Hey, deal makers, welcome to the show where it's all about financial freedom.

I said I have a fascinating guest, Jennifer Dehusse, and I've known her now for a couple of years because she's been in our program, learning syndication, but also then helping her scale her businesses.

And the cool thing about her is that she came to us already running four or five businesses,

and she wanted to step up her game.

And that's kind of what we're talking about here, is really getting to that next level.

And for her, that next level really was learning syndication and capital structuring.

And then the third one is how do you actually set up your businesses for scale?

And I recall, you know, when we started working together, she was basically hands-on and really,

really stressed in her five businesses that she was running.

She has a brokerage, property management company, title company.

And she was basically running all those businesses and she didn't have time for anything else. I don't know how she found time to get in syndication, honestly. I think, as you'll find from the interview, she's just a hustler, and she just gets it done. But by her own admission, it was very stressful, it wasn't very efficient. And we kind of helped her put systems in place and people in place so that she could actually extract herself from those businesses so she can work a little bit more on the business, not in the business.

And we're really talking about here about scaling, but going from a corporate job to getting becoming a broker to then creating a bunch of companies and then learning the art of syndication and capital structuring and then learning how to scale those companies. I think you'll find the journey really, really compelling. Maybe even for yourself, maybe you haven't done any of those things, but you're like, my gosh, what do I see myself doing for the next 10 years? Well, my gosh, I'm going to do this one thing. I'm going to do this one deal. I'm going to learn how to syndicate. then I'm a grow to syndication business and it's going to be super amazing.

And... years. Well, my gosh, I'm going to do this one thing. I'm going to do this one deal. I'm going to learn how to syndicate. Then I'm going to grow the syndication business, and it's going to be super amazing. And it could be a good glimpse into the future for you as well. So let's get right into it here with Jennifer DeHsouz. Jennifer, welcome to the show today. Thank you, Michael. Thank you for having me here. So before you got into syndication, you had a bunch of stuff going on.

It's not like the quote normal person who's got a demanding W-2 job, right?

You had a, I don't know, you were running a bunch of businesses at the same time.

Like what was going on before you kind of said, oh, I'm going to start raising money and put together syndications.

Like, what were you doing before that? So I was running essentially four, five vertically integrated companies. I have a real

estate brokerage, a title company, and then a property management company, construction company.

And right around the time of COVID, I ventured into the hedge fund space.

And that's where I got my first taste at raising capital. And then the syndication space was

just, you know, kind of a natural evolution as far as I was concerned.

What were you doing in the hedge fund space? How did that fit into your other businesses?

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