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

So, who is Robin Smith? She’s the clever founder of WeGoLook® a company you find online that sends people out to look at whatever you need them to look at. Like properties! And it doesn’t matter the marketplace. Check it out at www.wegolook.com, then come back here. Or vice versa. WeGoLook is the first-to-market diverse field services platform featuring over 15,000+ agents in the United States. Agents capture dynamic data and complete a variety of custom tasking on behalf of an individual or corporate customer and are required to pass background checks prior to doing so. Data capture includes photos, video, observations, measurements and completing customized report templates. Custom tasking includes picking up items then delivering to a shipper, retrieving courthouse records, notarizing documents and more. Robin wasn’t born an entrepreneur, but she says she was born with a pioneer spirit. From a very young age she tried different sales businesses… even in grade school. She started by making yarn belts in sec

Do you ever use excuses for why you don’t do anything, why you procrastinate, why you don’t take action, why you don’t make calls, or why you don’t do whatever it takes to move your needle forward? If so, this episode of the Cash Flow Diary podcast is for you! In this lively interview, guest Tammy Stanley shares ways to stop the little voice inside our heads that tell us we can do all sorts of chores and tasks just to avoid making calls we need to make. She says to stop with the excuses! Why is qualified to tell us this? Because she could have come up with all sorts of excuses, like having to care for four young kids or moving to an area where she never lived before, to keep her from taking action in her life. But she didn’t. In fact, she built a massively profitable business doing sales training and business coaching. However, her trail to where she stands today had a rough start. Her father passed away when Tammy was really young. Maybe what she witnessed her mother accomplish after that left a mark. What d

Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Jason Swenk works hard and plays hard. He even drives race cars! Professionally, Jason is an author, marketing expert (a.k.a., digital-preneur) and customer creator. At least he knows a lot about how to get customers and clients to find you. The funny thing is that Jason got into business designing a website to poke fun at a friend who looked like Justin Timberlake and fell into a pathway. Then he found his passion. Jason says it’s really important to bring your passion to whatever you are doing, and find a business in which you can use that passion. Ask yourself… what do you really like to do? Sometimes we fumble around as we look for our path. We know we want to do something, but we aren’t sure what that “something” is. The same thing happened to Jason. But he found out that he loved building fun, cool websites and marketing in the digital space. He started a company and in short time his company was servicing very large and well-known companies and brands. After 12 years he so

As President of the International Stress Control Centre, Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Dr. Kenford Nedd spends a great deal of time researching the physiological impact of happiness and stress. He treats patients from far and wide for anxiety, headache, pain, and stress disorders. The good doctor has worked with a wide range of individuals and even heads of state and the topmost executives of the world, teaching them how to control their responses to stress. In this eye- and brain-opening interview, Dr. Nedd gets to the root of stress and the illness it can create if we don’t learn to take control over it. In fact, he tells us that stress is at the root of about 95% of symptoms his patients have presented with over his career. When he realized that, he focused on helping as many people possible understand that stress is only the response we have to perceived difficulties in our lives. And that could be anything from traffic jams to full-blown negative life events! No matter what is going on with us, we can co

Part of Cash Flow Diary’s accounting and finance team who works very closely with our CFO, Linda Solis takes on the “not-so-glamorous” tasks like making journal entries to keep the financial side of our business running smoothly. This is critical to success of all areas of our business. One of Linda’s areas of expertise is reconciliations. She says that’s because she likes putting puzzle pieces together to make a great picture. Linda also says that accounting and her tasks wouldn’t appeal to everyone, but she loves all the organizational side of things. Because we move so fast around here, we need Linda to keep the financials on track. So how we find her? Through relationships! Linda worked with our CFO and when she required more assistance, she called Linda. As luck would have it, Linda had just become available, first on a part-time basis and then moving into a full-time position. Because analysis is a strong suit, Linda is a welcome asset to all we do, but especially on the real estate investing side of th

A real estate investor for 30 years with four books and two radio shows under his belt, Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Gene Guarino narrowed his investing focus to a niche that earns top income. So what is it? Residential assisted living facilities! However, Gene wasn’t always a real estate investor. He was a struggling musician without any cash or credit. That didn’t stop him from making an offer on an office building he needed at the time with no money down so he could open a music school. That led him down a whole new path and a pretty fair profit come time to sell the building. Later he discovered assisted living and what a great investment opportunity it is. Gene says assisted living is the investing space he loves because it serves a whole lot of people. What he offers is something between what we see on Golden Girls and the hospital setting. Gene takes single family houses and turns them into nice residential assisted living homes. There’s one caregiver to every five residents. Gene’s typical assisted l

We found Kim Kaupe and Brittany Hodak, founders of ZinePak, on Shark Tank, one of our favorite shows. In fact, we love the show so much that we do a weekly Inside the Tank review show that airs live every Friday at 10 p.m., PST. So how did Kim and Brittany get started? They met while working in advertising, where they had both landed after growing a little disenchanted with their prior work. One was in the music industry and the other was in magazine publishing. It must have been fate, because in 2010 these two smart women formed a great new business, ZinePak (fusing the words “magazine” and “package”). So what is a ZinePak? A grouping of tangible products for super-fans of entertainers, shows, movies and any number of celebrities across lots of different industries. You can find them on the shelves of Walmart nationwide! In less than five years, ZinePak has grown into a company of a dozen dedicated entertainment superfans, who’ve worked with entertainers as diverse as Katy Perry and KISS; properties ranging

What is virtual real estate? Simply stated, we’re talking about online businesses… or web-based businesses and app-based businesses. So what does Jock Purtle know about buying and selling online businesses? A great deal. It’s what he and his team does in his company, inessDigital Exits. Jock got into this niche market by buying his first online business in 2009, which he funded by private capital. His father was his investor. Jock then fixed the web property up by getting more traffic to it, converting more customers and systemizing processes to create appreciable value. He sold it at a good profit. It’s kind of like fix-n-flipping in the real estate investing community. However, he didn’t jump feet first into this line of work. In fact, it took him nine months to pull the trigger on the first deal he did because he wanted to make sure to find the right deal. That first one was an undervalued marketing site. He says that is one of the best types of online businesses to buy when starting out. Online drop shipp

Mega property flipper, syndicator, multi-family property investor, CPA and leader Matt Owens says he’s had to learn to delegate now that he has a family. That takes the right team members and systems. On this Cash Flow Diary podcast episode, Matt shares his path in real estate investing with us so he can help us avoid a few pitfalls. What qualifies Matt to teach us anything? He’s flipped hundreds of properties! He is also the founder of OCG Properties. As a CPA, he really knows numbers, too. After college Matt worked for a couple of CPA firms working with really big real estate clients. He helped them with their internal controls and to decrease their tax liabilities. These companies were so large, in fact, that they were buying multi-million-dollar properties without blinking. That’s when a light went off in Matt’s head. He realized he was sitting on the wrong side of the table… so he learned how to do real estate investing. His parents and loved ones thought maybe he was crazy, but obviously he was not. He

Dave Sanderson is a survivor. No one will ever dispute that, because he was the last passenger off US Airways Flight 1549… also known as “The Miracle on the Hudson.” You may have heard about this flight in the news. It ditched into the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. On that flight sitting in seat 15A, Dave Sanderson had no idea how much his life was about to change. It started with the words he heard the pilot say over the loud speaker, “Brace for impact.” Dave says he had to get his mind around what was happening and literally brace himself, from the physical to the emotional… really, really fast. That required what is required from all of us in times of crisis… no matter where that crisis takes place. He had to put things in proper order and get ready to do what must be done to get through the event. Dave says other than that event it was a normal business day in New York. But the day took on a whole new level of abnormal that none of us would relish. Dave had given up his seat at the front of the plane

Years ago, Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Adam Hommey realized that entrepreneurs were making a huge mistake in creating and growing their online presence. This mistake was costing them thousands of dollars before they even got started. Maybe this is because he’s known as a “secret weapon” for lots of businesses and entrepreneurs! The founder of The Business Creators’ Institute™ and host of The Business Creators’ Radio Show™, Adam is the king of conversion. It’s something he does for himself, for example, earning $60,000 and 89 new coaching clients in a single afternoon! The creator of HelpMyWebsiteSell.com, Adam says you don’t want to waste time and energy sending visitors to your website; rather he says to send them to web PAGES, which means your landing pages, webinars, live online event pages and the like. Adam says he doesn’t just want anyone coming to his pages; he wants to send the three “P”s: Those who are Prequalified, Prepped and Pumped by the time they get to the webpages. This becomes your sourcing

Holy smokes! Once in a while we have a guest whose story is so raw, so gripping, and so full of pain and overcoming that it’s nothing less than amazing that he got through all the dark to reach the light on the other side. That’s how it is with Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Willard Barth, international business and life coach, speaker, mentor, creator of the Anatomy of Transformation and all-around life-success story. Willard went from living a life of total destruction to one that involves helping a lot of other people move through the seven stages of transformation (a.k.a., Anatomy of Transformation). The first of the seven phases are: Ignorance, Awareness, Taking Responsibility and Immersion. Willard had to go through a lot to come to this understanding. Born and raised in the central mountain region of Pennsylvania, somewhat like the Waltons, Willard Barth grew up humbly. He says he faced massive personal challenges that helped make him the person he is today. For example, he lost a leg to cancer at the a

Results-oriented international business coach and mentor, Cash Flow Diary podcast guest John Murphy knows what it takes to build and lead a team. That’s what he’s done himself and has helped lots and lots of other entrepreneurs and business owners do across the globe. He even hosts a podcast on the subject. When you start out in your business, you wear many hats as you focus on selling your product and/or service. As you get better at selling and become more and more successful, your business grows.Then something happens. You need other people to help you get to your goal. And you get to lead them! That takes leadership skills. And it takes clarity. It also means that you have to become the CEO, which can be a challenge for some people. Why is John qualified to talk about these topics? He learned from the bottom up how to do it himself. In fact, he started out as a door-to-door life insurance salesman. He did plenty of cold calls and knocked a great many doors, beginning with those in Dublin. Why Dublin?Liste

For more than two decades, Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Mike Agugliaro has run a very successful business, Gold Medal Service. In fact, it has grown into a multi-billion-dollar business! However, his path didn’t take him directly to this level of success. He started out as a very hard-working electrician. This self-proclaimed survivor of divorce grew up in the middle of a terrible game of tug-o-war between his parents. He says it may have made an impact on his stay-on-the-hamster-wheel mentality that worked against him. Interestingly, he says he felt like a dog lying on a nail. Someone might wonder why the dog doesn’t move. The answer is because the dog got used to the nail. So what changed? Mike’s mindset. Immediately after the birth of his son, an event he almost missed due to being on a job, he broke down in tears. He knew he couldn’t keep DOING the work any longer. With that epiphany he began listening to others who have gotten out of the rat race and learning a new way of thinking. He learned how to bec

Growing up poor in Los Angeles, Jason Hartman always liked the idea of having more money. He didn’t like being poor and had to find ways to earn money. He says he started working at age 14, which taught him a lot. He says he’s learned more by DOING in life than by any other means. That’s what he talks about in this Cash Flow Diary podcast episode. He also talks about how to create long-term wealth with investment properties, which is also what his podcast is all about. But Jason wasn’t always the mega-talented real estate investor he is today. He did, however, start on this path at 16. That’s when he saw an infomercial featuring real estate guru Robert Allen, and that’s when Jason was bitten by the real estate investing bug. He thought “even he” could do this real estate thing. He was absolutely right, but it would be a couple more years before he figured out how. In fact, he can thank his mom for nudging him along, because while Jason bought Robert Allen’s book and only got through the first three chapters,

A mentor, speaker and trainer whose practice serves business owners and entrepreneurs across several countries, Hans Finzel wrote the book on what it takes to be a great leader. In fact, he’s written a few. His top seller is The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make, which gives you the low-down on how NOT to be a good leader. The good news is that if you apply what Hans teaches, you can turn yourself around over time and be a much better leader… one that others will want to follow and then help you as you build your business. This is important, because you need a good team. If you’re not a good leader you won’t have one, at least not for long. Without a team, you’ll continue wearing all those heavy hats and do everything yourself. According to Hans, great leaders do not control; they serve others and they listen to what their people have to say. Just like the most effective entreprenuers, the best leaders know whom they serve and they put their best listening ears on whenever they are talking with members of their t

What do Cash Flow Diary podcast guest John Klymshyn and host J. Massey have in common? More than you might think! Listening to this sales-centric episode will delight your ears and tickle your brain, because John and J. cover a lot of ground when it comes to what it takes to be a great salesperson. As a top sales trainer for the past 16 years, John has learned a thing or two about sales and negotiations. He says one of the keys to sales success boils down to developing great listening skills, and adds that effective selling has nothing to do with convincing others to do anything. John also stresses the importance of being very clear about whom you choose to serve and having a fair exchange of value. This impressive 7-time published author, trainer, coach, speaker, entrepreneur, business owner, husband and father developed a trademarked process to help us move conversations forward successfully so we can close more sales. He also wrote a book a few years back, The Ultimate Sales Managers’ Guide, which continue

Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Pat Hiban is not a million-dollar real estate investor; he’s a billion-dollar investor… with a “B.” This investor and business owner currently owns 14 companies and 48 lines of “horizontal income” sources. He also has a pretty cool real estate investing podcast you should check out! While you’re at it, be sure to check out his book, 6 Steps to 7 Figures, that gives you an in-depth look at how to create a big income ADD entrepreneur style! Obviously, Pat is a very accomplished entrepreneur. However, this was not his intended path. Pat thought he would be a probation officer! Because that didn’t blossom soon enough, Pat thought he might go into sales, but that was a tough path, too. He looked too young and inexperienced, so landing a sales job was harder than he thought. He put his thinking cap on and thought he might become a real estate agent, so he took the tests and earned the credentials. Then he entered the real estate investing realm. His transition was interesting, because

An authority in business credit, Ty Crandall is an author and CEO of Credit Suite, so he might just know a few strategies to help us build our credit in ways we might not have heard of before. As most successful entrepreneurs, Ty’s path to becoming who he is today and what he does to solve problems for other people was not a straight line. He had to experience a few unexpected twists and turns, bumps and really big dips. Ty started out in the military, but when he got out he knew he wanted to go into business for himself. The first company he owned was a mortgage company and it was doing really well… until the housing market crash. Then Ty got to experience the down side of business ownership, which included losing his business, which had a trickle-down effect in his personal life. He had to build back up. When he learned about business credit and how building it could help him repair his life he wanted to help others do the same. He couldn’t find an advocate for building business credit, so he became one, wh

William "BJ" Johnson knows a lot about basketball. After all, he is USA Basketball's Assistant Director of the Men's National Team! Before that he was a basketball player. In college he was on the Villanova Wildcats in North Carolina, destined to receive a scholarship a little late in the game, but getting one all the same. He chalks it up to persistence. Listen to this insightful Cash Flow Diary podcast interview to learn the full story. You'll learn a lot about BJ and his mindset that allowed him to be the success on and off the courts, and how being able to pivot to life's changes is allowing him to create the life he desires. He says that educating ourselves and growing our financial intelligence makes the difference. Understanding the financial decisions we make in youth impact us far down the path in life, too. This is something he now helps young players understand. He helps them to understand that thought they may be making a fabulous income currently they still need to b