Yeah, so that was a journey. When I first started, I remember I went down to Edward Jones and I wanted to buy a boat. I, you know, I, all my, I was 20, all my friends were going down to this reservoir, and I only had enough money for a jet ski, but I thought, you know, if I invest this money, I'm going to be able to buy a boat.

So I went down to Edward Jones and I had about $4,500 to my name.

That was everything I had.

And I gave this to Edward Jones and they put it all in one stock.

And within three years, I couldn't go out to dinner

with what was left and I learned a valuable lesson there to me.

You know at the time I was very upset because it was everything that I had and I worked hard for that money but I realized that nobody was going to look out for my money like I was. I had to be smarter. I had to know where my investments were going and I couldn't rely on other people to do this for me.

You're listening to the Millionaires Unvealed Podcast, where you'll hear the stories and interviews of everyday millionaires.

We'll unveil their decisions, their strategies, and their current portfolio allocation.

Now to your hosts, Clark Sheffield and J. Mattingson.

Welcome back to another episode of the Millioners and

Podcast.

This is episode number 267.

I wanted to address a couple of emails

that we've received recently.

One of them, one of the people, I guess a couple of them, but one in particular has been asking for us as the host, which at this point now is just me to do an update on our situation and some things we've learned.

And we get this request a lot.

In fact, it's probably the most common request we get is hey what have you learned

what you know what are the common themes of all these millionaires you've you've interviewed

and everything like that.

I think what we're going to do and just to,

one, I will do an update on myself and probably wait

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