Success Formula Podcast

He started with one rented house while working as an engineer. Now he does $10M a year in Airbnbs.Humza Zafar was an electrical engineer at the Philadelphia airport when a YouTube video showed him rental arbitrage: rent a place from a landlord, list it on Airbnb, keep the difference. He made 40 to 70 cold calls before one landlord said yes, and that first unit netted about $2,000 a month. At 10 units he was clearing around $15K a month. In December 2022 he did $100K in revenue and $30K in profit in one month, called his boss, recorded it and quit. That video got about 3 million views. Five years in, he runs 300+ units, does about $10M a year in revenue and $2M in net profit, and works about one hour a week.In this episode you'll learn:→ How to start rental arbitrage with $10,000 and a Zillow filter→ The one number on AirDNA to check before you sign any lease→ Why he made more profit at 300 units than he did at 500→ How he cut furniture from $12,000 to about $3,000 per apartment by going to the factories in China→ Why he charged $2,000 a night for a Messi game when the software said $700 Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with founders who built from nothing.Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/humzazafar/ ⏱️ Chapters0:00 Intro2:18 The Engineer Who Flipped a House on 5 Home Depot Cards10:39 The $30K Month He Quit on a Recorded Call13:03 How Rental Arbitrage Works, Step by Step14:41 Why Landlords Say Yes to Airbnb Tenants17:57 How to Start With Only $10,000 Saved21:31 The One Number to Check Before You Sign a Lease25:56 Why Studios Lose and 4-Bedroom Houses Win35:23 $10M in Revenue, $2M in Profit: The Real Numbers46:34 Why He Charged $2,000 a Night for a Messi Game1:02:37 You Have 3 Years Left Before AI Locks You In1:06:36 The 1-Hour-a-Week Team Behind 300 Units1:19:03 Into the Jungle: $12K Furniture Down to $3K1:23:16 Profit Beats Revenue, Every Time1:27:19 What He'd Tell His Engineer Self Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with operators who have actually built something. Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615 Our Social Media:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuccessFormulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessformula/Twitter: https://x.com/_SuccessFormula/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsuccessformula #AirbnbArbitrage #RentalArbitrage #ShortTermRental #Airbnb #HumzaZafar #SuccessFormula #RealEstateInvesting #Entrepreneur #QuitYourJob #PassiveIncome

He quit a Fortune 500 job with a newborn at home. Now his company is on pace for $6M in sales.Sam Padgett grew up in Fair Grove, Missouri, a town of about 1,200, and worked his way up in medical sales until a Fortune 500 company moved him to Houston. In 2022 he left to start R4S, a medical device distributorship that began with one product and now carries six, on pace for a $6 million run rate in total sales. He breaks down what a rep actually does inside the operating room, why 95% of his business is relationships, and what he and his wife are building beyond it: a 112-acre ranch and a nonprofit for rural towns.In this episode you'll learn:• Why he left corporate "as a means of survival," and the one surgeon whose yes started it all• How a single-product distributorship grew to six products and a $6M sales run rate• How he won the entire Mercy hospital system, starting with the hospital he was born in• The job interview where the candidate didn't know it was an interview• Why he ran 30 miles at 30 having never run a 5K, then went for 50Follow the guest:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sampadgett.rush4/Website (medical business): https://www.rush4s.comWebsite (nonprofit): https://rush4h.comWebsite (ranch): https://rush4r.com⏱️ Chapters0:00 Intro3:10 Why He Quit a Fortune 500 Job8:26 A Sales Rep in the OR?24:32 Winning a Whole Hospital System41:12 His Biggest Mistake48:42 Passed Out in the OR57:20 The Goal Sheet1:02:58 The 112-Acre Ranch1:20:35 30 Miles at 301:36:37 Giving Back1:54:21 What "Rich" Means Now2:16:34 Where to Find SamSubscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with operators who have actually built something.Listen on:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastBuzzsprout: https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/#MedicalSales #Entrepreneur #SmallBusiness

He quit Xerox the same day to sell suits. Now he's Houston's Suit Boss, with a $35,000 suit sold.Adam Ross is the founder of Adam Ross Custom in Houston, known around town as "the Suit Boss." He started out cold-calling for Xerox and walked out the day a tailor offered him a job in custom clothing. He launched his own company on January 1, 2020, with no savings, weeks before COVID shut down the mills he buys from. Today his shop sees 8 to 10 clients a day, dresses pro athletes and Houston's business crowd, and has sold a single suit for about $35,000.In this episode you'll learn:• The real difference between a $500, a $2,000 and a $10,000 suit, and why a bespoke one takes over half a million hand stitches• How he kept a two-month-old business alive through COVID by altering people's closets in their homes for 8 months• The $35,000 suit with 24-karat gold woven in, cut from a fabric only about 25 people on Earth could wear• How he went from $7,000 in the bank and a $10,000 check due to a $75,000 walk-in the next morning• Why everyone on his team has to vote yes before a new clothier can joinFollow the guest:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adamrossthesuitboss/Website: https://adamrosscustom.com/Phone: (713) 221-4217⏱️ Chapters0:00 Intro1:07 How Did a Xerox Salesman Become Houston's "Suit Boss"?13:09 How Do You Leave Your Boss and Start Your Own Company?21:41 What Was His Biggest Mistake in Year One?26:46 $500 vs $2,000 vs $10,000 Suits: What's the Difference?36:11 What's the Most Expensive Suit He's Ever Sold?38:07 How Do You Get Someone to Spend $10K on a Suit?46:08 How Did He Land His First NFL Player?54:57 When Do You Stop Doing Everything Yourself?1:07:21 What Nobody Warns You About Building a Business1:10:57 Did He Ever Want to Quit?1:17:33 When Did He Stop Drinking?1:21:03 Rapid-Fire Questions1:31:11 Where to Find Adam Ross CustomSubscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with operators who have actually built something.Listen on:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastBuzzsprout: https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/#customsuits #entrepreneur #houston

Boris Sanchez started his first business at seven years old, running a food delivery hustle inside his own school in Colombia. That entrepreneurial streak nearly got cut short when his mother, a prominent attorney who had won a case against Pablo Escobar's cartel, received threats against the family. They fled the country with about $3,000 and started completely over in the United States — his mother went from practicing law to sweeping floors while Boris worked odd jobs, sold pool cues on eBay, ran a car dealership, and paid his own way through college and an MBA in London. He eventually found his way into real estate, working as a mortgage loan officer before moving into hard money lending, house flipping, and commercial deals. By 2019 he had scaled to over 725 units and a million square feet of rentable space across apartments, self storage, and retail. Now, after three years of quiet development, he's just launched Reidy AI — an AI-powered real estate platform that delivers instant, unbiased property appraisals and connects investors with a network of thousands of lenders and buyers. He breaks down how the platform works, the biggest mistakes new investors make, and why he believes you don't need cash to start building real wealth in real estate.Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with founders who built from nothing.Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/bsanmore1/Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/reidy.ai/Website-  https://reidy.ai/Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with operators who have actually built something.Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615

Marc never went to college. He started out as a teenager pushing wheelbarrows of cement for a family pool builder, just to learn how construction actually worked. In his early 20s he became a Houston firefighter, working only nine days a month so he could use the rest of his time to build a construction business on the side. That business grew into spec homes, custom builds, and fee-based projects for investors who wanted a builder with real skin in the game. He walks through exactly how he raised his first capital from a landlord with spare cash, how that grew into a rotating pool of ten to fifteen investors who now earn fifteen to twenty percent annually, and the costly lesson he learned during Covid when he sold three properties early out of uncertainty and left half a million dollars on the table. He also breaks down the financial mechanics almost nobody explains publicly — how construction loans and draw schedules actually work, why he never lets money from different projects touch each other, what banks really look for before funding a build, and why job site cameras have saved him from stolen materials, broken windows, and workers who won't own up to mistakes.Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with founders who built from nothing.Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/htexenterprise/Website- https://h-tex.net/Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with operators who have actually built something.Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Our Social Media:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuccessFormulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessformula/Twitter: https://x.com/_SuccessFormula/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsuccessformula

Mike Stratton grew up on 10 Mile Road just outside of Detroit with a single 21-year-old mom, no money, and no exposure to anything beyond blue collar work. He dropped out of traditional school early, got certified as a personal trainer at 17, and decided he would never work for a salary. What followed was over a decade of grinding through fitness, sales, industrial machinery, and recruiting before he found his way back to the one industry that actually aligned with who he was. He co-founded Marek Health during Covid with less than $100,000 and built it into a 150-person telehealth operation that serves thousands of patients across all 50 states. He gives Shawn Lynch the full breakdown, how he built the business from zero, why most doctors still do not understand hormone optimization, how he recruits physicians who are not afraid to evolve their practice, and why he believes the traditional medical system is built around the minimum, not the optimal. He also talks about burnout, the mistakes he made as a leader, why he almost destroyed his company culture, and what he would do differently if he was starting Marek from day one. Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with founders who built from nothing.Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/mikestratton_/Website- https://www.marekhealth.com/Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Our Social Media:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuccessFormulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessformula/Twitter: https://x.com/_SuccessFormula/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsuccessformula

Ryan Stewman built a 3,000 member mastermind with tiers priced at $3,000, $10,000, and $60,000 a year. Then he shut all of it down. Not because it was failing because it was draining him dry. He walked away from coaching entirely and launched Closer Capital, a business lending operation that now moves between $4 and $6 million a month with margins nobody in the coaching world can touch. He gives Shawn Lynch the full breakdown: why the mastermind model is a trap disguised as success, how he built the lending business from zero volume to a few million a month, and why passive income is a lie that real estate investors keep telling themselves. He also goes deep on AI, the 8 billion robots Elon is building by 2033, why America will likely be off the dollar before 2030, and how the government is openly selling insider trading access for $130,000 a month. This is the conversation most people in business are too scared to have.Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/hardcorecloser/Website- https://go.jointheapex.com/ Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with operators who have actually built something.Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Our Social Media:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuccessFormulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessformula/Twitter: https://x.com/_SuccessFormula/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsuccessformula

New construction real estate paid Eric Crutchfield four times what his first flip paid, and he has been building ever since. Eric walked out of prison with 150 dollars in his pocket. Today he has around 140 million dollars of development in progress, and he gives Shawn Lynch the full blueprint, from an empty lot all the way to a sold home.Every stage is covered. You will hear how to underwrite a lot before you ever make an offer, why the comparable market analysis is a builder's compass, and the napkin math rule of buying land at 20 to 25 percent of the finished home value. Eric covers construction loans, hard money lenders, and using business credit and credit repair to cover a down payment when you have no savings. He explains permits, vetting subcontractors, getting three to five bids on any line item over 5,000 dollars, padding a budget so overruns do not kill the deal, and the 20 to 30 percent margins that make ground up development beat flipping. He also explains why he is unwinding nearly 100 single family rentals and calls them the worst investment of his life.If you are serious about building your first spec home, this conversation is your road map. Subscribe to Official Success Formula for more real conversations with builders and operators.Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/ericepic23/Tune in every Tuesday at 10 AM for another inspiring success story, along with the proven formula to help you achieve your own goals. Don't miss out on the insights that could change your life!Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Our Social Media:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuccessFormulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessformula/Twitter: https://x.com/_SuccessFormula/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsuccessformula

Most people are taking peptide therapy completely wrong, and Dr. Justin Hogan, a functional medicine physician, joins host Shawn Lynch to explain why. Together they break down BPC 157, TB 500 and GLP 1 weight loss drugs and what actually works.The conversation goes deep into how peptides actually work inside the body, covering growth hormone secretagogues like CJC 1295, Ipamorelin and Tesamorelin, recovery peptides like BPC 157 and TB 500, longevity focused compounds like Epithalon and NAD, and the real science behind GLP 1 and GIP medications such as semaglutide and tirzepatide. Shawn and Dr. Hogan unpack why nutrition, hormone optimization and gut health have to come first, how to avoid wasting money on unregulated research peptides, and the exact questions you should ask any provider before starting a protocol. Whether you are chasing weight loss, faster recovery, better sleep or long term longevity, this episode hands you a real framework instead of Instagram hype.If you are ready to take control of your health and performance, subscribe to Official Success Formula for more episodes like this one, and listen to the full conversation on the Success Formula Podcast for even more detail you will not want to miss. This is the kind of insight that separates people who guess from people who actually get results.Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/justinhoganmd/Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessrx/Tune in every Tuesday at 10 AM for another inspiring success story, along with the proven formula to help you achieve your own goals. Don't miss out on the insights that could change your life!Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Our Social Media:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuccessFormulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessformula/Twitter: https://x.com/_SuccessFormula/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsuccessformula

Confidence is not something you are born without, it is a skill most people were never taught, and that is exactly the gap Shawn Lynch and confidence coach Julee Gracey close in this conversation. If you have ever frozen up in front of a camera, gone blank mid sentence, or told yourself you are just not a confident person, this episode will change how you think about all of it.Julee Gracey grew up on a farm before becoming a business coach, keynote speaker, and author of Highly Confident, and she has spent years teaching entrepreneurs and everyday communicators how tonality, pacing, and the power of a well placed pause can completely change the way a message lands. Throughout the episode, Shawn and Julee break down why confidence is something every person is born with rather than something you either have or do not have, how to get comfortable on camera using simple tricks like standing up and picturing a friend's face behind the lens, why cutting filler words like um and uh takes consistent practice rather than a single fix, and how storytelling, body language, and vulnerability turn an ordinary presentation into one people actually remember. Julee also shares the exact communication skills she teaches inside her Confidence on Camera Academy, along with practical advice on setting boundaries, saying no without guilt, and pricing conversations that build trust instead of pressure.If this episode helped you see your own voice differently, hit subscribe to the Official Success Formula channel so you never miss an episode built around personal and professional growth, listen to the full conversation on the Success Formula Podcast, and visit Julee Gracey's website to explore her book, her coaching, and the Confidence on Camera Academy for yourself.Website- 🌐 https://juleegracey.com/Academy- https://learn.juleegracey.com/confidenceInstagram- https://www.instagram.com/juleegracey/Tune in every Tuesday at 10 AM for another inspiring success story, along with the proven formula to help you achieve your own goals. Don't miss out on the insights that could change your life!Buzzsprout- https://successformulapodcast.buzzsprout.com/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7aRe06pXIq6yq8GQf62NBMAmazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1393b77c-626a-4a53-bdd5-43ce3b1aa15b/success-formula-podcastApple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-formula-podcast/id1748704615Our Social Media:Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficialSuccessFormulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsuccessformula/Twitter: https://x.com/_SuccessFormula/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsuccessformula