Wealth Juice | Real Estate, Entrepreneurship & Investing
Join hosts Ryan Bevilacqua and Cory Jacobson as they interview top real estate investors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and professional athletes from around the world to reveal what it really takes to build generational wealth today. You’ll learn the mindset and money habits of self-made millionaires, proven strategies for building passive income, how to invest in real estate without quitting your 9-5, and the hidden wealth hacks used by the top 1%. Ryan and Cory are active investors with a portfolio of 80+ units, including long-term rentals, short-term stays, multifamily apartments, and a boutique hotel. They built it all while working full-time co...
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What We Got Wrong in Our 20s About Money, Business & Building a Life on Your Terms | E429
<p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>We also talk about how ou...
The 5 Stages of Wealth (From Our Perspective) | E428
<p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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...
Debtor, Saver, or Wealth Creator? Relearning Everything School Left Out About Money | Marvin Mitchell E427
<p>Nobody teaches you how to build real wealth in school. Marvin Mitchell has spent his career closing that gap.</p><p> </p><p>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...
The No-Pressure Playbook: How to Build a $1M/Year Real Estate Business on Relationships, Not Transactions | Ricky Carruth E426
<p>This one was a special one for ya boys!</p><p> </p><p>Ricky Carruth built a business, and a following of over 100,000 agents worldwide, on the opposite idea: relationships over transactions.</p><p> </p><p>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...
Self Storage Yards: The Passive Income Play You've Likely Never Heard of | Chris Long E425
<p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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...
The Breakthrough That 10X'd His Portfolio: Going From Residential to Commercial Real Estate | Matt Aitchison E424
<p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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...
The Strategic Guide to Using a HELOC to Scale Your Real Estate Portfolio | Josh Mettle & Ross Zimmerman E423
<p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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...
He Lived in a Van While Working at Google - and Became a Millionaire by 26 | Michael Alberse E422
<p>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.</p><p>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...
The 3 Blind Spots Costing Business Owners Growth: Business Structure, Credit & Estate Planning | Tommy Thornburgh E421
<p>What's actually protecting your business, your credit, and your estate while you're busy growing all three?</p><p>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.</p><p>In this episode, we get into why so many business owners are operating with the wrong structure for their...
Underwriting the Person, Not the Property: A Contrarian's Guide to Private Lending | Will Harvey E420
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p>...
