Codie Sanchez. Understanding Finance and Investments. Episode 687 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)

Dropping Bombs

Brad Lea

Business, Bradlea, Success, Mentor, Coach, Advice, Money, Strategy, Training, Entrepreneurship, Therealbradlea, Entrepreneur, Comedy

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking one of the fastest growing financial media businesses with 6 million followers and 100 million monthly views. Founder of Contrarian Thinking Capital, a venture capital firm, and Main Street Holding Company with 25+ small or what we call “boring businesses.” Think car washes, laundromats, property management companies etc. She is a former partner at one of the largest cannabis investment firms, where she invested in 65+ companies. Her specialty is in the roll-up, turnaround and add-on space. She built First Trust’s $1 billion+ AUM Latin America business and held leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, State Street, and Vanguard. She started as a journalist where she won the JFK award and Howard Buffett Foundation grant for border conflict. Sanchez is a pundit on CNBC, Fox, Forbes, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, People en Español, Business Wire. She was listed as a 25 Most Innovative Leader in Cannabis, The Cannabis Disruptor by MG Retailer, and a Top Young Investor by Forbes. She has an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, a master’s from ESADE and FundaçãoGetúlio Vargas, and a B.A. from Arizona State University. She sits on the board of Permian Capital Hedge Fund, Magma Partners Chilean Venture Fund, and E-commerce Fuel Investment Fund.

In this episode, Brad and Codie discuss how to utilize your finances and your platform to build your wealth and success.

Bombs:

You never lose money educating, yet rather implementing.
The best thing a human being can do is be a curator for the things that go inside their minds.
The things we say about ourselves matter.
We taught people how to be employees instead of owners.

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Learn more about what Codie does https://www.contrarianthinking.co

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0:00.0	Listen up or run for cover.
0:05.0	From the people who have it to the people who need it.
0:10.0	The real problem.
0:13.0	Brad Lee is dropping.
0:16.0	Brad Lee is dropping.
0:17.0	What it is, Brad Lee, back again with another episode of Dropping Bombs today in the studio folks.
0:28.6	As always, I got a real treat for you, but today it's a special treat Cody Sanchez in the house.
0:34.0	Hey Brad excited to be here. I call her Queen of Instagram, Queen of social media, but in reality
0:39.4	folks if you don't know who she is she's founder founder and CEO of contrarian thinking. She's
0:44.0	definitely an influencer. You're all over social media. That's how I first
0:47.1	discovered you. And you know you're you're smart. You're buying businesses, you're doing like you're smart I don't know about that but I do buy businesses
0:57.3	You seem smart and you're very comfortable on social media. Yeah, I had I wasn't in the beginning
1:02.3	Maybe similar to you. I definitely had to get there. I'm more comfortable in spreadsheets, but now social media is just a tool, so you've got to figure out how to use it.
1:12.0	Why spreadsheets? Were you a bookworm as a kid?
1:14.5	Yeah definitely. Bookworm and then I was in finance forever so finance will teach you how to
1:19.2	spreadsheet often and and how to powerpoint. I think people think investment bankers are really clever and mostly we just play with
1:26.5	Excel and play with PowerPoint and that's about it.
1:29.9	Now let me bring it back to high school. Yeah, that's funny, but seriously let's go back to when you were
1:38.6	I don't even know how old you are, but you don't look very old so right good answer. How long ago it I don't really care but let's go back to high school you graduate high school where you live in Phoenix Phoenix and
1:50.1	rich family poor family average family and you did you go to college what was your plan
1:56.8	getting out of high school what was your plan I wanted to be a journalist
2:00.9	that was a plan I'd go and be a print journalist. I wanted to work for the Wall Street Journal. I wanted to work for the New York Times. Not anymore. And that was a plan. And then I started being a journalist for about a year.
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