From Combat to Cash Flow: Real Estate, Community & Freedom | David Pere (Round 3)
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on this episode of The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing for Entrepreneurs, as he welcomes back David Pere, a Marine Corps veteran, real estate investor, entrepreneur, founder of From Military to Millionaire, for his third appearance. This episode dives deep into the raw realities of entrepreneurship, real estate investing, and personal transformation - from combat zones to cash flow, from divorce to discipline, and from building passive income to leading a nationwide mastermind for veterans.
David shares how he scaled his business to millions in revenue, grew a thriving community of 700+ service members and vets, and continues to invest in real estate projects ranging from office spaces to a $14M assisted living development. Beyond business, he opens up about resilience, leadership, and reinventing life after the Marine Corps.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, real estate investor or athlete, you'll find powerful lessons on mindset and growth. Expect stories of grit, authenticity, and the playbook for winning in wealth building.
🔥 Highlights include:
✅ How veterans are turning military discipline into financial freedom
✅ The raw truth about divorce, identity, and bouncing back stronger
✅ Scaling a business from 2 employees to a full team of closers
✅ Leadership lessons that work in combat, business, and athletics
✅ Why mindset and community are the ultimate competitive edge
🎧 Subscribe to The A Game Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube to hear how David Pere continues to inspire entrepreneurs, athletes, and investors to live boldly, take chances, and always bring their A‑Game.
Connect with David:
Connect with From Military To Millionaire:
www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com
From Military To Millionaire on Facebook
From Military To Millionaire on Linkedin
From Military To Millionaire Podcast
NO BS Guide To Real Estate Investing Book
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick LaManya, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
| 0:23.6 | along with Hollywood stars, UFC fighters, and your favorite rock fans. |
| 0:27.6 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, take chances, live boldly, |
| 0:32.6 | and no matter what they do, they always bring their A game. |
| 0:51.1 | Welcome back to the A game podcast, real estate investing for entrepreneurs. |
| 2:17.9 | And the whole point of this podcast is to show average people every day that they can achieve extraordinary things in life and business and this interview is no different. If you go back in the past archives, you can find almost 400 interviews with some of the best people in sports, athletics, jiu-jitsu, MMA, business, investing of all kinds of all shapes and sizes of entrepreneurs who will tell you step by step exactly what they did to achieve all their goals in life and business and also share their mistakes so you don't have to. And if those archives are not enough, we have back for round three, one of my absolute favorite guests and people, Mr. David Perrae, the host and founder of from military to millionaire. And David is as cool as they come, as good as they come. Everybody loves him. He's become a good friend of mine over the years. And he has grown so much since we first came on and connected. And he's one of those guys who just root for. So I couldn't be happier for his journey. But he's very raw. He's very authentic. And he's documented his whole process for being a guy with the silly mustache who was in the Marine Corps to now as retired, built himself on an entire lifestyle in the background for passive income and built an amazing community from that. And he's shown the good, the bad, and the ugly for years. Like literally documented the whole journey. And I've always watched how he handled the ups and downs along the way. And he's got so many good lessons he can share as he's been just completely out there in the open about the good, the bad, and the ugly he's had in his life and in his business. And I think everybody, regardless of where you are, who you are and what you're doing, is going to be able to benefit a lot from this. And he's made a lot of really interesting choices along the way that he struggled with indecision of like, you know, divorce and all these personal, professional things he struggled with in his lifestyle, family, all kinds of things. |
| 2:36.1 | We can all learn from because whether you're there today, you're going to eventually be there as you grow in your business and as you evolve in life. And how better to learn than from somebody who's been through it already and is willing to share how they still found ways to win and grow along that way. So I am not going to steal all this thunder. I'm going to turn it over to David Paray. But again, the whole point of this podcast is they want to do deals together. |
| 2:49.5 | And the only way we do deals together is if we communicate. And the best way to communicate with me is through social media or through a text message. So if you would like to buy properties from me, if you would like to sell properties to me, or if you would like to just partner up on some level, |
| 2:52.3 | all you have to do is shoot me a direct |
| 2:50.9 | message on any of my social media that you can find through nicknicknick.com slash links. That's nicknicknick.com slash links, L-I-N-K-S. And you can connect with me on TikTok, on YouTube, on Instagram, whatever it is. Write me the words real estate on a DM and I will connect with you. or just text me the words real estate to 516. |
| 3:06.2 | 540-5733. |
| 3:07.7 | That is 516. |
| 3:08.8 | 540-5733. |
| 3:10.4 | And we can have a conversation |
| 3:11.5 | that's... will connect with you or just text me the words real estate to 516 540 57733. That is 516. 540 5733. And we can have a conversation if you want to buy an investment property from me, sell an investment property to me or partner up on some way, shape, or form. And of course, the way we keep this party going is please subscribe to the A game podcast. You can find that everywhere you watch and listen to your podcast. You can find that on Spotify. You can find that at Apple. And of course, you can find that on YouTube. And the way we keep this party going is we support our guests like David Parade. So please look at the show notes, find ways to connect with him and his amazing podcast on YouTube channel. And when I post stuff from this, take a second. Give it a thumbs up. Give it a like. Ask David a question. Share it, tag a friend so he knows that he gave you guys value. And he tells the people in his amazing circles that our community appreciates all the stuff that they bring to the table. And he gets us even more guests. And we keep this party going with free information for everybody to benefit from. I consider David Perrette, a still a human being and a very close personal friend of |
| 3:58.2 | mine and I know he comes in and he just keeps it real. So if you guys want to enjoy a real |
| 4:02.5 | conversation with somebody who really does this business and has just been a sponge for |
| 4:07.3 | curating great people, great content, and being a real live, real-time case study to show what |
| 4:12.0 | really goes on behind the scenes, you will love the authenticity of this gentleman in this episode. Thank you, Dave, for coming on again for the third time and thank you guys for supporting us, him, and the A-game podcast. Have a fantastic day. Go make some friends. Go do some real estate. Go do some jitzym and go find the right community community. My guest today is an author, entrepreneur, real estate investor, podcast host, community leader, |
| 4:31.9 | and every fake guru's worst nightmare fighting out of Arkansas, now by way of Missouri. |
| 4:37.8 | He recently retired from the Marine Corps and has slowly shifted his life as we watched in real time |
| 4:42.3 | the transition over the years unfold on his from military to millionaire podcast, YouTube channel, |
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