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Real Estate Success: Overcoming Adversity & Failures

By February 11, 2026Real Estate Pros Show

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In this conversation, Bruzenskey Bois shares his journey from the music industry to real estate investing, emphasizing the importance of learning from failures, community impact, and the role of mentorship. He discusses the changing landscape of lending, his current projects, and the significance of mindset in overcoming adversity. Bruzenskey aims to educate others on real estate while fostering social change and personal growth.

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    Bruzenskey Bois (00:00)
    Man, I’m so glad you asked me that question. think it taught me a number one that my God is real. So, you know, it strengthens my faith. can’t do any of this and I’m very spiritual. And I have to say that everything that he’s prepared me for, prepare me for this moment and where I am now. To your point, there wasn’t a single path or step that I took that

    has not played a part in helping me. But sometimes I just, we just don’t see that. A door that’s shutting, a failure, something that happened was all working.

    Quentin Edmonds (02:08)
    Welcome to the Real Estate Pros podcast. I am your host Q Edmonds and I’m excited to be here today. Excited because I have another fantastic guest who lends, we get to peek through, right? You know me, if you’ve been following me long enough, this is the highlight of what I do is being able to talk to new people because they are the expert at what they do. Can’t nobody do them like them. And so I’m so glad that they bring their expertise to this platform and we get to.

    just gleaned to their knowledge and their experience. And this person, listen, no different. He loved teaching people, loved teaching people what to avoid. And I love that he is an out of the box thinker. I think we’re probably gonna get into a little bit of his background. You’re gonna see why he’s diverse and the way he can look at things from different angles. And so I am so happy to introduce to you all Mr. Bruzenskey Bois. Mr. Bruzenskey, how did I do with that name, man? Did I do all right?

    Bruzenskey Bois (03:03)
    He did really well. So it’s part of my brand, you know, so I understand that I do have a unique name, you know, hence why I have the website, bruzenskey.com.

    Quentin Edmonds (03:12)
    Yeah, yeah,

    no, I love it man. Listen, I believe putting respect on people’s names. So I absolutely love it, man. I just want to make sure I put the amount of respect on it. So I absolutely love it, man. And listen, brother, I want to dive in. I want you to tell people what your main focus is these days. I would love for you to give us a little bit of an origin story of kind of how you got into real estate. You know, we love to hear what’s your journey.

    And if you don’t mind telling us where you are geographically, man, we’d love to know where you are, what part of the world you’re in. So, sir, you got the floor,

    Bruzenskey Bois (03:44)
    Absolutely. Well, no, I appreciate you guys for having me. Quinn, I appreciate you for taking the time out to have this conversation with me. I really appreciate, you know, your podcast and what you guys are doing and putting, you know, other experts on and really sharing their story. So I’m honored and I’m humbled to be able to share my story. But a little bit of a background for me, for those that don’t know me right now, I’m in Tampa, Florida. You know, hopefully they say that we’re going to get some snow this weekend. So we don’t know, you know, but climate change is real.

    So we’ll see. But I’m a Florida native, Florida boy. I am from a small town called Miami-Dade County, 305 for sure. I joke when I say small town, but yeah, I grew up in Miami, ⁓ first generation Haitian, from a Haitian family. My parents came to this country with nothing. I was born here for me to have an opportunity here.

    you know, to do what I do, you know, growing up, the part played a huge part in influence in my life. So as a kid, I knew early on that I would want to design parks to keep kids. So I went to school for architecture. I went to the University of South Florida. When I was in school, I got into the music industry and was doing parties, promoting events that started to promote artists. And then shortly after I graduated, a buddy of mine who’s still in the music industry right now, like a brother to me, you

    he said, hey, you you just need a job, you know, work at his leasing office, you know, an apartment community. I was like, okay, well, work at a leasing office. And it was there when the light bulb went off for me. You know, I was a leasing consultant, helping the assistant property manager process checks.

    And I thought I made a mistake and I processed too many checks or duplicated it. And I said, hey, you know, it was a Saturday. I was working by myself and I told her, said, I think I processed too many checks. This says $300,000. And she’s like, no, that’s right. It’s about how much money this community makes per month. And at that time, I never could have fathomed, you know, this was like a 200 plus community of doors. And I was like, 300,000 plus dollars come through this community a month?

    I said, I need to own one of these things. I said, how do I get on the other side? So fast forward 2014, a fraternity brother of mine taught me about wholesaling. I became a junkie for all these seminars and webinars and communities. I joined all of them, anything I can get to soak up the game. And I recommend anybody who’s wanting to get information to be a part of it, it’s worth it.

    You know, did my first wholesale deal in 2014 and then partnered with another mentor of mine, Jason Gaston, who was running a real estate investment association. And I helped him coordinate some of these meetings. So what I did was took my music industry background on coordinating events and said, can put on an event, I can get people in a room, but.

    Instead of a club and a DJ and security and written artists to come to the club. Now I am coordinating other investors, lenders, title companies, contractors and getting them in the room.

    And for years, I had the opportunity to sit in these rooms. Because I think at the time, I joked with my friend today and said I was a better event coordinator than I was a real estate investor at time. So I leveraged that skill set to allow me to learn the skills that I have now within the industry. fast forward, started doing my own flips, got into real estate developing in 2019. But my space and the way I navigated was through organizations. And that’s how I could convince other folks to get

    into it. was part of different organizations and by doing that I was able to learn a lot, network a lot.

    and work my way up within the industry and still maintain a full-time job. And my job was a property manager, working in apartment communities. So that still gave me the skillsets to understand performers, budgets, my team, sales, to be on that side of the fence of when people were investing in these larger apartment portfolios, well, I was responsible for ensuring that we hit our NOI every month. Of course, they would just give me a little bonus every now and again. Once I knew the numbers, I’m like,

    You gave me that little bonus, but I just made you…

    You know, but fast forward, that’s what I that’s kind of a little bit of a background right now. I am a faculty member for a nonprofit organization called Incremental Development Alliance, where we do educate small scale developers on how to from start to finish in various aspects, how to get into small scale development. I do own a company called Boys Enterprises, where I to invest in small scale development. I do coaching. teach folks how to get into that space of small scale development.

    as well as landlord and property management. Right now I am building about 30 homes in Albany, Georgia, where we’re developing about 5.6 acres. And we’re doing about 14 town homes and 16 duplexes. And I’ve got a couple other projects that I’m just currently looking at. And I’m very excited to be here talking to you today because my goal is to really work with as many people as I can to help them navigate the real estate space by making it a little

    more simplified and easier to understand allowing them to have the right mindset to get over the hurdle that to get started you know a lot of folks

    they want to do it and they’re just like they don’t know where to get started. So I’ll help you get started. And then debunking the myth of funding and saying, I can’t get this done. Although that’s a pain point now, but it’s also an opportunity where I can learn how to navigate through different funding challenges to getting into a deal. So really excited to be here. And I appreciate you for giving me this platform to share my story.

    Quentin Edmonds (10:46)
    Absolutely, man. Thank you for taking us to the journey. And man, as you was talking, I was writing down the resume, right? Because listen, I have a saying where I say destiny has no wasted moments, right? Meaning like, as you go through life, each destination teaches you something by yourself. I I was writing down the resume. You’re talking about Haitian descent, architecture, music.

    Worked at a leasing office 2004 went into wholesale and 2019 went into development, property management, nonprofit coaching. Bro, if destiny had no wasted moment was a person. Bro, it’s you. It’s you bro. So my question is man, through all these things that you have acquired, what has destiny taught you about you? As you got into the real estate space, as you got to where you are now, going through just

    one cycle after the next and being successful and developing. What has Destiny taught you about you?

    Bruzenskey Bois (11:46)
    Man, I’m so glad you asked me that question. think it taught me a number one that my God is real. So, you know, it strengthens my faith. can’t do any of this and I’m very spiritual. And I have to say that everything that he’s prepared me for, prepare me for this moment and where I am now. To your point, there wasn’t a single path or step that I took that

    has not played a part in helping me. But sometimes I just, we just don’t see that. A door that’s shutting, a failure, something that happened was all working.

    I there’s a song I listen to every day, but it’s called, All Things Are Working For My Good. Hard to see that. And in real estate, I focus a lot of my teaching is mindset. Because if you’re gonna get into this game, if you don’t have the right mindset, don’t even waste your time. Y’all do it.

    Quentin Edmonds (12:28)
    more

    Bruzenskey Bois (12:39)
    focus on that because there will be challenges, there will be failures, but it’s really about how you take those challenges and how you adapt to them. And then you can apply that as an investor, right? It’s just a matter of, and even as a CEO or starting your own company, your job is to solve problems. Well, the ability to embrace problems and figure out how to turn them into something good, I think my experiences and my journeys has taught me to say, okay,

    music industry standpoint, now I can coordinate events. Well, now I can get, as I say, certain people in a room, you know, the architecture standpoint, I love beautiful design. love designing with a purpose. You know, I do come from a new urbanist perspective when it comes to designing well, applying that right now, just being able to work with various nonprofits and understanding that properties don’t sell themselves. Land doesn’t sell themselves. Buildings don’t sell themselves. People.

    sell these products. It’s people going through things that makes things available in terms of if someone’s going through a distress situation and you’re providing them with the solution. You know, so I think that all of my experiences, I’m grateful, you know, of course therapy helps, you know, so all non-believers in therapy go get some help. Like you’ll go talk to a realtor to help you, you know, list the property.

    to talk to somebody to help you understand yourself. So I think when I’m faced with challenging moments, my journey has taught me more about learning how to use my negatives and turn it into a positive.

    Quentin Edmonds (14:08)
    Man, I

    absolutely love it, man. Thank you for sharing, sharing from a place of transparency. I also call it a gift of your vulnerability. So thank you for sharing. That song, is that the Fred Hammond song? That’s Fred Hammond version we talked about?

    Bruzenskey Bois (14:21)
    Come on, come on.

    Quentin Edmonds (14:22)
    And we’re here on the therapy aspect too. Two things that ground me is my faith in therapy. Those two things. Listen, man, I think when you get into biblical context, talk about renewing of the mind, it’s all about therapy to practice if you ask me. I hear you, man, on that. Again, man, thank you for sharing your story. Now, I know every successful entrepreneur

    business person, most of the time they have rubbed up against some type of adversity, right? Like the road to success is built on having to come overcome adverse situations. And so I would love to know, man, have you bumped up against some adversity as you was building and becoming successful?

    Bruzenskey Bois (15:47)
    Absolutely. think even redefining success. I don’t think it’s a destination. You said something very clear. I can sit up here with you right now and be on this podcast, but there’s still adversity that I’m dealing with. There’s still adversity I’m currently dealing with. When I hang up this call, I still have to deal with my adversity. And there are other people that feel like…

    they can’t go on, they can’t move on, or they’re not successful because they have to deal with adversity. So I want to just, again, I like to debunk thoughts and push and innovate, disruptive innovation, which is a book by T.D. Jakes too, which is a game changer. if you have to read that, definitely a book. I think that I can share some previous adversity and I can share some current. I want people to see that adversity does not stop you. Adversity does not mean you’re not successful.

    You know, so it’s continual to be moving and moving forward irregardless. Some days you might be running. Martin Luther King said this. Some days you might run. Some days you might walk. Some days you might crawl, but just keep moving forward. know, so one of biggest adversities I think that for me was when I shifted from

    in college, you I didn’t go to college and got out of college and went into architecture program or school. It was some challenges, right? You know, I got into the music industry. I was like, you know what, maybe I’ll do this full time. Maybe I should just get into music. But then that wasn’t working out. So when I got into property management.

    you know, it was hard for me to transition from the music industry to get into what I call at the time corporate America and stuff like that because you go from the nightlife to now a day job. you know, I read the Russell Simmons book at that time called Do You? That was a big game changer in my mindset and doing that. So overcoming that.

    And then getting into the real estate industry, you I took a lot of losses. I lost a lot, you know, all my deals didn’t go well. You know, it was, like I said, it was really, really hard at the time when you check every box, you do everything you, you know, you thought was to do, you put your all into it and still fail. What do you do then? You know, and of course being spiritually grounded, reading stories about Joe and what Joe went through and not just saying, you know what, this isn’t real. This is, you know, forget all this and walking away.

    But really saying, okay, God, what do you want to show me now? And leaning into my community and my mentors, you know, and asking them like being vulnerable and transparent at the time. Like, hey, I messed up, you know, hard to call one of your investors and say, hey, look, I lost. But you got to stand there. You got to still have that integrity. You still got to have those tough conversations and you still have to be like, hey, I’m still going to do everything I can do to make sure that we do good business. Right. And being okay with failing.

    and failing forward. You learn it from your failures and getting back on. that’s why I feel most confident and going forward now is because I took lumps. I took those bumps, but I got back on that horse and it’s not an easy thing to do. You know, and one of my mentors helped me see that if you do two deals in one deal, let’s just say you do one deal. I know people that are one and done in this industry, you know, that’s friend’s out. They did a deal. They had a day was trying to be a landlord. It was like,

    I tried it. I’m not doing it anymore. I tell them, I’m like, I get it. It was a rough experience, you know, but imagine if you did four deals and only one of them went wrong. Is that still bad? Imagine if you do 10 deals and two of them went wrong. No, it’s just talk football. You got 16 in a season. Some teams make it to the playoffs, you know, losing four games. It could be the first four games that they lost.

    You know what mean? So I think that for me, overcoming adversity and failure has been my not superpower, but leaning into the failures. And that’s why I want to teach people from the standpoint. If you come here, you want to learn game. You can ask me about what you do that one, this and that. I don’t want to talk about that right now. Let me tell you what I did that where I lost. me tell you what I did that cost me this. Let me show you how I made this mistake.

    in using that mistake and leveraging it as your superpower to be a better, you know, but that takes a certain mindset to accept that failure and stand on and say, look, I was wrong. Like, man, I calculated this, the market shift, something went wrong. And being okay. And I try to teach my kids that now there’s confidence in your ability to take accountability. Yeah. Yeah.

    Quentin Edmonds (20:23)
    I it. I mean, of course the grounding principle that we take from biblical context is that trials come to make us strong. That’s what they come. They come to fortify who you are. It tests us, puts you in a fire and tests what’s on the inside because what’s on the inside is what’s going to come out, right? I have a saying where I say failure is fertilizer. That’s all it is. It’s fertilizer. That’s it. You put it the ground. And bro, when you mostly look at fertilizer, we talk about dung, we talk about horse manure. So it looks like mess.

    But if you stay there long enough, that thing is going to fertilize you. It’s going to cause you to grow. So sometimes you got to have roots in the mess. You got to have roots in the mess. Because as you grow out of that, you’re going to become strong. So you definitely write that down. that. Listen, I ain’t heard that nowhere. That’s a Q original. That’s a Q original. So yeah, go ahead, man. Definitely. I want that thing.

    Bruzenskey Bois (21:12)
    Let me go ahead and.

    Quentin Edmonds (21:18)
    I want that thing in the ecosystem. want it come back to me. yeah, so put that out there. But you know it’s true though, right? Like it’s true. Yeah, yeah, it’s all it is, bro. It’s all it is.

    Bruzenskey Bois (21:30)
    There’s a guy and I want to add to that point. There’s a guy I listened to. Hold on. His name is, I just want to pull this cause I didn’t want to misquote him. did a quote, we did an interview with, Jay Shetty. name is Alex. Or mozy really good guy at sales. this podcast that I listened to was a game changer for me mentally, because what he talked about was sitting with something long enough.

    and failing at it so many times that you can’t fail no more.

    So if I would have walked away from real estate after these failures, then I would have never know what it’s like on the other side. So that’s why I’m here to talk to you now, not to say that I’m a guy that everything I tried, I won, I won. I had some wins, you know? Of course, yeah, I wouldn’t have kept going or would I have? But having some failures and being able to just continue to push through was like…

    Quentin Edmonds (22:19)
    You know.

    Bruzenskey Bois (22:25)
    I’ve done fail so many times that certain mistakes I know I’m not making.

    Quentin Edmonds (22:32)
    Man,

    I absolutely love it brother. So I have to ask you, what is the next real goal for you, man? Like what’s next? What’s right in front of you? What you pushing towards, man?

    Bruzenskey Bois (22:42)
    So of course, getting this development built in Albany, Georgia, working on a few other projects as well, just really being known as the guy that get things built and teach people how to get into real estate and get involved.

    you know, and overcoming their own mental hurdles to get into it and seeing other people be successful. And I’m definitely looking forward to sharing my story and sharing my testimony and things that I’ve been through and being more transparent about my experiences and my skill sets. Cause I’ve been the guy behind the scenes for a while.

    a lot of things. So I’m looking forward to sharing that. And like I said, getting things built and really impacting lives and helping other small scale developers throughout the United States really stop looking at their neighborhood as they are doing this to us when it’s us that can really take the reins of development and really making a difference in our communities.

    Quentin Edmonds (23:35)
    Now I love it,

    man. I’m glad you are, you know, stepping out and doing more, you know, kingdom principle is that we overcome by each other’s testimony. So literally you’re going to call somebody to overcome because of your testimony, because you put yourself out there. And so I’m glad that you’re doing it. I’m glad you feel the release because this is what it’s all about, man. Creating that ecosystem, putting seeds in the ground, planting seeds and watching God give the increase. So I’m so glad, man.

    that you’re out here putting yourself out here. I’m so glad that connecting here for you to just share your story. And so I’m appreciative that you was on man. And let me ask you, if someone wanted to get in contact with you, if they wanted to collaborate with you, if they wanted to reach out to you, how can they get in contact with you, man?

    Bruzenskey Bois (24:21)
    Man, I’m so glad you asked. So please, please reach out to me. You know, I am currently looking for people to work with and to partner with, to learn from, to grow from, you know, so you can definitely check out my website. You know, you can go to my last name, Boisenterprises.com. You can actually, you know,

    join my mailing list. So I give out tips and I’m always giving out free game, free knowledge. Follow me on Instagram. It’s at Brazil. My first name that’s B R U Z E N S K E Y or you go to bruzenskey.com. It’ll lead you to my website. You know, ⁓ please just reach out to me. You can call me directly. I’m going to give you my phone number. my phone number is a (656)756-6105

    Shoot me a text, give me a call, let’s set up a time to talk. I want to hear from you. I want to learn about your projects, you know, follow incremental development Alliance, you know, join that group as well, or you can learn small scale development, you know, but just, you know, tap into me on my website, you know, follow me on social media. You know, I have a lot of exciting information that I give out for free to share. Join my circle. And I give, you know, I do a lot of free workshops, you know, that you can participate in just to get game from.

    But definitely join my ecosystem, you know, by again following me at Bruzenskey on IG. I give out a lot of information or Boisenterprises.com. You know, I do have some publications. I have a book out there on Amazon, two books, you know, that you can check out. One is a faith journal. I do believe in journaling, but it’s a journal that you can use for your everyday use. But I drop a little gems and biblical context, but also if you’re not even spiritual, I drop quotes and motivation because when I was in a dark place,

    It was these quotes that helped me to move on. So myself and my team put together a faith journal that’s on Amazon. You know, it’s 20 bucks. It’s not a lot. Just look it up, pick it up. And I also have something on Amazon. Ten tips for landlords. So only 10 bucks, a quick read, but it gives you a plethora of information. If you want to get started in becoming a landlord, you can get that information on Amazon or on my website. You sign up today.

    I’ll give you a free ebook. As soon as you put your email address in, you’ll get a free ebook of the 10 tips for landlords. So again, I’m just not looking to just, you join my network, I’m giving out gifts as well. So please, please go ahead and support. And I look forward to meeting everyone and learning your stories and networking.

    Quentin Edmonds (26:53)
    Man, brother, so three things I want to say to you. First, thank you for your time because we can put a premium on our time, right? Our time is our most precious commodity. So definitely thank you for your time. Two, thank you for your story. Thank you for your transparency, your authenticity. Thank you for the gift of your vulnerability. I put a premium on stories. I think you’re going to understand this when I say it. Jesus taught in parables. So stories are powerful. Our stories are powerful.

    as a way of breaking through the monotony and getting right to the soul. So definitely thank you for your story. And lastly, man, thank you for your perspective, for your mindset and bringing that mindset to this platform. I greatly appreciate you, Bruzenskey.

    Bruzenskey Bois (27:38)
    Thank you so much, and I look forward to following you and please you guys go continue to support him You’re on this this site and you’re supporting him or if you’re part of my network And you’re getting this podcast. Please go support my man right now ASAP

    Quentin Edmonds (27:51)
    Well,

    listen, y’all heard him. If you’ve been watching me, you know this, what I was transitioning to. Definitely check out my bro here. Look in the show notes, get all this information, check him out, but definitely make sure you’re subscribed here. I keep telling you, we’re going to bring up amazing people. And I keep telling somebody, call me out when I say it and I’m Mr. Mark. Cause it ain’t going to happen. You ain’t going to be able to call me out. Cause we just have incredible people that we’re connecting with. So Mr. Bois.

    Thank you so much, sir. I greatly appreciate you. And everyone else, we’ll see you on the next time.

    Bruzenskey Bois (28:25)
    Thank you.

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