E453: From Capital to Calling: The Story Behind VIVÂMEE & Accountable Equity with Reign Streiter and Josh McCallen

So out of your, your 80 or so, maybe even more now, investors, how many are local to the-- oh, good for your market that, that appreciate the property, or do you have anybody that's far and wide and, and just say, "Hey, this looks like a smart investment.

I'm gonna jump in"?

Yeah.

So the way we went about it was, if you don't mind me getting deep on you for a second here.

So one, we felt called to a type of hospitality that's super loving, super experiential.

We call it life-giving lifestyle hospitality, and it's all based on, um, you know, our credo of delivering hospitality the way it was meant to be.

Joy, full of joy, full of humility, and doing it as an act of ministry or love.

So that's why we do what we do, and the real estate is the wealth we create for investors, and we put ourselves last on the wealth because we want the investors to get that because that's the fair trade-off.

We get to build this beautiful business.

And that's where the story of capital hacking came from.

So to answer your question about how we learned and how we executed on syndication, it all started with the word capital hacking.

And I remember when we were trying to develop, I had learned so much from podcasts in that year, 20, 2028.

I probably listened to hundreds of hours.

And I remember thinking, "This is helpful because you're dialoguing with somebody by listening to them while you're driving." You're like, it helped me learn it, right? So I would listen to shows about the math, uh, the math of it, the formulas, the pro forma.

Then I'd listen to shows about the legal structures, and I'd listen to shows about tax strategy.

And then I would get on some of those shows talking about what I was working on.

And I said, "Oh, we're gonna do a show, but it's gonna be based on this cool principle that you can achieve two, that you, it takes two types of capital to build wealth, human, the ingenuity and the a- the, the, the actual hands to do the work- And the financial capital to be placed with the hands.

And I always said it's like a trade-off, and that's why our logo is actually two Cs looking at each other, which create like an H.

And it's, it's like the hack is when the two Cs look at each other.

Human capital combined with financial capital.

So I always say it could be a fair trade, and that's what I've always wanted it to be.

Yeah.

So back to, um, when we took the first dollar, I was at a conference and this major epiphany hit me.

It was a legal structuring for private placement conference.

It was all about how to do this the right way for the IRS, the right way for the SEC, the right way for people, all the disclosures, all the upfront knowledge.