

Construct Your Life With Austin Linney
Austin Linney
Constructing your life is about much more than just building a bank account.
Each week, join real estate entrepreneur and mindset coach, Austin Linney, as he interviews guests who are constructing their dream lives and impacting the world around them on a daily basis.
If you're an entrepreneur, or wanting to start a business, or you just want to hear motivating stories of how others have overcome the odds, you are in the right place.
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Each week, join real estate entrepreneur and mindset coach, Austin Linney, as he interviews guests who are constructing their dream lives and impacting the world around them on a daily basis.
If you're an entrepreneur, or wanting to start a business, or you just want to hear motivating stories of how others have overcome the odds, you are in the right place.
To learn more about what we do and how we do it, SUBSCRIBE and SHARE this episode with someone that could get value from it.
Leave us a REVIEW and don't forget to VISIT our website: austinlinney.com to explore more ways that you can benefit from our amazing content.
Visit www.austinlinney.com
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Mar 26, 2021 • 6min
179 Friday Rant: Learning
Friday Rant: Learning No guests. No script. #FridayRant on Construct Your Life Podcast. Subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player today!! #rant

Mar 25, 2021 • 45min
178 Victor Nino: How To Take Advantage Of Your Personal Experiences To Become Successful In The Business
Victor Nino: How To Take Advantage Of Your Personal Experiences To Become Successful In The Business Meet Victor Nino, a Keller Williams realtor in Austin since 2004. He specialize in helping Sellers and Buyers navigate through the process of buying and selling a home. He takes a different approach to real estate, one that is built on personal touches, win win deals and positive results. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Victor shares his journey in real estate which started when he bought his first house at 19 years old. He narrates how his brother motivated and encouraged him in the business. Listen in to learn how personal background and experiences help you the way you can operate your business and become successful. “You win some, you lose some, no big deals, just move on!”- Victor Nino “Having a good attitude is number one! If you have a bad attitude, you have no room in our team!”- Victor Nino What You Will Discover: [4:30] How he started in the business and how his personal experience helped him in operating the business [08:30] What makes up his mind to buy a house at 19 and his motivations [12:40] How his brother encouraged him to take it to the next level [18:30] Tips and ideas on how to stay in the business and how you can improve [23:30] Understanding the trends in the market and how it will help you [30:30 How to be able to live life by design and to make sure that you’re on track with your goals Relevant Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/realtornino?lang=en Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/NinoRealEstate/?_rdc=1&_rdr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realtornino/?hl=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-nino-64b8048/ Website: http://www.VictorNino.com/ #podcast

Mar 24, 2021 • 44min
177 Paul T Tran: How To Start Your Own Business And The Advantage Of Consulting First
Paul T Tran: How To Start Your Own Business And The Advantage Of Consulting First Meet Paul Tran, a restaurant chain owner, franchise developer, fanatic about using VSAs to automate and scale companies, sales innovator, newsletter publisher, podcaster, and a nonprofit director. Paul is currently residing in Southern California and operates 10 restaurants with The Halal Guys which was his client before. Paul’s main job is as a consultant for restaurant franchises and shares that he has worked with a lot of different restaurants. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Paul shares how he started from having a client to him eventually operating this well-known restaurant. Paul will give you an idea of the things you should consider when starting your own business or creating your own brand. Paul provides a bit of advice if you are considering doing a franchise and understanding what aspects of the business are you looking for. Paul will also give you an idea of how owners come up with the food prices and what it actually covers. Listen in to learn why approaching a business consultant is important when you want to grow your business. “Focus on what you’re good at” - Paul Tran “You need to be where the action is.. you just need to look different” - Paul Tran What You Will Discover: [03:40] How to start your restaurant or food chain business and having the vision of growing it [07:43] Paul helps you understand why having a system is important especially if you have multiple establishments [12:31] The basics in creating your own brand and the objective of getting noticed [16:12] Why focusing on what you’re good at is better than having a lot of options [23:57] Paul explains why it’s better to be near your competitor and understand the importance of knowing your location [27:54] Paul shares that sales is important to him since it can be applied to everything and anything [33:36] Paul’s advice on what to focus on when cultivating your sales techniques Relevant Links: Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulttran/ Website: https://lnk.bio/mxdy/ Website: https://wondrous-leader-4208.ck.page/b813129f24 Website: https://www.prosulum.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulttran/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehalalguyssocal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Paul-T-Tran-103685014307447 Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulTTran Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/honey-badger-seller-podcast/id1516914011 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcgYYVRmdqrtRhGng67MUeA #podcast

Mar 23, 2021 • 43min
176 Mike Higgins: How To Use Every Skill Available To Crush It In Real Estate
Mike Higgins: How To Use Your Every Skill Available To Crush It In Real Estate Meet Mike, family man, Real Estate Professional and Entrepreneur from Wisconsin. He was a Collegiate Athlete who dreamed of becoming a realtor. He read a book in college about personal development that inspired him to pursue it. He first joined a multi – level marketing firm, got a job in a chocolate company. Now he is doing full time real estate. He experienced great sales success through a strong drive for results and willingness to learn from others. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Mike opens out his story about how he used his family experience in a blue collar job as a house contractor and made his own fate in real estate. Now as a collaborative leader who continues to contribute his strong drive for results and passion for winning. Listen in to learn how he always looks to create the best results to the toughest challenges in sales. Get access to his ideas on how he excelled in developing relationships and trust with both customers and team members. “Whatever the stigma is around a company, you cannot take away a bunch of passionate people focused on their growth to be better humans.” - Mike Higgins “Real Estate has the same principle, it's just a different vehicle. “ - Mike Higgins What You Will Discover: [2:05] What is his story that motivated him to go to college and become a full time real estate entrepreneur . [5:10] How he found the aspects of trying something that is not usual outside of his family's circle standard work. [13:40] How he does all the things that he does and finding out what's the most important one. [18:57] His approach in real estate that got him his license and still is successful with his other job. [23:13] What is his thoughts on why more real estate agents are not investors [27:36] Risk factors of shifting from earning money as an agent to doing more different things. Relevant Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.higgins.71 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/m1kehiggins LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mike-higgins-2bb07b1a Email: mikem.higgins@gmail.com #podcast

Mar 22, 2021 • 42min
175 Amber Vilhauer: How To Start Your Digital Platform Related To Book Launches
Amber Vilhauer: How To Start Your Digital Platform Related To Book Launches Meet Amber Vilhauer, an online digital marketing expert who supports authors, speakers, and coaches to establish a powerful, integrated online presence that gets results and empowers them to make a difference in their industry. Amber started her own company NGNG Enterprises Inc. (standing for No Guts No Glory) in 2007, she has spent her career impacting her community and building strong strategic alliances with industry leaders and game-changers across the web. Amber has worked with Justin Donald, John Lee Dumas, Mike Michalowicz, Daniel Amen, and all sorts of interesting people. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Amber shares how she helped authors, speakers, and coaches with their book launches along with building their platform. One thing to know about Amber is that she’s a show-me person since this is her natural element and her way of having a connection with the people she’s dealing with. Amber talks about the importance of quality rather than focusing on your followers or the numbers. Amber also shares a few things about her company and why having a core value is important, and beneficial to those who are part of her organization. Listen in to learn how digital marketing can help book launches and how to have a pure connection with the people you are working with. “Face my fears and get my message out to the world” - Amber Vilhauer “Focus on what is more meaningful to you” - Amber Vilhauer What You Will Discover: [04:22] List of book titles and amazing people she has helped with their book launches [06:43] Amber shares the things you should consider when building your own brand [10:42] Amber’s take on paid advertising and mentions she prefers quality over numbers [09:14] How she manages her time between work and family despite having a fully booked schedule [23:40] Amber explains why core values are important in your organization and why living by it is beneficial for everyone [34:40] Amber shares the outstanding traits of the people she has worked with and her observations Relevant Links: Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambervilhauer/ Website: https://ambervilhauer.com Website: https://ngngenterprises.com Website: https://leveragetoscale.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/officialamberludwig Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ambervilhauer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ambervilhauer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmberVilhauer Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmberLudwig #podcast

Mar 19, 2021 • 10min
174 Friday Rant: Emotions
Friday Rant: Emotions No guests. No script. #FridayRant on Construct Your Life Podcast. Subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player today!! #rant

Mar 18, 2021 • 46min
173 Samuel Bates: How To Transition From Having No Direction To Being A Successful Commission Salesman
Samuel Bates: How To Transition From Having No Direction To Being A Successful Commission Salesman Meet Sam, a mindset and personal development coach, entrepreneur, and an investor from Utah. He is a family man, a husband and a father. As he married young he thought of ways how to make a better income from working on hourly wages, switching from job after another. He pulls through reselling equipment then dive up from the ground. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Sam unfolds his story why he understood that the discomfort in life pushed him to a level of uncomfortable state to get roles and developed new skills that progressed his standpoint. Sam overcame his biggest obstacle and would like to continue inspiring other people. Listen in to learn how his dedication to his family inspired him to be confident in himself and trust his ability. From being completely vulnerable and having insufficient income to now a highly regarded individual who helps others succeed . Get to how he discovered what skills he is good at and how he executed all the ideas in his mind and take into actions to where he is. “Betting on myself is the game charger.”- Sam Bates “ You get the answers ( to be successful ) by taking actions and doing it. “ - Sam Bates What You Will Discover: [3:10] How he manage to do his day to day job [5:40] How he vocalized his issues and frustrations that when he helps people he iś working on solving his own problems too. [7:00] How to identify your most hardly regarded character trait and use it to triumph. [12:30] How his personality challenged him to becoming the best salesman of the year. [19:00] How he convinced people to focus on the positive outcome instead of the negative ones [30:50] How he works on himself being someone not used to asking help from other people and his take away on why he learned more being around like minded people . Relevant Links: Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelcbates/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samuelbatescoaching Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachsamuelbates/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bates_Sam90 Website: https://www.samuelbatescoaching.com #podcast

Mar 17, 2021 • 52min
172 Ahmed Seirafi: How to be Successful in a Commercial Development Company, Tips and Helpful Strategies
Ahmed Seirafi: How to be Successful in a Commercial Development Company, Tips and Helpful Strategies Meet Ahmed Seirafi, the founder of Andalusia Development Company, where he oversees all aspects of acquisition, disposition, and development. With his expertise and experiences, he has made himself known in the commercial development industry constructing his own marketing strategies and techniques. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Ahmed narrates his story and journey as to how and why he chose commercial real estate and development. He gave helpful insights, tips and advice on how you can be successful in this field and be a grown mature individual who can overcome all odds along the way. Listen in to learn how to be successful in commercial real estate and development. You will get more motivation and inspiration on how to deal with challenges in real estate endeavors. “There is so much more waiting for you, once you step over that line, that separates the old you from your true self. You will not believe the difference between the old you and the new you because of those limiting believes you used to have”- Ahmed Seirafi “It’s a process….but it’s very simple, not rock and size, as long as you break it down into individual pieces and take one at a time ”- Ahmed Seirafi What You Will Discover: [21:35] The difference between investors who are more equity driven vs return driven [23:10] Metrics that we need to look at when developing a commercial space, ideas and strategies [24:40] What is family office, how it works and its focus [27:33] Analysis, best practices and tips on how to be working on a development company [28:30] The importance of breaking things into small details to be able to be successful in a development company [30:34] Biggest mistake made in developing a commercial space and how to make it right Relevant Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahmed.the.realestate.developer Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/ahmed.seirafi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-seirafi-a0765a5/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kingconstructor?lang=en #podcast

Mar 16, 2021 • 39min
171 Lyndsay Phillips: How to Promote your Content Through Effective Marketing Strategies
Lyndsay Phillips: How to Promote your Content Through Effective Marketing Strategies Meet Lyndsay Phillips, an entrepreneur and an expert specializing in podcasting, sales funnels and marketing. She owns a full service content marketing agency to help you plan, publish, optimize and promote your content through the web, social media and email so that you can have more leads and reach larger audiences. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Lyndsay shares her insights and ideas on the things that you need to do as a starter in this world full of online marketing. She provided best practices and effective strategies on how you can explore yourself, know your strengths and target audience on a larger scale. Listen in to learn about the things working and not working in marketing strategies. To know how you could promote your content and get more audience. “Focus on those that are engaged and are ideal clients. The numbers...they are nothing”- Lyndsay Phillips “Know the things you’re good at! You don’t have to do everything and be everywhere, you will lose your freaking mind if you did”- Lyndsay Phillips What You Will Discover: [5:35] Optimizing what’s working and and what’s not working in marketing strategies [9:35] Focusing on who’s engaged and are ideal clients. Know why numbers are nothing and how you could focus on your audience [11:43] The importance of knowing your strengths and explore where you excel the most [15:45] Why do you need to do a one-stop shop for your whole content marketing strategy [18:00] Philosophy on ads and how it makes your marketing strategy be effective [21:05] Knowing your content and having interesting topics to get more leads and audience Relevant Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smoothbusinessgrowth/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/smoothsailingbg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndsayphillips/ Website: http://www.lyndsayphillips.com Website: https://www.smoothbusinessgrowth.com #podcast

Mar 15, 2021 • 42min
170 Michael Elefante: How To Start Renting Your Space in Airbnb And Understanding The Different Rental Options
Michael Elefante: How To Start Renting Your Space in Airbnb And Understanding The Different Rental Options Meet Michael Elefante, an account executive at Extreme Networks, real estate investor, YouTube, and TikTok personality. Michael has lived in a few cities because of his previous jobs but is currently residing in Nashville Tennessee with his wife doing what they love. Michael got interested in real estate and learned about short-term and long-term rentals which made him decide to join the Airbnb community. In this episode of Construct Your Life with Austin Linney, Michael shares his first property investment and what he had to give up to start building a stable future. Michael explains the difference between short-term and long-term rentals along with the benefits you can get from both options. Michael shares why he decided to join Airbnb in terms of cash flow and getting to the financial freedom phase. Michael will help us understand why it is important to know your market first before you start your rental business. Listen in to learn how you can start your own rental with Airbnb and understand the cash flow. “If the money makes sense, the deal makes sense.” - Michael Elefante “Consistency is key” - Michael Elefante What You Will Discover: [07:42] What Michael had to consider in a house that he will list with Airbnb and his forecasting for occupancy, and his potential revenue [13:27] Michael’s shares his first booking and how it turned out to be [15:41] Michael explains why he personally prefers short-term rental over the long-term rental [22:49] Talks about his recently acquired property in Gatlinburg and the cash flow [24:14] Michael’s new project partnership with a home builder and how they’re going to proceed with the business [30:12] Talks about his Youtube channel and how he creates his content along with his TikTok account [34:57] Shares his 2021 plan from traveling, starting a family to acquiring additional properties Relevant Links: Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-elefante-40111ba3/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MElefante_6 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.elefante.5 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melefante6/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMEeFhOETOsVm65fh1rKhEQ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@melefante6?lang=en #podcast


