May 29, 2026

MOST PEOPLE HER AGE ARE STRUGGLING — SHE'S A MILLIONAIRE, HERE'S WHY!

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What starts with color analysis and black T-shirts somehow turns into one of the most honest conversations about money, ambition, and burnout we’ve had in a while.

Hannah Hammond joins us to break down commercial real estate financing in plain English, from capital stacks and lenders to how massive real estate deals actually get funded. But the real heart of this episode is the mindset behind success. Growing up around scarcity, pushing through burnout, learning to protect your energy, and realizing that more effort is not always the answer.

We also get into meditation, emotional intelligence, peptides, NAD, and the fine line between optimization and running yourself into the ground.

In this episode:

• Commercial real estate explained simply
• Capital stacks, lenders, and big-money deals
• Burnout, ambition, and protecting your energy
• Meditation and emotional intelligence
• Peptides, NAD, and modern biohacking
• Why awareness beats grinding harder

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00:00 - Color Analysis And Ditching Black

03:49 - Meeting Hannah After Getting Ghosted

06:36 - Building A Career From Nothing

10:07 - Meditation Mentors And AI Scripture

22:30 - The Real Path To First Million

29:52 - Peptides Appetite Control And Exhaustion

36:59 - Stem Cells Then Commercial Deal Sizes

47:18 - Losing Deals And Protecting Energy

51:46 - Hiring Firing And Remote Culture

57:24 - Coaches Big Thinking And Favorite Books

59:36 - Restaurants Routines And Closing Thoughts

Color Analysis And Ditching Black

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so welcome to our podcast. This is a little bit different today because this podcast is a spin-off of our radio show. Okay, yes. So so Hannah, thanks for being here.

SPEAKER_02

So excited.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so you always were black.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Up until about a month ago, I always wore black t-shirt and jeans. That's all I ever wore. And then I met this woman from England who went to the University of Fashion School or something in England, and she just asked if she could do my colors. You ever heard of this before?

SPEAKER_03

No. Well, like I asked ChatGPT what colors look good on me, and it says not black, which of course is what I wear.

SPEAKER_01

So if that's what you're talking about. That's what it did to me. Yeah. That's what she said to me. And I literally have, I I bought, especially I have these t-shirts that I love, they're the gap t-shirts. And at Christmas time, they're like $5. And I'll buy 30 of them. Yeah. And so I still have them in plastic stacked up. And I figure when one gets really beat up, then I open it up. Or if I have a fancy night, I put on a I open up a new shirt. So she said, she says to me, uh, she you sit down in this chair and she puts these fabrics on you. And then she and there's a mirror, and you can see what she sees, and she'll be like, This color does this, does this. And she puts black on me and she goes, Oh, she called it dreadful.

SPEAKER_04

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01

She goes, Look, you can see she started pointing out all these marks on my face that I didn't know were there. She goes, You see that? The darkness there and yeah, she goes, Don't ever wear black. And I was like, Oh my God. Then she gave me a label, and I am a soft autumn. So these are soft autumn colors that I would never wear in a million years. So I was like, all insecure. I asked my wife about the color. I asked Madison, I asked Tyler. And Tyler only wears black, and you only wear black. What if you're a soft autumn?

SPEAKER_03

I think I am a soft autumn. Are you serious? I'm pretty sure. I mean, I'm uh earthy tones, apparently, according to AI. It says don't wear any harsh colors like harsh black or harsh white or like harsh pinks or greens or anything, but soft, earthy tones that I should wear. But it's just a okay. I work a hundred hours a week. How the hell am I supposed to go figure out a whole new wardrobe and all these color matching? Like, I don't even know how to dress myself.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, that's what she does too. She gets your outfits together. I have a friend of mine hired her, and she she was going to uh Europe for like three weeks, and Nick, her name's Nikki. Nikki came and picked all her clothes, went shopping with her, and then picked all the outfits, and she has an app for you to take with you, and she packed for her. Like she That sounds amazing. Yeah, good. I'm gonna introduce you to her.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that sounds like it's above my pay grade. I'm like, I just want to get to the financial status to have a personal designer that shops for me, puts my clothes out, dry cleans, because I don't dry clean. I don't go to the hemming place. I have a pile of things to get hemmed because my body doesn't fit anything. I have to wear stretchy clothes because it's the only thing that'll fit me. And I've literally had the pile to go get hemmed for like three years. And I've never been to the hemmer.

SPEAKER_01

You have to meet her because she also is obscenely successful. Like her house, I've never seen this in the house before. She has a ballroom in her house.

SPEAKER_02

What?

SPEAKER_01

Like a ballroom, like where massive weddings downstairs. I was like, what the hell? I've never seen anything like that before.

SPEAKER_03

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01

She's fascinating. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So sounds like it's above my pay grade.

SPEAKER_01

I will I will introduce you, and then I would be interested to start seeing different colors on your because that's what happened to me.

SPEAKER_03

What does she charge for this autumn palette?

SPEAKER_01

Well, it's different. So for me, I had her on the show and we on my radio show and we did a thing, and I have to follow up with her. And what she does is she gives you also a little um book of swatches. So whenever you go shopping, it's your colors, so you don't waste time looking at up. So you're like, okay, is this my color? So I haven't done that part. And when you do that part, then you pay. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03

So I haven't done it.

SPEAKER_01

But she's fascinating. Okay.

Meeting Hannah After Getting Ghosted

SPEAKER_01

But anyway, thanks for coming on here.

SPEAKER_03

Of course. Happy to be here. It's nice to meet you actually in person. I feel like I know you already, you know, through our Instagram. And we uh you had me on your your uh live Kiss FM radio show.

SPEAKER_01

I had you on the show because I felt you blew me off uh because you talked about it was over a year ago. I was supposed to be on your podcast.

SPEAKER_03

Isn't that crazy?

SPEAKER_01

And I was talking about it on my radio show. We were doing a segment called Ghosted, and I was like, you know, I and everyone was like, has anyone been ghosted by anybody? And we want to do a non-romantic ghosted. And I was like, actually, I was asked to be on a podcast and there was no follow. I go, I wonder what happened. But there's a lot of stuff that happened between there with my son and you had some stuff. So we end up, so but now here you are. So how do I explain or how do you explain what you do for a living?

SPEAKER_03

I finance commercial real estate nationwide. So we go out and we find the best capital for commercial real estate projects, whether you're buying it, you're refinancing it, or you're developing it, we'll go out there and capitalize it for you. And then we just, you know, we charge a fee and we're we're a capital advisory firm.

SPEAKER_01

Can I can I can I ask you to dumb that down?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

What does that mean again?

SPEAKER_03

So you're like we finance commercial real estate.

SPEAKER_01

So, like what? Like like if someone wants to buy it so if you were to buy the studio, right?

SPEAKER_03

You would say, Hey, Hannah, I'm buying the studio.

SPEAKER_01

Can you help me?

SPEAKER_03

Can you help me get the financing? And I would say, well, my team would say, Hey, yes, absolutely. What you know, what's your experience? Have do you own any other real estate? Send over your financials. We'll put a package together, and then we'll submit it to like a hundred different lenders, and then we'll present to you all the different options. This is the interest rate of this lender, this is the term of this lender, this one wants a personal guarantee, this one doesn't. And then you get to kind of pick what's the best for you, and then we'll navigate the whole process from start to finish. So it's an easy process for you because how long have you been doing that? Uh well, I've been in commercial real estate since I was 18 and I'm 30 in 10 days. So um, but capital markets, which is lending, I started lending in 2020 with my own money as a private lender. So if you were gonna go buy like a fix and flip house, you would say, Hey, Hannah, I'm buying a fix and flip. Do you want to finance it? And I would finance it with my own money. And that's how I got into the lending space. And I really enjoyed that, but my pockets, you know, only went so deep. I wanted to scale a national company, and that's what birthed HB capital. And so now we can do $100 million projects, billion dollar projects, $2 million projects, all different sizes because it's not, you know, my capital.

SPEAKER_01

But if somebody says I want to buy a house and flip it, you do have you ever said no?

SPEAKER_03

Well, now, I mean, we do residential, but we don't really do anything under like a million and a half. So we do luxury ground up construction financing or like luxury flips, but for a small, you know, $300,000 fix and flip, that's not really our, you know, cup of tea. Because we focus primarily on commercial real estate.

SPEAKER_00

So, how did you start this at 18? How does this happen? How does this door

Building A Career From Nothing

SPEAKER_00

open for you?

SPEAKER_03

So I was, you know, very low income growing up. Dad works at a pawn shop not too far from here, actually. Not the nicest, uh, you know, well, I guess it's not Paradise Valley, you know, because it's a it's a pawn shop. People go in and they steal jewelry and then they sell it to the pawn shop, right? Right. Um and uh yeah, so I knew pretty young that I had to have money to be happy, at least that's what I thought when I was seven years old, because we my family just wasn't happy. My parents fought a lot. Um, I was sure as hell not happy. My my brothers were weren't happy. And so um I had a wealthy friend that I met at seven years old that had money and they were very happy. And so I'm like, okay, money equals happiness. How do I get money? And then I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki when I was 13. And he taught, and he's now my dear friend. He lives here in Arizona, and uh he's my friend in real life now, so it's amazing how full circle uh life happens to be. But he teaches buy assets, not liabilities. He teaches the rich buy assets, the poor and middle class buy liabilities, right? And he says assets are things that put money in your pocket. So, for example, if you buy a studio and you rent it out and it cash flows every month, that's an asset, right? Um, but if you go buy a car and it takes money out of your pocket every month, that's a liability. So he taught me that concept through that book. And then he taught me that uh rich people get very good at uh public speaking, capital raising, and sales. And so now I'm in capital raising, public speaking, and sales. And he also taught me that skills is what makes you rich, not money. And so I was obsessed with learning for forever. I was always top of my class, um always obsessed with learning, listening to audiobooks in the shower or on my walks or at the gym and reading and uh listening to podcasts. And so I really just followed his blueprint and decided to get my license at 18 years old. And uh that was 2014. I'm 18, waiting to go to college, which I went to engineering school on a full-ride merit scholarship. But I was like, okay, let me just dive into real estate while I wait to go to college and uh obviously had no network, no listings. And so I just went to the brokerage that I hung my license with and I said, Hey, who has a listing in my neighborhood that I can hold an open house? Middle of summer, which is off market, you know, 120 degrees out, not a good time for open houses. And I held that house open and what it was like a $200,000 house. One person showed up right as I was wrapping up to leave, and he listed a $1.1 million commercial property with me, which is Moon Valley Nursery now in Phoenix.

SPEAKER_01

Oh wow. I do the commercials, huh? I do their commercials for Moon Valley Nurseries, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That's amazing. So that's how I got started. And 30 I made $36,000 and I bought a property off the $200,000 house? Off the client that walked into the $200,000 house.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, so you didn't sell that house to him. He later said, Hey, can you help me?

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

And then you wow.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, he that day said, Can you help me sell my commercial property?

SPEAKER_01

Wow. So at 13, when you read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, you were like, This is what I want to do. I want to dig into this. And then what are other books that you've read? Like you said, you're listening to books on tape in the shower, like what are other motivational books that help steer you a certain way?

SPEAKER_03

Well, I read all of his books, Cash Flow Quadrant, and his his whole series of books. Um I read The Millionaire Real Estate Agent back in the day by Gary Keller, uh, because I was getting my I was gonna get my license. I read that, I think, right when I was 18. And then pretty much every book, I mean, like right now I'm reading the book How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. Um, but I also read a lot of personal development books.

SPEAKER_01

Like those, like tell me about those.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

Meditation Mentors And AI Scripture

SPEAKER_03

So Joe Dispenza, uh Becoming Supernatural.

SPEAKER_01

Dude, you like the fourth person that's brought up Joe Dispenza here.

SPEAKER_03

I love him.

SPEAKER_01

Like, yeah, that's wild. Well, because have you gone to his retreats or anything?

SPEAKER_03

I haven't.

SPEAKER_01

I have a friend of mine that's going to the one in in Cancun or Cabo, and it's like seven days of silence or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That's crazy. I know. Like back to the work 100 hours a week. I need to figure out how to have seven days of silence. That actually sounds like my worst nightmare. Uh yeah. Uh silence is the most difficult thing for me. But that's why I meditate now daily.

SPEAKER_01

Do you? Okay. Like how? When?

SPEAKER_03

10 minutes twice a day, morning and night. And but I do proactive meditation. So when I go into my meditation, I go into it with a question that I want to solve. And then I just focus on the question for the whole time. So I'm not really like the meditation where the Joe Dispends of meditation where you sit there and you just focus on your breath, or you um transcendental meditation. I got certified in that. It's where you repeat a mantra over and over and over again. My mantra, you're not supposed to ever say your mantra, so I'm not gonna ruin it for the community. But let's just say the mantra's love, right? So you would just repeat love, love, love um 20 minutes twice a day. And uh that type of meditation is much harder for me because that's where the brain like goes off and tries to wander, but then you have to come back to love.

SPEAKER_01

Love, love. That's what my wife does meditation every day, but she does um what would you call that? Like it's it's it's like from India. It's these two gurus. In fact, my first interview in this podcast was with one of them, and then and they're uh out of India. Tody Robbins went there.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Have you ever gone to a Tony Robbins seminar?

SPEAKER_03

No, I have not. And he's also one of my I biggest leaders and mentors that I followed.

SPEAKER_01

I was listening to his cassettes when I was 18.

unknown

Wow.

SPEAKER_01

And I would listen, so and then I went to one of his I bumped, I saw him at a restaurant one time and I freaked out like he was my Justin Bieber.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I would too.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and he said he said he's he talked to me forever. It was unbelievable. And then he invited me to come to his uh date with destiny in West Palm. So I went and uh it was it was incredible. I was just blown away by that guy.

SPEAKER_03

I want to go. I need to go. Actually, I'm go I I literally uh someone asked me, I'm in a math, I'm in a bunch of masterminds, and they have a whole group VIP at the date with destiny in Florida this year.

SPEAKER_01

That's where he put me. Perfect. Do it. It was unbelievable. But that's where he does a thing called the blessing, where he does he, he's one of the few people in the world, it's called the diksha, that he is allowed to give this diksha, and he did it because he lived, he went to uh India and lived at this temple for like six weeks. Um, and and these people, he's the one of the few people allowed to do the diksha, and he did it. And then the way things happen, the people I met, they're the ones that taught him how to do it. And they came here and they did it on this podcast to me. It was unbelievable. Uh, but it's a different kind of meditation, but it's good to know that you meditate. Their meditation, I mean their meditation, like I I absolutely believe it. I I actually have their meditation on a loop. I don't say it, but I have it playing all the time. And my and and in the morning I have my special routines and I work out every morning listening to that their meditation. But you'll have to share it with me. Oh, sure, sure. It's it's pretty, it's pretty amazing. She does a meditation every morning with a group of people, like oh, really?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's 24 okay.

SPEAKER_01

What time in the morning is it live? Six o'clock a.m.

SPEAKER_03

Is it like on Zoom or something?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they all do it. And it's all these people that you probably know that part of the Joe Dispenza group, all these people you know. Ian from Spiritual Gangster.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, he's great. I know him.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he was he was actually my last interview. Him and I go away. He's the one him and I went to Palm Beach together to the date with Destiny. Oh, how funny. Who else is in that group? Parde. Oh, I I know you're a Joe Polish. Are you Joe Polish? Pardeese? Yeah, Pardeese is part of it.

SPEAKER_03

I yeah, I love Pardeese. Oh, we love her too.

SPEAKER_01

She's every day in the meditation. Pardeez. She was my guest right here too. She's got a story.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I need to have I should have her on my show.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you should. She's amazing.

SPEAKER_03

I saw her at uh Jordan Peterson's house on Halloween. I haven't seen her since though.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I love that guy.

SPEAKER_03

Jordan Peterson? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Is he doing okay?

SPEAKER_03

I I don't know. I had heard some of the house. I know I know his uh daughter, Michaela. Oh, yeah. So she had she threw a Halloween party.

SPEAKER_01

You know, got him Stuart?

SPEAKER_03

Well Stuart who?

SPEAKER_01

Just Stuart.

SPEAKER_03

No.

SPEAKER_01

No, it's what's Stuart? Stuart Ellis. Do you know Stuart Ellis?

SPEAKER_03

Ah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Is that what Stuart does when she does? I had lunch with Stuart and and he he's just he was at uh he said Michaela moved in our neighborhood.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it's Paradise Valley.

SPEAKER_01

And I was like, oh man. Same, same. And I'm like, I'm like a big, so I'm a huge fan of hers too.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. I love Jordan. He's so uh I actually am watching his biblical series right now. I'd like to think I'm smart, but he's challenging for me to stay up with when he speaks. And so I have to really be fully focused on it. It's not something like I can listen to while I'm working out, like counting reps and listening to Jordan Peterson. I just want to blow up, blow my head off. But yeah, I try to get dialed in and um, like if I'm on a walk or something, I'll listen to his biblical series, which is pretty crazy. I I started studying the Bible recently. I'm I was never a religious person, uh, always had a relationship with God, but didn't I identify really much with religion because uh long story, but you know, my parents were very religious and I hated religion because of it and all these things. Uh but anyway, the Bible actually has some pretty great messages, like for a couple of good ones.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Don't kill.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I just like, you know, I'm reading all these business books. I'm like, there's some pretty good business lessons in the Bible and life lessons and relationship lessons. I'm like, I really enjoy reading scripture. I but I have to break it down in AI because it's so hard to understand. I'm like, okay, every day my AI sends me the next scripture. So I'm like, I'm reading it scripture by scripture from the first one, Genesis 1, 1, I think was the first one. And then I have it break it down and apply it to my personal, like self, personal development, uh, my relationships, and then my business. And so it breaks down and kind of translates the scripture into how I apply it. And it's so cool.

SPEAKER_01

And it's when you see my AI, what which AI do you use?

SPEAKER_03

Or is it all of them? But my main AI is Claude.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, Claude.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I love Claude. I I I divorce ChatGPT.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, really? Yeah. Why?

SPEAKER_03

Because it sucks now.

SPEAKER_01

I love ChatGPT.

SPEAKER_03

Well, that's what everyone started with. They still have the biggest market share, but Claude.

SPEAKER_01

Oh.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Yeah. Claude is ChatGPT is like the ugly stepchild compared to Claude now.

SPEAKER_01

Oh. Do you go to church ever?

SPEAKER_03

I don't. I tried recently uh because I hadn't been to church. I used to get really bad anxiety just walking up to a church uh because I really didn't enjoy it growing up, because I did go to church as a kid. And then uh actually the last time I went to church as a kid, my my mom could only get me there because they were offering to pay a hundred dollars for whoever memorized every verse of the Bible and said them the fastest. And so I was like, oh, I'll show up for that. And I won, I won the class. But that was the last time I went to church. But then I went a couple weeks ago to the one up in North Scottsdale. Um, it's just, you know, it's I think it has to be the the right situation, but it it's just not really for me.

SPEAKER_01

I we have this church we go to where it's a whole different ball game. The preacher, the preacher. I mean, every time we walk out of there, he's like a he's like a mini 20 Robbins.

SPEAKER_03

Who is the preacher?

SPEAKER_01

Terry Christ.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, see, I want to go. I want to find a good pastor.

SPEAKER_01

He's downtown. He bought this church down, this old Presbyterian church, but he's really modern. But he is just, he's he's a he's a badass. He's a total badass. Am I right?

unknown

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Like he will you'll walk out of there, like you get business. Like he doesn't. I mean, somehow he explains success in life, and then you walk out of there with a Bible lesson that you didn't know you got.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you know, I just feel like some sometimes I feel like the pastors are just very fake or putting on a show or very favorite people of all time.

SPEAKER_01

He truly is. Yeah. Uh so let me ask you this then. So, so your dad's running a pawn shop.

SPEAKER_03

Are you do still not running, working at work?

SPEAKER_01

Working at what what about now? Still there. He's still there at the pawn shop.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. It's funny. My aunt, my great aunt is 102 years old. Um, I've worked through a lot of uh, you know, daddy issues through my life and done a lot of healing and personal development and all of this. And so now I'm at peace with all of that, but had a very not enjoyable relationship with my father growing up. And uh he I always tell these stories because we had a lot of scarcity in our home. We didn't have a lot of money, and my dad had a lot of weird tendencies, like uh turning off all the lights and fans, you know, incessantly around the house. He'd walk around the house and make sure everything was turned off. And if we turned one on, he'd walk, he'd be there like three seconds later and turn it off.

SPEAKER_01

Like OCD tablets stuff, or just like save it like saving the stuff. Saving money.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe he's OCD too. Uh probably. He probably is, but saving money was the thing. And then just, you know, not really running the air conditioner to a normal, comfortable temperature in the summer, or running the heat if we needed it uh ever in the winter, or taking a shower like in the pool to save on the water bill. Um, my grandfather bought us a house, and so luckily we, you know, had a home and all that. But anyway, he used to go around the house and unplug things that were plugged in. So, like the toast, the toaster, the microwave, like anything that was plugged in, he would walk around the house and he would unplug it because he thought it was taking too much electricity. And so yesterday, my great aunt, bless her heart, is, you know, in her final day. She's 102 years old. She raised him, he still lives with her. Uh, never really lived on his own, other than when him and my mom were married. But I we order oregano's and I heat up the pizza cookie in the microwave. And I'm like, I wonder if my dad still unplugs things. And so I heat up the pizza cookie in the microwave and I leave the kitchen, and three seconds later, he goes around the other corner and he unplugs the microwave. And so then I go back and I go get like a second piece of cookie, and I'm just laughing in my head. I don't say anything. I get a second piece of cookie and I go put it back in the microwave and I go out the other door. Three seconds later, he comes at the other door and he unplugs the microwave, and I'm like, oh my god, how far we've come. Some of us just don't change.

SPEAKER_01

But does he know obviously about your success?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And how does he take that?

SPEAKER_03

I mean, he doesn't really care.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, what you've done is unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Is your mom around?

SPEAKER_03

He still has a flip phone that doesn't even have numbers saved. Oh wow. It's like a pay as you go. So it's not like he's like aware of what about your mom? Uh my mom is very proud of me. Yeah. She lives in Oregon. Um, she's uh she's great. She's proud of me. And yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Are your brothers around here too?

SPEAKER_03

One of them is. He's uh he's still, you know, growing up, struggling a bit. But uh my other brother lives in Maui. He ended up starting a fishing company out there and just had a baby and got married, and he's doing really well.

SPEAKER_01

What with fishing company? We used to go out there all the time. My son lives in Oahu.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01

We go to Maui all the time.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Um, well, it used to be called Start Me Up, was who he worked for. And then he ended up buying a boat from his old boss, and now his company's called Automatic.

SPEAKER_01

Does he sell the fish that he catches and makes pokey bowls and stuff?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we gotta look him up. We're gonna be there in August.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Start me up, sport fishing, but they've been through the ringer because the COVID and then the fires, and then it's just like one thing after another out there. So bless their heart. It's been a rough few years. I actually moved out there for a year before COVID. Um, it's not for me. Great place to visit.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, it's because you're moving a hundred miles an hour. You can't, you can't. Have you seen? Um, did you go all around there? All around Maya. Have you seen there's a restaurant there that we were so it was the same restaurant that's here. It's called Delight.

SPEAKER_04

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01

You see, and it's but it's out of business because the owner couldn't get anybody to work for him.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So the building is this beautiful building with this the greatest food, and they can't get anyone, so it's closed out. But it's painted all nice, looks brand new.

SPEAKER_03

No, it's uh people just want to, you know, do drugs and drink and go hang out on the beach. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um So the guy. The guy, I gotta tell you something, because you you and I were talking last year or so, right? And since you and I were talking, I saw that guy I follow. I can't remember his Instagram account, but he's the guy that goes, excuse me, sir, excuse me, sir, excuse me, sir.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, School of Hard Knocks, James.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. James, that's his name. Is he here?

SPEAKER_03

No, no.

SPEAKER_01

Because I was following him do you, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. He interviewed me. Um, he interviewed Robert Kisaki too, and Kevin McElroy and all those guys. But no, I think he actually lives in Florida, but he's all over the world.

SPEAKER_01

Right. So he comes up to you and says, How was he,

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SPEAKER_01

excuse me, excuse me, when was how old are you when you made your first million? Is that what is that what he asked?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, how old are you when you became a millionaire?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's it. That's it. And he's got a gazillion followers now.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, like 22 million in three years.

SPEAKER_01

So he asked you that. You're coming out of the car.

SPEAKER_03

Yep.

SPEAKER_01

And you tell him, I think it was it 21?

SPEAKER_03

25.

SPEAKER_01

25 when you became and it was because you sold what? Like what what got you there?

SPEAKER_03

I well, because I got my real estate license, I started selling high-ticket sales, commercial real estate. I did residential too. And I used those commissions to buy properties. And then properties went up in value and I renovated the properties. And so sure enough, I like am doing a personal financial statement, which I hadn't done. I did my personal financial statement. I was like, holy crap, I'm a millionaire. I've got I've got these assets. I got this, you know, cash flow. I was making about six figures a year in cash flow from my rental properties. I was doing Airbnbs and you know, I was 20, 25 years old, and I was like, well, get, you know, didn't need to be working at my engineering job anymore. Um, and so I just wanted to go full into entrepreneurship and do all that.

SPEAKER_01

So you did pursue the engineering thing. You did go to school and do the engineering thing. Yeah. Where'd you where's the engineering school?

SPEAKER_03

Uh I went to, I got a full ride. I knew I wanted to sell real estate and invest here, and I didn't want to be in debt with liabilities, like the book taught me. And so I went here, got a full ride to ASU and then graduated in three and a half years with you know, suma cum late 4.0 GPA. Jeez. Yeah. But I was, it was not a fun. I was that was a I was like, I was suicidal in that time. I was like for real, for real? Yeah. I would, yeah, I would like I would try to drown myself. Uh I was a mess. I was a I had a lot of problems. I was anxious, like really bad anxiety, really bad depression, horrible eating disorder. Didn't leave my house. I didn't even go to campus. Like everyone's like, oh, you went to ASU, you must have partied. I'm like, I didn't meet one person the entire time I was at school. Like, I don't know one person's name from college. I don't remember one teacher's name. I would only show up to take the exams, and I would teach myself third-dimensional calculus out of my book at home.

SPEAKER_00

Wow. So how do you try to drown yourself?

SPEAKER_03

What do you do to tie yourself to like a it sounds really stupid looking back because you know the brain doesn't want to drown? Right. So it's pretty hard to drown yourself. Um, I would just try to drown, I was just trying to go underwater and not come back up, but I would always come back up.

SPEAKER_01

Did you eventually get therapy, get help, or you just read a book to turn yourself around?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, I uh yeah, I I got help. I uh the main thing was I had a really bad eating disorder, and the eating disorder made me very insecure. And so then I was isolated. So I I talked to nobody. I had like literally nobody in my life. I was just living in a one-bedroom condo, not talking to a single soul, studying third-dimensional calculus and and physics, which was brutally difficult, doing a six-year degree in three years. So it was uh I was just putting myself through absolute misery. And I, yeah, I think isolation is the worst thing. And that's why now everything I do is around people. Like I love people so much now, and I just want to be talking to people all day long, working with people, helping people, serving people, learning from people, educating people. And uh, because I I had none of that for the first pretty much 25 years of my life.

SPEAKER_01

What pulled you out of that? Like, what was it where you were like, uh, all right, um, how do I get out of this isolation? What took you there? What took you out?

SPEAKER_03

I was I graduated and I got offered a job for Caterpillar. And so I had to go to an office every day.

SPEAKER_01

Detractors? Yeah, like Empire?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I just had lunch with the CEO the other day. Jeff? Jeff, he's one of my best friends.

SPEAKER_02

Really? Yeah. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01

Like I was texting with him all day yesterday because I'm doing something with him.

SPEAKER_02

I love Jeff. I would je I would like idolize Jeff.

SPEAKER_01

In fact, I was just about to my next, I was gonna go, I was gonna tell you a story that I had this friend of mine because of the money you're making. I had this friend of mine that told me, gave me this, he just and he's come up three or four times in his podcast, where he said to me, Life is about experiences, is what he said to me. And that hit home for me. So like I've always like my dad died and barely had he had some money, but not a lot of money. And I was he always kept saying to me growing up, someday we're gonna do this. Someday we're we never someday never came. Right. So after you know, Jeff hit me between the eyes with that, I was like, okay, I got floor seats of the sons. Um, we went, we go to Maui. I do everything we can. I mean, we we kind of live a really good life now. And every time I take us to the edge where I think it's a little too much, I look at my wife and I go, Life's about experiences. And I got that from Jeff Whiteman.

SPEAKER_03

I love it. Yeah, yeah, I know. He was always, you know, flying his jet to Montana and on his ranch.

SPEAKER_01

And um He said to me, sorry to interrupt, he goes to me one time, my son Dutch, our youngest son, I can't remember how old he was. Him and I were having a lunch. It was like a Wednesday. And my wife, my kids and my wife were always up in Pine Top. We had a cabin in Pine Top. And I would go and I make it a point to be there for every one of my kids' birthdays. It was like a Wednesday. And I was like, Yeah, I'm so bummed. Tomorrow's my son's birthday. And I go, first of all, I'm gonna miss. He might have been turning eight. Chick goes, why are you gonna miss it? I go, it's three and a half hours up. I said there, the airline, there's a short airline, he's close. He goes, Take my plane. I was like, What? I he gave me this his friggin' jet, flew to Pine Top in like 11 minutes.

SPEAKER_04

Right?

SPEAKER_01

I surprised him on the golf course, hung out with him, hugged, had dinner, and then I took all of it back on the jet. And it was uh it was all because of Jeff.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, I I just remember, you know, I was 21 years old, miserable inside. Uh, this it was huge for me to get better because it forced me to be around people. And then I was getting a lot of accolades being there because people were uh saying how good of a job I was doing and like you're doing really good here. And I was getting to fly on private jets, and I had they gave me like a work vehicle that was a beautiful, you know, brand new Tahoe, and just it was so much fun. I had a credit card and I got to go to fancy dinners, and I had never experienced anything like that in my life. And they gave me so much freedom. Uh, you know, I'm just a I'm just a kid, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is incredible. And I remember Jeff called me into his office. I think it was the only time I actually like got to have a one-on-one conversation with him that wasn't in a meeting with the leadership team or anything like that. But he called me into his office a few months after I had started working there. And I can't remember the specifics of all the conversation, but one thing that he said that stuck with me, uh, and I still operate today in my companies, was he said his grandfather had taught him, because his grandfather started in the inland empire when they were he was farming, using the equipment to farm. And he said his grandfather had taught him uh, take care of your farm and your farm will always take care of you. You know, you you feed your farm, you feed your crops, you water it, you take care of it, and it will feed you forever. And so he said, Hannah, now today I translate that into take care of your people, and your people will always take care of you. And don't ever forget that. And so that's how I operate in my life. I'm like, take care of people, my people, like the world. I think the whole world is my people. Uh, take care of people, and people will take care of you. And that's always been my focus and really what fills my cup is just trying to take care of people as much as I possibly can.

SPEAKER_01

His cousin uh has been my best friend since we were 12 years old. His cousin was the best man at my wedding. So I know his grandpa, the grandpa. Yeah, and I know all the dad. I know every it's such a trip that you brought him up.

SPEAKER_02

So that's crazy.

SPEAKER_01

Mind blown.

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SPEAKER_01

I mean, we had lunch on Wednesday, and he is shredded.

SPEAKER_03

Really? Yeah, exactly. On the peptides, huh?

SPEAKER_01

On the peptides.

SPEAKER_03

I love peptides.

SPEAKER_01

So I he put me on this protocol. I started today. That's what's so weird. Like I was texting him last night, going, so are you doing the peptides?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01

What do you do? Talk to me.

SPEAKER_03

I love the peptides. I actually um I need to start selling peptides. I have a really good transformation story from them because eating disorder since 15 years old. Uh yeah, starved myself because I was starving. I developed a sleep eating disorder. So I would like binge eat in my sleep, sleepwalking with no control, then gained, you know, gained a bunch of weight, then was uh been like addicted to food, fully addicted to food. My body couldn't, my brain would not stop thinking about it because I starved myself for so many years. Then, and this is what created all the isolation, and I'm unworthy and I'm ugly and I'm fat and I don't need to be alive anymore, and all this that stupid stuff. Um, but ultimately did a lot of the healing work. Well, I was, yeah, I was addicted to food. Then I became bulimic because I didn't want to get fat and all these things. So go went through a lot of therapy, uh, started exercising. Like I was too insecure to go to the gym. So I started running outside just alone and ran a half marathon and started to feel some confidence in myself and actually feel better about myself. And so became obsessed with exercise. Um, but then yeah, did all this therapy, did a lot of plant medicine, which helped me a lot like forgive all the people I've been holding on to resentment towards that I didn't even know like my dad and uh my family and my whatever, my high school boyfriend that cheated on me, like what all the all the people, right? And then um, and then but still, like I always the food thing was always challenging for me, even through all the healing. I always was always just kind of thinking, like if there was food around me, I was thinking about it. And it would consume my brain. And like I wouldn't, I couldn't buy groceries because I would just eat them all. Even though I'd healed a lot, I still had this thing that I really couldn't get rid of. Well, the peptides helped me completely cure that. And so I well, I take um, what do I take? NAD.

SPEAKER_01

I just took I took NAD this morning.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. NAD. I don't really notice anything with NAD, but people say it's great. Um, I just started taking the glow, like for your hair, skin, and nails.

SPEAKER_01

Um, I don't know that one.

SPEAKER_03

I take the BPC 157 to help with recovery, and then I take Retta True Tide. Oh my god! Reddit true tide is the one that helped me with the eating.

SPEAKER_01

I just started it this morning.

SPEAKER_03

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01

I got it from Jeff.

SPEAKER_03

Well, thank you, Jeff. You're gonna love it. I literally have like a six-pack right now.

SPEAKER_01

What the heck? That's why I told you he was shredded and he we sit, he sits down with me and I'm like, what the hell? I go, he's got like his arm muscles are just there. Yeah, they're like, what are you doing? He starts telling me everything. So he sent it to me. He sent me the red atutite, and I just took it today. That's unbelievable. And I don't know if red at two tide is it out? Because I thought someone else said, hey, it's not really out yet. It's kind of it's not like they call it the GLP3, but it really isn't. Well you take it a shot?

SPEAKER_03

I take, I don't know if it's legal or not, but I take it once a week? Yeah, once a week. The little insulin shots. And I hate needles, but it's like the microscopic thing. Anybody can do that.

SPEAKER_01

And uh Did you say that gave you abs, the red at two tide?

SPEAKER_03

Well, the red at true tide cuts your appetite. So it gets rid of all the food crazy.

SPEAKER_01

When does that kick in? Because I've been starving all day.

SPEAKER_03

Well you just took it this morning, and you probably they always start you on a small dose. Yeah. How much did you take?

SPEAKER_01

Uh eight little lines. And Jeff's Jeff's like my doctor right now on this. Eight little lines.

SPEAKER_03

So eight units?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, eight units. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. I take like 40.

SPEAKER_01

40 units?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Holy smokes. Because he was like, you got to be careful. We'll start you off really slow to see how it works. And a buddy of mine, Stuart, who wants to do it.

SPEAKER_03

I probably should have done that. I didn't.

SPEAKER_01

I just eight no matter. And do you ever get sick when you started? How long have you been doing it?

SPEAKER_03

The only thing I've noticed is lately, the past couple months, I would say, since I started Retta. Before Retta, I was on trisepatide. And trisepatide, I didn't feel exhaustion. Like now I feel exhaustion. Sometimes it'll be 3 p.m. and I'm gonna like I'll pass out on my computer. I won't literally pass out. Probably. I'm thinking that. Like I'm not drinking as much water. I'm definitely not eating as I, you know, I'm probably only eating like yeah, I'm probably not eating a lot. Like, oh, maybe 1200 calories a day.

SPEAKER_01

Because what I read was you have to really push yourself to eat the proteins because you lose your appetite.

SPEAKER_03

I eat proteins. Yeah. I eat a lot of eggs, cottage cheese, turkey.

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Wow.

SPEAKER_03

So, but I have been feeling very exhausted lately, very, very low energy. So my workouts haven't been as good. I haven't been going to the gym as much. Um and I don't know if it's from the Retta. So I was thinking about trying to like wean off of it a bit and see if that if I'm on too high of a dose. And also I'm starting to get pretty skinny. So I don't, I don't want to like lose more weight, but that could be it. But other than that, I've had no side effects. That's a pretty bad side effect, though, if you're exhausted.

SPEAKER_01

Do you you wear any of this the like a whoop or an aura ring or any of that stuff marked?

SPEAKER_03

No, no, I used to, but I work so much like I never even looked at the metrics.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I look at it once or twice a day.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But like to me, so so I know two people, now with you, three people that take this red-atoutide thing. I keep calling it rat tattooing.

SPEAKER_03

I only know three people that don't take it.

SPEAKER_01

Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And I just everyone I know takes it. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01

But this one friend of mine that takes it, Stuart. The I said, What are the side effects? He's 9% body fat. I said, What are the side effects? He said, Well, my heart rate at night when he goes to sleep is 95 beats per minute. I go, that's terrible.

SPEAKER_02

Is that high or though?

SPEAKER_01

It's extremely high. Like it should never be that if you're working out, okay, but not when you're sleeping. Jeff, when I had lunch with him, his heartbeat was 49, which is elite-level athlete heart rate. Like, so I decided to take a gamble and hope that mine is more like Jeff's than it is Stuart's. So I'm on day one today. So that's why I was hoping maybe you knew what your heart rate was. Can you sleep?

SPEAKER_03

I sleep like a baby. Oh, I mean, I'll pass out on a plane like this for six hours. I'll maybe fly to Florida and back. And I, you know, even in an economy seat, I'll just knock out. I was like, there's no point in paying for first class anymore because I just pass out and I'm asleep the whole flight from takeoff to takedown.

SPEAKER_01

Is there something in Florida? Is there a do you have business there?

SPEAKER_03

Uh yeah, well, yeah. I'm just all over the country all the time. But there's a lot of conferences and masterminds in Florida. So I've already been there like five or six times this year.

SPEAKER_01

For mastermind specifically? Like which, like what mastermind?

SPEAKER_03

Uh well, different masterminds just do different locations usually throughout the country. So they'll switch from like East Coast to West Coast. Uh, but where was I? I was at Commercial Academy. It's commercial real estate mastermind. Recently I was there for fun. Actually, my best friend's family, they're like my adopted family. Uh, that was vacation, but I did I do a bunch of podcasts out there because there's so many people in Miami. So every time I go out there, I just do a day of filming um at the studio out there.

SPEAKER_01

Like you're interviewing people, or yeah. You know, it's something else too. I remember one of your podcasts, I had, oh God, I had him booked. Well, I interviewed him eventually, but I saw him on your podcast first was Dr.

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SPEAKER_01

Pompa.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That guy is, in fact, in fact, do you ever looked? Have you looked into stem cells? I feel like every podcast I'm talking about, stem cells. But have you talked about have you looked into stem cells?

SPEAKER_03

I have. I actually know a great stem cell guy that a lot of entrepreneurs I know use, and he'll send someone to your house anywhere in the country. And apparently they're as good a quality as, you know, Mexico or wherever people are going. Yeah. Um, and I think they're well, yeah, they're pretty pricey. Uh, but I haven't taken them. I feel like I'm a pretty optimized healthy person. And he even said, you really, I mean, you could do it for preventative, but if you're healthy and young, you probably it's probably not worth the investment.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but if you're falling asleep at three o'clock in the afternoon or you're right.

SPEAKER_03

But that could just be I'm shaking too much red-to-try.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Well, I met Pompa. I met Pompa last year in Cabo at the stem cell clinic. Oh. He was getting stem cells, I was getting stem cells. And then um, I had him on the podcast. Uh, and I'm doing something with him in Houston uh in September. In fact, I got an email about it today.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, I I think they're life-changing. I mean, I know people that have had crazy stories.

SPEAKER_01

We're going Thursday. We're going to Cancun Thursday for stem cells. Okay, nice. There's two clinics. There's a clinic in Cabo and a clinic in um Cancun that are I, from what I understand, are the best of the best of the best.

SPEAKER_03

And that's where we do you have an injury?

SPEAKER_01

Nope. You're just trying to get preventative. Yeah, just saying trying to stay as healthy and as yeah, you know, we got three kids that are very three boys that are very active. So, you know, we're we're yeah, trying to do everything we can. So, out of all the properties you sold, what what's what is the biggest prof you ever made and what was it?

SPEAKER_03

Uh well, one I would say, oh gosh, that's so hard. Well, it's hard because I have a company, so I have other I have people that work for me. So they they all sell properties, and so those kind of count as my sales because I get a cut of all of that.

SPEAKER_01

But has anyone ever called you, Hannah? My God, I just got the freaking $4 billion, whatever. I got a hundred million dollars.

SPEAKER_03

Nothing like massive, like $26 million was recently.

SPEAKER_01

That apartment complex?

SPEAKER_03

Is that uh no, that that was uh that well, that was we financed that one like uh two months ago, I think. That was the most recent, the the biggest one most recently. Um, but we're working, we've got projects in the pipeline that are 40, 50, 100. There's a data center in the pipeline that we're working on that's like three point three billion. Um, that would be a really nice one to finance. Yeah, so you know, there's just all different different deal sizes, but then we'll do a you know, million-dollar property too.

SPEAKER_01

When you say you finance something, I mean I mean, I'm I ask a lot of stupid questions. I sometimes have to hear things several times before it makes sense. But are you going to a bank? Are you going to people you know they have a lot of money?

SPEAKER_03

Are you like banks? We go to whoever they need. So that 26 million was a debt fund. So think of like you know, BlackRock. They go raise money from people and then they lend it out. So that's like a debt fund. Well, that's institutional, but that same concept. Um, that's it, that's a fund, and then they lend money out of their fund. But then you have banks, normal banks, you know, community banks and regional banks and national banks. And then you have credit unions, smaller credit unions. Um, and then you have life insurance companies, you have pension funds, you have endowments, you have agency Fannie Freddie. There's just so there's a lot of capital out there. And so that's our job is like what is the best capital for the deal, and how do we structure the capital stack in order to get the deal done? Um, because you have debt and then you have equity. So there's, you know, it's not as I mean, maybe it's as complex as it seems, but it's really simple. I mean, you buy a building, the lender's gonna lend a percentage of the the price, and then you need equity, you need to bring the other percent to the table. So like if you buy a hundred dollar, a hundred million dollar building, the bank's gonna give you 70 million, and then you need to raise 30 million, right? Right. And so we kind of go out and we help structure that that they call that the capital stack.

SPEAKER_01

Do you do that for any like startup companies or is it strictly commercial real estate?

SPEAKER_03

Strictly real estate.

SPEAKER_01

If someone came up to you with an AI company or an app and said, Hannah, can you look into this? Can you try it? Is this something would you just say no? Don't want to, I don't want to dabble into that.

SPEAKER_03

Right. That that's venture capital. Right. You're not yeah, that's a different, that's a whole different beast because then you have like your seed round and then your series A, and your um, that's a whole different world. I'll probably get into it eventually at some point, I would imagine. But right now I'm just like staying in my lane of it.

SPEAKER_01

But you know it all, you know how to do it all.

SPEAKER_03

Well, conceptually, I know enough to be dangerous, but you have a dog? I used to. I miss them. I don't have time.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I was gonna say, I mean, it could probably help you relax.

SPEAKER_03

No, they stress me the heck out because I because I'm stressed because I gotta take care of another thing. Yeah, no, I had a horse and two dogs. Well, I had a horse and a dog, and then I felt bad because I don't pay attention to the dog, so I got a second dog. Then I wanted to give them both away because they just play all day and I had to, you know, work. And then I felt bad. I love animals more than anything. That was always my safe haven growing up because I I didn't trust people. And so I just loved animals. And I was just the everyone made fun of me. They called me the horse girl and animal freak. Like I had chinchillas, I had a cat. I tried to convince my mom to get me an illegal uh hedgehog one time and try to go to California to get one. She said no. I tried to convince her to let me have a mini pony in our backyard. That didn't work out either. But uh, I started breeding the way I convinced my mom to let me get a chinchilla because they're $400 and we didn't have $400, was I told her if we get two, I can breed them and then we can profit off of the chinchillas. And so I sold her and I started a chinchilla breeding operation. How old were you with this? I was, I don't know, eight.

SPEAKER_01

So how many chinchillas did you make?

SPEAKER_03

A lot. And then I got freaked out because uh I found out that if there's a problem with the birth, they eat the mom won't eat the baby. Wow. And I came home one day and the mom was eating the baby, and that pretty much scarred me. And I wanted nothing to do with chinchillas ever again.

SPEAKER_01

So, do a lot of people know that chinchilla story? Is that a I don't know. I don't think I've talked about it very often.

SPEAKER_03

But yeah, they're they bathe in dust, they're very fun little creatures. You can train them. So I would take mine to like to the store, Gage. His name was Gage because he, you know, the pet store tags them. So he had these little gauges in his ears.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_03

He's so cute. Yeah. But anyway, no dogs.

SPEAKER_01

No, in in in all the success you've had and the money you've made, how have you treated yourself? Have you gone on a crazy vacation? Have you gone on a like what have you done just for you? Like we said, life is about experiences.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you know, I really uh I love what I do. I'm very mission and purpose driven. And so I definitely now am doing things before I was just chasing money. But then I realized I would just get so burnt out because there was no passion behind it and I didn't love it. And so I was never gonna be able to sustain. Uh, because to have a successful company, like you have to be obsessed. Otherwise, you're never gonna make it because it's just you know, a lot. It's a lot of commitment and grit. So now I absolutely love what I do. I love who I work with, I love who I get to serve. You know, I want a foundation to help children and underprivileged children and help and Trafficking and help in foster care and like all of these big um missions behind the actions that I take every day. But yes, I think my my personal life and my business life, it all kind of blends. So I say I work a hundred hours a week, but involved in that work is dinners, you know, with clients. It's podcasting, it's listening to my books, it's like all of these things. And so my personal and business kind of blends, and all my friends are somehow like business associated in some way, whether we're doing business or we're podcasting or we're masterminding or whatever. Um, and so I love all of that. I truly, absolutely love it. Like I never wake up and dread the day. I really don't. I love working hard. And then all the travel with the masterminds, it's fun because I I'm not really going, I don't, I don't take vacations per se. I did recently, but then I, you know, I'm doing podcasting while I'm out there and business dealing.

SPEAKER_01

Do you mean when you went to Miami? Yeah. I was a vacation. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And so, but it's fun because I get to blend the two together. And so, yes, I do that. Like when I travel, I do some sort of work with it because I love it and that's my passion. But I get to go travel around and see different places um in the world. I haven't really explored too far. You know, I've been to Europe a few times and I haven't been to Asia or anything or South America yet. Um, so I have a lot of traveling that I want to do, but right now it's a lot of inner US exploration.

SPEAKER_01

Do you drink?

SPEAKER_03

No.

SPEAKER_01

Ever? Never never once got into drinking alcohol.

SPEAKER_03

No, I mean I've I I will dr I'll have some drinks like once a year, but I just hate the taste of alcohol. I have to force myself to drink.

SPEAKER_01

Does the eretitutide thing help with like yeah? Alcohol does it just make you not like stuff?

SPEAKER_03

It will it it it switches the dopamine receptors in your brain, and so it reduces all of your cravings, like for everything. And so alcohol sales are way down, food sales are way down. Like in the US, I think the food industry is down billions.

SPEAKER_01

You think it's because of all the GLP ones?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, it is, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It is, yeah. So I thought the alcohol thing was because Gen Z is just not drinking, they're doing freaking what do you call it? Mushrooms, yeah, mushrooms, psychedelics, freaking psychedelics, the uh weed gummies, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, weed that definitely uh I that was my numbing of choice for many, many years, but I don't I don't do anything anymore.

SPEAKER_01

So do you like for me, like before I came here today, I sat in a sauna for 20 minutes. Like I try to clear my brain. Is there outside of the medicate meditation you do, do you do anything like that? Do sauna?

SPEAKER_03

I I used to. I just this hair makes it really, it makes it really hard to sa it, you know, because I can it takes if I wash my hair, it takes me two and a half hours and I don't have time for that. So if I sauned, you know, I can only sauna technically like on hair wash day, where I've been a whole week and I'm like, all right, this is the final stretch here. And it's hard for me to coordinate that on a Sunday every week because I usually I wash my hair before a podcast. So I end up not sauning because of the hair.

SPEAKER_01

Because I feel like I gotta get the toxins out and and and it helps me like well. I also, you know, you work out, you stretch, you gotta sweat and get all that stuff out of your system, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but I don't do high sweat workouts because of the hair. So generally, you know, I do more weight training and stuff, so I sweat a little bit, but yeah, I probably have too many toxins inside of

Losing Deals And Protecting Energy

SPEAKER_03

me.

SPEAKER_01

In the business world, have you ever had a deal go south that you were like really bummed about?

SPEAKER_03

Oh my God, all the time.

SPEAKER_01

Like with this so is anyone, is it cutthroat? Like someone you made a deal with somebody and they backstabbed you, that stuff happened?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, all the time. Yeah. Really? I just lost out on a I didn't lose. I mean, this is it's usually opportunity cost, right? It's like you're so close to getting the deal done and then and then you don't end up getting it done or whatever. And it's it's like it's not like the money was in your account and someone took it out. Right. It's you lose the opportunity. Um, but you know, I think emotional intelligence is one of the most important keys to success because if you can't handle the stress of loss, how are you gonna handle anything in your life? And I've just lost so I'm so good at losing because I've just been losing my whole life that it doesn't bother me anymore. And so, you know, you start to just like the highs don't get so exciting anymore. The losses don't really get so exciting. And so you're really just like for me, I'm just I'm executing a vision and a mission, and everything else is just a piece of it, but ultimately it's not the outcome that I'm tied to. So like the money is nice, but I'm not tied to the outcome. And if I don't make it, I don't make it. Like it more, there's infinite amount of it. I can go make more, like there's always another deal.

SPEAKER_01

So you don't get ruined, a day's ruin because somebody backed out of the deal.

SPEAKER_03

No, I've I mean, I get multiple calls where it's like a you know, a $400,000 commission cancels or something like that. I'm like, cool, it's part of the game. Like, who cares? But some people can't, they get really messed up over stuff like that, and it ruins their whole day. And my number one priority every day is to maintain a peak state of energy. Because the first coach I helped that I hired that it really helped me transform from all the mess that I was as a kid to now who I am. And he said, the outcome can only be as great as the energetic state that you initiate the action. So if you're trying to do anything in your life, you're initiating a conversation, a podcast, a deal, a client, you know, negotiation, and you're in a bad state of mind and you're in poor energy, you're angry or you're pissed or you're sad or whatever, you're going to get a bad outcome. So there's no point in even having the conversation or trying to do the thing. And so I realized I was having such bad outcomes because I was always in a negative state of mind. I was always stressed out, I was always anxious, I was always operating from fear and scarcity and uh the wrong intention that it just seemed like nothing ever worked out in my favor. But when I shifted to learning how to manage my energy and learning how to get in a peak state and protecting my energy above all else, no matter what, meaning cutting out every single person in my life that sucked the life out of me, not, you know, choosing specifically what type of clients I work with and working with people that are aligned, hiring people that are aligned with my values, like don't care what your production numbers are, what are your values? How is your energy? Like, are we aligned? Um, so I started making decisions based off that, doing work that I actually enjoyed instead of just doing work that I thought I had to do to accomplish whatever it was that I was trying to accomplish. That started compounding in my life. And all of a sudden, all my results started getting way better. I started looking better, I started feeling better, I started making more money, I started having more clarity, and I started to actually fall in love with my life for the first time ever. And so that's what I prioritize. It's not the outcome of anything. It's how do I maintain a peak state and stay aligned with my true north and my mission? And then the rest of it just comes like literally comes to me.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, I work hard, but journal manifests. Do you do write your goals down every day?

SPEAKER_03

Not every day. I try the Steve Jobs thing. Um, I hate the word try, but I'm just being honest. I'm very bad at it. Every morning when you wake up, write down the three most important things that you have to get done that day.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know the Steve Jobs thing.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Well, I I try to do that, and then I get, you know, so bogged down in the day. And then I, you know, he would not stop today until he got those three things done. I will stop the day. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna pick it back up tomorrow, you know. So uh, but that focus, that clarity of focus is so important. And you know, I don't know, having a startup, like I have to wear a lot of hats. And so it's a little bit challenging to just have pure focus because I do have to manage a lot of things that aren't exactly like they are driving the needle forward in the direction I want to go, but it's maybe not as focused as I could

Hiring Firing And Remote Culture

SPEAKER_03

be.

SPEAKER_01

Are you a good boss? Do you think your staff likes you?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I think so. I I really try to be a good leader. I'm definitely not the best leader, I think, uh, because I I don't have all the experience, right? Like I'm a I'm a 29, I'm almost 30, and I've always been entrepreneurial. And I try really hard to always lead from a place of uh like encouragement and inspiration and grace. And we are we're all in this together and give people really the freedom and flexibility and autonomy to be who they are and like have an impact. And um, but I also know that you know I've never been a CEO of a billion-dollar company, and so I don't have the training or structure that some of these companies have. So I'm always trying to learn how to be a better leader and read more leadership books and go to leadership training and all of that. But it also is challenging because I have team members all over the country. And so it I found it it is challenging to try to keep that culture and um that connection and lead as effectively when you aren't really together every day. So I'm navigating that and like how to build a better culture with a remote model.

SPEAKER_01

I find that for us, it's like my wife and I uh make mistakes where the people that work for us, we try to make, you know, where hey, we're all like uh friends, but then we're too good of friends. And then when it's like, hey, I need this done today, and it doesn't get done. Like we we can't fix that. We don't know how to overcome that. That happens to us all the time.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, I I get that. I I don't think you should really be friends with your employer.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think you should either.

SPEAKER_03

I mean you're friendly, but you're not friends.

SPEAKER_01

But it's a problem sometimes because you're going to lunch, you're going to dinners, you're hanging out with people, you're trying to like be this like we're like, oh no, I work, we work together, but in reality, they work for me. So it's kind of a you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03

It's oh I know, I know exactly what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01

Like I never, I had this, I had this great boss. Uh um, and he said to me, I I was a salesperson and he was the owner of the radio station.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

And I'll never forget, he came over, I was at a party, and I was gonna introduce him to the my my clients. And he comes over and he goes, How you doing? I'm Bruce. I work with John Jay. And I was like, Wow. He said, I work with because he knows that I'm about to go, oh my God, the boss is coming. He's coming over here right now. Like he know, and that's what I did. Like that, you know what I mean? So he but he made me feel equal, and I had such respect for that. But when I do that, all of a sudden we're just all friends. Screw you, John Jay, whatever. You know what I mean? Right? We can't, it's it's like an ongoing problem for us.

SPEAKER_03

I get it. I think well, the people problem is always the biggest problem. Like people, I'm so excited for robots. Yeah, I mean, I no, I I love, I love everything I do is because of people. I love people, I love connection, but people are hard to navigate. I mean, business is easy, it's the people that's hard, right? Dealing with your team, dealing with your clients, like learning how to navigate human emotion, relationships, uh, motivation. Everybody has a different personality, everybody has a different drive, and everybody has different values. And so to try to put all of that into a cohesive uh team where everybody's rowing the boat in the same direction consistently, day after day, year after year, is really hard. Really, really, really hard. And so, like, you know, I hope to master that at some point, but um I don't know. I think you hire, I I hire pretty quickly and I fire pretty quickly because you really don't know how someone works until they're part of your organization. And I think over time, you know, through hiring more and you start to weed out, eventually you really build your core team. I, you know, I hope that you build your rock solid core team. But it's just it's hard because loyalty is just not really as much of a thing anymore. And people just want to, you know, they they train you. Oh, go work for a company for two years and then go get a raise somewhere else. And now it's like a year, people are just hopping. I look at these resumes. I'm like, you haven't stayed at a company for more than 12 months in 10 years. Like, why would I want to hire you? But then you're like, well, you're really qualified and you have a great resume and you seem like whatever. So it definitely is challenging. And but then, you know, and then you try to make them a part of the company, and then you try to do profit share, but then it's like, okay, if everybody's getting a profit share, like there's nothing left for you know the the the company, right? So it um it's tough to navigate, but it's fun. I like that's the challenge, that's the game, that's the the mastery, like the commitment to mastery.

SPEAKER_01

When you fire someone, do you say you're fired? Or do you say we're gonna have to let you go? Things that were like, do you are you like that or are you brutal?

SPEAKER_03

No, I'm not brutal. Uh I'm pretty blunt in my communication naturally. I don't really know how else to communicate. Like, I'll say that on application. I'm like, hey, it's kind of a red flag. You've been jumping around every year. And some people like, oh, well, whatever. I'm like, well, I'm just why? You know, why have you been jumping around? Why would you not jump on me? Right. So I'll ask that pretty uh open and honestly, um, with a smile, of course. But no, I just say, uh, I usually say something like, you know, this we're this isn't a very good alignment. Like we're we're not fully aligned here. And I feel like for you to reach your potential, it's going to be at a different position than this. And I want to make sure to support you and in what you're capable of doing.

SPEAKER_01

And then you hand them a check, like here's your last check, or no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03

We just we just come up with a date that they're that they're leaving.

SPEAKER_01

Do you do it by yourself or with an HR person?

SPEAKER_03

Just me. Right now. Because we're small. I don't have I don't have like a whole massive C suite and HR department. Like I wear, I wear a lot of those hats right now.

Coaches Big Thinking And Favorite Books

SPEAKER_01

When you said earlier, you said my first coach. Yeah. You said how many coaches have you had?

SPEAKER_03

A lot.

SPEAKER_01

I yeah, I like one-on-one coach, like a success coach that you talk to?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. He was a uh six he was a coach one-on-one, and he taught me a lot about energy, and that was very life-changing for me. And I teach about it all the time, and because it's part of my operating system. Um, I have a mentor that I meet with every month, one-on-one.

SPEAKER_01

And then is it the rich dad poor dad guy?

SPEAKER_03

No, well, he I see him like every week. I see him all the time, but he um yeah, we we talk, we're always learning and sharing ideas and stuff like that. But I'm not really asking him direct business advice.

SPEAKER_01

Uh but the mentor is face-to-face.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, well, he's in Canada, but we we teams meet, yeah. Uh, but he's he's amazing. He's you know, he's a a billionaire, so he he just thinks so big, and it's really exciting for me because some, you know, sometimes I'm like, I'm just trying to figure out, you know, how do I find this one person that I need to hire? And he's like, just go buy all these companies, you know. And so um, it's cool to see that big thinking, and it really pushes me and the the way he believes in me. He's like, Oh, yeah, you're the you know, you're the female black rock, you know, things like that. Like he just believes in me so much and will say these crazy numbers that I'm gonna build and accomplish and do. And I'm like, oh wow, really? Is that I could do that, you know, and I don't think like that naturally. I'm just like trying to solve this little problem over here. Um, so I think it's good to have different coaches for different things, right? Because he's not gonna help me implement this hiring issue I'm having right now. But he's a big picture thinker of like think beyond what you're doing right now, um, so you can solve bigger problems because you might be focusing your attention on the wrong thing.

SPEAKER_01

Have you read the book uh The Magic of Thinking Big?

SPEAKER_03

Uh, I think I have, but not in a long time.

SPEAKER_01

David Schwartz is my favorite book of all time.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna have to read it. It's my favorite.

SPEAKER_01

It came out like in the 40s or something like that, 50s. It's fantastic.

SPEAKER_03

And I have not read it.

SPEAKER_01

It's yeah, I mean they redo it, they read whatever they do. But it's like to me, every success book that's ever come out after that is copying this book.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I think it and and I always feel like it's a cheat code because no one's gone that far back. But if you can find it, it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, okay. I want to read it.

SPEAKER_01

The magic of thinking big. It's just fantastic.

Restaurants Routines And Closing Thoughts

SPEAKER_01

What are your favorite restaurants in town?

SPEAKER_03

Catch.

SPEAKER_01

Really?

SPEAKER_03

I love catch. I love maple and ash, and I love Thea.

SPEAKER_01

I love Thea. Maple and Ash is a little too dark for me.

SPEAKER_03

I love it. I'm going there for my birthday.

SPEAKER_01

You'll take Maple and Ash over a steak 44?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Wow.

SPEAKER_03

I like Steak 44, but I don't like steak that much.

SPEAKER_01

What do you get at Maple and Ash?

SPEAKER_03

The seafood tower and the buttercake.

SPEAKER_01

What do you like so much about catch?

SPEAKER_03

The sushi and all of it.

SPEAKER_01

Is that your favorite sushi in town? Is Catch Sushi? I don't remember the sushi. Did we have the sushi? Oh, we did?

unknown

Wow.

SPEAKER_03

It is so good. That's good.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I'm not here to judge you restaurants.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. What yeah, Steak 44 is good too.

SPEAKER_01

That's our favorite restaurant, Steak 44. I love Thea too. I love I love the sushi at Thea. I love the sushi at um where'd I just eat? With Jeff? Where did I eat at Jeff? With Jeff. No.

SPEAKER_02

Uchi?

SPEAKER_01

No, no. Um no boo. No, the no. The the uh Houston spinoff.

SPEAKER_03

Hillstone?

SPEAKER_01

Hillstone.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I love their sushi.

SPEAKER_03

That's where I go with Robert all the time.

SPEAKER_01

I love that place.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, Hillstone's good.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But it's I I'm a big environment person. I like new bougie environments. Yeah. So like I don't, you know, if the you know, going to masros, it's kind of like an old vibe.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So I just like the energy and the newness of it all. Like I like working out at a new gym. I like having a new car, new house.

SPEAKER_01

How often do you get a new car?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, like every year, but now I don't. I'm keeping because I don't like the new G-Wagons. So I'm keeping mine for five years, my whole depreciation timeline.

SPEAKER_01

So you go to a new gym all the time?

SPEAKER_03

Well, no, I just go to a gym that was recently built. I just like the newness.

SPEAKER_01

That's funny because I like the same thing over and over and over again. I don't like to go somewhere new.

SPEAKER_03

No, I like that too, but just the things that I generally go to and fall in love with and then go there over and over again tend to be newer things.

SPEAKER_01

You know, you should check out uh my doctor's office. They have again, I feel like you're talking about these same things because I'm such a believer in this stuff. My doctor has, she's got these four hyperbaric chambers. You ever done that before?

SPEAKER_03

Yes. After my surgery, I went and did those.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, you go in a tank and they the the big kinds, like yeah, there's one in North Scottsdale, eminent wellness. Oh, well, there's one right closer, there's one off of Lincoln.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01

Scottsdale Road, yeah, that's where I go. And uh I like like just to like uh like for me, it feels like there has to be this moment of just where you get just you time. Right? Do you have that where you're like like for me? I get up so early that the first hour and a half of the day is just me.

SPEAKER_03

That's nice.

SPEAKER_01

That's just me. Because I get up so early, right? So I, you know, so from three to like 4:30, or actually more, you know, or I live my life. I do a morning show. I have to get up really early. I get up really early, but I have to like, you know, I write down, I journal my some of my thoughts. My handwriting's terrible, no one can read it.

SPEAKER_04

Me too.

SPEAKER_01

But I feel like I'm just getting out getting it out there and and clean my brain and focus. And then I have certain things I have to do, like to prepare for you. You know, I I I have to clean my mind and just like, okay, what should I ask? What should I say? Should I wear the stupid colors? Where's my black t-shirt? I've been doing you look at a podcast, scroll down, it's all black, and then all of a sudden I start throwing these different colors in there. It looked like a disaster. But oh, wait, would you meet with if I set up the meeting? Would you meet with her and let her do your colors?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you'd love her.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, I that sounds exciting. I know uh Chad GPT, you know, I had to do my colors, but I needed like legit colors. I think that sounds good. The whole thing though is just I need a shot. And then it's just challenging because you know, it's like a $2,000 shoes. I'm like, okay, well, if I start wearing pink, now I gotta get all new shoes to match my pink, and then I gotta get new purses. This is a whole thing.

SPEAKER_01

I get but she can do it all for you. She does all that for you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but it's gonna make me go broke.

SPEAKER_01

No, I don't think you're gonna go broke.

SPEAKER_03

Abundance, abundance. Yeah, but there's more money around the corner.

SPEAKER_01

Well, thank you for being on my podcast. Of course. I'm really glad you came on the podcast. Really, really glad. So thanks.

SPEAKER_03

Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so welcome to our podcast. This is a little bit different today because this podcast is a spin-off of our radio show.

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Entrepreneur / Investor / Podcast host

Hannah Hammond is a dynamic entrepreneur, investor, and podcast host based in Scottsdale, Arizona. She’s the Founder and CEO of HB Capital, a national commercial real estate debt and equity advisory firm helping developers and investors fund projects across all asset classes, and The Firm RE, an Arizona-based commercial and residential brokerage.

From modest beginnings, Hannah built her success through grit, vision, and faith—becoming a self-made millionaire by 25. But her story is about more than success—it’s about transformation, and commanding oneself to rise to our highest potential. After overcoming a turbulent upbringing and abusive relationships, she turned pain into purpose, growing not just her net worth, but her inner strength.

Today, through The Hannah Hammond Show, she shares real conversations on business, healing, and alignment—helping others build wealth that feels as good as it looks. A magna cum laude engineering graduate of ASU, Hannah blends analytical precision with heart-centered leadership. Her mission: to redefine freedom by helping others create wealth with integrity, alignment, and peace—proving that true success is built from the inside out.

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