Relationships are your Superpower #35

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Written by Nick Halaris

Happy New Year Everyone and Welcome Back!

This week on The Nick Halaris Show we are featuring relationship expert Barb Betts.  Barb is a popular keynote speaker, the host of the Relationships are your Superpower Podcast, where I recently had the honor to make an appearance, and a very successful real estate entrepreneur.  When I met Barb, learned her story and the inspiring contours of her message around the immense value of relationships in business and life, I knew our discussion would make for an interesting podcast.

Ready to dive in? Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and Youtube or on your favorite podcast platform.

We may live in an era where genuine connection has been de-prioritized in favor of things like friends, followers, likes and clicks, but it’s relationship that moves the world.  I wanted to have Barb on the show to highlight the important work she’s doing to refocus our attention on the critical value of relationships, not only in the pursuit of success, but also for building a life of meaning.  In this inspiring episode you’ll learn:

  • How Barb discovered the relationship superpower while struggling as a young mother trying to make it as a real estate agent

  • How to consistently close the gap between like and trust in your relationships

  • Why it’s so important to systemize your approach to relationship building

  • Why referring type people hold the key to your success and how to identify them

  • The relationship between authenticity and trust

    &

  • Much, much more

Barb also opens-up and shares how her struggles with hair loss have inspired her work as a speaker, teacher, and podcast host and how her decision to embrace vulnerability and share her journey publicly not only helped her overcome her feelings of shame but also has helped countless others along the way.

Finally, for those interested in the real estate market, stay tuned to the end for an interesting discussion about why now might actually be the best time to try to buy a house.

I hope you all enjoy this episode.  Thanks for tuning-in!     

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Nick Halaris

I’ve been fascinated by investing for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I would read the Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Barron’s, pouring over the data tables, stories and interviews with a passion and an insatiable kind of curiosity. As I grew into adulthood, I struggled to find the right outlet and channel for this passion and spent much of my twenties wandering and trying out different things. I had a very brief career as an attorney, spent some time as a strategy and leadership consultant for big multinational companies, failed in an attempt to start a hedge fund, and even ended up helping run a scrap metal recycling operation for a while.

At the age of 30 though, I took my stand. I made up my mind that no matter what I was going to be an entrepreneurial investor. As crazy as it sounds, I owe everything in my life to this one foundational decision—even my amazing wife and my beautiful kids. I don’t think I would ever have met Alicia had I not made this one choice. At that moment in time, the financial world had just been devastated by the crash in the housing market and the near systemic failure of the global banking system that followed. I’ve always had a contrarian bent to my investment thinking; so, to me the carnage in real estate looked like an opportunity.

It all started with one house in Compton California. The business plan was simple: buy a distressed foreclosed home from a bank, bring it back to life with a big renovation and sell it to a first-time homebuyer. Things progressed slowly as they tend to do with real estate. In the first years of this, I think I did 6-7 homes. But then after plugging away day-by-day, suddenly it seemed, things just came together. I found the right investors and the right loans and the right deals and in just a few short years I ended up investing in over 100 such transactions, building a portfolio of almost 2,500 multifamily units and creating a fully vertically integrated real estate company with almost 100 employees.

Fast forward to today and I’m running the second evolution of my entrepreneurial investing career and having so much fun that I have to stop and remind myself that this is all real.

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