Leslie Anne Morris began her Smoky Mountain investing journey while earning her MBA at the University of Southern California and working in Los Angeles as a commercial banker. For over twenty years, Leslie helped high-profile clients like SpaceX and closed a $50 million private equity deal. She applies the same underwriting strategy to building her growing real estate portfolio. And today, she is sharing her playbook to motivate others to do the same while creating truly passive income in short-term rentals.

From the minute she closed on her first investment cabin in 2019, she knew she had made the right choice. The cash flow allowed her to rapidly scale her portfolio to double digits and a value of $7 million in less than three years. Besides that, Leslie fell in love with Tennessee and moved there in 2020. She quickly founded two sister companies; a property acquisition company, Invest in the Smoky Mountains, and Josh’s Cabins Management, a full-service property management company. Her one-stop shop allows out-of-state investors an opportunity to create passive income by offering concierge-style service to guests without the hassle of self-management.

She travels extensively throughout the United States as a highly sought-after motivational speaker focusing on the incredibly lucrative short-term rental asset class. Recognizing the lack of women real estate investors, Leslie has made it her mission to be a driving force to empower women to begin real estate investing. She aims to empower 1,000 women to become millionaires by investing in short-term rentals. She has been featured on ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS networks. In addition, she is a popular guest on highly rated real estate podcasts and most recently was highlighted by the Tennessee Department of Tourism Board. In 2023, Leslie co-authored the best-selling book Hospitable Hosts 2 and was accepted to Forbes Business Council.

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You ever thought about what you’re gonna do with your business if you aren’t there to run it? Maybe you want to retire, maybe you want to walk away, maybe you unexpectedly pass away. It’s probably something that most single member businesses never even think about doing. It’s probably an important thing to do though. So join us today as we talk about it from our stand point and what were thinking of doing.

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As an entrepreneur it can be easy to get caught up in the day to day or think about all the fires you have to put out and forget about all the great things you’ve accomplished or seen in the business. With that in mind, we thought it might be good to take a second and think about all the pleasant things that this business can bring and other things we’ve seen. So join us and then let us know what has been good for you.

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The robots are coming! Somebody call John Connor! Jk… That’s a Terminator reference for those of you who aren’t as cool as us. While that’s a joke, the advancements in Artificial Intelligence are one of the hottest topics right now and people all over are finding ways to use it in their businesses. As entrepreneurs ourselves we’d be foolish to not atleast put some thought into how it can affect us and our business. This technology is definitely not going anywhere and it’s only going to get more and more advanced. So, those of us that learn about it now can put themselves into some pretty good positions. Join us today as we dive into it and what we currently know and what we think is possible.

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You’ve probably heard her name a few times lately so you know it was only a matter of time before we brought her on the show. I’m talking about Payton Byrd, she’s the newest acquisitions manager for Justin and we couldn’t be more excited to have her on the show today. She’s came on board a few months ago from a completely different career field and she’s managed to work hard, learn quick and have some killer success. So join us today and listen in to what she has to say and then get to work before she buys everything out there!

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Whether you believe it’s happening or not, everywhere you turn people are talking about an impending recession. Sometimes, just speaking about it is enough to slow entire markets down. So how should you be progressing in your business. Completely stopping isn’t an option and buying every thing you can no matter what it looks like might not be an option either. So what do you do? Well.. Join us today and we’ll give you our opinion and how we’re going about it.

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I think most of you would read the title of this episode and immediately say that it does. We’ve got an interesting take on it for you this week though. We’re gonna look at it from the eyes on an idea that we spoke about over lunch and see if you agree with us. The answer isn’t really as black and white as it may appear. So give it a listen and let us know what you think.

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It’s painful, it lingers and you don’t always recover so fast from it. It happens to all of us though and it sucks. One day you’ll be on top of the world and out of nowhere, BAM!! It happens and you get stopped in your tracks. As entrepreneurs it happens all the time. We’d even argue that it’s a very strong part of what we deal with on a daily basis. So how do you get back up when it happens? We’ve delt with this many times so today we’re gonna talk about it and what we do to get through it.

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At some point in your career you’re gonna hit a wall with either something you don’t like doing, can’t do yourself anymore, don’t want to do yourself anymore, etc.. Most of us will keep doing those things anyway though because that’s just who we are as entrepreneurs. We’ll know that we need to make a change and we’ll even have the conversation with ourselves about making the change but keep doing things how we’re doing them. That ends today! We’re officially letting all of you know to draw a line in the sand and don’t go past it. Hire that person you’ve been wanting to hire, outsource that thing you don’t like, get out there and make the changes you need to to keep moving forward.

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