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In this special episode of the Smart Real Estate Coach podcast, guest host Stephen Woessner turns the tables on Chris and interviews him about how he weathered the 2008 real estate collapse.   Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He’s also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He’s also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate...

Chris Norton got knocked down. Hard.   After suffering a spinal cord injury playing college football, he lost all feeling and movement from the neck down. Chris was only given a 3% chance to ever move again.   He could have let it define him. But our lives aren’t shaped by circumstance. They’re shaped by us. Perseverance isn’t about the physical act of standing: it’s about attitude, and the ability to shape yourself in the face of adversity.   With the support of his friends, family, faith, and the love of his life, Emily, Chris proved the doctors wrong, and walked the stage at graduation that...

Kelsie Deppen was born and raised in Southern Illinois. She is a graduate of Southern Illinois University where she earned a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Counseling and Business Administration. After graduating, she relocated to California. Kelsie has many years of experience in a variety of service provisions, including therapy, program evaluation, and teaching. Kelsie is very passionate about working in business administration.   As our Community Director, she is dedicated to creating a supportive environment and quality experience for our associates during their journey within the Wicked Smart Community.   Kelsie is involved in her local community by helping the homeless population in Los Angeles....

From humble beginnings, the dream to become a successful property investor drove Laurence Lameche to find unique ways to own and control property, which eventually resulted in the accumulation of a multi-million-pound property portfolio.   His proprietary formula generates passive revenue while he sleeps, in many cases instant equity, and is a win-win for everyone involved.   His formula isn't about "get rich quick," or getting the best of anyone. It's about solving problems, creating innovative solutions, and leaving a legacy.   After 10+ years perfecting the art and science of winning at property deals with no money down, and with his dream realized, his new...

Steve Rozenberg is an international commercial airline pilot who, after the tragedies of 9/11, was forced to realize that his “Safe and Secure career” was nowhere near as safe and secure as he had thought.   Steve chose real estate investing to be able to control his own destiny and create his own generational wealth.   Steve created the fastest growing property management company in the state of Texas, managing over 1,000 properties across 3 major metropolitan cities. Steve built the business up and created maximum cash flow positioning his company for a very profitable exit.   Along with growing his property management company, Steve Rozenberg...

Named the Top Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards in London, Alisa Cohn has been coaching startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. She is the author of From Start-Up to Grown-Up, published by Kogan Page. A one-time startup CFO, strategy consultant, and current angel investor and advisor, she was named the number one “Global Guru” of startups in 2021, and has worked with startup companies such as Venmo, Etsy, DraftKings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch. She has also coached CEOs and C-Suite executives at enterprise clients such...

Clint Ober is the innovator behind the Grounding Movement and author of Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever? and the CEO of EarthFX Inc., a Palm Springs research and development company.   A series of seemingly unrelated yet highly synchronistic events dating back to his early childhood led to a groundbreaking discovery that many have called The Most Important Health Discovery of all time. Grounding has now become a massive international movement — causing people to shed their shoes and reconnect electrically to the surface of the Earth.   He first learned about grounding when installing Cable TV systems in Billings, Montana in...

“Pam Grout is a world traveler, a loving mother, a best-selling author, a millionaire and an inspiring witness to everyone she meets.”   That line is an affirmation Pam Grout started using some 20 years ago before she had ever had a child, become a travel writer or an author – or for that matter, before she even liked herself all that much. Evidently affirmations work, because now Pam can proudly say all of the above are true. One of them (she’ll let you guess which one) took a while to manifest but finally in 2013, after writing an affirmation in the...

Mike Simmons is a real estate investor, podcast host, speaker, and the author of Level Jumping: How I Grew My Business To Over $1 Million In Profits In 12 Months. In the book, he shares the principles that allowed him to take his business from virtually nothing to over a million in just a year. Mike has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped them grow their businesses as well.   In addition to this incredible business success, Mike has shared the stage with Gary Vaynerchuk, Ryan Serhant, Jocko Willink, Russell Brunson, Walter Bond, Andy Frisella, and Tom Ferry.   What you will learn in...

Scott Choppin is the CEO and Founder of the Urban Pacific Group, a Long Beach, California-based real estate development company founded in 2000. His company focuses exclusively on workforce rental housing communities throughout California, and in the western United States. With over 35 years in the development business, Scott's a leader in the field and is a regular contributor to major media outlets throughout the nation. Scott and his wife Becky have been happily married and together for 27 years and raising the three kids in Long Beach, California. What you will learn in this episode: What are workforce rental housing...