistants is a lifestyle change that increases business productivity. Not only do you gain back lost time but you have the opportunity to focus on the income producing tasks that grow your business.

For host Tom Olson, Quincy Long has been not only a friend but a mentor, someone who represents the meaning of 'Good Success' and 'Work to Have to Give'. Today Quincy Long joins Tom for one of the best podcast episodes of The Good Success Podcast. We get to learn Quincy's path to success, his experiences as an entrepreneur and he talks about "How to have integrity in your business".

Jake is the founder and CEO of Groundbreaker, a software application that helps real estate investment firms automate workflows in fundraising, investor reporting and investment management.

On this episode of The Good Success podcast, we have Dave Franecki talking about Notes and a Ups and Downs of Life.

Jennifer Seeno Tucker is an Associate Broker & Vice President of Business Development of Exit Realty United located in Nassau County, New York. She is the co-creator of The 7 Saturday’s Training Program for local real estate agents. She has helped dozens of real estate agents transition from paycheck employee to a flourishing career as a sole proprietor in real estate. Jennifer has also guided many real estate agents throughout their careers and helped them stay focused in meeting their goals as business owners.

Jennifer is the author of Become A Rockstar Real Estate Agent: 7 Steps to Make $100k A Year. As a former educator with an advanced degree in curriculum design and instruction, Jennifer is committed to utilizing her background to provide realtors with the necessary tools for support as they transition to a full time real estate agent.

IT'S HERE! Our 200th episode of #TheGoodSuccessPodcast. And to commemorate the occasion we're having a very special guest: Toms favorite Pastor and spiritual leader John Wilkerson 

Listen to Manuel's experience on surviving COVID-19, his road to recovery and more!

Listen to Tom Olson, Josh Belk and Damon Riehl answer questions about the Economic Stimulus Package.

Being in love with history, architecture and many of the palaces, monasteries and historic places she visited while on vacation as a child in Portugal, Lorraine has always had a love for all things related to real estate. Thanks to her uncle Mario who would take a week off every summer when she visited Portugal, her eyes were opened to amazing structures that were built as early back as 1100 AD.  Lorraine was always fascinated at what people were able to construct and create all those centuries ago without the modern conveniences and tools of the 20th century.  She didn’t just walk through these places as a tourist, she would always look further and take a deep look at the construction, the curves of the flying buttresses, the stained glass windows, the intricacies of the features on many of the stone carvings and when available, the furnishings of the era.  She would oftentimes stand there and try to imagine how the people lived in these residences all those centuries ago.

Jack immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1997 with just 2-suitcases and a bunch of student debt and since 2002 Jack and co-founder Michelle Bosch have purchased and sold over 4,000+ properties.

With his Land For Pennies investment method Jack and Michelle went from zero to a million in just 18-months and from that built a real estate investment empire that spans multiple areas of real estate including, land flipping, financing/ notes, tax delinquent real estate, home rentals, commercial, multi-family investments, and education.

Find more information about the Land Profit Generator with Jack Bosch at www.landprofitfund.com

Looking for an easy place to find funding for your deals? Listen to this podcast as Damon Riehl explains why he created loanbidz.com and how you can easily get private lenders competing for your loan.

Most people in the real estate investing industry know what a hard money loan is. Some can get money cheap, others pay a lot for their loans. We bring on Rick Bresler to talk about the ins and outs of acquiring hard money lending for real estate investing.

Owner of Cafe Fresco in Crown Point, IN, and owner of Community Love, Breanne Zolfo is spreading positivity with her push to help others in her community and around the world. Listen in as Breanne talks about what she's doing to make an impact with her life.

Mark Roderick is one of the leading Crowdfunding and Fintech lawyers in the United States. Expanding on his in-depth knowledge of capital-raising and securities law.

On this episode, we bring Mark on to talk about the benefits of crowdfunding for real estate investors.

Christy and Shannon have been real estate investors for quite a while, but they noticed a problem that was common with many real estate investors. Lack of leads. To solve this, they are working on a great software for lead generation through texting and ringless voicemails. Listen in as we talk about how this type of lead generation can get you more deals!

With having such an intense conversation with Noel Christopher about the trends of SFR, we had an incredible time with Noel on this show! Noel is the Senior Vice President of Renters Warehouse and is crushing it with content as well. Listen in as we have some great conversations!

Rita has taken massive action to create passive income for herself! Rita was born in Berlin, Germany and grew up in the United States. While building her real estate portfolio, Rita was a Psychiatric Registered Nurse. She is a buy & hold investor specializing in out of state investing. She creates passive income with a purpose providing safe affordable housing to single moms & their young children through the Section 8 Program.

The topic of a "Fractional CFO" has been tossed around quiet a big in the business world, but very few people know what it is and how it can benefit their business. We bring on Good Success Mastermind Member and accountant extraordinaire, Josh Belk to give us insight on what a Fractional CFO can do!

Estate planning is something not a lot of people are educated on or even know it exists. We bring on our good friend, Mary Hart to discuss with us why estate planning shouldn't be overlooked and how to start making it happen.

In the Northwest Indiana market, there are plenty of real estate brokerages, but one stands out above all. Kevin Hutnick, Founder of Listing Leaders, tells us his story of how he founded Listing Leaders and how he has managed the massive growth that his company has experiences!

Bringing a great element specifically to real estate investors and realtors, Daniel Ramsey's MyOutDesk services provides virtual assistants well versed in the real estate industry. We have Daniel on to chat with us about how virtual assistants can be leveraged to save you the important asset you have. Your time. 

One thing biggest things real estate investing business owners struggle with is online (digital) marketing. It's new, it's hot, it works but it's also overwhelming to most people. We bring on Good Success Mastermind member, Heather Nichols to talk about some ways where you can elevate your business through online marketing!

Flipping Gary, Indiana has been a massive vision for Tom Olson, and seeing someone else being a huge force with helping that cause is incredible! Greg Slaughter has a unique corporate background with systems and processes and has been able to implement that mindset into his real estate investing business. Making big moves in Gary, Indiana, Greg has some great details on things coming down the pipe!

Located near Virginia Commonwealth University, Alex Lugovoy has an incredible story of becoming a force in changing his community with student housing. Alex is extremely niched into a specific area with all of his rental units and can see most of his units from his bedroom window.

Through much experience working with many contractors, Susan Dupont, President of Radius Renovation Group has been able to create systems and methods of working with contractors to get projects done on time, on budget, and with as little stress as possible!

Tom Nardone is known as "The Millionaire Mailman" and there is an absolutely incredible story behind that! Going from being a mailman to a millionaire through real estate, Tom has one of the most interesting success stories that you'll ever hear. 

In the world of professional sports, athletes can become very cash wealthy quickly, but what do they do with that wealth? Hakeem Valles who is a retired NFL tight end, went into real estate investing to be a good steward of the money he had made as a pro athlete. Hakeem talks about his story of going from an NFL tight end to a real estate investor.

Short term rentals is a topic that not a lot of real estate investors are talking about, but could potentially be a gold mine if done properly. Walter Wofford has always been known for his creativity in structuring deals, so Walter has taken that talent and applied it to the short term rentals game and the results are shocking!

Good Success has a lot of meaning behind the brand. With this, Tom has created 30 questions to ask yourself to determine if you are having the right kind of success “Good Success" I promise you these questions will grab your attention and haunt you if you don’t know the answers to them.  I challenge you to go through this list and answer these questions Honestly. Once you can do this with frank honest answers I can assure you that you will make some life-altering changes!

So much changes for someone like Jasmine Willois when you walk into a room and you are owed $30 million in debt as opposed to being in debt and owing other people money. Jasmine Willois with The Note Assistant Program comes on the show to talk about her journey to becoming one of the biggest names in Note Investing!

Good Success has a lot of meaning behind the brand. With this, Tom has created 30 questions to ask yourself to determine is you are having "Good Success" or not. Making sure you review these important questions regularly is vital to your growth.

Investing in real estate takes much more than just hustle and hard work. Though those are key ingredients, successfully investing in real estate takes applied knowledge and proper deal structure. Also known as actual investing. Far too many investors speculate on deals to see if they're good or not. Stop speculating and start investing.

Wholesaling is a great way to put your foot in the door when getting into the real estate investing world. Unfortunately, even with the ease and low-risk factors, people still scale their wholesaling businesses incorrectly. Jason Engelman shows us a few things that need to be done in order to excel in wholesaling!

Last week, Tom Olson had the privilege of visiting the White House with Capitol Connection and experienced a lot of interesting and uplifting things! For this show, Tom brings back to us some things he came across while on his visit.

Land investing could be one of those hidden secrets to wealth that isn't talked about a lot, with low overhead and low risk! That's why we bring on Jermain Hill to talk about the ins and outs of land investing. We ask him what to look out for and why someone should consider investing in land.

Legacy is a word that is thrown a lot and often times takes on it's own meaning from each person that talks about it. Augie Byllott gives us a deeper perspective on what a legacy actually means and it may not be what you think it is, but we sure do love it!

CEO of Self-Directed Investor Society, Bryan Ellis has a passion for helping investors use their self-directed IRA at it's fullest potential! Along with this comes a lot of things to be cautious about that your average investor would not know. Bryan gives us some risks that need to be avoided and some pro-level tips about investing with your self-directed IRA! 

Life as a submarine officer in the Navy for 26 years, taught Gary Pinkerton some extremely valuable lessons about business. We also dig deep into Gary's thoughts about creating a legacy with multiple strategies in investing.

Dave Zook is a successful business owner and an experienced real estate investor active in Multi-Family Apartments, Self-storage, and the ATM space. Dave has acquired more than $100 million worth of real estate since 2010. At the time of this writing, he and his investors own approximately 3000 Multi-family Apartment units. In this episode, we dig deep into Dave's brain to find out why his investments are so diverse and what his strategies are!

Brian Trippe out of Birmingham, AL has built an incredible meetup group that will be going national soon called REI LIVE. The group has grown exponentially, but the way he has grown it is a lot more simple then you may think it is. Giving is the word Brian uses for building his community. 

Investing in multifamily properties is talked about very much on our show, but is it a good strategy for passively investing? Dwellynn is a Multifamily investment firm with a focus on acquisitions, repositioning, development, and management of affordable, yet quality, multi-family residential properties. 

Masterminds are a huge part of the success that Wendy Sweet, CEO of Carolina Hard Money, has had in her real estate journey. The brainpower in a mastermind creates an environment for real estate business owners to get out of working in their business and work on their business with the help of those in the room.

Is your "Why" big enough when hard times coming rolling through your real estate investing journey?

Going through many hardships in his real estate journey, Mark Dolfini has created a concept called "The Time Wealthy Investor." With this concept, Mark has shared his secrets of escaping working 80 hours a week as a self-managing landlord and losing nearly everything and getting to being time wealthy and only working 2 hours a week. Mark has a lot of interesting concepts to share about vision, purpose, time, and business.

Hosting the Before the Millions podcast with over 100,000 downloads, Daray has created an incredible brand around helping others on their real estate investing journey. While simultaneously growing his passive income portfolio of real estate assets and business accolades, he’s channeled his burning desire to help others by urging a change in their beliefs about who they are and what type of lifestyle they’re able to achieve with the right mindset, focus and leverage.

If you don't go into a relationship building it correctly, it can get really creepy, really fast! If you build your relationships the right way, opportunities will always come your way.

Victor Menasce is a genius when it comes to the whole concept of capital and how to acquire it. Victor Menasce has raised several hundred million dollars for ventures, corporate buy-outs and real estate projects. As a fulltime real estate developer, he raises funds on a daily basis. Listen in as Victor teaches us a thing or two about magnetic capital!

The word "change" is used a lot in business when you're applying a new system, process, or software. Often times companies that have been around a long time, don't like to see these changes, but to scale the business, you often need to embrace the innovation as opposed to reject it.

Adding the right systems to your business can save you a lot of man-hours and headaches, and adds automation into your business. Ricky Davis with BrightPath Notes has helped automate their processes for buying and selling notes. Listen on on the tips Ricky gives us on implementing systems into your business!

Acquiring private lending for the first time can be a bit intimidating or maybe you are still fearful of it after a few deals. Adrien shares his thoughts on acquiring private lending and what mindset to have going into it.

Focused in the Northwest Indiana market, Adrien Chabot along with his partner Justin Smits has been able to establish their brand, Region Home Buyers as go to home buyers source for their market. Also hosting the largest real estate investor meetup group in NWI, Adrien has been able to pull the real estate investing community into one room and build huge credibility with those in his market!

Is what you're doing today, in alignment with your goals?

Creating a loyal customer base is a code that every business must crack. Max Keller has found a great piece that creates incredible loyalty with his clients because of the sheer fact of giving them high value. Author of the recently published book, "Home to Home," Max wrote this book specifically to fill a need in the senior housing education space. By doing this, Max has created huge loyalty with his customers. Listen in as Maexplainsns the concept of bringing value to your customers.

Instead of looking at an employee and training them to just do a job, Nathan looks at it from training, mentoring, and coaching of a leader and that naturally creates more leaders in your business. Our good friend Nathan Brooks talks about how his business has exploded and built his team on a leadership mentality.

What type of person do you want to be? Are there people you look up to that you admire their accomplishments, the characteristics or spirit they have? Go be around that person and you start to emulate the habits they have and the way they think.⠀

Zach has completed over 100 deals in just under 3 years of being a real estate investor all under the age of 30! With being young, Zach brings a lot of energy and passion for what he does, but also a lot of wisdom. On this episode, we dig into how a young real estate investor can grow to where they want to be.

"If you can't grow yourself personally, then you can't grow yourself professionally." This truth needs to be understood by everyone!

We're excited to have this power couple on the show to chat about growth in your personal life and how that affects your professional growth. Businesses also focus a lot on posting their core values on a wall but don't truly live them in their day to day operations. DJ and Jessica explain to us why it's important to actually live your core values!

Ultimately when you educate your customers and other people, you influence them at the same time. This is often a great recipe for winning over customers.⠀

The ins and outs of financing a property can be a bit intimidating to some people because of all the options you have. We bring on the show our good friend, Jerry Padilla who's a senior loan originator for Prime Lending and a Good Success Mastermind to talk about your options and what may be best for you!

Having the correct mindset as an entrepreneur is extremely critical when it comes to personal and business growth. Here's how it can affect you at every angle.

There's something about being around good people that want to grow personally, that makes you a better person yourself!

Why is attitude so important to your growth in life and business? Our good friend Jim Ingersoll jumps on the show to talk about how attitude affects you and how growing your network generates opportunity! 

Ken Lacy, Executive Director of the non-profit, Veterans Path Up talks about the growth of this wonderful mission to end veteran homelessness. A lot of times, non-profits do not run like a business even though they should be. Ken talks to us about how his non-profit has been able to scale using a valuable network and implementing other systems into the business. 

Opportunity Zones are a hot topic in the real estate investing community, but no one is officially an expert on this topic. Josh Belk comes in to have a great conversation with Tom and Josh about the potential strategies for opportunity zones and how you can possibly capitalize on them. We also have some great end of the year tax information for businesses in this episode! Take notes!

What actions are you taking this holiday season to express your gratefulness?

The Christmas season is here! Many wonderful memories will be made with the people you love, but often times our eyes are taken off of what's important with this season. Tom gives us some things to think about and make sure we lock in to keep the right perspective of this wonderful season!

A question that a lot of people ask themselves every single day, "Why am I getting out of bed?" If you can't answer this questions clearly, then you need to sit down and hash it out. Ultimately your answer will push you to get out of bed every day or make you just not care.

From the small market of Wittenburg, WI, Derek Dombeck has had to become creative when it comes to real estate deals due to lack of high inventory. Derek walks us through the strategies he's implemented to succeed in the central Wisconsin market.

Giving WITHOUT expectations is true giving. The measurement of success to actual givers is often the number of people that were impacted in their lifetime.

Gerald Hennessey is in the Seattle market which is struggling with inventory, which has caused him to explore others options including virtual wholesaling. On this episode, Gerald walks us through the pros and cons of virtual wholesaling and why it works well!

Your employees, your spouse, your kids, and people you build relationships with. There is no better way of making someone feel appreciated, than being a student of them!

One of the most overlooked elements to building a business is building the culture. Matt and Jeremiah talk about the importance of a company'a culture and what they are doing to implement a good culture in their business!

As business owners, it's extremely hard to let go of the day to day operations, but letting go is a huge part of your business's growth. Who knows, maybe someone can do a task better than you!

Glenn Stromberg's primary operation is in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, which is one of the most saturated markets for real estate investing. With so much demand in the Dallas market and lack of inventory, Glenn shares how he's combatting the saturated market!

Once you take massive action, you'll start making things happen!

Many people struggle with one area of life which is the biggest component for growth, and that is action - making stuff happen. Whether it's health, business, lifestyle, impact, or personal growth, if you do not take action, you will not move the needle! Felix talks about his past health issues, and how he overcame them by just taking action on improving his health!

Decision, clothes, shoes, food, and everything else. So many things come into our lives that just don't matter. With the concept of minimalism, Eddie Wilson chats about how getting rid of the things that don't matter has impacted his life.

A lingering question in the real estate investing world is, "Will there be another real estate market crash in the near future?" Eddie Wilson, CEO of Affinity Worldwide, has an interesting perspective using data and history to tell us why the next crash won't be the real estate market.