
Welcome to the
Freedom Podcast!
Welcome to the Freedom Podcast!

The Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing podcast is about helping you achieve financial independence and control your time through apartment building investing. Michael Blank interviews experts in real estate, business, and investing.
From learning how to invest in multifamily real estate to navigating entrepreneurship, you will learn the keys to success in your journey towards financial freedom. Previous guests include Grant Cardone, Robert Kiyosaki, Ken McElroy, Robert Helms, Brandon Turner, and Hal Elrod. Whether you're new to real estate investing or a seasoned investor, you'll enjoy stories from our expert guests as well as hear from people who quit their jobs and are living life on their own terms because of investing in multifamily real estate.
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MB 188 with Grant Cardone
MB 160 with Robert Kiyosaki
MB 165 with Hal Elrod

MB488: How to Use Your Retirement Funds to Invest in Apartments (No Wall Street or UBIT) – With Damion Lupo
In this episode, I’m joined by Damion Lupo, founder of eQRP, to explain exactly how to unlock your retirement savings and use them to invest in apartments, storage, and more.

MB487: How This Deal Maker Scaled to 700 Units and Raised $20M—With Chad Schieler
In this episode, Michael Blank sits down with Chad to unpack the gritty, unfiltered truth behind the rise of Focus Capital. They dive deep into the growing pains of scaling fast – partnership failures, capital raising fears, management misfires, and what it really takes to build a machine that lasts.

MB486: How to Identify a Good Market for Real Estate Investing (And Where We’re Buying in 2025)
In this episode, Michael Blank is joined by Andrew Meyers, Director of Acquisitions at Nighthawk Equity, to reveal what actually matters when choosing a market—and why most investors are looking at the wrong data.

MB485: The Real Reason You’re Not Scaling — The Psychology of Impossible Goals – With Dr. Benjamin Hardy
This episode is a must-listen for six-figure earners stuck in the single-family grind, trying to leap into commercial real estate and financial freedom.

MB484: The Asset Class Most Multifamily Investors Overlook—That Could Help You Scale Faster – With Cody Payne
In this episode, Cody Payne, SVP at Colliers, breaks down why Small Bay Flex Industrial is quietly exploding—and why more active and passive investors are taking notice.

MB483: 33,000 Units Later: What Smart Passive Investors Really Want—and How Great Operators Deliver It – With Jeff Gleiberman
In this episode, Jeff shares the core principles that helped his family-run firm grow into one of the top 50 apartment owners in the U.S. You'll hear how they’ve weathered multiple market cycles, why they’re buying newer assets right now, and how disciplined underwriting, fixed-rate debt, and vertical integration have become their unfair advantages.
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