Jeff Potter, founder of the Mad Ants and current sports agent/co-owner of Potter Sports Group, joins us to discuss how he helped bring the Mad Ants to Fort Wayne, the challenges early on, winning the D-League championship, navigating a global recession, selling the team, and eventually starting his own agency!

After the city's recent acquisition of the Pepsi building near Promenade Park we chatted with Fort Wayne City Council's Jason Arp about the current events.  As a Libertarian, Jason shares his views and concerns with the project and others like it, as well as where he'd prefer to city citizen's tax dollars going.  It was another candid and enjoyable conversation with one of the city's representatives!

If you've wanted to reap the benefits of real estate investing with the maintenance, repairs, and headaches of being a landlord you may want to consider note investing.  Fort Wayne, Indiana local investors Jay Redding and Kyle Cassidy from JMJ Real Estate Services LLC break down how they have found success in the note investing space, as well as how you can get involved either passively or actively.  Have a listen to the interview and then head to their websites jmjrealestateservices.com and cassidyinvestments.com to learn more and connect with these savvy investors!

We chat with local investor and founder of the Fort Wayne REIA about how he's hedging against inflation, where he's finding deals, and why he's shifting to industrial flex space.

We chatted with Fort Wayne local Margaret McAfee about the pros and cons of leaving a great career behind to stay at home with her children.  Hopefully this conversation will help advise or add perspective to anyone struggling with the same decision.  From there we discuss how she has added 25,000 followers and become an Instagram influencer!  She credits consistency and authenticity for her success while giving tips for those looking to grow as well.  Hope you enjoy!

Fort Wayne is known for its amazing park system.  It is one of the many quality of life benefits of living here.  We chatted with Steve McDaniel, Director of the Park Department for the city of Fort Wayne about how he got started, his vision for our parks, and what the future brings!

We chatted with two friends and Fort Wayne locals who chose to walk the path less traveled.  They saw the effect that drugs, gangs, and corruption were having on the children of Medellin, Colombia and decided to do something about it.  So naturally, they started a... little league?!

We chat with the founder of Pond, Mitch Stein!  Pond is a tech startup based right here in Fort Wayne that aims to help non-profits connect with service providers to save them both time and money, keeping them focused on serving their community and not spending precious resources on infrastructure.  Mitch shares what a battle the startup world can be and how he plans to persevere.  Enjoy!

Electric Works is one of the most exciting and bold projects the city has ever been a part of.  Fort Wayne Community School's role will be no different.  They are looking at starting forward thinking, outside the box, and truly visionary education programs to prepare Fort Wayne's youth for the future of tomorrow.  Riley Johnson has been tabbed with this enormous task and he gets to start from scratch!  On episode 18 we discuss his background that prepared him for this moment as well as the opportunity he sees in front of him.  If you have interest in Electric Works, alternatives to traditional schooling, or people trying something new and bold then this episode is for you!

Unless you've been living in isolation with no human contact, you've repeatedly heard this market is scorching!  With that in mind we chat with FW REIA founder and seasoned investor Drew Wiard on a variety of topics ranging from:  Are there still deals?  Is there a crash coming?  Is he locking in gains by selling some of his portfolio?  Enjoy!