Real estate operators, hard lessons, usable numbers.
Disruptors puts real estate entrepreneurs and business builders in the chair for direct conversations about what is working, what broke, and what actually made money. The show favors hard numbers, messy turning points, and practical operating details over polished founder mythology.
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Disruptors is a business interview show with a strong real estate and sales-operator center of gravity. It runs on direct questions, big claims, and long answers that usually circle back to execution. The episodes in this stretch focus less on abstract entrepreneurship and more on the machinery underneath it: lead flow, ad spend, buyer demand, sales training, market choice, call quality, CRM decay, and the stress of keeping a company alive. The headline numbers are loud. The better material is usually quieter. Guests describe what happened when ad performance changed, when cold calling started losing reach, when deals died before closing, when wholesale markets stopped making sense, or when a business owner had to decide whether to keep funding a painful expansion. The show likes people who have scars. It also likes people who can name the system that produced the result. One episode moves from a strained father-son relationship into mentorship and business focus. Another turns a lawsuit scare and declining phone pickup into an argument for inbound marketing. A conversation about failed real estate deals becomes a practical map of disclosure states, cash buyers, and markets where wholesalers can actually move product. Construction comes in as a more predictable alternative to the monthly chase of wholesale and flips. AI call scoring and calling agents appear as tools for sales teams trying to turn old leads and recorded calls into measurable performance. The tone stays conversational, sometimes repetitive, and very operator-minded. It is comfortable with ambition, but it does not hide the costs: burnout, missed family time, debt pressure, fear, and the ego risk of starting over. Disruptors works best for listeners who are already inside, or close to, a sales-heavy business and want to hear how other operators think through bottlenecks. It is less polished case study than live business debrief.
Made for: Disruptors is for entrepreneurs, real estate investors, wholesalers, sales leaders, and agency-minded operators who want practical stories from people building revenue under pressure. It especially fits listeners who care about leads, conversion, market selection, and team performance.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by pushing headline success stories toward the operational details behind them. Instead of staying with inspiration, it keeps returning to what produced revenue, what killed deals, and which systems had to change.
On Disruptors, Steve Trang interviews the most impressive people in business. By listening to these episodes, you'll learn the secrets to how guys like Max Maxwell, Carlos Reyes, Pace Morby, Josiah Grimes, Antonio Edwards, Sean Terry, Chris Jefferson, Chris Rood, and many more are bringing in millions per year. We discuss how they started, what sets them apart, what advice they would give somebody starting new, and what their business looks like today. We hope that by listening to this show, you'll be a guest someday and become on of our #100Millionaires Go to www.disruptors.com if you need help with your business.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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