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Invite Andrey Sokurec to your podcast or show
Entrepreneur. CEO. Best-selling author. Six-time Inc. 5000 founder. Building a national residential real estate platform.
Andrey Sokurec is the founder and CEO of Homestead Road, a residential real estate investment company he founded in 2007. Under his leadership, Homestead Road has purchased more than 3,000 homes, completed more than $1 billion in real estate transactions, and earned recognition as a six-time Inc. 5000 company.
Today he is focused on the company’s next stage of growth: building a $1B+ national platform through organic expansion, technology, operational excellence, and mergers and acquisitions.
Andrey is the best-selling author of Total Financial Awakening, a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management program, and a board member of the Harvard Business School Club of South Florida.
He immigrated to the United States with very little and built his career and businesses from the ground up. His perspective is shaped by nearly two decades of operating experience and a firsthand understanding of entrepreneurship, leadership, capital allocation, risk, personal growth, and long-term wealth creation.
Tell us about your audience, format, and topic, and our team will respond within two business days.
Host of Billion-Dollar CEO For A Day
Andrey hosts Billion-Dollar CEO For A Day, a show featuring accomplished CEOs, founders, authors, and business leaders who share the decisions, lessons, setbacks, and breakthroughs behind building meaningful companies.
The show also documents Andrey’s own effort to scale a company from approximately $100 million to $1 billion. Guests are invited to step into the CEO seat, challenge his assumptions, and say how they would approach the next stage of growth.
Multiple New York Times best-selling author and co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul, with more than 500 million books sold worldwide.
Founder of BNI, one of the world’s largest business networking organizations, with more than 11,000 chapters across 75 countries.
Former President and CEO of Panera Bread, and a senior leader through the period that included Panera’s $7.5 billion acquisition by JAB.
Core discussion topics
01
Scaling from $100M to a $1B enterprise
What changes when an entrepreneurial company begins operating at institutional scale?
Andrey speaks about the evolution of leadership, organizational structure, capital, talent, accountability, decision-making, and the operating systems required to move from a successful founder-led business toward a billion-dollar enterprise.
What makes the conversation distinctive is that he is sharing the journey in real time, while the decisions are still being made.
02
M&A and industry consolidation
How can mergers and acquisitions accelerate the move from a regional operator to a national platform?
Identifying acquisition targets, valuing businesses, structuring transactions, financing acquisitions, retaining entrepreneurial talent, integrating companies, and building a repeatable M&A capability.
He also shares what he learned acquiring a competitor, and the infrastructure it takes to execute the next transactions as part of a broader consolidation strategy.
03
Building a high-performance real estate operating platform
How do you turn founder knowledge into an operating system that scales?
More than 3,000 home purchases and $1 billion in transactions have given Andrey a deep operating perspective on residential real estate. He speaks about building scalable systems across acquisitions, marketing, sales, pricing, renovations, financing, inventory management, risk, and leadership.
The broader lesson extends well beyond real estate, to any business still carrying its playbook in the founder’s head.
04
AI, automation, and the future of business
How should companies redesign the way they operate around capabilities that did not exist a few years ago?
Andrey is actively applying AI and automation across his organization to reduce repetitive work, improve decision-making, increase accountability, and let a leaner organization operate at greater scale.
He speaks about the effect on customer acquisition, sales, underwriting, pricing, reporting, management, SOPs, institutional knowledge, and executive decision-making — and why adopting tools is the smaller half of the question.
05
Success, leadership, and breaking through self-imposed limits
What if the real constraint on growth is not financial or operational, but personal?
Andrey speaks about fear, limiting beliefs, comfort zones, and the barriers that keep entrepreneurs and professionals from pursuing larger opportunities. He draws on his experience as an immigrant, entrepreneur, CEO, investor, and author.
His core belief is that meaningful growth usually begins before the strategy changes. It begins when a person changes the ceiling they have placed on themselves.
Additional areas of expertise
Entrepreneurship and founder evolution
How the leadership style that builds the first stage of a company has to change as the organization becomes larger, more complex, and less dependent on the founder.
Financial independence and wealth creation
Lessons from Total Financial Awakening on ownership, investing, real estate, financial discipline, and building wealth with a long-term perspective.
The immigrant entrepreneur experience
Building a life and a business in a new country, creating opportunity, taking calculated risks, and developing resilience.
Building high-performance teams
Hiring, accountability, culture, delegation, incentives, and developing an organization that performs without every decision depending on the founder.
Capital allocation and calculated risk
How entrepreneurs decide where to invest capital, when to take risk, when to protect the downside, and how to balance growth with discipline.
Appearance formats
- Podcasts and long-form interviews
- YouTube and video shows
- Television and broadcast segments
- Conference keynotes
- CEO and entrepreneurship panels
- Real estate and investment conferences
- Executive and peer-group events
- Fireside chats
- Written and email interviews
Andrey is based in Miami and travels nationally. Remote interviews are easy to accommodate, with in-person appearances available based on schedule.
Recent appearances
A sample. See the full press record.
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal · 2026
Homestead Road announces first acquisition amid growth
Authority Magazine · 2026
How Leaders Stay Motivated, Inspired, and Creative When Everyone's Looking to Them for Answers
MN Good Age · 2026
A welcome solution when it's time to move out of the family home
Patch · 2026
Homestead Road hosts community cleanup and open house in Eden Prairie
Inc. Magazine · 2025
Inc. 5000 — Six-Time National Honoree (2018–2023, 2025)
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal · 2025
Best Places to Work — 2025
Invite Andrey to your show
If your audience is interested in entrepreneurship, scaling companies, M&A, real estate, AI, leadership, wealth creation, or personal growth, Andrey brings the perspective of an operator working through those problems today. Tell us about your audience, format, and proposed topic. Our team will respond within two business days.
Questions producers ask
- What topics does Andrey Sokurec speak about?
- Scaling a company from roughly $100 million toward $1 billion, mergers and acquisitions in a fragmented industry, building a residential real estate operating platform, applying AI and automation inside an operating business, and the leadership and self-imposed limits that hold entrepreneurs back. He is the founder and CEO of Homestead Road, which he started in 2007 and has grown into a six-time Inc. 5000 company that has purchased more than 3,000 homes and completed more than $1 billion in real estate transactions.
- What formats does he accept?
- Podcasts and long-form interviews, YouTube and video shows, television and broadcast segments, conference keynotes, CEO and entrepreneurship panels, real estate and investment conferences, executive and peer-group events, fireside chats, and written or email interviews.
- Does Andrey host his own show?
- Yes. He hosts Billion-Dollar CEO For A Day, a long-form interview show with CEOs, founders, authors, and business leaders, which also documents his own effort to scale a company from approximately $100 million to $1 billion. Guests are invited to step into the CEO seat and say how they would approach the next stage of growth. Past guests include Jack Canfield, Dr. Ivan Misner, and Blaine Hurst.
- How much lead time do you need to book him?
- Three to four weeks is comfortable. Andrey travels nationally, so we ask for a preferred month or a range of weeks rather than a fixed date, and confirm a specific slot once the request is accepted.
- Will he travel to record in person?
- Often, depending on the show and the timing. Andrey is based in Miami and travels nationally, and in-person recording is most practical when he is already travelling for a conference or a Homestead Road office visit. Remote interviews are the easiest to schedule. Tell us your city in the request and we will say honestly whether it is realistic.
- What kind of shows are the best fit?
- Shows whose audiences care about entrepreneurship, scaling companies, M&A, real estate, AI, leadership, wealth creation, or personal growth. An engaged audience matters more than a large one. Andrey has spoken at NASDAQ, appeared on WCCO and CCX in Minnesota, and been interviewed by Authority Magazine and the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
- Who handles booking requests?
- Requests submitted through this form go straight to Andrey's PR and communications team, who review every one and reply within two business days. Submitting the form is faster than emailing, because it gives us everything we need to make a decision in one pass.
This form is for inviting Andrey onto your show. If you would like to pitch yourself as a guest on Andrey’s own programme, or you need the press kit, bios, or headshots, email press@homesteadroad.com instead.