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Episode 119: Building Wealth That Leads to the Blissful Life with Moneeka Sawyer

December 13, 2019 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Do you remember what happened in 2008?
What did JAMA say about “Wealth Shock”?
Who is Moneeka Sawyer?
How does Moneeka manage a multimillion dollar business?
How does Moneeka choose bliss?
What did Moneeka experience as a very young person?
How did Moneeka breakthrough?
What did Moneeka learn from her dad?
Do you want “poor people money issues” or “rich people money issues”?
What was Moneeka’s prayer?
How did Moneeka’s coach affect her?
What is a “bliss mentor”?
What does Moneeka love about real estate?
What do we do each day to set ourselves up for strength?
What is bliss?
Can you handle anything that life sends your way?
What is emotional resilience?
What is your default emotional home?
What is the bliss equilibrium?
What are the techniques to get back to bliss?
How do we create deep joy and contentment?
What are the tools to come back to equilibrium?
What is blissful wealth?
How do we support joy in life?
How is wealth a part of our life and a part of who we are?
How do we get the ultimate goals of what we want?
Is there ever an end goal?
Where does bliss happen?
How does Moneeka help successful people come back to bliss?
How is money an amplifier?
What are your core values?
How do you align to those values?
How do you know what your values are?
Would you like to read Moneeka’s book, Choose Bliss: The Power and Practice of Joy and Contentment?
What is a bliss moment?
Have you ever stopped, dropped and breathed?
How does one make better decisions?
Would you like to listen to Moneeka’s podcast, Real Estate Investing for Women?
Would you like to download Moneeka’s story at blissfulinvestor.com?
Is Moneeka still dancing?
What questions do you have? Would you let us know on speak pipe?

Moneeka Sawyer is often described as one of the most blissful people you will ever meet. She has been investing in Real Estate for over 20 years, so has been through all the different cycles of the market. Still, she has turned $10,000 into over $2,000,000, working only 5-10 hours per MONTH with very little stress.

While building her multi-million dollar business, she has travelled to over 55 countries, dances every single day, supports causes that are important to her, and spends lots of time with her husband of over 20 years.

She is the international best-selling author of the multiple award-winning book “Choose Bliss: The Power and Practice of Joy and Contentment.”

She is the host of the Podcast Real Estate Investing for Women and her expertise, and bliss-filled laugh, have been featured on stages, radio, podcasts and TV stations including ABC, CBS, FOX, and the CW, impacting over 100 million people.

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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 three-time #1 Best Selling Author and the owner of Lake Growth Financial Services, a financial firm in Chicago, Illinois. Over the years, he has helped hundreds of his clients take back control of their financial future and build their businesses with proven, tax-efficient financial solutions. He specializes in building custom-tailored financial strategies that are unknown to typical stock-jockeys, attorneys, or other financial gurus.

As co-host of the Not Your Average Financial Podcast™, he shares some of his strategies for investing in real estate, paying for college without going broke, and creating an income in retirement you won’t outlive. Mark works with people who want to grow their wealth in ways that are safe and predictable, to become their own source of financing, and create tax-free income in retirement.

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Episode 130: Storing Cash in Storage Units with Kris Benson

February 28, 2020 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Are storage units going to be around awhile?
Who is Kris Benson?
What about the trading time for money model?
How did Kris get into real estate?
How did Kris niche down?
Where are the markets for self storage?
How many self storage units are there?
What mindset do people have for using storage?
Are there more storage units than fast food places?
Who are the storage unit customers?
Why would someone want to invest in storage units?
Do storage units have fussy tenants?
What are the two types of investors in storage units?
What are the three pillars that drove Kris into storage investing?
What about overall returns according to the data on nareit.com?
What is a real estate investment trust?
How is storage an out-performer?
What happened in the latest downturn?
Do Americans get rid of things when times are good?
Do Americans get rid of things when times are bad?
How many players are in the storage space?
What are the 5 major REITS in self storage?
What about mom and pop operators?
How does Kris evaluate storage properties?
What about net operating income (NOI) growth?
What do they do at Reliant?
Who is John Cordova?
How is storage a micro market?
How is storage not like an apartment complex?
How is storage a business of convenience?
What can go wrong in the storage business?
What about direct ownership of storage?
What about partnering with an operator?
How does occupancy fluctuate?
What about passive income streams?
What about Reliant’s professional organization with 48 properties?
How is this a diversification tool?
What happens to storage units when the stock market fluctuates?
What are some of the tax advantages of investing in real estate?
Is it possible to do cost segregation on a storage building?
What about the recapture?
What about long term capital gains rates vs. ordinary income?
Do passive investors receive depreciation?
Who needs to check with their CPA?
What’s a non-correlated asset?
Have you visited krisbenson.com?
Would you like to visit reliantinvestments.com?
What does self storage provide?
What about growing wealth in a way that is recession resistant?

Note the disclaimer: The topics presented in this podcast are for general information only and not for the purposes of providing legal, accounting or investing advice. On such matters, please consult a professional who knows your specific situation.

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What about Moneeka Sawyer’s upcoming virtual, online Real Estate Investing for Women Summit? What about networking, the book, the date and the pricing?
What will Mark be speaking about at the summit?
Would you like to join? Visit blissfulinvestor.com/event

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Kris Benson, is the chief investment officer for Reliant Investments, a subsidiary of Reliant Real Estate Management. Reliant Real Estate is one of the top 30 commercial self-storage operators in the U.S. in 2018. As chief investment officer at Reliant, Kris’s investing philosophy has always been about changing the paradigm of trading time for money. Kris knows the only thing in this world you cannot create more of is time . Time with your family and ultimately time doing the things you love. Investing in real estate has always been his path to passive income and he is passionate about sharing that opportunity with others.

In the last 12 months the Reliant team has invested over $96MM in self-storage projects and raised over $38MM from investors.

Self-Storage provides a unique opportunity to invest in one of the most successful asset classes in the past 5 years and take advantage of the institutional interest moving forward.

Kris graduated from the State University of Binghamton and currently lives just outside Saratoga Springs, NY with his wife Jenn and two sons, Noah and Luke.

He is an outdoor enthusiast with a passion for the ski mountain, the lake, and his mountain bike!