The Harsh Truths I Learned In 2025
Wealthy Way
Ryan Pineda
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Ryan Pineda and Brian Davila reflect on their biggest business mistakes and breakthroughs from 2025, revealing hard-learned lessons about leadership, standards, delegation, and scaling multiple ventures while maintaining high performance.
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1:00 - The Power of Hiring Leaders Smarter Than You
4:30 - Accepting Low Standards Cost Millions
24:50 - Rediscovering the Value of Running Multiple Businesses
39:00 - Lessons on Making More by Doing Less Deals
53:00 – Ministry and the Business of Church
1:18:00 – When Is Enough Truly Enough? Wealth, Stewardship, and Purpose
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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 | Selling to rich people is easier and selling to broke people. |
| 0:02.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:02.8 | Like 100%. |
| 0:04.2 | It's easier to make a lot of money at once than it is to make a little bit of money over a long period of time. |
| 0:12.4 | Retirement is not biblical. |
| 0:14.4 | It is nowhere in the Bible that you stop working and just chill. |
| 0:19.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.7 | That's not biblical. |
| 0:20.8 | All right, Brian, I made a lot of mistakes in 2025, like a lot. that you stop working and just chill. Yeah. That's not biblical. |
| 0:24.8 | All right, Brian, I made a lot of mistakes in 2025, like a lot. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.0 | We're going to count through many, many of them, and I know you have two. |
| 0:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.6 | What's one that stands out first? |
| 0:40.7 | For me, my biggest mistake was not understanding that I could hire someone that could run my business better than me. That was my biggest lesson. And that's a mistake because I've been in business |
| 0:46.8 | for 10 years and it took me 10 years to figure out that one key hire can 5 to 10 X my business. Why would you think that, |
| 0:57.0 | like, why did it take this long to realize? Like, I told that to you for a long time. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah. I literally hired you. Yeah. To go help me and, like, you saw your impact. Yeah. |
| 1:08.1 | And what I was doing. Yeah. I think, I think, I don't know if it's, |
| 1:13.5 | I think it's confidence. |
| 1:15.5 | I think being confident enough |
| 1:17.8 | to make that decision |
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