Millie Pendola is a real estate agent and investor who went from zero to financially free in just 3 years. Her secret weapon? A KILLER combination of flipping and rental property cash cows.

In this episode, Millie reveals how her background in real estate planning gave her a MASSIVE edge in the real estate game. She breaks down her proven strategies for finding off-market deals, building a cash-flowing rental portfolio, and creating a win-win situation for everyone involved.

Millie also talks about:
- What makes a good/bad real estate agent?
- How she got paid a whooping $70k to “make mistakes”
- Why she prefers buy-and-hold strategy over flipping
- Leadership lessons she learned from her 7-year-old BOSS
- Her “secret sauce” for uncovering off-market GOLD MINES
- Her “better rule” for living a better life

Books Mentioned:
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

Connect with Millie:

Website: https://www.milliependola.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selling_the_smokies/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@millie_pendola

Connect with Brandon:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon

💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/

📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/

💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/

📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/

Connect with Cam:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/

💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/

💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/

📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/

Millie’s charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):
- Reins - Provides therapeutic horseback riding for children and adults with disabilities.

Show Sponsors:
- Ballpoint Marketing - The leading provider of direct-mail marketing strategies designed to increase your response rates. Visit them at https://www.BallPointMarketing.com/BetterLife or send a DM to Brandon on Instagram, @beardybrandon, with the word BALLPOINT, and he'll connect you directly.
- TurboTenant - Get leads, screen tenants, create leases, and collect rent — all in one place. Use the code BRANDON10 to get 10% off upon sign-up at https://www.BallPointMarketing.com/BetterLife.

Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join the BetterLife Tribe here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe

Sam and Rachel Wegert are the king and queen of co-living, with over 200 rooms currently rented to great tenants. Together, they’re proving that co-living isn’t just a fad - it’s a cash cow (and maybe even the future of affordable housing!)

But Sam and Rachel’s journey wasn’t all about making at least $1,000/month on every property. Sam grew up homeschooled on a small Virginia farm, later becoming a 15-year-old martial arts school owner. And Rachel navigated a challenging childhood.

In this episode, Sam and Rachel break down their proven system for transforming average homes into cash-flowing machines while maintaining well-functioning living spaces and keeping tenants happy.

Sam and Rachel also talk about:
- Their ideal tenants (and how they find them)
- How to overcome zoning hurdles and navigate tricky legal loopholes
- Why co-living could be the answer to America’s affordable housing challenges
- How they minimize tenant drama and foster community
- Strategies for boosting tenant retention

Books Mentioned:
- Loving What Is by Byron Katie
- The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill
- Soar with Your Strengths by Donald O. Clifton
- 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss

Connect with Sam and Rachel:

Website: https://www.scaleyourrealestate.com/

Sam’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samwegert

Rachel’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel_wegert/

Connect with Brandon:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon

💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/

📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/

💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/

📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/

Connect with Cam:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/

💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/

💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/

📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/

Sam and Rachel’s charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):
- Elevation Church - An online church providing LIVE worship experiences where you can connect with “eFam” all over the world

Show Sponsor:
- TurboTenant - Get leads, screen tenants, create leases, and collect rent — all in one place. Use the code BRANDON10 to get 10% off upon sign-up at https://www.TurboTenant.com/betterlife.
- Ballpoint Marketing - The leading provider of direct-mail marketing strategies designed to increase your response rates. Visit them at https://www.BallPointMarketing.com/BetterLife or send a DM to Brandon on Instagram, @beardybrandon, with the word BALLPOINT, and he'll connect you directly.

Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join the BetterLife Tribe here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe

Dan Martell is a SaaS kingpin who buys a new software company every month. But as a teen, the only thing he was pursuing was a life of crime - until a stint in rehab introduced him to his first love: coding.

In this episode, Dan shares the philosophies behind his "buy back your time" approach, his top strategies for hiring and training teams, and his counterintuitive takes on parenting, fitness, and building real wealth.

Dan also talks about:
- Top mistakes founders make when hiring (and how to avoid them)
-The "train don't tell" approach to leading teams
- The 10-80-10 rule for empowering your team
- His thoughts on God, spirituality, and living a purpose-driven life
- Strategies for recruiting top talent
- Why building wealth for others is the path to true riches
- The power of constantly taking on new challenges

Books Mentioned:
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Love is a Killer App by Tim Sanders
- A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron Gikandi
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter

Connect with Dan:

📖 His Book: https://a.co/d/98Y0mLV

💻 Website: https://www.danmartell.com/

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danmartell/

🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@danvmartell

Connect with Brandon:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon

💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/

📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/

💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/

📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/

Connect with Cam:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/

💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/

💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/

📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/

Show Sponsor:
- TurboTenant - Get leads, screen tenants, create leases, and collect rent — all in one place. Use the code BRANDON10 to get 10% off upon sign-up at https://www.TurboTenant.com/betterlife.
- Ballpoint Marketing - The leading provider of direct-mail marketing strategies designed to increase your response rates. Visit them at https://www.BallPointMarketing.com/BetterLife or send a DM to Brandon on Instagram, @beardybrandon, with the word BALLPOINT, and he'll connect you directly.

Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join the BetterLife Tribe here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe

Scadi Etienne is one of the most INSPIRING real estate investors in the game, earning eye-popping returns while serving as a compassionate landlord to his low-income tenants.

Born in Brooklyn to an immigrant mother, Scadi’s family was evicted 8 times throughout his childhood. Despite those challenges, he excelled in school and joined the military, where he discovered the transformative power of real estate investing.

In this episode, Scadi shares his unique "human first" approach to investing in C- and D-class properties, emphasizing the importance of understanding and connecting with tenants from similar backgrounds. He discusses his strategies for finding deals, building relationships with wholesalers, and navigating the challenges of investing in New York and Baltimore.

Scadi also talks about:
- Why he ate tuna fish EVERY DAY for 6 months after buying a condo (despite having 6-figures saved!)
- The CRAZY appreciation on his Bed-Stuy 3-Family (now worth over $2 million)
- His secret to being INSANELY selective and only doing 30% cash-on-cash deals
- Why compassion is his secret weapon in the dog-eat-dog world of real estate investing
- Why he REFUSES to raise money from others (and how newbies get burned)

Books Mentioned:
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki
- The Bible

Connect with Scadi:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamscadi/

Connect with Brandon:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon

💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/

📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/

💻 Open Door Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/

📸 Open Door Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/

Connect with Cam:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/

💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/

💻 Revel City Homebuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/

📸 Revel City Homebuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/

Scadi’s charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):
- The Brooklyn Bank, A community-based 501c3 nonprofit organization that fosters financial independence among communities of color through teaching financial literacy.

Show Sponsor:
- TurboTenant - Get leads, screen tenants, create leases, and collect rent — all in one place. Use the code BRANDON10 to get 10% off upon sign-up at TurboTenant.com/betterlife.
- Ballpoint Marketing - The leading provider of direct-mail marketing strategies designed to increase your response rates. Visit them at BallPointMarketing.com/BetterLife or send a DM to Brandon on Instagram, @beardybrandon, with the word BALLPOINT, and he'll connect you directly.

Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join the BetterLife Tribe here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe

With a college degree in electrical engineering, a young Indar Lange thought he’d take the “W2” path to wealth. That is, until he started paddling with a group of multimillionaires, and realized they all happened to invest in real estate…

Today, you’ll hear how Indar went from not knowing a thing about real estate to becoming Hawaii’s biggest house flipper, building a huge rental portfolio, and even developing a coworking space on the Big Island. Plus, how he’s able to raise tens of millions of dollars for his projects and get great deal flow without spending a dime on ads.

Indar also talks about:
- His “hippie” upbringing on a marijuana farm
- Launching his business with seed money from the sale of a condo
- Teaching his young kids about money using Legos
- Steadily progressing from 1 flip per year, to 2… to 30!
- Buying a shopping center from a seller with FAKE tenants!
- Risks of high-dollar commercial investing
- BRRR’ing a coworking space in Hawaii
- And much more!

Books Mentioned:
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Connect with Indar:

Website: https://indarhawaii.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indarhawaii/

TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/indarhawaii/?hl=en

Connect with Brandon:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon

💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/

📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/

💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/

📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/

Connect with Cam:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/

💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/

💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/

📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/

Indar’s charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):
- The Brooklyn Bank - A community-based 501c3 nonprofit organization that fosters financial independence among communities of color through teaching financial literacy.

Show Sponsor:
- TurboTenant - Get leads, screen tenants, create leases, and collect rent — all in one place. Use the code BRANDON10 to get 10% off upon sign-up at TurboTenant.com/betterlife.
- Ballpoint Marketing - The leading provider of direct-mail marketing strategies designed to increase your response rates. Visit them at BallPointMarketing.com/BetterLife or send a DM to Brandon on Instagram, @beardybrandon, with the word BALLPOINT, and he'll connect you directly.

Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join the BetterLife Tribe here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe

Jude Jean Paul Bernard is a real estate investor, business owner, and philanthropist who’s bought and sold $100 million of property in New York City.

In this episode, Jude shares how he bought his very first property with student loans, then “bet on himself” and went all-in on real estate in one of the most competitive markets on earth. Plus, how he’s crushing it with short-term rentals in a city that famously outlawed them!

Jude also talks about:
- Why getting arrested at age 20 was “the best thing that’s happened to him”
- Quitting his job and an MBA program to become a full-time investor
- Flying to Jamaica to track down a seller and making $1M+ on the deal
- Gambling addiction and losing $140k at the blackjack table
- Finding detail-oriented “doers” to bring his vision to life
- Printing money by turning boarding houses into short-term rentals in NYC
- Founding the Brooklyn Bank to bring financial literacy to the inner city
- The most common fatal mistakes in real estate investing
- Why he’s selling off a large chunk of his portfolio

Books Mentioned:
- Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Jude’s charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):
- The Brooklyn Bank, the nonprofit he founded to foster financial literacy in urban communities

Connect with Jude:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jude-bernard-15228b61/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr.judebernard

Connect with us!

Website: https://abetterlife.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon

Show Sponsor:
- TurboTenant - Get leads, screen tenants, create leases, and collect rent — all in one place. Use the code BRANDON10 to get 10% off upon sign-up at TurboTenant.com/BetterLife.
- Ballpoint Marketing - The leading provider of direct-mail marketing strategies designed to increase your response rates. Visit them at BallPointMarketing.com/BetterLife or send a DM to Brandon on Instagram, @beardybrandon, with the word BALLPOINT, and he'll connect you directly.

This show is also brought to you by the BetterLife Tribe. Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join us here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe

Josiah Smelser is a real estate investor and appraiser who built a $17 million portfolio from scratch, without using any of his own capital.

In this episode, Josiah shares his incredible journey from growing up in a small town in Alabama, to living in Tanzania at the age of 12, where he had experiences that shaped his entrepreneurial mindset and real estate investing success. He reveals how he went from corporate accounting, working 90 hours a week, to starting his own appraisal business at 21, later amassing an impressive real estate portfolio without investing a dime.

Josiah also talks about:
- How he leveraged his appraisal skills to recognize hidden value in real estate
- The BRRRR strategy that helped him build a $17M real estate portfolio
- Transitioning from $50K to $600K/year through vacation rentals
- The true meaning of wealth (Being grateful for what you have)
- Why he took a break from social media

Books Mentioned:
- Bothy Tales by John D Burns
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Connect with Josiah:

Book: https://a.co/d/hkXHdxw

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josiahsmelser/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JosiahSmelser

Connect with Brandon:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardybrandon

💻 BetterLife Tribe, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: https://abetterlife.com/

📸 BetterLife Tribe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterlife/

💻 OpenDoor Capital, Brandon’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://odcfund.com/

📸 OpenDoor Capital’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/opendoorcapital/

Connect with Cam:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cam.cathcart/

💻 Deal Flow Real Estate, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Mastermind: http://dealflowrealestate.com/

💻 Revel City HomeBuyers, Cam’s Real Estate Investing Company: https://revelcityhomebuyers.com/

📸 Revel City HomeBuyers’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelcityhomebuyers/

Josiah’s charitable cause (100% of ad revenue goes here):
- Christian Services Foundation primarily funds Tanzania mission works, schools, substance abuse recovery, and scholarship funds.

Show Sponsor:
- BetterLife Tribe - A Community for Real Estate Investors Seeking Financial Freedom

Interested in building wealth without losing your soul? Join the BetterLife Tribe here: https://join.abetterlife.com/tribe