Cashflow Diary | Influenced By Robert Kiyosaki Of Rich Dad About Real Estate Investing, Cash Flow And Passive Income.

KimBerly Keyton with a big "B" is a BIG part of our team here at Cash Flow Diary. In this episode of the Cash Flow Diary podcast you will learn just how big as she shares her story about how she landed a key role on the team. KimBerly is the VP of Operations who handles all of the deal details J. Massey's awe-inspiring REI transactions. She also manages many but not all aspects of the properties. When it comes to real estate investing, KimBerly knows her stuff. However, this wasn't always her path. Like many other entrepreneurs, the path she's on now found her. It started when she met J. while taking real estate investing training. They hung out, drank coffee and discussed real estate and life. At that time she had been on a more traditional university-to-corporate gig track. In fact, she earned two degrees... one in music and the other in environmental science. The latter will come in handy for any future "green" real estate deals. KimBerly's musical inclinations give

People always want to know about the team members standing behind the curtain with J. Massey at Cash Flow Diary. We’ve been promising to introduce you to them, and the time has come! What better way to pull back the curtain and give you a good, long look than to let these talented individuals tell you about themselves in their own words? In this first episode in our marvelous “Meet the Talented Team of Cash Flow Diary” podcast series, you’ll hear from Sandra Rea, our head writer extraordinaire. Listen in as she talks about what lead her to work with J. Massey and his terrific team, the different and varied paths she took to get through the gates, and what she aspires to accomplish with us and in her writing life. She discusses a range of topics, including what being an entrepreneur means to her and why she wouldn’t have it any other way, her life as a ghostwriter, and how she creates a true work-life balance while keeping up with the demands of being part of a furiously fast-paced environment. If you’ve ever

From about the end of February to April 15 each and every year, Americans move through a special season. It doesn’t come with a colorful, icing-laden cookie shaped like a tree or reindeer, and it doesn’t come with decorations. What is it? Tax season, and it has the power to get millions of Americans stressed to the gills and very frustrated. Some taxpayers procrastinate to the bitter end, standing in long lines at the post office on April 15 just to make sure their tax filing is postmarked with that date. These people make the news year after year, too. They rarely look happy as field reporters hold mics to their faces and ask why they waited so long. Maybe it’s a thrill to wait till the last minute, or maybe it’s because these people aren’t happy with how much they have to pay. Perhaps they don’t know that there are ways to keep from paying way more in taxes than they have to. And every bit of it is legal. That’s right. There’s a fat rule book written by the good people at the IRS that tells us all how we ca

Did you know you can use some types of IRA accounts for investing purposes? Like a self-directed IRA, where you get to make your own decisions about how the money in your account is used. That means your IRA gets to invest in Real Estate transactions and in businesses. But before you rush to your IRA manager, take a breath and educate yourself a little. As with any IRA there are rules and prohibited transactions. That’s what this incredibly informative Cash Flow Diary podcast episode covers. Taken from a live webinar featuring J. Massey and Udirect’s very own Kaaren Hall that we recorded at the end of 2014, this episode promises to give you much of what you need to know about the power of using a self-directed IRA. Take notes as Kaaren talks about “sweat equity” and how the IRS says you cannot “over-contribute sweat equity” in a property in which the IRA invests. That means you cannot be the one to swing a hammer in the rehab process. You can’t get your hands dirty doing any of the improvements. Kaaren also e

We're into the second quarter of 2015. Where are you in your plan? You set goals that you want to reach by certain points in the year in life, business and finances. Are you moving the needle forward? Did you hit your first-quarter goals? Did you hit the ground running in January and now find that you're running low on steam? Are you making offers and doing deals, working consistently toward your overall goals, hitting a few, and then using the strategies and knowledge you've learned from Cash Flow Diary to keep moving forward? If not, why not? Too many times we let too many things get in our way of achieving success. That's because we let negativity, personal challenges in life, professional challenges in business and chaos to keep us from taking action. If this reflects where you're at right now, stand up and walk outside. Start opening your mouth and talking to more people. Success truly boils down to a shift in your mindset and developing the skills that will allow you to keep mov

Ever wish you had a mentor in your corner who could give you the answers to all your burning real estate investing questions? What about those times where you're not sure if a deal is a go or no-go? That's what Q & A with J. is all about! Each week at 4 p.m., PST, Cashflow CORE Members get their questions answered LIVE and in real time by a very seasoned real estate investor... none other than J. Massey. He rips deals apart, runs the numbers, and helps members understand what they're learning in CORE courses, like Deals at Discounts, Capital Creators and others. Pretty soon, even more members will have clever questions to ask, like about investing in multi-family properties, too. After all, we'll be releasing that video course before summer! Many of those who participated in the live Investing in Multi-Family Properties mastermind group a few months back are doing deals and sometimes have questions as they move forward. They ask some good ones, too! J. has a lot of fun as the host of t

Cash Flow Diary podcast episode and founder of Peninsula Strategies, Robbie Kellman Baxter has worked with top companies, including Survey Monkey, Shopify, Yahoo and Netflix. However, she says she still loves to work with small companies, too! What’s great about this fact is that you as a small business owner can learn from her and then apply some of the same tactics to your business that the big dogs use. One of Robbie’s extra-special talents is in helping companies grow their community and membership bases. Before Robbie was a top membership-mogul maker, this self-proclaimed rule-follower who went to the right schools and took the right jobs realized when she was laid off during maternity leave that she wasn’t in charge of her own destiny. So she became an independent consultant at a time when it wasn’t common. Her second eye-opener was when she realized she wasn’t just a fantastic consulting generalist, but rather she discovered her super power of really honing in on a company’s specific challenges, partic

LinkedIn is a professional social media site that can be an excellent lead-generation tool for business owners in the right hands. Like anything else, it's a matter of learning how to use the tool effectively to attract the target customers. If you don't know how to do that, listen to this episode of Cash Flow Diary. LinkedIn marketing expert and seasoned CFO Josh Turner shares a whole lot of excellent information. He's been using LinkedIn since 2006 to build his business and generate leads. He got really good at it and started using LinkedIn in marketing for his clients' companies. Then a light bulb went off! He could create an agency to offer this helpful service to solve other business owners' marketing challenges. In this episode this LinkedIn guru talks about strategies you can use to boost your presence and use it as a business development tool. Josh talks about how LinkedIn is all about building relationships, putting out the right messaging and keeping your focus on whom you w

Marketing is a part of every business, because without it... how in the heck will customers and clients know about you, your products and your services? How will they know that you can serve them and provide solutions to their problems? You're in business to provide solutions, right? That's what Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Noah Fleming talks about in this interesting episode. He is an expert in marketing and tells us how to get customers to come back time and time again. He even wrote a book on the subject titled EVERGREEN! So does this mean Noah was always an entrepreneur? Not really. While he grew up being entrepreneurial-minded, he still took a more traditional path, attending college, taking a corporate job and then finding out that he REALLY hated it. Three hours into his first day on the job, Noah knew it was a mistake, but he hung in there for another six months. At that point he'd had enough and resigned. Long story short, Noah put in his notice and started entrepreneurial ventures, h

Born in Upstate New York, Cash Flow Diary podcast Jon Harris was bitten by the basketball bug early on. Though he didn’t end up going pro, he did just fine as a player and then went on to help other basketball players and pro athletes transition once their professional athletic careers come to an end. First he helped them through a non-profit he worked with after college. Later he became more involved in player development to help athletes prepare for what life would be like once they retired from professional sports. They would have to learn how to function effectively on the playing field of life. Truth is that active players and former professional athletes alike can use Jon’s assistance and guidance. The average career in most professional sports is not all that long. In fact, it can be as short as three years! So what happens when you’re young, retired and have a whole lot of productive work years ahead of you? The myth is that pro athletes earn so much money that they’ll never have to work again. That’s

Wanna increase your cashflow? Get in front of more people! That's something we absolutely agree with that Cash Flow Diary podcast guest and inbound marketing expert Tom Schwab says in this process-centric episode. Tom wasn't always an entrepreneur. In fact, far from it! After he graduated from the Naval Academy, Tom went to work in a nuclear power plant onboard an aircraft carrier. He says that when peace broke out, he headed out to work in a Fortune 500 company where he learned to hate his corporate job a little more every day. Then something happened. He realized he could break out of his self-made prison and take charge of his own life! It would take courage and action steps, but he did it. In fact, over time he did it really, really well. One of his first successful endeavors was with Goodbye Crutches, a very interesting niche business. What pushed him to become an entrepreneur is when he looked at his life and did the calculations on how many days he might have left to achieve his goals. He dec

Cash Flow Diary podcast guest and author of Third Circle Theory, Pejman Ghadimi is not your average entrepreneur. In fact, while the world may have called him an entrepreneur since the age of 25, Pejman would argue the point. He says he wasn’t really an entrepreneur till about seven years ago. Before that… since age 25… he was simply self-employed. Prior to that he was employed by a bank while pulling down a very handsome salary. That’s not the amazing part. What is amazing is that he started working at that bank at the tender age of 18, quickly working his way up the corporate food chain. Even more amazing, that wasn’t the first time he had reached such success. Pejman began working as a telemarketer at the age of 14 and learned to handle himself in that job so well that in quick time he went from earning twice minimum wage to earning $500 per week! He went on to take over management of his division and learning a lot about how to run a company in the process. It was information and skills he would use over

Former hedge fund manager who retired young, Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Todd Tressider has leaned a whole lot about the good, the bad and the ugly of retirement. When asked why he'd leave such a lucrative career behind to pursue an entrepreneurial endeavor in the area of financial mentorship he said that he decided it would be more fulfilling to teach others how to accurately and realistically plan for their golden years. While his new path was a bumpy road at times, it ends up that it was a fantastic decision. Todd says he is a happy man, because he gets to spend vacations and summers with his kids. He gets to participate in lots of outdoor activities like incredibly long hikes (the distance of which will amaze you). This Financial Mentor podcast host and 5-time author whose books are helping readers everywhere understand what it takes to get to a great retirement and how to build wealth in lots of different ways has received massive exposure in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and severa

Cash Flow Diary podcast guest and best-selling author with several books under his belt, Dennis Kimbro calls Atlanta his home and calls out to us to hear the truth in this interesting insider's look at what it takes to be successful in life. He should know. Dennis has interviewed a whole lot of successful millionaires and billionaires. Yes... with a "B." It all started when Dennis got to wondering why some people could create wealth and success in their lives while others couldn't... or didn't. He wrote an article after interviewing 50 successful entrepreneurs. This lead to something pretty cool. A very well-known publisher contacted him to write a book about highly successful black entrepreneurs. Dennis has been the first black man to do a lot of things, which you'll learn in this episode, but he wasn't the first person to interview successful black individuals. In fact, Napoleon Hill was the first, and he was working on the interviews at the time of his death in 1970! Denn

Since 2002, Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Keith Weinhold has been investing in Alaskan properties and earning killer cashflow in that market. Keith has invested in multi-family dwellings, single-family houses, and what he calls “vacant investment land,” as well as oil and gas… and now coffee (agricultural lands). You can hear more about him and what he does by tuning in to his Get Rich Education podcast in iTunes. Keith wasn’t born and raised in Alaska. He found happiness in Anchorage, and says the money followed. He’s in a place he loves… and that he loves to invest in. For Keith, the path to being a Real Estate Investor wasn’t exactly planned. He was working a W-2 job, putting money aside that he eventually used as a down payment on a four-plex. He lived in one unit while renting out the other three. That proved to be a smart move, but he wasn’t prepared for all he’d have to do as the property manager (a.k.a., tenant manager). He made a lot of mistakes and soon learned that fixing toilets and tending tenant

Mark Podolsky describes himself as a “corporate refugee” and middle man in a very long sales cycle in the financial industry. He bumped into a guy who was hired at his firm and who was also flipping tax deed properties online on the side... and earning good money doing it. Mark asked the man to take him to an auction. Mark had $3,000 in his savings account that he used to buy a few pieces of property. Then he flipped them online. Not long after that Mark went to a tax deed auction in Arizona and was pretty much the only person in the room. He got the properties and flipped them to earn more profit. For 18 months Mark juggled his day job and tax deed auction activities. That’s when the money he earned in flipping properties surpassed his income as a 9-to-5 worker, and he felt comfortable in quitting his job. He could have done it a lot earlier, but this Cash Flow Diary podcast guest who is also known as The Land Geek admitted to being afraid to take the step. He was fearful that he had just gotten lucky… to th

Want to achieve a comfortable retirement? Listen to this Cash Flow Diary podcast episode, because guest Roger Whitney, a true retirement expert, tells us how to live well today without sacrificing your lifestyle down the road! Roger says all he’s ever done is help people with their financial goals. Because his clients want to know how they’re going to live well now and later, he began specializing in helping people in their retirement goals. In short, he helps them plan for an independent lifestyle. He’s even working to complete a book with an interesting title, SCREW RETIREMENT. (It’s not yet available… sorry.) Roger learned an early lesson due to a family tragedy that living only for tomorrow isn’t a great plan. There’s no reason to live on rice and beans just so you can afford to live on rice and beans tomorrow. Think about that statement for a minute. That’s what this episode gets us to do. The question becomes how in the heck do we earn a good living and ENJOY life now while building streams of income th

How do you build a multi-million-dollar Real Estate business in the middle of Ohio as a transplant from Australia while simultaneously running several businesses? That's exactly what our Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Engelo Rumora does every day of his life. He says it is his purpose and his passion, and he loves every minute of what he does because it is bigger than himself! Engelo says he will always consider himself a blue collar guy, no matter what happens in life, which keeps him humble. He quit school at the age of 14 to pursue a career in soccer. That didn't quite work out the way he'd planned, so at about 18 he became a working-class man. He worked in construction to make ends meet until one day he met a Real Estate agent who took him under his wing. Engelo became this man's apprentice to learn all about Real Estate transactions, which would serve him well in life. About that time someone gave him a gift that changed his perspective on things. It was a book, Rich Dad Poor Dad! That

When you hear the word "sales" or "selling" does your stomach do a bit of a flip? That anxiety is something you need to push past, because if one thing's for sure... Selling is a part of all we do in our lives, especially professionally. Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Mark Jamnik helps to remove the fear from your perception of "sales." In fact, by the end of this episode, you might just embrace sales in a whole new way! Mark makes sales and talking about selling fun. Maybe that's because Mark's a natural salesman. But he had to develop his skills over time. He learned this early on as he sold all sorts of things growing up (and enjoyed it). In high school he started a lawn care business. He earned good money doing it. When he went off to college Mark hired others to mow his clients' lawns and he still earned money. BINGO! A true entrepreneur was born, but Mark still had a lot to learn. After college, he went into a professional sales job, but it was a pretty b

As any entrepreneur worth his salt will tell you, you're gonna get knocked down a few times on the way to your goals. It's that you get back up stronger each time that makes the difference. It is the only way to become successful. Cash Flow Diary podcast guest Diamond Dallas Page agrees. This World Champion Wrestler turned entrepreneur who went on to start DDP Yoga was knocked down more times than he can count. Through his life he was told he couldn't do what he set out to do. Boy, were those naysayers wrong! Nothing stopped Dallas from going for his dreams. From a broken family, Dallas had to overcome tremendous challenges, including undiagnosed ADD and dyslexia that pushed him to communicate verbally and ask lots of questions so he would understand everything going on around him. He says that in his early 30s he was reading at about a third-grade level. That alone would stop some people from moving forward in their dreams. Not Dallas. He pushed through to become a nightclub promoter, where he