Wealth Juice | Real Estate, Entrepreneurship & Investing

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...

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 tho...

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 d...

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 tal...

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...

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 p...

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...

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 th...

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 creatio...

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...

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...

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 a...

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, C...

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...

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 sys...

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 actual...

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 v...

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, A...

When Ryan and I launched Wealth Juice (was called Weekly Juice back then for the OG's) six years ago, we had a why. It made sense at the time. It got us moving. But if we're being honest, it doesn't look anything like what drives us today.   In this solo episode, we're pulling back the curtain on something we don't talk about enough - the evolution of our purpose. What started as a pursuit of fina...

This one is fresh. Michael Hyun literally just quit his software engineering job at Amazon this month, a role paying $300,000 a year, and real estate is what made it possible. Over the last six years, Michael built a $4.5 million portfolio while working full-time in tech, quietly stacking properties and creating enough passive income to make the leap. Now at 29, he's all in. In this episode, Micha...

A TON people talk about real estate. They actually did it. In this episode, we sit down with Dedric Polite and Krystal Polite, the husband and wife duo behind Polite Properties and stars of the hit show  50/50 Flip . They break down how they went from corporate jobs and zero experience… to building a real estate portfolio of nearly 100 doors, launching multiple businesses, and creating true financ...

Most people blame their past. He used his to build his future. In this episode, we sit down with Kolaiah "Fuzzy" Jardine, a Hawaii-based real estate investor, developer, and co-founder of the HUI Mastermind who went from federal prison to building a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio focused on affordable housing. But this is not a get rich story. It is a change your life and bring everyone...

Most new investors hear "hard money lending" and immediately think it's too expensive, too complicated, or only for seasoned pros. John Robbart is here to change your mind. In this episode, Cory sits down with John, Managing Director at Renovo Financial, to break down what hard money lending actually looks like in the real world and why it may be the most powerful tool you're not using yet.   John...

While everyone's chasing deals in Nashville, Tampa, and Phoenix, two Milwaukee insiders are sitting on one of the most overlooked rental markets in the country. In this episode, Cory sits down with Ty Ash and Nick Harrington, real estate agents and investors behind Horizon Homes, to pull back the curtain on why Milwaukee deserves a serious look from out-of-state investors right now. Ty and Nick sh...

What happens when loans fall through, appraisals don't pan out, and the deal you worked months for starts to unravel? For most people, that's where the story ends. For this Wealth Juice Inner Circle member, it's where his real investor journey began. In this episode, we sit down with a Philadelphia-based investor who, after joining our mastermind, went on to acquire a triplex he house hacks and an...