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Real conversations with founders, operators, clinicians, and service-based business leaders who scale through systems, innovation, and practical execution.
Hosted by Louis Fernandes, Co-Founder of Edge Partners AI, this show dives into what it really takes to grow, adapt, and win in today’s fast-changing world — without the fluff, hype, or buzzword circus.
This is not a “tech for tech’s sake” podcast.
This is real-world AI & operations for real operators.
Each conversation is a deep dive into:
• The true drivers of scale (systems, processes, execution)
• How founders and operators navigate uncertainty
• The workflows, habits, and business mechanics behind growth
• What’s breaking down inside today’s service businesses — and how to fix it
• The practical role AI now plays in intake, reception, scheduling, operations, and customer experience
• How leaders think, decide, hire, implement, adapt, and stay ahead
Whether you run a dental practice, medical office, behavioral health clinic, med spa, home services company, or any business that relies on consistent operations and customer experience — these conversations will give you clarity, strategy, and an unfair advantage.
Business gets easier when:
• Intake is automatic
• Communication is consistent
• Customers never slip through the cracks
• Teams aren’t drowning in admin
• Owners have systems that run 24/7
• The business finally stops depending on YOU
This show explores how leaders build that reality through:
• AI receptionist systems
• Workflow automation
• Modern operations strategies
• Scalable processes
• Team efficiency
• Customer experience design
• Intelligent decision frameworks
The goal is simple:
Give you the “edge” you need to grow without burning out.
Guests include:
• Founders who built multi-location practices
• Healthcare & wellness leaders improving patient experience
• Home service owners scaling through systems
• Behavioral health executives rethinking intake & operations
• Med spa operators growing without chaos
• Real estate + business leaders building for the long-term
• Innovators using AI to remove bottlenecks, not jobs
• CEOs & operators known for execution, not talk
They share:
What worked. What failed. What changed everything.
And exactly how you can implement the same principles.
This podcast is for you if you’re the kind of leader who:
• Wants fewer bottlenecks and more freedom
• Hates wasted motion and broken operations
• Believes in systems over chaos
• Knows AI can help but wants someone who speaks plainly
• Wants to scale without adding more stress
• Values real conversations over theory
Every episode gives you a new lens, a new tactic, or a new way forward.
Louis Fernandes is a founder, operator, and systems strategist who helps service-based businesses automate intake, reception, and operations using practical AI systems through Edge Partners AI.
He brings a sharp, grounded, conversational approach — keeping the show relatable, tactical, and anchored in real experience.
No jargon.
No hype.
No sales pitch.
Just wisdom, strategy, and the truth about what it takes to grow a business today.
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Industrial Leases Take 12 Weeks. He Says They Can Take One Day
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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He Says His Pharmaceutical Company Was Born in a Prison Cell
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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What Happens When America’s 90-Day Food Supply Runs Out?
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Your 800 Credit Score Might Be Completely Useless
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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They Both Got Laid Off the Same Day, Then Built a 7-Figure Business
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Stop Letting AI Make Decisions for You
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Trillions in Property Are Being Managed Through Email
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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He Fired His Software... And Built His Own AI Instead
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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The Biggest AI Risk Nobody Is Talking About
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Everyone Sells Data. He Sells Decisions
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Zillow Doesn’t Own Homeownership. He Wants To
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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He Refused to Sell, So She Became His Competition
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Why Construction Projects Actually Fail (It Isn't What You Think)
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Why Your Kids Still Won't Be Able to Afford a Home
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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The Industrial Revolution Is Happening Again, This Time With AI
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Everyone Wants AI. Almost Nobody Is Ready for It.
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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At 26, He Built a $102M Real Estate Platform by Doing What Everyone Else Outsources
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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The Property Managers Who Win With AI Won't Replace People. They'll Free Them.
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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He Turned $1,500 Into $70 Million by Investing Where Everyone Else Looked Away
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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He Built AI That Underwrites Multifamily Deals in Minutes, Not Hours
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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The Biggest Mistake Real Estate Investors Make? Chasing IRRs Instead of Cash Flow
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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He's Building a Hedge Against AI... With Luxury Safari Real Estate
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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The Real Reason Sales Teams Fail (It's Not Your People)
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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He Built an AI That Helps Cancer Patients at 2 AM (And It's Changing Everything)
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Your Building Is Dumber Than Your Car. That’s a $1 Billion Problem.
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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The $1 Million Property Mistake Most Owners Don't See Until It's Too Late
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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A Process That Took 8 Weeks... AI Did It In 3 Days
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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The Dirty Secret Nobody Talks About in Commercial Real Estate
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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"It's Basically A 100% Loan With No Balloon Payment" — Matt Kramer
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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The Commercial Real Estate Lie Everyone Still Believes | Joe Brady
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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The Founder Is the Bottleneck (And It's Costing You Deals)
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May 29, 2026 |
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Why Real Estate Deals Die at the Closing Table (And Nobody Sees It Coming)
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May 29, 2026 |
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The Biggest Lie in Real Estate Investing (That Costs People Millions)
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May 29, 2026 |
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The Mistake That Destroys Real Estate Developers (And Nobody Talks About It)
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May 29, 2026 |
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The Real Estate Investor Who Made $500,000 on One Deal Says Mindset Matters More Than Strategy
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May 29, 2026 |
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AI Is Exposing the Biggest Lie in Multifamily Real Estate
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May 21, 2026 |
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AI Could Fix America’s Housing Crisis… But Nobody’s Ready for What Happens Next | Jill Ferrari
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May 19, 2026 |
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He Renovates 100-Unit Apartment Complexes in 7 DAYS… While Most Operators Take 3 YEARS
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May 13, 2026 |
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Most deals are fake and nobody says it out loud
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May 12, 2026 |
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Your Business Will Die If Your Team Doesn’t Learn AI
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May 08, 2026 |
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AI Is Eliminating Entry-Level Jobs… And No One Knows How to Train Leaders Anymore
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May 06, 2026 |
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🚨 $100M LOST OVERNIGHT, The CRE Financing Mistakes Destroying Hotel Owners | Majid Radaei
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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He Was Doing 50 Deals a Year… and Losing $90K | The Financial Truth Most Operators Never See
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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He Built AI That Beats Wall Street, Why Most AI Businesses Are Dead Wrong | Kyle Balkissoon
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Why Most Business Owners Get Destroyed in Commercial Real Estate (And Don’t Even Know It)
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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The Smart Money Isn’t Buying Houses Anymore… It’s Buying THIS
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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AI Is Breaking Your Team… And You Don’t Even See It Yet
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Everyone Is Guessing AI… But Buyers Still Expect You To Have a Strategy
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Real Estate Is a Lie… Jobs Drive Everything (Here’s the Math Nobody Talks About)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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He Built a 20-Year Service Business… Then Let AI Run Parts of It
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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How a $650M Operator Uses AI to Cut 2 Weeks of Work Down to 2 Hours
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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From Air Force Pilot to $115M Real Estate Operator (After Losing Everything)
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Why Smart Investors Focus on Downside First (Not Returns)
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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“Banks Won’t Touch This Market… So He’s Printing 15% Returns”
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Why AI Is Failing Most Companies (And What Actually Works)
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Most Startups Should NOT Raise Venture Capital (Here’s Why)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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AI Can’t Value Real Estate… Until This Changes Everything
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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You Don’t Need More Money… You Need THIS (Passive Income Truth) | Chutima Barrios
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Why Most Real Estate Investors Fail at Scale… And It’s Not the Deal
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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AI Is About to Break Real Estate Valuations… Here’s What Replaces It
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Why Most Real Estate Deals Fall Apart (And How Top Brokers Actually Win)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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We Buy Real Estate at 27% of Value… and Still Make 18% Returns
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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This AI Knows Your Real Estate Business Better Than You Do
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Why Most CRE Deals Die Before Closing (And How Capital Actually Gets Done)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Why Most Real Estate Deals Die Before Closing (No One Talks About This)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Why Real Estate Deals Are Collapsing (The Insurance Crisis No One Talks About)
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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The $3.5 Trillion Real Estate Shift No One Is Ready For (Tokenization Explained)
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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What It REALLY Takes to Raise Capital in Today’s Market
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Why Your Next Bad Hire Could Kill Your Company — The Truth About Talent with Justin Dixon
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Most Companies Waste $100K on Tools… Here’s Why They Fail
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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The Mortgage Crisis No One Is Reporting, Distressed Debt Expert Bill Bymel Warns What’s Coming
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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He Turned $600K Into $1M Overnight… Without Buying the Property
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Your Outreach Isn’t Broken, Your SYSTEM Is (6X Conversion Framework Revealed)
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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The Silent Tax Leak Costing Companies Thousands, Dr. Sean Wilson Explains How to Fix It
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Why Investors Don’t Trust Most Real Estate Sponsors | Eitan Holder
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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John Crossman on Leadership, Market Cycles, and the Mindset That Wins in CRE
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Florida Land Deals, Market Cycles, and Why Sellers Still Won’t Cut Price | Bill Eshenbaugh
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Why CEOs Become the Bottleneck, and How to Escape the Daily Grind | Carol Schultz
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Student Housing Is Broken, Here’s How Charles Williams Is Fixing It
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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How AI Helps Investors Sift 400 Deals to Find 1, Agostino Pintus
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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When AI Becomes a Coworker, Why Most AI Is Not Sustainable, Gregg Bauer
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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AI Hype vs Real Builders, How VCs Evaluate Operators, Wally Wang, Scale Asia Ventures
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Digital Leasing Agents, 2008 Scars, and The 5 P’s That Actually Drive NOI | Ken Doble
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Vertical Integration in Real Estate, The Real Tradeoffs, Costs, Control, and Scale
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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From Dirt to Delivered Lots, Mike Yantis Texas Land Development, AI Deal Sourcing, Building at Scale
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Regenerative Real Estate, Data Centers, and Climate Aligned Capital, with Anthony Sandoval
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Don’t List It, Launch It, Logan Freeman on the 18.6 Year Cycle and Winning in 2026
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Scaling STRs with Systems and AI, From Nurse to Fund Manager with Vince Baiera
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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How AI Is Rebuilding Property Management, Maor Cohen, PickSpace CEO
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Pivot to Self Storage, Why Appreciation Wins, and Raising Capital the Right Way, Neil Henderson
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The Relationship Engine Behind $10B+ in CRE Deals, Rick Lackey
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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From Data Chaos to Operational Clarity, Rob Presbrey on Turning Multifamily KPIs into Real Decisions
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Underwriting as a Service, The Missing Link in Commercial Leasing Ops
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Institutionalizing the Sub-Institutional, The Hidden Goldmine in 2 to 200 Unit Multifamily
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Affordable Housing Is Not “Just Property Management”, Inside LIHTC Ops With Brandy Tomlinson
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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It’s Not the Idea, It’s the Team, How Jeff Koenig Invests Across Startups and Real Estate
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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The Yelp for Real Estate Sponsors, Verified LP Reviews Expose the Truth, Pat Zingarella
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Your Competition Is Automating, AI Deal Flow Systems for CRE With Sasha Deneux
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Algae Will Replace Oil, The Future of Clean Energy With Robert Politzer
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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From Red Bull to $100M in Multifamily, Ben Nelson
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Real Estate Relief, Distressed Assets, and Restoring Dignity in a Broken System | Demetri Stakias
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Mike Kondracki, Always Be Closing, Real World CRE Lending With 30 Loans and $1B+ in Motion
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Stop Selling Land Too Early, How Landowners Capture Forced Appreciation and Keep Control
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Fall in Love with Boring: Systems, Scale, and Success with Jared Husmann
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Repurposing malls, tenant led retail, with George Arce
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Building Wealth Through Commercial Real Estate with Austin Ruehle
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Jan 08, 2026 |