TOOLS TALENTS AND TECHNIQUES with Dustin Sutton

Bill Douglas has had more than one moment that changed the trajectory of his life. In this episode, he shares the wild story behind one of them, and how it shaped the way he thinks about resilience, risk, and building a business that lasts. Bill is the founder of OpticWise and co-author of Peak Property Performance , a Fast Company Press bestseller. His company helps commercial real estate owners take back control of their data and digital infrastructure instead of leaving it in the hands of ven

Commercial real estate has operated the same way for decades. Fragmented data. Siloed systems. Brokers jumping between five different platforms just to find a single owner's name. Dan Mosher saw that broken workflow and decided to fix it.Dan is the CEO and co-founder of DealGround, an AI-native data platform spanning 62M+ properties that is saving brokers an average of 20 hours per week. Before launching DealGround, he led the merchant team at Postmates through its $4.4B acquisition by Uber

Commercial real estate has changed dramatically over the decades. The fundamentals that drive success in it have not.In this episode, Dustin sits down with Peter Quinn, a veteran broker at Kidder Matthews whose career spans IBM sales training, land development, and some of the most dynamic market cycles San Diego has ever seen. Peter brings a perspective you can only earn through real experience over real time.The conversation covers how Peter made the pivot from IBM into CRE, what that

Joshua Volen did not stumble into commercial real estate. He built toward it, one lesson at a time, starting from childhood ventures that taught him more about business than any classroom ever could. In Episode 110, Dustin sits down with Joshua Volen, co-founder of CIRE Equity, to unpack how authenticity, vulnerability, and a fundamental shift from scarcity to abundance mindset transformed his approach to leadership, culture, and commercial real estate investing. 🔑 Key Topics Childhood Influence

Jonathan Hawkins built a legal practice most lawyers never considered. He represents law firms themselves, navigating breakups, partnership disputes, and business divorces that tear firms apart from the inside. In Episode 109, Dustin sits down with Jonathan to unpack how he went from engineering to law, found one of the most underserved niches in the legal industry, and built a practice around serving firms no one else focused on. If you are building a business, managing a partnership, or thinki

The retail apocalypse narrative is wrong. Andy Weiner has the data to prove it.In this episode, Dustin sits down with Andy Weiner, President of Rockstep Capital, to break down what is actually happening in retail real estate and why the strongest operators are not just surviving but expanding. Andy shares how Rockstep Capital identifies opportunity in secondary and tertiary markets, why physical retail and e-commerce are partners not competitors, and what the limited supply of new shopping cen