Lessons - The Real Estate System That Created Multiple 8-Figure Businesses | Ryan Pineda - Serial Entrepreneur

In this lessons episode, discover how building a spiritually rooted, high-performing business starts with obedience, stewardship, and sustainability. Learn how bootstrapping with strict time and money boundaries creates longevity, learn why dying to self and aligning entirely with God's will leads to deeper purpose, and learn how thinking beyond success and into eternity reshapes your goals and legacy. You've built this super-efficient machine. Respect. I love it. I think that's the way business should be. I don't generally see super-efficient machines well really ever, but I mean, but if you look at the companies where people actually go home at five, they're enormous companies. They're companies that are well over a hundred million dollars in revenue. Yeah, yeah. If you are like a sub-ten million dollar company, that founder, owner, CEO is expecting people to work nonstop. Yeah. I don't like the environment of the sub-most sub-ten million dollar companies. Obviously, this is not a hard and fast rule, but I mean, it's tough to build a business. Yeah. And owners and owner-operated companies, they try and extract as much out of people as possible, and they expect their team to care as much about their company as they do. Which why should they? They never will. I don't own it. So exactly. So why do you think? I mean, so now we have the theory. You talk about efficiency and you talk about balance. You talk about things that are important. So you go into building a business knowing all the things that are important to you. That's great. But why are you able to be successful when so many other companies don't operate the way that you operate that don't operate with those limits on time and time in office and focus on office? Well, I think it's a few things, right? I mean, obviously, when you're talking about spiritual supernatural things, there are things that just happen that other people just don't get to be to have the benefit of. Like, I can't say that every door that's been open in my life has been a direct result of how hard we work to how much we earned it, but it's just simply been a gift. Like, I can't even explain how I know so many big people, like almost everybody in the business space who you see on social media. And it's not because I'm anywhere close to their level. I don't have a hundred million dollar company yet. I can text them all. They all come here. They all respect me. They come to meet in my office and we film. It's like a lot of that is just favor. And it just is what it is. And so I think God gives favor to those who are obedient. Like, that's a promise in the Bible as well. It's not just like, oh, well, Ryan, we'll give him this. And you know, like, no, there's this level of stewardship. You know, the Bible promises that if I trust you with a little, I can trust you with much. And so if I was good enough to be able to still be obedient, fall in when I was making 1200 a month, how much more could I do if we're making 1.2 million, you know, a thousand times it, right? So, um, that's one level, right? And a lot of people won't understand that. So, you know, what are some other tactical things? Well, I think that number one, longevity comes from the things you were actually talking about of, dude, like, let's just budget this out. Like, what's actually sustainable, right? What, how much capacity do I have to work? Like, how many hours am I willing to do this? Like, at a sustainable level, it's not going to ruin my life. We can keep at this. Number two, you know, how much financially can we devote to this, right? I mean, I don't come from the startup world where, you know, people raised millions of dollars to just burn it and lose money. I have never lost money. That's not a good strategy. I've never raised money to start any business. I've always trapped everything. So it's like, yeah, we better be making money from day one. That's high operate. So I think budgeting time and money and resource is so important to this. And honestly, the third one is, and you hear this all the time, it's just like, at that point, if you're doing everything right, it's just now compounding time. Like, just do it over and over again. It's going to be boring. Just keep doing it. Let me keep making the videos. Keep calling the sellers. Keep talking to the clients. Keep throwing the events. You do it enough times. You look up five years later, 10 years later, and you're like, wow, look how far ahead we are than everyone. Look how many people dropped off? Like, look how many people were like a flash in the pan? Like, they started out way ahead of us. And then, you know, they went bankrupt. They fell off. This thing happened or they burned out. Like, you see that all the time. One of my favorite quotes you said is your why has to be bigger than your fear. So I have to ask you is God your why or is there a bigger why than even that? No. Yeah. It's just simply leading people to Jesus. I mean, at the end of the day, actually, I want to add something on to that too. Okay. How do you balance? So say, that's a great why. Yep. But how do you balance that why versus providing for your family as a why versus yeah, achieving the highest version of yourself and the most quote unquote successful version of yourself? All right. So this is once again, going to be kind of controversial. But I actually do not believe that it's biblical to even have like your own goals. So, you know, when you talk about the Bible, right? One of the things that it says is you need to die to yourself. You become a slave to Christ. Like your old self dies the moment you become a Christian. What does that mean? Well, it's like your old self dies. There's only the new self. Like when people say, man, I'm trying to follow, you know, God's will. But I have my own will and my own dreams and my own ambitions. How do I like that? God's will with my will. The reality is there should be no your will anymore. There should only be God's will. And if you're following what God wants you to do, that's all that matters. And you're going to trust that he's going to provide. He oh, I mean, there's it goes back to how do I balance my family? If I truly believe God's promise, you know, Matthew 6, 25 through 26 talks about how, you know, look at the birds in the air, right? The birds in the air, they don't sower, reap or work or store, weigh in barns and yet your heavenly father feeds them and takes care of them. They don't have to worry about how they're going to eat the next day. They just do. And yet, we're always worried about when our next paycheck's going to come. What's our next job? Because we don't believe that he's going to take care of us, right? Now, if you're not a Christian, I get it. You do need to depend on yourself to do all these things. But if you're a Christian and you truly believe the Bible, this should not be a concern. So, you know, once again, we're talking about the counter argument would be there's lots of poor Christians. There's lots of people that are struggling. There's, there's poor Christians, but they're still in care of, right? Once again, we're not talking about levels of wealth and millions of dollars. We're talking about he's just going to take care of you. And this is where it really comes down to in the end, right? There's lots of poor people in the Bible. There's lots of rich people in the Bible. And you mentioned this too, like what's the, the main goal with all this? The main goal is to help people start thinking about eternity because we spend so much time thinking about, you know, my one year, you know, business plan, my five year business plan, well, how are we going to exit this company in the next 10 years, right? We spend hours with boardrooms, team, all this stuff, figuring out that. People spend almost no time thinking about eternity. And the crazy part is if you just think we're all logical, practical people on this show, we're going to be dead way longer than we're alive. Okay? So if we're thinking about retirement and where we're going to actually be for a long time, eternity should actually be the thing we're thinking about most and planning for that. You know, I actually heard a quote the other day. It said that, imagine this, the next 24 hours of your life, you know, somebody came to me and said, Hey, Scott, the next 24 hours of your life is going to dictate the next thousand years, you know, so make sure these next 24 hours. You really, that's very thought, dude. You really like the crazy part about that is that's not even close to what the actual truth is because that's a finite number in eternity is infinite. So even if we get 100 years here on earth, it's still not a 24 hour to a thousand year ratio. It's not, it's infinite. And yet, we never think about it. And the truth in the matter is there's so many different belief systems, right? Like I understand that, right? You know, you're like, man, maybe I should be Hindu. Maybe I should be Mormon. Maybe I should be Christian. Maybe I should be this. It's like, well, almost all of them say there's like one way. Yeah. You better do your research to know which one's true because if there's a slight chance that one of them's true, you've been focusing on the wrong thing. Well, it's funny because yeah, there is a there is a through line between all religions. Anyways, it doesn't matter what you actually believe the difference. I think the biggest, the biggest difference is between people that have zero belief versus people that have like even like a little bit of belief. That is the biggest difference because if you believe nothing, I don't even know how you go through life believing that this is it, like this is all the, it's a very, it's a I mean, that's a more stressful thought that knowing that this is the end, this is the end. That's a very stressful thought. Yeah. I don't think I want to ever sit with that thought to be quite honest. Like I want to I want to have, forget about the fact that it's good to have like some moral compass and definition of good and something larger than yourself so that you don't think the year you go is the most important thing on on this planet. I think that those are all good things, but outside of the very scary thought to think that when you die, that's it. That's horrifying. It's depressing. I actually, I'm curious about your your your opinion on this because I've thought about this a lot. I do see a rise in secularism in society, a lack of God in society. Obviously, I'm sure you think about it quite often. Yeah. Is Godlessness in society? I live in Vegas. Yeah. Yeah. I live in Miami. Yeah. Yeah. We know about it. What do you think the true implications are because I'm sure you're closer to this phenomenon than me because you work with people yet are trying to find God and usually there's like an impetus. There's like a reason why they're seeking. Yeah. People usually have to reach a low point for them to finally seek, right? Because they they could have had everything and lost it all or whatever and they're like, dude, okay, it wasn't worth it. Or they reached the end of their life, man. They do the plan that they thought was the plan for 30 years. And then they're like, dude, I'm still not fulfilled. Like, it didn't it wasn't what I thought it was. And so then they go to seeking. But yeah, I mean like the impetus for Godlessness is that there's a lot of people going to hell. And that's the truth. And that's the sad scary part about it and people need to hear it. Thanks for tuning in. If you found this valuable, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode. And if you want to dive deeper into this conversation, check out the links in the description to watch the full episode. See you in the next one.