Skip the Lines Podcast, with Jonathan Mitchell
I interview experts in their field.
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112 episodes
Melissa Tucci Turned Cold Calls Into a San Diego Real Estate Empire
Do you want the success Melissa has achieved, and are you willing to do the work required to earn it?Melissa Goldstein Tucci is a leading San Diego broker associate with Coldwell Banker, an experienced real estate professional, and the o...
What Andrew Rosenberg Knows About Real Estate That Most Investors Miss
Are you investing where everyone else is looking, or where supply is quietly creating tomorrow's biggest opportunities?In this episode, I sit down with Andrew Rosenberg, second-generation business owner, experienced real estate investor,...
Sal Cefalu On 600 Deals, Market Pullbacks, And The Power Of Rejection Sal
What would happen if more people treated rejection as training instead of failure?Sal Cefalu is a longtime San Diego real estate professional with over 600 home transactions and more than two decades at Keller Williams. In this episode, ...
The Terrifying Truth About Venezuela’s Earthquake ~ Gabriel Nicoloso
What happens when disaster strikes and the people realize they may have to save themselves?Gabriel Nicoloso is an architect, drafter, worldwide traveler, and member of Jonathan Mitchell’s team who lives in Caracas, Venezuela. In this epi...
Adam Stone Reveals The Real Estate Mistakes That Can Kill Your Deal
How do I get to the front of the line if I am coming out in the back?Adam Stone is a real estate entrepreneur, investor, developer, broker, and attorney based in San Diego. In this episode, he joins Jonathan Mitchell to talk about how la...
Why The Deal Is Harder Than The Money ~ Henry Washington
What if the fear stopping you from taking action is not real risk but just an unanswered question?Henry Washington is a real estate entrepreneur, coach, and BiggerPockets podcast host from San Francisco. In this episode, he shares how he...
What’s Really Broken About San Diego Housing ~ Howard Blackson
What happens when a city prioritizes housing growth without creating the jobs, transit, and infrastructure needed to support it?Howard Blackson is an urban designer, planner, and advocate for walkable communities who has spent decades sh...
$500M Commercial Real Estate Career Without Taking Crazy Risks ~ Steven Silverman
What would change in your life and career if you stopped chasing the next dollar and started making decisions based on where you want to be 10 years from now?Steven Silverman is a nationally recognized commercial real estate broker, auct...
Sparking the ADU Revolution Across America
What happens when keeping your word becomes your greatest business advantage?Kol Peterson is an ADU expert, housing advocate, educator, entrepreneur, and author who has spent more than a decade helping shape the accessory dwelling unit m...
Untold Opportunity in Aviation Finance ~ Eljona Shkreli
What happens when keeping your word becomes your greatest business advantage?Eljona Shkreli is a capital raiser at Stratus Financial, an immigrant from Albania, a mother, wife, world traveler, and finance professional with deep experienc...
Building a 30 Million Dollar Construction ~ Brandon Holtzman
What separates contractors who stay stuck from the ones who build multi million dollar companies?Brandon Holtzman is the founder of Holtzman Construction, a design build company operating in Arizona and Southern California generating ove...
Change Your Family’s Future Forever with Real Estate ~ Hans Seelinger
What would you do if everything you built suddenly disappeared overnight?Hans Seelinger is a multifamily syndicator, investor, and educator based in Miami Florida who has built a portfolio of more than 340 units while teaching others how...
The Dirty Truth About Institutional Money That No One Talks About Derek Czarkowski
Are you investing for hype or building real long-term wealth?Derek Czarkowski serves as Vice President, Investor Relations at Buchanan Street Partners and brings over 20 years of experience in real estate investing. In this episode, he s...
She Ran 60 Deals a Month Until It Nearly Broke Her ~ Zandra Ulloa
What are you willing to sacrifice in pursuit of success and is it worth it?Zandra Ulloa is a top real estate professional with over a decade of experience and more than 3 billion in closed sales. She shares her journey from buying her fi...
Yonah Weiss Reveals His Cost Segregation Tip That Slashes Taxes Overnight
What if the biggest leak in your wealth is not your investments but your taxes?Yonah Weiss is a cost segregation expert and business director helping real estate investors unlock massive tax savings. In this episode he shares how a simpl...
From Flips to Fortune How Dan Lewkowicz Built a Real Estate Machine
What happens when the thing that breaks your momentum is the exact thing that pushes you into your true path?Dan Lewkowicz shares a deeply personal and practical journey from Metro Detroit to Israel and back, tracing how his early work i...
Brandon Elliot on Credit Stacking Real Estate and Beating the Banks at Their Own Game
What if the very thing most people fear using credit could become the tool that helps build wealth freedom and impact?Brandon Elliot is a real estate investor entrepreneur and founder of Credit Counsel Elite. In this episode he shares ho...
Alex Bradley Breaks Down the Lean Wholesaling Model That Actually Works
What happens when the part of the business you hate becomes the lesson that leads you to your real niche?Alex Bradley is a real estate investor and the founder of Mindful Equity, specializing in wholesale dispositions and investor deal d...
Capital Raising Playbook Every Real Estate Operator Needs
What would change in your life if you treated every random encounter as the beginning of a real opportunity?TJ Burns is a real estate entrepreneur, lender, MIT trained engineer, and founder of Burns Capital Partners and RA Lending. In th...
Stop Overpaying the IRS and Start Building Wealth with Anthony Nicholas
What would change in your business if you stopped treating taxes like a once a year chore and started using them as a growth strategy?Anthony Nicholas shares a sharp and honest look at his path from a military household to Mexico, then K...
Advice That Could Save You Years in Business and Life ~ Skip The Lines ICYMI
What would you tell your younger self if you only had a few minutes to share the lessons that matter most?Eric Gallagher, John Laine, Ben Kogut, and John Minerick each share the advice they would give their younger selves to move faster ...
Jon Minerick One App Could Replace Agents, Lenders, Title, & Portals
Jon Minerick is the CEO and founder of HomeCoin, a software driven real estate brokerage model that helps sellers list on the MLS without the traditional full-service bundle. He joins host Jonathan Mitchell on Skip the Lines to break down how H...
Ben Kogut Raised 115 Million Without Multifamily and Here’s Why It Worked
If your next investment had to protect your principal first and chase returns second, what would you choose and why?Ben Kogut is the founder of Rooster Equity and a longtime triple net commercial real estate operator who has raised over ...
He Bought a 10 Unit Building for 750000 Then Turned It Into 3 Million
If housing insecurity does not care how someone voted, why do our solutions still get trapped in red versus blue arguments?John Laine is a longtime real estate operator and housing problem solver based in the Pacific Northwest who now le...
Why Only 500 Out of 44,000 CPA Firms Scale ~ Inside the Top 1%
What if the thing holding your career back… is your face?Eric Gallager, audit partner at one of the nation’s top 20 CPA firms, Withum. Eric shares his unconventional journey from working in a car parts store to becoming a key figure in o...