481 | Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll: “Financial Literacy is Not a Skill; It’s a Lifestyle.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
It’s Finance Friday with Curtis “Wall Street” Curtis, who shares his inspiring story about going from a life of crime to a life of empowerment and how we can greatly improve ourselves and our society with financial literacy. For more from Curtis, visit wallstreetfeel.com. You can find today’s talk here.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to The Court of the Day Show. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your host, Sean Crox and the Sean Croxon.com |
| 0:29.8 | Thanks so much for tuning in to our finance Friday episode. |
| 0:32.5 | We talk about all things money mindset. |
| 0:34.2 | We've got Curtis, Wall Street, Carol on the show today, |
| 0:38.1 | and you are about to get a lesson in financial literacy |
| 0:43.1 | from the most unlikely of places, San Quentin Prison. |
| 0:47.6 | Here's Curtis. |
| 0:50.1 | I was 14 years old inside of a bowling alley, burglarized in an arcade game. |
| 0:59.5 | And upon exiting the building, a security guard grabbed my arm so I ran. |
| 1:04.0 | I ran down the street and I jumped on top of a fence. |
| 1:07.0 | And when I got to the top, the weight of 3,000 quarters in my book bag |
| 1:10.8 | pulled me back down to the ground. |
| 1:13.1 | So when I came to the security guard, I was standing over top of me and he said, |
| 1:16.6 | next time you look punk still, some of you can carry it. |
| 1:21.6 | I was taking a juvenile hall. |
| 1:23.9 | And when I was releasing to the custody of my mother, |
| 1:27.4 | the first words my uncle said was, how'd you get caught? |
| 1:30.4 | I said, man, the book bag was too heavy. |
| 1:32.6 | He said, man, you weren't supposed to take all the quarters. |
| 1:34.4 | I said, man, it was small. |
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