Deal Junkies - A Real Estate Podcast

Episode 194: Deal Junkies x Wealth Juice

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
This episode flips the mic. After joining The Wealth Juice Podcast, we bring Corey and Ryan onto the Deal Junkies to continue the conversation. The WealthJuice team is a Philly-based real estate investing company that has grown their portfolio to 95 doors while still working W-2 jobs, and they’re now focused on helping others buy their first or next real estate deal.
We talk about how they built while balancing careers, what actually moved the needle early on, and the similarities between how both teams think about investing, execution, and helping people take action. There’s a lot of alignment between the two groups, which made this conversation easy, honest, and fun.

Episode 193: Trevor and Dane on The Wealth Juice Podcast

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
This episode is a little different. We’re sharing a conversation originally recorded on The Wealth Juice Podcast, where Trevor and Dane were interviewed about how they got to this point in their lives and careers, the investing paths they were on before Stack Asset Group, how Stack was formed, and where the platform is headed next.
Make sure to check out The Wealth Juice Podcast and give the guys some love. And stay tuned for Thursday, when the tables turn and the Deal Junkies bring The Wealth Juice crew onto our show for the next episode. 
Wealth Juice: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wealth-juice-real-estate-personal-finance-investing/id1506974626

Episode 192: The Timeless Investor Talks Deals

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
Arie van Gemeren is back, and this time the conversation is all about deals. In this episode, we dig into how Arie evaluates opportunities, structures investments, and thinks about risk, returns, and long-term value. From underwriting discipline to knowing when to lean in or walk away, this is a practical conversation grounded in real deal experience.
We talk through what separates durable deals from short-term wins, how institutional thinking applies to individual investments, and why consistency and patience matter when building lasting wealth.
If you want to hear how a timeless investor approaches deals in any market cycle, this episode delivers.

Episode 191: Discipline, Data, and Long-Term Value with Arie van Gemeren

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, we sit down with Arie van Gemeren, CFA, Founder and CEO of Lombard Equities Group, a West Coast real estate investment firm managing $120M+ in assets with plans to scale to $500M+. Arie brings an institutional lens to real estate, shaped by his background at Goldman Sachs and Fisher Investments, and a disciplined, data-driven approach to long-term value creation.
We talk about building real estate platforms with integrity, using fundamentals to guide decisions, and why patience and process matter more than hype. Arie also shares his perspective on impact-driven investing through his role as Chairman of the Housing Committee for Catholic Charities of Oregon, along with lessons from authoring Timeless Wealth: Real Estate Through the Ages.

Episode 190: A Deal That Didn’t Make the Cut

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, the Junkies break down a real deal that looked solid on paper but ultimately got passed on because of one critical factor, location. We talk through why numbers alone don’t make a deal, how demand and livability matter more than spreadsheets, and why some markets are worth walking away from no matter how good the projections look.
The conversation also dives into what an ideal acquisitions system should look like, how to filter deals early, where operators get stuck chasing the wrong opportunities, and how discipline protects you from bad long-term decisions.

Episode 189: Things Are Looking Up

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, the Junkies talk about why things are starting to look up, both locally and across Oregon. We dig into why Salem continues to stand out as one of the safest places to live, how that stability impacts real estate demand, and what we are seeing on the ground in the Oregon market right now.
If you want perspective on where Oregon stands today and why Salem continues to be a strong place to invest and live, this episode is worth your time.

Episode 188: Acquisitions and Deals with Ryan Brush

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, the Junkies sit down with Ryan Brush for a deep dive into acquisitions and real deals. We walk through how deals are sourced, underwritten, negotiated, and ultimately approved, using real examples from the pipeline to explain what makes a deal worth pursuing.
Ryan breaks down how he evaluates opportunities, where deals fall apart, how pricing gets adjusted, and what separates deals that close from those that don’t. This episode connects acquisition strategy directly to real-world deal execution.

Episode 187: Live from Palm Springs with Ryan Brush

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, the Junkies are live from Palm Springs, recording podcasts, spending time together, and having a good time along the way. It’s the perfect setting to introduce Ryan Brush, Head of Acquisitions for Stack Asset Group.
Ryan shares his background, how he approaches acquisitions, what he looks for in deals, and what he brings to the team. We also talk about how trust, alignment, and real friendships play a role in building a high-functioning investment platform.

Episode 186: What We Learned from Ryan Gibson

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, the Junkies break down the biggest takeaways from our conversation with Ryan Gibson and talk through how we’re actively applying those lessons inside our own businesses. From discipline and systems to capital strategy and decision-making, we unpack what actually matters when you’re trying to scale.
We also talk about why learning from people who are already doing what you want to do shortens the learning curve, helps you avoid costly mistakes, and forces you to think at a higher level.

Episode 185: A Flight Plan for Scaling Real Estate with Ryan Gibson

🎙️ Welcome to the Deal Junkies Podcast – the ultimate resource for real estate investors. Hosted by four experienced investors who’ve closed over $500 million in transactions, this podcast is packed with strategies and stories to help listeners build wealth and scale their portfolios.
Our main goal with this podcast is simple, turn you into a Deal Junkie, too.If you’re ready to invest alongside our team or want to learn how we build and scale deals, click here: https://stackassetgroup.com/contact
In this episode, we sit down with Ryan Gibson, President, Chief Investment Officer, and Co-Founder of Spartan Investment Group. Ryan shares how he transitioned from commercial airline pilot to full-time real estate operator, and how he’s helped organize over $450 million in private equity across Spartan’s projects. Spartan Investing: https://spartan-investors.com
We talk investor relations, capital raising, developing in challenging markets, and what it takes to build durable systems that scale. Ryan also breaks down how his background in aviation shaped his discipline, risk management, and decision-making as an investor. As host of the Passive Income Pilots Podcast, he brings a unique perspective on connecting individual investors to private placement opportunities across commercial real estate.
If you’re interested in capital strategy, leadership, and building real assets with institutional-level thinking, this episode delivers.