Pak Chat
Pak Chat
Podcast Description
Pak Chat is where ambition and real conversation collide. Hosted by Blake Thorn — with $100M in loans settled in 2024 and on track for $200M in 2025 — Pak Chat shares real lessons, mindset shifts, and strategies from Australia’s leading minds in property, business, sport, and beyond. From building wealth to navigating growth, it’s real people, real lessons, and making the complex simple. The conversation starts now.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as property investment, strategic business growth, and real estate trends, with episodes delving into topics like buyer agency dynamics, the impact of gentrification, and effective negotiation tactics. For example, it features discussions on how marketing strategies can elevate a business brand and the intricacies of off-market property purchases.
Pak Chat is where ambition and real conversation collide. Hosted by Blake Thorn, Pak Chat shares real lessons, mindset shifts, and strategies from Australia’s leading minds in property, business, sport, and beyond. From building wealth to navigating growth, it’s real people, real lessons, and making the complex simple. The conversation starts now!
In this episode of Pak Chat, Richard Bharata walks through every step of the journey — from working four jobs post-engineering degree (including getting fired from a sushi restaurant and a kebab shop) to cracking a $150K government role through networking, losing his savings to gaming addiction, and then systematically building a 19-property, 25-tenancy portfolio using low-doc loans, equity recycling, trust structures, and relentless imperfect action.
This one is full of real numbers, real mistakes, and real strategy. If you want to know exactly how someone goes from $0 to $14M in Australian property — don’t skip this.
0:36 — Sent to Australia alone at 13 with no English
8:06 — Engineering degree, 4 jobs, fired from sushi & kebabs
12:35 — One-way Tiger Air ticket to Sydney with 50 resumes
20:16 — How a high-paying job led to a $50K gaming addiction
26:00 — First property: $1.2M in Sydney, $220K deposit, nearly wiped out
32:16 — The strategy: how he went from property 1 to 19
39:03 — Low-doc loans, equity recycling & the CBA LMI waiver that unlocked everything
54:04 — Launching the buyer’s agency: iProperty Finder
1:01:36 — Caught at work, resigned, and went all-in on the business
1:09:06 — $14M portfolio today: cash flow, trust structures & what comes next
1:19:35 — Advice for anyone starting their property journey now
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