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I Interviewed the Richest Lawyer in America​

Jun 21, 2025
We went to Orlando Florida and interviewed billionaire lawyer John Morgan where he shared some of the most valuable life and career lessons he has learned throughout his lifetime.


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Asking the RICHEST People in the World How They Got RICH!​

Jul 13, 2025
We went all around New York City and interviewed the RICHEST people in the WORLD on how they got rich. We also asked them about the most amount of money they have made in a year as well as asking for their career/life advice. We interviewed people in a variety of industries such as music, beverage, sports, and more. We have a ton of amazing content on the way so make sure you stay tuned for more content soon!

Asking the RICHEST People in the World How They Got RICH!
 

Started With $3K, Made Millions, Then Lost It All — The Story of John Devaney​

Jul 21, 2025 Hard Knocks Podcast
John Devaney is the definition of resilience. Expelled from private schools, broke in college after his parents’ divorce, and obsessed with making money since day one. His first pitch made him $90,000. By 28, he bought a brokerage firm for $150K and launched United Capital Markets. In year one, he made $5 million. Year two, $25 million. Year three, $45 million.
At his peak, his firm was generating $130 million in revenue and $110 million in profit. Then the 2008 crash hit. He lost over $200 million, but didn’t fold. He rebuilt, launching a $200M fund with $20M of his own money, and delivered over 100% returns in complex bond markets.
Today, he’s not just a power player in finance. He’s also a film producer using his wealth to fund socially driven movies. This episode is a masterclass on taking massive risks, surviving total collapse, and coming back stronger.

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How to Stay on the Road to Wealth in 2025!​

Aug 3, 2025
It is not just bad money habits that keep you poor. There are other things that waste your time, health, and money. I list these things from the least damaging habits to the most damaging habits that keep you poor. If you can avoid the worst ones, you can become wealthy just by doing the right things and let those good financial habits compound over time.


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I Asked Tom Brady How He Made $350 Million​

Aug 4, 2025
We flew out to Chicago to interview the greatest football player of all time, Tom Brady. Tom has won over 7 super bowls in his career and has created multiple business ventures outside of football, his most recent being "Card Vault by Tom Brady". We asked Tom about overcoming adversity and pressure, the best advice he has ever received, and much more. This episode is full of gems, and one of our favorite interviews we have ever done at the School of Hard Knocks.


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How I Built A $1.4 Million/Month AI App At Age 18​

Sep 6, 2025 #CNBCMakeIt #CNBC #howimadeit
Zach Yadegari, 18, is the co-founder and CEO of Cal AI, a calorie-tracking mobile app that uses AI to analyze photos of food. The app launched in May 2024 and has been downloaded 8.3 million times as of July 2025. Now, Cal AI is a 30-person company that brings in roughly $1.4 million in gross profit per month — after the Apple and Google Play app stores take their respective cuts — according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.


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Meet a 23-year-old electrician who was a ‘good student’ but skipped college to join Gen Z’s blue-collar revolution. He makes 6 figures​


Growing up in Concord, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte, Jacob Palmer was a classic academic achiever. “I was a good student,” he says in an interview with Fortune. “In high school, I participated in all types of extracurriculars, student leadership, I did a lot of public speaking. I had all sorts of friends.” But he said something changed during the pandemic. “School looked drastically different doing online classes and Zoom calls. It felt very intangible.” He says he figured out pretty quickly that online college “didn’t work for me. I hated it.”

Palmer said that instead of sticking with college, he tried things out, including a stint at a FedEx warehouse for several months, and a change of scenery at his grandparents in rural Virginia, where he worked at a factory for a few months.

When he returned home, in need of a job, his mom was putting in a hot tub and she mentioned the electrician working on it was “super passionate and loved his job.” Palmer said he sounded him out, estimating that he was about 29 at the time, and liked that he worked for himself. “I had a general interest in working with my hands, fixing and making things, as well as a basic understanding of electrical theory from my time in AP Physics class.” Soon afterward, he started as a full-time apprentice at a small, Charlotte-based contracting firm, earning $15 an hour at first and working his way up the ladder.

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15 minutes in, so far I like what I hear. Uncle Tony does get a bit political in the beginning but it's cool stuff (imo.) Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab. As with anything I post, take it fwiw and dyodd. 47 mins long.

Gold, Silver, Platinum And Auto Parts? - How To Turn Your Hobby Into Financial Security​

Sep 23, 2025 #automobile #investing #survival
As the global economic order continues to spiral into chaos, governments and banks around the world are gathering up as much gold and silver as they can so that they can smoothly transition into whatever financial system evolves to replace the current one. As a result, the prices of these metallic insurance policies continue to set records on a daily basis.

But, on a smaller, more personal scale there are substitutes to these metals that we can use to protect our wealth and produce a stream of revenue and security while at the same time enjoying our automotive addictions.

..Here are several examples of businesses I've built over the years as well as the lessons learned from each that you can take and apply to your own situations and interests while you ride out the economic apocalypse in style, with a smile on your face.

 

I Live In The Arctic Circle — Here's How Much It Costs​

Oct 11, 2025 #CNBC #CNBCMakeIt #relocated
Wanting to see the world, Robert E. Yarber, 41, left the United States and set his sights on Norway. He received a skilled worker visa in May 2022, which he renews each year for about $640. Today, as a bar manager in Tromso — a city about 220 miles north of the Arctic Circle — he earns $26/hour and pays about $1,000/month for his one-bedroom apartment.


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Asking Millionaires How They Got RICH! (Chicago)​

We visited Chicago, Illinois and asked millionaires how they made their millions. We also asked them about the most amount of money they have made in a year as well as asking for their career/life advice. We interviewed people in a variety of industries such as Marketing, Insurance, and Finance. We have a ton of amazing content on the way so make sure you stay tuned for more content soon!


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25 Payday Habits from the 1930s No One Keeps Anymore​

Oct 13, 2025 #1930s #GreatDepression #Frugality
What if everything you owned—your roof, your heat, your next meal—depended entirely on the crumpled cash in your hand?
Step back into 1933, where Friday evening was less a celebration and more a tense, focused ritual. The factory whistle blew, the meager wages arrived home, and the fate of the family was decided in the next hour over a worn kitchen table. Mothers and fathers became disciplined financiers, dividing thin dollars into envelopes: coal before clothing, debt before dessert, and always, rent first. Every fold of currency, every clinking coin, was a deliberate act of defense against hunger, illness, and instability. These weren't budgets; they were the essential war plans for surviving America's darkest decade.


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That's how it is in lean times, all the time.

Been through it. I remember a co-worker borrowing $2 off me to buy a loaf of bread for dinner, his family. I remember scrambling to make the rent - I was reduced, one month, to kiting checks between two accounts, when the Friday payday came five days after the rent was due. Later, forced into moving back in with my parents, I remember the resigned quiet anger my mother felt, as she had to terminate her aerobic dance classes.

And yes, I remember the government cheese.

Those are memories 47-50 years old, now; and Gen X never had to live through them. All the meⒹiuh bloviating, in service of the Chocolate Messiah, about the Worst Economy in the history of history...what we had back in the 1970s, was bad. Nothing like the fake hard times of the Millennials generation.
 
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