Mark Weinstein founded MJW Investments in 1983 following a brief career as an attorney. Since then, he has acquired over $1,000,000,000 of student housing, apartment, commercial, industrial, and self-storage buildings.  MJW was rated 7th largest Commercial Developer by LABJ and Mark was voted one of the 500 most influential people in LA for the 5th straight year. Mark has always been a visionary and risk taker with his multi family and student housing investments

Jacky is the Executive Director/CEO at Business Finance Capital.  Named one of the top women in banking by the Los Angeles Business Journal and one of the most influential leaders in Los Angeles. Jacky consults, advises and strategizes with her clients to help find the best small business loan available.  She works with many of the top distributors and manufactures on the west coast. Jacky shares why a small business should consider an SBA loan, what it means and how it works.

Chris King is a Peak-performance (flow) executive coach and motivational speaker. Chris facilitates the journey that leads to the discovery that creates the sustainable changes for professional organizations and individuals to exceed their professional and professional goals.

Adolfo Suaya, is the founder and creator of the popular LA restaurant Gaucho Grill.   He went on to own and operate 15 bars and restaurants in LA and many others around the world.   Adolfo is developing an original hotel in LA called the Whiskey Hotel.  He shares his journey about creating restaurant concepts, owning, developing and investing in Los Angeles commercial real estate.

Ken Kahan, Founder of California Landmark Group, a Los Angeles based multi family and commercial real estate developer. Ken discusses how he and his company choose an area to develop, why building a community is just as important as developing the building and what skills are needed to become a real estate developer.   Ken dives into the new trend and importance of Co-Living and what that means to multi-family development. Learn and listen from one of the best in the business.

Brian Shirken is the co-founder of Mountain Pacific Opportunity  Partners, and the founder of it's precursor, Mountain Capital Partners. he's been involved in purchasing and redeveloping over five million square feet of retail, an 11,000 bed student housing portfolio, development of over 3,000 multifamily units, 5 assisted living projects and providing more than $200 million in mezzanine Brian shares how he made the switch from property investor to commercial real estate developer.

John Jung, CMO of Brick Work. His company helps real estate owners, developers and agents acquire information about a property's development potential. Commercial real estate is a complicated process John explains why he started this company and how they are helping have a positive impact in Los Angeles with development.

Susan Shelley, V.P. of Communications for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, shares insights and the importance of the new Prop 15 which is set to hit the ballot in November.  This will impact all residents of CA. Susan is also a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Southern CA  News Group, 11 daily papers including the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Daily News.

My guest this week is Jay Sanderson, President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Jay is a true renaissance man, a visionary leader in the Jewish community, a man with culinary skills, and an award winning television producer who in my opinion has a great impact on the Los Angeles community. When not leading one of the largest and most prominent Federations in our country he is the host of his own podcast, Jay’s 4 Questions. Jay has been professionally active in the Jewish community for over 30 years and has been recognized on the Forward 50 list as one of America’s leading entrepreneurs. Formerly, he was the CEO and Executive Producer of JTN Productions, where he created, produced, wrote over 700 hours of award-winning television programming broadcast worldwide, and led its broadband initiative JewishTVNetwork.com. His producing credits include the landmark PBS series “The Jewish Americans,” “Worse Than War,” and the James Beard Award-nominated “New Jewish Cuisine.” Connect with Jay: Podcast | Jays 4 Questions Instagram | jaysanderson_la

Ellie Perlman shares her journey from growing up in Israel to now owning thousands of multi-family apartment units across the country. Faced with many obstacles along the way, she was determined to break out on her own. She scaled her business very rapidly. From lawyer, to property manager to real estate syndicator; this is her story.