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- 4 days ago50 min
$75M in Bronx Real Estate and One Simple Rule | Steven Padernacht on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 108
The best time to buy real estate was yesterday. That is the one rule Steven Padernacht has built his entire career on and after closing over $75 million in sales in one of the most overlooked real estate markets in America he has the receipts to prove it.Steven is a third generation real estate professional, host of his own show on BronxNet TV and the voice of the Bronx real estate market. His grandfather was a superintendent. His father built the business. Steven chose to stay, plant his flag in the Bronx and spend over 20 years mastering a market most real estate professionals walk past.In this episode Steven and Sean break down exactly how to get into the Bronx real estate market right now, why FHA loans make homeownership possible with as little as 3.5 percent down, how to use a HELOC to start building real generational wealth and why the day you close on your first home you should immediately go get a term life insurance policy. They also get real about fathers who provide everything except presence and what that leaves behind in a son.If you are a first time home buyer, a real estate investor or anyone trying to build generational wealth through real estate this episode will change how you think about your next move.This Episode Explores:✅ How Steven closed over $75 million in career sales mastering one market nobody else wanted✅ Why the best time to buy real estate is always yesterday and what that means for buyers right now✅ How FHA loans work and why 3.5 percent down is still a real path to homeownership for working class families✅ Why owning a home is a forced savings plan and the smartest way to lock in your housing costs forever✅ How to use a HELOC to pull equity out of your home and build wealth without selling✅ Why you need a trust not just a will if you actually want to pass your home to your kids✅ Gentrification in the South Bronx and why buyers who move now will benefit most✅ Why planting your flag somewhere is the foundation of every generational wealth conversation✅ A father who never wore jeans never played catch and showed love only through providing✅ Why the Bronx is one of the most undervalued real estate markets in America right now🔗 Connect with Steven PadernachtInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve_pad/The Paddernacht Real Estate: smprealty.com/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin
- 1 weeks ago46 min
Breaking the Cycle: What It Really Means to Be a Dad Today | Gerardo Santana on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 107
Gerardo Santana served in Afghanistan, taught high school in the Bronx for seven years and was good at doing what a lot of men are good at pushing everything down and keeping it moving. Then his daughter was born and the emotional breakdowns started happening in the middle of the city and he could not explain them and could not make them stop.That was the beginning of the real work.Gerardo is the founder and host of the Dad’s Group Chat podcast, a platform built on the conversations men never have with each other. Not sports, not current events, but the real stuff. What kind of father do you want to be. What kind of father were you given. What do you have to unlearn before you can give your kids something different.In this episode Gerardo and Sean get into machismo culture, the pendulum swing from hard parenting to soft parenting and what it actually looks like to dismantle what your father gave you while you are still in the middle of raising your own kids. They also get into why the people around you are the last ones you should be going to for advice when you are doing something brave.If you are a father, a son trying to break a cycle or a man who has been pushing things down for too long this episode will hit home.This Episode Explores:✅ Emotional breakdowns in the city that came out of nowhere and would not stop✅ Serving in Afghanistan and coming home with a military mindset that was quietly destroying him as a father✅ Teaching high school in the Bronx for seven years before realizing he had never dealt with his own childhood✅ Why having a daughter dismantled the machismo he did not even know he was carrying✅ Going to the VA for therapy and telling his father to wait in the car so he would not get triggered✅ Why therapy can become too much and what taking breaks from it actually taught him✅ The pendulum swing from hardcore parenting to super gentle parenting and finding the real balance✅ Building Dad’s Group Chat as a space for the conversations men never have with each other✅ Why you are still going to the wrong crowd for advice and what that is costing you✅ Breaking generational cycles your grandfather never faced your father never faced and now you have to face alone🔗 Connect with Gerardo SantanaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedadsgroupchatpod/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin
- 2 weeks ago59 min
125 Pounds Lost and a Wellness Empire Built | Anthony & Tereza Lolli on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 106
Anthony Lolli was driving a Rolls Royce and living in a mini mansion in Brooklyn when he was slowly eating himself to death. He knew it. His wife Tereza knew it. His kids knew it. Nobody could make him stop until the right combination of accountability, ego and a two and a half year old daughter who did not know the word fat but found one that hurt just as much finally cracked him open.What followed was a 125 pound transformation documented on a cell phone that became a global phenomenon on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. Then came skin removal surgery, competing in six back to back bodybuilding competitions together in five months with no cheat meals and the realization that if they could do that together they could build anything together.Today Anthony and Tereza are the co-founders of Biohack Yourself Media, one of the fastest growing independent health platforms in the world. They produce documentaries, run a national magazine in 5200 retail locations, launched Health News Network as a Netflix for health and built Zanzi.ai as a guided intelligence system for biohacking and longevity. They also produced the MAHA Ball for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This is what happens when a personal health crisis becomes a mission.In this episode Anthony, Tereza and Sean get into obesity as addiction, what functional medicine revealed about their son after seven misdiagnoses, why the current medical system is 50 years behind the science and what it actually takes to build a wellness empire with your spouse without killing each other.If you care about your health your longevity or what is actually possible for your body this episode will change how you think about all of it.This Episode Explores:✅ Why Anthony calls obesity suicide by food in slow motion and what finally made him take it seriously✅ Documenting a 125 pound weight loss on a cell phone that became a documentary on Amazon Prime and Apple TV✅ Tereza’s journey from putting herself completely on the back burner to becoming a two time bikini world champion✅ Six back to back bodybuilding competitions together in five months with zero cheat meals✅ Their son being misdiagnosed seven times and how Tereza spent two years and $250,000 becoming a health detective to find the real answer✅ How functional medicine revealed mold infection being confused for autism and what that taught them about the broken medical system✅ Why the current medical industry is practicing medicine based on science that is 50 to 60 years old✅ Building Biohack Yourself Media into a national magazine streaming platform documentary studio and health news network✅ Producing the MAHA Ball for Robert F. Kennedy Jr and what the Make America Healthy Again executive order actually means✅ Why they call themselves delusional optimists and why that is the only way to build something nobody has built before🔗 Connect with Anthony and Tereza LolliInstagram: Anthony https://www.instagram.com/anthonylolli/TereZa https://www.instagram.com/terezalolli/Biohack Yourself Media: www.biohackyourself.comFollow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin
- 3 weeks ago1h 6m
He Quit at 40 to Chase Art and Almost Lost Everything | Don Donneruno on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 105
Don Donneruno grew up in New York City during the graffiti movement of the early 80s. Every year in school when they asked what he wanted to be he wrote artist. Every adult around him told him that was not a real career. So he spent decades doing everything but that until his early 40s when a friend called and asked him to help make a King Kong cake.He had never made a cake in his life. Ninety seconds after posting it online someone wrote forget the Cake Boss you are the Cake Tuck. By the end of that first day strangers were messaging him for orders. What followed was a spot on season four of Buddy Velasco on TLC, his own bakery, 18 months of being his only employee, missed mortgage payments, panic attacks, depression and suicidal thoughts all while chasing the only thing he ever actually wanted to be.Today Don has made custom cakes for Cardinal Dolan, Elon Musk and some of the most recognizable names in the world. He got there by putting the trauma in a backpack, freeing up his hands and never stopping.In this episode Don and Sean get into absent fathers, the internal work it takes to stop being driven by a ghost, what a four day guided medicine experience in New Mexico did to his ego and why authenticity is the only competitive advantage that nobody can take from you.If you are a creative entrepreneur, a career changer or anyone who has ever been told their dream is not realistic this episode is exactly what you need to hear.This Episode Explores: ✅ Growing up in the New York City graffiti movement and spending decades burying his identity as an artist ✅ Quitting his career in his early 40s to chase art and what that decision actually cost him ✅ Making his first cake and getting flooded with orders within 24 hours of posting it online ✅ Landing on season four of Buddy Velasco on TLC and what happened when the cameras stopped rolling ✅ 18 months as his only employee missing mortgage payments while battling panic attacks and depression ✅ His father leaving at five years old and never coming back and why he now speaks of him only with gratitude ✅ The backpack metaphor that changed how he carries trauma and freed his hands to create ✅ A four day guided medicine experience in New Mexico that dissolved his ego and changed everything ✅ Making cakes for Cardinal Dolan Elon Musk and some of the biggest names in the world ✅ Why comparison is the thief of joy and why none of his competitors can ever replicate being him🔗 Connect with Don Donneruno Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_cake_don/ Website: www.thecakedoncreations.comFollow REAL Mentors Podcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcast Host Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin
- Oct 6, 202638 min
Over $1 Billion to the Businesses Banks Won't Touch | Steven Edisis on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 104
Steven Edisis grew up in Edison New Jersey watching his family scrape by through the entire decade of the 1970s. By college he was throwing black paint parties on tennis courts for five dollars a head, promoting nightclubs in Miami and eventually moving into a house the Real World cast just vacated and charging a hundred dollars a head at the door. He figured out how to monetize fun before he ever figured out how to build a business.What followed was three decades of massive wins, massive failures and the kind of hard lessons that only come from doing it with no mentor, no roadmap and no one to call. He did not find himself until he was 40 years old. Everything before that was figuring it out.Today Steven is the founder and CEO of Dynamic Capital, a company that has deployed over a billion dollars in working capital to more than 15,000 small businesses across the US and Canada. He serves the businesses that traditional banks turn away — the mom and pop operations, the minority owned businesses, the women owned businesses, the ones with cash flow but no collateral. His philosophy is simple. The businesses that survive long enough to become great are the ones that never run out of cash.In this episode Steven and Sean get into what it actually takes to build from nothing, why the CEO must always be the number one salesperson in the organization and the three non negotiables every founder needs to lean on before they build anything else.This Episode Explores:✅ Growing up in Edison New Jersey watching his family transform from lower income to middle class in real time✅ Throwing paint parties and promoting nightclubs in Miami to blend fun and finance in college✅ Buying bars on Washington Avenue and learning that early success without systems will knock you on your ass✅ Why he did not find himself or his real path until he was 40 years old✅ Founding Dynamic Capital to serve the businesses traditional banks refuse to touch✅ Why minority owned and women owned businesses were the first ones he chose to fund✅ How Dynamic Capital looks at gross revenue instead of net profit and what that means for small business owners✅ Why the CEO must be the number one salesperson in the organization and what happens when they are not✅ Don't let a little success cause a lot of overhead and the other rules he lives by as a CEO✅ The three non negotiables every aspiring founder needs before they build anything else🔗 Connect with Steven EdisisInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenedisis/Dynamic Capital: https://www.instagram.com/dynamiccapital/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin
- Sep 29, 202640 min
Why High Achievers Chase Their Father's Approval | Shawn French on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 102
Shawn French earned an athletic scholarship to LSU, became a top 1% performer in medical device sales and built one of the top 0.5 percent ranked podcasts in the world. By every external measure he was winning. He was still empty inside and it took him until his mid forties to understand why.It started in the third inning of a baseball game when he let a ball go between his legs and his father criticized him from the stands. That single moment set a program running in the background that quietly drove every major decision he made for decades. The need to prove himself. The relationships where he constantly asked are we okay because deep down he never felt safe enough to just exist. The career achievements that never filled the hole they were supposed to fill.Today Shawn is a high performance coach, keynote speaker and creator of the Determined Society podcast ranked in the top 0.5 percent globally. His upcoming book Blood Type Determined is about building the grit, resilience and accountability that nobody hands you and that you have to fight for yourself.In this episode Shawn and Sean get real about father wounds, breaking generational cycles, what it actually costs to chase external validation your entire life and why the so called midlife crisis is really a midlife reinvention for the people brave enough to do the real work.If you are a high achiever, entrepreneur, father or creator who has ever wondered why success still does not feel like enough this episode will hit home.This Episode Explores:✅ Earning an athletic scholarship to LSU and what chasing validation through baseball actually cost him✅ Becoming a top 1% medical device sales performer and still feeling completely empty inside✅ How one Tony Robbins clip led to a phone call that repaired his relationship with his father✅ Why his seven year old daughter is here to heal him and what she is teaching him about empathy and active listening✅ Breaking generational cycles deliberately so his children never have to break them themselves✅ Starting the Determined Society podcast alone recording audio in his car with no audience and no team✅ Why your friends and family will be laughing on the group text before they slide into your DMs as fans✅ The number one limiting belief that stops most creators and podcasters before they ever start✅ Why growing up in an unsafe environment actually prepares you better for entrepreneurship than a comfortable childhood ever could✅ The midlife crisis reframed as a midlife reinvention and why crossing into the second half of life with meaning is the real win🔗 Connect with Shawn FrenchInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theshawnfrench/Determined Society Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/thedeterminedsociety/Book: Blood Type DeterminedFollow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin
- Sep 22, 202654 min
Firefighter Who Exposed the Broken Healthcare System | Sam Tejada on REAL Mentors Podcast Ep 102
Sam Tejada spent 12 years as a firefighter paramedic watching the same people call 911 over and over. Not because the system was failing them. Because the system was working exactly the way it was designed to, which is treating sickness, not preventing it. He watched people show up in the back of his ambulance with grocery bags full of medications that contradicted each other, prescribed by doctors who never talked to one another, for conditions that started with lifestyle choices nobody ever addressed.He could not keep being a product of that system. So he built a different one.Today Sam is the founder and president of Liquivida, a multi million dollar wellness company with a network of over 4,000 physicians and practitioners nationwide. He is the author of How to Win in Modern Wellness and the chairman of the American IV Association. He started it at 26 years old on his days off from the fire department out of a single room in a chiropractor's office that was collecting dust.In this episode Sam and Sean get into why longevity science is 25 years ahead of what your doctor is actually practicing, what the pharmaceutical system is doing to your hormones and cellular health without you realizing it and what prevention actually looks like when someone builds an entire company around it.If you care about your health, your hormones, your energy or what you are putting in your body this episode will change how you think about all of it.This Episode Explores:✅ Watching patients deteriorate and die on repeat 911 calls and deciding he could not be part of that system anymore✅ Working with longevity pioneer Dr. Robert Willicks and seeing disease get reversed through functional medicine✅ Starting Liquivida at 26 on his days off from the fire department out of a single spare room✅ Why the medical system is not broken. It is working exactly the way it was designed to✅ The algorithmic pharmaceutical cycle that puts you on one pill and creates five new problems✅ Why longevity science is 25 years ahead of what your doctor is actually practicing right now✅ What IV therapy actually does for your body and why the wealthy were doing it before anyone else✅ Testosterone decline, hormone replacement therapy and what happens when you do it wrong✅ Why the soil your food grows in has no nutrients left and why supplementation is no longer optional✅ How AI is accelerating medical research and what that means for the future of personalized healthcare🔗 Connect with Sam TejadaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sammy_tejada/Website: www.liquivida.comBook: How to Win in Modern WellnessFollow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin
- Sep 15, 202655 min
He Raised $30M & Says Most Marketing is a Waste of Money | Max Mayes on REAL Mentors Podcast EP 101
Max Mayes built a construction company to $1.6 million a month in under six months then walked away from it. He has raised over $30 million across venture, real estate and alternative investments and figured out early that once money stopped being hard to get the relationship with it changed completely. He hit $50,000 a month take home and realized it did not feel the way he thought it would.Today Max is the founder of GrowthGod, where he works with founders and investors on contrarian marketing, capital strategy and the systems that actually turn a good offer into an enterprise. His model is find the growth constraints, build the marketing team inside the business and only focus on what actually moves the needle.In this episode Max and Sean get into what most business owners get completely wrong about marketing, why your offer economics have to work before any marketing will and what it actually means to hire unmanageable people and make them your greatest asset. They also get real about what happens when financial success arrives before emotional maturity and why chasing more money after a certain point is just filling a hole that money was never going to fill.If you are a founder, entrepreneur or investor trying to scale faster and smarter this episode is exactly what you need to hear.This Episode Explores:✅ Building a construction company to $1.6 million a month in under six months and exiting✅ Raising over $30 million across venture real estate and alternative investments✅ Hitting $50,000 a month take home and realizing it still did not feel like enough✅ Why offer economics have to work before any marketing strategy will save you✅ The presupposition problem that kills most marketing campaigns before they start✅ Why broadening your market filter can dramatically increase your conversion rates✅ How to hire unmanageable lone wolf marketers and actually make them team players✅ The difference between a marketing agency model and what GrowthGod actually does✅ Why fulfillment is rarely the problem and acquisition is almost always where businesses are stuck✅ What chasing money costs you in relationships and what to do once you finally realize it🔗 Connect with Max MayesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/maxmayes/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin
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