The Radius Podcast

Interview with Joseph Woodbury, CEO of Neighbor

The rippling variables of the pandemic have produced some positive ramifications for the self storage industry. Joseph Woodbury chats about the rise of both demand and supply that Neighbor has witnessed in recent months, and the likely reasons behind them.  Topics covered: * Disruption to the traditional self storage industry, and how Neighbor isn't exactly stealing customers, but instead likely creating new ones. * The sharing economy * The effects of the 2020 pandemic * Commercial real estate * Climate change and physical infrastructure * Geographic coverage based on market * $53 Million in recent Series B funding Neighbor: https://www.neighbor.com/ [https://www.neighbor.com/] Radius+: https://www.radiusplus.com/ [https://www.radiusplus.com/] Storage Content: https://urt.io/watch [https://urt.io/watch]

Interview with Dan & Laura Dotson from Storage Wars

Jonathan Eakin from Radius+ interviews Dan & Laura Dotson virtually from their home in California, checking in on the couple as they make sense of the ongoing pandemic that has swept through the world. Like most of the country, the power couple has had to make some business sacrifices scaling back employees, but they continue to keep the pedal down pivoting to a more contactless environment, and aiming to come out of life-in-quarantine even stronger. What do they do for entertainment? Netflix's Tiger King or Gunsmoke of course. Their storage auction businesses: https://storageauctions.net/ [https://storageauctions.net/] https://www.americanauctioneers.com/ [https://www.americanauctioneers.com/] The CBD company their son has started: https://cbdcafeonline.com/ [https://cbdcafeonline.com/] Radius+: https://www.radiusplus.com/ [https://www.radiusplus.com/] Storage Content: https://urt.io/watch [https://urt.io/watch]

Interview with Tommy Nguyen, Co-Founder & COO, StoragePug

Tommy Nguyen joins Cory and chats about he helped to start StoragePug, from their origins, how they manage customer problems, to their workplace culture. StoragePug builds your self storage website into an easy, simple, and fun experience.  Tommy has strong opinions on the future of SEO, you won't want to miss it.

Interview with AJ Osborne of Cashflow 2 Freedom

Cory Sylvester and AJ Osborne discuss the self storage sector in its entirely, vastly through the lens of investments. A little bit about AJ from the man himself: "At one point in time, I was a well-paid benefits consultant making good money. I had a great job and controlled my own time. I was convinced that I had beat the 9-5. Unfortunately, that wasn’t true. I was stuck on a treadmill just the same as everyone else. If I stopped running, the money stopped coming in. Every time I lost a client I’d have to run hard to replace them or I’d lose that income. The only difference between me and anyone else was that I had more bosses! Frustrated, I set out to change this and do things differently than I’d done before. learned all I could and presented to my business partner that we should completely change what we were doing, everything that had gotten us to that point. Despite this being a complete 180-degree turn for us, he was on board. The result was building a self storage portfolio spread across four states worth over $100 million today that we own, manage, and operate. It can never fire us and always pays us whether we work or not.  Whether it’s health problems, job loss, or simply not living the life you want – creating financial independence through self storage gives you the opportunity to choose how to live your life. This is the goal I want to help you achieve. I want to help you gain financial control of your lives and break the chains that are holding you back from living the life you want. Join me as I share how I built financial freedom through self storage and how you can too. I hope you can use the information and education that I provide as a guide and an inspiration for growing your self storage portfolio and living a better life. - AJ”

Interview with Terry Campbell & Moe Kruger From Live Oak Bank

Terry Campbell and Moe Kruger sit down with Cory Sylvester in this week's Radius+ podcast, discussing all matters of the self storage industry from lending, to development cycles, to the current state of affairs.