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

Jordan Goodman is known as America’s “Money Answers Man” because he’s been answering Americans’ personal financial questions for almost 40 years. He’s written 14 best-selling books including Master Your Debt, Fast Profits in Hard Times, and the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms. He was the Wall Street correspondent at Money magazine for 18 years, and he’s currently the host of the national, weekly “Money Answers” radio show on the Voice America Business Network. He’s a regular commentator on financial topics on national and local radio and tv shows across the U.S. He runs the personal finance website moneyanswers.com.

Monick Halm is the founder of the Real Estate Investor Goddesses. She’s an educator and advocate for women to create real wealth through real estate and has made it her mission to help one million women achieve financial freedom through real estate investing. She herself is a real estate investor, syndicator and developer with over 14 years of real estate investing experience in multifamily, mobile home parks, RV parks, flipping, commercial, vacation rentals, syndication and ground up development. Together with her husband and her investors, she owns over 1,000 rental units across 5 states. She’s also the best-selling author of the Real Estate Investor Goddess Handbook, and Wealth for Women: Conversations with the Team That Creates the Dream. She’s host of the Real Estate Investor Goddesses podcast, real estate investment strategy mentor, sought after keynote speaker, recovered attorney, certified interior designer, yogi, avid world traveler, wife and mother of 3 amazing kids.  

Rachel Marshall is the co-founder and chief financial educator of The Money Advantage. She’s on a mission to help business owners create time and money freedom by keeping more of the money they make, protecting it and turning it into cash flowing assets. Podcaster, YouTuber, blogger and speaker, Rachel teaches cashflow strategies, infinite banking, and alternative investments in a simple, actionable way. Since 2011, Rachel’s been a business owner motivated to control her time and destiny and help others do the same.

Bernard Reisz, CPA empowers individuals to optimize their finances using proactive and innovative strategies. He provides an integrated approach to tax and financial planning for real estate pros, focusing on their unique profiles and opportunities. Bernard is the founder of 401kcheckbook.com, which gives investors direct control of their tax sheltered funds for real estate equity and debt opportunities using checkbook control IRA’s, solo 401(k)’s and checkbook life insurance. He’s also the founder of agentfinancial.com, which provides tax, entity, and financial services to real estate pros including real estate agents, real estate investors and mortgage brokers.  

Jason Hartman is the founder and CEO of Platinum Properties Investor Network, The Hartman Media Company, and The Jason Hartman Foundation. Starting with very little, Jason, while still in college at 19, embarked on a career in real estate while brokering properties for clients. He was investing in his own portfolio as well. Through creativity, persistence and hard work, he soon joined the ranks of the top 1% of realtors in the U.S., and in quick succession, earned a number of prestigious industry awards and became a young multimillionaire.  Hartman now has been involved in several thousand real estate transactions, and he has owned income properties in 11 states and 17 cities. His companies help people achieve the American Dream of financial freedom by purchasing income property in prudent markets nationwide.

Daniel is a self-made multimillionaire and full-time fact finder. He credits his success to a strong desire to surround himself with the right people. After warning family and friends in 2007 about the coming market and mortgage collapse, he started his own YouTube channel, VisionVictory, which has received 10 million plus video views. On March 18, 2008, Daniel called for Dow 8000, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, AIG and Washington Mutual. During the mortgage crisis, he helped people buy put options on country-wide mortgage. These puts saw a gain of 1400%. His connections to insiders in the microcap space drive towards overdelivering to his readers is truly extraordinary and what separates him from other publishers. He is the co-founder of the Future Money Trends letter, “Crush the Street”, and also the author of Don’t Save for Retirement.  

M.C. Laubscher is a “Cashflow Ninja”. He is a wealth strategist, educator and financial freedom fighter. He is the president and CEO of Producers Wealth, and he is the creator and host of the popular and top-rated business and investing podcast, “Cashflow Ninja”. His purpose and mission is to help producers and creators create, protect and multiply their wealth in any economy without getting ripped off by Wall Street and their governments. M.C. challenges existing societal belief systems and misinformation around concepts such as money, saving, investing, wealth, and retirement.

Gerri Detweiler is the Education Direct for Nav, which matches small business owners to their best financing options and gives access to free personal and business credit scores. Her articles have been widely syndicated. She’s been interviewed in more than 3,000 news stories, and she’s the author or co-author of 5 books, including her most recent, Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track.

Sean Zalmanoff is a respected speaker, coach, regional mortgage manager, mortgage influencer, and a founding member of Next Level Loan Officers. When not leading his mortgage business or coaching loan officers, Sean is an active real estate investor who both owns commercial and residential property, as well as flip homes. During his down time, Sean enjoys being in the outdoors with his wife and two sons to make memories with his family.

Mark Mascia has had over 17 years of real estate investment experience and a career portfolio valued at over $2 billion. Mark founded Mascia Development, LLC in 2006. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Mark oversaw half a billion dollars in development projects in Manhattan while he worked for Archstone, a former Fortune 500, publicly traded real estate company. From early on, Mark has been working closely with some of the country’s wealthiest family offices and continues to do so today with his own company. Mark also has two Master’s degrees from New York University and George Washington University and is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Institute of Real Estate and has a deep appreciation for sharing his knowledge with everyone he meets.

James Kandasamy is the principal at Achieve Investment Group, a vertically integrated investment company actively engaged in multifamily acquisition, asset management, property and construction management. A well-known multifamily operator, James has over 4 years of multifamily experience, and  6 plus years of experience in real estate overall. In addition to his work, James has built a reputation for creative marketing tactics to find motivated sellers and unlock hidden value in multifamily operations. James has identified, underwritten and overseen the acquisition of over 65 million of quality multifamily investments over a total of 6 assets. He’s also routinely lead passive investors to an average IRR of over 20% in the past deals he’s done.   Prior to real estate investing, James pursued a career in engineering, having earned a B.S. in electrical engineering with honors and an MBA from a reputable university.

Anna Myers is the vice president of Grocapitus Investments, LLC, teaches underwriting for MultifamilyU, and co-hosts a real estate investor meet-up in the San Francisco Bay area. With an extensive background as a programmer in systems architect in the tech industry, she uses these skills to evaluate multifamily deals, identify key investment markets, and implement systems and processes to acquire and manage multifamily assets. Anna partnered with Neal Bawa to purchase 500 units of apartment projects in 2018, and added another 300 units in the first few months of 2019.  

Maneesh is the founder of Pavlok and Shock Clock, helping people change their habits for good. In 2008, Maneesh took a two year break from studying at Stanford to travel and start hackthesystem.com, a travel blog about credit card hacking and digital nomads. In 2012, his article, “Why I Hired a Girl on Craigslist to Slap Me in the Face- And How it Quadrupled my Productivity”, went viral. In 2013, he took that idea to start a company that earned almost 8 figures in revenue over the last several years building devices that use psychology and sensory stimuli to help you change habits and wake up early. That company helped over 75,000 customers wake up in the morning, reduce cravings, quit smoking and defend against distractions, and, therefore, essentially helping people get fitter and healthier.

Vinney Chopra’s success in real estate investment and syndication is a testament to the power of enthusiasm, passion, persistence and positivity. He came to the United States from India over 40 years ago. He had only seven dollars in his pocket, but he knew without a doubt that the opportunities offered by this country were within reach because he had a vision for his life plus the commitment to learn, work hard and sacrifice to achieve his goals. He has successfully completed 27 multifamily syndications over the years, controlling 3500 units valued at $220 million. He also has a new fund for accredited investors who want to invest in multifamily.

Fernando Angelucci is the 27-year-old senior managing partner of Titan Wealth Group based out of Chicago. He first read Rich Dad, Poor Dad when he was 16 and subsequently started his first business at the age of 19 while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When Fernando graduated with a bioengineering AG degree in 2013, he went on to work in a Fortune 50 company and immediately started investing in single family homes on the side. By the age of 23, he was able to replace his income and exit the “9-5” life to begin investing in single family and multifamily properties full time. By 24, he began purchasing value-add self-storage facilities and within two years began pooling funds from his investors to build ground-up, class A self-storage facilities to flip to publicly traded REITs.

Adam started investing in real estate in 2005 after repositioning his first apartment community in 2007 from a $2 million value to a $4 million value in 12 months as a property manager. Adam bought his first multifamily apartment building. Since then, Adam has managed several single family “fix-and-flips” and holds over 100 multifamily rental doors. Adam is the organizer of Colorado’s most active real estate group, and he hosts the "Creative Real Estate Podcast”. Adam has been a guest on countless popular podcasts, including the “Best Ever Show”, “Investor Army”, and the “Investability Podcast”.

Jason Hull’s personal mission statement is to inspire others to love true principles. This means he’s all about figuring out what works and sharing it with others. Jason is the world’s leading property management growth hacker, and enjoys helping property management business owners grow their businesses. He’s the host of the "Door Grow Show", founder of the Door Grow Club, a free Facebook group for property management entrepreneurs, and the creator of The Seed Program: The Ultimate Foundation for Property Management Growth. His mission at Door Grow is to transform property management businesses and their owners.

Zach Beach works with smartrealestatecoach.com, located in Newport, Rhode Island. He works alongside his wife, Kayla, brother-in-law, Nick, father-in-law, Chris, and a great support team. He’s a successful real estate investor, completing over 100 deals in under 3 years and continues to buy and sell property without using his own cash, credit or investor’s money. Zach is co-authoring their second book, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing. At age 25, Zach decided to jump into the family real estate business. It was one of the first big risks he took in his life, and nothing was guaranteed. He didn’t know anything about real estate, so through hard work, in-house training and implementation, Zach has now completed these 100 deals and growing. Additionally, he coaches students around the country on how to buy and sell property just like his family does.

Ian Ippolito is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of the investment analysis website called therealestatecrowdfundingreview.com. The site has over 12,000 visitors per month and has been featured in USA Today, Bloomberg News, Realtor.com, Curbed and more. Ippolito is also the founder of a private investor club for alternative investing, with over 1,300 members and over 1.35 billion in investable assets. In 2001, Ippolito created one of the first remote work websites from an extra bedroom in his house, rentacoder.com, which was later renamed vworker.com. Ippolito grew it to 450,000 users, 15 employees, and 11.1 million in revenue before selling it to freelancer.com for an undisclosed price in the millions. Before that, he created one of the first open-source websites for programmers, planitsourcecode.com. At its peak, the site had 1.5 million visitors per month. Ippolito has been awarded the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Company Award four years in a row, and named to the 100 Most Innovative and Brillia

With a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and appealing solution to the epidemic of chronic pain, Brendon Lundberg co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centers. He combines his mission to change the way chronic pain is treated with deep experience and healthcare management, marketing, business development and sales. Prior to opening the first center in 2014, Brendon played key operational and business development roles for two Portland-area Business Journal and Inc. Magazine growth award-winning companies and was the director of sales and marketing for another Portland-based medical device start-up. Brendon holds a B.S. in Business Marketing and an MBA.