What if everything you needed to build wealth already lived inside you—your time, your mindset, and your drive?
This week on the Exit Strategies Radio Show, Corwyn J. Melette sits down with Jacopo Iasiello, an Italian entrepreneur, investor, and author of Healthy, Rich & Happy. Jacopo shares how he went from launching a multimillion-dollar jewelry business in Italy to investing in U.S. real estate, and why he believes America remains the best country in the world for anyone ready to take action.
Whether you’re just starting out or already on your wealth journey, Jacopo breaks down his powerful three-step method for building generational wealth using real estate—no matter your starting point. Learn how to shift your mindset, leverage time and knowledge, and use strategic investing to create lasting impact.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
- 04:40 Jacopo’s turning point: from failure to finding his life’s mission
- 10:27The power of energy and clarity when pursuing your goals
- 19:25 Why mindset is the #1 barrier to creating wealth
- 21:00 Real estate as the most accessible wealth-building tool—even if you don’t have money
- 25:18 The 3 steps to building generational wealth: make money, create cash flow, and buy appreciating assets
- 27:44 Land flipping and zoning changes: a 20x wealth strategy you’ve probably never heard of
📚 Support a Greater Cause
Jacopo’s book, Healthy, Rich & Happy, isn’t just a guide to building wealth—it also supports Mano della Calle, a nonprofit in Miami helping people transition from the streets to a dignified life. 100% of book proceeds go to this mission.
Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNG77LNW
Connect with Jacopo:
- Instagram: @jacoppoiasielloinvestorbroker
- Website: healthyrichandhappy.com
- Email: jacopoiasiellobroker@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacopo-iasiello-50936244/
Connect with Corwyn:
- Contact Number: 843-619-3005
💬 “You can become wealthy starting from zero. You just need to do one step at a time.” — Jacopo Iasiello
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CORWYN:
Good morning, good morning, and great morning, guys. Welcome to another fabulous episode of Exit Strategies Radio Show. Hey, I am your host, Corwyn J. Melette, broker and owner of Exit Realty Low Country Group in beautiful North Charleston, South Carolina. Hey, if this is your first time listening to this show right here, you sir or ma’am are in for a treat, because our mission here is very simple. That is to empower our community through financial literacy and real estate education. Guys, I want to thank you all so much for tuning in, those who are passing through. Maybe you just caught us on that dial today, I really appreciate it, but most importantly to those who are our faithful listeners, and hopefully we’re going to gain some more for those who may have just hit us on the dial. We appreciate you guys tuning in, we appreciate the feedback, but most importantly, we appreciate your excitement when you catch a concept here on this show that you intend to implement in your life to benefit you, your family, the generations yet to come, because we always say here, we put a hashtag on that thing that says that we are legacy building. Elder Evans, Pastor Evans, look here, let me get that order right. Thank you guys for tuning in. The Q family, thank you. Look here, from Monkey’s Corner all the way to Hollywood, what you know no good, and most importantly my hometown people, let’s take this back to the mud. Mullins, South Carolina, Marion County, Marion, South Carolina, let’s check this thing out, and most importantly, let’s do something with it. So today I am super stoked and super excited because you know, we work to have the best here on this show. People that are here not only to give you some information, but to give you a vehicle in order to administer it. We don’t just want the drugs, we want to make sure that we got a needle to inject it and get it to where it needs to go to. That’s what we want, right? We want to get well, we want to get our financial health and those things better, right? So today, I am super humbled to have with us the CEO of Luxury Wealth Group. He is an author and real estate investor, having written the Amazon bestseller, and I love this, Healthy, Rich, and Happy. Got to put all that stuff together, right? So we have today none other with us, none other than Jacopo Iacillo. Wow. Did I get that right? Perfect, perfect. Love it, love it. So Jacopo, how are you doing today?
JACOPO:
First of all, super good because your smile bring me a beautiful energy in my heart. Now in this moment, super, super good.
CORWYN:
Well I appreciate that. So I’m going to let you do the distinct honor of giving our listeners that big picture, high level overview of who you are and what it is that you do.
JACOPO:
Yeah, I am an investor and I am an author of Healthy, Rich, and Happy, but you know, my story starting when I coming from Napoli, Italy, where I am right now, starting my life with a lot of passion, but at the same time, a lot of difficulty, starting everybody like you, another human being, almost 7 billion people in this world with the same emotion, starting like I have one big dream. The dream is becoming professional soccer and I have this passion when I am really in early age to learn from people they have success, not only in business, but to in touch other human life. And what’s happening, I started to play professional soccer, leave my city, Napoli, to go in other place over here in Italy, I have the first break in my life. Around 17 years old, after three years, leave out of my family. I have a big injury and I need to reinvent completely myself. What this means, 18 years old, I don’t know what I need to do. And I start in business. The business, I open one jewelry shop, make more than 20 shops, starting real estate in around 22 years old over here in Italy with the auction space. Make mistake in the business and like around 28 years old, I understand what’s happening in United States. The business over here started to slow down, means I started to sell some shop. The real estate slow down at that time and I find opportunity to invest in Florida, take one fly, go over there in Miami, do more than 355 flipping, create my portfolio of cash flow. Travel now the world, enjoy my family, spend eight months in Miami, three months over here in Italy and one month in Dubai for business. This is like I am. My intention is really through the book to change more people life, to create, first of all, a method inside and after go outside with real estate.
CORWYN:
So one of the things that we talk here about on this show oftentimes, but we talk a lot about mindset, about essentially you got to train yourself, condition yourself mentally in order to have the level of success that you desire. It doesn’t just happen arbitrarily. There is an investment of time, resources, as well as an effort mentally in order to achieve that. So how does your book align with that? Because I’m loving the title, right? I’m loving the title, but how does your book help people to align themselves with the proper mindset for success?
JACOPO:
Yeah, first of all, I want to share with you something. I go through big break point in my life, more the one in life, like in business. And this breakdown, really, I need to feel something, to find something to help me. And one my friend told me about this important method called Meditation Transcendental, around 28 years old. And this one changed completely my scenario of my life. Completely another world I see. And the book is the experiences inside with this method MPBE, Meditation Pre-Biohacking Exercise, is the four point, the four pillars give me the energy every day to continue to go after my dream and to build really in the morning. This method is so important because I think so, this is working for me, not for everybody because we are similar human beings, but completely different. For me, wake up really in the morning, early in the morning and do the meditation, the pre-activation and the biohacking, use different device and exercise, give me this energy. And after, through the vehicle of real estate, I bring wealth in my life. And first two pillars is really important, is healthy and be happy. And this healthy and happiness is becoming, coming from this method MPBE. The richness will come after automatically if you do action.
CORWYN:
OK, OK, OK. So one of the first thing and for our listeners is getting the mindset so that you can envision and then everything comes out for that. I’m loving that. You built a real estate empire. I love so real estate and empire, I think just go together. Right. I think we just, it’s just flow. Right. Because to an extent, we all should be doing that. So you built a real estate empire basically from scratch with the makings of this. Am I correct that you first had to get your mindset right? You spend your time in the mornings meditating, essentially gearing yourself up to go and do the next steps. And then subsequently you’ve established yourself and now that you have an empire. But how did this come about? How did you do that?
JACOPO:
Yeah, like how is the process is really of the method is really like simple. First of all, for me, for example, what I do, I wake up, first of all, share with you something so important. This method is working for me, but because we are similar human being, but different photo type of human being, it’s possible don’t work perfectly for everybody. What this means, probably somebody want to wake up late, other people, they want to do exercise, not the time I will do, but we work 1000% the strategy to use sequentially this kind activity because it’s proved through university to big university how it’s working. And for me, my day is working like a 4.30 in the morning when I starting to meditate and bring my mantra in my mind where I go deeply down after do the pre activation means is not only ask to the divine, to God, whatever you want to call what you want, but something first of all, I give my pray to who I love or something in the world. And after concrete, I ask to the divine, the God, whatever you want to call something concrete in my life. I visualize my day step by step what I do and I use different device to go in my subconscious and help me in be more specific in my goal with this kind of device. And finally, I do exercise. How long is the process? The process for me is like one hour and 50 minutes. But when I do every day, like it’s part of me, this one give me the clarity to after starting to work in real estate, what I do every day, I working in auction because I’m specializing in auction. And plus I working with a lot of JP in the multifamily space. And this one give me the possibility really to have more clarity in my mind.
CORWYN:
So nearly two hour process daily of a one hour and 50 minutes, 15. Okay. So over an hour every day of that preparation, what I heard in there is some time in prayer and then some belief because we don’t pray. We got to be concrete in what we, what we pray for. Number two, we got to believe. So that means we got to visualize it. That’s them. Then we get to the manifestation. I’m loving this. Hold on me. I’m getting giddy over here. I don’t want to start bouncing around too much. I’m a big guy. I want people to think that the screen is shaking or something, but where I’m going with that though, it’s literally that, okay, look, I’m going to spend some time in prayer and then everything else is going to essentially support what it is that I pray. I’m a believe it. I’m internalized. I’m a visualize it. And then it turned on my exercise on it. And then I’m gonna go at it. I’m loving that. I’m loving that. So this is, as you just talked about the M P B E. So mindset, property, business, and expansion method that you have been employing again these years. So how can it help people for our listeners? Guys, I need y’all to pay attention to this. How can this help people to accomplish and build long-term wealth?
JACOPO:
I explain how you have a two way to be the wealth. And I am so honored to tell you something. In my book, I have three people, they endorse this book. Okay. One is one of my friend is a billionaire famous over here in Europe where he create the most important university and other two people, they are in real estate. Why I tell this? Because everybody told me that this kind of the method really help them in see the world in completely different. But what’s happening is this one. You have two methods to build wealth. The first method is you go out after what you want without internally understand that we are people feel emotion. Okay, now what’s happening when you go out, you wake up and you started to working on your goal dream without have some kind of possibility to work with the emotion happening every day in our life. It’s possible happening in our life against some problem during our day coming and we will feel discouraged. We will feel no good. We will feel not enough. We will feel the problem to go after our dream. Now, this is the first option. A lot of people, they working really crazy. I am the first before until 28 years old. I create my chain of jewelry with the method to go after. I becoming multimillionaire with the anger, the passion to go after. But I feel completely empty inside. The second option now I suggest to everybody is to first of all, go inside you, prepare yourself every day and after with really clear strategy, go and choose and try to grab your dream. But first create something, create the mindset, create the adrenaline, create the oxygen in your body to go after this one. And this method, meditation, morning, pray, biohacking, exercise, give all this to push you and driving you in the direction of what you want.
CORWYN:
Makes perfect sense. So let me ask you this one, and I guess maybe I’ll refer to it or frame it as where have you seen, what is people struggle with the implementation of this? And what I mean by that, Jacopo, is people struggle with this kind of stuff. Like, hey, I want success, right? So it means I got to do something different because if I want success, that means I don’t feel I have it already, which means I have to do something different. But people struggle with the implementation. So where have you, if you’ve been able to identify where people’s general struggle with, because it’s not necessarily the change. Again, someone who really wants success knows that they have to change something in order to achieve it. So what is it about this type of strategy? Challenges people where they are more hesitant, resistant or otherwise do not adopt.
JACOPO:
Yes. First of all, I want to tell the majority of people which kind of problem they have, the impulse syndrome, where they don’t feel enough. They start in something, the result is not coming and they feel stuck or they feel discouraged. Now, why is so important this method before to go after to the world? It’s because through meditation, through pray, through exercise, you clarify with the really clear idea where you need to go in your day. And I explain better. Meditation, Transcendental in particular, what I practice is the way to go in your mind and shut down technically your monkey mind, means repeat one mantra where you go and you repeat this mantra and other kind of information arrive in your mind where you don’t feel it. You don’t need to think about nothing, only at this mantra. Now, why I think it’s so important the creation of some method in the life of people? Because if you don’t have something where if you feel, for example, down or somebody tell you something during your day where you are completely shocked and you don’t have some encourage, something, but you’re working only with emotion, your emotion, where you try to go and moving, push yourself. But without one method, it’s really complicated because life is a lot of complicated relationship, a complicated thing they possibly bring you down. With this method, what’s happening, you have somebody tell you something, you possibly go meditate, do, you know, I do two times a day and do meditation and pray wherever you are and bring you back your energy. And this is the big difference from people they have success in the 12 part of our life because people think about success only in one category. Somebody think about finance, somebody think about love, somebody think about fitness. Reality will be complete in your life when all the 12 categories of our life will be in the good height balance. And this method is the part because I am investor, pragmatic, sensible investor means after you create your energy, your beat, you need to do action. You need the moving forward. You don’t need the think, you need the realize every day with a simple step every day. One day, if you have cleared your goal, you will necessarily arrive at what you want. But you need to have faith and working on yourself because life, you will arrive from different sides, different kind of world, different kind of normal soul, and you don’t have any kind of method or strategy to bring you back your energy. Unfortunately, you will live no happy, healthy, rich life.
CORWYN:
So let me ask you this question. Some of our listeners are, some of them are more advanced. Some people just starting out as we always focus on this show about legacy and building, obviously creating, building generational wealth. What advice would you give someone, whether it be an individual who’s considering for their family or for a family that may, let’s say, decide to explore real estate and investing. What advice would you give them on how to create generational wealth?
JACOPO:
Yes, and I will explain with all my heart. United States is the best country in the world. You guys need to be proud of your country and you guys, you need to understand you are in the best country in the world. I possibly tell you because I am Italian 100% and I know how is the other country in the world is other rules, other less opportunity. United States is the best country in the world. What this means is this one, how you create wealth. You need to start first of all from something. Okay, my story, I starting from business and I realized this chain of jewelry over here in Italy where I make multimillionaire at this company. Now, if I go back 18 years or so, I will starting from real estate in United States and what it means. But it means like something really possible, real estate is this one. If you have money or if you don’t have money in real estate, you possible start. Why? Supposedly, you see this show and you are somebody who don’t have money. Okay, but you have time more important and you create your knowledge in real estate. Now, you have these two Vegas, two pillars over here, time and knowledge. You possible go after, find opportunity, deal, starting with maybe single family. But I will suggest to go immediately in the space of multifamily and start to find some opportunity. A lot of people, they don’t know, but the United States exists somebody lend money called hard money lender. What it means, if you find a deal and if you don’t have any kind of money, you will find 100% money for necessarily for your deal in real estate. Now, what it means this one? What stop you is only your mindset because you have time. If you don’t work or you don’t do other kind of business, you have the time and knowledge. You have now the opportunity to go in internet, find the knowledge every way. Read my book, for example, is a lot of deeply and information. And after, find the deal with the strategy I explain in the book, really step by step, not something creative, but something really step by step. And after the money, you have hard money lender or you have investor like me. If you bring me in a deal, I will love to, when you explain how much is the return of the investment, how much is the investment inside, which kind of work you need to do, the RV, I will love to do business. What it means starting from something and starting from real estate, because real estate is the opportunity to leverage, leverage other people’s money. Plus, find really, do if you don’t have experience, immediately money. Why? Because if you find the deal in United States, wherever you are in United States, you will find the money.
CORWYN:
I love that. And that is so true. We talk about that very often. You know, well, matter of fact, let me phrase that. I’ll talk about that very often because oftentimes people put up a barrier when there’s plenty of leverage to get over it. Like, why are you building the wall when it doesn’t even have to be a stumbling block? It doesn’t have to be anything. So Jacopo, first of all, matter of fact, before we quickly get into the end of the day show, so how can people get in contact with you? Where can people reach you at?
JACOPO:
Yeah, they possible find me. First of all, I need your help guys to buy the book because I help one association in Miami called Mano della Caglie. You know what this means? All the donation will go to this association where people from the street, they will have one house and more dignity in their life and all the money will give to them. And they possible buy the book in Amazon with healthyrichandhappy.com or through my website www.healthyrichandhappy.com and through Instagram in Jacapo Iassiello Investor Broker where I share some information, something about the method and my life. This is the place where they possible find me and something I want to share with you. Inside the book, I return to the wealth. I really share something important. Three step is to create wealth, okay? First of all, you need to create money. Second of all, you need to create cash flow. Third, you need to find opportunity in place, in area to appreciate 10, 20x your money. And I will explain a little bit more. First of all, in real estate, you have the possibility to create money. We spoke before with flipping, buy, fix and resell with other people money. When you create something from you, it means like the capital gain. You reinvest the capital gain in the cash flow. How you reinvest the capital gain in cash flow? You possible invest directly in some deal multifamily for yourself or you possible becoming general partner or limited partner in some deal from somebody else. Remember, a lot of people, they becoming multimillionaire with two or three deal in big space or multifamily. This is reality. It’s not something like this. And the third one I explain to inside the book is the part about find land and nobody was told about this, speak about this. Some investor, they keep for themselves. Find land in area where from public record because in the majority of the state, United States, you have the possibility to go and understand which kind of permit they built in the area and find one area where when you do the flipping, create the cash flow and you have money over here in the third part, you invest this land because in the area will be something in the next five years, some expansion of the area. It’s happening in general when you do something like this and you individuate your area, what’s happening in this area where now is maybe a D area but soon will be C, B. Your money immediately, the value of the land go up 10 times and the majority of the time, the city when they have big permit in the area, what they do? They change the zoning. When the change the zoning of the land happening, you possible really do 20x in your money. This is not something crazy. This is something happening every day with some investor. They find the area, study, buy the land when they have normally when you create money in your pocket and this is something really important.
CORWYN:
That I love because again, it goes back to some of what we were talking about earlier about vision, tie all that stuff in together. Jacopo, so we have quickly gotten to the end of today’s show. First of all, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being a part of the Exit Strategies Radio Show family and being on with us today. I love how you’re plugging in so I want to encourage you to keep doing it but for our listeners, I want to encourage them to plug in with you and read the book. Let’s get it. So if you don’t mind, Jacopo, anything else that you want to leave for our listeners today before we wrap up?
JACOPO:
Yes, I will leave your listening with something like this. Everybody, we have struggling in our life. Everybody, we go down and we decide if you want to go up but you have two things really important. In United States, you possible create from zero wherever you want because the states give you this power and the real estate is the best business to go in if you decide to become really a multimillionaire because you think about something crazy but if you structure correctly, if you have something happening in your day, you will have the power. I know 1000% because it’s happening in my life, you possible do and you need to do only one step at the time and you will find the way to becoming wealth and wealth means something different for everybody. wealth is freedom and go after where I want when I want and spend the time with my family for other people means something else
CORWYN:
You know makes perfect sense So again, I want to thank you Jacopo for being on with us today This has been a great show.
It’s been eye-opening But it’s also been confirmation for that mindset that mentality we talked about and we encourage our listeners About how not only to start their day But most importantly how to live their life with a mindset not only of gratitude, but of hope Those things are extremely important So again, I want to thank you for being on what with us for our listeners guys. Look you got some great information That’s what we employ. That’s what we’re here to do. That’s what we bring to you each and every week So I want to first of all most importantly tell you let’s get it. Let’s get connected. Let’s get plugged in and let’s not let this quote-unquote fall by the wayside The second thing I want to do is what I always do which is say to you how I feel put all those things together because for me it is always real which is to tell you that I love you. I love you, and we gonna see you guys out there in those streets
