Wealth Independence Podcast
The Wealth Independence Podcast guides high-income tech professionals through proven strategies for building passive income and achieving true financial independence.
Hosts Dustin Bailey and Adam Penn share battle-tested frameworks, real-world case studies, and hard-won lessons from their years of experience in private markets and alternative investments. Each week, they break down complex investment concepts, analyze current market trends, and interview successful investors and industry experts.
Through a freedom-first approach that emphasizes passive income, smart diversification, and thorough due diligence, learn how to shorten your learning curve and avoid common pitfalls on their path to financial independence.
Whether you're looking to understand private placements, real estate fundamentals, or alternative investment opportunities, Wealth Independence delivers actionable insights that help busy professionals make informed investment decisions.
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Wealth Independence Podcast
Latest Episodes
v2.39 - Investing in Needs-Based Real Estate (ft. Dani Lynn Robison)
There are some bills people keep paying no matter what’s happening in the economy, like their rent, or care for an aging parent. Real estate investment built around those consistent payments usually gets called “recession resistant.”But ...
v2.38 - No Investor Left Behind: The Capital Stack
If you buy a building with all cash, there’s one “layer” of money in it: yours. Add a bank loan, and now there’s two, with the bank paid before you are. Add a second position loan, and now there are two people getting paid before you.Tha...
v2.37 - AI in Real Estate - What We Automate and Why
Most people’s experience of AI is still a chatbot, even nearly four years since ChatGPT’s release. Dustin and Adam started there too, but today run AI systems that do a first pass at underwriting an apartment deal straight from the broker’s mar...
v2.36 - Investing in Real Estate Outside the U.S. (ft. David Kafka)
Almost every passive investor’s portfolio sits inside one country – with the same currency, tax code, and legal system. Owning real estate outside your home country is a diversification move most never make…yet it’s far more accessible than it ...
v2.35 - No Investor Left Behind: Seller Financing and Owner-Carried Notes
Owner financing (also called seller financing or an owner-carried note) is simple: instead of the buyer borrowing from a bank to fund a purchase, the seller becomes the bank, lending out of their equity and collecting the payments.It’s c...