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AI That Made Brent Daniels $102K On A Holiday https://objectionproofselling.com/ai-sales-agent-yt Maximize Your Tax Returns And Get Clarity On Your Financials With Our Tax Guys https://beccfo.com/ Build Real AI Tools For Your Business In One Day At REI Tech Unlocked: https://reitechunlocked.com/ BONUS GET 10% OFF ON INVESTORLIFT Use promo code DISRUPTORS. https://get.investorlift.com/disruptors/ WANT TO BE A 100 MILLIONAIRE OR ARE ONE? Click here: https://objectionproofselling.com/millionaire Brent Daniels flew into Phoenix to sit down with Steve Trang on the Disruptors Podcast and deliver one of the most contrarian conversations in wholesaling in 2026 — going from a 385 credit score to over $20 million in real income using a philosophy so simple it sounds wrong at first: just talk to people. Brent is the founder of Talk To People and the face of Wholesaling Inc, has coached over 8000 wholesalers throughout his career, runs a lean three-person acquisition team targeting $3 million in annual revenue, and recently made $102,000 from a deal that his AI bot set on the 4th of July while his team was completely off. In this episode Brent breaks down why 90% of the competition that was in wholesaling in 2021 has already disappeared and why that makes now the easiest time in history to do deals, why your trash can is the most important tool in your business, why motivated sellers love motivated buyers and what that means for how fast you need to call your leads, and why the wholesalers who scaled big between 2020 and 2022 are quietly getting back into home services because they took home far less than the lean operators who stayed small. Brent and Steve cover why building a big team in wholesaling almost always reduces what you take home rather than increasing it and the surgeon versus hospital owner framework for figuring out which type of operator you actually are, why inbound PPC leads from Google outperform every outbound strategy Brent has ever tried and what the minimum monthly budget is to actually get quality leads in a major market, the cold email blue ocean strategy that costs $2000 a month and generates 3 to 5 leads a day from public county data with almost no competition offering it as a service, why the AI bot backed by Objection Proof AI set an appointment on July 4th that produced $102,000 in profit and why Brent was reluctant about AI until that moment changed his mind completely, how to call your leads 12 times in the first hour and 22 times on day one without burning out your acquisition team, and why coaching in real estate has become the Napster of education where every strategy has a shelf life of 3 years before it proliferates for free. Follow Brent Daniels YouTube:  @BrentDanielsTTP  Personal Instagram: @realbrentdaniels https://www.instagram.com/realbrentdaniels TikTok: @realbrentdaniels https://www.tiktok.com/@realbrentdaniels Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brentdanielsttp Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentmdaniels Talk To People website: https://www.talktopeople.com Wholesaling Inc website: https://www.wholesalinginc.com Wholesaling Launch website: https://wholesalinglaunch.com TTP coaching program: https://www.wholesalinginc.com/ttp Podcast: Wholesale Hotline with Brent Daniels, Jamil Damji and Pace Morby — available on all podcast platforms. Subscribe for more disruptive conversations: https://youtube.com/@DisruptorsPodcast Follow us on iTunes/Apple Podcast and leave a⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️review https://apple.co/31geW6H Spotify https://spoti.fi/3oatzkY Give us a follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve.trang TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stevetrang Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevetrang Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/stevetrang #podcast #business #entrepreneur #realestate #realestateinvesting #realestatetips #realestateinvestment #realestateinvestor #realestateagent #company #investing #investment #finance #money #wholesale #wholesalerealestate #marketing #ai #artificialintelligence

The AI Sales Rep That Sets Appointments 24/7: https://objectionproofselling.com/ai-sales-agent-ytMaximize Your Tax Returns AndGet Clarity On Your Financials With Our Tax Guyshttps://beccfo.com/Build Real AI Tools For Your Business In One Day At REI Tech Unlocked: https://reitechunlocked.com/BONUSGET 10% OFF ON INVESTORLIFTUse promo code DISRUPTORS.https://get.investorlift.com/disruptors/WANT TO BE A 100 MILLIONAIRE OR ARE ONE?Click here: https://objectionproofselling.com/millionaire Curative Investor - https://www.skool.com/curative-investorRob Lee flew in from Austin Texas to sit down with Steve Trang on the Disruptors Podcast and share one of the most unexpected real estate origin stories in the industry — spending eight years as part of a Crystal Ashram in Washington DC leading sound bath meditations with Tibetan singing bowls for UN officials, politicians and IMF representatives before COVID wiped out the in-person community entirely and he pivoted his entire nonprofit staff — the same people playing the bowls — into cold calling motivated sellers and making seven figures in his first year of real estate investing. In this episode Rob breaks down how his monk training gave him a psychological advantage that no sales course teaches, why he spent his last $1,000 on skip tracing before his first deal and made it work, how his team locked up $500,000 in equity in the first 30 days of switching to curative investing, why his 10th phone call ever in a new strategy produced a $90,000 net profit deal in North Charlotte, and how the same ego dissolution frameworks he built in the nonprofit — including the Tragic Four and the Four Rs — became the cultural foundation of a seven figure real estate operation.Rob and Steve cover the curative investing model in full — buying properties that cannot be sold due to title issues like co-owner disputes, probate clouds, liens and uninsurable title — and why this strategy has almost no competition because most investors are unwilling to do the legal research required, how Rob finds deals from tax delinquent lists and code violations without spending a dollar on traditional marketing, the identity statement exercise Rob teaches where you write every negative belief you hold about yourself and rewrite each one as the opposite to rewire the subconscious story blocking your results, why the Tragic Four — rationalizing, justifying, making excuses and blaming others — is the specific ego pattern destroying most real estate closers on seller appointments, why Rob is building a sound temple and off grid retreat space in Texas and plans to eventually hand off the real estate operation entirely to fund the nonprofit work that started everything, and why the Daoist grand master philosophy that shaped Rob's worldview says you must first live in poverty then become an extreme capitalist then give it all back.If this episode made you think differently about what kind of person can make it in real estate hit subscribe because every week on Disruptors Steve Trang sits down with the operators investors and entrepreneurs who are actually building real wealth to bring you the unfiltered playbook for your first or next million. Follow Rob on Instagram at @realroblee and reach out to him directly at 703-395-4990 if you have JV deals in Texas or want to learn more about the personal development frameworks he teaches through Curative Investor, and build real AI tools for your business in one day at REI Tech Unlocked by visiting reitechunlocked.com.Follow Rob LeeCurative Investor - https://www.skool.com/curative-investorLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/humanactivatorInstagram - @real.roblee https://www.instagram.com/real.roblee/reels/

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The AI Sales Rep That Sets Appointments 24/7: https://objectionproofselling.com/ai-sales-agent-ytMaximize Your Tax Returns AndGet Clarity On Your Financials With Our Tax Guyshttps://beccfo.com/Build Real AI Tools For Your Business In One Day At REI Tech Unlocked: https://reitechunlocked.com/Bateman CollectiveBook a Call: batemancollective.com/disruptorsPPC Training: get.batemancollective.com/stevetrainingIndustry Benchmark report: http://get.batemancollective.com/disruptorsreport/BONUSGET 10% OFF ON INVESTORLIFTUse promo code DISRUPTORS.https://get.investorlift.com/disruptors/WANT TO BE A 100 MILLIONAIRE OR ARE ONE?Click here: https://objectionproofselling.com/millionaire Brandon Bateman flew in from Salt Lake City to sit down with Steve Trang on the Disruptors Podcast and share the exact data-driven marketing system his agency Bateman Collective uses to help real estate investors scale to seven figures with a smaller team and less spend than most wholesalers think is possible. Brandon has been one of the most trusted names in real estate PPC since 2017 and his clients have collectively generated over $50 million in wholesale fees through Google Ads, Facebook Ads and SEO. In this episode Brandon breaks down why most real estate investors are wasting their entire PPC budget on the wrong keywords, how his team analyzed over 40,000 search terms and millions of clicks to build a proprietary keyword model that delivers as few as 11 motivated seller leads per contract, why a solo operator spending $10,000 a month on Google Ads is on track to hit seven figures in revenue this year using a single marketing channel, why smaller leaner real estate teams consistently outperform larger ones when the marketing is done right, and why the gap between a good motivated seller lead and a great one is getting wider in 2026 and what that means for how you should be structuring your campaigns right now.Brandon and Steve cover the three jobs of a CEO that cannot be delegated and how Brandon rebuilt his 35-person agency culture from the ground up after scaling too fast following his first appearance on Disruptors, why throwing time and money at every problem in your real estate business is the fastest way to create debt you cannot see until it destroys your culture, the difference between reactive and proactive client management and how Bateman Collective built a system of five non-negotiables that every account manager must hit daily, why broad match keywords that have historically performed terribly in real estate PPC suddenly started producing 11 leads per contract in Q3 of 2025 and how to implement them safely with guardrails, how Google now has over 10,000 data points per user including mortgage statements and YouTube viewing history that make broad targeting more powerful than narrow keyword targeting for motivated seller campaigns, and why the real estate investors who will win in 2026 are the ones who understand their marketing channel deeply enough to make strategic decisions alongside their agency rather than treating PPC as a black box.If this episode gave you one idea to improve your real estate marketing hit subscribe because every week on Disruptors Steve Trang sits down with the operators investors and industry experts who are actually building real wealth to bring you the unfiltered playbook for your first or next million. Follow Bateman Collective on Instagram at @batemancollective and connect with Brandon directly on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/brandon-bateman, visit batemancollective.com to learn more about their Google Ads Facebook Ads and SEO services for real estate investors across more than 90 markets in the United States Canada and Australia, and grab the free Ultimate PPC Toolkit at get.batemancollective.com/toolkit to get the exact framework Brandon's team uses to generate motivated seller leads for wholesalers fix and flip investors and other real estate operators at the highest level in the industry.Follow Brandon BatemanPersonal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-bateman/Bateman Collective Instagram: @batemancollectivehttps://www.instagram.com/batemancollective/Bateman Collective website: https://batemancollective.comFree PPC Toolkit: https://get.batemancollective.com/toolkit/Email: [email protected] Utahmarketinggroup

The AI Sales Rep That Sets Appointments 24/7: https://objectionproofselling.com/ai-sales-agent-ytMaximize Your Tax Returns AndGet Clarity On Your Financials With Our Tax Guyshttps://beccfo.com/Build Real AI Tools For Your Business In One Day At REI Tech Unlocked: https://reitechunlocked.com/BONUSGET 10% OFF ON INVESTORLIFTUse promo code DISRUPTORS.https://get.investorlift.com/disruptors/WANT TO BE A 100 MILLIONAIRE OR ARE ONE?Click here: https://objectionproofselling.com/millionaire Alex Smereczniak flew in from Charlotte North Carolina to sit down with Steve Trang on the Disruptors Podcast and share the story most entrepreneurs never hear — how he took a laundry business he started in a college dorm room, raised $33 million in venture capital, sold 118 franchise locations in 14 months and built it to a $100 million valuation before starting his next company Franzy, which is now the Zillow for franchising. In this episode Alex breaks down why boring unglamorous businesses create more wealth than exciting tech startups, why franchising is arguably the most overlooked path to becoming a millionaire that nobody is talking about, how the wealthiest franchise operators in America stay completely quiet about what they have built and why that silence is the biggest signal of all, and how he went from a Wake Forest finance major doing laundry for college students to raising venture capital for a boring service business and turning it into a $100 million exit. If you are an entrepreneur real estate investor or aspiring business owner who has been looking for a wealth strategy that actually works without needing a revolutionary idea this episode will permanently change how you think about which businesses are worth building.Alex and Steve cover the exact mechanics of how a boring laundry delivery business raised $33 million in VC funding and why investors backed a service business most people would laugh at, how Alex solved the supply chain problem that almost killed the business by partnering with coin laundromats and eventually building LaundroLab as a franchise brand, why selling 118 franchise locations in 14 months was both the best and most operationally challenging thing his team ever did, the four factors that determine whether a franchise is the right fit for any entrepreneur regardless of background or capital level which are operational fit risk tolerance financial capacity and personal legacy goals, why the franchise broker industry has almost no regulation and how that creates massive risk for first-time buyers who do not know how to evaluate a franchise deal independently, and how Franzy uses AI to match aspiring business owners with franchise opportunities the way Zillow matches homebuyers with properties by aggregating 35000 franchise disclosure documents and surfacing the data that brokers have historically kept hidden.If this episode opened your eyes to a wealth strategy you had never seriously considered hit subscribe because every week on Disruptors Steve Trang sits down with the founders operators and empire builders who are actually building real wealth to bring you the unfiltered playbook for your first or next million. Follow Alex on Instagram and TikTok at @alexfromfranzy and connect with him on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/alex-smereczniak, visit franzy.com to explore franchise opportunities for free and use the Frenzy Fit Score to find the right business for your specific background risk tolerance and financial goals, and listen to his podcast How I Franchised This on all major podcast platforms to hear more stories from franchise entrepreneurs who have built serious wealth doing businesses that most people walk right past.Follow Alex SmereczniakInstagram: @alexfromfranzyhttps://www.instagram.com/alexfromfranzyTikTok: @alexfromfranzyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-smereczniakFranzy website: https://franzy.comEmail: [email protected]: How I Franchised This — available on all podcast platformsEntrepreneur.com author page: https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/alex-smereczniakSubscribe for more disruptive conversations: https://youtube.com/@DisruptorsPodcast

The AI Sales Rep That Sets Appointments 24/7: https://objectionproofselling.com/ai-sales-agent-yt Maximize Your Tax Returns And Get Clarity On Your Financials With Our Tax Guys https://beccfo.com/ Build Real AI Tools For Your Business In One Day At REI Tech Unlocked: https://reitechunlocked.com/ BONUS GET 10% OFF ON INVESTORLIFT Use promo code DISRUPTORS. https://get.investorlift.com/disruptors/ WANT TO BE A 100 MILLIONAIRE OR ARE ONE? Click here: https://objectionproofselling.com/millionaire Dakota Bailey flew in from Fort Wayne Indiana on a scooter with a torn Achilles tendon to sit down with Steve Trang on the Disruptors Podcast and share how he went from making $10 an hour doing landscaping and barely surviving every winter to building a wholesale real estate operation doing 300 transactions a year while working only 10 hours a week on the business. In this episode Dakota breaks down the exact reason most wholesalers are overcomplicating their operations and why the lean six-person team he built after stripping the business back to its essentials is producing more net profit than the larger team ever did, how he transitioned from flipping 49 houses simultaneously with $5 million in debt to a wholesale model that lets him sleep at night, why the one acquisitions person he found changed everything and what the combine-style process looks like for finding someone who can handle 30 deals a month without hand-holding, and the mindset shift that happened when he became a father and realized the risk model he had built was not designed to survive if something happened to him. Dakota and Steve cover why most wholesalers think they need more people when the real answer is fewer better people, how Dakota kept his business profitable through every market shift since 2018 while most of his peers either scaled too fast and collapsed or quit when things got hard, the specific lesson he learned from stepping away and letting the team run it that almost cost him everything and what he would do differently, why his car sales background gave him a closing system that most real estate investors never develop because they came from a background where someone else was always selling for them, and how the coaching community he built called Investor Limited is designed around people contributing to each other rather than Dakota being the only source of knowledge. If this episode gave you permission to simplify your business hit subscribe because every week on Disruptors Steve Trang sits down with the operators and investors who are actually building real wealth to bring you the unfiltered playbook for your first or next million. Follow Dakota on Instagram at @dakotabailey.in and connect with him on Facebook at facebook.com/dakota.bailey1, visit ltd-propertygroup.com to learn more about his real estate operation in Fort Wayne Indiana and visit dakotabailey.in to connect with him directly and learn how to get your first deal. Follow Dakota Bailey Personal Instagram: @dakotabailey.in Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dakota.bailey1 Personal website: https://www.dakotabailey.in LTD Property Group website: https://www.ltd-propertygroup.com LTD Property Group Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LTDPropertyGroupLLC/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakota-bailey-345259165/

The AI Sales Rep That Sets Appointments 24/7: https://objectionproofselling.com/ai-sales-agent-ytMaximize Your Tax Returns AndGet Clarity On Your Financials With Our Tax Guyshttps://beccfo.com/BONUSGET 10% OFF ON INVESTORLIFTUse promo code DISRUPTORS.https://get.investorlift.com/disruptors/WANT TO BE A 100 MILLIONAIRE OR ARE ONE?Click here: https://objectionproofselling.com/millionaire Nick Friedman flew in from Tampa to sit down with Steve Trang on the Disruptors Podcast and share the story of how he and his best friend Omar took a beat up cargo van, a name suggested by a friend's mom and a summer job hauling other people's junk and turned it into College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving, a $300 million system-wide revenue franchise with over 200 locations across the United States and Canada. In this episode Nick breaks down how two college guys who hated their corporate jobs three months after graduation built one of the most recognized home service brands in America by picking the most overlooked and most unglamorous industry they could find, showing up on the very first episode of Shark Tank before anyone knew what Shark Tank was, refusing to quit through the housing market crash of 2008, selling 25% of the business to a private equity firm backed by self-made billionaires, and building a leadership and franchise system that now runs while Nick steps back in to push the business from $300 million toward $1 billion.Nick and Steve cover why near 100% gross margin in the early days of hauling junk was the signal that the business was worth everything, how one franchise location went from $60,000 a month to $600,000 a month overnight simply by putting the right operator in place, why Nick got fired from his own company by a consultant who told him he was in the way and what he did about it, the difference between founder mode and leadership mode and why Nick believes the next phase of growth requires him to be fully back in founder mode, how Roman the brand president runs the entire $300 million operation while Nick focuses on vision and brand, why culture and brute force persistence beat talent and strategy every single time across 20 years of building, and what Nick would tell any entrepreneur sitting on an overlooked unglamorous business idea that everyone around them is telling them to abandon.If this episode made you think differently about what kind of business is worth building hit subscribe because every week on Disruptors Steve Trang sits down with the operators founders and empire builders who are actually doing it to bring you the unfiltered playbook for your first or next million. Connect with Nick on Instagram at @nickfriedman1 and visit nickfriedman.com to connect with him directly, find his book Effortless Entrepreneur on Amazon, visit collegehunkshaulingjunk.com to learn more about the franchise opportunity and visit trashbutler.com to learn about his valet trash amenity service for apartment communities.Follow Nick FriedmanPersonal website: https://www.nickfriedman.comPersonal Instagram: @nickfriedman1https://www.instagram.com/nickfriedman1/Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nick.friedman1Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collegehunkshaulingjunkX: https://x.com/nickfriedman1College Hunks website: https://www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.comCollege Hunks Instagram: @collegehunkshttps://www.instagram.com/collegehunksCollege Hunks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CollegeHunksHaulingJunkandMovingCollege Hunks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/college-hunks-hauling-junkTrash Butler website: https://www.trashbutler.comBook — Effortless Entrepreneur: Available on Amazon under "Effortless Entrepreneur" by Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman