F*ck-up Fridays

We all screw up—even our heroes. Hear their biggest mistakes, how they recovered and what we can learn to avoid the same.

F*ck-up Fridays is a education podcast hosted by Dave Myron, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dave Myron hosts F*ck-up Fridays, a education show with 14 episodes published.

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  Episode #14

  Luz Ramirez | Verbal OK, Public burn | Ep 14 | February 6, 2026

  Feb 6, 202636 minS1

  <p>Luz Ramirez predicted exactly what would happen when leadership slashed her department in half: families waiting nine hours, staff working until midnight, total chaos. She documented it, warned her boss, and was told "we've got your back." Then her supervisor went on live TV and said she had no idea what happened and ultimately blamed Luz. In this episode, she shares how that public betrayal became the catalyst for building bulletproof systems and processes that she's now using to scale RV parks, transitional housing for domestic violence survivors, and affordable housing developments funded almost entirely by grants. If you've...

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  Episode #13

  Owen Mecham | Love Big, Think Big | Ep 13 | January 23, 2026

  Jan 23, 202643 minS1

  <p>Owen Mecham spent 24 years building automotive software: selling over 25 million cars through systems he helped create at Carvana. Then a milkshake triggered trigeminal neuralgia, the most painful disease in medicine. Two brain surgeries later, Owen shares why he wouldn't trade that dark chapter, how losing everything before his honeymoon set up his entire career, and the mindset shift that lets you find gratitude before hindsight kicks in. If you've ever wondered whether your current struggle is actually positioning you for something better, this one's for you. </p><p><br></p><p>Follow him on Instagram: @theowenmecham</p><p><br><...

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  Kyle Karges | Default to Yes | Ep 12 | January 16, 2026

  Jan 16, 202640 minS0

  <p>Kyle Karges has been in real estate for 18 years but his biggest lesson didn’t come from a win. After trusting a contractor for seven years, Kyle got burned… and discovered the real difference between trust and verify. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Kyle breaks down how he recovered without chasing revenge, how “default yes” transformed his partnerships and growth, and how he’s intentionally building a family business by teaching his kids real estate early. <br>If you’re scaling flips, co-living, or any operator-heavy business, this is your playbook for trusting people without giving away the key...

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  Io Sunwoo | Tunnel Vision | Ep 11 | January 9, 2026

  Jan 9, 202642 minS0

  <p>Io Sunwoo is an LA-based affordable housing developer using an infill-lot strategy to create dignified housing for seniors, foster-youth transitions, and workforce residents. In this episode, Io shares a recent (and expensive) mistake: delegating key lending and negotiation details to a partner, ignoring red flags, and getting pulled into an extension-and-sunk-cost spiral that ultimately killed the deal, and burned hard earnest money along the way.</p><p><br>We unpack the real lesson: the line between smart delegation and giving away your decision-making power. Io walks through the recovery, hard conversations about trust, resetting capacity, rebuilding process, and how...

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  Steven Loewer | Drowning In Risk | Ep 10 | January 2, 2026

  Jan 5, 202629 minS0

  <p>What happens when one “great” borrower turns into a multi-million-dollar liability?<br>In this episode, I sit down with Steven Loewer, a veteran private lender and multifamily investor with over $200M in transactions, to unpack his most expensive mistake: getting too deep with a single borrower.</p><p><br>What started as a handful of successful fix-and-flip loans quietly snowballed into nearly $5 million of exposure, as timelines slipped, budgets blew up, and life events pulled the borrower off the rails. The deals weren’t bad but the concentration risk was invisible … until it wasn’t.<br>Steven breaks down:</p><p><br>H...

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