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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 shares his journey from institutional real estate to working with high-net-worth investors and how those experiences reshaped his approach to capital deployment and risk.

The conversation dives into the realities of institutional capital, why it can pressure operators into bad decisions, and how smarter investors focus on risk adjusted returns instead of chasing flashy IRRs. Derek also explains open ended funds vs direct deals, current market opportunities, and why today may be one of the best entry points in years.

If you want to understand how experienced investors think about money, risk, and real estate this episode is packed with insights you can actually use.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and career background

04:26 Buchanan Street overview

07:58 Institutional vs private capital

12:31 Capital raising and market outlook

18:50 Fund structures explained

23:32 Mindset lessons and life advice

Quotes

"It is hard to be a good buyer when you have hundreds of millions to deploy." – Derek Czarkowski

"People are always drawn to high return deals even when the risk is much higher." – Derek Czarkowski

"If I could do it all over again, I would buy more real estate earlier." – Derek Czarkowski

"Real estate gives you equity returns bond like cash flow and tax advantages all in one." – Derek Czarkowski

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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 first property at 21 to leading a powerhouse team across California while balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship.

In this episode, Zandra dives deep into the realities behind high performance success including burnout, missed personal moments, and the importance of systems, leadership, and self-awareness. She emphasizes communication, accountability, and leading with love as the foundation of long-term success while also revealing hard lessons from legal battles and business growth.

If you are serious about leveling up in business and life take action today apply these lessons and start building your own path to success.

Chapters

00:00 Early Life and Real Estate Beginnings
03:38 Building a Brand and Team
06:01 Zillow Experience and Growth
11:27 Competitive Advantage and Communication
15:00 Mindset Mentorship and Personal Growth
23:00 Failures Lessons and Life Philosophy

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I missed two and a half years of my children growing up and I will never do that again." – Zandra Ulloa

"The money is the bonus the freedom of choice is success." – Zandra Ulloa

"It is always a you thing not the other person." – Zandra Ulloa

"Do it scared do it broke just do it." – Zandra Ulloa

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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 simple tax strategy can dramatically increase cash flow and why most investors are leaving money on the table.

Yonah explores his journey from teaching to real estate, a life changing financial struggle, and the power of giving and humility in business. Yonah breaks down cost segregation in simple terms and explains how it accelerates depreciation to reduce taxes and boost reinvestment potential.

Take action by reviewing your current or future properties and exploring whether cost segregation can improve your financial strategy.

Chapters

00:00 Yonah Weiss Journey and LinkedIn Influence
04:50 The Mantra That Drives Success
09:40 Hardship Mentorship and Life Changing Lessons
17:50 Cost Segregation Explained Simply
25:30 Where Cost Segregation Works Best and Costs
31:50 Risks Strategy and Wealth Building Mindset

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"You can get anything you want in life if you help others get what they want." – Yonah Weiss

"Being humble is probably the most important interpersonal skill that you can have." – Yonah Weiss

"You do not know what you do not know and that is where growth happens." – Yonah Weiss

"It is a cash flow mechanism that lets you keep more of what you earn." – Yonah Weiss

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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 in disability home modifications sparked a lasting understanding of how real estate can transform both function and value. That realization eventually led him into house flipping, where he learned by hiring every trade himself and standing on site to absorb the process in real time.

As the conversation unfolds, Dan explains the world of net lease investment sales in a way that is clear and accessible, outlining what separates single tenant and multi-tenant assets, how absolute triple net leases shift risk, and why market rent matters more than many investors realize.

Follow Dan Lewkowicz on LinkedIn, connect with the show, and share this episode with one investor or entrepreneur who needs a reminder that hard seasons can create powerful pivots

Chapters

00:00 Early life, psychology, Israel, and the first real estate spark

08:56 Entrepreneurship, house flipping, and the move into brokerage

14:01 Net lease investing explained in plain English

25:00 Client strategy, LinkedIn, and building a personal brand

31:17 Market outlook, investing lessons, and recovering from losses

42:26 Relationships, mindset, and creating long term success

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“Provide value. Everything else will follow.” ~ Dan Lewkowicz

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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 how a difficult upbringing in New Jersey a near fatal explosion and serious legal trouble became the turning points that pushed him toward faith personal growth and financial education.

The conversation also explores credit stacking social media mentorship mindset and impact. Brandon explains the framework he teaches through Credit Counsel Elite and why most people misunderstand how banks evaluate borrowers.

Follow Brandon Elliot and Credit Counsel Elite to learn more about credit real estate and building financial leverage with intention. Like and subscribe so more people can discover conversations like this.

Chapters

00:00 Brandon Elliot introduction and early sales background

04:04 Discovering real estate and learning to raise capital

09:14 Buying and renovating properties with credit

13:13 Building Credit Counsel Elite from real results

18:20 Credit stacking marketing and social media growth

31:22 Faith mindset leadership and lasting impact

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“The average American right now is just simply winging it dude.” ~ Brandon Elliot

“Are you letting fear control your future instead of investing in yourself.” ~ Brandon Elliot

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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 distribution across multiple markets. In this episode, he shares how he got into real estate out of financial pressure, how early wins led to hard failures, and how those failures helped him discover that acquisitions were not his strength but dispositions were.

He also explains the biggest misconceptions about wholesaling, why low overhead has been critical to his longevity, and why new investors should focus on learning the business through relationships and dispositions before jumping into direct to seller acquisitions.

Reach out to Alex Bradley if you want to learn more about dispositions, building buyer relationships, and creating a lean real estate business rooted in trust and long term value.

Chapters

00:00 - 01:22 Alex Bradley’s background and move to San Diego
01:22 - 06:30 What wholesaling really is and why the industry changed
06:30 - 11:55 Longevity entrepreneurship and the first breakthrough
11:55 - 19:08 Failure humility and finding the right niche
19:08 - 39:37 Dispositions strategy relationships and building a business
39:37 - 48:14 Lifestyle networking goals and faith

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“I source off market properties for people that flip houses.” ~ Alex Bradley

“I don't hate wholesaling. I just hate acquisitions and I don't like the seller side of it.” ~ Alex Bradley

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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 this episode, he shares how a chance encounter after finding Axel’s wallet turned into a powerful business partnership, how he moved from engineering and Amazon into entrepreneurship, and what he learned from both wins and painful losses in real estate investing.

This conversation dives into capital raising, multifamily investing, lending, leadership, AI, and the inner work required to grow as an entrepreneur. TJ breaks down how he built conviction through repetition, why fear is actually useful, how he approaches employees and ownership culture.

If this episode challenged the way you think about entrepreneurship, and building with intention, share it with a friend, leave a review, and connect with TJ to learn more about Burns Capital Partners and RA Lending.

Chapters

00:00 - 04:44 How TJ Met Axel

04:45 - 13:26 From MIT to Real Estate

13:27 - 21:03 LP Lessons and Becoming a GP

21:04 - 29:25 Raising Capital with Confidence

29:26 - 38:14 Building the Business with Focus

38:15 - 48:37 AI Tools and Life Hacks

Quotes:

“Everything that I do, I think my best skill is I’m just extremely curious.” ~ TJ Burns

“You gotta figure out what you want and if what you want’s on the other side of that fear, you gotta move through it.” ~ TJ Burns

“You just gotta get the reps in.” ~ TJ Burns

“Nobody has it figured out. We’re kind of all just on a journey.” ~ TJ Burns

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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 Kentucky, and eventually San Diego, where he built his place in the tax and advisory world.

Anthony explains why bookkeeping is the foundation of everything, why proactive tax planning beats reactive tax filing, how AI is reshaping tax firms, and why entity structure, accrual accounting, and disciplined follow up can transform both profitability and growth.

Chapters

00:00 Anthony’s background from Camp Pendleton to Mexico to Kentucky

02:18 From mortgage success to getting humbled in advisory

06:23 How Global Tax 360 evolved and why AI is changing tax firms

11:18 Proactive tax strategy, entity structure, and the bookkeeping reality

31:57 Accrual accounting, leverage, and the jump into investing

38:09 Networking, personal growth, and building a business that scales

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“When you have to actually learn how to fish, go find the pond where to fish, but then you also have to learn how to skin it, gut it.” ~ Anthony Nicholas

“The firms that are learning how to use technology, they’re going to be the ones that expand.” ~ Anthony Nicholas

“Good bookkeeping is the most important thing for this.” ~ Anthony Nicholas

“I want to phase out. I want to become a business owner. I’m tired of being self-employed.” ~ Anthony Nicholas

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