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If you don't understand money, you're never going to make more of it because understanding money is like speaking a language. How are you going to speak to somebody in Spanish and had communicate and win at that relationship if you guys don't speak the same language? So I want people to speak the language of money. Let me tell you one way to know if you're financially literate today. Do you really understand the difference between debit and credit cards and why you should really never be using debit cards?

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Cody, it's great to have you back. And you know what's really fun is when you met someone, you hit it off, and then you're hanging out again. It just feels like normal and easy and all the rest of it. I know, same. I want to start with something that I think everyone's thinking about. And I'm fascinated by it because a lot of us start to believe the media. And we read articles, we see the news, we see headlines, and we assume that now is not a great time to make money. And We keep saying things like, when the market's better, when the market shifts, it's a terrible time to buy property. It's a terrible time. And the funny thing is that rhetoric just continues. So What should people think about right now when it comes to money?

Well, first, I think you got to be honest about the fact that it's hard out there and that it's real. All the things that you're feeling about money and finance right now are real. Wages have been the same, really, since you and I were born. It hasn't really increased. Really? Yeah. I mean, if you go back and you go to, let's say, back to Dave Ramsey's days, who is a friend, and I think highly of. But if you go back to Dave Ramsey, when Dave was working, he would tell you today that you should buy a house. That's the number one thing that you should do. You should own a house, you should own your property. Well, the problem with that today is that our wages have increased 2X in his lifetime, but housing prices, well, they've increased by 9X in his lifetime. You cannot really afford the same things that the previous generation thought of as totally normal. Their construct might not work for our generation. One, I think it's important to realize that it is hard out there. Second, though, is I think we got to go back to what Warren Buffett says, which is be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

And it's really hard to do. It hurts in our gut. But today, all around us, things are starting to go on sale. And what we have to try to do is figure out During this time period, how can I start to get a little piece of it? Housing prices in Austin are down 30 %. This is really just since I bought a house a year ago. And so there is actually sales happening all around us, and I think we got to be prepared for it. But before we can buy things, we got to have enough money to do it, and we got to know a little bit about money in order to make more of it. I think we should talk about, too, yes, it's hard right now. Yes, things are in sale. You are not crazy, but you can make money in any market. And one of my favorite quotes from Baren Ross child, one of the richest guys in the world, creator of industry in the US, is buy when there's blood in the streets, even and especially when the blood is your own. That is a hard visual way to realize that actually real money is made when the market feels tough.

Yeah. Actually, right now, even though the market is tough, we shouldn't be discouraged and waiting for the market to be good. This should be the time that we actually double down and listen to your advice. Yeah.

I was looking at an NFT yesterday that was sold for $60 million in the height of the NFT land. It is worth $19,000 today, $60 million to $19,000. It felt good during that time, didn't it? Everybody was like, We're making money. We've got all this extra stuff. But what What actually happened is we bought things at overpriced assets, and now we're left with assets that are underpriced. The opposite happens in this market. And so right now is the time, I think, to put up your little spidey sense and start saying, Well, everybody else is panicking. Where can I start to make some smart moves? Because there's always money and opportunities, but definitely you want to buy when things are on sale.

Should people even be dreaming or thinking about wanting to own a home anymore?

I think that owning a home as an investment right now today is mathematically not a smart decision. For the first time in my lifetime, the numbers say that homes today, where you have an interest rate of 5 to 8%, you have a 3 million home shortage in the US, you have flat wages, and you have this increase of home prices. The math just is a math in. And so today, I don't think you should feel like you're not an adult. You don't live the American dream. You're a failure. If you don't buy a house, you might actually just be really financially intelligent. Rent and go negotiate your rent prices right now, by the way, because there's a lot of excess in the market. They want to keep you. And you might actually be making an incredibly smart financial decision. So don't let people make you feel bad if you're not doing what the American dream adult thing used to be. The market's changed.

Yeah. You've already shared some really powerful advice for right now. Even the idea that now is a great time to go and negotiate your rent, now is a great time to go and think about finding places to potentially purchase property if you are. What should be people thinking about doing right now when it comes to making money that you couldn't have been doing a year ago that's very different now?

Yeah, that's a great question. Well, first, what I would think about today is I think you got to first understand some baseline financial literacy. You and I were talking about this. They say the average American reads at a sixth grade reading level. They say the average American actually understands finances at about a high school level. We're taught, and you remember this in high school, we're taught all the way up to budgeting. Back in our day, probably the kids don't do it this way anymore, but you used to have checkbooks, right? Now everybody knows how old I was, and you have to balance your checkbook. How do you do that? A little ledger. That's actually where we're capped. I think first, what I want people to do is realize that if you don't understand money, you're never going to make more of it because understanding money is like speaking a language. How are you going to speak to somebody in Spanish and communicate and win at that relationship if you guys don't speak the same language? It's very hard, right? I want people to speak the language of money. I think about this in small ways.

Let me tell you one way to know if you're financially literate today. One way might be, do you really understand the difference between debit and credit cards and why you should really never be using debit cards? Everybody talks these days about how credit cards are bad, right? Well, credit cards are bad if you don't pay off your payment every single month, if you allow big interest rates to stockpile, and if you use it as a I want things as opposed to I need things. Credit cards are bad. But debit cards are actually worse. They don't allow you to build credit. And credit, good credit in this country is the underpinning of wealth. Debit cards do not allow that. They also don't give you any points or perks or cashback. And then you're less protected, actually, with a debit card. So if somebody steals your debit card and goes and charges things, the bank goes, I don't know, that's your money. Don't really care. If you go and you charge a bunch of things on your credit card and there's fraud, what do you do? Two clicks, they erase it, right? They ship you a new card.

And so I think this generation was so tormented by credit is bad, debt is bad, don't have it. Well, the people who are the richest in the world, they all have some debt, just good debt as opposed to bad debt. So where I want you guys to start is actually before you even think of making more money, let's understand the language of money, right?

I'm so glad we're starting there. It's brilliant. And I It's a personal experience of this. So I grew up in London, where it's not the same set up. It's similar, but it's not exactly the same. The whole structure is not based on credit as strongly. And I was trained to believe you only use a debit card. And so I used that my whole life. When I came to the US and I moved here, for the first year I lived here, I only lived, and I didn't have a lot of money, so I was living just on a debit card. And then when I wanted to finally get a car, I was thinking about having an apartment, whatever it was, I couldn't get anything because I had no credit score. My credit score was nonexistent, and it hit me like a ton of bricks because I couldn't believe it that I'd finally done good with my life, but I couldn't actually exercise any of it. So walk me through the myths about credit cards and debit cards that people can solve right now. Is there a special credit card they should be getting? Is there one that's better?

What should they be looking out for? What does APR mean? Walk me through the hidden things behind credit cards that we all feel stupid about when you see an ad and you're like, I have no idea what that means.

Yeah, it's so true. I had an employee, actually, Christian, who's from the UK, too. And we were ridiculing him mercially, actually, because he only had a debit card to pay for things. And I didn't even know that the UK was completely different.

No, there are credit cards, but it's not- He said it's not normal.

I was like, You're a 28-year-old man. You don't have a credit card? He was like, You need to travel more, Cody. I was like, Sorry. But then we got him a credit card so he could start establishing credit here. But moral of the story is, here's, I think, the couple first steps to financial freedom. If you want to set up your kid for success, you actually want them to get a credit card really early. Doesn't so much matter what type of credit card. I'm not the points guy where I like to operationalize and optimize every aspect of a credit card. I think that is almost more work than trying to make more money. But I think if you go from any of the major banks, there are a lot of rules around credit cards, so they're really not allowed to mess with you so much on interest rates. There's a lot of protections for consumers. So don't stress too much about which one. Which one seems like it has some nice perks for you, and you can get the most amount of money that you need. Cool. So that's step one. And if you can do that for your kids when they're in high school, they will actually have more access to the first pillar, I think, of wealth, which is resources.

We all know what's the saying, takes money to make money. If you come from nothing, well, you can start actually building up your resource pile just from your credit, which you can start at a young age. You don't need to be rich to do that. Then after resources, you pile on knowledge. The rich pass on how to invest. We need to start doing that to our next generation. Then you pass on wealth accumulation. That's where you start to pile on your own money. Then finally, you pass on the ability to invest, to continue to move cyclically your money around and make it for you. But that's where I would start. It's like you start with a credit card. You have a debit card really just because you want to get cash out sometimes if you're going to the club and buying drinks or whatever people do these days that are cooler than me. That's where I would start. Then I would move to this next level of, okay, if I have some credit, now we need to focus on earning. So how do I make more money? But I think most people skip that first step because credit is scary.

Listen, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's partner, obviously very famous dude, but he has a line I love, which is, Men only go broke by three things. It's whiskey, women, and leverage. Leverage means debt, right? Warren Buffet gave him a little adage to it at the end, and he goes, I think actually what my friend meant to say was, it's really just the last one. It's really just leverage. Warren Buffett, one of the richest guys in the world, said he doesn't like debt. But here's the problem, Jay. He's highly levered. He has a massive amount of debt. Why? Because he has debt on assets and other people's things as opposed to personal guarantees on his own. He's not mortgaging his house to buy these companies. He is raising debt on a company in order for it to make more money. And so if you don't understand all that right now, that's where I want you to dive in a little bit more. Maybe you can start with a debit credit card.

Yeah, no. I think it's so important to understand debt. And you see that when you see a celebrity buy a new home and you realize they borrowed to buy that home, they didn't buy it in cash, even though they have the cash, and it's available to them. And I think that idea is so foreign. So if someone's thinking about starting a business right now or wants to grow a business, and the number one thing you hear is, Well, I don't have any money. I don't know how to fund it. How much do you actually need to start a business?

I think you never suffer from a lack of money, you suffer from a lack of knowledge on how to get money. The richest people in the world, they never use their own money entirely to buy things. And if you can sit on that for a second and let that sit in, then I think you can really open up your eyes to the fact that all around you, there are deals right now, and there is money that is waiting for the actually rarest of things, which is a human who wants to work really hard and has a good idea where to put the money. And so you actually don't need money to start a business. I don't think you need it at all. What you need is some access to it. And so next week, I'm going to the SBA, the Small Business Administration. And they just ran out all of these new programs for new business owners, where they will, one, do grants, where they give you money. A grant means you take this money, you don't have to give it back. The government is going to give it to you, maybe because you're a minority or a woman or have a core needs business.

They also do a ton of loans. They'll loan you 90% of the purchase price of a business if you need one. All around us are also people who want to invest. And so there's a website called Percent. And on Percent, if you have a small business and you need some debt for a small business, you can actually get debt from your small business through a website. But I think the most important part is not just tactically, it's like, can I change my belief to believe that money is all around me and I do not need to have only my own money in order to get rich? I want more people to think that way. It's hard. I get it.

Do you think everyone needs a side hustle right now?

I have two thoughts. One, I do not believe that you have to go all in on the thing that you want to do in life. I think that is told you by people who had survivorship bias. It worked for me, so it's going to work for you. And what do we know to be true? 90% of startups fail over any five-year period. I actually think that the way to You never have risk in building a business. If you want to do a startup and have no risk, I think you keep your job, you do really well at that job while you're doing it, you use your salary to fund your side hustle or your next venture, you keep moving forward on it until your side hustle matches the cost of living that you have, your cash flow, and then you leave your business or your job to go start your business once you have enough money from inflow of the business. I think we've told too many people and idealized this idea of entrepreneurship when in fact, I had three or four businesses fail. If I had just left my job that paid me good money, I would have been sleeping on somebody's couch.

And so you can have a side hustle, but please keep it on the side for a minute until you make sure it's not just a passion project, it is a profit project.

Yes. And I think that's the smartest wisest advice. I'm in the same boat. When I started doing what I do today, I had a full-time job. It didn't pay great, but it I paid enough to get by. It paid my bills. It means I wasn't creating from a place of stress. And when you're creating something new from just stress, it can be quite dehabilitating. Now, sometimes stress can be the greatest motivator. It can propel you. It can be your launch pad, but you got to get it right. Too much stress and you fall apart, too little stress and you stay in the golden handcuffs. That's right. And I think that's where I see a lot of people stuck today is I meet a lot of people who I feel have tied on the golden handcuffs, but not using that as the investment. So it's like, I want to have a lifestyle with the money I make. I don't want to use it to build a new life. Does that make sense?

Yes. Well, I mean, there's a lot of data out there that actually backs... There was a study that was done on, should you leave your job to do a startup, or should you stay in your job and do your startup at the side? And what the data tells us from hundreds of individuals that went through this is you have a 33 % higher likelihood of your startup succeeding if you have an income source while you're doing it. Because we make better decisions when we're not in flight or fight, when we can actually downregulate. You know all about this. Thankfully, there's so many tools like what you do that teach people how to downregulate, and sometimes you can't control it. But if you can control that your decision making is better by keeping an income source, oh my gosh, why wouldn't you? Because being a CEO is really, in my opinion, it's like three things. If you want to be a great CEO, it is number one, you have to be able to sell a dream so big that other talent wants to come alongside you. They think that their vision is bigger under yours. Then number two, you have to make great diagnosis.

What's happening in the world around us, just like a doctor would, to understand what's good or bad. And then you have to have great decision making on top of the diagnosis. And so if you can hire great talent, diagnose well, but you make bad decisions because you're scared, that's not going to lead to a successful startup, in my experience.

I I love those top three qualities of a CEO. I wanted to ask you the opposite. What allows an employee to be great and to make more money as an employee?

If you want to make more money as an employee, number one, you have to understand how much money you make the company today. If you don't understand what your value, dollar amount is, you bring into your business, you should probably go talk to your boss and say, Hey, I'd like to understand how I make you money. If you had to quantify how I make you money, could you help me understand that? One, your boss is going to be like, This is a That's amazing. Nobody's ever asked me this before. And then two, once you understand that, you need to figure out, How could I make more money for the company? Once you can understand how you can make more money, you can say, Well, what do you think the profits of this business are? If we bring in a $100 sale, do we keep 20 bucks of it. And if I figure that out, then I can go, okay, I made you 100 bucks. We kept 20 of it. If I do that, could I keep five of that 20 I brought you? And then you actually know how to negotiate for your salary. And And a lot of times this isn't always possible if you're in a big corporate job.

But more often than not, there is money available for those who understand how to ask for it because they've earned it.

I love that. That step-by-step process is so brilliant because you're so right. If someone ever came up to me and said, How do I make money? And how do I make you more money? Oh, my gosh. It's like the best thing ever because it's so often not thought about. And you don't realize. And like you said, there may be certain companies where you can't have that conversation. But today, I feel like there's just so many more spaces to actually have that connection.

That you can. Yeah. And think about it from your boss's perspective. They hired you for a reason because they thought that you would make their life easier and that you would make the business better. And I think a lot of times you leave your job before you get all of the money out of your job you could have. And I did this so often in the beginning. I think you'd make way more money if you thought that you could have a conversation with your boss and say, Man, this isn't exactly working how I thought it would be. I think I could be of use over here as well. I'd love some additional responsibility here, maybe less here. Could I make you more money over here? If I prove myself here, could we do less here? You leave the devil that you know for the devil that you don't often. And when that happens, I think you'll actually lose more money than you anticipate it. It used to be back in the day, you made about 20 to 25 % more money every time you job hopped to the next job. These days, I actually think that there is a real value you can have to increase your salary or overall pay by more like 25 to 50 % if you stay and you diagnose, as opposed to you skip and then you guess.

Yes.

And so I would highly recommend that you not do what I did at the beginning of my career, which was skip, skip, skip, and never give the place a chance to pay me more. Yeah. Because they might want to.

Absolutely. And what you miss when you skip is you actually miss the skills skills of negotiating, up managing, learning new skills and abilities at that place. You're so right. And you're so vulnerable for even saying that because you've done so phenomenally well. But it's such a good lesson for people to stand because in the carrot of a couple of extra, whatever it may be, you're moving across, but you're actually losing the skills. One thing I painted up recently, which I haven't fully presented to my team yet, but it's been something I've been putting together for how, and I know you have something on this, too, so I want to share mine with you to get your thoughts on it. I've been building this framework of how to talk to my team about what helps you grow at the company. And I used a very, very simple analogy and metaphor of beginning at the brick layer. So the brick layer is usually at the level with which you come in. And the brick layer knows I have to lay this brick, and I've got to lay it next to this one, and I know the pattern, and I can lay a brick, and maybe I can build a wall, maybe.

The next level up is a builder. You actually know how to build a wall. You know how to paint the wall. You know how to put up scaffolding. You know how to connect walls. You can do a bit more, and you're a builder. Above from that is something I call the architect. Now, the architect is not just good at building a wall. They could actually go and build me and design me a new part of the business, an extension of something, a new idea. And that's how I want people to grow. And then the highest stage that I've come to is the city planner. This person is not just building me one home. They're planning the whole city of the ecosystem of how everything falls into place. And so I'm communicating this to my team now because I'm like, I want all of you to graduate from brick layers to builders to architects, to city planners. And that is what's attached to more money. It's not more effort. It's not more work. It's not being more busy. It's not doing more stuff. These all come with a different type of vision. They come with a different strategic element.

They come with more care. They come with a wider scope. It isn't just about, Oh, but I worked more hours this year, or I put in more time. Didn't you see how much effort I put in. And I think those things don't necessarily result in more success for a company. What's your thoughts on that?

I think it's perfect. One, we all want to feel like we can see a future at an organization. And I think we all want to make money, but we also really want to know that we're getting better, and we want to know that we're going to get rewarded for all the hard work we're going to put in over the long term. And so if you can show people a vision for the future, I think that's incredible. I totally agree. We also talk about it as This isn't quite the same because a bricklayer is in many ways just as important as the city planner. One other way we talk about it is called the NPC ladder. We talk about how there are video games, right? In the video games, You have the MPCs, which are these people that stay in the same spot and repeat the same things, like find the dragon, find the dragon. Some people choose to stay in the same spot and to stay as an NPC for much of their life and not to move to each level of the game where you become not the main character next, you're a supporting cast member, and then you might be one of the main characters, and then you might be the protagonist, et cetera.

At the very top of my best performers, where I say the people who will be paid the most, maybe eventually get equity, well, They're the main characters. That means that they actually change the script, they move forward the company overall. I love that. I think for most of us, there's a saying that you don't leave bad jobs, you leave bad leaders. I like to try to remember that often in my company, is that when somebody leaves, that's a reflection on me and my team, that they didn't see a way for them to become a city planner, and that they didn't see a way for them to come to the next level. I do think about that often.

It's almost like it's a validation of all of these are needed, but there's a ladder. And the ladder isn't just more time and more work. No. Which often is the mistake.

Well, I think you're really right. I mean, today, I think there's a hustle culture that happens about hard work will equal wealth. That is actually not true at all. We have seen over time, if hard work would equal wealth, then the person who runs my laundromat would make just as much as Jeff Bezos. We know there's an incredible video out there I can't remember who did it, but it basically shows for the 60 seconds that Jeff Bezos is in the video, how much money Jeff Bezos is making every single second as he walks around the factory. It shows that he makes, let's say, I don't know, X millions of dollars per second. And so by the time my laundromat owner has picked up his coffee, put it in his mouth, Jeff Bezos has already lapped him multiple times for the year. Now, why? Jeff doesn't work as hard as the guy who's laying actual bricks or actually cleaning the roof. I think we have to ask ourselves if this idea of just work harder, what's your work ethic? That's not true anymore, especially in the age of AI. The more I think about AI as a total normie, I'm not a big tech person.

I'm almost like Boomer We're incapable in many ways with tech. But the more I think about it, the more I think it will enable all of us to have massive knowledge. And because we all have massive knowledge, we will actually have to perform better because everybody will be able to do a mid-level execution. Very few people will be able to stand out amongst the noise. And we're already seeing this, 47% increase in creators just this year online. So why? Because it's so much easier now to go bang, bang, boom, put it on the internet. That's going to be everywhere, which means that going forward, just doing a lot more, just working a lot harder, won't be what changes it. What will? Taking a moment to look at what do I know different than anybody else, how do I increase my knowledge stack, and how do I get really creative in a world of lack of creativity, but mass production. I love to involve Rava Kant's line, which was, In this world today, you don't want to work like a cow. You don't want to work continuously, grazing nonstop like this. You want to be the lion.

We want to have periods of sprint and rest, sprint and rest. That will be what the top performers do.

Yeah, absolutely. So well said. Is passive income a myth?

Well, passive income is a tax statement. The In actual words passive income versus active income are real, per the government. But is passive income in the fact that I will make money if I do nothing and I take X amount of risk and X amount of my money in order to do something? No, that's a total Why? And I think anybody who tells you that this will be completely passive income, there's a red flag, immediate red flag. I mean, I own a bunch of vending machines. Vending machines are often something people call passive income. Let me tell you what's not passive, a vending machine. They break all the time. People people break into them. They don't make that much money per machine. And also, they make a ton of money on aggregate. And they're great for many things once you have hundreds of them or thousands. But there's no such thing as passive income. And once you know that, I think you also can recognize, do you want passive income? Is that what you really want? Or do you just want a job that you love, that pays you well, that lights that fire inside of you?

I think we want passive income because we hate what we do, because 87 87% of Americans don't like what they do for a living. They don't like who they work with. And so why would they want to do more of it? Please give me passive income. But I don't think that's actually what we want. We just want something that really speaks to us.

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Back to our episode. Do you think people can do what they love and make a lot of money, or are those ideas disconnected?

I think that anybody tells you you should follow your passion in order to make money is probably already rich. It sounds really nice, actually. They're like, Of course, follow your passion. Well, even somebody like, we both know some of the founders of Airbnb, you're closer with them than I am, but Joe and Austin, he would say that he was incredibly passionate when he started Airbnb. But was he passionate about, I don't know, home design of his mattress on the floor? No. What was he passionate about? He found some game that he loved to play in the game of business. It probably could have been a lighting company that he had, or a painting company, or Airbnb. He just learned to love the game. Where I think people get it wrong is learn to love the game. Don't try to obsess on your passions. We try to turn painting that we do, or underwater basket weaving, or whatever our weird hobby is into our profits. That's where you go really, really wrong. In fact, there's a lot of data to support this. I mean, we have something called the Boring Sexy Matrix that essentially it looks like two lines and then a charted graph that shows you the more boring the industry, the higher the income.

Especially in Hollywood. In fact, there's an incredible study that shows in SAG after the Hollywood Union, there's 187, I believe, 187,000 members of this union. Of those, more than 80% of them do not qualify for health insurance, which means that they don't make enough money to even qualify for health insurance. The average income is $23,000 for an actor in LA. And so what does that tell you? When you want to try to be a Clooney or you want to try to be a famous Brad Pitt, most people make no money from it. You'd be way better off going to finance, where 99 % of the people earn 100 % of their income from their job than in acting, in which it appears that less than 20 % of people make their full income from this job. And I'm not trying to dissuade anybody from doing things that you love. I might just be pushing you to even say, how could I be more creative about this? If I love to act, where is their money around the world of acting that I could go grab and still integrate the two? But does it have to be this pre or sustained sexy role?

And I think the answer is no. You're a perfect example of it. That's how podcasts were born. It was like these people who wanted to maybe have talk shows, who wanted to interview people. And we said, we could do it here instead of a studio, and you change an entire industry.

I wanted I had a talk show so bad. It's such a good example, and I love that. Did you? Yeah. I grew up watching Oprah, big fan. And I was like, How cool would it be to sit down with people and to have a talk show and all the rest of it? And then you realize no one's giving you a talk show. And unless your talk show is really, really significant, no one's making any significant money. And no one's giving you a talk show. That's the reality of it. There's only ever three daytime talk show hosts that are successful and maybe Three late-night talk show hosts that are successful. And then everyone else, like you said, same as acting, 97 % of people, 99 % of people don't have that. And when you do what you love, so do I love interviewing? Yes, I do. But I love the distinction you made, because I think there's a difference between a hobby and a skill. And you just said it. You literally just said it. So I love soccer. Soccer is my first love. It's one of my favorite hobbies. I love talking about it. I I like playing it.

I like FIFA, on the PlayStation, Xbox, whatever I'm in. If I tried to become a soccer player, it would never have happened. I'm not good enough, not even close. And sure, I could have found a way to maybe get into coaching or maybe whatever. But to be honest, it's a hobby. It's something I love talking to my friends about. That doesn't have to be the thing that I monetize or that I build into my offering to the world. And I love the difference because I think when we hear the word passion, we confuse hobby for skills. And then you go, wait a minute. No, my hobby is painting. I'm not the best painter. Let me be honest. And I think I've never heard someone say that before. I've never heard that clear clarification. So thank you for making that crystal clear.

I heard Michael Dell, the I think it was in Michael Dell's book, he said somebody was asking him why he wanted to take his company back because he had it pulled away from him. Him and another big investor basically got into this scuffle. And somebody was asking him, Why do you still care about Dell? You're a billion there many times over. You're super successful. Why don't you just let this go? And he says, I will care about this company after I am dead. He loves the game. He was so obsessed with Dell that you couldn't cry it out of his cold, dead hands. And I think about that often. I think, you couldn't make me retire no matter how much money you gave me. Why? Are there many days where the game of entrepreneurship is so brutal that I do think, what am I doing? I don't have to keep doing this. Why do I do it? But I love the game. I think if we can instill in more young people a love for the game, then they will realize that it is the most fun thing that you can do when you get a chance.

And that's also how you know if the thing you're doing is what you should be doing. Like a famous Actually, when the two Steve, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, were first starting out, they were at, I think it was Atari, the company that they were at. Anyway, they're at another tech company. Was Atari. Yeah, it was. Do you remember the story where Jobs said, The only way that I'm coming to here as if I can sleep here, too. The founder, as a normal founder, probably would do, was like, That's weird. No, you can't do that. But he realized that they were so good, they were so obsessed that their outperformance meant that he should let them be weird, and so he let them stay there. Which was a little problematic because I hear Steve was a little smelly. But top performers are really just people who are obsessed with the game. It's not that you have to have crazy IQ. It's not that you have to have a crazy skill set. It's really hard to beat the compounding thing that is session. And I think that should open up for some people a realization that you could win.

You could beat a Jay and a Cody if you're more obsessed with something than we are.

Oh, for sure. And what I've learned is that in order to love the game, you have to respect the rules. And what I found, it's like playing Monopoly. Everyone knows Monopoly, so I'll use that as an example. It's like playing Monopoly. You know you have to have a three set in order to build homes. Once you build four homes on one street, you can then upgrade it for a hotel. That is the rule of how monopoly works. Now, you play with some people and they'll say, well, I don't like that. I just want to be able to build even if I have one of the sets. Or why do I have to build four houses to build a hotel? I should just be able to build a hotel. And I see this in real life, too, where we start saying things like, well, I don't like the social media algorithm because it's not fair. And it's like, it isn't fair, but it is the rule. And so if we hate the rules, you can't love the game. And I see that over and over again where it's like, well, Jay, but this isn't fair or this isn't right, or it should be like this or new thing.

And I'm like, I get it. I actually empathize with that, and I validate you. I feel the same way. But in order to love the game, you have to respect the rules. And so figure out the rules. You've figured out the rules of vending machines. You've figured out the rules of different businesses that you've built. And once you know the rules, you can play the game, just like monopoly. And I think that's what it takes. So what would you say are the rules of some interesting businesses or even business in general or money that you think people need to learn to respect?

I think the number one rule, if you want to be successful today, is that there's two type of people. One type of person will be really successful, and one type of person will never be successful until they change their mentality. We call these fixers versus freeloaders. A fixer is somebody who, if you imagine, there's a leaky boat, and there's all these holes in it. The fixer will be the one that starts actively thinking, Okay, we've got some putty over here. We're going to put it on here. We're actually going to start bailing things out over there. They realize that there's a problem. The problem is annoying. They probably didn't create the problem. The problem might actually be somebody else's fault entirely. And yet, what do they do? They immediately go into fixed mode. And then there's the freeloader. And we can all have a little component of this. But a freeloader is so common today. The freeloader is the one that's standing in the boat and they might be saying, Well, I don't mind the holes. Or that was somebody else's issue, or, I don't have time to fix that. Or I don't really know what to do about that.

And if you go through your life with this freeloader mentality of somebody else will fix it all the time, well, then somebody else will profit all the time. I've really had this- That's good. Right? I've had this realization lately that every time I find a problem in my business, that's where the profit is. Every time I have a problem in my life, that's where the money is.

Oh, that's so good.

And so if I can just start not having that sinking feeling in my stomach when I find a big hairy problem and instead say, oh, that means there's money there. That means there's opportunity there. That means there's growth there. Then my worldview changes. And when we came in here, we were just talking and I was like, oh, God, I'm having a week because I got this one business and we're growing really fast. And that sounds cool, except that when you grow really fast, there's all these issues. There's people issues and there's business issues. I'm in it right now. And yet I always try to make myself go back and say, it's my fault that we're here, and that actually is really liberating. Because if it's my fault, that means that I also might be able to fix it. If it's somebody else's fault, then what am I going to do about it? And so as often as possible, be a fixer, not a freeloader. It's where the money is.

I really like that. And that's true, whether you're a team player, whether you're an employee, whether you're the owner, whether you're looking at a new opportunity. It's true for everyone. That's why I love it so much, because you could be on a team and going, well, where is my CEO's greatest pain point? Where is my manager's greatest pain point? And if I can solve that and we're clear on it, that could be the greatest opportunity for me to grow my career.

A hundred %. If you really want to grow and earn a lot, I think one of the greatest things that you can do is go find a leadership team and a leader that you think you want to be like and that you like their trajectory. I think you should try to get on as many rocket ships as you can, and you should really stay away from the PTA Mom bus. In life, I think often we want the smooth ride, we want the certain ride, we want the sliding doors, we want to be on a nice little minivan. What we realized is that minivans don't go fast and many fans will probably not be the winner of a race. But winning comes with all the prizes. I think wherever you can, you should try to get on the rocket ships. And then when you get on the rocket ship, you got to realize rocket ships have turbulence. They're bumpy. They go fast. Things break. You can't be surprised when you want to be an astronaut and there's turbulence on the way up. I think there's two things that I didn't do early enough on in my career was, Gosh, I really should have tried to get on more rocket ships fast.

Bumpy, messy, big problems. Oh, my gosh. But we're going to the moon. I should stay away from the normal mom bus life that's super smooth, because when I'm young, man, I don't need this. I need this once I got kids and once I got a bunch of responsibilities. But in the beginning, I should be trying to take all the rides I can. And so if I was young and hungry, I would be trying to find a J. I would be trying to find teams where they are moving and I want to learn from them.

Yeah, it's such great advice. And I look back and I think as well that I had that same spirit then, and I probably didn't seek out people like that enough. I got lucky with a couple of examples, and I remember it could happen anyway. I remember being... I used to work at a grocery store and stacking shelves and whatever, but I was always trying to find that on a weekend, you can make a time and a half, on a holiday, you can make time and a half. If I worked a few extra hours, you always trying to figure out what the rules are, as I was saying earlier. And I think you're spot on that. If you can jump on a place where your role is not perfectly defined. You get to do lots of stuff. You get to take more on. When I was at Accenture, which is a global consulting firm, million employees now globally, it used to be 500,000 when I was there, they They actually had this really great set up where every year they asked you to learn one professional skill, one personal skill, and then one skill that you were just fascinated by.

It was really interesting because it was always encouraged that you needed all three free. And I love that about the workplace because it was almost like, what's your extracurricula? So you did your day job, but what did you do in the evenings? So my evening job at my company was teaching meditation. I was bringing my passion into work. What did What did he do? It helped me network more, helped me connect with people deeper, helped me learn about different parts of the company that I would never have got to see if I wasn't teaching meditation. I had a friend who was a photographer outside of work. We were consultants by day, but he brought photography into work. He would photograph all the major events. He'd take headshots of our CEO. He'd take headshots of our CMO. All of a sudden, he's networking inside the company in a way that you never would before. And so it's so interesting when you take on new your responsibilities, which are based on your passions, even in the workplace, because you never know where they can go.

Oh, yeah. And there's something really contagious about somebody who is hyper passionate with the things that they do for a living. I mean, so many studies that show that humans are contagious. I was reading something the other day that said, if you want to make more money, the fastest way you can do it is actually just by who you surround yourself with. And so there is actually a correlation between if you have more friends who make over $100,000, you have a 10 A 10% increased likelihood of making more money, and somewhere between a 2. 9, I believe, and a 5% higher likelihood of investing more. This is just like Jay stays the same, Cody stays the same, but I hang out with a few people who have more cash. I start making more money and investing more. That's mild. But if you think about it, it makes all the sense in the world. Imagine you wanted to lose weight. And so what did you do? You went and hung out with a bunch of people who partied all the time, who ate late night food, who were drinking constantly, who slept in late, who were more lethargic because of it.

Or Or you went and hung out with Crossfitters that don't drink, that work out every day, that already have six-pack abs. Jay is the same person. Cody is the same person. I choose the group that parties. You choose the group that crossfits. Who do you think wins? It's the people that you surround yourself with. And so Gosh, people are contagious in every sense of the word. If you hang out with people that are passionate and obsessed and moving forward, it's just going to be easier for you to do the same thing.

Oh, it's so good. It's so true. You know how simple it is when you start doing it, but I feel like we're all so scared of letting our friends down. We think we're... Sometimes we also get the backlash. Our friends might be like, Oh, yeah, you just want to be around that person now. You just want to be successful now. We're not good enough for you. And I think all of these things are what play on people's minds is we don't want to be bad people. But this isn't being a bad person, but we carry that around.

It's very true. There's a micro lesson. So let's say right now you're trying to save more money. A lot of the ways when you're young and don't have a lot of money that you spend it is entertainment. It's going out with your friends. And a lot of times when you go out with your friends, what do you do? You guys are eating and drinking and who's splitting the check and what's happening here? And I think that's a really uncomfortable thing for young people to do. They're like, I don't know how to have a conversation with somebody saying, I'm really limited in my spend. I know there's six of us, and it would be really awkward, but I'm not drinking tonight, and I'm just going to have this little thing. So do you mind if I pay for my portion of it? Why do we worry about doing something like that? Because people are going to think we're cheap. They might judge us. They're going to think that we're not all in it together. And yet, how are you going to reach your goals if you're not willing to do even that little thing? And I remember back in the day when I had no money at all and I couldn't afford anything, that felt super embarrassing to me.

And yet, those micro decisions will help you macro if you do it. And all it is is expectation setting. I think a lot of times, if you want people to go along with something, you just say, Hey, I'm super embarrassed to bring this up. And it feels weird to me But I'm really trying to save up to invest and to do this other thing. I want to hang out with you guys tonight. Would it make you so uncomfortable if I asked to just pay for my portion? Because I can't keep going out doing all this if I have to spend everything. You know what you're going to do? You're going to unlock for somebody else there who's too afraid to say it and never will that they feel the exact same way. They're actually like, Oh, God, they got me, too, because happy hour slowly killing my entire investing budget.

This is coming up more and more in every conversation I have right now. If you actually said what you were worried about, people would actually get it. It's when you try and do the awkward thing of not sharing how you feel about it. When you say, I'm embarrassed about this, all of a sudden that person has empathy. Your confession of embarrassment creates empathy and compassion in the other person, and then they receive it with the understanding. Whereas if you just say, Hey, I don't think I'm coming out tonight. Now it's like, Wait, what's wrong? If you now go out and say, Oh, yeah, I'm just going to pay for my thing, now you could come across as cheap or all the other things you're worried about. As soon as you're honest about the embarrassment, the vulnerability inside such a beautiful connection with someone. And by the way, next time, they may not choose that spot. They might choose somewhere that's easier for you. If they're a good friend, they'll actually walk in your direction, if that makes sense.

Yeah. You give somebody else a chance to actually be there for you, which I've realized is a real gift. I'm not so good at that. But if you can allow another person in, man, walls break down pretty quick. And then as you make more money, you can start paying it forward the other way. And then when you can, that's one of the coolest parts about having money is then you're like, I got all this. Don't worry about it. Not one of you. And you don't have to do it all the time. You don't have to big-shot people. But when you're in your growth phase, when you're in your save phase, just be there. That's okay. That's where you are. And know that you don't have to stay there. You can eventually be in your big boy, give away, buy the bottles, do whatever you want phase, but you don't have to pretend like you're not there. Man, that will really help, too, in environments like this where it feels harder to make money and you feel a little heavy. I saw this in business, too. I saw this tweet the other day that I was like, oof.

It was a business owner, and the tweet was literally a picture of a really expensive-looking dinner. And it was like, when your company is a couple of weeks out from having no cash, but you know that team morale is really expensive, so you spend a couple of thousand dollars on a dinner for the team. I looked at that for a second, and I don't believe in posting any criticism on the internet, so I would never say anything for that person directly. But I think he's wrong. I think instead, what you really should do as a leader is say, Hey, we're in a period where we need to tighten up a little bit. I'd love us to maybe take an afternoon off or maybe do something that doesn't cost the company money, or maybe We could come up with some cool ideas. We could do a little challenge to see who could come up with the best idea for us to do some team building. But I can't actually afford this couple of thousand because it's my duty to protect your job and to protect your future in this company. And so even though it would make me look good to spend a bunch of money, I'm not going to.

And it's scary being in an ownership position when a business isn't working. It's super, super scary. And so it's okay to also... You don't have to tell everybody everything all the time. It's not their job to handle your business stress, but it is okay to tell them some reality.

Cody, there's two big areas I want to quiz you on now. Oh, I like it. I think there's going to be a lot of great stuff. I'm going to let you choose which one we start with. One is money and dating and relationships, and the other is the basics of investing when someone is starting with little. Where do you want to go first?

I want to start with something really random. There was an interesting study I saw the other day that shows how you can predict if a recession is coming through the way that women buy beauty products. It's called the Lipstick Theory, and I was playing around with this today because I think all of us are wondering where the economy is going. Basically, what happened is, this is when the world Trade Center came down. So Este Lauders, the founder of the company, basically realized that even though the market had a lot of fluctuations in it, it was down hugely from the World Trade centers crashing, lipstick sales were up 11 %. Actually, a bunch of these non-necessary cosmetics were up a ton. And so we started looking at why. And what they realized is when the market really crashes, you would think people would pull back on things they don't need. But what they actually do is they pull back on the big luxuries and they spend more on the tiny ones. So it might not be that they go on vacation that year, but it might be that they look a little prettier in the mirror every single day.

And so I thought that was interesting because as we're thinking about recession, what are some of the indicators that nobody's watching today that could tell us what's happening? So one of them is actually look at a spike in beauty products. You can also see that by a spike of the people who are launching them, are a lot of people continuing to buy, which I thought was interesting.

Which is happening right now.

Which is happening right now. Yeah. And then the place I think that this takes us is maybe a little bit more on the dating side, which is, here's a little tough truth. It turns out if you want to make more money, one of the best things that you can do is find a partner, which is crazy. Married couples make, on average, more than 30% more than non-married couples. Their networth is almost 3X, someone who is single over the course of their entire career. I bring Bring this up not to shame anybody who hasn't found their partner. I know what that's like when you feel like there's no options and you want to find love, but it's not around you. But why I do bring it up is because I think it's something that we should really prioritize. We should prioritize if we care about making money, and we should prioritize if we care about love, certainly. I think it's gotten a bad rap. Marriage has a bad rap. You do an incredible job of showing the beauty that can be behind it while also being like, sometimes I hate her, like with my husband, sometimes like, Oh, you today?

Really? They got to love you because I want to murder you. It's a real boon to your financial health. So anybody that is around you that is saying, I don't need no man. I'd be better off without him. They're all toxic. Everybody else is a narcissist that I've dated. I want to push on your frame a little bit and say, one, do you think you attract things that you hate on? Probably not. Two, there's a lot of reasons why you showing the stability for a partnership will lead to a more stable life overall. I thought that was fascinating.

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Thanks for taking a moment for that. Now, back to the discussion. When I look at successful men, going back to your earlier point of mentors, any of the successful men that I've ever been mentored by talk to me about having a one woman life changed their career trajectory because they found that the less time they wasted on chasing, pursuing, wooing women, the more time they had to focus on their career. So even from the other side, men who decide to commit to one woman have more energy, more focus, more drive, more power to direct towards making money and building a business than they do when they're trying to impress lots of women or take care of lots of women. Now, of course, there are exceptions. There are people who become very successful without having a partner and whatever. They may have even put their love life on the back burner.

Sure.

But men who are married were just more who had that commitment in their life.

Which is wild. They say you're happier, too, and you guys live longer. Yeah. We're like slightly less happy. You guys, you don't live as long as well, right?

You're dealing with a baby. It was funny. Yesterday, my wife said to me, because I must have said to her what I want for dinner, and she goes, Well, this is great training to have a kid. And I said, Yeah. She goes, husband's a great training to have a kid. And I go, Yeah, wife's a great training to have a teenager. It was just this really funny moment where we were bantering. And I was like, Yeah, you're like a teenager. Like dealing with emotions and all this stuff. And you're dealing with my baby needs of like, Hey, can you feed me?

It's very, Very true. I also think, man, I talk more from the women's perspective just because I'm a I'm a chick. And so I try to talk about all the things I know about. But from a female perspective, there's a lot of things that I think are wrong in the way we date with money.

Yeah, that's what I want to get into. Yeah.

For instance, increasingly, they say that 64% of women will not date a man if he doesn't have the same income level or higher than her. For men, that actually, in the studies, at least, does not seem to be the case. They actually don't care about income level. Well, problem there that more women are increasing their incomes and increasing their education levels than men are today. I think there's something darker even than the 6. 5 trust fund Blue Eyes thing, which is we're prioritizing the thing that seems to not lead to any increase in happiness. Couples are no happier if they are the same income level or higher or not. They aren't wealthier if they focus on that than something else. And so from my perspective, I'm like, Man, if you're a woman today, I don't give dating advice, but the money seems to show that that does not matter in a relationship. My husband is amazing. And I already ran a business when I met him. He was an seal. The government doesn't pay very much for that role. He was just playing a totally different game. He didn't care about money, actually, at all.

He cared about service and he cared about respect. That's what he wanted. He wanted to do something that served, and he wanted to do something that commanded respect. I, in finance, was not that much serving, but I was a lot money. And so when the two of us came together, it was really, really powerful. And so for women today, a lot of times when they ask me, How do you find a partner? What do you do if you make a lot of money and he doesn't? I'm like, Find somebody who plays a different game because then you two can complement. Did you both play the same game? Were you both trying to grow and make money?

No, no, no. Well, Radhi has always been at peace. She's always been at peace with who she is, what she has. And her journey was more I always talk about the aspect of what you mentioned of being surrounded by more people. So we grew up in a culture where generally, women in our community became housewives and took care of the kids. That's majority of what you'd see growing up where I grew up. Now, that's beautiful. There's nothing wrong with that, and I'm not judging it. What was interesting was when we moved to New York and then we moved to LA, Raleigh was surrounded by a lot of our female friends who are all founders, who built businesses, who've achieved a lot of incredible things, and they happen to be happy mums and happy wives as well. Rather, being exposed to them almost opened up to this idea of what women could do, what women could achieve, what was possible. And she has just come into her own. When she launched her book last year for the first time when she launched her podcast last year, she's just been growing and finding herself. And I think she's really loved the journey.

It's never been about growth. It's never been about conquering. It's never been about a destination. She just loves the fact she can fully express herself and use her skills to help people. I started with the same thing. I never had financial goals. I never knew anyone who is that financially successful. I just wanted to find a way to help people. And then I realized you couldn't help people full-time if you couldn't do this full-time. So you can have all the most noble reasons to do what you do. If you can't pay yourself and pay people to help you do it, you're not going to do it for that long. So I had to rewire my relationship relationship with money because I used to believe that if you were doing good in the world, you had to be poor. I had to completely shift my relationship because I had to understand that actually, if I wanted to do bigger good in the world, I needed money because I needed bigger teams, I needed bigger opportunities, I needed bigger relationships. And the rules of the game are money gives access to that.

I come from a Latino culture. And so money was never really bad. It was bad to talk about it. You couldn't really talk about money. And it was bad to maybe have too much of it. That was like, Oh, they're really rich. So how did they get there? Same.

Very similar.

Yeah. But my dad, which I'm so grateful, and if I have kids, I hope I can do the same thing. If you want to be a good father to a daughter and you want your daughter to be really confident and have a ton of optionality, I'd model after my father. And what he always said is, Well, you could be a princess or you could also be the president. You choose. And then he's very cute. And he also really taught me that money is a moral. It doesn't care. It is a tool. A hammer is not good or bad, except how you use it. You could use a hammer for really good to build something. You could use a hammer for murder. Same with money. I came to the terms with money in this way because I think that money is an accelerator to whatever is inside of you. If you are not a great person and you want to do bad things in the world, money is really bad to be in your hands. If you are a good person and you want to do good in the world, money is really good to have in your hands.

As long as you can stay true to that thing inside of you, then money is actually just an ability for you to build the world that you want as opposed to living somebody else's. I watched my brother go through this because he's never cared really about money or success. I mean, he got married last weekend. Oh, wow. Congrats. Thanks. Thanks. I'm really excited for him. She's amazing, too. And he said in his speech, he's like, before I met Athena, I used to think that I wanted to just post up on a beach somewhere, drink beers. I didn't really want to build very much out of life. I wanted to just chill. And I never heard him say out loud before. And he said, But then I met Athena, and now that's not enough. Now I want to build something. I want to build for her. I want to build for our kids. I just watched him turn into a little man in front of me, which was incredible. And then also realized you're made for more. But he sounds to me like what Roddy sounds like to you, which is he has always been very comfortable as him.

He is the most him human I've ever met. You couldn't really peer pressure him into anything. I have a lot of respect for people that have that piece.

Yeah, it's really special. I want to go back into this, and I'm not asking for dating advice. I'm asking for money advice. Good. Which I think they go so closely together now. And I love where we started off, but there's so many things to unpack with that. Who should pay on the first date, men or women?

In my opinion, I think the person who asks for the date pays.

I agree.

Yeah, men versus women. Woman, if you're going to ask them out on a date, I think the expectation is at least offer. Men, if you're going to ask somebody out on the date, I think the is do it. I tend to be a traditionalist in some ways. I think a high-value man wants to support and protect his woman. It doesn't always have to be financially, but in some way, shape or form. A high-value woman wants to do the same thing for her man, but probably can't protect him as much. That's just our physiology, right? And so that would be my gut reaction. Now, if it's up to me, I remember back in the day, I did get asked on a date once, and they didn't pay. And it was such a huge A huge turn off for me. We stayed friends, but I was like, Immediately unsubscribed. We're never dating. And so it's tough to be a man in that case in some way today. But if you were going to date somebody like me, I would expect you to at least offer if you ask. What do you think?

I agree with you. The person who asks the person out on the date should pay. And this wasn't to get you into trouble. I think it's a real discussion because I think that's what people do, how you just said, Hey, if he didn't pay, he's out. By the way, I was raised by my mom. I have a younger sister. So I come from a very like, I'll do it, I'll take care of it background. And I did when me and Radhe first started dating. I used to actually tutor students for their college and 11 plus exams to make enough money to take Radhe out on a date to make like £20 an hour because I didn't have any money when we met. And that's how I'd pay for stuff. I think a lot of men feel, yes, I'll do that once we have some commitment. Like once we're going somewhere today. I feel like men are like, well, why would I do that if we're both figuring this out? I would do that once we both say, hey, we're exclusive, we're boyfriend and girlfriend, we're in a committed relationship. This is going somewhere. But if it's our first or second day or third day, and we don't really even know each other, then I want you to come and meet me hot middle because that's what we're trying to build.

I mean, I can't imagine I've ever been on a date where I didn't ask to split it, at least. I think I would feel weird if you asked to... Yeah, pick it up all the way. That's a signal.

Yeah, that's definitely a signal.

That's a signal. It's laughed out. But you know, hey, it's a byproduct of the fact that we have for the first time in our, let's call it the last 200 years, probably, of human existence, men and women are competing for the same thing. This has never really existed before. I mean, my parents were the first generation where this started. My grandparents, that was not an option. We have to be honest about the fact that today, men and women, they are competing for jobs, they are competing for education spots. They are competing for relevancy. They're competing for being heard places. I mean, heck, in some ways, they're even competing for necessity to procreate with all of the modern medicine that's happening. There are going to be rippling side effects from this that I can't even imagine. One of them is that when we say we want to be equal as women, well, then we should think about what that means. I think young men today are very right to say, Hey, we're equal in every way. It's a partnership between the two of us. So I don't believe that we are partners yet. Ipso facto, let's split.

And I think in life, Chris and I always have a saying, which is, do you want to be right or do you want to win? And so my thought is, if you're a young man and you are pursuing a woman that you really like or think you might like, do you want to be right or do you want to win? Do you want to be right in society that, yes, she should have split the bill, but now you have to talk her back into a second date? Okay, fine. Then go that way. If you're a woman and you really like the guy and he is more comfortable with this, do you want to be right or do you want to win? Split the bill. And then tell him at some point, Hey, if we're committed to each other, this is important to me. Can we negotiate it between the two of us? We're so busy these days pointing fingers at what's right as opposed to saying, What do I want? And then, So what action am I going to take to get there? In a world in which a lot of guys split bills, if you have a hard time getting checks, be a pretty big upside if you can pick up the bill.

If you're a woman that can't find a man, maybe you show the man that you're a true partner. And even if he offers, you say, I really would like to split it. Would that make you feel comfortable? I want you to know that in partnership, I believe in being there for my man. Neither of those are wrong. They just might help you win.

Definitely. I love that. Right and winning. Did you watch that movie, Fairplay? No. Okay, so there was a movie last year. I don't think a lot of people saw it. I don't know if it was a true indie, but it was on Netflix, but I don't think it was hugely popular. But it was a dark take on a couple who are both vying for the same job in a company. It's really good. It's definitely dark and it's definitely extreme, but it just shows the envy, the competition, how the gender roles have changed, the expectations, women being more talented and educated. It's such a good social commentary on where we're at. I wonder, how have you found it? Because I meet a lot of ambitious young women who want to do really, really well, and they seem to intimidate men today. And I look at that from the men's perspective, and I understand that it's new for men. A lot of men feel left behind. They've inherited the pain of the men who came before them, who've abused power or used it wrongly. If a woman is ambitious right now, how does she continue to be ambitious and still find a man that gets that and respects that from a financial point of view?

The hard truth that I found as a woman who you could say is hard charging is that you can't play a man's game and win in this society. I'm not sure we should. What do I mean by that? I mean that men are push, push, push, aggressive, even our physiology. One is receiving and one is certainly giving. And so today, I think if you are a young woman who's really hard charging, you have to think about, are you being ambitious and intimidating? Or are you being a bitch? I think a lot of times, because we felt like we have to stand up, we have to push for ourselves, we're actually just not being that nice as women. And it's that you can go get a girl and you don't need a man, and he's not listening to you, and blah, blah, blah. That energy is really negative. Men don't need that. The two women that I know that are lovely, and they're single. Everybody I know tells them all the time, I can't believe you're single. You shouldn't be single. But what do they say often? One of them who I adore, and I'm I have given her my opinion on this, but she says all the time, Well, I don't want to mother any more men.

I don't want to mother them. Like, You know what? All these boys. I'm like, Well, if you keep calling them that, then that is what they will be. You've got to be really careful about not demasculating men. You've got to be really careful about making sure that they care about the two things they care about more than women do, which is they care about respect. Women, really, we want to be loved. You guys want to be respected. By and large, gross generalization. In driving businesses, I have to remember that all the time, I employ men. I just had a conversation right before this where I steamrolled somebody. I totally owned the entire meeting. I just kept talking, and I was really aggressive. I lectured a little bit in the meeting. Thankfully, my person in this situation was like, Hey, by the way, it felt a little bit like a lecture. It felt like they needed to be heard, not pushed so much. I was like, God, you're right. That's when the negative feminine shows up in my mind, is when we think, Let me just keep going. I'm going to pound on this. So I would push back on the negative.

Are you really intimidating men or are you being mean? And I think often we are being a little mean. And so we need to pull that back. Not all men want to dominate you. A lot of men are the best mentors I've ever had. Yeah.

And it's that hard part for women because men for so long have gotten away with pound in the pavement, right? So if a man behaved there in a mean, would he get the same feedback? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. He'd just be told that's normal, and he'd get away with it and he'd move on. And so it's almost what people expect of you, and it shouldn't be based on gender. It should be based on your demeanor. For example, I'm not someone who gets angry or shouts at people. It's just not who I am. So if I did it, it would be so out of character that I think someone would cry. You think the person who shouts you every day makes you cry? No, it's the person who's really silent and calm that if they lost it, you'd be heart broken because you don't expect it from them. And I think this all gets difficult when we're talking about money because money creates power dynamics. It creates, especially in couples, it creates power dynamics in families. The amount of friends I've had recently who've, both men and women, have had to ask their partner to sign a prenup before they get married.

And it's been really uncomfortable because you hope that we love each other and that we wouldn't ever have to do that. My friends have talked to me. That's really hard. What's your take on people having to sign a prenup before they get married?

I think you should always sign a prenup before you get married. I think you should have every hard conversation that you need to have up front. And that is just another hard conversation. You know what a prenup will tell you before you get married is, do you guys have the same vision for life? Do you guys care about the same things? How do you handle conflict between the two of you? Can you guys compromise on the important part? So even if it's not about the money, your bank account is a reflection of how willing you are to have difficult conversations. The more you delay and the more you don't have, the less money you'll have. I think a prenup is a perfect example. You can take it as a victim and say, if he's asking me for a prenup, that means that he does not want to stay with me or she does not want to stay with me. Or you could say, This is an opportunity for us to determine what our life will look like together and what is his and what is mine and what is ours together. I am a big proponent of, get that prenup on either side, get real clear on your finances, and have a crucial conversation up front.

Now, that said, I really try to never give individualized one-on-one advice. I'm sure you're the same. So it's like, here's the big giant you. But when my brother and new sister-in-law came to me, they were like, should do once you get married? Should you, once you get married, should you have a joint bank account or should you have a separate bank account? I said, You should have a hard talk first. You should ask each other why you want each separate segment, because what is the real conversation you're having? It's, Do I trust your spending? Are we going to communicate well? Are you going to put me in a weird situation? Are you going to tell me I can't do something? I'm an adult. Don't tell me what I can't do. And so it's not really about money. It's about, Can you get on the same page? Oh, yes. And so forget the bank account, right? It's really, can you have a hard conversation? And there's no right or wrong, in my opinion. Some people say they still Venmo each other, their partners, back and forth. And they're like, That's awful. How could you do that?

That is up to you. A lot of my big friends in finance would say, If you get married, you have a joint bank account. That's what you do. And I would say, even having a joint bank account can be hugely problematic if you're not willing to talk about it. Absolutely.

No, I love how practical that gets, and I love how practical you always get, because that is what people are dealing with. And you're right, it's not about money, it's about power, it's about agency, it's about accountability, it's about all these other things. But money becomes the central point of conflict. And you're right, just because you have a joint bank account doesn't mean you have better compatibility. That means nothing if you haven't had the hard conversation. And I think having the hard conversation early about money and expectations is so important. Going back to your earlier point, which I was thinking about, that idea that it's really important how married couples end up making more money. I found a lot of people recently looking for a business partner, not a partner. So when they're looking for someone to be with, they're seeing, will this person help me build my business? Which is a really interesting difference to what love is. What's your take on finding a partner or a business partner?

That's fascinating. Well, I mean, isn't it funny how everything just comes full circle? So if we think about the original contract of marriage, it was business. It was, Can your family further my family? We will come into contractual agreement one way or the other. It was that way in India, in the UK. It was that way here in the US. That marriage was a business contract. In some ways, it still really is because it's a government contract. Then for a long time, well, not that long, really. What? A generation or two, it became love. It was about love only. That's actually a new construct. I think it's interesting. It's coming back to this idea of partnership. Now, I have a personal bias. I think that you should marry somebody if you believe that they will help get you out of a third-world prison when you get imprisoned. Is this going to be your person who will save you in your times of difficulty? That's, to me, what a good partnership is. It's, I trust this human with my life implicitly and I want to build with them. Yes, I love them, but it's not this victimized, I love them even if they beat me and if the world ends, and some of the things we see in books today.

It's like, no, is this my chosen human who we're going to go through time together and I trust their ability and who they are. That's for me personally. The flip side of that is it's really hard working with your spouse. We both do it in many ways. My husband runs our investment side of our fund, our holding company and our venture capital fund. Our first hardest year together was our first year of marriage. We got married a little older, and so I didn't really know how to compromise. He didn't either. It was really hard for us our first year. I hear that's a common thing. Our second hardest year was the first year that we got into business together. I was like, huge mistake. Where's the... Like, pull the shoot. This is so hard. Why? Because any time you put two things closer together, what do they do? Friction, baby. It's just natural. This is It's like physics. I don't know why I was surprised, but I was surprised. Then I realized after we got through the first year, I was like, How did I ever do it where I had a human who couldn't understand some of the stuff I was going through at work?

He is such a crutch for me now, and I am for him. So now I'm a proponent of by personal bias, there's nothing better than having the ability to truly understand what your spouse does for a living and intertwining it some way. What do you think?

We were together for a long time before we launched a business together. There's a couple of things I have that I take. It's almost like, so I never wanted my wife to support my work when my career was taking off in the beginning. And my reason for that was very clear. I knew a lot of men who are extremely successful in their 50s after three decades of success, where their partners had become basically their assistants. And at the age of 50, their partner had now felt that they did didn't achieve their dreams because they felt they didn't achieve their potential. And the guy had gone off and ticked off every box on his checklist and felt like a champion. But now at 50, they're having this realization. And because I saw so much of that and my own work on purpose, I was really clear that everyone has their own purpose. Everyone has their own offering that makes them feel significant. And no matter how much you love someone, no matter what anyone says, you cannot say that your significance is just tied to someone else's significance. You have to have something that feels like your own thing that feels meaningful to you.

That could be your child, it could be your business, it could be coaching the college basketball team, right? This isn't about building a business. And so all I would encourage Raleigh to do was to find her thing. My favorite thing was setting her up on girl dates. I'd become friends with women, just introduce them to my wife. She'd be like, What are you doing? You're weirder. But they're now her best friends. So I guess I did- You're welcome. Yeah, exactly. But my whole goal was just, I don't want her to fall into the trap of Jay's doing really cool stuff. I'm just going to help him and then feel like she didn't find herself. And you see women do this more than men doing this. Men generally are more independent. They know their thing or they don't want to be involved anyway. And she was so talented and skilled and amazing from the moment I met her that I was like, I mean, like Raleigh could have a TV show and it would crush. She's just the most magnetic- It does. Yeah, she's just so lovable All right? So I was like, she deserves to have all herself.

And she found it as time went on. When we found a Juni, we were both at such a strength in our knowledge of each other's strengths and weaknesses, but we don't take any meetings together. Zero? Zero. So she does all the formulation meetings of the taste, the flavor profile, the mixtures, all of that. She does everything to do with the colors and the packaging and everything else. And I'll do all the business and marketing calls. So we're never even on the calls. And that works for us because it actually splits up the work because I'm like, oh, I trust you. You can nail... My palate is basic. I knew nothing about Yuzu pineapple when I met Rade or you've got the peach one over there. I had no clue. She really gets that, and I really get my part. And that works well for us. But we founded this 10 years into our relationship. And so there was such an understanding of each other that it split it up nicely for us.

You know what? When you say it out loud like that, I'm like, oh, that's actually similar in a lot of ways, because our reasons for friction in the beginning were because we were two captains. Yes. Two captains don't work.

No.

I was on there trying to, and he was trying to. And now he runs our investment business entirely. And shout out to him. He gets so embarrassed because I love bragging on him. But he has one of the top performing funds for his whole 2022 vintage. And people always say, congratulations. And I'm always like, honestly, I did so little for that. I'm good at top of funnel, bring people in. And then he is really good at execution, and he's a hunter. He chases things down. And so you're right. Now that I think about it, I'm on two calls a week with him, but he runs everything else. And and does it much better. Actually, our only annoying spots are when I'm like, weezeling in on something. I got it. Don't bother me over here. I'm the weezel in often.

I'm that person, too.

Are you?

Yeah. Radhi will be like, Wait a minute, where have you been for the seven months we've been working on this? And now you want to give your opinions.

Yeah, thank you. You're making me feel better.

Yeah, I'm that guy, too. Gosh. Where did you turn up from? I've been working so hard on this.

Yeah. He says he'll be like, Here's the summary I sent you four times, and now you want to talk about it? But we are endearing sometimes. Sometimes, yeah.

But that's what's so important, right? It's trust. To me, I just don't want my private time with Radhi to become business time. And that's a personal choice. I don't look down on someone who does it. I don't think that's the best for business or whatever, but it's the best for me. I married Radhi because I like spending time with her. I didn't marry her so that we could talk about how to make more money together. That's not why we're together. And that's not a bad thing or a good thing. It's just who we are. It works for us.

It's true. I actually haven't found a lot of people that are like that, usually. And now I have a lot of friends, probably just selection bias, who both work together, but they're very different. And usually you have one person who I joke is more of the fun. They're the one that's like, let's go do activities. Let's do whatever. They're still working a lot. And then you have the fun sponge, which is me. It's always working. And without my fun guy, I would just be working all the time. And so it is this balance. I've become friends with Sean Rad, who's the founder of Tinder. What's so interesting every time I talk to him, we're going to see him tomorrow night, is that he has all this data on when relationships are the most successful. He's like, The problem with a lot of these algorithms and how they do dating is that actually the things that we choose do not lead to happiness. No, it shows. Such as, similarity. Similarity actually doesn't lead to us happy of relationships, according to Sean and his data. That tracks for me.

That tracks for us, too. Radhi is the playful and the serious. Yeah, exactly. I've always said that that playful and that performance mindset work so well together because you're balancing each other out. But first, here's a quick word from the brands that support the show. All right. Thank you to our sponsors. Now, let's dive back in.

Isn't that funny? And that's most things in life, too. If you want to make a lot of money in business, you also need somebody who... They call them the visionary, the person who has all the ideas, the crazy things. And then you have your executor, which is often called your implementer. And so if you only have vision, but you have no execution, you will fail and make no money. If you only have execution, but you have no vision, you will play small games for life. And so there's a great book actually called, Have Have you read How to Make a few billion dollars? No. It's a good book. It's by this guy, Brad Jacobs. If you could get him on the podcast, I will listen. I've been trying to. I don't know if he's your style, but he's... Well, actually, he might be. He's a multibillionaire hedge fund manager and private equity investor. He started off as a jazz musician, and that was going to be his calling. So he really likes dissonant noises and how do you pull things together and make them play like a jazz musician. Anyway, he's bought all of these companies.

He's massively successful. But he always talks about what makes a great deal. If you want to make a lot of money, you've got to pick the right deal. There are four types of deals. You could think about it like a quadrant. You could have a low risk, and you could also have a low reward deal. That's actually most deals in life, right? It's like, stay in your same job, don't take risks, et cetera. The problem is you're not going to make much money. Then you have a high risk, high reward deal. Well, that could be like investing in an El Salvadoranian power plant. Okay, it's just so likely to fail that even though it's super high profit, we probably want to stay away from those. Then you have the golden child, which is how can we have high reward, low risk? Well, not many of those exist. That would be a unicorn. What we're really looking for is where is there a big hairy problem that has the right amount of risk? If we can find that, then we have profit. Now, they call it hair on a deal. That's investing terms. You want to look for those hairy deals where you think, Oh, that level of risk is manageable.

And in our culture, for some reason, I think we've gone into risk off. God, we don't even want the risk of asking somebody a question at a bar, more or less starting a business. And that's a problem. The SBA has fascinating data. Do you know there are more small businesses that close each year than open in the US?

No way.

More close than open. And so we have people taking way less risk than we think. And that means you'll never make as much That crazy.

Yeah. Let's talk about that in terms of investing. If someone's thinking that because it's exactly what you're talking about right now, this risk-reward profile. If someone has never invested in anything, they're working their job, they've got a little bit of money. Maybe if they've got $1,000 to start thinking about investing, maybe they've got a bit more. Maybe they've been saving up and they're thinking that home that they want to buy is a long, long, long, long, long way away, but they got a little Where should they invest?

If you have only a little bit of cash, the best returning asset class of all time is going to be you. Put the money into you, learning first before you go to invest. A lot of people these days will say, Hey, it's Hey, it's Airbnb. Hey, it's buying small businesses. Hey, it's real estate. The highest performing asset class that you could ever have is you because you have unlimited upside and it compounds over time. If you don't have a lot of cash right now, bet on you first before you go bet on somebody in the S&P. Now, after that next amount, I believe, because I'm old school, I started at Vanguard, I believe if you're reasonable, you'll probably agree with me. Do we think that we're going to beat the best stock pickers in the world who obsess on this every single day? Are we going to beat the Titans of industry with their technology? No. So that's why I always go for low cost, low movement, so they don't trade a lot, index funds. I worked at Vanguard, they have the best cost structure. So I throw things in the S&P 500 in a diversified portfolio at a company.

How does someone do that? Someone who's totally new to this.

You go to vanguard. Com. You have no fees on their trading platform. In my opinion, avoid Robin hood. Avoid anything where you're buying individual stocks when you don't know unless you're doing it purely for learning and you're okay with losing everything. And you go to vanguard. Com and you select a diversified portfolio. It's cool, too, because they'll actually help you do it based on your age and based on how much risk you want to take. So they'll have a 60/40 portfolio portfolio, which is like 60 % stocks and 40% bonds, if you're our age, for instance. If somebody's a little younger, they'll go 80, 20 because you should take more risk with stocks when you're young. So you can literally in one click get a diversified portfolio, and then you can add to it. You could also use a wealth front.

Opt for that. What's a diversified portfolio for someone who doesn't know?

That means that you never want to have all your eggs in one basket in anything in life, but certainly in investing. And so that means that they're going to give you stocks and bonds. It means they're going to give you emerging markets versus the US. So let's say India, China, Russia, Brazil, and the US stock market. And it means that typically over time, there's these charts you can see in finance where it looks like a grid. And on it are all of these different colors. And what do all the coverers represent that have no pattern to it. Every single year looks different. They represent every asset class you could invest in, from bonds to stocks to Chilean stocks to short term money markets. And what you see over time is in every single market, every Everything moves. And so what you want to have is a portfolio that over time, averages somewhere around 10 %. That's the average cost of inflation. How your money, really, if you don't invest it every single year that you don't invest, you lose money. Say you took a $100 bill right here, and I had it right in front of me.

I looked at that bill since the beginning of the Federal Reserve, which is the government institute that mandates or manages all of our currency in the US. If I go all the way back to the '70s and I look at it today, what do I see? I see that that $100 bill, if I just held it from then to now, is worth about $25. It's not worth $100 anymore. Why? Because of inflation. If we don't invest our money and we stick it under our mattress, then, sadly, the government eats away at it every single year, both sides, politically agnostic. We got to make sure that we put our money somewhere. That's why the stock market over time is usually what most people do.

Okay, makes a lot of sense. What's the difference between a stock and a bond?

Okay, so stocks and bonds, 101. I think about stocks like an ability for you to have future upside of a company. So you are betting in a way on a company. You're saying today, the price of Amazon is $10. I think in the future, the price of Amazon will be $15. I want to go for that ride. It's called upside return. With a bond, what are you doing instead? You're saying, I actually want income. It's like a certificate. If I give you 100 bucks, I promise you, over the next five years, I'm going to give you 120 back. You're not going to make more if the bond that you invest in goes up or down in price. You're just going to clip coupons, is what they're called. It used to be like that. You're clipping the coupon. The reason we want both of those is because, again, when the stock market crashes, you want your bond to still be clipping those coupons, baby, still coming in. When the stock market's raging, you want to capture some of that upside. And that's how we play right there in the middle of investing.

Is there a stage three? We did stage one is you, stage two is SM What's a stage three?

Stage three is private. If you're a real pro and you want to go for three of investing, that's where we start to do private equity. That's just investing in those same companies, but instead of them being traded publicly, those companies are now held by private investors. They'll never trade on a stock exchange. That also includes things like you can have alternative investments. That might be investing in direct in real estate or investing in commodities, which would be like timber. You could bet timber prices. That might be like equity and options. I think this generation got a little crazy because they were the first generation to gamify stock market investing and make it seem fun as opposed to serious. They were the first generation that got easy access to things like options and warrants. And that's really actually only for pros. I think anybody who's trying to tell you how to day trade, anybody who's trying to tell you how to do options, that strategy, think about that. Like somebody trying to tell you, let me teach you over the course of a couple hours of me speaking to you how to cut open somebody's brain.

We just wouldn't do that. This is for pros. And if you really want to make real money, you don't do it by messing around at the margins of financial investing in my mind. You do it by becoming the company that they invest in, which is stage four. So that's when you're like, I buy the business outright. I raise money for my own business. And that's the next level of the game.

That's so great. I love that step by step because I feel for so many people, it It just feels like this unorganized, messy, Wild Wild West. And now it's like, wait a minute, stage one, stage two, stage three, stage four. I love those. Going back to stage two of the S&P, what percentage of someone's income should they be looking to put into the S&P.

There's lots of rules around this, but I believe in you pay yourself first. And by you pay yourself first, what I mean is you think about your investments just like you would a need, not a want. So every single month, I believe in automatic investing. I've done it my entire career. Vanguard taught me that. You get really lucky in finance. They teach you how to invest so that it becomes a habit, not a possibility. You don't wake up unless you're gross and not brush your teeth, right? You just brush your teeth because you're not gross. For investing, I think about it the same way. It's like you automatically set up your payments so a little bit goes every time. I believe you want to have at least 10% of the money that you make go into investing. There's lots of different rules. People could play it either way, but I think pay yourself first because Otherwise, you'll never pay yourself at all. And give yourself at least 10% because we want to beat inflation every single year. If you do those two things, you are better than about 90% of people that don't do that.

10% off to tax. That's just such a great goal for people. You start thinking about it and you go, Oh, what am I spending dumb money on? What do you see people wasting money on?

You know what the biggest thing is? People waste money on looking rich instead of being rich. That is a cultural phenomenon that I think is eroding our wealth as society. Perfect example here. Coachella. We know, because we're on the inside, that the dirty secret of Coachella and everybody that you see on there is that most influencers are, one, paid to go, two, given free tickets, three, flown out for free, Or they actually have warehouses where you can pick out the clothes because that part's expensive, and you get the clothes for free. Or if you're a real pro, they'll pay you to wear the clothes and give you the clothes for free. And so this entire experience for the few who become, because we just desire what other people have, that's how humans are, they're not paying anything for a thing that costs thousands of thousands of thousands of dollars. Well, the problem is that the average Coachella main ticket holder, about 64% of them couldn't afford their ticket, so they had to do buy now, pay later options. Really? This year, they offered buy now, pay later. That is just for the ticket. That's not for the clothes, and that's not for the food, and that's not for the drinks.

We are basically having credit card debt which lasts forever. Ever as a trade for Instagram posts which last for a minute. And so the number one thing that you can do to change your financial future is to not buy into what you see on the internet everybody else doing, which is why I really respect what you do. And I try to do it online, too. Sure, we have nice things now. Sometimes you'll catch it in places because I won't really tell. But you don't see me flashing nice watches. You don't see me having nice cars. You don't see me posting about private planes. Why? That's not really necessary. And all you are signaling is that that is what success is. That is not what success is. Those are just accouterments that could be fun if you're into it once you're rich. But I promise you, I've met so many unhappy mother who have private jets. Yeah.

No, and I really appreciate that you saying that because I think for me, it was the same thing. When I started, I didn't have anything to show, but I didn't want someone to follow me for what I had. I wanted them to follow me for what I was saying and doing and living. And that, to me, always felt like that means anyone could do it. And as soon as it became... And also it was never about getting the thing, even for me. So if you make it about getting the thing, then the thing you do to get it, you don't love. Whereas my thing is I love the game. I love what I'm doing. And same as you. And it goes back to where we started, where it's like, If you love the game, if you respect the rules, if you love what you do, then all of these things are a byproduct. They're wonderful, but they're never the goal, they're never the destination, they're never the thing that you wanted. That's not what drove you there.

It's so true. And they'll all be taken from at very points. I think about it a little bit like beauty. I'm getting older, and I've tried to, on the internet never make it about how I look one way or the other, if I'm fit or not, if I'm in sexy outfits or not. Why? Because I'm going to get old. I know what the future looks like, and it's old and wrinkly and saggy tits and all the things, right? And that's cool. It doesn't matter. And so if I can prepare now that maybe people listen because I might have something valuable to say, they don't still have something valuable to say when I'm 80, as long as I'm still with it. I think It's the same with stuff. Somebody could take that from you, but they cannot take ever. Nobody but God can take all the lessons that you've learned while running this business. Nobody but God could take the relationships that you've built from this business. But many things, including the market, could take everything that sits around us. I try to remember that so that I never anchor to it. Don't get me wrong, I am not an actual monk.

I am very flawed. Neither am I. I wish that I was better at some of this, but it is like the habits of millionaires are that they actually, by and large, they don't care about money. They care about winning and they care about learning. And real players find things and money to be uninteresting at some point.

Kody Sanchez, you're amazing. This was so great. I love hanging with you because it's refreshing. We talk about everything from dating to investing to making money to being a good employee. I love that you're so flexible to go anywhere and everywhere because I feel people are going to get so much out of this episode. I hope so. And I'm just so grateful that you're showing up as you are always. Despite everything else crazy life that you have going on as well, you're able to come here and drop wisdom gems with ease. Thank you for the priceless advice. It was so fun. The amazing value. Everyone who's listening and watching, make sure you tag me and Cody on Instagram, on TikTok. Let us know what you're testing. Let us know what resonated with you. Let us know what connected with you because there were so many moments that I was sitting there going, This is great. This is great. I hope someone does this. I want to see what stuck with you. And of course, if you don't already, go and grab a copy of Main Street Millionaire. Subscribe to Cody's podcast. Follow her across social media.

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