$100M hedge fund manager: Do not make the mistake of dying rich

I kinda wanted to be like Jesus and just like go forth and build a church. I'm out here. Like I I I don't want to be the guy. You know? A lot of people write books to be the guy. I don't want to be the guy. I want to live my life. The guy wanna be Jesus. But I don't want to be the guy. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be But I want to I'll put my lawn in it like my day song on the roadless travel never looking at the case. So on that note, welcome to the show. I don't know if you know what you're getting into. So basically uh we're a bit of a catfish show. So the show is called My First Million.

And it's a very obnoxious name that I picked six years ago, but but the show got popular, so we didn't change it since then. And so people come because it they think it's all about making money and getting rich. And it kinda was at the beginning. And then as we got rich, we started to f turn our attention as one does to the to living a rich life versus getting rich. Which is the subject of your book. That is how I discovered you. And so we're gonna talk I want to talk a little bit about both. The making of

As well as the using uh of money. And so maybe we start with Can you just explain how'd you make your money? I made my money the original pool of capital, uh I made my main trade in commodities. I trade uh natural gas derivatives. Started out as like uh assistant, assistant peon. as a clerk on a New York Mercantile Exchange floor when

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