Disruptors

<p>On Disruptors, Steve Trang interviews the most impressive people in business. </p><p> By listening to these episodes, you'll learn the secrets to how guys like Max Maxwell, Carlos Reyes, Pace Morby, Josiah Grimes, Antonio Edwards, Sean Terry, Chris Jefferson, Chris Rood, and many more are bringing in millions per year. We discuss how they started, what sets them apart, what advice they would give somebody starting new, and what their business looks like today.</p><p> We hope that by listening to this show, you'll be a guest someday and become on of our #100Millionaires</p><p> Go to www.disruptors.com if you need help with your business.</p>

He Made $400M And Built A Prison He Could Not Escape

Our AI That Calle And Books Appointmentshttpshttps://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 George Rivera flew in from Austin Texas to sit down with Steve Trang on the Disruptors Podcast and share the story most successful entrepreneurs never tell how he spent 31 years building supplement and e-commerce companies to over $400 million in sales, working 90-hour weeks while his business ran entirely on his nervous system, and how it almost cost him the one thing he was supposedly building it all for. In this episode George breaks down what he calls founder prison the trap where every decision flows through you, every fire lands in your inbox, and the company goes backwards the moment you stop being constantly active and the specific two-year process he used to go from 90-hour weeks down to never more than 30 hours and sometimes zero, completely off the grid for weeks while the business continued to grow and his income more than doubled in the process.George and Steve cover the freedom audit and the 10K per hour filter George used to identify which activities to eliminate automate and delegate, why delegating tasks instead of outcomes is the reason most founders never actually escape the grind, the moment his three-year-old son Leo stopped knocking on the glass office door because George had trained him without knowing it that asking for dad produced nothing, the deathbed advice from his father who battled cancer in 2015 and told him "don't miss Leo's games I missed too many of yours," how George went from giving his family the leftovers of his time and energy to attending every single one of his son's games and never missing a moment, and why the two-week vacation test is the only reliable signal that you have actually built a business rather than a job with overhead.Follow George RiveraLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-rivera-53b3296 Website: https://buybacktimeformula.comWebsite: https://yourtop25.comLeo Interviews YouTube: @leointerviewsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/georger.rivera.10 Books:Buyback Time FormulaBefore They Stop AskingOne Call AwaySubscribe for more disruptive conversations: https://youtube.com/ ⁨@DisruptorsPodcast⁩  Follow us oniTunes/Apple Podcast and leave a⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️reviewhttps://apple.co/31geW6HSpotifyhttps://spoti.fi/3oatzkYGive us a follow onInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve.trangTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stevetrangFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevetrangTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/stevetrang#podcast #business #entrepreneur #millionaire #money #moneymindset #company #investing #investment #finance #success

09-13
01:10:00

How 3 People Can Do $3 Million In Wholesale Real Estate

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

09-06
01:28:02

How A Monk Made $1M In Real Estate His First Year

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/

08-30
01:32:46

Why Going Viral On Social Media Will Not Make You Rich

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 Michael Hunter drove up from just down the street to sit down with Steve Trang on the Disruptors Podcast and expose the biggest lie in the personal branding and influencer industry — the belief that more followers equals more money. Michael is the founder of PersonalBrand.com and Spiffy Checkouts, has served as an external CMO for Brendon Bouchard where he helped build his entire internal marketing team and ran his launches from 2015 to 2017, has worked with Jim Kwik, Harvey McKay, Pete Vargas and dozens of other major names, and has powered over one billion dollars in creator revenue through his systems and software. In this episode Michael breaks down why most influencers with massive audiences make almost no money and what separates the creators who actually get rich from the ones who go viral and stay broke, the four stages of a personal brand business from zero to seven figures and the specific mistake most people make that keeps them stuck between stage one and stage two, why the invisible tax is silently driving away your best clients before they ever reach out to you, how his client Eliza went from a $5K keynote she could not raise to a half-million dollar corporate contract in under a year by discovering the single word that connected her entire life story, and why fulfillment and getting clients predictable repeatable results is the only thing that actually builds a brand that lasts. Michael and Steve cover why follower count is the wrong metric to obsess over and which number actually predicts whether a personal brand becomes a profitable business, the concept of return on energy and why some of the most profitable offers in your business are actually costing you more than they are making you, how to find the golden thread that connects all of your seemingly unrelated expertise into one positioning statement that premium buyers immediately understand and trust, why the personal brand industry is full of people who are confusing content marketing with brand building and how to tell the difference, the four stage model Michael calls Calling Opportunity Traction and Scale and what the specific bottleneck looks like at each stage, why the information age is over and the age of transformation has begun which means the only thing that will matter going forward is getting people actual results not just giving them more content to consume, and how Michael spent years generating millions of dollars for other people before realizing his own nervous system was the thing blocking him from doing it for himself. If this episode changed how you think about building a personal brand that actually makes money hit subscribe because every week on Disruptors Steve Trang sits down with the founders operators and industry leaders who are actually building real wealth to bring you the unfiltered playbook for your first or next million. Follow Michael on Instagram at @michaelrhunter and connect with him on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/michaelrhunter, visit personalbrand.com to learn more about how Michael and his team help authors speakers coaches and thought leaders position their expertise to command premium prices, visit agency.personalbrand.com to apply to work directly with the Personal Brand team, and visit spiffy.co to learn about the checkout and creator software that has powered over one billion dollars in creator revenue for entrepreneurs and personal brands around the world. Follow Michael Hunter Personal Instagram: @michaelrhunter https://www.instagram.com/michaelrhunter/ Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelrhunter/ Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheMichaelRHunter/ X: https://x.com/michaelrhunter PersonalBrand.com website: https://personalbrand.com Agency website: https://agency.personalbrand.com/ Spiffy Checkouts website: https://spiffy.co Podcast: Six Figure Podcast — @sixfigpod on Instagram

08-29
01:31:43

Real Estate Investors Are A Year Behind On AI Here's The Proof

REI TECH Unlocked AI EVENT For Real Estate Investorshttps://reitechunlocked.com/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 ONEClick here: https://objectionproofselling.com/millionaire Stephanie Betters, Jordan Samuel Fleming and Steve Trang sat down on the Who's In Charge podcast to talk about why they built REI Tech Unlocked — the first ever real estate investing technology event of its kind — and why they believe real estate investors are at least a year behind on AI without knowing it. In this episode the three hosts break down why most real estate investors have been evaluating tools through affiliate links and guru recommendations instead of sitting down with the actual technology, how Objection Proof AI booked over 9000 appointments with zero human involvement using AI voice agents, why AI made Steve Trang's company hire more people not fewer because output increased so dramatically that they needed more humans to fulfill the new capacity, why Jordan's framework of treating AI as a digital employee rather than a standalone tool is the single biggest shift that separates investors who get leverage from AI versus investors who just buy subscriptions they never use, and why Stephanie built this event out of frustration that over 100000 real estate investors doing serious volume in the United States had no dedicated technology event where they could put their hands on the keyboard and actually build the tools rather than just hear about them.Stephanie Jordan and Steve cover why Meta is sending two senior executives who manage tens of millions of dollars in real estate advertising spend to sit one on one with operators at the event and share exactly what is working inside Facebook and Instagram ad algorithms right now, why Salesforce is pivoting its entire platform from CRM infrastructure to agent-first infrastructure and what that means for how real estate investors build their tech stack in 2026 and 2027, why Twilio and smrtPhone are partnering to tackle trusted calling and how to keep your phones answered as spam likely designations get worse, how operators doing 3000 transactions a month are already in the room and none of them are making Lamborghini posts on social media, why Jordan's book The AI Labor Architecture is being given free to every attendee so they can think about integrating every tool they see in terms of the whole business system rather than isolated capability, and why Steve Trang argues that the most important thing you can do in the next six months is make sure your business does not look identical to how it looked twelve months ago.If you have been waiting to figure out which AI tools actually work for real estate investing without relying on someone else's affiliate link this is the episode and the event for you. Follow Stephanie on Instagram at @stephbetters and visit leftmainrei.co to learn more about Left Main REI, follow Jordan on Instagram at @jsamuelfleming and visit smrtphone.io to learn about his cloud phone system built for real estate investors, pick up his book The AI Labor Architecture and check out his podcast That Real Estate Tech Guy at thatrealestatetechguy.com, and follow Steve Trang at @disruptors.re and visit objectionproofselling.com to learn about Objection Proof AI and how it is booking thousands of appointments for real estate investors every month without a human team. Get your tickets to REI Tech Unlocked at reitechunlocked.com — September 19 through 21 — and build real AI tools for your business in one day at REI Tech Unlocked.STEPHANIE BETTERSInstagram: @stephbetters — Left Main REI website: https://leftmainrei.coBetter Path Homes: Co-founder — Charlotte NC real estate investment companyInc. 2026 Female Founders 500 honoreeJORDAN SAMUEL FLEMINGInstagram: @jsamuelfleming — YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JordanFlemingGamechangerssmrtPhone website: https://smrtphone.ioPodcast: That Real Estate Tech Guy https://thatrealestatetechguy.com

08-25
43:54

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