MI315: The Power of Mentorship w/ Chris Powers
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.0 | One thing that's always come really natural to me, before I even knew what a mentor was or that you called a mentors was, |
| 0:09.0 | there's all these people, no matter what you're trying to do, if it's build a real estate company, if it's be a good dad, if it's, you know, be better in your faith, whatever it may be, there's always, there's people around that have already walked the walk |
| 0:21.1 | and they've already done the thing successfully. And so for me, it's always been really natural to go, |
| 0:27.1 | why wouldn't I just seek those people out and ask them how they did it? And not just how they did it, |
| 0:31.8 | but what are all the mistakes you made along the way? |
| 0:36.9 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:37.9 | In this week's episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris Powers to talk about |
| 0:41.7 | his journey from purchasing his first rental at the age of 17 to becoming chairman of |
| 0:46.5 | Fort Capital and host of the entrepreneurial podcast, The Fort. |
| 0:50.3 | We dive into the sacrifices Chris has had to make to get to where he is today, the |
| 0:53.8 | struggles along the way, the role of mentorship and to make to get to where he is today, the struggles |
| 0:54.2 | along the way, the role of mentorship and faith in his life, what he learned from Sam |
| 0:58.6 | Zell on how to be a great investor, and so much more. Chris is a serial entrepreneur with more |
| 1:03.3 | than 18 years of real estate development and investment experience. He founded Fort Capital, |
| 1:08.0 | and to date, the company has invested over $2 billion in Class B, industrial, |
| 1:12.1 | commercial, multifamily, student housing, residential, and land development projects throughout |
| 1:17.3 | the state of Texas and the Sun Belt. He is also the host of an entrepreneurial podcast, |
| 1:21.6 | The Fort with Chris Powers, and has published over 300 episodes of raw business conversations |
| 1:26.4 | with business leaders and entrepreneurs. |
| 1:29.1 | I loved Chris's transparency and openness to share about all aspects of his life in this |
| 1:33.6 | interview, and I hope you guys enjoy this one as much as I did. And so, without further delay, |
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