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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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John Morgan (lawyer) - Wikipedia

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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.

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

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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.
 

Leading happiness expert’s morning routine includes a 4:30am wake-up, 60 minutes in the gym and a high-protein breakfast​

The most successful people have morning routines that set them up for greatness. Data shows that the way you structure the start of your day can have significant effects on your energy, creativity and happiness.

Arthur Brooks, a professor who teaches a class about managing happiness at Harvard and author of a happiness column for The Atlantic, has a set of practices that he can pick and choose from each morning to boost his mood for the rest of the day.

“I have used all of my background in behavioral science, and everything I’ve learned about biology as well, to put together a morning protocol that is enhancing of my well-being,” Brooks said on his podcast, “Office Hours with Arthur Brooks.”

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Asking Billionaires How They Got RICH! (Philadelphia)​

Nov 14, 2025
We went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to interview some of the wealthiest entrepreneurs and business people in the country. We 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 real estate, filmmaking, sports, and dentistry. We have a ton of amazing content on the way so make sure you stay tuned for more content soon!

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They sure hate Intermittent Fasting.

Even moar than they hate ivermectin.

Because both of them work. And because the meⒹiuh vermin are PAID to hate both. And other low-profit successful lifestyle changes.
 
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Yah.

I've been paying attention to the Ford Head Drone, Jim Farley, with his vaporware plan to hire "5000 mechanics" at $120k, to solve Ford's "problem."

There's about six problems with this - at least. Starting with, mechanics CAN NOT SOLVE the problem. The Ford Recall Problem is, Mexican and Brazilian engineering!

Yah. They fired an army of senior mechanical and electrical engineers in Dearborn - who were approaching retirement age, although still some years out. They didn't just replace them with young kids who know nothing; they replaced them with LATINO kids out of FOREIGN "engineering colleges" who obviously know less than nothing.

That's Problem One. Outsourcing design and engineering. Anyone who knows anything about auto-engine design, can see the crackpot designs of new Ford engines - like a timing BELT (rubber) that runs bathed in CRANKCASE OIL. Inside the crankcase. The belt WILL fail; and when it does, it's engine out and a bench rebuild. Even NEW, most of their cars are not worth the $10k-plus that that costs.

Okay. Now, FORD doesn't hire mechanics. Ford DEALERS do. They are paying about $12 an hour, for an ASI certified technician. AFTER the new tech has vocational skill, and pays for his certification and his tools...the tool kit will cost $10k or more, including the various data-port readers and Ford proprietary tools.

What Farley would do IF HE WERE SERIOUS, would be, to launch apprenticeships in Ford dealerships. Ford would pay the dealers to pay the kids, while the kids learn. And Ford could pressure dealers to up the pay of mechanics.

AND pay FAIRLY on the reimbursement of these recall jobs.

Koledge is now irrelevant - it's a Woketard stamping factory.

But we need a lot of work, including a return of apprenticeships, to move young people into NEEDED jobs and roles.
 
10 Things We Can Learn From Warren Buffett That Have Nothing to Do With Money: Life lessons from the Oracle of Omaha as he retires as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO. (Morningstar)
 

15 THINGS RICH RETIREES DON'T WASTER THEIR MONEY ON​

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I don't think this guy's intentionally full of fecal expulsion; but he's obviously a believer in the Stawk Industrial Complex. He yammers on about "investments" that "pay." What, a P/E of 89? A stonk like Berkshire-Hathaway that pays NO dividends?

What does he think of the Grate Taking? (Spoiler: He almost-certainly dismisses it.) While he, or his firm, do NOT deliver physical stawk shares...not that I have faith in pieces of paper anymore, anyway. You will own nothing, and like it. We, the Esquire-Chaos Class, will own everything - and we have a new technology, a money-printer, to do it.

Yes, his cautions on impulsive spending are valid. But I can get the same wisdom from Aaron Clary (Enjoy The Decline; and a proponent of Minimalism). Avoid timeshares? Anyone, at this late stage, even CONSIDERING a timeshare deal, is just beyond our help.

Bottom line is, with economic collapse slowly happening, slowed moar with money-printing and the Economics of War...with all this lunacy going on, there IS no safe place to put money. Essentially, there is no money. Certainly I have none for this credentialed automaton pushing the thieving tools of the Elites; the schemes they use to extract Little People's last bits of wealth.
 

50-year-old carpenter bought 5 acres of land in upstate New York for $27,000 and built 3 cabin rentals: I wanted to give my kids a ‘head start’​

Chris Broomfield, 50, had been a carpenter contractor for decades when he decided he wanted to focus on building a future for his family.

“I realized that carpentry is a knowledge and experience-based. I couldn’t really hand that down to my kids,” Broomfield tells CNBC Make It. “So I needed to build something that at least would give them a head start on something to borrow against or something that creates additional income.”

In 2015, Broomfield and his wife bought a five-acre property in Remsen, New York, for $27,000. It was close to where Broomfield grew up and not too far from a property his brother owns nearby.

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Always beware the Fake Nooze. I know Remsen very well. I know Gnu Yuck Shitte very well.

Remsen is close to the border of the Adirondack Park. I don't know what that has done to land prices, in recent years - the Park region, although half of it is held privately, is micromanaged by the APA, the overseeing authority. Permits to cut down trees - on your own land.

Land in areas within the park limits - in the villages, Old Forge, Blue Mountain, Indian Lake, Lake Placid - have just exploded, for a long reason I'd listed elsewhere. But land OUTSIDE the park - Remsen is almost midpoint between Old Forge, a crossroads, and Utica, once an important city, now Detroited. Land use is controlled; bureaucracy is rampant, and taxes are unchecked.

Other end of the state, relatives just sold a rental property that was in our family for 60 years. Nice, quaint cedar cottage - natural varnished planking interior, beamed ceiling. Built into a hillside all those years ago, when you could do such a thing.

I asked the seller what he thought the buyer would do.

"Clam it," he said. "They can't get and Occupancy Permit - the septic system isn't permitted anymore. It was grandfathered in, but now it has to tie into the sewer line up the hill." About forty feet straight up.

I was watching to see building permits, but of course, like all police states, New York likes to work in darkness. But shure-nuff, a new Gurgle Earf image for the place came out - even allowing for 12 months, that was fast work, to demolish the place, pull out the foundation, and put in a McMansion down that hill, complete with tennis court, in record time.

Only the very rich can afford to own property there. My relations are rich, but not rich enough. I credit them for having the good judgment to time the top of the market - $1 million for PROPERTY, with a structure that they would demolish!

As to the article: Not only do they try so hard to make their favorite Eastern Leftist sump, Gnu Yark, sound good, they're beating a tired old drum - this guy's gonna get Air BnB rich.

Not anymore. THAT crap has peaked, too. Now it's ripoff artists, offering shoddy property with hidden charges, often fake damage claims, and MUCH moar expensive than just getting a hotel, even a suite.
 

Emil Barr - Wikipedia

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I'm 22 and worth $25 million. I don't regret sacrificing sleep, friendships, and college parties to get here.​

  • Emil Barr, 22, started a company in his college dorm and is worth over $25 million.
  • He said he spent most of his time at college working and has no regrets.
  • Barr said he still works around the clock, but has optimized his life so he has more time for family.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 22-year-old Emil Barr from Ohio. Business Insider has verified Barr's claims, including his net worth. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
When I wrote that maintaining a work-life balance will keep you mediocre in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in August, I didn't think my views were that controversial.

I built my first company, Step Up Social, from my dorm room during my 2021 and 2022 sophomore and junior years at Miami University.

I received thousands of comments beneath the article and on social media on the three-and-a-half hours I slept on average each night, the classes I skipped, the friends I lost, and how I outsourced everything nonessential, including cooking food, meaning I gained 80 pounds.

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STOP Thinking You NEED a Job! Society Wants You Dumb & Broke​

Dec 6, 2025

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00:00 Why Your Job Keeps You Poor
09:21 Don't Listen To the Naysayers
16:54 What's Riskier? Having a Job or Starting a Business
18:21 Now Could Be The BEST Time in History To Start a Business
 

I Lost Everything… Then Got Rich in Dubai | Dariush Soudi​

Dec 26, 2025 Hard Knocks Podcast
Dariush had the life most people chase: money, status, a growing empire. Then one night, men walked into his home and put a knife to his neck. They didn’t just threaten him. They threatened his kids. The fear didn’t end when they left — it followed him into a heart attack, isolation, and the collapse of everything he built. With his bank accounts frozen and his world shrinking, he made a decision most people never recover from. He walked away, landed in Dubai with $750, and started knocking doors like a nobody. No safety net. No perfect plan. Just sales, values, and brutal personal accountability. He built again — bigger — stacking companies by solving real problems and charging what results are worth. This episode is about rebuilding after trauma, pricing with self-worth, and choosing time over ego. Because the real flex isn’t money. It’s earning a second chance and not wasting it.

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I Interviewed the Richest Man in Dubai!​

Dec 23, 2025
We went to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to interview Muhammad Binghatti, one of the richest men in the country. As one of Dubai’s leading real estate visionaries, he’s built a powerhouse brand and multi-billion-dollar developments across the city. If you want to learn what it takes to build at the highest level, scale iconic projects, and hear insights you won’t find anywhere else, stay tuned, this video has a ton of gems!

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Dubai’s 'rockstar architect': Meet Muhammad Binghatti, man behind world’s most iconic buildings | World News - The Times of India

Middle East News: Discover Muhammad Binghatti, the innovative CEO, architect, and brand author behind Dubai's most iconic buildings, as he transforms real estate through designed identities and branded residences.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
 

Do Not Buy A House… Here’s How To Get Rich | Todd Nepola​

Jan 3, 2024 Hard Knocks Podcast
Todd Nepola is the President and Founder of Current Capital Group, a commercial real estate investing and property management company. Todd started out as a stockbroker in the 90's and at the age of 25 he invested everything he owned into his first commercial real estate property. After Todd acquired his first property he was hooked and went on to buy hundreds of millions worth of commercial real estate. In this podcast, Todd walks us through his early years/career and gives out the framework anyone can use to start investing in real estate. This episode is full of golden nuggets that anyone can apply to their life and journey as an investor.

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Still pushing Dubai. Where alcohol is forbidden (qat is fine) and the women are bundled in burlap. Where laws don't apply to the Royals or Elites close to them. Where, when you take a "job" there, at anything lower than upper-management, you will find your passport immediately confiscated and your right to leave, or to leave a miserable job (most of them are miserable) or exit the country...such options are non-existent.

I'm basing that on alt-news reports in the past of young people who have fallen for the "dream" of working in Dubai. Nope, no links. DYODD.
 

Asking Hong Kong Millionaires How They Got RICH!​

Dec 30, 2025 #shorts
We went to Hong Kong, China to interview some of the wealthiest entrepreneurs and business people in the city. We asked them about the most amount of money they have made in a year, as well as for their career and life advice. We interviewed people in a variety of industries such as property development, product manufacturing, and crypto. We have a ton of amazing content on the way, so make sure you stay tuned for more coming soon!

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26-year-old lives in Manhattan on $53,000 a year—here's how she makes it work: 'I just don't spend a lot of money'​

This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which examines how people earn, spend and save their money.

Living in New York City's Manhattan borough on $53,000 a year isn't easy.

For Eileen Tyrrell, a bookstore manager who lives with two roommates in the pricey Chelsea neighborhood, making it work means saying no in a city seemingly built for spending. In Manhattan, a single adult needs about $68,000 a year just to cover basic necessities, before taxes, according to the MIT Living Wage Calculator.

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Maybe his first bit of advice should be, choose parents rich enough to live in Lake Tahoe. Where he admits he started.

Success isn't hard when your whole neighborhood is filled with eager mentors...yes, a lot of rich people are idle and conceited and not-bright; others are go-getters and are willing to help likeable kids along.

He made it; I'm happy for him; but I don't think he spent a lot of time worrying about making the rent when he was 19 and at the Lake Tahoe McDonalds.
 

46-year-old former U.S. special forces officer is now a startup CEO—his cybersecurity company has raised $22 million​

At age 46, startup founder Gene Yu seems to have lived several lives in one.

Before he started his own company, he was a Division 1 tennis player, graduated with a computer science degree from the United States Military Academy, commonly known as West Point, served as a “Green Beret” in the U.S. Army Special Forces, led the rescue of a family friend from a hostage situation and authored a book.

Today, he is also the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup Blackpanda which has raised over $21 million to date, according to an official company announcement.

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