My Worst Investment Ever Podcast

Jonathan Jay has bought and sold businesses for over 20 years, buying from private equity firms and selling to them as well and has also done numerous trade deals. In the last few years, he has brought his knowledge to the world through The Dealmakers Academy , which is a UK leader in training people to buy and sell businesses without risking their own capital. For the first time, he is now teachi...

John Swolfs is CEO at Inside ETFs . Previously, he worked at BlackRock ’s, one of the world’s largest asset managers, iShares team as a business development associate. In his previous role, Swolfs worked closely with both the Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) and Independent Advisor community to help promote the use of ETFs and index investing. Before joining iShares, he worked as a financial...

Sal Daher is an angel investor who invests in technologies that set Boston apart. He is a member of Walnut Ventures and MIT Angels . Sal is a syndicate lead and podcast host at Angel Invest Boston Podcast .   “The market does not pay you for taking an idiosyncratic or company-specific risk. The market pays you for data.” Sal Daher   Worst investment ever Not so much love for the pop Sal as an ange...

Dustin Mathews is the co-founder and Chief Education Officer of wealthfit.com ; an online learning startup focused on teaching all the stuff you never learned in school about money investing and entrepreneurship. He's also the host of the Get Wealth Fit podcast where he's had the chance to get inside the heads of top investors and famous people like Rich Dad Robert Kiyosaki , racing legend Danica...

John Pugliano is the author of The Robots are Coming: A Human's Survival Guide to Profiting in the Age of Automation . He is the host of Wealthsteading Podcast as well as the founder and money manager at Investable Wealth LLC. John’s circuitous career path includes military services, both enlisted and officer, corporate career in industrial sales, and finally, a late-blooming entrepreneur. John ha...

Geoff Gannon is a portfolio manager, podcaster, and investment writer. He manages accounts at Focus Compounding Capital Management , and he co-hosts the Focus Compounding Podcast with Andrew Kuhn. He started writing and podcasting about value investing in 2005, at the ripe young age of 19. Since then, Geoff has written hundreds of articles for Seeking Alpha and Guru Focus . He wrote the Gannon On...

Barbara Friedberg has an MBA and a Master's in Science. She is a veteran Portfolio Manager, FinTech consultant, expert investor, and former university finance instructor. She is editor-author of Personal Finance: An Encyclopedia of Modern Money Management , Invest in Beat the Pros and How to Get Rich. She is CEO of Robo-Advisor Pros , a Robo advisor review and information website. Additionally, sh...

Buck Joffrey is a physician turned entrepreneur and professional investor. He is also the host of The Wealth Formula® Podcast and author of an international best-selling book, 7 Secrets of Eternal Wealth , which focuses on financial education for high paid professionals.   “At the end of the day, I just came into a realization that I really made a big mistake. I can sit here, chase it, spend money...

Deacon Hayes is the founder of WellKeptWallet.com , which reaches over 1,000,000 people per month. He has been a contributor for the US News & World Report , Investopedia , Clark Howard and more. He is also the author of the book, You Can Retire Early! Everything You Need to Achieve Financial Independence When You Want It .   “Opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” Deaco...

Aaron Walker has founded more than a dozen companies over the past 41 years. He attributed much of his success to having surrounded himself with his Mastermind counterparts. Aaron spent a decade meeting weekly with Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, Ken Abraham, and five other amazing entrepreneurs. Aaron is the founder of Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind Group that now hosts 15 groups with national and intern...

Dustin Heiner is the founder of MasterPassiveIncome.com and the host of the Master Passive Income Podcast . Dustin is a real estate rental property investor, who was able to make enough passive income from his business to quit his job when he was 37 years old. With his podcast, books, courses, and coaching, he now helps other people quit their job by investing in real estate rental properties to l...

A graduate of the American Film Institute's directing program, Max Weissberg co-produced and appeared in the feature documentary film, Hotel Gramercy Park , which included cameos by Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, Karl Lagerfeld, and Kanye West. The film earned a jury citation at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and screened on the Sundance Channel for several years. Max’s micro-budget feature film, Summ...

... The consequences of not doing so can be brutal Guest profile Denis and Katie O’Brien decided to create a “ Chain of Wealth ” after having a tough conversation about Katie’s debt that was piling up. She had more than US$200,000 of debt that included student loans, a mortgage, a car loan, and negative equity. After hunkering down and reprioritizing what is important in life, they’ve managed to p...

Dan Ferris is the editor of Extreme Value , a monthly investment advisory service that focuses on great businesses traded at steep discounts. Dan joined Stansberry Research in 2000 and became the editor of Extreme Value in 2002. Since then, he’s earned a loyal following and an impressive track record. Dan counts more than 20 major financial firms and well-known fund managers as subscribers. Dan ha...

Some would say, Rick Nicholson , owner of several franchise businesses is a serial entrepreneur because of the seven restaurants he has owned over the past 13 years. He would say he’s just a guy trying to do the stuff he loves to do while trying to make enough money to survive. He hates the term “serial entrepreneur”. He has a strange combination of skills that include a solid understanding of acc...

Victoria Lynn Weston boasts more than 20 years of experience as an intuitive business consultant working with professionals and business owners to provide insight to help them make better decisions. This business intuition coach is also an entrepreneur who loves voice technology . She’s the founder of Studio Carlton , which produces and develops custom Alexa Skills for professionals and companies....

Kirk Chisholm is a known risk taker when it comes to investing and alternative investments. Being a person of full will and perseverance to know the ups and downs of the market, he has learned a lot through experience – good and bad. Currently, he is a principal and wealth manager at Innovative Advisory Group , an independent registered investment advisor (RIA) in Lexington, Massachusetts, in the...

Raoul Pal is a former hedge fund manager who retired at 36 and is co-founder of Real Vision , a financial media company offering in-depth video interviews and research publications from the world’s best investors. He has run a successful global macro hedge fund, co-managed Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund sales business in equities and equity derivatives in Europe, and helped design the BBC TV program Mi...

David Barnett is a three-time best-selling author, consultant and business coach who has been working with small-business owners for more than 20 years. For the past 10 years, he has been helping people buy and sell businesses. David works directly with clients and produces online education products to teach aspects of small business purchase and sale transactions and local investing.   “(As one p...

Andrew and Chance would like to dedicate this podcast to peace “I stand for life against death; I stand for peace against war.” Pablo Picasso   Picasso’s Dove became a symbol for the Peace movement after it was used to illustrate the poster of the World Peace Congress in Paris in April 1949, part of the series of conferences held at the end of the Second World War (also in Wroclaw, Sheffied and Ro...

Johnny FD (Fighter-Divemaster) grew up in San Francisco, in the US state of California, and quit his job at corporate giant Honeywell in 2007 to move to Thailand, travel the world and work as a professional scuba diver. While in the Kingdom, he started training and fighting professionally in Thai kickboxing. He has since written two books: 12 Weeks in Thailand: The Good Life on the Cheap and Life...

Andrew Sherman is a partner in the corporate department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP , and serves as the corporate office chair for the Washington DC team. He focuses his practice on issues affecting business growth for companies at all stages, including developing strategies for licensing and leveraging intellectual property and technology assets, intellectual asset management and harvesting, and interna...

Todd Tresidder is the author of seven personal finance books with an eighth coming out shortly. He created a course on strategic wealth planning and is the founder of FinancialMentor.com , a popular personal finance site. He is a self-made millionaire and was financially independent at age 35, which was more than two decades ago. Since then he’s been coaching clients on how to do the same giving h...

William Manzanares IV was born and raised in the Tacoma area of Washington State and is an active member of the Puyallup Tribe . He is a serial entrepreneur, having owned and operated successful smoke shops, convenience stores, and restaurants since 2005. William is passionate about helping small business owners as well as struggling readers. To that end he has written I Can’t Read: A Guide to Suc...

Shawn Walchef is a restaurant owner, digital entrepreneur and a proud father. Since 2008, Shawn has owned Cali Comfort BBQ in San Diego County. In order to survive, Shawn knew early on to operate his family restaurant and sports bar like a tech company. Now whether it’s his annual #BETonBBQ “ Turf and Surf” tasting event in August or his expanding catering empire in San Diego, Shawn’s many busines...