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Ricky Carruth built a business, and a following of over 100,000 agents worldwide, on the opposite idea: relationships over transactions.

Ricky has been selling real estate on the Gulf Coast since he was 20 years old. As a solo agent with no team, he closed over 100 deals a year for nearly a decade, eventually surpassing $1 billion in career sales volume, all without chasing leads or running paid ads. Along the way, he lost it all once, rebuilt from scratch, and came back with a co...

There's a self storage niche most investors have never even considered, and Chris Long built an entire company around it. Chris is the founder and CEO of Longyards, which turns underused commercial and industrial land into secure, gated outdoor storage yards for contractors, fleets, and trades. What started as one yard in Ottawa in 2019 has grown into 168 active yards with 150 more in progress across the U.S. and Canada.

Chris didn't come up through real estate or finance, he started as a carpenter, which shaped a model built for how contractors and operators actually work: m...

Matt Aitchison spent years flipping and wholesaling hundreds of houses, building the kind of active income most residential investors chase. But it wasn't until he made a deliberate breakthrough into commercial real estate that his portfolio, and his life, changed at an entirely different scale.

Matt is the founder of Imagos Capital and Imagos Group, where he now owns and operates a diverse commercial portfolio spanning retail shopping centers, medical office plazas, mobile home parks, and boutique hotels. He's also the host of the Millionaire Mindcast, a top-rated investing podcast, and has spent over a d...

Homeowners across the country are sitting on a source of capital they've never thought to use: the equity in their own home. In this episode, Josh Mettle, co-founder of Neo Home Loans, and Ross Zimmerman, a loan officer at Neo, break down exactly how to tap into a HELOC strategically to build and scale a real estate portfolio.

Josh and Ross walk through the national numbers on home equity across the U.S. right now, just how much untapped capital homeowners are sitting on, and why so few people ever use it to their advantage. F...

While most of his coworkers at Google were spending their paychecks on rent in one of the most expensive housing markets in the country, Michael Alberse was living in a van. That decision, along with an obsessive focus on saving and investing, helped him become a millionaire by age 26.

In this episode, Michael gets candid about what van life actually looked like while working a high-paying tech job, the sacrifices he made that most people wouldn't consider, and why he believes those years were the foundation for everything he's built since. We talk about the mechanics of...

What's actually protecting your business, your credit, and your estate while you're busy growing all three?

Tommy Thornburgh, CEO of Prime Corporate Services and a longtime friend of the show, joins us to fill in those missing pieces. Tommy and his team have helped thousands of entrepreneurs and investors set up the right legal structures, build real business credit separate from their personal credit, and put estate planning in place before it's an emergency, not after.

In this episode, we get into why so many business owners are operating with the wrong structure for their...

Most lenders underwrite the property. Will Harvey underwrites the person — and it's the reason he's funded 45+ loans without a single dollar of principal loss.

Will is the Founder and CEO of Harvey Capital, a private credit fund based in Richmond, VA that issues first-lien hard money loans in Central Virginia. Before building Harvey Capital, he sat on the borrower's side of the table as a GP and LP in private syndications, which is exactly why his approach flips the industry standard on its head: know the borrower well enough, and protecting principal stops being a guessing game.

Andrew Abernathey bought his first apartment complex and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital... at 16 years old. He turned that into Abernathey Holdings, a company that's since expanded into mobile home parks and Class-A self-storage across the Sunbelt, scaled to a multi-million dollar portfolio, and raised tens of millions in capital along the way.

But this episode isn't really about the numbers. It's about the question that comes after them: how do you know when enough is enough?

Andrew joins us to talk about the arc of his journey, from a teenager obsessed...

Most of our audience thinks about building wealth through real estate. Jon Ostenson thinks about it through franchises, and after this conversation, you might start looking at both differently.

Jon is a top 1% franchise consultant in the U.S. and founder of FranBridge Consulting, where he connects entrepreneurs and executives with premier non-food franchise opportunities, think home services, health and wellness, pet care, and youth enrichment, not the drive-thru concepts most people picture when they hear "franchise." Before FranBridge, Jon spent 15 years in corporate America, including a run as VP of Sales at Carter's Inc. overseeing $350M...

Chris White walked into the Wealth Juice Inner Circle with 6 doors. Today he's got 15, and he did it before turning 33.

In this episode, Chris joins us in studio to break down exactly how he made that jump. We talk about what his portfolio looked like when he first got involved with the Inner Circle, how expanding his network changed the deals he had access to, and how leveling up his game plan turned into a repeatable strategy across BRRRRs and flips in Philadelphia, Delaware, and Chester/Delaware County, PA.

Th...

There's a corner of real estate most investors never think to look: properties tangled up in tax liens and clouded titles. Logan Fullmer built his entire business there. He's built a portfolio of companies around a strategy most investors have never even considered: solving problems for property owners who are stuck with tax liens and clouded titles, then turning those situations into real estate opportunities that cost a fraction of market value.

After graduating from Texas State's McCoy College of Business, Logan spent time in project management and oilfield services before moving into real e...

There's a piece of the real estate wealth equation almost no one talks about — and it's not about the house at all. It's about the debt.

In this episode, I sit down with Jason Hartman - a 20+ year real estate investing veteran who's been through thousands of transactions and built his portfolio across 11 states and 17 cities — to break down a concept most investors have literally never heard of: inflation induced debt destruction. Jason walks us through how inflation quietly works in the investor's favor, eroding the real value of your mortgage debt while your asset...

ohn McNellis didn't set out to become one of Northern California's most respected retail developers - he set out to avoid a courtroom. After a journalism degree at UC Berkeley and a detour through law school, John landed at a prestigious San Francisco law firm, hated litigation, and started flipping small duplexes on nights and weekends just to stay sane. Over half a dozen years, that side hustle quietly became a real business.

43 years later, John and his partners at McNellis Partners have developed more than 100 properties, mostly supermarket-anchored shopping centers, and he's distilled every hard-won lesson...

Mark and Keeley Toro didn't set out to build one of Tampa's most recognized real estate and development brands. It started with a bet Mark made on himself, walking away from corporate America with no guarantee it would work, and the discipline it took to turn that risk into a real business.

Today, Mark and Keeley run a design-driven real estate and development company in Tampa's urban core, known for full gut renovations that turn overlooked properties into standout homes. They've also built a mastermind community of local investors, all while running the business t...

Before she was running a real estate private equity firm, Dani Lynn Robison was performing on cruise ship stages — no finance background, no built-in network, no obvious path to where she is today. In this episode, she shares how she made that leap anyway, and why she believes your starting point has almost nothing to do with what you're capable of building.

Dani Lynn is the Co-Founder and CEO of Freedom Family Investments, the umbrella brand for Freedom Family Capital — a real estate private equity firm focused on recession-resilient, needs-based real estate like multifamily housing, senior housing, self...

Hunter Schotts started building his real estate portfolio in Michigan, where he grew up, and in just three years he has grown it to eight units, all before turning twenty six. In this episode, Hunter shares how he built a homegrown portfolio from the ground up, the systems and teams he put in place to support it, and how he is now managing everything remotely after relocating to Colorado, with the help of family back home keeping things running smoothly.

We talk about his mindset around pursuing financial freedom while staying grounded in being a...

Most landlords don't find out what they did wrong until it costs them thousands of dollars, or worse, a lawsuit. In this episode, we sit down with Bonnie Galam, a real estate attorney with over a decade of experience who has also built a 100+ unit rental portfolio alongside her husband, all while maintaining her legal career. Bonnie brings a rare dual perspective to this conversation, having seen firsthand where landlords in the Philadelphia and South Jersey market run into trouble, and having lived the investing side of the business herself. We dig into the most common legal pitfalls new...

Bryan Driscoll started buying rental properties in Pittsburgh using the BRRRR strategy and quickly ran into the same problem every investor eventually faces, finding consistent motivated seller leads. Instead of competing for the same deals as everyone else, he taught himself paid ads, SEO, and PPC and started generating his own leads. That skill turned into Motivated Leads, a lead generation company that now helps real estate investors across the country find off market deals.

In this episode, Bryan walks through how he scaled his own portfolio to 14 units by staying focused on one z...

This one isn't theory, it's four real deals our own Inner Circle members closed this year, and we're walking through the numbers on every single one.

Chelsea and Keith turned a vacant, squatter-occupied Akron property into their second BRRRR, learning the hard way that landscaping budgets matter. Hunter used a 24-hour acceptance window to win a Michigan duplex bidding war and push his portfolio to 8 units. Thomas finally pulled the trigger on his first duplex in Manchester, NH after almost a year in the community, proving that slow and steady still counts. And Bryan and C...

Choosing the right brokerage is one of the most important decisions a real estate agent can make - and most people don't give it nearly enough thought.

In this episode, Cory sits down with his good friend, fellow agent, and real estate investor Anthony Scornaienchi, known as @casual_realestate on Instagram, for a candid conversation about why they both made the move to REAL and haven't looked back. This isn't a sales pitch - it's two agents who have seen what the industry looks like from the inside sharing why they believe REAL represents a...

Juan Munoz spent years building the kind of career most people would never walk away from. A first generation college graduate raised by a house cleaner and a pipe fitter, Juan became an electrical engineer, worked on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner program, and eventually joined NASA's International Space Station program before moving into aerospace leadership roles, including work on Sierra Space's Dream Chaser mini space shuttle.

But even with the credentials, stability, and career success, something was missing. In this episode, we talk about the moment Juan realized he wasn't wired for a life built around security a...

J Bencho didn't have to look far to find his real estate market. His family started investing in Pittsburgh back in 1925, and TJ has spent his entire career building on that legacy right there in his hometown. At 21 he took over a mortgage company while still a full time student at Duquesne University, and after graduating with a double major in finance and investment management, he spent the next 15 years running his own investment and property management companies before becoming a partner at SteelPoint Capital.

In this episode, TJ shares why he built his e...

Anthony O’Neal is a national bestselling author who has helped over 250,000 people get out of debt and take control of their finances. He built his foundation in the Dave Ramsey method, but has since evolved his message into something bigger: true freedom isn’t just about paying off debt, it’s about mental, spiritual, and financial freedom working together.

In this episode, we talk about his new book Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck, why becoming debt free was never the finish line he thought it was, and what it actually takes to grow real we...

Distance stops most investors before they ever get started. Stella Han never let it.

In this episode, I sit down with Stella Han, co-founder and CEO of Fractional, to talk about her journey building a real estate portfolio remotely from California into the Atlanta market - the deals, the lessons, and what it actually takes to invest in a market you've never lived in.

Stella's story is one of those that reminds you that geography is not the obstacle most people think it is. But the story doesn't stop at the portfolio. A...

We have something under contract - and we wanted to bring you along for the ride.

In this episode, we're giving you a raw portfolio update on our latest acquisition: a mobile home park in the Upper Valley NH/VT area, the same market where we've closed on our last four properties. This one is different though. Mobile home parks are a different asset class, a different due diligence process, and a different kind of opportunity - and we're walking you through all of it in real time.

This episode is purely a...

Most people either never buy a rental property or they become accidental landlords once ans stop there. They never trade up, never level up, and wonder why their portfolio never actually goes anywhere.

In this episode, Ryan and I break down the Monopoly Method -- the exact blueprint for building real, sustainable wealth by strategically trading up your equity from property to property. We're talking about starting with one "crappy" duplex and using it as the launchpad to get into bigger and better assets. $100K properties turn into $500K properties. $500K properties turn into $2M...

Wow, Episode 400.. Thank you all for tuning in and being a part of our journey. We're just getting warmed up!

Rachel Covert spent fifteen years climbing the ranks of the fashion industry, eventually becoming VP of a nine figure business. From the outside it looked like the dream. She ran a team, traveled internationally in business class, and shaped the products millions of people wore. From the inside, the picture looked different.

In this episode, Rachel walks us through what it actually took to build that career, the moment she realized th...

Doron Levi arrived in the U.S. as a twenty-year-old immigrant with no safety net and barely enough money to get by. He worked every job he could find, learned the service industry from the ground up, and went on to build and exit multiple multi-million-dollar companies. Then he bet on himself again, this time in real estate, and skipped the typical fix and flip starting point entirely. His first project was a ground-up 25-unit development, turning a half-block warehouse into a $7M asset that later grew to $13M. That deal became the foundation for everything that followed.

Bryan Cohen spent his college years locking down opposing scorers as a three time Defensive Player of the Year at Bucknell, then played professional basketball overseas. When his playing career ended, he didn't follow the typical post athlete path. He teamed up with his brother Aron and started buying and renovating single family homes in Philadelphia, learning the real estate game from the ground up.

That early hustle turned into Full Court Development, a company that now handles everything from new construction single family homes to ground up multifamily projects, including helping developers build 89-unit buildings. In...

What if your biggest competitive advantage in real estate wasn't a market, a strategy, or a mentor - it was your spouse?

In this episode, Cory sits down with Ali and Josh Lupo, known as @theficouple on Instagram, for a conversation about what it actually looks like to build wealth as a team. Ali and Josh first appeared on the show years ago at the start of their real estate journey, and today they're back to share how far they've come - from buying duplexes and fourplexes to stepping back from active investing and m...

Brian Decker didn't just stumble into the investing world - he earned his way there. Starting in the mortgage industry in 2004, Brian climbed to become one of the Top 10 Loan Officers in the entire country out of more than 500,000, eventually founding his own mortgage bank, Modern Lending, in 2019. But Brian didn't stop there. He took everything he learned about money, leverage, and wealth creation and built a diverse investment portfolio spanning real estate, crypto, and beyond - and now runs one of the top investing communities on Skool.

In this episode, Brian lays out h...

Most small business owners and investors are one Google search or ChatGPT prompt away from making a legal mistake that costs them thousands - and they don't even know it. In this episode, I sit down with Joe Prencipe, a former Wall Street M&A attorney who trained at the #1 international M&A law firm in the world and has overseen more than $100 billion in transactions.

Now he's bringing that same world-class legal firepower directly to small business owners who deserve better than a paper-pushing attorney or a chatbot telling them what's "probably fine." J...

Andy Neary was a pitcher in the Milwaukee Brewers organization. He did everything you're supposed to do - dedicated his life to the game, sacrificed everything for it — and still came up short. In this episode, Andy gets brutally honest about why he believes he failed at professional baseball, and more importantly, the identity shift he had to make to stop defining himself by a dream that was over.

What followed was a complete reinvention: mastering daily habits, building a personal brand from scratch, and becoming a best-selling author and business coach. If you've eve...

One bad insurance policy can erase months of cash flow before you even realize what happened. In this episode, Cory sits down with Guffy Wright, a national leader in multifamily portfolio insurance with over 18 years of experience protecting real estate investors across the country.

Guffy breaks down exactly what the right insurance policy looks like for rental property owners, the most common and costly mistakes W-2 investors make when they're just getting started, and why having the wrong coverage isn't just risky - it's actively costing you money every single month. We've had our o...

What if you could buy a cash-flowing short-term rental for $40,000? Not in a random flyover market, not with a ton of risk, but in one of the most visited tourist destinations on the planet.

That's exactly what Nick and Derek of Yuki Homes discovered after following their passion for skiing to Japan and spotting an opportunity most Western investors have completely overlooked. In this episode, Cory sits down with the duo to unpack how a shared love of powder days turned into a full-blown real estate operation, and how they built the team, systems, and i...

Most people wait until they've "made it" to start talking about what they want. Lorenzo Mercado isn't most people.

Lorenzo is a registered nurse turned real estate investor who has done three house flips, two of which didn't go the way he planned, and one that did. Now he's setting his sights on something entirely different: boutique hotel acquisitions. He hasn't bought one yet, but he's telling everyone he will, and that's exactly what makes this episode worth your time.

We talk about the power of getting in the ri...

What if the thing standing between you and financial freedom wasn't a lack of opportunity - it was the story you were telling yourself?

In this episode, I sat down with Kam Dasani (@ProfitWithKam), a futures and options trader who generates $3–5 million per year through his algorithmic trading platform, built with a team of ex-Goldman Sachs traders. But before the seven-figure income and the system, there was a version of Kam who had to demolish every limiting belief he had about money, markets, and what he was actually capable of.

We get...

What if retirement was not a finish line at 65, but a number you could hit in your twenties?

In this episode, Cory sits down with Cody Berman, entrepreneur, real estate investor, personal finance educator, and author of "Retire by 30: How to Build Wealth, Gain Freedom, and Live Life on Your Own Terms." The conversation goes well beyond tactics. Cody breaks down what financial independence actually means, how he learned to optimize his life around what he loves instead of what society expects, and why getting your time back is the ultimate asset, not the n...

What happens when a CFA charterholder with nearly a decade in traditional finance walks away from Wall Street and goes all-in on Bitcoin? You get one of the most credible and compelling voices in the personal finance space today.

In this episode, Cory sits down with Rajat Soni, CFA, a former finance professional turned full-time Bitcoin and personal finance educator with over 5.5 million YouTube views and nearly 100,000 Instagram followers. Rajat breaks down exactly why he believes Bitcoin is the hardest asset in the world, why the traditional financial system is quietly failing everyday investors, and what the...

While most investors are still chasing the same overpriced, overcrowded markets, a different group is quietly closing deals and building portfolios in places most people aren't even looking.

In this episode, Ryan and I break down the 6 markets where real estate investors in our community are winning right now. From the Vermont and New Hampshire Upper Valley to Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Augusta, and Indianapolis, we get into what makes each of these markets compelling, what the deals actually look like on the ground, and why the investors who found them early are ahead of t...