A Fool for Life, with Rick Engdahl

Rule Breaker Investing

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Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

4.5 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Here's an experiment: Take a young artist with no interest in investing, no financial savvy, and a ton of debt, and then drop him into the deep end of Foolishness. Wait 25 years, and what do you get? A Fool for life! This week, producer Rick Engdahl comes to the other side of the glass to reflect on what he's learned from 10 years of RBI and a career at The Motley Fool. Host: David Gardner Guest: Rick Engdahl Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today, we're pausing our usual programming to celebrate someone who's made every episode you've heard
0:05.9	over the past decade sound a little clearer, flow a bit smoother, and dare I say, shine a whole
0:13.3	lot brighter. Rick Engdahl, my friend and producer extraordinaire, is retiring after 10 remarkable
0:19.9	years of producing the Rule
0:21.7	Breaker Investing podcast. Whether you've known his name or not, you've experienced his
0:26.1	handiwork, his meticulous editing, his creative touch, sometimes his voice, always his boundless
0:33.5	patience in turning my sometimes rambling ideas into crisp, polished episodes. We're here to
0:40.0	celebrate Rick Engdahl this week only on Rule Breaker Investing. It's the Rule Breaker Investing
0:47.2	podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner. A horse of a different color, for sure, this week, a special podcast.
0:57.9	It's not every week or even year that your original producer, the OG, of Rule
1:03.0	Breaker investing, rides off into the sunset.
1:06.3	Ten years after we started this podcast together in July 2015, here in June 2025, this special
1:14.2	podcast, a happy and sad podcast, we bidded you to Rick Engdal. Rick is retiring from the
1:21.0	Motley Fool after 25 and a half years of service to fools everywhere, helping make the world
1:27.1	smarter, happier, and richer.
1:29.5	And that means that Rick is also retiring from the Rule Breaker Investing podcast this week as well.
1:35.5	And so my special guest is Rick Engdahl.
1:38.2	And Rick has brought a, I think it's a top 10 list this week to shower listeners with wisdom,
1:43.5	humor, and appreciation will reflect on
1:46.3	what he's learned, what we've all learned, as a consequence of working together for a long
1:51.5	time. Investing returns compounded. The Motley Fool, we celebrate the power of compounding returns
1:57.8	driven by the stock market. And yet many other good things in life
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