Own The Exit Podcast

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09/22/2026

Unless you want to stay in the middle class your whole life, work forever, never have options, never have financial freedom, and basically be a sheep, doing what you're told and never questioning any of it, then sure, go earn your four percent.

Otherwise you end up like your parents if they weren't wealthy, or like the people you went to high school with who are on their sixth degree, eight hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt, working as a server at Olive Garden.

Harsh. But he's not wrong.

Save this for the next time someone tells you four percent is good enough.

09/21/2026

Most people don't have a portfolio problem, they have a bucket problem.

It doesn't matter how much income you pour into that bucket, there are leaks. Lifestyle creep. Taxes, one of the biggest leaks there is. Some people throw a little into an IRA or a 401k and call it a plan.

The goal everyone chases is pouring more into the bucket. But the more you pour in, the more it just leaks out.

You've got to grow your ceiling, your income, and your floor at the same time. That's what actually creates durable wealth, not a bigger pour.

What's the biggest leak in your bucket right now? Tell me in the comments.

09/20/2026

Ben Oberg walked me through something most people investing through a financial advisor have never heard of.

Independent advisors write their insurance business through something called an IMO, an insurance marketing organization. The IMO takes a wholesale commission, two to two and a half percent, on every dollar of production across hundreds of advisors, which adds up to hundreds of millions a year.

Then they use bigger commissions as a recruiting tool. You're getting seven percent on this annuity, come over here and get eight for the exact same work.

Meanwhile your advisor is telling you, we're a licensed fiduciary, we have to act in your best interest, while getting incentivized behind the scenes to sell you the same handful of products regardless.

Send this to the friend who thinks their advisor is picking products based on what's best for them.

09/19/2026

Ben Oberg said something on the show that's hard to argue with once you actually run the numbers.

There's more than enough data to show the standard advice, max your 401k, buy an annuity, count on eight percent in the stock market, mathematically cannot work the way people think it does.

By the time you factor in taxes, fees, and inflation, you're netting close to zero.

So even if you're making eight percent on paper, you're not actually getting ahead. It nets out to zero.

What's one number on your statement that never adds up the way you'd expect? Comment it below.

09/18/2026

Ben Oberg runs The Capitalist Network, a community of accredited investors, and he told me something that still doesn't feel real.

They opened up an oil fund raise. Before they even dropped the link to invest, prior investors had already committed one point eight million dollars.

They capped the fund at ten million. Eighty eight people ended up committing, and it closed at $9.3 million raised in about ninety minutes.

For his audience specifically, anytime oil comes up, fifty to seventy percent of the room gets interested, because these are people trying to minimize taxes in retirement, write off W2 income, and get cash flow that doesn't get hammered come tax time.

Save this if you want to understand why oil and gas keeps showing up in serious investor portfolios.

09/17/2026

Ben Oberg, break down something I see high earners get wrong constantly.

If you're making three hundred fifty thousand dollars a year and going out to house hack a duplex, you're playing in the kiddie pool with your investments while you're playing with the big kids in your income.

It's basically a second job. Buying the duplex, living in one unit, managing the other two. Great move if you're just getting started. Not so great once you're already worth a couple million.

At that point you want access to something institutional grade. A small piece of a three hundred unit apartment complex beats a whole piece of a three unit triplex, and it does it with way less of your time.

His numbers on this said the bigger deal did four percent better a year over twenty years than the duplex, and that includes all the active work the duplex owner put in.

Ever caught yourself doing more work for a smaller return? Tell me about it in the comments.

09/16/2026

This used to be a water runoff area.

There was a bridge across it that was basically rotting and falling apart.

We turned it into an outdoor event space. Fire pit, lights at night, elevated about two feet so you'd never know all that water runoff is still underneath. Tenants use it free for client appreciation events, happy hours, networking, whatever they want.

Nobody looks at a drainage ditch and sees an asset. That's exactly why it was one.

What's the ugliest part of your property you haven't figured out how to use yet?

09/15/2026

I could've rented this space out to another business. Instead I put in a gym.

Most tenants won't use it. But that's not the point. It's a magnet.

They walk through, see how nice the space is, and want to lease something here.

Same reason an apartment complex puts in a pool even though half the residents never swim in it. Nobody uses it, but everybody signs because of it.

Save this the next time you're deciding whether an amenity is worth the cost.

09/14/2026

This used to be an x-ray room. Lead walls and everything.

Honestly, this isn't a building most people would've wanted. It needed to be completely repurposed, and that scares a lot of buyers off.

Now it's a co-working space with 24/7 tenant access, cameras at night, individual private offices with their own codes.

The ugliest room in the building became one of the best ones.

What's one space in your life you wrote off too fast because it needed too much work?

09/13/2026

You've probably heard of house hacking. Buy a fourplex, live in one unit, let the rent cover your mortgage.

We needed an office space, but not one this big. Then this whole building came up and we bought it. Four offices in here, most of my team is remote so we didn't need a lot of room. Tenant rent and studio revenue cover the mortgage. I call it office hacking. We get our space for free.

Same idea as the fourplex. Different asset, same math. You don't find deals, you create them.

Send this to the friend who keeps saying they'll buy an office space someday instead of now.

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