Onward is a podcast from America's largest direct-to-investor alternative asset investment platform, Fundrise. Onward offers unique insights and perspectives from company co-founder and CEO Ben Miller and guests.
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“After Talk” with “Our Meeting at the Crossroads” is a platform that interviews Music Artist. Where they talk about their journey, purpose, agenda in the biz, and their life during this pandemic. A place where they get a chance to tell their story and view on being a performer. An inside scoop/in person interview with the Artist and Host. No judgement, just conversation.
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Where has all the drag in Vancouver gone? Max Collins explores the city's drag community in the wake of multiple venue closures. Listen with headphones, start at episode 1.
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A Weekly Podcast in which hosts Scott and Matt expertly dissect and discuss the hit web serial Worm, week by week, arc by arc.
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Welcome to the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, where I’ll talk with the Amazonians who helped build Amazon.com into one of the world’s most valuable companies. This weekly podcast is for entrepreneurs, future business leaders, and all students of history (not to mention, people interested in getting hired at Amazon!). The goal of the podcast is to capture the Amazon Creation Stories and create a historical archive... before we forget all the details -- that’s it. My name is Dave Schappell (and ...
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Learn how to become a master at private label selling on Amazon amidst millions of other sellers, and amidst the fastest growing commerce era in history. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/masterprivatelabel/support
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Join us on "Our changing views" as we work, live and play on a 57" Narrowboat on the British Inland waterways. This podcast is to accompany our Youtube channel "Our changing views" but with a difference. Where as the youtube channel is more of a polished end product this podcast is more about us, talking about whats happening in our lives, our thoughts, and plans, its going to be a lot more laid back and like the YouTube channel its going to start at the beginning. We start these podcasts in ...
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48: Will AI Surpass Us? with Robert Nishihara, co-founder of AnyScale
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53:51Rob Nishihara is the co-creator of Ray, the open-source software now used by OpenAI, Amazon, DeepSeek, and Nvidia as part of the essential stack for building AI at scale. Rob offers a rare insider’s view of the bottlenecks, breakthroughs, and practical limits shaping AI today. The discussion ranges from the philosophical to the technical—covering s…
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47: How to break a country (and maybe save one), with Rob Johnson
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55:47He helped break the British pound and Swedish krona alongside George Soros, Stanley Druckenmiller, and now–Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Rob Johnson shares extraordinary insights into currency warfare, reflects on his time inside institutions of power, and assesses the Trump administration’s bid to rebalance the global economy. You can also lis…
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46: Trump's Trade Roadmap: From Hidden Plan to Radical Reality
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1:15:15Months before trade policy was on anyone's radar, Stephen Miran—now Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Trump—quietly published "A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System." In this episode, Ben and Cardiff dive into Miran’s roadmap and assess how Trump's policies in practice have diverged from Miran’s origin…
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45: How tariffs will impact the economy, with Anna Wong, Chief US Economist at Bloomberg
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52:13Anna Wong is the Chief US Economist at Bloomberg and previously worked at the Federal Reserve, White House Council of Economic Advisors, and US Treasury Department. I can imagine few people in the world better suited to analyze and forecast the impact of the tariffs. — For a deeper dive into these insights and more, be sure to listen to the full ep…
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44: Rebuilding the World Trade Center, with Tal Kerret
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1:01:26Tal Kerret is the President of Silverstein Properties, the company behind the historic rebuilding of the World Trade Center in New York City, and on the board of directors of Fundrise. Tal provides an in-depth look into the challenges and triumphs associated with redeveloping this iconic site, emphasizing its immense logistical complexity, symbolic…
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43: Sell your tech company for $310M or $30B, with Auren Hoffman
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1:00:52As a serial tech entrepreneur, VC investor, and expert in data-driven businesses, Auren Hoffman has been a player in Silicon Valley for nearly 30 years. Auren reflects on the pivotal decisions behind selling LiveRamp, the evolution of data companies, and how AI is reshaping industries. From the lessons learned in entrepreneurship to predictions abo…
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42: The greatest capital broker in the nation, Simon Ziff
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43:15Over his 36-year career, Simon Ziff, President of Ackman-Ziff, has overseen more than $100 billion in transactions and witnessed the dramatic evolution of the real estate industry brought about by the Savings and Loan Crisis. Simon shares his journey from joining Ackman Brothers in the 1980s to seizing the opportunities created by the rise of CMBS …
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41: AI policy under the Trump Administration, with Neil Chilson
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51:12The most important decision President Trump may face is how to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, is a policy insider with nearly two decades of experience inside the halls of power. Neil walks us through how to think about the tradeoffs and approaches to capturing the enormous potenti…
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40: From Bootstrap to Billion-Dollar Business, with Tristan Handy CEO of dbt Labs
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47:24The data revolution is transforming every business in the world, and Tristan Handy sits near the center of it. Starting with a simple idea, he and his team built dbt Labs into a multi-billion-dollar tech company by understanding how technology is changing the world and what that meant for how people should change with it. This episode dives into Tr…
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39: The Rise of Build-to-Rent: A New Era in Real Estate, with Josh Hartmann CEO of NexMetro
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55:13Build-to-Rent (BTR) may be the biggest innovation in real estate this decade and NexMetro Communities is arguably the originator. Since 2010, NexMetro has been developing BTR projects, with over 55 projects across the U.S., offering cottage-style homes specifically designed for renters. Hartmann provides insight into BTR’s growth, his unique busine…
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38: Are we vastly underestimating AI? with Dwarkesh Patel
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53:26A couple hundred people in San Francisco may be on the cusp of inventing artificial general intelligence (AGI). Yet most people are not paying close attention, are skeptical, and are certainly not in the room. Dwarkesh pulls back the curtain so that the broader public can understand what people who are actually building AI think is going to happen.…
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37: The Housing Expert Guiding the Homebuilding Industry, with John Burns
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57:49John Burns is a renowned expert on the housing market. In this episode, John unravels the complexities of today’s economic climate and housing trends, providing a comprehensive analysis of the housing market, demographic shifts, homebuilding industry, and rental sector. Whether you're a homeowner, investor, or simply interested in economic trends, …
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36: Breakthroughs in military technology: Lessons from history and future implications
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1:02:32Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize warfare and reshape geopolitics. Professor Andrew Wilson, professor of Strategy at the US Naval War College, explores the transformative power of military technology throughout history and its implications for the future. In this episode of Onward, host and Fundrise CEO Ben Miller and Profe…
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35: The 5 patterns of technology breakthroughs
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1:00:08Although each major technology wave is unique—mainframes, the personal computer, internet, mobile, cloud, and now AI—the way they have played out has been surprisingly consistent. The core financial, product, and economic patterns repeat each innovation cycle and help define which companies go on to win or lose. In this episode, Ben and Cardiff ide…
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34: Race against recession: growth vs. debts in America
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1:05:03Two roads diverged before the US. One the way of growth and the other the way of a debt spiral. In this episode, Cardiff Garcia and Ben Miller look at the state of US dynamism vs. indebtedness, and the narrow path that would lead to a prolonged US boom. They scenario plan three potential futures: the continuation of current growth trends, a major r…
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33: On the state of housing, with economist Ali Wolf
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44:19On the latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is joined by Ali Wolf, Chief Economist at Zonda and one of the smartest people we know for analyzing and understanding housing and the economy. As we’re still in the early weeks of 2024, Ben and Ali’s conversation focuses on lessons learned from the past year, when a confluence of factors res…
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In this final Onward episode of 2023 co-hosts Cardiff Garcia and Fundrise CEO Ben Miller kick things off by discussing Ben’s major market call: The conclusion that the real estate market has hit bottom. After 18 months of escalating interest rates punishing the real estate industry, small businesses, and regional banks, we’ve entered a new period w…
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31: Building a $1B startup without ego, with Christina Cacioppo
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47:28In the modern tech landscape, there are few topics more critical — or, unfortunately, more frequently overlooked and misunderstood by laypeople — than data security. Luckily Vanta has developed a revolutionary solution for how other companies can address the problem of data security compliance, with enormous subsequent benefits for how those busine…
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30: What happens when there’s no money in real estate markets
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53:45People outside of the real estate investment industry may be unaware, but the market is currently navigating a period of turbulence comparable to what it experienced during the 2008 financial crisis, with cap rates and pricing down as much as 50%. In this episode of Onward, co-hosts Ben and Cardiff look at some behind-the-scenes market data that Be…
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29: The largest developer in LA, Rick Caruso
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41:50Rick Caruso’s real estate projects have defined how a generation of LA residents live in and experience the city. When you truly collaborate with communities, Rick explains, you get more than reliable financial success — you get momentum behind your project, you get political capital, and you get the satisfaction that comes from knowing people appr…
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As our host, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller, observes in this latest episode of Onward, the amount of hype surrounding AI has become extraordinary… to the point that it’s become difficult for many people to distinguish the reality of its potential from vaporware. Luckily, coinciding with the Fundrise Innovation Fund’s investment in Theory Ventures, we hav…
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27: Understanding AI and its implications
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54:24As artificial intelligence has dominated headlines over the past year, it’s become increasingly critical for everybody to understand AI, due to its likelihood to impact each and every one of us. In this latest episode of Onward, join Fundrise CEO Ben Miller and co-host Cardiff Garcia for a conversation that aims to reveal some of the big picture id…
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26: The Insider's Lobbyist: How lobbying really works, with David Carmen
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51:53In our latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is joined by David Carmen, founder of the Carmen Group and one of the top lobbyists in the nation. He has worked on some of the most important issues of the past nearly half century — from 9/11 to Softbank’s $22B acquisition of Sprint. With increasing polarization and political dysfunction, m…
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25: The Big Bang: The origin of modern real estate and banking
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58:23In this latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller and co-host Cardiff Garcia give us a tour of the economic landscape that was once the status quo: a world where local lending institutions called S&Ls — or thrifts — were the primary way individuals saved for and financed home ownership. However, due to a confluence of events, including rock…
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In the latest episode of Onward, Ben and Cardiff work through one of the most confounding questions currently poised for the economy: What do we make of two seemingly contradictory data sets, where one is telling us that the economy is generally healthy, while the other says we remain precisely on track for a full-blown recession, according to all …
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23: Debt ceiling crises, with Noreen Harrington
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53:37Noreen Harrington’s background in finance has involved working on everything from running Treasuries for Goldman Sachs to helping manage the creation of the Euro. In this latest episode of Onward, she joins Fundrise CEO Ben Miller to help us better understand why the upcoming debt ceiling crisis in the United States is a serious threat to economic …
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22: The case for optimism, with Cardiff Garcia
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1:09:15If you’ve listened to Onward regularly, you know that Fundrise’s CEO Ben Miller has been a perennial contrarian when it comes to assessing the outlook for the economy, especially as markets have overheated and behaved irrationally. So, this latest episode of Onward might surprise you, as Ben gives the floor to co-host Cardiff Garcia, who treats us …
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21: Bonus Episode: The fundamental nature of the universe, with Amanda Gefter
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1:05:39In this bonus episode, our host Ben Miller interviews a special guest, the science writer Amanda Gefter, to discuss some of the most intriguing and consistently mind-blowing ideas from her book about cutting-edge physics and cosmology, Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn. Departing from Onward’s usual topics — the economy, what’s happening in the market…
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20: The Cascade, the Great Deleveraging’s next chapter
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1:10:37In the weeks since Silvergate, Signature, and Silicon Valley Banks’ respective failures, observers around the world have found ways to classify each collapse as the result of specific, isolated circumstances. But our hosts at Onward see something much different: a systemic, likely global crisis in the financial markets, playing out very close to wh…
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19: How we broke the British pound, with Rob Johnson
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1:15:47In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse last week, Onward host and Fundrise CEO Ben Miller sits down for an interview with the economist and trader Rob Johnson, one of the most experienced investors in the world at the fault line of government and finance. Having served as a Managing Director of the Quantum Fund, Chief Economist of the U.S. S…
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18: The $50B contrarian, Ira Lubert
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1:04:11When it comes to ambitious investing, many people make the mistake of chasing glory and fame — at the expense of sound judgment and real financial results. But not Ira Lubert, chairman and co-founder of Independence Capital Partners and Lubert Adler Partners, and the guest on our latest episode of Onward. Ira has instead spent decades content to st…
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17: Inside the VC playbook — After a tech bubble collapse
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56:59Mind games and “dirty term sheets.” These are the kinds of potential pitfalls that await tech entrepreneurs and employees in the financial landscape of 2023, especially those particularly in need of fresh infusions of venture capital. In this latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller walks co-host Cardiff Garcia through another set of fasci…
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16: On the state of the market, with the creator of a $1T financial innovation, Schecky Schechner
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1:02:48Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is joined by Schecky Schechner, Managing Director and Co-Head of US Real Estate Banking at Barclays Capital, for a wide-ranging and technically insightful conversation in this latest episode of Onward. As Ben points out, Schecky is credited as one of the co-inventors of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) in the wak…
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15: The largest real estate developer in the world, Steve Ross
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27:51In the latest episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller gives us the opportunity to listen in on a conversation with one of the most experienced and influential figures in real estate today: Steve Ross, the largest real estate developer in the world. In addition to being the co-founder and chairman of RSE Ventures and owning the Miami Dolphins, St…
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14: Year-End Performance in Depth & Investment Strategies for 2023
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37:49In anticipation of the upcoming publication of Fundrise’s 2022 year-end letter to investors, CEO Ben Miller is once again joined by Kendall Davis, Head of Investor Relations and Investor Operations, for an in-depth analysis and conversation about the Fundrise portfolio’s 2022 performance. This episode is indispensable to any listener interested in …
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13: Forecasts for 2023: Scenarios, Systems, and Pattern Recognition
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57:46Join your Onward co-hosts, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller and Cardiff Garcia, to wrap up 2022 in the same way we started it: with a session of scenario planning. Ben and Cardiff each share their predictions for what the next year might bring, including possibilities that are both very likely and, admittedly, a little more far afield. We learn the premise …
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12: Owner-Developer of the World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein
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42:12Join Ben Miller, CEO of Fundrise, for a conversation with a very special guest on this episode of Onward: Larry Silverstein is the founder and chairman of Silverstein Properties, the owner-developer of the World Trade Center, along with a remarkable portfolio of other major properties that have defined New York City life and the Manhattan skyline f…
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11: Bonus Episode: Investor Q&A November 2022
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19:46This week, we have a special treat from Onward: our first bonus episode, dedicated entirely to discussing and answering important questions about Fundrise, sourced directly from Fundrise investors. Kendall Davis, head of investor relations and investor operations, joins Ben Miller, Fundrise CEO, to share some of the topics on our investor community…
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10: The Great Deleveraging, a Fundrise market analysis
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1:10:34For months, the hosts of Onward — Ben Miller, Fundrise CEO, and Cardiff Garcia — have discussed the many ways that the current, high inflation environment will impact the broader economy and behavior of investors. In this latest episode, Ben brings a brand new idea to the table: a specific theory outlining how our financial system is on the verge o…
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9: Why financial history matters, with Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management
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41:03In this month’s episode of Onward, Fundrise CEO Ben Miller is joined by Ben Carlson, Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, for a wide-ranging discussion that offers fresh, critical thoughts on the state of the market, plus new perspective on our current moment in financial history. Ben C’s additional experience a…
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As inflation lingers at historical highs, the Fed remains set on taming it, ratcheting up interest rates and inviting a recession. In this new episode of Onward, Ben Miller, CEO of Fundrise, and co-host Cardiff Garcia do a new round of scenario planning, to better assess ten key drivers that directly influence inflation. Together they look back at …
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7: Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal (VCs and hosts of Acquired): Top investment lessons, what makes the best tech companies, and more
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50:00What separates investments in the very best companies from the rest? In this month’s episode of Onward, CEO Ben Miller is joined by the hosts of Acquired, a podcast that looks into the stories and playbooks of history’s greatest companies, to learn where remarkable success in venture capital comes from. Together with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal…
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They say every cloud has a silver lining, the landlord of our store has found termites, if you forget the fact the forced closure may put us out of business there is a silver lining, and a silver lining that helps us move closer to our narrowboat and gives us a chance to take our vlogs and podcast on the road the first of many moving Changing views…
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In this month’s episode of Onward, CEO Ben Miller and co-host Cardiff Garcia are joined by Fundrise COO Brandon Jenkins to discuss one of the most exciting and fast-growing segments of Fundrise’s real estate investment strategy: built-for-rent single-family housing. Plus, Kendall Davis is back to answer a few hard-hitting questions from investors. …
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4. Catch up Podcast 14th Aug How many times can i say erm?
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25:02Well this is a catch up podcast and at the same time its to get us back into the flow. You get out of the habit and if you are learning, well then you start to forget what you have learned and it takes ages, the plus side to all of this is we have found a simpler way of recording the sound, let me know what you think, It took a lot of editing I did…
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3. Our first joint podcast, introducing my dear wife kelly as we talk about our future narrowboat
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30:25Kelly decided that as she had the idea of doing the podcasts, that she would do the episode this week. She sat for a few hours and wrote a script, happy that she had written enough she handed it me over breakfast and i read it, timing myself 3 and a half minutes LOL. So we opted for a joint podcast, so join us on an update on our Narrowboat model, …
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In this month’s episode, we have something a bit different than our typical programming: Fundrise CEO Ben Miller talks with co-host Cardiff Garcia about a big announcement – the Fundrise Innovation Fund, a brand new investment product and our entry into the world of venture capital, the next financial sector Fundrise aims to disrupt and make availa…
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it's been a week of questioning our dreams. Even in a positive world., sometimes you have to ask am i doing the right thing, am I on the right track or am I an imposter. "One day my son"? one day what? well to find out the answer to that question you must listen to the podcast all will be reviled.By Paul & Kelly Heywood
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Its been a hard weekend as we continue to push ourselves to improve the content for our youtube channel the technical side of things get more consuming On top of that it is a year since my dear friend died, its not as if i don t think about him, I do, all the time, but it was a little more focused this weekend and at the same time I am try ing to l…
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8:49Well this is an into to our changing views channel, we have no idea what we are doing and basically this started out as a check on the mike and the software we are using The channel will document our thoughts and work as we work our way back from the USA over 4,500 miles back to Britain and onto the British inland waterways, and onto a canal At tha…
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