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Growing up in a home-building family, Brad Carlson was thrown into small business at the age of 5. He witnessed from his parents the art of creating outcomes and, “to just figure things out.” While starting his first company out of his college apartment, he was shut out of the family for 3 years for going against taking over his father’s business and not finishing college… Fast forward to now and Brad’s companies have organically produced over $250MM in revenue since 2007. Today, Brad runs a family investment office company focused on growing small market cap holdings while driving to grow enterprise...

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 has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990’s and selectively to date), has owned a Realty Executives Franchise (Massachusetts 1994-2000) as broker/owner which maintained high per-agent standards and eventually sold to Coldwell Banker in 2000. The 2000’s included coaching ½ million and higher REALTORs® in order to...

Peter Sage is an international serial entrepreneur and subject matter expert in human behavior and self mastery. His unique way of looking at the world has earned him the distinguished Brand Laureate Award for extraordinary individuals alongside previous winners who include Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs and Christiano Ronaldo. Peter is a 6x TEDx speaker whose multiple #1 bestselling books have sold over 150,000 copies in several languages. He has founded multiple 8-figure companies and raised over $1M for various charities. Peter is now committed to sharing his vast knowledge and experience in a way that allows others to also lead an...

Zachary Beach is an Amazon Best-Selling Author of The New Rules of Real Estate Investing and revised edition of Real Estate On Your Terms. He has been an authority in real estate for 7 years now and has personally completed hundreds of real estate transactions and has mentored investors to complete thousands of transactions. At the age of 25, Zach decided to leave the world of bartending and personally training and jump into the family business. Now he is an equal partner and runs the acquisitions department, focusing on helping sellers accomplish their goal of selling their property. If Zach is not...

Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think differently about your money, your economy and your future. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and discovering a way to turn his debt into real wealth as he watched everybody lose their retirement savings and home equity in 2008, he knew that he needed to find a more predictable way to meet his financial objectives and those of his clients. Mark is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER, a two-time #1 Best Selling Author and the owner of Lake Growth Financial Services, a financial firm in Chicago, Illinois....

Lauren & Steve Mernick are the founders of Home On Your Terms and are based in eastern Connecticut. Steve serves as the company’s Acquisitions Director and loves crafting up creative solutions for sellers, while Lauren works as Sales Director and enjoys helping deserving buyers achieve their goal of home ownership. When not working on their own business, they are mentoring other investors who wish to learn the terms of the niche of real estate. In their free time, they are with their two young children and two dogs. Steve can also be considered a cornhole connoisseur, so you may find him...

Bryan’s Bio: I’m Bryan Dewhurst and I’m really proud to be one of the co-founders of Uncommon Wealth Partners, LLC along with my friend, Phillip Ramsey. I’ve spent more than a decade learning from mentors and serving clients with other firms and it was finally time to step out and do it the way we wanted it to be done. My professional background is in economics and consulting. One of the elements of our work that I love the most is having the opportunity to teach investors, business owners, professionals and families the strategies that work for corporations and banks. If it can...

Anthony Mann has been in the real estate industry for over 14 years. He has 13 years of experience in investing, flipped over 200 homes and currently owns 43 properties. During his tenure as an agent, he has sold more than 1,000 REO and short sale properties in the Long Island, New York market. He was able to get into a niche field within the industry, where there are less than 15 active REO agents. In that market, he was the youngest by nearly 20 years. Anthony has seen many markets and new technology emerge without any true benefit to agents....

As a retired Air Force officer, Dr. Axel Meierhoefer started his first company in 2005, focusing on consulting, employee skill development and program management. These areas remain in place these days within his business and have grown internationally. Axel has always had a love for education and helping people help themselves become successful. As a business owner, he began thinking about applying profits towards retirement, and research clearly indicated that owning real assets would be the best way. It’s also the path that the government supports the most. This has led to the development of a residential real estate investment portfolio...

In this one-of-a-kind episode of the Smart Real Estate Coach podcast, guest host Stephen Woessner turns the tables on Chris and interviews him about his background, how he got into real estate, and how he navigated the crushing challenges of the 2008 real estate market crash. Whether you’re new to the Wicked Smart community or you’ve been here for the long haul, this episode gives you a glimpse into who Chris Prefontaine is and why he feels so passionately about helping others build true financial freedom through real estate. Chris's Bio: Chris Prefontaine is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your...