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Mel Dorman

Mel Dorman

Mel Dorman (Melissa Dorman) is a financial activist, TEDx speaker, and author of "Bank on Your Neighbor" who founded Seller Finance Academy in Portland, OR to teach real estate investing without banks.

Sep 7, 2026

31:46
But I mean, I didn't believe that people got survived in $700 a month, you know? Yeah.
31:53
Those are the real realities of so many people.
31:55
Yeah, it's really serious.
31:57
I mean, I saw that as a social worker.
31:59
I saw people on the margins.
32:00
I saw how capitalism sort of chews up and eats people and throws them out to the wayside.
32:06
And we have a form of capitalism that is not people first.

11 MINS LATER

43:11
Yes.
8:25
But why seller finance right now in the current market could be a tool that could help women really take their next step towards achieving their goals?
8:38
Yeah, I mean, to your point, we are entering into what's called the silver tsunami, which is the largest transfer of wealth that our nation has ever seen.
8:46
And that will primarily be spearhead by the women, the widows that are left behind by the husbands who are leaving that wealth.
8:53
And boomers, you know, is that generation.
8:55
They're going to have so much wealth to transfer.
8:57
So we're at a critical moment in American history where we can pivot.
9:01
That if we have enough consciousness and enough awareness of how to do these interchanges between people and non-institutions, that we could really disseminate that wealth back to the population and create opportunities for ownership.

9 MINS LATER

17:56
They also want to be fair to themselves and not just give it away or be taken advantage.

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