Welcome everyone to another episode of the Main Street Business Podcast where I have the honor and the privilege of interviewing Anthony Scaramucci.

Now, his name may ring a bell as he was the former White House Director of Communications and has released the new book from Wall Street to the White House and back.

And we're going to talk more about that with him on the ability and resiliency

to pick yourself back up after being knocked down. His insights are incredible. But most importantly,

he is a financial genius. And currently serving as founder and managing partner of Skybridge

Capital, he has been named one of the 100 most powerful people in global finance. He is also a titan in the industry of Bitcoin and the NFT marketplace,

and it was recently also named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.

Bottom line, Anthony brings unparalleled expertise,

helping entrepreneurs from Main Street all the way to Wall Street

to better succeed in

the American dream.

Anthony, thanks so much for being with the Main Street Nation, if you will.

We stand in awe of you because we know you came from Main Street.

I want to ask you about that, but thanks for being with us. Really, it's an honor. Well, listen, I mean, that's very flattering. I appreciate

you saying that, Mark. I mean, you know, my upbringing, I think, has prepared me for so many different things. You know, I'll just say this to you. You know, my dad said to me, when I got my job at Goldman Sachs and he didn't know what Goldman Sachs was, you know, the difference between

different places. My mother was embarrassed for me, by the way, that I went to work at Goldman Sachs, and he didn't know what Goldman Sachs was, you know, the difference

between different places. My mother was embarrassed for me, by the way, that I went to work at Goldman Sachs because she wanted to be a lawyer. I'd go to law school. And so she told her friends, I was at a law firm called Goldman and Sachs. I just gave me a sense for the family I grew up in. Nobody was educated. Nobody went to college.

My father said something to me that small business owners know, okay? He said, I never want you to complain about your job. And I said, why is that, pop? He said, well, you know what? You're indoors. You're out of the rec sunlight. And there's no heavy lifting. And he said that to me 35, 36 years ago. And I got to tell you, he was right about that because you're indoors.

I'm indoors, we're blessed with that. A lot of people work

outside, you know, when I'm on the road, when I see a guy with his yellow vest on and the helmet

and the reflector stuff, I think my dad, that's what he did. You know, he did that for 44 years. My parents, my dad was a Main Street entrepreneur too and the lessons you learn. And that's what I want to ask you about it even a little bit further. I knew you grew up in Long Island. I spent a couple years in Bayshore just down the road from you. And 80s.

The Enten's Bakery factory is. Remember the Anthony's day. Totally. Yeah. I would stop there and

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