How To Lose Money: Business Stories | Life Lessons | Navigating Failure

Andrew Henderson founded Nomad Capitalist to help people increase their personal freedom and to help them improve their financial situations and intelligently diversify their lives. Helping people save $280,000 a year in taxes, getting a second passport in a matter of months to get started on building the business of their dreams, and giving their children educational opportunities they never would achieve otherwise via a citizenship by descent program are all examples of work he’s done recently with this mission in mind. Andrew has spent the last 10 years meticulously traveling the world with the purpose of finding the best legal strategies and on-the-ground knowledge that actually works.

Antoine Martel is a 24-year-old real estate entrepreneur. He started investing in real estate while at university and has since bought and sold over 150 homes and multiple apartment buildings. He currently lives in LA where he runs martelturnkey.com, a turnkey rental company that buys and sells over 100 homes a year. They invest in markets like Memphis, Cleveland, Birmingham, and Saint Louis. Antoine also has a highly educational podcast entitled “A Millennial's Guide to Real Estate Investing.”

Inna Rubinchik is the regional leasing director at Compass in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the number one leasing agent in San Francisco. Her brand, Leasing Agent 415, is helping investors in San Francisco make informed decisions about rental properties and maximize profits. Inna has a master’s degree in taxation and has previously worked in acquisitions at several prominent Bay Area real estate investment companies. She is a wife and mother of 2 children.

Bob Fraser is co-founder and CFO of Aspen Funds, a fund management company focused on mortgage investments. He has 20+ years’ experience as a finance and technology executive, and he is a magna cum laude UC Berkley computer scientist and a former Entrepreneur of the Year award winner. Before that in 1995, Mr. Fraser founded Net Sales Inc., a back office e-commerce provider. As a CEO, Mr. Fraser raised $44 million in investment capital and guided the company to an average of 20% month-to-month revenue growth, becoming the metro area’s fastest growing company between 1997 and 1999. Since 2002, Fraser has founded and served several non-profit organizations as a board member and a CFO. Fraser has also been involved in a number of entrepreneurial initiatives, including book publishing, financial consulting, and an investment fund managing member.

Todd Dexheimer is CEO of Venture D Properties LLC. He started investing in real estate in 2008. Since then he has purchased and renovated roughly 800 units. Todd has completed over 150 flips, including a 20-unit mobile home park, a ski resort, and a 15-unit apartment complex while using those profits to build his rental portfolio. Today Todd owns approximately $25 million in real estate, comprised of 550 units in 5 states. His focus is on syndicating value-add multifamily in emerging markets. Todd is also the host of the podcast “Pillars of Wealth Creation” and does some coaching for multifamily investors. Todd’s passionate about teaching others how to create a business and how to take control of their finances.

Starting from the ground floor, Melanie Finnegan has educated herself in every area of the tax lien investing process. She’s been able to implement a strategy within the investment vehicle that allows investors to maximize their ROI and compound their interest. Her integrity, business ethics and natural compassion for helping people become successful has proven over and over by the success of her clients.

Frank Rolfe has been an investor in mobile home parks for almost 2 decades and has owned and operated hundreds of mobile home parks during that time. He is currently ranked with his partner, Dave Reynolds, as the 5th largest mobile home park owner in the U.S. with over 250 communities spread out over 25 states. Frank has always believed that mobile home parks are all about affordable housing. Along the way, Frank began writing about the industry, and his books, coupled with those of his partner Dave, evolved into a course and a boot camp on mobile home park investing that has become the leader in this niche of commercial real estate. Frank lives in a small town in Missouri with his wife and daughter. He is very active in community affairs, being a member of the Lions Club, the school board, and chairman of the Landmarks Commission. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Stanford University.

Ross Stryker is the founder and CEO of Smart Asset Opportunities, which helps educate busy small business owners how to take charge of their own financial freedom and stop giving up control to those on Wall Street. He practiced dentistry and specialized in orthodontics for over 35 years, 12 while serving in the U.S. Army reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and later in private practice where he grew one of the largest single-doctor practices in the country. Although Ross is no longer practicing, he still considers himself a part of the dental and medical community. At heart, he’s really a small business owner, and, like many business owners, Ross was frustrated with the conventional financial system that seemed to benefit Wall Street but not the investors. Ross has replaced his transactional income of exchanging hours for dollars with passive income from his investments for his livelihood, and he wants to help others achieve the same goal. Ross has owned 40 or more single-family homes, written 2 books, o

Eric Satz is the founder and CEO of AltoIRA, and he’s a serial entrepreneur who has seen both wins and losses. Eric knows investing is no longer just for the wealthy, and he’s living out his mission of delivering 21st century investment opportunities to everyone, even non-accredited investors. Eric is a former investment banker and early stage investor with a passion for nurturing start-ups and raising capital. He teaches an entrepreneurship class to high school students in Nashville and served on the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 2015 to 2018. Through Alto IRA, Eric is making alternative asset investing available to all by giving people the support they need to choose and make their own investments using their IRA savings.

Brett Swarts is the CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions, and each year he equips hundreds of business professionals with a deferred sales trust tool to help their high net worth clients solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. His experience includes numerous deferred sales trusts, Delaware statutory trusts, 1031 exchanges, and 85 million in closed commercial real estate brokers transactions. He’s an active commercial real estate broker and an investor himself with experience and holdings in multifamily, senior housing, retail, medical, office, and mixed use properties. Brett is considered one of the most well-rounded capital gains deferral experts and informative speakers on the west coast. His audiences are challenged to lean in to multiple capital gains deferral strategies, create and develop a passive cashflow wealth plan, and execute on this plan so they can create and preserve more wealth.

Dan Handford is managing partner with passiveinvesting.com. He and his wife, Dennae, along with their 4 children (3 girls and a boy), reside and work in Columbia, SC. Dan has an extensive successful background in starting multiple 7-figure businesses from scratch, including a large group of non-surgical orthopedic and sports medicine clinics located in South Carolina. He’s the founder of the Multifamily Investor Nation where he educates a nationwide group of over 9,000 members of multifamily investors on how to properly invest in multifamily assets. He’s the co-host, along with his wife, of the Tough Decisions for Entrepreneurs Podcast, which can be found on iTunes and Google Podcast.

Travis Jones is the founder of over 15 results-based training gyms across Australia and founder of the health tracking app, Keystone.fit, a business coaching FitPros for the last 8 years, and has a digital agency as well. He has an amazing wife, who really is amazing, and two boys under 5 years old. Jones, who played elite level rugby league as a teenager into his early 20s, opened his first RBT gym in south Melbourne in 2011 before growing it into a recognized Australian transformation facility, building a reputation of changing the lives of thousands of people every single year. Every year his goals get bigger and bigger.

Born in 1987, John Crestani has accomplished a lot in his 32 years. In 2009, Crestani, 21, traveled to Thailand to figure out his direction in life and find himself. During this time, he read a number of spiritual works, such as The Alchemist, that would later influence his life, but his saving grace turned out to be a business book. John was sitting on a beach in Thailand, poor and lost in life, when he opened a book that helped transform him into becoming a motivated and successful internet entrepreneur. This book was The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, the now classic manual for breaking free from the 9 to 5 workweek desk job by building an online business. After a number of years of trial and error building his internet business, Crestani finally managed to create a multimillion dollar business. He met his wife and traveled the world. He went from deep in debt to having a successful cash flow positive business that supports his life, his wife and their 3-year-old child. As of late, he’s gone on to bui

Shawn Yesner is a Florida native, born in Tampa and raised in Miami. After graduating from Florida State University with a B.S. degree in accounting, Shawn enrolled in the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, graduating with a Juris Doctor degree in 1998. Since our last interview, Shawn’s podcast, the “Crushing Debt Podcast”, has continued to grow and now is in its fourth year. Shawn estimates that he’s helped his clients eliminate a collective amount of over $10 million. In September 2018, Shawn published his first book titled, Crushing Debt: 9 Strategies to Eliminate Financial Bullies. The book is available right now on Amazon.

Marco Santarelli is an investor, author, and the founder of Norada Real Estate Investments,  a nationwide provider of turnkey cash-flow investment properties. Since 2004, Marco and his team have helped thousands of real estate investors create wealth and passive income through real estate. He’s also the host of the top-rated “Passive Real Estate Investing” podcast.

Jason Wright is the founder of the Intentionally Inspirational brand, which began as a podcast that was created to motivate and inspire entrepreneurs. Since its inception, Intentionally Inspirational has evolved to include a weekly blog, published resources, and a comprehensive offering of digital marketing services and consulting. Jason is the author of the book, The Backwards Route To Forward Progress, and the eBook, 15 Lessons for Surviving Your Startup. Jason is a lifelong serial entrepreneur who thrives on challenge and has an unwavering focus on participating in meaningful work, motivating and uplifting other people, and building a lasting legacy.

Tony Bradshaw is the author of The Millionaire Choice: Millionaire or Not. You Can Choose. Tony was 25 doing the same old stupid stuff with money that his parents had done. That’s also when he made his choice to become a millionaire. He had what he called his financial awakening and began learning everything he could about money. Now he’s helping people make their own choice to become a millionaire because he believes anyone can do it. Having grown up in a lower income family, Tony made his millionaire choice at 25. Now 2 decades later, he’s teaching people how to make their own millionaire choice. His book, The Millionaire Choice, was inspired by his own vision of empowering anyone to become a millionaire no matter what their income, ethnicity, or financial situation. His mission is to create a movement of financially educated and wealthy people who will make it their mission to fight poverty and help those in need around the world.

Dmitriy Fomichenko is the founder and president of Sense Financial Services LLC, a boutique financial firm specializing in self-directed retirement accounts and checkbook control. He began his career in financial planning and real estate back in 2000. He owns multiple investment properties in various states and is a licensed California real estate broker. Over the years, he’s taught hundreds of investment and financial planning seminars and mentored thousands of investors. Dmitriy founded Sense Financial Services to help his clients maximize their return on investment while protecting their hard-earned money. He’s very passionate about helping families and individuals achieve financial freedom by following proven, biblical principles of financial planning and investing.

Ari Gunzburg is a wilderness liaison, motivational speaker, workshop facilitator, podcast host, long distance cyclist to fundraise for kids with cancer, and more. From a colored past to a colorful future, Ari is raising spirits and helping people build themselves into more than ever before.

Kenneth Ameduri has had a passion for truth from an early age. Finding trends and anticipating growth sectors has been his primary focus since he was in high school. After noticing the cracks in the underlying financial system, Kenneth became a proactive investor, purchasing investments that would hedge his portfolio against inflation. This lead him to investing in real estate, precious metals, stocks and cryptocurrency, establishing a personal multimillion dollar profile prior to turning 30. Kenneth has taken the knowledge he has compiled in the business world and is now pouring it into “Crush the Street” for the benefit of his members through the weekly newsletter, blog and podcast, focusing on market trends, precious metals, cryptocurrency and sound economics. Kenneth is the chief editor at crushthestreet.com, where all of his work can be found.