REAL Mentors Podcast

Max Mayes built a construction company to $1.6 million a month in under six months then walked away from it. He has raised over $30 million across venture, real estate and alternative investments and figured out early...

Kelly Siegel already wrote the book on grinding through pain. Harder Than Life was the story of weaponizing poverty, abuse and addiction to build a successful company. Then he got to the top of that mountain, made the...

Madeline Martinez was a teenage mother living in the New York City shelter system before she was old enough to graduate high school. She got her GED the same year she would have walked across that stage, enrolled in...

Adam Roth was smoking weed stolen from his mother at nine years old. His father taught him how to smoke crack. Anger was the only emotion he knew because at twelve years old he made the decision to stop feeling anything...

Adam Jablin was standing in a room full of people who loved him, listening to them read letters about who he was and begging him to get help. His only thought in that moment was what everyone else was going to think...

Kevin McShan was born three months premature with cerebral palsy. At nine years old a doctor told him he would never walk without assistance. What happened next is what this episode is about.Kevin built a career in...

Justin Prince moved thirteen times before he was a teenager. No college degree, no professional background, making pizzas and doing construction work before he found his way into sales at a mall and realized he was...

Most people will grind for hours in the gym but refuse to sit still with their own thoughts for five minutes. Jennifer Clearwater and Cindy O'Connell have spent a combined four decades figuring out why that is and what...

Jeff Fieldstad built a successful financial services business from the ground up starting at 22 years old. He got comfortable, recognized the danger in that and moved his entire family to Las Vegas deliberately to...

Nate DeTracy was 23 years old when he lost both of his parents in a car accident. No safety net, no roadmap and no one coming to save him. He fell into drugs and alcohol until the day he walked into a gym and watched a...

Brent Gove has three rules for life. Life isn't fair, you are entitled to nothing and no one is coming to save you. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats, not your mentor and not your coach. You have to get on the...

Jason Shipley started his first business with ten thousand dollars split across two credit cards, a triple net lease on an old pizza building in Hutchinson Kansas and no idea what he was doing. What he did have was an...

Vanessa Baird-Streeter grew up in one of the most segregated areas of the country where her family could afford a better neighborhood but was never shown those houses. That experience became the lens she has carried...

Alexis Morgan founded her first real estate investment fund at twenty years old. By twenty one she was managing over forty million dollars. No Wall Street connections. No family money. Just a young woman who figured out...

Esther Acosta didn't see herself as a comedian. Then one open mic she flourished and found her calling. Three years later she's sold out over thirty shows, performed at the Laugh Factory in Chicago and built one of New...