Focus on building your U.S. credit score, saving aggressively, and educating yourself through books, podcasts, and market research.

Santarelli as an absolute industry expert (podcast, websites, press, social media advertisement) cause investors to have a false sense of security.

I would recommend tuning into Straight Up Chicago Investor Podcast and going to local meetups. 

Here are a few suggestions on how you can maximize the wealth of information available: Check out the blogs and podcasts, or take advantage of the search feature (magnifying glass).

I remember studying your business model early on through your posts and early podcast episodes.

“One of the scariest things that happen in the worst-case scenarios is people turn on people,” he said in one clip after listing a few such scenarios: a new, more-virulent pandemic; artificial intelligence run amok; nuclear war; or “the real war with China and Russia and cybertechnology and the Cold War.”RAD’s survivalist-camp business is in the process of gaining control of 20,000 acres of rural property across multiple sites nationwide, Mendenhall said in an interview last month with the financial blogger and stock picker Jim Woods on Woods’ podcast, Way of the Renaissance Man.But the bulk of the business’ holdings consists of residential real estate, filings show.

So, what is your Coaching program called or your podcast series?    

@Spencer Cornelia I just listened to your podcast episode two days ago and read through your 6 part series.

I think what helped me was that she saw how much I was educating myself through books/podcasts/mentors, and I was able to show her my analysis on the first property we purchased and "sell" her on it.

It's a far better starting point for a new investor slowly growing a portfolio.You can learn more about that here on a Bigger Pocket Podcasts and here, and here is an article on it too.