AJ Osborne Podcast

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne! As you’re probably aware, there’s A LOT of wacky things going on out there currently with the US Dollar, stimulus packages, and interest rates (and a ton of other crap I’m not even going to get into). One huge aspect of today that we have to take into account is this - we’re in totally uncharted economic waters. There’s never been a time in history that we threw capitalism to the side and solely relied on the government to support everything. We’re living this right now. What happens when the stimulus stops? What happens when interest rates rise? What about inflation? We have some ideas as to the answers to these questions, but none of us have a crystal ball. These are topics I wanted to be sure to discuss today on the podcast because I know so many of us are thinking about and asking the same questions. We’re going to talk micro and macro economics and which you need to be focused on. We’re talking debt, capital, interest rates, consumer demand, and more. The best thing we can ever do is to be educated enough to play the game and play the game well. To be able to protect our assets and continue to grow our wealth. Thanks for listening everybody, AJ The Self Storage Income Exclusive Fall Event in Coeur d’Alene Idaho (GET YOUR SEATS RESERVED ASAP!) - https://selfstorageincome.com/events/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher   The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Store Local - https://www.selfstorage.coop/aws/SL/pt/sp/home_page Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne Podcast, I’m your host, AJ Osborne!   What’s one of the biggest struggles for us Americans? Well, besides loving great food and being almost unable to resist… lol. The answer is MONEY.   The management of our personal finances is often in disarray and maybe even non-existent. It’s super unfortunate but who can blame us right!? Our lives are busy, money is tight, and there’s always tomorrow… Wrong.   The fact of the matter is - we only have so much time to set our lives up for success from now until retirement. We only have so much time before it could be too late for us to take the proper steps to ensure we live full and incredible lives. If you’ve wanted to get your finances and your life on the right track, my amazing guest today can help.   It’s my pleasure to introduce Damari Gold. She’s a first generation American who was raised on the very ideas of saving, preparing, and investing. She now helps people get their finances and their lives on the path to achieving results.   One of the biggest take-aways from today’s episode that I want you understand - investing and building wealth is a LONG TERM game. It’s not one huge decision to invest in some huge new idea. It’s small incremental and disciplined steps over a LONG period of time that will help you to achieve wealth, financial freedom, and all the other amazing things we all want to experience in our lives.   Tune in and hear Damari’s incredible story and learn about the pitfalls of financial entitlement, the foundations of money and building wealth, and the importance of not placing limiting beliefs or views on yourself or your family when it comes to finances. Take notes and get ready to take control of your life and your finances.   Thanks for listening everybody! AJ   You can keep up with and learn more about Damari on social media here: https://www.instagram.com/damarigold/?hl=en

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne Podcast, I’m your host, AJ Osborne!   Ever wonder what it’d be like to become an angel investor? Well today, it’s my absolute pleasure to introduce you all to Tom Wallace who has built an investing empire.   Tom began his investment journey in the tech space when personal computers were just beginning to become a reality. Starting a systems integration company at the ground level as the tech industry was being born, obviously turned out to be an incredible time to be the space. This provided Tom with invaluable experience and opportunity in all things tech, even working in conjunction with some of the largest tech companies in the world, who continue their legacy even today.   Tom shares how he built multiple companies, sold them, and ultimately how he went from an incredibly successful tech entrepreneur to angel investor. Tom also shares with us and give an overview of his 5 d’s of investing which are- deal flow, due diligence, domain expertise, diversification, and discipline. These have allowed him to not only invest in numerous successful tech startups, has allowed him to build a company around it. Tom is the Managing Partner at Florida Funders, an incredibly successful investment company that finds, funds, and helps to build the next generation of tech companies.   We also jump into the power of capitalism, give a general economic market overview, and identifying the best opportunities. Tom also shares how he decides whether or not something is a good investment, what he looks for, and what’s he’s even looking at currently.   This was a great episode and we cover a ton of ground regarding angel investing, tech, business, and more. Thanks everybody, AJ

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne Podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne!   We all want results right? We want more money, freedom, opportunity, that six pack for the beach... the list could go on and on. We think all day about how great it would be to have these outcomes in our lives. There’s only one HUGE problem with this… we’re thinking about the end result and NOT the process we need to execute to actually achieve these outcomes.   This is where today’s podcast comes in.   Let’s be real with ourselves - none of us want to fail. We don’t want to sit spinning our wheels for decades never reaching the goals or visions we’ve set in our minds that we’d like to achieve. We only have so much time and so many resources.   So how do we make the most of it? How can we give our goals and aspirations the absolute best chance of success? How can we ensure that we actually get results?   We have to audit ourselves. We have to organize, plan, find what works and get rid of what doesn’t. We have to build teams, find mentors, and focus on long term, high output activities. Sounds like a lot of work right!? Well… it is. But it’s totally worth it.   Today I’m going to dive into these subjects and share the tools with you that I use every day to stay on track and drive results time after time. Get those notebooks out and get ready to crush your day, your week, your month, your year, and your life. Thanks everybody, AJ

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne podcast! I’m your host, AJ Osborne! If you’ve listened to this podcast or my Self Storage Income podcast, you might have heard me talk about my three pillars that drive everything I do - Impact, Freedom, and Progress. Each one of these pillars have their own unique challenges. However, Progress is one of those things that so many of us have such a hard time maintaining. The question is why? Now I’m not going to try and diagnose the cause of everyone’s failure to progress in a desired direction. After all, we’re all on drastically different paths with drastically different understandings and goals of ‘progress’. I am however going to address a few key subjects that I believe can help anyone continue on their path to progress, especially when it comes to building your life around business and investing. I’m hoping that the keys I share in today’s episode can help keep you compounding the power of progress, just like these keys have helped me on my own business and investing journey. We’re going to ask the questions you need to truly be asking yourself, how to move forward with certainty in uncertain times, what the future looks like today and why long term vision is so important, and I even touch on the concept of what I call the ‘risk of ruin’. Progress is our measurement of where we are currently to where we’d like to end up. Progress is a long and extremely volatile road. Prepare, plan, and execute on what will help you progress the most efficient ways possible.

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne.   If you follow me on social media you may have noticed these past couple weeks, I’ve been posting quite a bit on the current economic events happening here in our country. What we’re seeing is honestly unprecedented and in our country’s history we haven’t seen or experienced quite what we are today. That said, I’ve been thinking, and reading about this… A LOT… and I have some things to share that I think can shed some light.   The fact is, we’re seeing massive government intervention. This is diluting the economic fundamentals of this country and the very systems we run on. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a huge importance that needs to be placed on monetary policy and reasonable inflation is actually a good thing (more on this in the podcast). What causes issues is when the very systems we’ve created to help our economy actually end up being used in such a way that actually start to hurt our economy.   I today’s podcast I break everything down. I talk about the good and bad regarding inflation, supply and demand in the market place and its relation to the value of the USD, examples from the past that we can learn from and apply today, the fundamentals of value creation, and the importance of truly understanding value. These are all great topics to discuss, but most importantly, I propose the one question we all need to be asking, when the right time is to buy assets, and how all these subjects are connected and are working together like a large spider web, and also how all of this ties into the very reason that I started my holdings company and structured my investing the way that I have.   I don’t have all the answers and I’m not going to pretend like I do. I do however believe that the more of us that truly understand our economy and the drivers affecting that economy, the better off the world will be. And honestly… I can nerd out on this stuff all day lol.   Thanks for listening everybody and enjoy! AJ

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne podcast! I’m excited you’re here and even more excited about the great guest I have on the podcast for you today. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to the one and only Lance Pederson. Lance helps investors navigate what so many believe to be the complexities of the investment world. I say, “what so many believe to be the complexities” because as we discuss in this episode, there are a ton of investors out there focusing on the completely and totally wrong things. To that, Lance has helped and been a part of over 190 engagements regarding the advisement and structuring of deals. There are a lot of pieces to put together, you have the deal, money, legal, accounting, transaction, due diligence… the list goes on and on. You can’t and shouldn’t be wasting your valuable time and resources on spinning your wheels (or anyone else’s). Lance shares some incredible insights today about deal structures and the potential pros and cons of those structures, raising money and the different avenues to accomplish your capital raise goals, fund structures and a ton more regarding the deals and structuring of those deals. We also jump into economics and discuss what he’s seeing across the country. We talk real estate and the most popular assets he’s seeing come across his table, and he even shares some of key industry insights into what issues he’s seeing in the real estate industry, and where the opportunities may be. This was one of those conversations that we could have explored all day long and this episode is PACKED with awesome and valuable information that I haven’t seen much anywhere else. Be sure to keep up with Lance on his website and podcast: Verivest: https://verivest.com/ Real Estate Risk Report: http://www.therealestateriskreport.com/  

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne Podcast, I’m your host, AJ Osborne!   I have an amazing guest for you all today who has done everything from working the corporate job, to owning and operating business, writing books, organizing events, and teaching others to do the same… she’s done it all.   It’s a pleasure to welcome and introduce Cydney O’Sullivan.   Cydney has lived a life where she’s been able to experience both sides of the spectrum: poverty and wealth. Having these experiences has allowed her some incredible insights into types of people who tap into and achieve wealth, and the types of people who don’t.   Cydney discovered early on that wealth was the way to go. But how?   Over the years she’s bought a number of poorly operated businesses, turned them into total rock stars, then sold them for a premium. This concept of being able to identify a perfect opportunity to solve a problem or to make something better is a huge topic of discussion for us in this episode. We also talk about how to identify a niche, finding efficiencies that allow you to grow and scale, compound growth, and more.   Another huge topic we touch on today is what Cydney calls the Millionaire Mindset. This factor alone is what can set you up for growth and success in both good and bad times.   Enjoy this awesome episode with this awesome guest and I’ll see you next time! AJ   Keep up with Cydney on her website at: https://millionairesacademy.com/ You can also check out her books here on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cydney+o%27sullivan&ref=nb_sb_noss

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne Podcast, I’m your host, AJ Osborne! Today we have an awesome guest lined up for you. We’re talking everything wealth and finance with the one and only Jonathan DeYoe. It’s an unfortunate truth and one we can see almost everywhere we look - when it comes to wealth and finance a large majority of the population is drastically under educated and under prepared. This is the case a lot of times regarding even the most basic fundamentals of finance, money, society, the economy, and how these pieces all fit together. This is a huge cornerstone of my conversation with Jonathan today. It was such a great time to dive into topics like social, economic, and wealth gaps and where they really stem from, the illusions that the finance industry has peddled to us all, the philosophy of money, currency, and how these differ, defining what risk really is, and discovering where wealth truly comes from. I’m going to tell you right now, this is a podcast you’ll want to put on repeat to ensure you really hit everything going on in this discussion. As we’ve already pointed out, there are massive issues that we face as people, an economy, and a country when it comes to finance. We’re supposed to plan our financial futures but how in the world are we to plan if we don’t even know how the system works? Don’t get left behind. Get educated, get prepared, share this podcast with your friends and never stop learning and growing. Thanks for listening everybody, AJ You can keep up with Jonathan and continue your financial education over on his Mindful Money website at - https://mindful.money/

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne Podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne!   The goal for so many of us is to become wealthy and live the lives that we’ve always wanted to live. To build real, true financial freedom. To separate your income from your time and to be able to spend your time however you please. Building wealth is a beautiful thing.   There’s only one problem…   How do we actually build and attain wealth? Or even - what does it mean to be wealthy?   These are huge questions, questions that we won’t be able to totally dissect in this one episode. Even still, this episode will help get you off on the right foot in understanding the fundamentals of wealth creation and the real world process to building wealth and freedom.   I cover a lot in today’s episode but some of the topics I’m going to cover are keys to starting to invest and build wealth, getting rid of the fairytale entrepreneur archetypes, understanding demand, margins, and ROI, and more.   The goal of building wealth is no small order. It will take time, a lot of time, and it will take an equal amount of work. It’s not a process that we can afford to get wrong. We only have so much time and so much resources. Be sure you get off on the right path from day one and set yourself up to successfully build the wealth and future you’ve always dreamed of.   Thanks for listening everybody, AJ Stay in touch with me on the AJ Osborne website at: https://ajosborne.com/ You can also find the AJ Osborne Podcast on: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aj-osborne-podcast/id1466437301 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Py4hxvj5Yh1rRpat7mkro?si=AeIIGjaTS2y47E1W4DLS3w Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/cash-flow-2-freedom