Hello and welcome to the Movers and Shakers podcast.

My name is Gino Barbera.

One of the co-founders of Jake and Gino, multifamily investor, educator, father, and mentor.

Today's guest is Neil Schoep.

He joined Jake and Gino in 2018, growing up in New York City and serving 24 plus years as a police officer and fireman, he came face to face with fear, learning how to harness its power and take action in his life rather than be frozen with this fear. Now his passion is helping others to do the same. Welcome to the show,

Mr. Neil. How are we doing, brother? I'm great, Gino. How are you? It's fantastic to be here.

You know, I am doing really good on this lovely Friday afternoon. Let's jump into your story,

Neil. Well, I want to actually share the story of how I met Neil before Neil jumps into his story of getting into multifamily and his story.

It was a nice warm day in St. Augustine.

Neil was down here and we had just launched the Jake and Gino community.

And Neil was skeptical about joining the Jake and Gino community. It was early

on in Jake and Gino. We had very few programs. We really didn't have any kind of coaching. We just had

some kind of online training. And Neil was wanting to get into multifamily. And I remember going out to

lunch with Neil that day and sitting down and just having the casual conversation with him and talking

about his goals and talk about his aspirations. And I could see that Neil was a little bit hesitant

to join. He wasn't sure, is this guy, Gino, a scammer? Is this multifamily thing going to really

work out? What am I getting myself into with these guys? And he ultimately joined. And I don't think it was the education or it was

the Jake and Gino community. I think ultimately what it was for Neil and what it is for most of us out

there is it's accountability and it's putting skin in the game and having a belief in yourself,

putting in the hard work,

and surrounding yourself with an amazing group of people. And that's what Neil did early on. And since then, he's come out to the Jake and Gino events. He was a fixture when we had Toastmasters

for a couple of years at Jake and Gino on every week working on his craft. He actually got

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