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Somebody said we should teach our kids money.

They should learn about mortgages and interest rates and compounding and investing.

You know, when I was running for city council the first time, the election was in 2001, but I went around to well-respected business leaders around town.

And one of them was a guy named Dean Canaley.

And he had a blue-chip, well-respected boutique trust company called Canali Trust.

And you had to have a certain threshold to be a client of his boutique firm.

And at the time, it felt like $80 trillion.

But we don't, we didn't, incomes and wealth increased exponentially in the last two decades in a way they had never on scale like that before.

So let's say you had to have a million dollars in 2000 to be his client, which was a big threshold.

And I asked for his support to run for city council.

And he said, I will give you my support if you will give me an hour to talk about the fundamentals of finance, personal finance.

I want you to understand how they work.

And I want to explain it to you.

And I want you to listen to me.

And I did. And it probably turned into two hours.

And I didn't do a lot of what he told me to do at the time.

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