How To Level Up Your Social Circle To Build A 7-Figure Business And A Life That Matters
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Pineda and Brian Davila host Michael Sartain as they debate modern dating dynamics, arguing over whether men’s struggles come from societal shifts and data-backed trends or simply a failure to level up, take responsibility, and build strong relationships.
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https://www.instagram.com/michaelsartain/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelSartain
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CHAPTERS:
0:42 - Introduction & The Modern Dating Crisis
7:04 - Women’s Standards vs Reality Disconnect
13:00 - Are OnlyFans & Social Media Changing Women?
20:34 - Why Men Are Checking Out of Dating
25:14 - Vices Replacing Relationships (Porn, Gaming, etc.)
34:25 - Masculinity Crisis in Younger Men
42:05 - Is Marriage Still Worth It Today?
43:29 - Solutions for Men: Social Circles & Access
58:25 - Leadership, Masculinity & Controversial Beliefs
1:12:07 - Leveling Up vs Data-Driven Reality
1:19:20 - Can the Average Man Still Get a Woman?
1:35:18 - The Real Solution: Leadership & Access
1:41:31 - How to Actually Meet Women (Strategy)
1:46:32 - Final Debate: Responsibility vs Society
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | No offense, but you don't know what it's like on the fucking streets right now. It is hard. |
| 0:04.0 | It sucks it this way, but perform or don't perform. Level up or shut up. Like, that's kind of where I'm at with it. But you did marriage is a 48% chance you're going to get a divorce. It's just one of the craziest things that you get involved with. Nobody cares. Yeah. How you feel. Okay. Like, your job doesn't care how you feel you either produce or you don't if i'm going to go be a good |
| 0:23.2 | dad today i get to come home no matter what you're going to be Yeah. How you feel. Okay? Like, your job doesn't care how you feel. |
| 0:21.2 | You either producer, you don't. |
| 0:22.4 | If I'm going to go be a good dad today, I get to come home. No matter what happened here at work today, it's irrelevant how I feel. I get to choose whether I'm going to be a good dad when I get home or not. I get to choose whether I'm going to serve my wife or not, regardless of how I feel. Today I've got Michael Sartain here on the show. |
| 0:38.4 | What's going on, man? |
| 0:39.4 | How's it going, man? |
| 0:40.3 | I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:41.2 | Good to see. I got my bald co-host, Brian DeVilla. What's up? Howdy? You are not looks max and being bald, dude. We're just talking about... I don't need to look max anymore. We were talking about all these crazy things that you know especially young men are |
| 0:54.8 | being fed today they're like they're bone smashing their looks maxing they're |
| 0:59.4 | I just learned that tenders ratio is crazy nine nine men for every one woman I'm like |
| 1:05.3 | what is going on in the world today yeah yeah we're headed in a really strange |
| 1:10.3 | place where I think if you go back, say, |
| 1:15.5 | maybe a thousand years, you go back, the Catholic Church encourages monogamy through marriage. |
| 1:20.3 | And because of that, the reason why I encourage monogamy works so well is because the bottom |
| 1:24.4 | third of men, men who normally would get ignored by women because of their class, at least they have one wife. So now they're producing children. And now your nation state grows to be really big. Before that, you had superfluous men. You had this large group of men that were superfluous. If you ever listen to anthropologists, when they interview an Inuit tribes, they ask the men, why do you go to war? And the answer is always, because I want a wife, right? So they do so because they know that there's excess men in the tribe. And so now what's happened recently is because of dating apps, because of social media, and because of things like Title IX, the birth control pill, etc. And because of the fact that women do make so much more money than they did previously. And right now, I believe it's 68% of college graduates are female. |
| 2:05.1 | You're twice as likely to get a graduate degree as a, or master's degree, as a woman, as you are as a man. |
| 2:10.0 | Because that's happened, now it's become more and more difficult. |
| 2:14.4 | That group of men at the bottom that are ignored or invisible is just |
| 2:17.6 | growing, growing, growing. |
| 2:19.3 | And so they use words like in-cell or red pill or whatever to try to describe those men. |
| 2:24.4 | But then when you look at the suicide numbers or the numbers when it comes to depression |
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