My Worst Investment Ever Podcast

BIO: Anna Rosling Rönnlund is a Swedish designer who, with her husband Ola Rosling, developed Trendalyzer, interactive software for visualizing statistical information. STORY: Anna and her husband bought a home after moving to the US. A while later, they had to move back to Sweden, so they decided to sell the house. This was during the financial crisis that hit the real estate market badly. So the...

BIO: Susan Frew is a renowned entertaining, and value-driven speaker and thought leader. She has coached hundreds of companies and non-profits to great success. STORY: Susan left an unsupervised employee in charge of her coaching practice. This employee left her with a million dollars in debt. LEARNING: Trust but verify every single employee. Get on-time and accurate monthly financial statements....

BIO: Ridhi Bahl is a leading Astrologer in India with a Ph. D. in Astrology and Vastu. STORY: It wasn’t until Ridhi was found to have an ovarian tumor that she started taking her health seriously. LEARNING: Health is your biggest and best investment. If one door closes, another opens. Don’t let self-pity get out of hand.   “Man is a master of his own destiny. We have the power to change our o...

BIO: Will Basta is the co-founder of ACV - Accelerated eCom Ventures , an e-commerce automation agency and investment management company, the only company in the industry capable of combining logistics, wholesale distribution, and e-commerce growth all into one. STORY: Will felt obliged to follow his family’s steps and went to university as a pre-med student. This left him with over $100,000 in st...

BIO: Shaye Heffernan has a Ph. D. in Economics and has done several IPOs that have surpassed a market cap of a billion dollars. STORY: Shayne lent his friend of 20 years $6 million in the agreement that he’d get a stake in his friend’s business. That business failed, so Shayne never got his money back nor made anything from the friend’s company. LEARNING: Lending money to friends is a terrible ide...

BIO: Brian Portnoy is the founder of Shaping Wealth, a learning technology platform transforming the human experience of money. STORY: Brian joins us again on the podcast. This time he talks about his endeavors in behavioral finance and how he’s helping financial advisors improve their emotional competencies to achieve financial well-being more effectively. LEARNING: Put thought into your financia...

BIO: Tara LaFon Gooch is a 2X business founder and entrepreneur. Before entrepreneurship, she was a corporate sales director who got burnt out on corporate life and wanted to explore more possibilities. STORY: Tara started a business with a partner who didn’t align well with its goals. This saw her do all the work, and she had to quit after realizing this wasn’t a partnership anymore. LEARNING: Ve...

BIO: Adrian Choo is a Career Strategist in Asia and the founder of Career Agility International. Sze-Yen Chee is the Executive Director/Co-founder of Career Agility International and is a top Singaporean career coach. STORY: We look at their book The Great Career Paradox (When Pursuing Career Success May Not Lead To Career Happiness) . LEARNING: Your career is not everything.   “You’re more t...

BIO: Litan Yahav sold a startup, decided to invest a lot of the money he made into real estate - mainly syndications, and encountered a lot of (good) problems managing it. That led him to build a new startup to solve his problems and similar problems of millions like him. STORY: When Litan sold his company, he and his co-founder decided to buy single-family homes in Ohio via a property management...

BIO: Chris Do is a self-described loud introvert, recovering graphic designer, middle child, serial entrepreneur, Emmy award-winning director, educator, and founder of TheFutur. STORY: Chris’s business was based on the West Coast, and they wanted to expand to the East Coast for a bigger market share. So they opened a small office hemorrhaging money and didn’t generate substantial revenue. LEARNING...

BIO: Cesar Hasselmann is an author, mentor, coach, and business consultant. STORY: Cesar started a very successful gas and supermarket distribution network when he was only 16 years old. Unfortunately, about three years later, his country’s president stole public funds and caused most businesses, including Cesar’s, to suddenly collapse. LEARNING: Challenges make you a better entrepreneur. Everythi...

BIO: Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of seven books that have sold over a million copies between them. He’s best known for The Coaching Habit, the best-selling coaching book of the century and already recognized as a classic. STORY: Michael had $5,000 that he wanted to invest. He tasked his wife with finding the most suitable investment option. She found e-trading. They opened an online accou...

BIO: Dr. Robert Glover, coach, speaker, and educator, is a relationship expert with over 40 years of professional experience. STORY: Robert went shopping for a pop-up trailer, and when he found one, he bought it before inspecting it thoroughly. His gut told him this was a terrible idea, but he ignored it. The trailer turned out to be useless to him. He sold it off for half what he’d paid for it. L...

BIO: Shil Shanghavi is a public speaking specialist, storyteller, and highly regarded speaker coach. He is redefining the meaning of public speaking by demonstrating its value across all forms of communication. STORY: Shil’s worst investment was paying for ecstasy for over 15 years. However, this also turned out to be his best investment because he discovered house music while high on drugs. He le...

BIO: Mike Michalowicz leads two new multi-million-dollar ventures as he tests his latest business research for his books. STORY: Mike made huge profits from selling his second business, and his ego as an entrepreneur exploded. He took the gains and decided to fund multiple companies in different industries where he had no experience. They all failed and left him with zero assets. LEARNING: Stay in...

BIO: John Talty is the senior sports editor and SEC Insider at Alabama Media Group. He is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Leadership Secrets of Nick Saban: How Alabama’s Coach Became the Greatest Ever. STORY: John left New York to take a new job in Jackson, Mississippi. He didn’t do any research before he went and was miserable the moment he arrived. LEARNING: It’s OK to move on...

BIO: Aaron Velky is an entrepreneur, author, high-performance coach, and speaker from Phoenix, Arizona. STORY: Aaron felt stuck as an entrepreneur and decided to find a quick-fix investment. He landed on forex trading, which seemed like exactly what he wanted. Aaron never took the time to learn about the trade and lost $56,465 in this venture. LEARNING: Think through an investment before you commi...

BIO: Sean Harper is the co-founder and CEO of Kin, an insurance company built from scratch on modern tech to make it easier and more affordable to insure a home. STORY: When Sean started his first business, things got so hard that when a company offered to buy it, he sold it without a second thought. Ten years later, he still regrets this decision. LEARNING: Believe in yourself. Be systematic when...

BIO: Cam F Awesome is a multi-time National Champion Heavyweight Olympic boxer and former USA National Boxing Team Captain. STORY: Cam invested so much time and effort chasing his dream of going to the Olympics. An avalanche of events stole this dream from him, and now he doesn’t stand a chance of ever going to the Olympics. LEARNING: There are ups and downs in investing. Persevere and be willing...

BIO: Dudu Cearense is an ex-soccer player, financial adviser, and private banker. STORY: Dudu’s worst investment ever was not learning about managing his money when he was a successful soccer player. LEARNING: Invest in learning about money management.   “Learn how to take care of your money.” Dudu Cearense   Guest profile Dudu Cearense is an ex-soccer player, financial adviser, and priv...

BIO: Kim Barrett is a world-renowned million-dollar marketing strategist with a focus on Facebook. Kim is an international speaker and trainer, having taught marketing worldwide and helping businesses grow to six, seven, and even eight figures. STORY: Kim had a successful start to his business. He was bringing in lots of sales, and he felt he needed more staff to handle these sales. The problem wa...

BIO: Rick is the Founder & CEO of ReachOut Technology, which just had its initial public offering. He appears on global media and speaks on stages across the United States as an inspirational speaker, cybersecurity expert, and mindset motivator. STORY: Rick wanted to bail out a struggling friend, so he offered to buy his business. Unfortunately, he didn’t have a legal structure during the acqu...

BIO: Conor Riley is a global executive who has worked in investment banking, private equity, and consumer products. STORY: Conor heard about the Washington Mutual stock from his workout buddy. He invested without doing any research. The stock price dropped significantly when the global financial crisis hit in 2008. Conor thought it was best to buy more. The price never went up. The company finally...

BIO: For over two decades, Dave Clare has been a practitioner who has led multiple businesses in and through commercially and organizationally challenging times. STORY: Dave was trying to fill up his unhappy life and thought investing in a community leadership center was the answer. The center only hemorrhaged money and never brought in any revenue. LEARNING: Don’t buy stuff just because you’re tr...

BIO: Craig Handley is an author of a best-selling book: Hired to Quit, Inspired to Stay: How Focusing on Employee Dreams Built an Exceptional Culture and an Unbreakable Company . He is a musician writing music for artists all over the world. STORY: Craig’s company invested over a million dollars in software that was never used. LEARNING: Find a niche and concentrate on that. Review your financial...