Viktor Viktorov on Bringing Real Estate to Crypto

Geoff Brown on the Difference Between Building Subsidized Housing and Making Housing Affordable

Geoff Brown is the President and CEO of USA Properties, one of the largest developers and owners of low-income housing in the United States. In this episode we talk: * Why home prices have skyrocketed and what happens next * Whether increasingly high housing prices are sustainable given flat or negative income growth * How incoming inflation and potentially rising interest rates will impact housing * The political factors that help explain California's unaffordable housing market * Whether making all housing affordable conflicts with the interests of the government subsidized affordable housing industry * Why being middle class in the state of California has become a bad deal I really enjoyed this episode with Geoff and I hope you do too!

Yael Tamar on Bringing Real Estate to the Blockchain

Yael Tamar is the co-CEO and co-founder of SolidBlock, which is bringing real estate to the blockchain, making ownership more democratic, open, and transparent. In this conversation Yael and I talk: * How tokenizing real estate onto the blockchain helps ordinary people * Why tokenizing real estate increases liquidity and unlocks value * A new rent-to-own model that will help working class people own equity in their own apartment complex * How Yael's childhood and early adulthood in the Soviet Union influenced her entrepreneurship path * Why Yael lives in Israel * Where Yael falls on the crypto - centralized institution spectrum * Where regulation of real assets is now and where it is headed * How real asset tokenization is similar and different to decentralized finance (DeFi) I really enjoyed this conversation with Yael and I hope you do too!

Kevin Vu on Boundless, Yoga and High Intensity Training

Kevin Vu is the founder of Boundless [https://www.boundlessfxw.com/], a mobile outdoor gym where classes start with meditation and end with high intensity training. It was interesting hearing from Kevin how the Yin and Yang of meditation and high intensity training complement each other to provide more holistic wellness. Kevin has had quite the journey from full-time engineer to CrossFit coach to founder of Boundless. Hearing his story of how he aligned his inner and outer life to find purpose and peace made me reflect on how I might do the same. In this episode Kevin and I talk: * How Kevin’s many meditation trips to India have influenced his training and life philosophy * What led Kevin to quit his career in engineering and become a full-time coach * How Boundless is the natural reflection of Kevin’s journey in health, wellness and fitness * Why a mobile, outdoor gym

Viktor Viktorov on Bringing Real Estate to Crypto

Viktor Viktorov is the founder and CEO of REINNO, which tokenizes real estate so that you can invest as little as $100 to own part of a property. By  tokenizing real estate, Viktor is bringing real estate to crypto. In this episode we talk: - How tokenizing real estate allows investors to instantly borrow a desired amount against their real estate  - Why tokenizing real estate increases liquidity for all parties involved - How Viktor started REINNO and his journey as a serial entrepreneur from Bulgaria to the United States - What drives Viktor - Some of the current problems with Ethereum - What regulations are preventing tokenized real estate from growing as rapidly as digitally native assets (like Bitcoin) I really enjoyed this conversation with Viktor and I hope you do too!

100,000 Pull-Ups in a Year with Evan Boydstun

100,000 pull-ups in a year. It's something crazy. So crazy it even impresses the freaks, hard chargers and overachievers. And Evan Boydstun did it. In this episode we talk: - What motivated Evan to do 100,000 pull-ups in 2020 - How Evan was able to overcome chronic hand pain, fatigue and plateaus with the right mindset - What the next challenge is for Evan - How Evan approaches physical training including running, bodyweight and weightlifting exercises I really enjoyed this conversation with Evan and hope you do too!