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Wealthy Way

Overcoming Deep Tragedy and Rebuilding a Life of Joy

Wealthy Way

Ryan Pineda

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when your entire world collapses just as you've reached the top

In this incredibly raw and moving segment, real estate investor Chandler David Smith opens up about the darkest five years of his life. After building a massive business and a beautiful family, Chandler faced back-to-back tragedies when both his brother and his wife, Maddie, were diagnosed with cancer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I just want you to talk about like how life did change the last five years because I think your

0:04.4

story is really inspirational and I know that like now you're on the other side of it and there's a

0:09.6

happy ending but there's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where to start either, but I guess the last

0:16.2

time I saw you, everything was going well. I'd crushed it in door to door.

0:21.4

I was positioned really well.

0:23.0

My sales teams were doing 40 million in sales.

0:27.1

You know, I had an incredible wife, two kids, and had invest in real estate.

0:33.5

I think at the time I was 150 units, lots of passive income. I also think I hadn't really

0:39.7

faced anything super hard. I have come to realize. And then at 30 years old, I got a call from my

0:47.8

brother and he got cancer. And so I took a big break, stepped back,

0:57.0

and was just wrecked.

0:58.3

And two weeks later, my wife went in,

1:00.7

had had some weird stomach issues, got a colonoscopy,

1:04.3

and she got diagnosed with cancer.

1:06.8

And so my life really just turned into kind of a living hell trying to figure out what to do,

1:12.6

where to go.

1:14.6

And so we went through chemo, we went through treatment.

1:20.6

We thought we were good and I had a lot of perspective that I came out of with that.

1:25.6

And then six months after getting out of that and after

1:28.8

taking some serious steps back from the business, my wife ended up getting a terminal diagnosis

1:34.5

and the cancer had come back. And so yeah, that's when one thing I'll say, you were one of the

1:41.4

first people that I reached out to. I was trying to connect with doctors and whatever I could.

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