The BetterLife Podcast

Depending on who you ask, real estate is either falling apart or presenting some of the best buying opportunities we've seen in years.

So which is it?

I sat down with Cam Cathcart, Ben Humble, and Michael Miller to figure out what's ACTUALLY happening in the real estate market right now. And as usual, we didn't exactly agree on everything.

We're talking falling home prices, rising foreclosures, struggling house flippers, and why some investors are finding incredible deals while others can't seem to make the numbers work.

In this episode:

Two of the biggest names in real estate just announced they're quitting.

Ryan Pineda is shutting down his flipping and wholesaling business. Graham Stephan is selling his Los Angeles rental portfolio.

So... do they know something the rest of us don't?

I got Cam Cathcart, Ben Humble, and Michael Miller together to talk about what's REALLY happening in real estate right now. And then, in the middle of the conversation, I decided to call Ryan Pineda himself.

And he actually picked up.

In this episode:

- Why...

Networking sucks.

At least, that's what my buddy Omni Casey and I think. But here's the problem... some of the biggest opportunities I've ever had in real estate came from the PEOPLE I knew.

Not the properties. Not the money. The relationships.

So I brought Omni on the podcast to talk about how to actually build a network of successful investors, mentors, and friends WITHOUT being that weird guy handing out business cards and asking to "pick your brain."

In this episode:

🞄 How Omni went from selling surfboards to bui...

Real estate has changed.

Strategies that felt almost impossible to screw up five years ago are getting investors crushed today... while other corners of the market are quietly producing some incredible opportunities.

So Cam, Ben, Michael, and I sat down and asked a simple question:

What real estate strategies would we ACTUALLY bet on going into 2026 and 2027?

In this episode:

🞄 The real estate strategies we're actively avoiding right now

🞄 Why simply buying a rental and waiting might not cut it anymore

🞄 10 strategies we believe can still wor...

Things got a little heated on this one.

And the funny part is... this wasn't even supposed to be a podcast.

We were hanging out with Ben Humble after last week's episode when Cam started pressing him on his system for finding real estate deals - and the debate took off from there.

The conversation was too good NOT to share, so... here's the accidental podcast.

In this episode:

🞄 Ben and Cam debate what it ACTUALLY takes to consistently find great deals

🞄 Why your market might be the pr...

Ben Humble escaped communist Romania as a kid, lived in a refugee camp, moved to Canada, failed math twice, started a cleaning business... and somehow ended up doing hundreds of real estate deals.

So yeah, we had a lot to talk about.

Ben joins Cam and me for a conversation about his journey into real estate, the lessons he learned after trying just about every strategy in the book, and the framework that eventually changed the way he looks at buying properties entirely.

We also get into a surprisingly deep conversation about ego...

We're back.

After taking the entire summer off, Cam and I finally sat down for another episode of The Better Life Podcast - and a LOT has changed.

Cam moved his family back from Maui to Missouri.

His flipping business has had one of its roughest years yet.

I've had a difficult year in real estate too.

So this episode is a pretty honest conversation about what happens when business doesn't keep going up and to the right - and how that changes the way you think about money...

Every investor has these. The deal they knew was sketchy, and bought anyway. The one where they ignored the red flags. The one where they just flat out didn't know what they were doing yet.

In this episode, Cam Cathcart and I each share our three worst deals. What we paid. What went wrong. What it cost us. And what we'd do differently.

Cam took an $80,000 loss on a house where the previous flippers hadn't pulled a single permit, meaning he had to gut the entire thing twice. I worked 12 months straight on a duplex...

I’ve unfortunately committed every single one of these…

The bad deal I knew was bad, but bought anyway. The strategy I abandoned three months in because something shinier came along. The numbers I cooked because I didn't want my mentor to tell me I was wrong.

In this episode, Cam Cathcart and I go through the 7 Deadly Sins of Real Estate Investing. These are the mistakes that kill portfolios, waste years, and keep people broke even when the market is working in their favor.

Sin 1: Lusting after shiny strategies

Sin 2: Glut...

My very first employee had never used a computer.

I hired her to be my digital assistant. Day one, I said, "Go to your desktop," and she asked what that was.

That was hire number one. It got more complicated from there.

I've read a lot about hiring. Talked to a lot of people about it. But mostly I've just done it wrong enough times to figure out what actually works. And in this episode, I'm laying out the whole thing: the 10 Commandments of Hiring and Managing a Rockstar Team.

We...

You built the business. Good. Now get out of the way.

This is the final episode of the 7-Figure Business Blueprint series, and it's about the one thing most people skip mentally, even when they're watching it. Because delegation sounds easy until you're the person who thinks nobody else can do it right.

Most business owners know their revenue.

Almost none of them know their actual profit.

And that gap? That's how you go broke while feeling busy and successful.

In this episode, I'm breaking down the Profit First method that changed how I manage money, why profit has to come out first (not whatever's left over at the end), the simple bank account system that forces financial discipline, and why setting your lifestyle at your peak revenue months is one of the most dangerous things you can do.

Revenue is vanity. Profit is...

You built the thing. You validated it. You even have some customers.

Now what?

Now you have to get in front of people. And this is where most entrepreneurs completely fall apart.

You post a few times, hope for word of mouth, and maybe run one ad and give up when it doesn't work. Meanwhile, their competitor, who is half as good, is fully booked because they actually understand marketing.

Here's the hard truth: the best product doesn't win. The best-KNOWN product does.

In this video I'm going to...

In the last video, you figured out what to build.

Now comes the part where most people blow it.

They spend four hours building a website. They design a logo. They set up an Instagram account and tell all their friends. They feel like entrepreneurs.

But… they haven't talked to a single customer… or made a single dollar.

Building a website is cosplay. A logo is cosplay. A business plan is cosplay. A business has customers. A business has revenue. Everything else is just really satisfying procrastination.

In this vide...

Everyone wants a million-dollar business idea. Almost nobody realizes they're tripping over them every single day.

That's what Part 2 of the 7-Figure Business Blueprint Series is all about. Choosing WHAT to build. People who never start aren't lacking ideas, but the ability to recognize the ones already in front of them.

In this episode, I walk through how to train your brain to spot problems worth solving, why the boring, unsexy businesses almost always win, and how to niche down without making your market so small there's nobody left to sell to. I also dig...

Last week, I said that married men who aren't financially free and are spending their evenings watching sports and scrolling TikTok while their wives work jobs they hate are being selfish. The internet did not love that.

But here's the thing. Plenty of people read it and thought, " He's right”. I want financial freedom. I just don't know how to get there.

This series is for those people.

Over six episodes, I'm laying out the complete blueprint for building a business that does a million dollars a year in profit.

Part 1 is...

I've read somewhere around 300-400 business and self-development books. I highlight them, take notes, and build systems out of them. I'm like a productivity nerd with a real estate habit.

But most of those books, while good, didn't actually change what I do on a Monday morning. These three did.

In this episode, I break down the exact 3-book stack that took me from grinding 60-hour weeks with no direction to building a real estate portfolio worth over a billion dollars. And more importantly, I give you the system for actually applying them so you...

I never seriously considered assisted living until I sat down with Mitch Conrad. He's a former high school math teacher who built a portfolio of 22 homes and 650 beds, and he basically broke my brain for an hour.

The best homes in his portfolio clear $20,000 a month in profit on a single house. You own the real estate and the business at the same time, so you're stacking tax benefits and cash flow in a way that normal rentals just can't touch.

And the timing is wild. The average age for assisted living is 85, and the...

Everyone keeps saying cash flow is dead.

They're right about one thing: the old spot doesn't work anymore. Higher prices, higher rates, and a market that moved on while most investors were still staring at the MLS.

But cash flow isn't dead. The light moved. And in this episode, I'm going to show you exactly where it went.

Here's what we're getting into:

Most people think flipping houses is simple math.

Buy low. Rehab. Sell high. Profit.

Here's the truth after 600+ flips: that math is wrong. And it's why most first-time flippers either break even or lose money on deals they thought were home runs.

In the next 40 minutes, Cam Cathcart and I are breaking down exactly how to structure a flip that actually hits $50,000 in profit.

Here's what you're getting:

Most people think building wealth takes decades of grinding, endless books, and slowly accumulating knowledge.

But here's what I learned after becoming a millionaire many times over: The people who actually get rich just acquire the right skills faster.

In this episode, I'm breaking down the five specific skills that made me millions.

Here's what you're getting:

How to use AI as a strategic thought partner (not just Google 2.0)

The 10-10-10 decision framework that kills analysis paralysis

Goal alignment that stops your dreams from competing against...

Many people spend 40+ years grinding toward retirement… then they die six months before they get there.

I know that sounds harsh. But I watched it happen to someone close to me, and it completely changed how I think about money, time, and freedom.

The truth is, you don't need to be rich at 72. You need to be free while your kids still want to hang out with you. While you still have energy. While life is actually happening.

This isn't another "save $200/month for 50 ye...

I brought an AI expert to Maui last week who's raised over $117 million using AI. And he thinks all the scientists screaming about AI doom are missing the point entirely.

Joe Stolte joined Cam and me to answer the question I've been losing sleep over: Are we all dead because of AI?

Here's what's wild: the people screaming the loudest about AI destroying humanity? They've never actually built anything. They're catastrophizing because it's easier to imagine terrible futures than create positive ones.

Meanwhile, regular...

I had two millionaire real estate investors visit Maui last week. So naturally, we sat down and recorded a podcast.

Craig Curelop (house hacking legend, founder of The FI Team) and Mike Brockway (luxury short-term rental expert) joined Cam and me to talk about the single pieces of advice that completely changed our financial trajectories.

Here's what's wild: none of us became millionaires because we worked harder. We became millionaires because someone gave us advice that shifted how we thought about building wealth.

In this episode:

The BiggerPockets forum post that...

This episode has no agenda… and that’s why it works!

We bounce from ADUs and co-living to 2026 goal-setting to the rarely discussed reality of working with your spouse, not because we planned to, but because these topics are quietly connected by the same question: How do you design a life that actually works?

What starts as a practical conversation about housing flexibility turns into a bigger discussion about tradeoffs—space, money, time, ambition, and relationships. We talk about why some “smart” ideas fall apart in real life, why certain goals lose their appeal as your life...

At 24, I was broke and stuck. I was doing everything I thought I should be doing—but nothing was working.

Then I started spending time with actual millionaires. And I realized something: they weren't successful because of what they did. They were successful because of what they stopped doing.

So I started eliminating behaviors that kept me broke. Combined with the right actions, I became a millionaire.

In this episode, I'm breaking down the exact behaviors you need to eliminate if you want to break out of being stuck and broke.

Fa...

We did something different this week. We took our weekly Bottleneck Breakthrough call with 25 tribe members and recorded it live as a podcast episode.

Real questions. Real answers. No scripts.

In this live Q&A session with Cam Cathcart, we answer:

Pedro Adao went from begging God to kill him to building a $50 million business.

And it wasn't because he worked harder. It was because he stopped doing business like everyone else and started doing it God's way.

In this episode, Pedro breaks down what actually happened during his bankruptcy, why he hired a mentor when he couldn't afford groceries, and how he doubled his income the same year he gave himself a 40% pay cut.

We also get into the stuff most people won't talk about: 

At 24, I was dead broke. My wife and I had no money despite working hard and trying to do everything right.

That moment changed everything. I realized I didn't have a money problem. I had a money ignorance problem.

So I decided to actually learn how money works. Fast forward to 40: I'm financially free with over a billion dollars in real estate and millions in net worth.

But here's the truth: it didn't have to take this long. If someone had told me these 9 rules at 25, I would've hit financial freedom way faster.<...

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This is the full keynote I gave at the 2025 REI Summit in Austin.

It’s a story about the real journey most real estate investors go through.

Getting stuck in a job.

Trying to break free.Messing it up.

Getting scared.

Wanting to go back to safety.

I walk through a story...

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Two entrepreneurs. Years of mistakes. A stack of wins. And a list of rules they wish someone had handed them long before things finally clicked.

Brandon and Cam sit down after a marathon stretch of Thanksgiving, birthday parties, flights, and jet lag to strip business down to the essentials. This episode breaks down the eleven rules that keep real businesse...

Is AI about to END real estate investing as we know it? 

Brandon and Cam explore how AI is already changing their day-to-day work—and why you have maybe 5 years left to build wealth the traditional way before the big boys like BlackRock and Blackstone take over.

Then things get WILD.

In this unfiltered episode, we dive into:

- The Epstein files and what's actually happening

- Candace Owens: Conspiracy theorist or truth-teller?

- Big Pharma, the food pyramid lie, and why nicotine isn't what you think

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Ever look at real estate investors who hit financial freedom in a few years instead of 40 and wonder, "What did they know that I don't?"

This episode is Brandon and Cam's answer to that. We're breaking down...

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Most people never buy a rental property for one simple reason. They never decide. In this episode, Brandon and Cam walk through the exact six decisions that shape your entire investing journey. Once you lock these in, finding and closing your first deal becomes much more predictable.

You’ll learn how to choose the right strategy, how to narrow...

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Real estate in 2025? It's rough. Brandon's dealing with plummeting rents and property values. Cam's flipping half the houses he used to. But hard times separate the winners from the quitters.

Today, we're getting brutally honest about what's NOT working right now and exactly what we're doing to get through it. From moving 3,000 miles to solve problems, to pursuing a “fringe” cashflow strat...

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🧔‍♂️ WHO ARE WE?

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Our names are Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart! We teach people how to BUILD WEALTH WITHOUT LOSING THEIR SOUL through real estate investing!

1️⃣ WANT TO GET YOUR FIRST DEAL?

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