{"podcast":{"title":"The Rich Somers Report","slug":"the-rich-somers-report-5905323","podcast_index_feed_id":5905323,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2615786.rss","website_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2097110","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/fx3qp0rh61orflokht6ojaspu4hw?.jpg","author":"Rich Somers","episode_count":524,"summary":"Join host Rich Somers, as he interviews top real estate investors, entrepreneurs, and athletes from all over the world to discuss all things real estate, business, and wealth related. His first guests include Tarek El Moussa - real estate investor & TV personality, and Cliff Avril - former Seattle Seahawks player & Super Bowl XLVIII Champion. Rich is an active real estate investor and entrepreneur holding a portfolio of apartment buildings, boutique hotels, and short-term rentals valued in excess of $80M. He was an air traffic controller for the government for 11 years, and cashed out his 401k to get his start in real estate investing. Connect with Rich on Instagram: @rich_somers","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T02:20:08.647699+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-rich-somers-report-5905323"},"episode":{"title":"How A Broke Janitor Built A $7M Empire Hauling Junk | Barry Hartman E530","slug":"how-a-broke-janitor-built-a-7m-empire-hauling-junk-barry-hartman-e530","published_at":"2026-07-30T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-rich-somers-report-5905323/how-a-broke-janitor-built-a-7m-empire-hauling-junk-barry-hartman-e530","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-rich-somers-report-5905323","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2615786/episodes/19575442-how-a-broke-janitor-built-a-7m-empire-hauling-junk-barry-hartman-e530.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2615786/episodes/19575442-how-a-broke-janitor-built-a-7m-empire-hauling-junk-barry-hartman-e530.mp3","summary":"Accredited investors wanting to participate in our Catalina Island + Bodega Bay opportunities visit somerscapital.com/invest Rich Somers sits down with Barry Hartman to talk about how he went from working as a broke janitor and pursuing a professional snowboarding career to building a junk-removal company generating more than $7 million a year. Barry shares how he started with a single pickup truck, the business fundamentals he learned along the way, and why junk removal can become an incredi...","meta_description":"Accredited investors wanting to participate in our Catalina Island + Bodega Bay opportunities visit somerscapital.com/invest Rich Somers sits down with Ba…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2908,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-rich-somers-report-5905323/episodes/how-a-broke-janitor-built-a-7m-empire-hauling-junk-barry-hartman-e530/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-rich-somers-report-5905323/how-a-broke-janitor-built-a-7m-empire-hauling-junk-barry-hartman-e530.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}