The Wealth Cockpit
One question from the actual work of buying and running apartment buildings, answered from that week's decisions, documents, and site visits. Long-form on YouTube and the audio feed, published together.
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05 Why I say No to Good Deals
Every operator I know is wired to chase the next thing. New deal, new asset class, new opportunity across the desk. It feels like ambition. A lot of the time it's just noise. This week I did the opposite. I spent a morning building my…
04 Two Years of Income
Three decades of work. About two years of current income after taxes. That's what a long-time service-business operator walked away with when I ran the math with him recently. I tell his story (anonymized), then walk through what I did…
03 Are you one bad week away from a financial crisis?
Most successful business owners are one bad week away from a financial crisis — and they don't even know it. In this episode, Brent Neely shares the story of how a single Amazon account suspension, triggered by a missed phone number…
02 What does it actually mean to be free?
Growing up, I watched my dad build a successful fourth-generation family business. He worked six days a week for 30 years, commuting over an hour each way, rarely missing a day. By most measures, he succeeded. But success and freedom, I…
01 Turbulence, Tailwinds, and Why We're Buying Now
In the debut episode of The Wealth Cockpit, Brent Neely sits down live at the Best Ever Conference in Salt Lake City with Joe and Levi from Cowboy Capital. The three operators break down why they're going all in on multifamily while the…
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