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Bryan is the founder of Asian Hustle Network and a burgeoning Real Estate investor with 3 multifamily apartment buildings in Ohio, LA and Sacramento. Asian Hustle Network is one of the largest communities of Asian entrepreneurs from all over the world. 
In this podcast, Bryan shares with us how he failed miserably in his first venture and his shift from being a software engineer just 3 years ago to being the owner of 3 multifamily apartment buildings. Bryan also dives deep into how he sets himself up for success every day with a solid morning routine, how to transition real estate mentors into real estate partners and how he plans on helping his tenants during this health and economic crisis. Including forgiving up to 50% of their rent in the coming months.
I really enjoyed this conversation with Bryan and I trust you will too!

Amanda Nguyen is the Founder and CEO of the booming San Francisco bake shop, Butter&. Amanda is the first guest to come back onto the Trailblazer Show for the 2nd time. We discuss how Butter& is not only surviving COVID-19, but actually thriving in this new environment. Since COVID-19 and the invention of “Quarantine Cakes” which in the past several weeks have been featured by USA Today and twice by People Magazine.  In this podcast, we discuss Amanda’s initial reaction after realizing business was being decimated by covid-19, how sticking to the core values of employee centricity helped Amanda come up with the idea for Quarantine cakes, what happened when the quarantine cake was launched, the list of cake makers Butter& compiled from all over the world and the 100’s of potential jobs it has saved, how quarantine cakes have broken the existing processes, and why empathy is more important than ever. At the end of the episode, Amanda goes into answering some of your questions. The questions you had after listening to the first episode with Amanda. Amanda goes into exactly the schedule in which cakes are being baked, and the secret sauce to Butter&’s spectacular cakes!
 
There is a lot of doom and gloom out in the world right now, but there are also many examples of successful adaptations to this new environment. My hope is that this interview with Amanda gives you and your loved ones the hope we all need to make it through this crisis and come out on the other side even stronger. Please enjoy this conversation with Amanda Nguyen.

Kevin is a author, model for Timberland and the founder and CEO of epic gardening, a mega successful digital media property showing people how to grow their own food through the blog Instagram and now TikTok.
We discuss how his professional career in poker has helped him become a better decision maker and how the failures and successes that led to Epic Gardening. One of the steps along the way was being an early employee at scribe, the company behind many of my favorite Books including, can’t hurt me, by David Goggins

On this podcast, we have Mark Huang. Mark recently closed on his very first real estate investment deal for a 3 unit property in San Diego that generates $1,200 in profits per month.
During the day, Mark is a mechanical engineer that builds and prototypes parts and products for the Navy. By night, Mark is the engineer behind many of the EcoQube line of products.
In this podcast, Mark and I talk about the steps he took toward finding his first real estate investment, the requirements of the property, the math he ran through before acquire his very first property, the books that he’s listened to over 3 times that’s helped him acquire the knowledge to execute on his vision of becoming a real estate investor. 
We also dig into some of the small things mark and many other people I know do that create massive results. One of them, being intentional with your instagram and youtube news feeds. 
I hope you all enjoy this podcast with my dear friend and product design partner, Mark Huang.

On this podcast, we have Eric Suen and Carlos discussing their plans and drivers to become financially free. They both help debunk some myths and misconceptions in the status quo and in the current social narrative society tells us today
Eric is 25 and has already built 3 streams of income. He has a day job in sales, income from his first real estate investment and selling tea from his annual tea sourcing expeditions to the rural parts of China.
Eric is a good friend of mine. We actually started our first real business together setting up aquariums in people’s homes and offices.
Carlos is a portfolio and asset manager at Deutche bank helping manage real estate projects over $300MM and is a home owner under 30yo in san francisco.
If there’s one takeaway from this podcast, it is that it’s possible to be financially free well before the age of 65 (retirement) and that you and I can take the first step toward financial freedom and both Eric and Carlos give us insight into the way they think about personal finance. 

8 years after learning about Burning Man, I attended for the first time! In this podcast, I share the incredible workshops I attended that has given me a whole new perspective on myself, 50% of the population and how to have an open heart.