Anthony Scaramucci's Resilience: Surviving Trump, FTX and Embracing Bitcoin

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

James welcomes Anthony Scaramucci, a man who has worn many hats—hedge fund manager, White House Communications Director, and now author. Known for his controversial yet impactful presence, Scaramucci shares insights from his new book, "From Wall Street to the White House and Back," offering listeners a unique perspective on resilience, peak performance, and navigating the highs and lows of public and professional life. Whether you love him or hate him, Scaramucci's journey provides valuable lessons on maintaining integrity, finding purpose, and thriving amidst adversity.

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0:00.0	I've known
0:09.0	known Anthony Skaramucci for about 15 years.
0:12.0	We had breakfast 15 years.
0:12.6	We had breakfast 15 years ago after his first book came out
0:15.7	and I had written a review of it in the Financial Times.
0:19.1	You know, at different times we even thought about working together
0:21.9	and I'm talking like you know 10 years ago 15
0:24.4	years ago but always been a very interesting guy of course I know him from the
0:28.0	hedge fund world but later on much later he got involved in the political
0:32.3	world and I mean he turns out he was always involved in the political world and I mean he turns out he was
0:34.1	always involved in the political world but he became the communications director of the
0:38.0	White House under Donald Trump for 11 days and then he got fired and then he came on my podcast after that to talk about
0:46.9	you know then he was more campaigning for Biden he kind of didn't like Trump. So the problem Anthony has is that both sides of the aisle don't like him.
0:59.7	Everybody who's a Democrat thinks he remembers him as a Trump guy and the Trump people hate him because he trashes Trump.
1:06.5	So I like it when people can't figure out what they really are.
1:10.6	But love him or hate him.
1:12.1	Anthony Skaram
1:13.0	has been in the middle of all the top news events of the past 10-15 years,
1:18.6	from Trump to being involved with FTX, FTX and Sam Bankman Freight tried to buy Anthony's firm, Skybridge and bought a stake in it and that's part of the whole kind of bankruptcy proceedings.
1:30.8	He just wrote a book from Wall Street to the White House and back.
1:35.2	It's the Scaramuchi Guide to Unbreakable Resilience. And we start off by talking,
1:40.6	why do people either love them or hate them and I point out that this is this is an
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