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He came from a broken home, barely made it through high school, and was on the verge of losing his marriage. Today, Jon Berryhill is a multi-millionaire entrepreneur, real estate broker, and author who has started about a dozen businesses, and nine of them have succeeded.

In this episode, we sit down with Jon, a former U.S. Army infantry sergeant who deployed to Bosnia, then served on a narcotics task force in law enforcement. At 25, he walked on to a college football team, earned a pre-med degree with honors, and later worked his way f...

ou can build a successful career, grow your investments, and achieve financial freedom. But what happens if your health starts falling apart along the way?

We spend so much time talking about building wealth that we often overlook the one thing that makes it all worthwhile. Our health.

In this episode, Ryan sits down with Dr. Stephen Sanders, a physician and longevity expert who experienced firsthand what happens when success on paper doesn't translate to feeling your best. After struggling with brain fog, fatigue, and declining energy in his late 30s, Stephen completely t...

Can an everyday investor really beat the S&P 500? Sean Tepper has, in multiple years, and he’s on a mission to make that kind of investing accessible to everyone.

In this episode, we sit down with Sean, founder and CEO of Tykr, a platform built to help everyday people invest in individual stocks with confidence. Sean has been investing since 2011, and in 2020 he turned his approach into Tykr, which now serves more than 11,000 customers in over 50 countries.

Sean explains how he evaluates stocks, the system behind the strong returns he’s achieved, and why he b...

While most investors are fighting over single-family homes and apartments, a 22-year-old has quietly built a multi-million-dollar portfolio in one of real estate’s most overlooked niches: RV parks.

In this episode, we sit down with Weston Wappler, founder and president of Wappler Capital.

Alongside his brother Caden, Weston has built a portfolio of more than 15 assets and about 1,000 operating units across apartments, RV parks, and storage in Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana, with eight-figure assets under management.

This was an energizing conversation with someone who is changing the game. West...

Rising rates, tight cash flow, and tenant headaches are pushing more investors out of multifamily and rentals, and many of them are moving into land.

In this episode, we sit down with Brent Bowers, Army veteran, land investor, and founder of The Land Sharks. Brent started out building a rental portfolio, but realized the landlord lifestyle wasn’t giving him what he wanted most: time. So he pivoted to buying and selling vacant land and built a business he can run virtually from anywhere.

Brent explains how his land business works, why land can be a...

What if the fastest way to grow your business, career, or real estate portfolio isn’t a strategy, but a relationship?

In this episode, we sit down with Ben Albert, host of the Real Business Connections podcast and owner of Balbert Marketing. Ben’s story starts in the music scene, where he found his passion for promoting, connecting, and amplifying creatives. When the pandemic hit in 2020 and he was furloughed from his marketing executive job, he did something most people wouldn’t: he started reaching out to strangers on LinkedIn and launched a business podcast without...

Wealth Juice Classic: One of our favorite conversations, back by popular demand.

By day, Gary Striewski is a SportsCenter anchor at ESPN. Before that, he spent years with NESN as a Boston Red Sox sideline reporter. By night, he's a real estate investor building wealth that doesn't depend on a camera or a contract.

In this episode, Gary shares why a high-profile career on TV still wasn't enough, how he got started in real estate while working a demanding full-time job, and the mindset that helps him build long-term wealth outside the spotlight. It's proof...

There’s blood in the streets of the multifamily market. Rising rates, distressed deals, and failing syndications have sent many investors running. But for those with the right strategy and the right partners, this could be one of the biggest buying opportunities in a decade.

In this episode, we sit down with Forrest Jinks, CEO of Altus Capital Group. Forrest has more than 20 years of real estate experience and has been the lead investor on over $200 million in transactions, from single-family homes to apartment repositioning, development, and large retail centers. Before founding Altus, he led a c...

This episode is one of our classic throwbacks. Originally recorded in late 2024, Henry Washington delivers a masterpiece in how to build your first $1M in real estate. Every single lesson, story and antidote applies 100% to today. If you listened to the first episode, re-listen for the inspiration. If this is your first time listening - Henry is one of the true GOAT's of this game. Turn up the volume and turn down the distractions

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How much money do you really need to be free? For luxury developer and real estate agent Templeton Walker, the answer is “regular rich”: $2 million liquid and a paid-off house.

In this episode, we sit down with Templeton, a fellow agent at Real Brokerage and a luxury real estate expert in the Arizona market. He has grown an agent network of more than 700 agents and used that leverage to buy back his time, so he can focus on what truly matters to him.

Templeton explains why he stopped chasing small deals and no...

He scaled a company from 1 to 1,500+ locations in 60 countries, sold two businesses, and built a 33-unit Philadelphia rental portfolio. Then, in just nine months, he watched revenue drop 60%, profits fall 80%, and debt climb to $1.4 million.

In this episode, we sit down with Eric Griffin, a Philadelphia serial entrepreneur, business coach, and co-founder of Mobile Outfitters, PAW5, and GSW Real Estate. Eric takes a candid look at what building, buying, and selling multi-million dollar companies really looks like, including the parts most founders never talk about, and what financial freedom ACTUALLY looks like once you get t...

Most advice about building wealth in your 20s comes from people who've forgotten what it felt like. We're still close enough to remember.

In this episode, Ryan and I look back at what we got wrong in our 20s: the money moves, business decisions, and assumptions that felt right at 27 and 28, when we were starting out, and the ones we'd never repeat today. We get candid about the mistakes that cost us time, money, and energy, and what we'd tell ourselves if we could go back.

We also talk about how ou...

Most wealth-building content comes from people who've already "made it," looking back and polishing the story. This episode is different. Cory and Ryan sit down to get candid about exactly where they are right now, how far they've climbed, and how far they still have to go.

Together, they break down the five stages of wealth, in their own words, based on what they've actually lived through building Wealth Juice and their own real estate portfolios: Survival, Stability, Accumulation, Ownership, and Optionality/Freedom. This isn't a textbook framework, it's their honest take on what each s...

Nobody teaches you how to build real wealth in school. Marvin Mitchell has spent his career closing that gap.

Marvin is the Founder and CEO of Wealth Creators and a Hall of Fame financial advisor who's guided thousands of individuals and families through the process of legally reducing taxes, repositioning their money for long-term growth, and building a financial foundation that actually supports the life they want, not just the one they're stuck maintaining. His mission is built on a simple belief: financial independence isn't reserved for the lucky few, it's available to anyone with t...

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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.

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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...

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 asse...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 w...

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...

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...

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 $2...