$200k/Month, a 24,000 Sq Ft House, and a Billion-Dollar Trust. Our Best Moments.
Moneywise
Hampton
4.7 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This is a highlight episode. Three guests. Three completely different relationships with money. All of them more honest than they probably planned to be.
Neil Patel wrote a blog post in 2014 saying he could be happy on $15,000 a month. He meant it. We brought him on to find out how that became $200,000 a month — and where it actually goes. The answer involves $35,000 in bed sheets, four homes in Beverly Hills, and donations that dwarf his actual lifestyle spend.
Hank — not his real name — built a $3 billion cell phone distribution company, exited in 1996 for $60 million, and eventually found himself standing inside a 24,000 square foot house wondering how it happened. He paid $10 million. Cash. No mortgage. And runs it like a part-time job. He never says his net worth. He doesn't have to.
Taylor Adams grew up in a Los Angeles family with over a billion dollars in assets going back to the 1890s. Got sober at 26. Now helps wealthy families avoid destroying what the first generation built. He has a framework for how that destruction happens. He calls it the Four Horsemen. Every one of them sounds like good advice.
Three clips. Three moments worth rewinding.
This is MoneyWise.
FEATURED GUESTS
- Neil Patel — Founder, Neil Patel Digital & Crazy Egg
- Hank — Anonymous. Cell phone distribution. $60M exit. 24,000 sq ft.
- Taylor Adams — Founder, Belief Partners. Fourth-generation family wealth.
ABOUT MONEYWISE
MoneyWise is a Hampton podcast about what wealthy founders actually do with their money. Not how they made it — what they do after. Real numbers. Real allocation. Real feelings about wealth. Hosted by Daniel Berk.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Daniel Burke and this is MoneyWise. I want to say something right up front. |
| 0:08.6 | If you're new here, this show is not what you think it is. MoneyWise is not a show about how to make |
| 0:13.8 | money because there's no shortage of that type of content. You can find it literally anywhere. |
| 0:18.8 | This show is about what happens after. |
| 0:23.2 | What do you actually do when the money is real? |
| 0:29.5 | How do wealthy founders spend it, save it, invest it, and how do they actually feel about their money? |
| 0:34.3 | The numbers, the psychology, the conversations that typically only happen behind closed doors, |
| 0:37.9 | those are the types of conversations that we're going to have on money-wise. |
| 0:42.5 | The show was originally started by Sam Parr. He's the founder of The Hustle. He's the co-founder of Hampton, and it became something genuinely unlike anything else in podcasting. |
| 0:47.6 | Wealthy founders have been talking about their actual financial lives, on the record with |
| 0:52.0 | real numbers. There aren't generalities or no, I did well for |
| 0:56.2 | myself. No, there's actual numbers. What they spend, what they own, what they regret, what surprised |
| 1:02.4 | them, and a lot of the learnings that they have from building highly successful businesses. |
| 1:07.0 | I met Sam Parr a couple years ago and really started to get to know him when he was actually a guest on my podcast. |
| 1:13.1 | Fast forward a bit. I loved what Sam was building with MoneyWise and at his company Hampton, which brings us here. |
| 1:18.7 | I am the new host for MoneyWise. I'm in the middle of producing a lot of new episodes right now that are full of conversations I think are going to be some of the best we've ever made. |
| 1:45.9 | But before those drop, I want to go back through the archive, all of it. And there are moments in those early episodes, moments that I wasn't actually here for in the room, that I think deserve a second listen. So that's what today is. I'm going to play some of my favorite clips from the first few episodes. I'll set each one up and share some of my own thoughts. |
| 1:50.7 | And if you haven't gone back through those early episodes, I highly recommend giving them a listen. |
| 1:51.8 | They're gold. |
| 1:53.4 | Now, let's get into it. |
| 2:01.0 | On the second ever episode of MoneyWise, we had on a guest, Neil Patel. |
| 2:07.7 | Neil runs a bootstrapped SEO agency, Neil Patel Digital, which does around $100 million a year in revenue. He also owns Crazy Egg in a portfolio of software companies he rolls up under |
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