Dream, Start, Own Podcast – The Path to Own Your Time
Dream, Start, Own Podcast - The Path to Own Your Time
Podcast Description
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.
Dream Start Own is an entrepreneurship podcast and entrepreneur podcast featuring casual, inspiring entrepreneur conversations with real estate investors and business owners who are building freedom and learning to own their time. Each episode breaks down the challenges, wins, and practical lessons behind cash flow, deal-making, systems, and mindset—so you can grow without burning out. If you’re looking for a podcast for entrepreneurs who want actionable stories (not fluff), you’re in the right place.
Anne McNamara helped companies win government construction bids that averaged about half a billion. Then she bought a derelict downtown building in Palatka, Florida. She rebuilt it, rented it out and is now looking at RV parks for working crews.
What we cover:
• Growing up in Ireland and studying property in the UK
• Helping start a social enterprise for homeless people after meeting a teenager kicked out of foster care
• Winning bids that averaged about half a billion each
• The school bid that taught her never to take anybody's assumptions
• The personal cost of the bidding years
• Why she won't take risks with other people's money
• Why she calls RV parks the best asset class she has looked at
• Buying and rebuilding a derelict building in Palatka, Florida with seller financing, private money and a DSCR refinance
• The contractor licensing problem that led her to build QualiFind, a platform that connects contractors with licensed construction qualifiers
• Why worker housing deserves better
• How to start with grants: get local and let the city know who you are
Anne runs Moxie Moves with past guest Luz Ramirez. She is now looking for her first RV park, one built around the crews who work nearby.
Chapters:
00:00 Preview
01:47 From Ireland to Social Enterprise
07:08 Turning Anger Into Action
12:07 Winning Billion-Dollar Bids
16:23 Never Take Anybody's Assumptions
24:18 The Cost of Success
27:21 Walking Away From the Wrong Model
31:52 Building Moxie Moves
33:55 Not Risky With Other People's Money
38:01 Why RV Parks Made Sense
40:56 Rebuilding a Derelict Building
49:57 Solving the Licensing Problem
56:25 Worker Housing Deserves Better
01:00:35 How to Start With Grants
🤝 Connect with Anne McNamara:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Annemcnamara007
▶️ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@AnneMcNamara007
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-mcnamara-2a9b97b
🌐 Website: https://moxiemoves.us
🔧 QualiFind: https://getqualifind.com
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