Hello, everybody. This Jake Sends on our host, Jake and Gino podcast here with my co-host, the multifamily mentor, the coach, the chef, the father, six, and best-selling author, The G-Daddy.

Gino, Barbo, how's going?

Jake, I'm doing okay this morning, Jake. I hope you can lift my spirits up. I need my spirits to lift it a little bit today, so I hope you can do that for me, brother. How you're doing? You look pretty happy getting on.

I'm surprised you're saying that.

But I'll do my best, man.

Hey, we got a special guest today.

Today's guest is the founder of Ironton Capital.

You know, happy getting on. I'm surprised you're saying that, but I'll do my best, man. Hey, we got a, we got a special guest today. Today's guest is the founder of Ironton Capital,

your real estate and first in lines title, over 20 year veteran in commercial real estate,

acquisitions, and development. So without further ado, Lon Welsh, welcome the show.

Thanks for having me. Hey, it is our pleasure,

even though you're a Broncos fan coming after the catch by Brandon Cooks, but we'll let that be.

So, Lonnie, see, you're in investments, brokerage, title. What are you actually active in? Like, where are you

spending your time actively in real estate? Well, I had the brokerage in the title company for

about 20 years, and I sold both of those, the brokerage to a private equity fund and the title

company to Compass in late 21 right before the rates went up. So I got sort of lucky on the timing. So I still spend about five hours a week with your castle, just helping with some leadership items there and doing some classes for the agents. So the majority of my time is on the Ironton Capital side. So we help people invest in commercial real estate. We have a lot of people who would love to have some commercial real estate in their overall investment portfolio. They don't want to go buy an apartment building.

So we make it just really easy for them.

You said leadership.

Let's talk about leadership because there's such a lack of it in so many different areas in this country, in the NFL, wherever you're looking at it.

To me, and I want your definition of leadership and what that

looks like to you to be a successful leader in an organization, whether it's in your family,

whether it's a company, whether it's a 501C. What does that look like to you a lot?

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