
Providing Significant Resources and Relationships With Yeadon Smith
About this episode
Yeadon Smith is a recovering youth minister now working full time in real estate. He is the owner of Live Oak Real Estate and co-founder of Live Oak Capital, a real estate investment firm. They work with private investors to give them solid, consistent returns to build long term wealth and cash flow. He has helped grow Live Oak Capital to over $50 million in assets under his management since its beginning in 2019. He shares how he got started in the industry and how he partnered up to start their own multifamily property management company. He shares how they’ve developed an educational platform and a community for real estate entrepreneurs that keeps them accountable.To learn more about his work and experiences, listeners can visit his Facebook page!
[00:01 - 11:15] Opening Segment
- Let’s get to know Yeadon!
- Yeadon discusses how he got started in real estate
- Adapting to changes to the real estate industry
[11:15 - 23:21] Providing Significant Resources and Relationships
- People don’t value what doesn’t cost them anything
- Develop more credibility and respect through masterminds
- Surviving and be successful in business
- The importance of experience when it comes to business
- Funneling investors into a portfolio
[23:22 - 31:51] THE FINAL FOUR
- What's the worst job that you ever had?
- He applied for a night stock boy
- What's a book you've read that's given you a paradigm shift?
- “Flip the Script” by Oren Klaff
- What is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?
- He wants to continue to learn how to play the drums
- What does success mean to you?
- Yeadon says that, “Success looks like getting to the end of your life and seeing the person you could have become, and being that person.”
Connect with Yeadon
Website: https://yeadonsmith.medium.com/
LinkedIn: Yeadon Smith
Facebook: Yeadon Smith
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