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It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool cofounder, David Gardner.

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. If you were with me last week, you know that robots may one day rule the earth, but for at at least I hope at least a good 50 plus

years we're still in charge and that means your investing still matters as does

mine and that's what I'm going to talk about this week.

We've been bouncing around with lots of different topics in recent months,

but today I'm going to go right back to investing, investing stories.

I want to tell you about some of my earliest investments and stories and lessons that proceeded from them.

So I'm excited to go back over six of my earliest first investments and draw some, I hope, important

lessons, whether you're an experienced investor or a new investor, or if you want to share

this with a new prospective investor.

I hope this week's episode will be helpful for you.

I also want to mention that next week is mailbag, so I hope you'll get your questions in.

RBI at fool.com is the email address or you can just go with

at rBI podcast on Twitter and I will feature you if you ask a great

question that I can speak well to next week and speaking of next week

We're gonna have a little bit of a split episode because I'm really excited to have an author joining with me next week. Her name is Candice Millard and if you're a long time rule breaker investing

listener, you know Candice as the author of the two wonderful books, River of Doubt about

Teddy Roosevelt and Destiny of the Republic about the presidency of James Garfield. And Candice is out with her new book. It's about the young Winston

Churchill. It's just out this month and she's dropping by Washington DC and

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