Hello and welcome.

My name is Gino Barbera, one of the co-founders of Jake in Gino.

And in this how to lesson, I really want to dive into how you can start healing your relationship with money.

Now, that may seem like a weird topic or a topic that has nothing to do with investing in

real estate and investing with apartments. But what I've found over the last 15 years or so of coaching and being part of the Jake

and Geno community and seeing some members just crushing it and other members not.

You can take two members, have the same skill set, have the same amount of money, have the

same goals, have the same talents.

One does really well and one doesn't. And why is that? Or where can you trace that back?

To me, it has a lot to do with mindset. It really does. Having a fixed mindset versus the growth

mindset. But more importantly, it has to do with mindset. It really does. Having a fixed mindset versus the growth mindset. But more

importantly, it has to do, in my opinion, and especially in my story as well, to the relationship

that you have with money. I've heard a lot of people when they talk about apartments, they say,

oh, I can't afford that. It's too big. That's

just for rich people. I need to start with single families. I need to start with something

smaller. Now, there's nothing wrong with that mindset. In fact, that's where I started, because

that's what I thought is where you needed to start. That was my relationship with money,

with scarcity, maybe a little

bit of fear, maybe not knowing what money really was, not having enough value to be able to

attract money or to attract those deals. That's the problem. People, when they join a lot of times in our community, they've got that mindset that who owns these apartments? How do I get the money for the apartments? They're asking the wrong questions. If you have a healthy relationship with money, money is not the problem. The problem really is you don't know what you're doing when you're

starting to buy apartments. It's not buying a single family home. There are certain skill sets you need

to learn. So if you have a terrible relationship with money, you're saying to yourself,

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