Rock Bottom Taught Him How To Be A Better Father, Entrepreneur And Real Estate Investor
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Pineda, alongside cohost Brian Davila, interviews Chandler David Smith as he shares his journey through profound personal loss, rebuilding life and family, and achieving financial freedom through real estate and resilience.
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https://www.instagram.com/ChandlerDavidSmith/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ChandlerDavidSmith
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction & Reunion
1:15 - Life Before Tragedy
1:47 - Cancer Diagnoses Begin
7:12 - Navigating Grief Process
11:45 - New Love & Blended Family
25:51 - Life After Loss & Career Shift
27:01 - Real Estate Freedom Explained
35:00 - Passion vs Financial Freedom
37:42 - Love of Sales & Competition
41:00 - Sales Skills & Door-to-Door Stories
45:19 - Active Income vs Passive Income
50:36 - Future Plans & Fatherhood Focus
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| 0:00.0 | Today I've got an old friend of mine who's originally on the show about five years ago. And since then, a lot has changed in his life, a lot of different tragedies, business things, building a big real estate portfolio. And today we're going to talk about overcoming adversity and how he's done it. And I've got none other than Chandler, David Smith. What's up, man? Hey, excited to be here, man. Yeah, dude. You've got also my bald co-host, Brian DeVilla. |
| 0:24.6 | What a beer. And I've got none other than Chandler David Smith. What's up, man? Hey, excited to be here, man. |
| 0:21.3 | Yeah, dude. You've got also my bald co-host, Brian DeVilla. We were here last time. I'm excited. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah, it's going to be fun. Yeah, dude. So we got in YouTube around the same time, met very early, |
| 0:33.1 | and man, it was awesome to see. Real estate guy,to-door guy, sales guy. I remember you came in and |
| 0:41.1 | like did some training for our team a long time ago. It was really cool. And I mean, since then, |
| 0:45.8 | so much has changed in your life. Definitely family-wise, business-wise, all these different things. |
| 0:52.7 | I don't even know where to begin with all of this, |
| 0:55.5 | but I just want you to talk about like how life did change the last five years |
| 1:00.7 | because I think your story is really inspirational and I know that like now you're |
| 1:04.6 | on the other side of it and there's a happy ending, but there's a lot. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:10.6 | I don't know where to start either, but I guess the last |
| 1:13.3 | time I saw you, everything was going well. I'd crushed it in door to door. I was positioned really |
| 1:19.3 | well. My sales teams were doing $40 million in sales. You know, I had an incredible wife, two kids, |
| 1:28.3 | and had invested in real estate. |
| 1:30.7 | I think at the time I was 150 units, |
| 1:33.2 | lots of passive income. |
| 1:35.0 | I also think I hadn't really faced anything super hard. |
| 1:38.7 | I have come to realize. |
| 1:41.4 | And then at 30 years old, I got a call from my brother and he got cancer. And so I took a big break, |
| 1:52.7 | stepped back and was just wrecked. And two weeks later, my wife went in, had had some weird |
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