He Lost Everything: Then Made $2M With One Partnership | Travis Plumb
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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How do you turn rock bottom into a $1M success story? From suicidal thoughts to a multimillion-dollar comeback, this is the raw, unfiltered story of Travis Plum, former combat veteran turned powerhouse real estate entrepreneur. In this episode, Travis shares how he was betrayed by partners, scammed out of thousands, and hit financial rock bottom. But through grit, faith, and a relentless work ethic, he rose again, co-founding a seven-figure real estate team and Passive Prospecting, a coaching company helping agents leverage YouTube to scale their business.
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About Ryan Pineda:
Ryan Pineda has been in the real estate industry since 2010 and has invested in over $100,000,000 of real estate. He has completed over 700 flips and wholesales, and he owns over 650 rental units. As an entrepreneur, he has founded seven different businesses that have generated 7-8 figures of revenue.
Ryan has amassed over 2 million followers on social media and has generated over 1 billion views online. Starting as a minor league baseball player making less than $2,000 a month, Ryan is now worth over $100 million. He shares his experiences in building wealth and believes that anyone can change their life with real estate investing.
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| 0:00.0 | I was about to take my life, man, and I decided not to. |
| 0:03.2 | Oh, man. |
| 0:04.3 | I looked over at my daughter, but the first thing she said to me the next morning was love you, dad, dad. |
| 0:09.5 | We took this guy $100,000 check. |
| 0:12.0 | And for like two years, my partner that was supposed to be doing all this development had more and more excuses. |
| 0:17.6 | And, oh, we're going to need more money here. |
| 0:19.3 | We're going to need more money here we're going to need more money here and you spent the last five years trying banging your head against every wall yeah it was funny this |
| 0:26.4 | is how i met levi you know i was if i was levi knowing your background i'm not trying to meet you |
| 0:33.6 | do next thing you know we're doing 200 grand a month commissions weissions, we made a million bucks our first, like first year in real estate together. |
| 0:41.1 | And what's going on, wealth matters today? |
| 0:43.7 | I have got the craziest realtor story you've ever heard of somebody who had fraud, bad partners, people stealing, all this crazy stuff on his way to becoming a seven-figure |
| 0:57.8 | realtor. It is going to be entertaining. Grab a bucket of popcorn or something. I've got Travis |
| 1:03.6 | Plum. What's up? What's up, man? Thank you so much for having me, brother. Appreciate it, man. |
| 1:07.3 | Dude, I did not know your story was so crazy. You've heard a little bit. Yes, sir. Yeah, it's been a wild ride. |
| 1:12.8 | He was telling me before this started. I was like, just cut it off. Like, let's just, I want to hear it live because, man, it's crazy. But to give some background today, you are partners with Levi Lassick and you guys have some companies together, passive prospecting. You guys are |
| 1:28.2 | doing multi-millions out in Dallas, Texas, in realtor commissions and everything else. And, |
| 1:33.6 | uh, you know, we can get all to that in the end. But man, how the heck did it get to that point? |
| 1:38.9 | Man, it has been the craziest journey of all time, man. I mean, I have, I mean, you know, me, man, I did the Iron Man race. And a lot of that stuff is just, you know, my background, man, I just feel like I've been through, you know, good times and bad times. And I just never gave up. And so everything that I've done in my life, man, I've just, you know, I've always tried to just push to the limit, man. I never wanted to quit. I never wanted to give up. I always wanted to do right by everybody else, no matter what they did to me. |
| 2:04.7 | And so, you know, as I became a new business owner, you know, unfortunately I ran into some bad people who were doing bad things. |
| 2:12.0 | And I'm just, I'm a good old country boy. |
| 2:14.1 | You know what I mean? |
| 2:14.6 | Like my dad just always, you you know raised me as a handshake |
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