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Hosted by Leon Barnes · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 138 episodes
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The CG Podcast is the go-to resource for active real estate investors looking to scale their business to the next level. Tune in as the nation's top real estate investors share their success storiesthe game-changing decisions that shaped their journeyhow they turned failures into valuable learning experiences. Whether you're aiming to grow your portfolio, refine your strategy, or gain insights from industry leaders, this podcast delivers the knowledge and inspiration you need to accelerate your success.
Leon Barnes hosts The Collective Genius Podcast, a business show with 138 episodes published.
Chip Ferguson is the founder of Smooth Closing in Austin, Texas, a direct to seller home buying operation he built after spending eight to nine years as a full time online poker player. He went from flipping houses compl
In this CG Live episode recorded at the Collective Genius Q2 event in Oceanside, California, Leon Barnes sits down with Jason Pritchard, a CEO level member out of California's Central Valley who has been on Leon's radar
Armando Banuelos has been buying real estate since 2005, and at his peak his Visalia based operation was fixing and flipping 400 to 500 homes a year, nearly all of it acquired at trustee sales on the courthouse steps. He
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Trey Chandler is a West Point graduate, former infantry officer, and co-founder of My Tennessee Home Solution in Nashville, where he and his business partner Jordan run a wholesaling operation doing hundreds of transacti
Steve Trang is the founder of Objection Proof AI and the former operator of Max Cash Offers, and he now builds practical AI tools that review sales conversations, run role plays, and work follow up for real estate invest
Bobby Kough is a West Point graduate and former Army engineer officer who partnered with Jimmy Vreeland to run a wholesale operation across St. Louis, Little Rock, and Wichita, with his brother Gerrad running the Little
Marc Ensign runs a fractional CMO agency that steps into real estate investing companies as marketing leadership, managing budgets, strategy, internal teams, and outside vendors after 25 years of running his own agency.
Mike Oberholtzer is the VP of Franchise Development for HomeVestors, the "We Buy Ugly Houses" franchise, where he oversees a network of roughly 900 individually owned and operated real estate investors across about 180 m
Dr. Tyson Cobb is a former orthopedic surgeon who left his practice group in 2019, moved into triple net commercial real estate, and became one of the most respected capital raisers in the Legacy Family Mastermind, now p
Joseph Back is co-founder of Rapid Fire Investments, a wholesaling operation running five brick and mortar offices across Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama and Georgia. When he and CEO Eric Masiello joined Collective Genius in Dec
In this CG Live episode recorded at the Collective Genius Q2 event marking the debut of CG Legacy, the new commercial mastermind room, host Leon Barnes sits down with Dan Costantino, a Pittsburgh-based multifamily operat
Jose Luis Morales is a first-generation entrepreneur and Collective Genius member of five years who scaled from doing 100 real estate deals a year as an agent to running a diversified investment operation spanning wholes
In this CG Live episode recorded at the Collective Genius Q2 event in Oceanside, California, the host sits down with Kelli Garrett , one of the standout new members entering the community through CG Legacy, the commercia
Brad Bone is a longtime Collective Genius member who, alongside his twin brother Justin, has been investing in real estate since 2015 and built a wholesaling operation in Jacksonville, Florida while running it remotely f
In this CG Live episode recorded at the Q2 event in Oceanside, California, Tim Bratz joins host Leon Barnes to announce the merger of his Legacy Family commercial real estate mastermind with Collective Genius, creating a
Aaron Gaunt is a Navy veteran turned firefighter turned full-time real estate investor who runs a wholesale operation in Southern California's Inland Empire — one of the most competitive markets in the country. He went f
In this CG Live episode recorded at the Collective Genius Select and Elevate event at the JW Marriott in Clearwater Beach, Florida, Brandon McCurdy of Sharper Business Solutions sits down after leading back-to-back maste
Dan Underwood is a Georgia-based real estate investor and CG member who has spent the last decade methodically transitioning from high-volume single family wholesaling to a commercial portfolio spanning apartments, self-
In this CG Live episode recorded at the Q1 2026 Collective Genius Premier and CEO event in Dallas, Texas, Phil Vaughan joins host Leon to share how he built a South Jersey wholesaling operation doing a couple hundred dea
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