My Worst Investment Ever Podcast

Ted Seides ,  CFA, is the son of a teacher and a psychiatrist. Perhaps by genetic disposition, he is passionate about sharing his insights and investing in people. He is the chief investment officer of Perch Bay Group , a single-family office he joined in 2017 to manage a diversified portfolio of direct and fund investments across asset classes. Ted produces and hosts the Capital Allocators Podcas...

Michael Oyster is the founder and CIO of Oyster Capital , a multifaceted investment advisory organization dedicated to providing customized solutions for planners, advisors, investment managers and asset owners to assist in the achievement of all types of investment goals. Previously, Michael served as senior quantitative analyst with options advisory firm Schaeffer’s Investment Research conductin...

David Stein helps individuals to become more confident investors via audio, video, and books. For the past five years, he has hosted the weekly personal finance podcast, Money For the Rest of Us . The show has more than 250 episodes and more than 10 million downloads. David’s upcoming book, Money For the Rest of Us: 10 Questions to Master Successful Investing , will be published by McGraw-Hill in...

Mario Nawfal is the founder of the Athena Group of Companies , a conglomerate that operates in more than 40 countries. He started in 2012 with $300 in the bank selling blenders door to door and built that into a business ( Froothie ) that generated $10m in its second year. Next he built global brand status with Optimum Appliances , a brand he created from scratch. Next he established a range of br...

Lex Sokolin i Lex Sokolin is a futurist and an entrepreneur focused on the next generation of financial services. He is the global fintech co-head at ConsenSys , a blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a decentralized world. Lex focuses on emerging digital assets, public and private enterprise blockchain solutions, and decentralized auto...

Suresh Mahadevan is the CFO of SureCash , a fintech firm in Bangladesh. Prior to that he was group CFO at Digiasia , an Indonesian fintech firm after spending close to 12 years with UBS bank in leadership positions in Hong Kong, India and Singapore, working in the Asian equities business. Suresh has been an angel investor for the past four years, participating in more than 20 investments. He also...

Jen Greyson is one of the top eight women in crypto and is a genius at failure. She’s currently running co.co , a start-up that’s the Airbnb of office space, speaks internationally on topics ranging from AI to being a female tech founder and knows the struggle of being a working parent through the longest summer.   “I should have left sooner, I would have still prospered like I did had I left when...

Douglas Tengdin , CFA, is the chief investment officer (CIO) of Charter Trust Company, where he has worked since 2000. He graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1982, and received his CFA Charter in 1992. He was the founding president of CFA Society Vermont and remains an active volunteer with the CFA Institute. His first job in the investment industry was as a mail boy and securities...

Darryl Tom is a private wealth manager who delivers personalized comprehensive wealth management strategies and solutions to high-net-worth (HNW) individuals. Previously, he was a private banker at DBS and ANZ private banks and an investment manager with HSBC Australia , providing investment portfolio construction across multi-asset classes, including unit trusts, ETFs, equities, global fixed inco...

Jason Bible , aka Mr. Texas Real Estate , is a full-time real estate investor who is thriving after a long journey in the field working with buyers and sellers of real estate. He is the co-host of the live call-in Right Path Real Estate radio show on Houston Business 1110AM KTEK , Monday to Friday at 9am. On top of that, he is the managing partner and chief operating officer at HoustonHouseBuyers....

This podcast was recorded on 25 April 2019, and is dedicated to the birthday of Andrew’s mother, Kathryn Stotz, 81, who was born on that day in 1938. Mrs. Stotz is alive and well and a daily listener of her son’s podcast Scott Carson (aka “The Note Guy”) has been an active real estate investor since 2002, solely focused on the distressed mortgage and note industry since 2008, in which he buys and...

Shaun Rein is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group (CMR), a globally prominent strategic market intelligence firm focused on China. He works with boards, billionaires, heads of state, CEOs and senior executives of Fortune 500 and leading Chinese companies, private equity firms, SMEs and hedge funds, to develop their China growth, political and investment strategies....

Natali Morris is a former network news anchor turned personal finance educator and motivator. Her specialties include personal finance, business, and technology. She is currently a contributor to CNBC and MSNBC where she was previously an anchor, a role she also filled prior to that at CBS Interactive . Her experience includes being a contributor to CBS News and the TODAY show, along with CNN , AB...

Venkatesh is an author, speaker, investor and entrepreneur. He has spent 22 years in the Asian markets in senior roles across listed equities (with JP Morgan and Credit Suisse ), private equity (with Macquarie and AMP ) and corporate strategy (with Masan Group ). He is the co-founder of strategy consulting firm Dhyana Partners, and has served as a director on the boards of several companies. He is...

Sloane Ortel is an explorer and definer of the connections between capital markets and economic/cultural forces. Our guest today is the publisher of The Sloane Zone , “an email newsletter that comes when you least expect it, and makes more sense than it should”. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in English from Fordham University , was one of the youngest registered representatives of Oppenheime...

Tyler Stewart has always been an educator at heart; whether it was his previous life as a stock trader, or his current life as head of investor relations at RealCrowd , an online commercial real estate investing platform with more than U$6 billion in deals, Tyler has made teaching investing fundamentals his life’s mission. This calling led him to the founding of two nationally recognized platforms...

Giacomo Arcaro is one of the most important European growth hackers , with more than 140,000 “crypto-followers” and has been featured in the Financial Times , Forbes , Wired and the Los Angeles Times . He’s had 2-million-euro exits with two start-ups, CercaClienti.it and SocialAutomation.online and is the founder of Black Marketing Guru . Giacomo has now been involved in the world of cryptocurrenc...

Erik Bergman started his career as a professional poker player while still a teenager. At the same time, he founded his first companies. At age 24 he started in 2012 Catena Media , a company that only three and a half years later would be listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange with a US$200-million valuation. He left Catena Media a few years ago and today is just starting up his latest project,  G...

David Keller , CMT, is president and chief strategist at Sierra Alpha Research LLC , a boutique investment research firm focused on managing risk through market awareness, and author of the blog, Market Misbehavior . David calls himself a right-brained person in a left-brained industry and prides himself on his ability to bridge the gap between academic and practical finance. He is past president...

Clayton Morris is a former Fox News anchor who left the No.1 cable news show in its timeslot, Fox & Friends , after achieving financial freedom. Through his Financial Freedom Academy , Clayton now devotes himself to helping others build passive income and achieve financial freedom like he did using methods he had to learn the hard way. After some epic failures, he’s learned how to build a meaningf...

Avery Konda  is all about positive business, impact investing, and #SocialImpactEverywhere. He is 23 years old, a podcast host, and an impact investor in 18 start-ups; all of which have a bottom line or mandate for positive impact. Avery works as the chief community engagement officer for  Tandempark , an online volunteer platform, centralized volunteer portal, and volunteer management software th...

Viola Llewelly n  is the co-founder and president of  Ovamba Solutions , Inc. She oversees innovation, strategic implementation, investor communications, and business development. digital undivided included her as one of only 34 black women in the US to have raised more than US$1 million for a technology company. She is a  TED speaker  and has been lauded as a  Global Technology Pioneer  by the  W...

Gaurav Sharma  holds a post-graduate degree in management from Birla Institute of Management Technology ( Bimtech ), in Uttar Pradesh, India, and a bachelor of science degree from the  University of Rajasthan . He has had a rewarding five years of experience at various multinational companies in the domains of wealth management, investment analysis and portfolio reporting. He is presently working...

Nate Abercrombie lived in Syria for two years trying to learn Arabic before attending graduate school. He had hoped the language skills would help him secure a job in the oil and gas industry. Ironically, he ended up working in the renewable energy industry as a financial analyst. He loved having the opportunity to analyze and research large capital projects, but financial analysis in the wind ene...

Reed Goossens moved to the United States in 2012 to pursue a career in structural engineering, however he then discovered a passion for real-estate investing. With limited funds and no credit, Reed went from purchasing a small duplex to growing his own real estate investing firm, RSN Property Group . Reed now syndicates large multimillion-dollar deals across the US and certainly lives up to the “n...