Survive or Scale: Why 2025 Is Separating the Hustlers from the Hopefuls
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The market feels like a paradox, stocks soaring, wealthy investors thriving, yet small businesses and new real estate players are barely keeping afloat.
Why? It’s not just about tools or talent anymore. It’s about grit, systems, and the willingness to bet big when others are playing it safe.
This episode dives into why some are scaling with confidence—and others are shrinking in fear. From the rise of educational platforms baked into SaaS, to how affiliate marketing and storytelling are reshaping customer acquisition, it’s clear:
This isn’t just a hard season. It’s a defining one.
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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 | obviously we all sell real estate products for wholesale and flipping and stuff like that. |
| 0:05.4 | But being like on social media, |
| 0:07.7 | I get to talk to a lot of business owners, |
| 0:09.8 | especially with just like our different workshops and things that are just general business. |
| 0:14.7 | And what it's just like the weirdest market ever because on one hand, |
| 0:20.4 | all the signs of like um you know growth are |
| 0:25.2 | still there it's like oh stocks are at like all time highs and housing prices are at all time highs and |
| 0:30.7 | you know the richest of the rich are getting richer you know Elon's net worth and all these |
| 0:36.5 | things are like rising at rates we've never seen. |
| 0:40.2 | And so you see like, you know, and I talked to a lot of my rich friends too. They're like, bro, |
| 0:43.9 | I'm doing better than ever. You know, my stocks are killing it. All these things are killing it. |
| 0:48.6 | And then I talked to the small business owner and they're getting killed. And I'm like, dude, |
| 0:53.6 | like, you know, any small business, |
| 0:56.0 | whether you're a small realtor or a small, you know, flower shop or like people are just not |
| 1:03.1 | spending money the way they used to spend money. And so it's like when I'm feeling out what I think, |
| 1:09.6 | I'm listening to like the general public versus like the big shots because the big shots are killing it right now. |
| 1:15.8 | They really are. |
| 1:16.3 | I could say the same thing because some of the big investors are doing better than ever. |
| 1:20.4 | They're killing it. |
| 1:21.1 | I think because they're so much better than and have so much. |
| 1:25.2 | They're not scared to spend because the processes and the sales team and |
| 1:29.0 | everything's so dialed in, but some of my friends that have the two-man teams, the three-man team. They're struggling. That's funny because I was like, I was like, what are you talking about? All these guys are doing good. Like, what's your problem? Like, you're just not good enough. Like, get better. yeah um but that that, it's the people that are willing to spend the money right now are reaping |
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