Portfolio Check: Separating Assets from Anchors with Ron Phillips – October 2024 LB Group Call

Understanding your portfolio is so much more than a matter of profit and loss, net income and equity. And nobody understands the complete picture better than Ron Phillips. In this replay, you have the opportunity to not only learn Ron’s system to analyze assets but also watch as he takes several LB members through the process with their own portfolio. 

LB coach Ron Phillips is Founder and CEO of RP Capital ‒ a Real Estate Brokerage specializing in residential income-producing properties. More than a brokerage, RP Capital is Ron’s platform for educating, training, and empowering emerging and seasoned investors. Ranked in the top 25% on the INC 5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2015, the firm offers a proprietary software suite so its clients can create their own Real Estate Wealth Plan™ using live inventory and then his team walks them through the process of becoming an investor.

Check out this call as Ron teaches how you can better analyze your assets, identifying which ones are worth keeping and which may be dragging you down. Only in releasing those anchors for better investments will you reach your portfolio potential.

When Planning Becomes Protecting with Bob Bluhm – August 2024 LB Group Call

In this group call, Robert Bluhm teaches us the ins and outs of protecting your estate and planning to take care of your loved ones and business!

Attorney Robert Bluhm is a national leader in asset protection, specializing in the creation of legal frameworks designed to give business owners and investors peace of mind in today’s litigious society. In his 30-years as an attorney, Bob has had the opportunity to serve as a trial lawyer – representing companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 to privately held businesses – as well as author and guest speaker. As a speaker, Bob has shared the stage with public figures including Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Presidents Clinton and Bush. He has also been a guest lecturer to financial icons including Donald Trump, Jim Cramer, David Bach, Jean Chatzky, and Suze Orman.

Make sure you join us as Bob teaches how to avoid probates, unnecessary taxes, etc… so that the assets you’ve worked so hard to earn are passed down to the one’s you love.

What Direction is Your Sales Team Headed? – Shaun McCloskey and Jennie Hudspeth l July 2024

If direction determines the destination, make sure you check out this replay to learn from Jennie Hudspeth’s genius in directing her sales team to success!

Jennie’s clear talent for sales management, process development and data analytics had her rapidly advancing from Lead Manager to Sales Director in just four months. During that time, she built a high-functioning, highly motivated lead management call center, established an elite acquisition division, and trained over 200 top-tier sales representatives. Her direct management of an acquisition team of 35 led to the closing of over 1,000 transactions, quadrupling the revenue for a leading wholesale company within one year!

While others might blindly follow the status quo of traditional sales, it’s Jennie’s slightly shifted perspective on most things REI, love for learning and esteem for honest feedback that allows her to create processes and tools that actually work. And that same sales process can actually be a process for life.

Now, Jennie created and coaches at REI Sales Tools because the most positive impact you can have on others is to teach them how to develop themselves and their team.

Take a step in the right direction and watch this replay to learn more!

Go with the Slow (Flip) – Shaun McCloskey and Scott Jelinek l June 2024

Take a leaf out of Scott Jelinek’s book, The Art of the Slow Flip, and learn how Scott went from the headaches of fast flips for measly gain to what he calls the “4 Hour Work Week” of real estate – slow flips. 

When Scott Jelinek first started real estate, he grew a fast flip portfolio of over 100+ properties and all of annoyances that come with them – 2AM toilet troubles and tenants that used to trash the place. But when the 2008 recession crashed his portfolio, he discovered the shortcut of the slow flip. 

With 178 Slow Flip properties, Scott no longer deals with the daily troubles of tenants. Instead, he now has a recession-proof, passive income averages 4X that he was making with fast flips!

Watch the replay so that you, too, can learn to go with the slow and build consistent, passive income that will help you live your vision and unlock a legacy of generation wealth!

The Conversation of Negotiation – Shaun McCloskey and Jerry Green l April 2024

Join Shaun McCloskey as he interviews LB member Jerry Green about his experience and mastery of sales and negotiation tactics. This is a conversation that will benefit EVERYONE and then some when so much of our day-to-day communication moves us toward a sale or negotiating terms/acquisitions.

Jerry Green lives in Germantown, OH, and mastered these sales and negotiation tactics over years of experience, beginning in 1994 when he started his REI business, wholesaling properties and moving into fix and flips. After scaling this business to a high volume of wholesale deals, all done virtually, Jerry was able to remove himself operationally from the business while still working as CEO. Now he focuses his time helping others scale their own businesses and teaching them to master acquisition skills through REI Sales Academy.

Whether you are directly in the business of sales and acquisitions, you have a team negotiating the sale for you, or you don’t think you are in sales (but you really are), you will be glad you joined us for this call!

Work with Your Genius(Zone) – Shaun McCloskey with Randy Shelley l February 2024 LB Group Call

This month, Shaun interviewed Leadership Boardroom member, Randy Shelley, about how he has found incredible success building his business by focusing his time where he excels best – his Genius Zone! Rather than distributing his time and talents on business opportunities and tasks that take him out of his natural aptitudes, Randy focuses in on those that give him the best results for his time because he’s doing what he loves and what he’s already good at!

In working primarily in his Genius Zone, Randy transitioned from civil engineer to full-time Real Estate Investor in 2008 and has bought and sold over 500 properties in the Chattanooga area. In 2017, he started Chattanooga Funding, LLC, specializing in hard money lending to rehabbers not only in Chattanooga, but expanding to northern Georgia. With the flexibility and efficiency that working in his Genius Zone offers, Randy spent 2 months last summer RVing with his family and seeing all of the sites.

Check out this call and learn to tap into your own Genius!

Join the Chat(GPT): Shaun McCloskey with Corey Peterson and Mike Baue – December 2023 LB Group Call

This month, Shaun interviewed Leadership Boardroom members Mike Baue and Corey Peterson about how to successfully implement ChatGPT whether in small, daily tasks to writing and publishing a best-selling book!

Mike Baue will set you up with the fundamentals of this popular AI program to not only help you become more efficient, but unlock your creativity. As a driven individual wearing many hats and embracing diverse passions (Husband, Father, Pastor, Musician, Pilot, Business and Life Coach, host of “People Who Influence People” podcast, etc…), Mike uses ChatGPT every day to effectively save him time so he can dedicate himself to what he loves: Christ, people and exploring the power of influence. 

Corey Peterson will then take you step-by-step through how he used ChatGPT to write and market his best-selling books: Trust But Verify and Copy Your Way to Success. In his own words, “Everyone should have a book” and ChatGPT is an incredible resource to overcome what may seem an overwhelming task. Not only is Corey a best-selling author, he is also the CEO and Founder of Kahuna Investments and host of the Multi-Family Legacy Podcast. 

This was a great, hands-on and interactive call that you will NOT want to miss!

Make Networking Work for You: Shaun McCloskey with Matt Andrews – November 2023 LB Group Call

This month, Shaun interviewed Matt Andrews and delved into his incredible ability to grow his business primarily through networking. Rather than focusing your time and money on marketing campaigns that may or may not reach your targeted audience, Matt has perfected the art of connecting the right people to build truly impressive businesses and charities!

Matt Andrews is a real estate investor, serial entrepreneur, and community builder. He is best known as CEO and founder of “The Family”, a collaborative mastermind for real estate entrepreneurs in the tech, education, and marketing spaces. He has been featured in numerous media outlets (Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fox Business and Motley Fool) and is a founding member of 3 international charities with outreach projects around the world (Khusi Hona, Jamobility, and The Family Village).

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to make your networking work for you!

Podcasting to Grow Your Audience and Grow Your Business with Adam Adams – October LB Group Call

Too many of us are losing customers and investors in our area of expertise to competitors simply because they have a podcast. In this day and age, it’s not enough to just be great at what you do: you NEED to have a Thought-Leadership Platform to stand out and stay in front of your clients and investors.

Adam Adams is the founder of GrowYourShow.com, helping podcasters better communicate their hard work all while growing their businesses, and long-time Leadership Boardroom member known for strategies in social media and podcasting. When anyone has questions on how to best utilize the constantly updating and marketing treasure-trove that is social media and podcasting, he’s the guy you call.

Make sure you check out this group call where Adam Adams will teach you how to host a podcast that gets you in front of your ideal customers/investors and grow your business!

Strategies to Make Tax Season Less Taxing with Melanie Sikma | August 2023 LB Group Call

LB member Melanie is a financial professional who loves to help her clients pay as little in taxes as legally possible and utilize that extra money to fund their dreams. During this call, you will learn:
– How Melanie saves her clients an average of $38,342 in taxes each year
– Her 8-Step Tax Solution to discover more savings
– How to avoid the pain to capital gains
– To utilize lower tax brackets around you
– How to generate a HUGE tax deferral for MASSIVE impact!
– How to get your money for nothin’ and your dreams tax-free
If you want to learn how to make the most of your money and avoid losing your hard won profits to tax season, make sure to check out this call!