Ryan Brown: Why I Quit Medicine to Build a $41M Self-Storage Empire

Ryan Brown: Why I Quit Medicine to Build a $41M Self-Storage Empire

June 25, 2026 · 47 min · Season 3 · Episode 35

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Ryan Brown shares his unconventional journey from medicine to building a successful self-storage empire.

Today, I welcome Ryan Brown to The Investing Secrets Podcast. Ryan's path into real estate was anything but conventional. He grew up in a trailer park, became the first in his family to attend college, and trained as a nurse anesthesiologist at Rush in Chicago before landing a faculty role at USC's Keck School of Medicine. But between long shifts in the operating room and annual surgical mission trips to rural Kenya, Ryan realized he was wired to build something bigger than himself. Today he'...

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