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In today’s episode of The Art of Passive Income — Best of Round Table edition, the Land Geeks revisit an exciting and timely topic on why you should attend the Land Geek Bootcamp.

The Land Geeks’ will be conducting their next Bootcamp in just a few days. The Land Geek Bootcamp will run April 22-25, 2021. So if you haven’t secured your spot already, do so now! See what others have to say about Bootcamp here.

Joining Mark this week are:

• Scott Bossman
• Erik Peterson
• Mike Zaino
• Teria Harris
• Tate Litchfield
• Scott Todd

So listen in as they go around the table and share all the benefits to receive from attending the Land Geek Bootcamp. The Land Geeks and many other like-minded people in the business will be present to share their stories, experiences, provide advice, and more. 

TIP OF THE WEEK

Teria: I have several coaching clients that I have been in communication with and they’re all asking about pictures of their properties and marketing like how do I market my properties if I don’t have pictures, and what pictures can I use, and how expensive they are. So there is a website called unsplash.com, and this website allows you to go in and search for specific pictures: land pictures. And you can utilize these pictures for free to market your properties.

Did you enjoy this episode? Check out another one of our exciting roundtable episode where the Land Geeks conducted a Bootcamp Q&A Session.

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome, the founder and CEO of Better Wealth Solutions, Caleb Guilliams to discuss redefining your financial goals and habits for you.

Caleb Guilliams is the founder and CEO of Better Wealth Solutions. This is a company that is committed to financial education and coaching to maximize financial status practically and effectively.

Caleb grew up in a small Wisconsin town with a typical childhood. What sets him apart from his peers was his unyielding devotion to learning about money and his fascination with how successful people became rich. This led him to devour books about money and various financial strategies, like a man starved for days.

Caleb was offered a teller position at a local community bank at the age of seventeen. Approximately a year later, Caleb petitioned his employer for exposure to the investment aspects at the bank. To his exhilaration, he was promoted to assistant to the bank’s chief investment advisor.

At only nineteen years old, still in college, Caleb was extended an offer by the bank’s CEO to take over the investment division. Nervous and thrilled, he accepted the offer, and instantly his quest to do the very best he could for his to-be clients started.

As one in his early twenties who had completed his Bachelor’s in Business Finance, in three years at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, successful business owner, podcaster, mentor, and speaker, Caleb success shows that all it takes is focus and determination to become a success story.

Listen in as they discuss:

• Caleb’s journey to becoming one of the youngest successful business owners with a track record of success. 
• How to redefine what success looks like for you and not be overwhelmed by society’s stereotypical views.   
• Understanding how to make your money work for you.
• Ways to become truly financially educated without spending thousands of dollars on expensive financial advisors. 
• Understanding your personal and professional habits that will negatively and positively affect your financial status.
• Creating clear and specific goals for your life.
• Being intentional with how you live your life and developing the discipline and consistency to reach your goals.
• Understanding the difference between living and existing.
• Reevaluating your circle.

And, more!

Money follows value.

Caleb Guilliams

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is going to make you wealthy, learn more about Caleb Guilliams, go to betterwealth.com. He’s got free financial assessment, free books, free education and start there.

Scott: Check out this tool, check Chanty, it’s like a Slack on steroids. The tool is for communications, phone calls, one-on-one meetings, and many more.

Caleb: The end asset I think would be an amazing tool to help the audience and I will figure out how to give them away for free, and the book that I read that has changed my life is Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow. It’s just my idea of jumping in line. Also, if your audiences go to betterwealth.com/landgeek, I’m going to pay for the shipping. They can get the resources there. I’m going to go the extra mile and pay for the shipping of their book.

Did you enjoy this episode? Check out another exciting episode with guest Ken Keis as they discuss behavior assessment and finding your purpose.

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On this week’s round table episode, the Land Geeks discuss a list of things a county should provide easily and make readily available to others.

Joining Mark this week are:

• Mike Zaino
• Erik Peterson
• Scott Bossman
• Tate Litchfield
• Scott Todd

Listen in as they go around the table and discuss information and resources a county should provide or make relatively available and accessible to others. They also discuss some of the things that make a county enjoyable to work in.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is phrase.io, dominate organic search results by being the best answer. Phrase feels like a next-gen software tool that’s not just exciting for search engine opposition, but for writers as well. In my mind, that’s more important to create successful content. Have Phrase help you with writing the content, and if you need more help just email Scott Todd directly.

Mike: I think my tip is a great tip, thispersondoesnotexist.com. Every time you go there just refresh it, it’s a new person that doesn’t exist.

Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome, the President and Founder of the Human Communications Institute, a leader in the personal and professional development industry, Michael Bernoff to the show.

Michael Bernoff is the President and Founder of the Human Communications Institute, a leader in the personal and professional development industry. He works with individuals, groups, and corporate executives who yearn to renovate their corporate culture to keep up to date with ever-changing marketplace best practices. With an undying passion for his work and devotion to positively affecting the world by empowering each individual he comes in contact with, he has cemented himself as one of the best transformational speakers, mentors, and business persons in modern-day history.

Michael’s background is in sales, corporate recruiting, and sales training. However, like most of us, he realized that he was not living his passion and wanted to make a change while time and health were on his side. During his self-discovery journey, Michael studied the habits of highly successful leaders worldwide and modeled the habits that align with his life goals. He focused on their philosophies, strategies, and techniques that have consistently produced rapid and lasting change. The combination of these disciplines and his strategies resulted in the creation of his programs, HIT (Human Interactive Technology), which have aided both him and his clients to vanquish limiting beliefs to achieve a fulfilling life. He believes that there is no real obstacle to personal and professional development but ones’ internal communication. As such, he lives by the mantra, “Everyone loves breaking the rules once in a while, but the hardest rules to break are the ones we put on ourselves.”

With all the experiences he has gathered over the many years of being a transformational speaker and leader in his industry, Michael has written the highly acclaimed book, Average Sucks: Why You Don’t Get What You Want (And What to Do About It) and plans to keep on sharing his wisdom in more books as time goes on.

Listen in as they discuss:

• How Michael transformed his life from average to extraordinary, superhuman status by reconditioning his thinking.
• Understanding how the internal monologue we conduct can make or break our lives.
• Examining and restructuring the rules we set for our personal and professional lives.
• The best ways to emulate the habits of successful people without stunting your growth with negative comparisons.
• Focusing on how to become a better version of yourself; and not a carbon copy of people’s expectations for your life.
• Discovering when to give up on a goal to find the more fulfilling one.
• Reevaluating the meaning of true success and how it fits with your life goal.
• Scheduling time to reflect and change the narrative you have of who you are.
• Learning what it means to live a life without limits.

And, more!

Most people live, very few are alive.

Michael Bernoff

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is to learn how to be incredibly persuasive, dominant, be your best self, and get out of your comfort zone don’t be average. Learn more, go to michaelbernoff.com.

Scott: Just get the book called Average Sucks by Michael Bernoff.

Michael: We’ve been helping people since the pandemic, we’ve been serving and helping everybody we can with getting them in front of us, and I like spending time with people when Corona hits. We reached many times with people in a very simple way, so we put together something called call2actiontime.com, it’s only for people who want to change their identity that we just talk about.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want and with whomever you want?

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On this week’s round table episode, the Land Geeks share their views on a question that was asked at the last Bootcamp held in January.

Joining Mark this week are:

• Mike Zaino
• Erik Peterson
• Scott Bossman
• Teria Harris
• Scott Todd

At the Boot Camp held in January, the question “Are You Doing Your Own Ad Copies or Outsourcing Them?” was asked by approximately eight people. Listen in as the Land Geeks go around the table to share their views on this topic while answering the question that was asked.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Teria: I found an app called Happy Things, and this app will give you things to think about that makes you happy. One of the things is “raise your head and look for one thing that makes you smile”. You’ll get a reminder, if you want you can set up a reminder, you can even skip some of them. It just helps you kind of wake up, think about something: gratitude, be happy, and then it improves my day.

Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome, creator of Hipster Investments, lifestyle entrepreneur, business consultant, and real estate investor, Ali Boone to the show.

Ali Boone is the creator of Hipster Investments, lifestyle entrepreneur, business consultant, and real estate investor. Like many of us, she thought getting good grades in school and landing a dream job was the way to go about living a good life. That is until she went through all these steps, then realized there is more to life. She left her corporate 9-to-5 job as an Aerospace Engineer—despite the “dream job” status that came with it—to follow her passion for being her own boss and truly designing her lifestyle.

Ali’s real estate portfolio began with pre-construction investments in Nicaragua and then moved toward turnkey rental properties in several markets throughout the U.S. Seeing that this strategy was successful, she went on to create her company Hipster Investments, which focuses on turnkey rental properties and offers hands-on support for new investors and those going through the investing process.

Ali is the author of over 190 articles for BiggerPockets. She has been featured in FOX Business, The Motley Fool, and Personal Real Estate Investor magazine. She has sold over 200 copies of her Turnkey Rental Properties 101 eBook, and was awarded Top 100 Real Estate Investing Blogs & Websites. Her articles focus on teaching the fundamentals of successful rental property, investor psychology, and strategies to aid new investors in starting a real estate portfolio. As a keepsake, she still owns her first turnkey rental properties and is also a co-owner and landlord of local property in Venice Beach.

Listen in as they discuss:

• Ali’s journey into real estate investing, becoming an entrepreneur, and business consultant.
• How to overcome the societal stereotype of what success looks like.    
• Understanding how to make real estate investing work for you.
• The fundamentals of successful rental property.
• Understanding your goals and crafting opportunities to reach them in a timely manner.
• Creating a distinction between your passion and a job. 
• Developing the courage to walk away from a sustainable 9-to-5 to do what you are passionate about.  
• Explore the advantages of passive income and the ones that suit your lifestyle.
• Overcoming the fear of doing something unconventional, yet intentional for a happier life.

And, more! 

There are three true currencies in life; money, time and sanity.

Ali Boone

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: I found another app called, Simple Habit, it’s all these meditation experts and their different voices, all different types of things. That’s going to be my tip of the week as well as the free book and give a review, hipsterinvestments.com/artofpassive.

Scott: Sometimes you need to have a confidential conversation with someone, maybe you need to pass to them a credit card number or a password. So check out keychat.online, right there on the page it says ‘Start a New Chat’ or ‘Join a Chat’. You’ll just enter the code that I sent and then it’s a private chat between you and I, it’s a good way to pass something. Check it out!

Ali: I would love to share my first book to all of you. I made a link specifically for all of you listening. My company is Hipster Investments so go to hipsterinvestments.com/artofpassive. If you go to that link, you can get a free digital copy of the book. It sells on Amazon for 14.99, it’s free for you. All I ask in return is if you like it, share it with people you think who can get value from it, and if you’re so willing, leave me a book review. As a brand new author, I really need those reviews. You can also get my information; you can reach out and contact me anytime.

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Did you enjoy this episode? If so, check out another one of our exciting episodes with special guest Rocky Lalvani.

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome a Founder and product person, active angel investor, mentor, advisor, author, and speaker, Ryan Frederick to the show.

Ryan Frederick is a Founder and product person, an active angel investor, mentor, advisor, author, and speaker with an unbeatable track record for starting and growing many software and service companies from inception, to viability, through to sustainability. As an innate Founder and product person, he has authored two books, The Founder’s Manual: A Guidebook for Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur and Sell Naked – And Other Advice for Growing and Managing Service Firms. Ryan conducts frequent speaking engagement about product, startups, and company leadership, while devoting his time to assist all who seeks him out for mentorship, whether locally or internationally.

With his many years of working with small, medium, and large scale companies, Ryan had gathered enough hands-on experience to make him one of the most highly sought-after Founders in the world. His experiences have led him to believe that many aspects of being a Founder, creating a product, and building a company are counter-intuitive. He outlines ways to deal with them in his highly acclaimed book, The Founder’s Manual.

Ryan’s success is not the only facet that makes him so valuable among his peers and anyone who has ever heard his speech. His charitable launch of a non-profit workforce development program to train under-employed adults on digital skills called i.c.stars is just one of the many contributions to the betterment of those in need that makes him so valuable.

Listen in as they discuss:

• Ryan’s journey to becoming a master Founder and products person, and how he enjoys his successes today.
• How to build a team that is capable of doing the things you are not good at doing.
• Getting your business to the place where your clients, employees, and leads feel so comfortable they develop a love of doing business with you.
•   Creating clear, attainable goals and a plan of how to achieve them in a specific time frame.
• Focusing on strategy and how it impacts opportunity.
• Understanding how to remain humble and listen to what your stakeholders have to say about a product or service.
•   Focusing on solving a problem instead of only focusing on the money you want to make.
• Reevaluating the meaning of a side hustle and passive income. Then determine which one is the right fit for you. 
• Getting comfortable with uncomfortable situations that are necessary to help you grow personally and professionally.

And, more!

Founders have to run to the fire, not away from it.

Ryan Frederick

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is: learn more about Ryan Frederick at ryanfrederick.biz. Check out the book, check out what he’s doing.

Scott: Check out sayless.email, it’s a website. What you would do is just type in what you want, hit on the button and it will go back, and it will use AI to compress all the words that you’re using into something that’s short and sweet. And what happens when you send something short and sweet, you get a response. Use something like this to think about what you’re going to say, make it stream-line, and try to get them to respond back to you.

Ryan: My tip of the week is to leave people with to be intentional, be disciplined, and value that over hustle. I think this hustle narrative is sort of societally swept us, it sort of misguided a lot of people so if you’re going to do something be intentional and disciplined about it. Also, one of my favorite books from my favorite author is Ryan Holiday, one of his books that I think is the best is “The Obstacle is the Way”. It talks about running through the fire, confronting problems, being comfortable with this comfort. I will highly recommend it.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

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On this week’s round table episode, the Land Geeks kick off an exciting Bootcamp Q&A Session.

Joining Mark this week are:

• Mike Zaino
• Tate Litchfield
• Erik Peterson
• Scott Todd

Listen in as Mark assigns questions that were gathered from the last Bootcamp to each Land Geek. Learn more as they discuss questions about tax deduction in the land business, success for individuals working solo, purchasing properties from a foreign owner, and more.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: Here’s my first tip of the week, back in the day I have a seller that literally would not respond back to me, (this is the old days, texting was not a thing, barely emails) when I call and say I have something important to say and click, I got cut-off, then I call back. So do a run-on sentence.

My second tip is, imagine a lot of you right now who have jobs and have to be at corporate meetings, and it’s not the best use of your time. Why not send your bot for you: take notes, record the meeting, so go to perfectrecall.app. You can try it for free. You can have your bot join the meeting and it connects you to your Google calendar. Just automatically join, it will take notes and I assume your boss will be happy that you’re there with your bot instead of you personally.

Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.

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On this week’s episode of The Art of Passive Income, Mark and Scott welcome the founder of the world’s 2nd Biggest business meetup and one of the UK’s most prolific authors, speakers, and trainers, Patrick Powers to the show.

Patrick Powers is the founder of the world’s 2nd Biggest business meetup and one of the UK’s most prolific authors, speakers, and trainers. He has trained numerous individuals in the art of pitching, sales-funnel conversion, lead generation, copywriting, entrepreneurship, building strong positive influence, and overcoming fear. Having been the architect of many networking and mastermind events for over a decade, Patrick is now established as one of London’s most connected businesspeople whose mentorship and partnership is highly sought-after by budding and reputable professionals alike from around the world. He has been featured on BBC three (3) times, interviewed by Forbes, and continues to be a frequent guest on some of the largest podcast shows around the world.

 When he’s not too busy engaging crowds of over 7000 people or stimulating our minds with thought-provoking facts of life on the numerous podcasts and traditional media platforms he appears on from time to time, he’s somewhere tranquil imparting a wealth of information on the pages of highly anticipated books. So far, his books “Turn Your Contacts into Cash” and “How to Conquer Fear of Public Speaking” have reached the status of highly acclaimed and his new book, The New Marketing Manifesto, is anxiously awaited by tens of thousands of people in the UK, US, Canada, the Caribbean, Germany, and Denmark.

 Listen in as they discuss:

• Patrick’s journey to becoming one of London’s most connected businesspeople.
• How to step outside of your comfort zone and realize the opportunities you have at your disposal when you do.
• Working through uncomfortable situations to reach your personal and professional goals.
• Understanding your “Whys” and sticking to them.
• Creating awareness and trust among people to build your small business brand.
• Studying the types of marketing that work best for your business, instead of copying the marketing strategies of larger established companies.
•   Creating irresistible messages that stand out and compel people to take action.
• Maximizing influence and creating profits in sales-funnels.
• How to create more freedom, success, and happiness through applying advanced principles and tactics of influence to marketing, ads, presentations, leadership, and social interactions.

And, more!

Get out of your comfort zone because pain builds character.

Patrick Powers

TIP OF THE WEEK

Mark: My tip of the week is to learn more about Patrick Powers. Go to patrickmpowers.com and start building up your marketing; join them and just get bigger, better, more persuasive, and faster.

Scott: Check out grapevine. Team, this is for team meetings. Basically, you can divide into teams, departments or companies, and get regular updates from your teams especially with your virtual teams, and have connections.

Patrick: My tip of the week is how to use transformational questions instead of transactional questions when you talk to people. Most people when they go out and network, they will be asking something like, “How was your week or weekend?” or “How are you doing?”, the problem with that kind of questions is that you’ll get a surface answer because you can answer that on auto-pilot. You’ll get an answer that is not really deep and what you need to do is bring them out of the auto-pilot people’s on.  So instead, you can ask them “What was the best part of your weekend or week?”, ask a question that gets people to think deeper and build a bond where there’s a real connection, real humanity shared.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

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On this week’s round table episode, the Land Geeks discuss ways in which they have seen people complicate the land investing business.

Joining Mark this week are:

• Scott Bossman
• Tate Litchfield
• Teria Harris
• Scott Todd

Listen in as they go around the table and discuss some of the ways in which they have seen people complicate the process of land investing.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Teria: I was looking to solve a problem and the issue was, we wanted to kind of pull our buyer’s list and we were looking for a nice quick way to have a form generated. So I found this old website called carrd.co, they will create like 3-4 minutes max landing page forms. There’s a trial period, I think it’s $9- $19 a year after the initial period. There are samples in there, just add your graphics, logo, and your information and from there you can get a form.

Are you ready to learn more about land investing? Just click HERE to schedule a call.

Isn’t it time to create passive income so you can work where you want, when you want, and with whomever you want?

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