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The BetterLife Podcast

Your Job Is Ancient Egypt. How to Escape in 2026.

The BetterLife Podcast

Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart

Investing, Business

4.8831 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

👇 Watch the full keynote and grab the resources

🎟️ REI Summit 2026: https://www.reisummit2026.com

💲Save 10% on your tickets with code “POD10”

🌐 More Better Life resources: https://betterliferef.com


This is the full keynote I gave at the 2025 REI Summit in Austin.

It’s a story about the real journey most real estate investors go through.

Getting stuck in a job.

Trying to break free.Messing it up.

Getting scared.

Wanting to go back to safety.

I walk through a story about ancient Egypt, the Red Sea, the wilderness, and the promised land, and how closely that mirrors the path from a 9-to-5 into real freedom.

I also talk about:

  • Why most people get trapped building someone else’s empire
  • Why early mistakes hurt so much and why they’re normal
  • The Red Sea moment every investor hits when quitting or scaling
  • Why so many people stop right before things actually work
  • Comfort, fear, and why growth always feels uncomfortable
  • Why you should climb the mountain simply because it’s there

If you’re stuck in a job you can’t stand, or you’re already in real estate but feel like you've stalled out, you might like this one.


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My name is Brandon Turner! I teach people how to BUILD WEALTH WITHOUT LOSING THEIR SOUL through real estate investing!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on, everyone? It's Brian Turner, host of the Better Life podcast here alone today.

0:04.6

And actually, I'm just going to do a quick intro. And then I'm going to play something for you that I think you'll like. So a ye, not even a year ago, maybe nine months ago. We did a big summit, the REI summit 2025. It was in Austin, Texas. That's also where the 2026 one's going to be. And there, I did a speech that a lot of

0:22.4

people said was one of the favorite that they've heard me do. So I did that the keynote address. And I kind of talked about, you'll hear it, but I talked about the comparison between the people that were, you'd have ever seen the Ten Commandments, the movie back in the day, like Charleston in that style, or like, you know, the prince of Egypt.

0:36.9

The story of the Israel is leaving Egypt and how that translates so well into the entrepreneurial journey, especially as like a real estate investor, there's so many parallels. It was actually super fun to put together that talk. And it's kind of like story formatted, which obviously keeps our attention better. So I just thought, you know what? We never actually played that for y'all that weren't able to make it live. So we're going to play it today live for everybody. So this is the RIA Summit 2025 keynote address about the journey from slavery, we'll call it, to freedom. And so I think you'll like that. And hey, I'm going to be also at the RIA summit, 2026. I hope you are as well. It's one of my favorite things we do all year long. We got a thousand people in Austin, Texas, all talking about real estate, growing, learning, whether you're brand new to real estate or you're buying your 500th deal. I want to see you there. We got lots of great speakers every year. We've got all the biggest real estate influencers in the world showing up there. People doing real real estate right now, not just the 80s, 90s gurus with the slick back hair. These are actual normal real estate investors who like to share what they're doing. So you're going to learn about things like sub 2 or ADUs or multifamily or syndication or how to do house hacking better or how to do all that stuff.

1:45.3

I'm super excited about it.

1:46.5

Again, you can go to REI Summit 2026.com.

1:50.6

And if you use the code POD10, like Pod 10, this is a podcast.

1:56.2

So pod 10, you can save 10% off your REI Summit ticket.

1:59.8

So go do that right now. And last final announcement, I know I'm giving you a lot of things here. Last thing is every year in January, the Better Life Tribe sponsors and puts on a goal setting retreat for everybody. It's not just for Better Life Tribe members. So everybody can do the Goals for Retreat. I'm really, really pumped about this one because I'm going to be announcing some new changes, new stuff that's coming down in my life. And we're going to be talking about that at the goal center retreat. But the goal of the goal set of retreat is that you walk away with an understanding of where you're at in all 10 categories of your life. You've got a vision for your future, three to five years down the road. You've got three annual goals and you've got three

2:34.2

quarterly goals that line up. And then we've got habits, actions, constraints, things that you want to do on a daily basis. We're going to establish nine to 12 of those. So by the time you leave the three-hour goal setting workshop, you're going to have all of that lined out. It's going to propel you into 2026. So I hope you come. It's $97 to attend because when we charge a little bit of money for it,

2:53.7

everyone actually shows up. If you don't pay anything, you don't pay attention. So we just charge $97 for it. That's not a lot of money to completely transform your year. I would love to have you there. I would love to see there. So head over to Better Life Goalsetting.com to sign up for that one.

3:07.6

And without any further announcements or ado,

3:10.5

I don't know what a do means.

3:11.6

Let's get to the keynote from the 2025 ARIA Summit.

3:16.6

Enjoy.

3:19.0

Everybody's favorite person, Brandon Turner!

3:23.1

Oh, man, we feel alive. Live like the brainless. person, Brandon Turner.

3:37.2

Check, check. Hey, everybody.

3:38.8

Yeah, keep it going.

3:39.5

Come on, come on.

3:41.2

Just kidding. All right. Sit down. Sit down.

3:44.9

Wow. This is cool. I haven't seen the stage yet, like, from this angle. This is great. Hi. Wow. This is absolutely incredible. Thank you guys for being here. Thanks for about it being part of, like, my vision. And, like, I was just talking to, like, the team in the back, and I was like, it's wild when you just have, like, an idea, like, years ago, and then you, like, stand on stage and see it.

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