The Inspiring Story of Going from a Trailer Park to Real Estate Millionaire

Brett McCollum (00:00.39)
All right, guys, welcome back to the show. I’m your host, Brett McCollum, and I’m here today with Amy Johnson. Today, we’re going to be talking about how Amy went from trailer park to a multimillionaire. That’s right. At Investor Fuel, guys, before we get started at Investor Fuel, we help real estate investors, service providers and real estate entrepreneurs to 2 to 5x their businesses to allow them to build the lives they’ve always wanted and allow them to live the lives they’ve always dreamed of. Without further ado, Amy, how are you?

Amy Johnson (00:29.166)
You’ve so good. I’m fantastic. I love it.

Brett McCollum (00:33.026)
awesome it was really awesome getting to know you a little bit pre show and like I’m really excited like some of the conversations we’re gonna have because like we have some definitely some symmetry and kind of maybe at least our early years in life of you know where we come from where we’re going kind of thing and I’m really excited to deep dive that and talk about what you’re doing today and everything in between but before we do kind of give some history some background and who’s Amy Johnson and you know catch us up to speed a little bit

Amy Johnson (01:02.456)
Yeah, sure. So I’m Amy Johnson, live in Utah. I’m a mother of five, been married to my husband for, what, 22 years, actually. We just celebrated our 22nd anniversary. And so I have been passionate. I used to be a teacher. I now, I own a development company. Y Street Capital is my company. We’re in United States and Canada.

and do projects all over from all different types. I love hiking, love outdoors and anything that involves energy.

Brett McCollum (01:44.134)
Yeah. As most Utahians, what do you call yourselves? Utahians? What do you call? I don’t know what you call yourself. Utahans? Yeah, like Utes. What do you guys? The Utah community loves the outdoors. That’s what I’m learning. Yeah. Awesome. Very cool. Well, let’s rewind a little bit. I know kind of we kind of led in the show with like going from the early days in trailer park to now where you’re at, like rewind back a little bit.

Amy Johnson (01:50.73)
utans, I guess, I don’t know.

Amy Johnson (01:55.598)
you

Amy Johnson (02:00.972)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (02:13.84)
How old were you? What was that period of time like?

Amy Johnson (02:18.872)
Yeah, growing up my dad was a super hard worker and they were affluent or middle class and unfortunately they went through some hard times and they lost their house and everything. I don’t remember all of those details. I do remember some of the stress because I was little when that happened. I was like five.

for it. And I just remember living on this little they did. They had a piece of dirt and we lived on this piece, this really small trailer motorhome thing. I don’t think it actually ran, but it was there and the boys, there’s eight kids in our family. And back then it was, we didn’t have some of the two youngest. So I was the youngest of that. Oh, actually, I guess I

We had one of my younger sister, but not the youngest of us. So there was seven of us, seven kids in the little motor home. And the boys, older boys basically slept out in a tent outside because there wasn’t room in the trailer for it. And just remember that. You know, it’s interesting though, but I don’t remember.

I don’t remember how we were still a very happy family inside that space for it. So I don’t remember the stress or I’m sure there was a less stress and financial situation. But as a child, I don’t remember that. I do remember, you know, just exploring in the woods and the trees and everything else around us and finding wild apple trees to go snack on and getting a sick stomach because I do too many of them or

Brett McCollum (03:39.654)
Yeah. Yeah.

Amy Johnson (04:03.744)
eat them too early or something like that. But yeah, that’s where I came from. nobody, you know, they they they worked hard. That’s that was the standard growing up is just if you work really, really hard, you’ll be you’ll be OK. Even if we weren’t OK financially in some in some cases for it.

Brett McCollum (04:29.094)
Yeah, I think that’s really special though, right? Like I know as parents, know, and you’re a mom and I’ve got four kids, you’ve got five. And I think the main driver as a parent we want is like, we want our kids to be okay, right? Like, we wanna know that they’re happy. And I know a lot of times, it’s almost cliche, the kids just like, I just wanna be around you, mom. I just wanna be our new dad. And they just wanna be.

Amy Johnson (04:46.412)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (04:57.222)
they’re not really concerned with how much money we have or don’t have or things like that. And you hear that all the time, but in our mind as a parent, like, we gotta make sure that this is, and so I can almost guarantee, like as a parent, that was a stress for them, right, probably. But what a great testament to your parents for you to be able to sit here and go, we were happy. Like what an incredible, like incredible thing to look back on because like,

Amy Johnson (05:12.92)
for sure.

Amy Johnson (05:19.52)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (05:27.63)
it could have been just like, this was the roughest thing in the world and I hated my life and this and you look back on it with a smile on your face right now. Like I don’t know if you’re listening, you can’t see it, but Amy’s got a smile on her face when she says this and that is a profound, I just love to hear that. Like it’s a testament to financial stress doesn’t mean, it’s a reminder to all of us as parents, like your financial struggle, good or bad, is.

it’s different than our parenting and how well our success as moms and dads aren’t predicated upon how much money we make, you know? And that’s, it’s been a tough journey for me personally, right? To be able to go separate those two things, but that’s just another reminder. I’m glad you said that, cause like, I want to highlight, I mean, these are the real estate, all the things that we do, it’s going to be, and we’re going to get to that, I promise. It’s super important, but what’s more important is our family life and you know,

you having that great role model of, you know, we were happy even in struggle.

Amy Johnson (06:31.692)
Yeah. And to be clear, like we were happy then. And then I remember as a as a youth growing up and, my dad would build it back up. And then unfortunately, we made some other poor choices. And it was during the real estate crash and they lost everything again for it. And I can only kind of flashback to like this is where they this is where they were before. And the only other difference was is my dad didn’t have the health then.

the second time to rebuild it back up for it. And so if I brought one other thing that really drives, if people ask like, what makes you drive to be as successful as you are, it’s never to put my family in that situation again of, not that I put my family in that situation, but like that I wouldn’t put my future family, my family I have now in that situation. And that will have

Brett McCollum (07:26.374)
That’s right.

Amy Johnson (07:30.956)
you know, these building blocks of security around us so that if a storm comes around, we can still weather that for it.

Brett McCollum (07:36.048)
Yes.

Brett McCollum (07:40.582)
That’s right. Boy, can I relate to that one, you know, even recently, you know, and same similar story with my parents, you know, and still in the struggle, you know, even today kind of thing, you know, just with bad, you know, you make it and then you make bad choices and you lose and then you make it about, and then the same thing, you know, health, you know, and now that’s at a point where health isn’t there and now you can’t, you know, very, very, very similar, you know, kind of thing. And the same thing I told my.

life and my children is like, hey, because they know they see it and they ask questions. And I’m not going to lie to them, but I’m also going to, but I’m telling them, look, look, daddy works hard for our family so that this isn’t something you guys have to ever go through the way we did.

Amy Johnson (08:23.5)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (08:24.314)
You know, that’s I’m glad you said that because I just think that it’s really I just I’m still highlighting like but you can still make that the choice happiness isn’t a You choose it right? Like it’s a choice that we get to make nobody can make you unhappy They don’t have that kind of power we get to choose are what we want

Amy Johnson (08:36.995)
Yeah.

Amy Johnson (08:43.104)
Yeah, your commas in your bank account don’t bring the happiness to your…

Brett McCollum (08:47.888)
Sometimes it makes it way harder, doesn’t it? it’s just, what’s the more money, more problems? You know, it’s just, you know, but yeah.

Amy Johnson (08:54.656)
Yeah, yeah. Now don’t get me wrong, like being successful brings a lot of, there’s a lot of great things that money provides that, you know, I took my entire family to Cancun last week for it, right? And so all seven of us are in Cancun and just relaxing by the cabana and a really nice resort. And, and it’s just a moment to be celebrated and that not everybody can do that.

And so I’m grateful that we can do those things as well.

Brett McCollum (09:21.83)
That’s right.

Brett McCollum (09:25.382)
Yeah, and I think going through that and having those moments that you get to have today allows you to even reflect and have that grateful heart, you know? Yeah, well, very cool. We could talk about this stuff for a while, but I’m really excited to kind of get into the real estate side of things. You were a teacher. Talk me through a little bit on the transition. When you went from teaching, how does it go from teaching into real estate? Like, what was that progression?

Amy Johnson (09:33.846)
Yeah, for sure.

Amy Johnson (09:52.352)
Yeah, I think it came out of so I love to teach and even today I still consider myself a teacher. I teach, you know, and by helping investors see what you know.

and teach them basic concepts like, yes, you can do this and showing blue collar individuals like, hey, you have, you don’t have to buy a truck. You could buy it with this and this could be your deduction or just different things like that. And so what happened was, my husband and I, did have a single family home. I was…

It took us forever to get pregnant for our first and then but then and I’m totally shortening a story But then we surprised pregnancy for the second our doctor said we’d only ever have one kid and so anyway So I have two I I have barely almost a one-year-old. I’m just helping you imagine almost one year barely a one-year-old I’m super pregnant with the second. So these my boys are 13 months apart just to clarify

I’m super pregnant a second and I’m opening I’m sitting in our little kitchen in a little our little house a little 1100 square foot house and I’m opening our mail and I Open our student loan document paper, you know what we owe and I just have like this sinking feeling of like Where I mean we are we are poor

We barely can afford the diapers. How are we gonna accept this? How are we gonna be able to do this second male? My husband just finished his degree, but we had the student loan debt and I’m just like, there’s no way we can climb out of this. And I just had this sinking feeling in my gut of like, we can’t just be doing what we’re doing now for it. And…

Brett McCollum (11:46.672)
Mm-hmm.

Amy Johnson (11:49.954)
And at that time, because my boy had some health problems at the very beginning, I actually went from high school teaching to like a private.

it’s called home and hospital teaching, you go and teach kids that are in the hospital and stuff because it worked for our schedule. so anyway, so I’m saying, okay, there’s no way we can survive and do what we’re doing now in our status quo. Even though I knew growing up, I was told like, hey, if you went to college, it would, if you went to college and then we’re really good at a job.

you that’s you’ll eventually get financial freedom and I’m just like, okay, the college thing was fabulous. I love education, but I don’t know that it’s really providing me the freedom that I thought I would it would provide. And so then that’s when I talked with I remember this conversation sitting in bed with my husband and was saying, Jared, what what are we going to do different because

I don’t like this life and I don’t want to bring more children into this life with our lifestyle we have right now. I don’t want to continue to struggle. So how are we going to, what are we going to do differently? And we said, okay, yeah, well, let’s think about it. We’re not going to rush into things and we’re…

we believe in God and a higher power. And so we said, okay, we’re going to say a prayer together and we’re going to, we’re just going to think and see for it. And then we’ll be inspired down the road.

Amy Johnson (13:31.918)
Because of that we down the road it wasn’t immediate But my husband’s boss talked about buying a second home at that time and he said how is he because he really wasn’t making His boss wasn’t making that much more than my husband. He’s like, how are you buying a second home? How can you afford that? You know, and what what could you do and he talked about? it’s a rental and you know, and you kind of talked about it and then that’s when we opened our door into

real estate investing and and started diving in and looking and we actually even paid somebody to help like teach us mentor us work through a couple things and I was I was grateful. I was a really really scary step. I remember at that time my family saying like just so much and just outside sources saying you guys are absolutely insane. I can’t believe you you’ve got two young kids. Are you sure you want to do this? Why you

a cute little you just redid your floors in your house your cute little house because what our first step was is because we didn’t have any money so our first step was is i washed windows i taught extra lessons and stuff we sold everything inside of our house possible that had any monetary value we went to one car we anyway so we just like cleared out everything and sold everything and then we

it we had enough to save, which was not a lot back then to buy for a new we were in a commercial home and we bought a FHA and did just the house hack idea. We moved into this disgusting, disgusting house that we moved into and we moved into that house and just fixed it up and we put renters in our on our other house.

for it. That was our first step into getting into the real estate world of saying, okay, we’re going to move out of the house. Um, let’s see, how long ago was that? I would say, well, that boy is so I was about 13 years ago.

Brett McCollum (15:36.368)
How long ago was

Brett McCollum (15:50.522)
Wow, very awesome.

Amy Johnson (15:52.428)
Yeah. Yeah. So that’s kind of, guess, what goddesses in to really say is just being sick and tired of, of barely living paycheck to paycheck. Yeah.

Brett McCollum (16:02.064)
That is glow almost, yeah. How things are, yeah, I get that, that tracks. So you dip the toe in, you start the rental process, and then at some point, like, I mean, you guys are doing some big, big stuff right now, you know? Kind of catch up to that a little bit for me.

Amy Johnson (16:21.408)
Yeah, so what I mean, fast forward, however many years I just said, you know, now just just as an example, we had an 18, almost 1800 acre piece of property in Colorado that we bought for 20 million cash and then did the entitlements and the city work and everything on that and have an L.O.I. a letter of intent signed.

from a billionaire that wants to purchase that from us. It’ll have about 9,500 homes on that property. And that LOI is for 70 million. And that’s just one of 15 of our projects that we have going on right now for it. So just to kind of give you a scope of from a single family home that…

was really gross and stinky too. I don’t live in those now, but it was a great stepping stone for us to get to where we are today for him.

Brett McCollum (17:22.49)
Yeah, that’s kind of, yeah, the whole point of what we’ve been building to at this point in the conversation of just, you know, the beautiful thing about real estate is it’s just not really a respecter of, you know, you can be born with, as the billionaire, or you can be born growing up in trailer park, or you can know somewhere in between, and the opportunity is still out there for all of us.

You know, and you’re living proof of that, right? And I think that’s really cool.

Amy Johnson (17:53.932)
such an incredible thing that we can live in a country because I travel a lot. so the fact that can go and and every time I travel, actually talk to people about real estate and like about them buying their place and things like that. And the fact that we have this 30 year fixed mortgage in itself is pretty unique and that you could buy a house for no money down or at bare minimum, three point five percent down.

Brett McCollum (18:17.638)
Mm-hmm.

Amy Johnson (18:24.262)
it. Like that’s such a blessing that we have here and because of that everybody can like there’s no excuses to not get into real estate and if you come up with an excuse I’ll help figure out a solution for you.

Brett McCollum (18:39.878)
That’s right. That’s right. Yeah, because we all have those at some point. You and I probably have the same excuses that they did until you were educated otherwise.

Amy Johnson (18:47.18)
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like I said, we were living paycheck to paycheck, zero savings whatsoever, you know, like, who are we to buy it? Yeah.

Brett McCollum (18:58.79)
working jobs, multiple jobs, kids. So yeah, but also I don’t have any time.

Amy Johnson (19:06.038)
Yeah, right. Everybody that says that I’m time and I’m like, okay, well, I’m I’m running multiple businesses have five children that are very active 18 to nine. So I’m like in the thick of it. And we’re in we’re doing volleyball. We’re doing play practice. We’re doing we’re doing all

Brett McCollum (19:24.134)
Yeah, you make time, you prioritize what’s important to you and the rest isn’t. So my coach teaches, he has a phrase that I really love, there’s no such thing as time management, because you can’t control time, but there is such a thing as priority management.

Amy Johnson (19:42.048)
That’s good.

Brett McCollum (19:43.578)
Yeah, and so I like whenever like we don’t have like it’s just priorities. What are you prioritizing? And especially, yeah, so super cool. So I wanna talk a little bit more about on the development side of things to look at what you guys are doing. So today you said how many projects are you guys like kind of involved in?

Amy Johnson (20:02.936)
So have 15 projects going on right now from it. And they range, not all of them are.

as big as 1800 acres, right? I have a 20 acre mixed use development in Brigham City that’s got, you know, it’s got a hundred town homes, a Marriott is going to be building there and some drive-throughs and some industrial flex. I have a self-storage arm that we have multiple self-storage projects going on right now. Some are already existing and running and operating great. And that was one of my first large

deals I got into was self storage so it’s kind of my baby that I love. We just broke ground in Houston on a project for self storage. It’ll be a hundred thousand square feet there, you know, we have another one in Grand Junction. So and then we have a large project in Washington that we’re doing as an active adult community for that one. That one was a

Brett McCollum (20:44.571)
Yeah.

Amy Johnson (21:08.364)
That’s a podcast in itself of pivot and and learn. It went from multifamily to active adults anyway. So it’s becoming a super success. So I’m excited about it. But that’s that’s one of those, you know, occasionally you have those deals that you’re like, that that caused some extra stress. That was one of them of just, you know, and.

Brett McCollum (21:33.338)
Right, right, right.

Amy Johnson (21:37.09)
the cities and you know, just all sorts of different things that affected different things on it. So and, and there’s been some deals that have been, I mean, any anybody that says they don’t have a deal that’s never they’ve never had a deal go right awry, they just haven’t been in business long enough for it. And they especially haven’t been in development. So cities, you know, cities

all of sudden change their mind and add moratoriums to development or change and can’t figure out their sewer or, you know, there’s all sorts of different things for it.

Brett McCollum (22:17.414)
And that, well, that kind of leads into a question I was gonna ask you of like, because of, I mean, I’m sure, like, because when a lot of people like, let’s say they’re fix it, flipping a house, just let’s, and you know, in your budget on a fix and flip, you should be having some kind of a buffer in your budget, right? Some kind of a contingency of some sort. How do you guys on develop, and I always ask this question, but now you guys are running it at scale. You’re not doing onesie twosies, right? So you’re running development at scale.

And these projects can take anywhere from, you know, a year to two years, potentially, depending on the or more. Yeah, there you go. Right. Like, how are you? What how are you? Budgeting for contingency for a project that’s two, three years, however long out like what is that like? I’m always curious to see like more of like the how are you thinking about something from in two or three years?

And a very, because obviously today it’s an uncertain, there’s a lot of uncertainty in the market today. It’s gonna do this, gonna do this, it’s gonna do this, it’s gonna do this. And there’s all kinds of like, rates are here, rates are here, this is what’s gonna, and then you’re, but I’m forecasting two and three years out. How do you guys kind of underwrite that?

Amy Johnson (23:33.134)
Yeah, so there’s a couple different things there. I mean, there’s a lot there. So the first part that we do is we never take on a deal. We never start a project unless the returns are exceptionally high for it.

Like the upside is very high for us to be able to do it. Meaning it’s got to be at least a 2x multiplier, at least for us. So our margins right there are going to, if we have a 2x multiplier, meaning like, we put in 20 million, it’ll pay out 40, right? Like that’s 2x. So if we’re working towards that, then we need to make sure.

Brett McCollum (24:08.975)
me.

Amy Johnson (24:17.504)
That helps our contingencies right there. We’ve added contingency there. The second part is we don’t close on our land very often until we have most of our city work complete for it. So a lot of our contingencies, we don’t buy the property until we have.

Brett McCollum (24:20.07)
Right, right.

Amy Johnson (24:36.11)
done all of that stuff. So people that come and bring me a deal that like this deal is incredible and it’s you have to close it in 60 days and you have to pay cash because it’s so incredible. And I said, that’s fabulous. And you know what? It probably could be, but it’s not worth it to me for it. So I we we say no to so many projects, so many things. Sometimes it.

Brett McCollum (24:38.47)
That’s smart.

Amy Johnson (25:02.456)
Frustrates me because we have to I mean if I asked like what was my hardest part is saying no to so many things but it’s It’s because there’s so much out there for it. There’s so many great deals out there for it so we just got to make sure we’re fitting the right ones and making the making sure our contingency of so then if if Shit hits the fan then

It’s like, okay, it’s not a 2x multiplier, but at least we got our it’s a 1.5 and we’re so.

Brett McCollum (25:35.396)
Right. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, and I really like the part like, hey, we’re getting all of our city work done ahead of time before we even close. that, I’m guessing you probably learned that lesson the hard way maybe.

Amy Johnson (25:49.39)
Yeah, some and not every way happens. But yes, yeah. One of my deals that I would probably pull my hair out a little bit from the city, the city from their mouths were like, oh, we love this. Of course we want this. Of course, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, all this lip service. And then we get in front of this council and then they they rechecked it and we’re like, you know, like, wait. So, yeah.

Brett McCollum (26:11.91)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (26:15.856)
We just bought this though, what are you talking about? Yeah, and that’s actually really wise. And I always wonder, you know, and yeah, that’s really cool with who you know.

Amy Johnson (26:18.68)
Yeah.

Amy Johnson (26:25.102)
We also have contingency plans of A, and C in a development. So we say, OK, if we do buy the property beforehand, we say, OK, worst case scenario, by right, we could do X, Y, and Z, or we could do this, or we could do that. And we have had to pull up. Yeah. Yeah.

Brett McCollum (26:31.259)
Mm-hmm.

Brett McCollum (26:43.888)
Yeah. Multiple exit strategies for any given deal. Yeah. That’s incredible. Yeah. And it’s just, there’s so much, you know, in real, there’s a lot of parallels to different types of, you know, development, fix and flip, buy and hold. there, there’s, there’s a lot of parallels, you know, and, and I’m just really highlighting the fact that a lot of the same due diligence that we do and some, you know, in one area is similar over here. And I mean, it’s just, there’s some.

Nuance maybe albeit that you guys have that you know in some development that I may not see in a single-family home, right? But the principles are still very very similar and man, that’s really cool. I love what you guys are doing. That’s incredible You know you’ve like you said, I think we talked for each other a little bit You guys now have an international presence as well How did that come about a little bit and like kind of does that have any effect on like your day-to-day like what is that like?

Amy Johnson (27:44.043)
Yeah, I mean, my day to day means that I can work from anywhere because we’re always just work on Zoom. Unless I’m in a city, right? Like working with the with the city. But even now, I don’t work with the city. I’ve found that. Anyway, that’s a whole other story I work with. I make sure that I’m working with a local in that city. That’s my spokesperson, because they don’t love they don’t love the developers like coming from out of state and saying, hey.

Brett McCollum (28:06.939)
Love it.

Amy Johnson (28:12.846)
do this for their city. So we pick a local spokesperson that already has all of that relationship capital, which is a huge factor in development for it. we take on that. How I became international, I had my own company in Utah. We did Utah, Idaho, and Washington. And I was doing well.

Brett McCollum (28:12.848)
We’re gonna this to your city. Yeah.

Brett McCollum (28:24.454)
huge.

Amy Johnson (28:40.93)
but I also wanted to get to the next level of development. so, and I, there was a couple things that I didn’t know and other things like that. And there’s strengths I had and there were weaknesses of stuff. Like I was pretty much a solo company. I had a couple other things, but not like a full-ledged company, right? And so there were things I hate doing.

absolutely hate and so I wanted I said okay I’m gonna I’m gonna look and see can I either do I train this talent do I acquire this talent how do I get this other talent for example I am terrible at Excel don’t ask me to do Excel for it and organization I’m not great at that now creative deal structuring talking with people and

and finding deals and all of that stuff, superpower, love it. So I was in a deal that got more complicated. And at that time I threw a mastermind that there was one of the speakers and he said, yeah, I do individual.

mentoring and coaching and I said, hey, I have this deal and I know you’re more senior that you could help me with it. And it’s more complicated. It’s a little above my head and I’ve got these kids and my life balance is a little out of whack. And I was kind of reading, you know, that book, who not how of like acquire the talent for it to be able to go to the next level.

And I knew that’s what it was. I was holding myself back by wanting to do everything myself for it. And so that’s when I acquired this and we are working together. And I paid him a monthly consulting fee for it. And then as we work together so much more, they were in Canada, I was in the US. And then he said, you know, we do a lot of projects together and we really mesh well together.

Amy Johnson (30:50.446)
What are your thoughts of merging our companies? And it took, I mean, it wasn’t overnight, but it was over time and we decided to merge. And it was one of the best decisions because like I said, last week I was in Cancun with my family and there was a fire that had to happen, not a literal fire, a fire of like, we had to get these permits done for, because they were changing the energy code and our architect.

Brett McCollum (31:10.932)
Right.

Amy Johnson (31:19.392)
unfortunately was kind of dropping the ball. Anyway, I was so grateful that I was able to really be attentive on that vacation, on that trip, even when this fire happened, of this emergency happened, of fire drill happening, my team completely took the reins and handled that and it was fantastic for it. And so that’s when I was like, okay, we’ve really made this, we’ve made it for it.

Brett McCollum (31:41.296)
Wow.

Amy Johnson (31:47.086)
because so often I think we’re all trying to, I would rather, the biggest lesson I’ve learned over time in going through, and I’ve done almost everything in real estate from whether it’s was, know, I’ve done the fix and flips, I’ve done the house hacking, I’ve done the four blacks, I’ve done the all, just everything. I felt like I’ve done most of all of it and

Brett McCollum (31:47.11)
Yeah.

Amy Johnson (32:17.646)
taking on I’d rather have a piece of the pie than the whole pie in making a sour pie or in or not even getting the pie to actually happen if that makes sense. So meaning I would rather share with a couple other partners on like how things are working. I’d rather share this profit because for example this 1800 acre property in Colorado I would never

Brett McCollum (32:26.534)
Thank you.

Brett McCollum (32:30.66)
Yeah.

Amy Johnson (32:47.116)
I’ve had the balls to completely do that all on my own with my own team. And there was a lot of things that went up and down in that project for it. And I wouldn’t have been able to do it. So taking, bringing on a team and celebrating other people’s strengths for it really helped allow like,

Brett McCollum (32:51.621)
Yeah.

Brett McCollum (33:10.854)
It allows you to perform at a higher level too, right? Like it uses your unique talents and leveraging their unique talents and the collective talent is much more powerful than you trying to do it all, right? Yeah. So you’re doing, mean, you’re, like you said, you’re doing so many cool things, like, and it may be a little early for me to ask the question in the cycle of where things are at right now. Like,

Amy Johnson (33:14.092)
Yeah.

Amy Johnson (33:23.318)
Exactly. Yeah.

Thank

Brett McCollum (33:37.774)
What does a vision for the future look like? Do you guys know what direction you’re looking at are much of the same? What does that look like for you guys?

Amy Johnson (33:46.894)
Yeah, I would say much of the same and then just times it by five for it as far as like our growth and their impact and impact is a really important part in my vision of helping educate and teach investors and providing providing opportunities for individuals to invest in projects that will change their financial future is a really important part for me.

Brett McCollum (34:14.235)
Wow.

Amy Johnson (34:16.834)
That’s like, if you ask my passion, it’s helping women really discover their worth and that they can do big audacious things and while still doing and it’s not this or that, you know, I can say an incredible mother and

Brett McCollum (34:34.83)
Right.

Amy Johnson (34:40.974)
and still also run an international company for it.

Brett McCollum (34:44.966)
That’s incredible. You’re an absolute inspiration to everybody. Let’s say that. Let’s start with that. especially women. How many lady developers do we know? Not a lot.

Amy Johnson (35:03.34)
Yeah, no, I’m, I’m, I guess I’m because I don’t know very many on there. I know some women construction owners for it and I like to support and and work with them. But I actually don’t know very many. There’s a few. There’s a few of us.

Brett McCollum (35:17.638)
There’s the idea, but it’s just the fact that you’re leading from the front, you’re showing people this is possible, you can still be, because I know what it means to be a mom, to be a wife, and you can still be these things that you’re passionate about.

and do that too. It’s super great. I just love your whole story, Amy, and I think it’s incredible where you’re at, where you’re going, and it’s been really great getting to know you. Yeah. Well, how can people, if they want to reach out and connect to you in some way, what’s the best way for that to happen?

Amy Johnson (35:47.906)
Yeah, thanks. I appreciate it.

Amy Johnson (35:54.784)
Yeah, why street capital calm is why street capital is my website. You can go on there and can book a direct call. I do game plan sessions for individuals all the time. And like for people to say, hey, I’ve got this or or sometimes people and this is one of our superpowers. I have an individual right now. They’re like, hey, have 300 acres and I need I don’t know what to do with it and how to help.

Brett McCollum (36:06.011)
Yeah.

Amy Johnson (36:21.688)
for it. And so if you have an opportunity like that, or you have land itself, and you’re like, hey, I want to, because I always try to explain to the farmers, and maybe that’s coming back to where I grew up with is telling them like, hey, I’m going to bring investors into this project. Why don’t I make you one of the investors for it?

Like, let me empower you for it. If you have the patience, you know, go let’s work together. And I would love, instead of being that developer that takes advantage of the farmer and makes so much money off of them, most of the time that farmer or individual has the opportunity to stay in the project. I’d love for them to stay in the project and show that legacy for it.

Brett McCollum (36:44.646)
Right.

Brett McCollum (37:06.374)
That’s incredible. Wow. Well guys, you know how to do, you know, go to Y Street Capitol, check out Amy and I mean, this is, again, it’s been a really powerful episode. I appreciate you taking the time with us and sharing and guys reach out, connect in some way with her. You won’t be sorry you did. Okay. But Amy, again, a pleasure guys. Thank you for listening and we’ll see you guys in the next episode. Take care everybody.

Amy Johnson (37:29.294)
Bye.