Kingdom CRE Syndicate Investing with Josh Wilson
Wrestled Alligators Professionally, Fought Fires, Delivered Babies, Saved Lives, Built and Sold Companies (FAILED and PIVOTED more than most), Worked with Sharks (means Venture Capitalists), was one of the first to build an online group fitness company, Built and Scaled a network of co-working studios in partnerships with local municipalities, built and sold podcasts and media brands, Interviewed over 400 Entrepreneurs and CEO across 5 Podcast Shows reaching the top of iTunes Charts.
Josh is a man of faith who is lovingly devoted to his family and lifts up humanity with kindness and brings peace to chaos. His philosophy is “Belief systems shape our values, which guide our principles, that drives our actions.”
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Brett:
I’m excited about our next guest. He is out of the great state of Florida, and he's wrestled alligators professionally fought fires delivered babies save lives built and sold companies, and he has failed and pivoted more than most. He's worked with sharks, and by that, he means venture capitalist. It was one of the first to build an online group fitness company. He built and scaled a network and co-working studios in partnership with local most municipalities, and he built and sold podcasts and media brands, all kinds of stuff and so much more, and we're gonna be talking real estate branding. becoming an entrepreneur. Please welcome to the show with me, Josh Wilson. Josh, how are you doing?
Josh:
Brett. Good to see you. Thanks for having me.
Brett:
For listeners getting to know you for the first time. Would you give us a little bit more about your background and your current focus?
Josh:
I'm in the process of writing a book right now. It's called Josh The Failure. I've failed and pivoted more than most and that kind of is a part of my story. I've lost all my money multiple times. It seems like I lost all my money around an anytime I had a kid I have three kids, I've, I've had about three financial collapses in my life, and I just kind of share the story of entrepreneurship. We had a bunch of podcast shows and media brands in our network, and, I believe that there's a story behind the dealmaker and the most important investment is obviously in yourself but also in the relationships that you build. Those are the kinds of things that I like to talk about on my shows and through my brokerage and through the deals that I do.
Brett:
Fantastic and for listeners also getting to know you for the first time you see I believe even me, I'm still getting to know you. I was on your podcast, which was a lot of fun, by the way, and we almost in person when I went to Jacksonville a few weeks ago, but are the lines don't quite line up. But I want you to go back to your high school days. Your earlier days, younger Josh? I believe we've all been given certain gifts in this life, and these gifts have been given to us to be a blessing and help to others. Some people call it a strength some people call them superpowers. I'm curious, what are those one or two gifts that you believe you were given? And has that helped you help and bless people today?
Josh:
Great question, Brett. I moved to Ocala from Fort Lauderdale, which is, near the beaches and near Miami, and the hustle-bustle of kind of bigger city and I moved to Ocala, which is a small horse country and it was very interesting, I moved as a freshman in high school. I moved to this place, I didn't know anybody I were, board shorts, flip flops, and so shirt, and I was in a high school with a bunch of cowboys, and with a bunch of, big, jacked-up pickup trucks and stuff like that, and to be honest, I did not fit. But one of the superpowers that I think God blessed me with, is the ability to, fit in any group. Throughout my time I got as a small guy, but I found my place on the wrestling mat, and I don't like talking about this, because it's kind of like, I don't want to be ego, but like, I made a lot of friends I wound up becoming they designated me the most popular kid in the school. Not growing up here knowing nobody to be most popular.
Now that's as a teenager, that's cool because you can meet a lot of people have a lot of fun, and people like that, but fast forward what, what that parlays into business, and after a little bit of maturity and a lot of failures is knowing the ability to connect people and that knowing the ability to put deals together and in see people for their value, and parlaying into different groups, whether it's an investment group over here, an entrepreneurial group over here, or maybe a group that nobody's paying attention to over here. I think that's how I bless people is by seeing them and then finding out what they need.
Brett:
I love that. It's like whatever. Like your wife wants you to say. I hear you and I see something I try to practice say she is telling me something and I gotta digest a little bit it's not as she says it to me too. She's like, I hear you and I see so if I'm hearing you, Josh is saying you can hear and connect with people in an authentic way and make friends quickly. Is that a fair summary so far?
Josh:
I've never met a stranger it just like I said, there's probably some skill set level in here but I think it's the way that God wired me together. He's like Josh is going to be extremely extroverted. He's never met a stranger everyone from billionaires I've, friends that billionaires to the homeless people, everyone. I just love a lot of people, and that happens so that I love deals in the business. It makes connecting and syndication fun. It's fantastic.
Brett:
That's where we're talking about Kingdom commercial real estate syndications or syndicate investing right now. Josh, what's the best-kept secret to commercial real estate syndications or syndicates the way that, and how would you define that? Because I don't want to put that in a box. It could be a brokerage, it could be networked, it could be brand. Find that for us, and then we'll also get to the commercial real estate side of things.
Josh:
When I started in real estate, I grew up on a construction site with my dad. Swinging hammers, and working in the summers, I was the cheap labor. My dad gave me a posthole digger, I got my Ph.D., and I learned how to dig footers and swing hammers, and it was a tough job, and, and I remember, at a young age, I just felt like my mission was to, help my dad help, everybody has daddy, mommy issues, and one of my things was I wanted to make my dad proud. But I also wanted to help his business, I read a bunch of business books as a young kid. But, I saw these people I'm working, for an hourly wage in the Florida Sun, floating trusses, or roofing, and then Alexis would drive up. They'd put a sign in the front yard and drive off, and they were making more money than me. I said, Who are they? What are they doing, I found out, they're in real estate, they're selling what all the hard work that we did.
At a young age, I got my real estate license, and I found that, especially in Central Florida, there's, you could have a million-dollar house next to a mobile home, there are some interesting, areas, and I just found that I didn't really work well, with the residential world, listing a home for, Grandma Suzy, and then showing it to 100 people and then getting, a $300 commission check wasn't for me. I started working with investors, and this is where I learned a little bit about what it means to be a syndicator what it means to be a networker connector, as a lot of times, I would go in, I would get my own deals, and then I would syndicate the deal out. I'd find a deal, I'd lock it up, and then I would wind up selling the deal to an investor or an investment group, and I just found that it was so much easier and fun, more fun to work with a group that was buying 10 to 20 properties a year, rather than, this churn and burn of trying to list the property and, maybe spend all my time to get a deal, and then one deal 300 bucks, I'd rather do 10 at a time. I guess that's kind of how I got into real estate.
Brett:
Let me connect the dots here. You're on the job site. By the way, I had a similar story. I grew up in the Bay Area, my dad Custom Homes, room additions, I was the guy we were my brother and I were the guys who moved the bricks or move the boards. Hammer did random nails, or whatever he'd say, Whatever you do, don't move bricks twice, like, make sure you have a plan a process for what you're doing, and drywall and Ryan, my brother's driving the bobcat, and he's like, tipping overside. He was like, tip the whole thing over on a big ditch, he was digging. But you're sitting there and you're like, wait, we've been working like 8, 9, 10 hour days. That person just drove up for a few minutes, put a sign out front. How much are they making? You're going A and then B, C real estate, and then you also looked around said, wait, there's also people putting these commercial real estate deals together? How much are they making? In other words, you're connecting the dots, and you're bringing people together to make sense of it? Is that a fair summary so far?
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