Billionaire Lawyer spills his $250M side hustles (pick one)

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Get the side hustle ideas database: https://clickhubspot.com/trm Episode 774: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) talk to America’s richest lawyer John Morgan ( https://x.com/JohnMorganESQ ) about his fly-wheel side hustles. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:08) Wonderworks (7:00) Alcatraz East ($5M/yr) (13:00) John's earliest hustles (17:11) Morgan & Morgan (29:48) The John Morgan School of Branding (33:30) Downtown Flavortown (37:55) WWGD - What would Google do (47:30) What John would chase today (48:58) The winning formula (52:05) Santa's Chocolate Factory (56:11) Malls (1:01:36) Bullets before bombs (1:02:13) “fish first, fish fast” — Links: • WonderWorks - https://www.wonderworksonline.com/ • Alcatraz East - https://www.alcatrazeast.com/ • Morgan and Morgan - https://www.forthepeople.com/ • Litify - https://www.litify.com/ • Practice Made Perfect - https://www.pmpmg.com/ • Mass Torts Made Perfect - https://mtmp.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano //

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0:00.0	I don't hunt deer, I hunt money.
0:02.0	You own one of the biggest, if not the biggest, law firm in the country.
0:06.0	We've seen your face on the billboards from Morgan to Morgan.
0:08.0	And if you just want to say Morgan, that'd be great too.
0:11.0	My big vision was this.
0:14.0	What if Google was a law firm? What would it look like?
0:18.0	You just became a lawyer to fund your Harney ambitions.
0:21.6	And that's pretty badass.
0:23.6	I built an attraction called Alcatraz East, and it just prints money.
0:29.6	I've got apartment complexes.
0:33.6	I've got shopping centers.
0:35.6	That prints money, too. He's basically like half Walt Disney, half shark.
0:40.4	Where my competition gets beat by me is 95% of them are shit. I'm not hunting cockroaches. I'm hunting big game.
0:49.3	I got goosebumps, John. I love that answer. That was incredible. So first of all, welcome to the pod. You know,
1:02.5	we're on. And I'm from the South, I'm from Missouri and Tennessee. I live in Tennessee for a while.
1:08.0	And I've been trying to convey to Sean this idea that I call
1:11.5	Capitol Men. And I was like, Sean, I don't know how to explain it, but they just kind of followed the process and they just do thing to thing to thing. And they don't overthink stuff. And they're just ballers. And you are a good example of that. I'm hearing how you talk. And I'm like, you are exactly what I'm talking about, these capital men, these guys who just get into stuff, and it's like an onion.
1:30.8	They just have layers. I'm hearing how you talk and I'm like, you are exactly what I'm talking about, these capital men, these guys who just get into stuff and it's like an onion.
1:30.6	They just have layers of stuff that you don't even know about.
1:33.4	And so for this podcast, maybe we can ask you about like the, I think you have like 10 or something different businesses.
1:39.4	We can like ask you about each one because everyone knows you as the law firm guy, but that might not be the
1:45.1	most interesting thing about you. Well, believe it or not, I've told this to my wife all the time.
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