Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.

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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcasts listeners. Welcome to this week's show. My name is Kirk Chisholm and I'll be your host.

So today we're talking with Zach Olman. How you doing today, Zach?

I'm a love and life, Kirk. Thanks for having me on, man.

Good.

Well, glad to have you on the show.

And before he begins, Zach, maybe you can tell the listeners a little bit about your background.

I grew up on a small farming community in Indiana, had big visions of traveling the world, making

money and helping people.

Someone told me, you need to become an investor, business owner, and had no idea what

that was, went to college, graduated from Indiana University to degree in finance and business.

In 2008, and if anyone remembers that, it was not a good time to be in any industry, let alone

finance. But I got a job working down at Chicago Board of Trade, did that for a

little bit. And then I went on and became a valuation analyst, pretty much evaluated anything that

can create a cash flow, specialized in ill-liquid, off-market assets, software, human capital,

things like that. And then took that engine, started my own business.

And so today we run a couple different businesses. We have, you know, like a private equity

model where we come in and we help businesses grow for a piece of the company. And all about,

you know, just helping other people learn about what we do and about how to make money inside

of business. So that's what we spend our time

doing. Nice. So I'm curious, how is your experience in the CBOE? It's like I got to see behind the

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