422: Billy McFarland | From Fyre Fest Fiasco to Federal Prison
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Billy McFarland co-founded the ill-fated 2017 Fyre Festival, and is currently serving six years in federal prison for defrauding investors of $27.4 million.
What We Discuss with Billy McFarland:- The ideas that sparked what Fyre Festival was trying to achieve on an epic scale and the shortcomings that transformed it into a fraudulent, failed mess.
- The countless things Billy would do differently if he could have a do-over.
- The numerous ways in which prisons are warehouses of unmet potential.
- How Billy stays safe and sane when he's in solitary confinement.
- Billy's biggest regrets and what he hopes to have a chance to accomplish after he's served the time he agrees he deserves.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Microsoft Teams. |
| 0:03.1 | When there are more ways to be together, |
| 0:04.8 | there are more ways to be a team. |
| 0:06.8 | Coming up on the Jordan Harpinger Show. |
| 0:09.5 | The magical thinking wasn't where I went wrong. |
| 0:11.7 | It was how I embarked on that. |
| 0:13.0 | And I embarked on it by lying and trying to be sure I could. |
| 0:15.7 | One thing GLS taught me is like our brains |
| 0:17.8 | are constantly trying to give us excuses or reasons |
| 0:21.4 | not to pick the hard path, not to put in the hard work |
| 0:24.4 | and not to make ourselves summer. |
| 0:26.2 | And that's where you need to embrace. |
| 0:27.7 | You need to acknowledge that and say, |
| 0:28.9 | you know what, the hard path is the right way. |
| 0:30.7 | It's not worth it to take this work on to go faster |
| 0:32.5 | because things don't work. |
| 0:34.4 | So I made the bad decision to lie to try to get what I wanted |
| 0:38.3 | faster than I deserve to get it. |
| 0:40.2 | And that's where I totally fucked up. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm Jordan Harpinger. |
| 0:48.1 | On the Jordan Harpinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, |
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