Cashflow Diary | Influenced By Robert Kiyosaki Of Rich Dad About Real Estate Investing, Cash Flow And Passive Income.

Ever wish you had a mentor in your corner who could give you the answers to all your burning real estate investing questions? What about those times where you're not sure if a deal is a go or no-go? That's what Q & A with J. is all about! Each week at 4 p.m., PST, Cashflow CORE Members get their questions answered LIVE and in real time by a very seasoned real estate investor... none other than J. Massey. He rips deals apart, runs the numbers, and helps members understand what they're learning in CORE courses, like Deals at Discounts, Capital Creators and others. Pretty soon, even more members will have clever questions to ask, like about investing in multi-family properties, too. After all, we'll be releasing that video course before summer! Many of those who participated in the live Investing in Multi-Family Properties mastermind group a few months back are doing deals and sometimes have questions as they move forward. They ask some good ones, too! J. has a lot of fun as the host of t

Ken created and edited for 20 years an influential investment newsletter; co-wrote The Real Estate Trusts: America’s Newest Billionaires, first full-length book on REITs; and co-founded a global firm managing $20 billion in assets. Born in the western Pennsylvania steel town of Butler, Ken received his undergraduate degree from Capital University in Bexley (Columbus), OH, and his MBA from the Graduate School of Business Administration (now Stern Business School) of New York University.  After stints as associate and news editor of House & Home magazine, he joined Standard & Poor’s Corp. as a security analyst before forming Audit Investments Inc. in 1969.  His investment advisory and editorial experiences at Audit are recounted in Watch That Rat Hole … and Witness the REIT Revolution. Now eighty-six, Ken lives with Irene, his wife of sixty-five years, outside Philadelphia.

Jason is a business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer. He’s a leading expert on leadership, culture, influence, and relationship building.  Jason's worked with well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd at HP, and many others. He's helped his clients meet influencers such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and many others. He's also helped his clients create more than $1 billion in wealth over the past three years.

For 20 years, Cameron Herold has been coaching entrepreneurs on five continents, helping them build their companies. He started BackPocket COO to coach and mentor young, fun companies -- and help them make their dreams happen. Herold was a leading force behind one of the most successful new business ventures of the last decade, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. He was Chief Operating Officer for nearly seven years. Prior to that, he was VP of Corporate Development at Ubarter.com.

Matt "Handshakin" Holmes is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and world record holder.  He is Founder of the Handshakin Video Series: featuring top entrepreneurs on networking and personal branding strategies.   After interviewing venture capitalists, members of Congress, and billionaires, Matt has been on numerous podcasts sharing tips on strategically making connections and relationship building. Today, he helps aspiring entrepreneurs implement networking and personal branding strategies.

Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Mark Rampolla is the man behind Zico Coconut Water. I’m talking about the highly popular coconut water beverage my family knows and loves!! Mark wrote a book that has to do with his journey, too. It’s titled High Hanging Fruit and it’s a recommended read. Mark wasn’t always the trend-setting entrepreneur he is today. BUT what drove him toward starting his own business is that he was never quite like his peers. He wasn’t into the trends, but he watched them with interest.  He also knew how to set goals. So before he chose the product he wanted to launch he needed something that would scale. He wanted something healthy and that would make people’s lives better if they took it into their bodies. After lots of research and because he happens to love coconut water, Mark and his wife decided that’s what his road to wealth and success would be.  This success didn’t happen overnight. But then when does that ever happen in real life? He put in 9 years of hard work up front as he grew his

This is an awesome story of a person turning an absolutely tragic situation into tremendous success. It is the true-life tale of Laptop Entrepreneur Mark Anastasi and I don't think I've ever been so quiet during an interview. Knowing who Mark is today would never tip you off to the challenges he overcame to get to where he is now. In a nutshell, Mark grew up in Athens, Greece, and left home at the age of 18 to live in the U.K. because there were no jobs in Greece. He took a job as a night-shift security guard to make ends meet, but earning minimum wage meant there wasn't going to get him there. He ended up $12K in credit card debt in two years. He then went into telesales and made exactly one sale in 14 months. He lost the job and sunk into a deep depression. Then something terrible happened. He lost his apartment and sought refuse in an abandoned building with 20 other homeless people. He couldn't go home because his family was in pretty bad shape, too. He had horrible negative self talk

Since 1982, May McCarthy has helped to start and grow six successful companies as large as $100 million in annual revenues. She is a best-selling author, speaker, university lecturer and angel investor. She serves on business, philanthropic, arts and university boards. May has become successful by implementing spiritual principles into her ventures, and it is her passion to pass her knowledge on to others. She is the author of the best-selling book The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance.

Cash Flow Diary guest Frank Rolfe has always had an interest in earning money. Right out of high school he jumped into business. To get into business school he had to write an essay and he did well. It opened his mind to the possibilities and after a short time he started a billboard company! He had zero experience and got turned down over and over. But Frank kept going. By the end of the first year he had the first three billboards under contract and ads placed on them.  Frank thought he’d do this billboard thing for a year, but decided to keep going. In his second year he had 14… in the third year more… until he was the proud owner of 300 billboards, making him the leader in billboard ownership in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area! Now that his billboards were creating some killer cashflow, Frank found that he a whole lot of time on his hands. (There isn’t much to manage once the billboard is up and running… and you have the ad space sold.) So he started down another path. Frank sat wondering what the heck he coul

Over the past few years we've been growing and creating great educational products, free and paid. If content is king, Cash Flow Diary is the absolute empire of Real Estate Investing education, because we have more video content than anyone we know of in this space. Our written content isn't far behind. Now it's time that we let you pull back the curtain and look inside. Think of yourself as Dorothy about to get her first glimpse of the Great and Powerful OZ! There's a lot going on back there. And it's worth sharing. But maybe you don't need to see the inner workings to understand how valuable the content we offer really is. If you are a regular listener of this podcast, you already know what you gain in the audio content. If you have ever browsed our site, you see lots of free information for the taking. If you are a member of the Cashflow CORE Membership, you don't need anyone to tell you about the massive amount of content, video training, video courses, tools and forms y

CEO and founder of the Real Wealth Network, guest Kathy Fettke is no stranger to media exposure. She has been featured in a number of recognized magazines. Plus, Goldman Sachs recognized her and her company two years running as a mover and driver in the entrepreneurial world.  Kathy says she thinks she has been recognized because her company has done a lot to help homeowners in crisis by giving them solutions to their problems.  So, who is Kathy Fettke? Simply a woman who wanted to be an actress and who was forced to take a hard look at what was going in that industry. She didn’t like how people were being taken advantage of, so she founded her own acting and modeling agency. Soon she experienced success and living her dream life.  She was also a news writer and occasional anchor, but she made a choice to leave it all when she had kids. Kathy wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. Her husband had written a book about success and was being billed as the next Tony Robbins. Life was great… until something tragic happe

Today’s Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Zbigniew Woznowski knows a lot about playing games, but he’s all business when it comes to, well, building his business. Make that plural… businesses.  Not only a creative gamer, Zbigniew knows a whole lot about real estate investing. He married his passions and founded Reality Games in October 2014. He also launched a cool mobile game in January 2015 called Landlord.  If that’s not enough, Zbigniew is Programming Director of Promotion of Poland 2020 of The Kosciuszko Institute with more than 12 years of online advertising experience and over 10 years of real estate experience.  Before this, Zbigniew founded and exited a few other companies, such as Second Poland and Supremum 360: Digital Outsourcing & Advertising Service. He’s been a busy guy! Zbigniew has lived through different cycles in real estate. He had a few failure events and he kept going. He reinvented himself a couple of times and decided to come back into business, matching his old experiences with the ne

You may remember Joan Sotkin from episode 125, where you heard how she helps people change their lives through changing their perspectives on your finances. She is an excellent prosperity coach, author, speaker and educator. Today Joan shares about how she is developing programs so she can help even more people.  Joan delves into our family origin stories that affect our financial outcomes. In short, it’s our belief systems around money that get us every time. The things that created your emotional responses to events in our lives are what you need to pay attention to.  Issues around money are NEVER about money. In reality, money only has energy when it passes between two individuals. It is your relationship to money that is at the core of your issues. You have to figure it out. Listening to today’s episode of the Cash Flow Diary podcast will help you toward that goal.  One of the many interesting things that Joan shares during this episode is that our brains are to blame for the fears we have around money.

I hear the question frequently. People I meet who’ve been studying real estate investing for a few months or maybe even a couple of years will come to me and ask, “Why haven’t I made it yet? I’m trying to do deals and I can’t get them done. When will it happen for me?” If this is a burning question on your mind, today’s podcast episode is for you! Yep, it’s just you and me today… no guest. It’s time to recap the reasons I do what I do. The biggest reason Cash Flow Diary exists is so I could leave a road map behind for my kids, just in case they’d like to know what good ‘ol Dad has done. Plus, they could follow in my path if they want. But just like other things we do in life, this path took a new course. A friend told me that maybe I should consider doing even more, because there are a number of adults who might be interested to learn real estate investing so they can change their own life’s path. Click forward almost 200 episodes of this Cash Flow Diary podcast and I know what my friend said is true. Today w

One of the top questions I get from people who are new into the raising private capital space is how to overcome objections. So… I decided to do this special episode. I want to help you if you are running into objections. The long and short of it boils down to a single question: Do you believe more in them and their beliefs or in you and what you know to be true? The funny thing is that this question just came up AGAIN in the Private Facebook Group page. It was posed by a member who has been doing a heck of a lot of wholesaling for a long time. The responses are still coming in. And that’s the cool thing about our private group. There are so many great conversations going on at all times between members that it blows my mind. Members work out challenges, helping and supporting each other. It’s truly amazing! There are three questions you need to ask buyers, sellers and investors talking to them about becoming involved in your deals: Have you ever considered getting involved in real estate investing? Really?

Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Phil Ebiner went through an excellent but costly private university and even though he had partial scholarships he graduated with tons of debt. He said he didn’t have the income to make full payments sometimes, so he was disappointed with that part of his college experience. Before he graduated he was fortunate to be working with others to create online courses for the school. When he got out of school he discovered he could do the same by creating online courses of his own through www.UDEMY.com.  So what did he teach? He knew video, film and television production, and worked in a low-paying job as a video editor, so he figured he would start with that. Phil says that after the first month of offering online education he was stoked because he earned $62! He was hooked. He was on the way to building his online empire. To date, around 150,000 people have taken his education.  Phil is no stranger to hard work. He didn’t just work a full-time job, but also took side gigs as a wedding

You cannot confuse activity with accomplishment. That’s something I talk about in this me-to-you episode of the Cash Flow Diary podcast. What you should consider is “pay time.” As an entrepreneur, it is a concept that you must embrace. Pay time for a real estate investor is different from that of an hourly worker or even a freelance contractor. You are no longer going to be paid for the amount of time you are at a job, sitting at a desk at someone else’s business… if you are used to having a 9-to-5 J.O.B. As an entrepreneur, your pay time is any time you are on the phone or in front of a prospect or customer, like an investor who is going to let you use his/her money to get your deals done. While you have to do your due diligence, do some paperwork and do other tasks, these are not included in your "pay time." So how do you know your pay time is paying off? By measuring your growth. In fact, you also have to measure your progress in three categories. These are: personal development, promotion and co

Getting to this point and the final audio book version of Cash Flow Diary: 10 Steps to Creating Wealth in ANY Economy! was a very long process, but we got there! Why do I say “we”? It took a few people and a bit of assistance to create a great final product! I learned one thing for sure. Reading one’s own words is a bit more challenging than I thought. Not to mention, I realized it was going to take a lot more time than I thought to get great sound. With all that’s going on around Cash Flow Diary I had to make a choice. You know how I always tell you that even if you CAN do something doesn’t mean you SHOULD be the one to do it? This is one of those situations. I found someone who does voiceover work as a profession and he is really good. You might recognize his voice. I read the introduction and I recorded BONUS SECTIONS. That was fun for me to do, because the additional content is unscripted and gives even more benefit to my readers. I love audio books, because I can put my ear buds in and be “reading” while

What if you could actually earn more and work less? That’s what we’re discussing in today’s episode of the Cash Flow Diary podcast. Author and guest Stephan Aarstol pitched his company on Shark Tank, my all-time favorite show, and built his business using a 5-hour work day model.  Known as being one of the worst pitches but one of the best-funded companies on Shark Tank, Stephan knows a lot about keeping your work week hours to a minimum to get more free time to pursue a better balance in our lives.  According to Stephan, as a country and culture we’re working more hours today and yet earning less, which is something he tells us we don’t have to do to attain the success we desire. But he didn’t always know the “secret” to being a 5-hour-work-day guy he is now.  Early on, he learned Internet marketing in the medical imaging space. It was a start-up that was going great guns until the bubble burst and he had to change paths. The entrepreneurial bug bit him hard. So while working his day job, he started his own

Today’s Cash Flow Diary podcast guest, Michael Parrish DuDell, is an entrepreneur, author, speaker and someone who knows a whole lotta insider secrets to success. Talk about being excited to have someone on my podcast, well, that’s me! This guy is talking about one of my all-time favorite shows, Shark Tank. In fact, he wrote the two official companion books to the show, Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business and Shark Tank Secrets to Success. Oh, and BTW, the book is a bestseller. How cool is that?! What you’ll learn listening to this episode is that Michael’s path to success was anything but straight from point A to point B. But then success rarely works that way, does it? Starting at the age of 4 as an actor and working his way up to his 20s through various paths, Michael says he had to reinvent himself. That was when he was just 24.  One of the most interesting things Michael shares is that it takes a “diverse set of skills that are adjacent” to what we want to do. He says that while he may have started out