Lorenzo Mercado is a pediatric nurse working 24 to 36 hours a week while building toward his long term goal of becoming a hotel owner. Like a lot of people in healthcare, he is not trying to escape overnight. He is playing the long game, using ...

Nick Lyon is back on the podcast and a lot has changed. When he first came on the podcast, he was a PACU nurse building a 22 unit portfolio and still figuring it out. Fast forward to today… he now owns a $5M+ portfolio, is taking down $10M deve...

Everyone sees the exits.Nobody sees the chaos it took to get there.This past weekend I drove up to LA to sit down with Jordan Calderon, 27, serial entrepreneur, 3 exits, and over 175M in client revenue generated through StratDev....

In this episode I sit down with fitness entrepreneur Katie Salerni.In under a year she built a million dollar fitness brand and she’s on track to do nearly $2M this year. She speaks at events, teaches other entrepreneurs how to scale the...

ADUs have become one of the biggest buzzwords in real estate. Everyone is talking about backyard units and how they can create equity and cash flow.But the truth is ADUs can make a lot of money for some people and for others they can be ...

Justin Ducharme moved from Canada to the U.S., bought a business most people wouldn’t touch, and scaled it from $5,000 a month to over $100,000 a month. That’s the headline. What you don’t see are the nights wondering if payroll would clear, th...

In this solo episode of the Scrubs2Estates Podcast, I tell the real story of how I lost $35,000 trying to buy a villa in Bali.No blame. No finger pointing. Just ownership. Every decision that led to it was mine.I break down how th...

Did you know only about 13% of veterans ever use their VA home loan benefit even though it’s one of the most powerful wealth building tools out there?In this episode of the Scrubs2Estates Podcast, I sit down with Brian Koons aka Builder ...

Everyone is making content right now. Everyone has a camera, everyone is posting... and most people are still invisible or burning money on content that doesn’t do anything for their business. In this episode, I sit down with And...

Most people grow up hearing the same advice: buy a house, build equity, and you’ll be set for life. In this episode, I sit down with Josh Messiah, a real estate investor and operator with 23 years in the game, to explain why that advice ...

In this episode, I sit down with Adam Rahrer — the guy who walked away from a six-figure corporate job, stopped flying back and forth to China every month, and built a lifestyle around one of the most underrated assets in real estate: RV parks....

In this episode I sit down with Alexio Barbara aka "Cashflow Alexio" — the guy who straight up broke out of the rat race and built a $17M portfolio that pays him cash flow while he sleeps. We get into how he learned the game from selling commer...

In this episode, I sit down with Colin Yurcisin — someone who’s made millions, lost millions, built multiple businesses, dove into Bitcoin mining, and got smacked with a $500K tax bill that forced him to rethink everything. We break down how he...

In this episode of the Scrubs2Estates Podcast, Ian sits down with Ian Lalley — a former salesman, rock climber, and musician who turned getting fired from multiple jobs into a launchpad for freedom. After putting his entire $120K savings on the...

In this episode of the Scrubs2Estates Podcast, Ian sits down with Michelle Stevenson — a powerhouse who went from selling luxury goods at Gucci to making six figures flipping homes. With no college degree or background in construction, Michelle...

In this episode, I sit down with Mark Quesada to unpack two decades of hard-earned lessons in business, leadership, and personal growth. From living out of his car as a teenager to building three successful real estate brokerages across three s...

Nick Rossi’s story starts on the water — long days, tough conditions, and a life that demanded discipline and grit. Those years at sea forged the mindset that would later carry him through the unpredictable world of real estate and construction...

Architect Hector Aramuro is in the middle of one of San Diego’s biggest challenges — building the city’s future while balancing the debate between affordable housing and overdevelopment. As the designer behind multiple high-infill, Complete Com...

In this episode, I sit down with Austin Long — a full-time Stryker rep and part-time real estate investor out of rural West Virginia. We talk about how learning sales early became the ultimate meta-skill that set him up to win in both business ...

In this episode of The Lo-Down, I sit down with my friend and fellow nurse, Lorenzo Mercado, for a raw conversation about my journey through healthcare and beyond. We talk about the early experiences that shaped me, what it was like gr...

This one hits hard and true. I sit down with my friend James DeLeon—a 31-year-old Marine vet who grew up hopping from motel to motel, never knowing what “home” even meant. The Marines gave him purpose. Then COVID hit and he leveraged his VA loa...

This episode is all about mindset, transformation, and the daily non-negotiables that pulled Harlan and Rob out of rock bottom and turned their struggles into the driving force behind creating their dream life. We break down the mental shifts t...

Ryan Bakke is not your average CPA—he’s also a real estate investor who actually walks the walk. In this episode, we cut through the fluff and break down the tax game for high W-2 earners, business owners, and real estate investors. We dive dee...

In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Austin Cole—a former bodybuilder and solar hustler who’s now flipping houses full-time and building serious momentum in real estate.Austin shares how the chaos of COVID pushed him to finall...

In this episode, we go deep. Peter Eberhardt isn’t just a real estate investor—he’s someone who’s done the inner work to figure out who he is and what success really means.A former BMX athlete who once had Olympic dream...