Emergency Funds and Lifeboats with Emma Powell

<p style="font-weight:400;">Welcome to the Real Estate (Un) Success podcast where our host, <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcodylewis/'>Cody Lewis</a> talks to people from the real estate community, sharing real stories about their struggles, pains, and even losses during their own real estate journey. You’ll definitely want to listen to this installment a few times, and not on 1.5 speed.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Cody’s guest this time is <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmapowell28/'>Emma Powell</a>, owner and operator of <a href='https://www.highrise.group/'>Highrise Group</a> and she share quite a few golden nuggets on the importance of having several forms of liquidity.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Emma has been featured on Business Insider and <a href='https://www.biggerpockets.com/podcast'>The Bigger Pockets Podcast</a>, as well as many other programs and stages. She loves to talk and guest on real estate related podcasts or events with a talkative, easy to interview style. Emma has experience speaking about getting started in real estate by learning to network and learning to analyze deals, thinking bigger, scaling quickly, a positive mindset with a down-to-earth attitude, and accepting with humor the imperfect balance of business success and personal life.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Key Takeaways</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <ul><li>The person who risks their money can be set back several years in their investment career.</li> <li>Think about the forms of liquidity and how you’re holding it.</li> <li>Your only source of liquidity doesn’t have to be cash sitting in a bank somewhere.</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="f