Dream, Start, Own Podcast – The Path to Own Your Time
Dream, Start, Own Podcast - The Path to Own Your Time
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Join us for casual, inspiring conversations with other entrepreneurs, real estate investors, and business owners as they share their journeys from dreams to starting to owning their time. Learn from their challenges, triumphs, and insights as they carve their own paths to success. Whether you're just dreaming or looking to grow your business, this podcast will fuel your ambition and help you take ownership of your time and future.
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Focuses on entrepreneurship, real estate investment, and personal growth, with episodes highlighting individual journeys like Mike Oakes mastering reverse wholesaling and Armando Cruz shifting from broke to millionaire, providing actionable insights and practical advice for listeners at various stages of their business development.
Join us for casual, inspiring conversations with other entrepreneurs, real estate investors, and business owners as they share their journeys from dreams to starting to owning their time. Learn from their challenges, triumphs, and insights as they carve their own paths to success. Whether you’re just dreaming or looking to grow your business, this podcast will fuel your ambition and help you take ownership of your time and future.
In this episode of the Dream Start Own podcast, Edgar “The Connector” Salgado sits down with recruiter, AI strategist, and investor April Elias to unpack how she’s using creative finance, international real estate in Portugal, and AI to build freedom—without walking away from a W2 she actually loves.
April shares the story of their subject-to hybrid deal on Portugal’s “California of Europe,” how she and her brother are building on ocean-view lots near Lisbon, and why she’s planning investor scouting trips and workshops there in 2026. She also breaks down her fix-and-flip business across Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, including a luxury log cabin flip with Pace Morby that turned into a triple-digit profit.
You’ll learn:
How April structured a subject-to + seller-finance hybrid deal in Portugal
What it really takes for Americans to bank, build, and invest overseas
Why she still keeps her W2 as a headhunter for AI/data talent
Practical ways ANYONE can use ChatGPT and AI daily (even just from your phone)
Her framework for focus: “Pick one or they all die”
How she runs flips with family, partners, and private lenders
Her Mount Everest: helping business owners not get left behind by AI
Connect with April:
Instagram: @aprilas.com
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