Ep. 34 - James Altucher's Life Story

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2014

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Each week, we get to hear little snippets of James Altucher's life, but we never get the full story.Today that changes. Today, Claudia turns the tables on James and interviews HIM. If you know James, you have heard him say that he has lost and made millions back and at times mention that he felt as if he was going to die.So Claudia jumps right into the questions that so many of us want to know more about. "Why were you going to die?""People lose money every day... how many millions did you lose?""How did you lose it? How did you make it back again?" James reveals all the mistakes that led to his darkest moments... times where he thought he would never see the light again.Divorced, no job, completely broke, millions have been lost. When you feel that your children would be better off with your life-insurance policy instead of you... how do you come back from something like that?And... James reveals a HUGE secret that nobody else knows... not even Claudia.He has always been open and honest with his listeners and followers of his blog, twitter, and Facebook. But today EVERYTHING is revealed... absolutely nothing is off the table.He was able to completely turn his life around... something that most individuals in the same type of situations would not be fortunate enough to do.His success, triumph, and passion are truly admirable and could be inspiration to use toward your own life.It is the ultimate "choose yourself" episode... Enjoy. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.5	This is the James Altature Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:12.8	This is James Altature at, I always say it's a very special James Altature Show because
0:18.9	all of them are really special to me, but this one actually is special because my guest
0:26.0	and I'll introduce her in a second. My guest is Claudia, actually I'll say hi. Claudia, how are you doing?
0:32.2	Hi James, happy to be here. Claudia is my wife and instead of having like the normal guests that
0:39.0	I usually have, Claudia not that you're abnormal or anything. I think I am actually.
0:45.5	Maybe you are because you married me, but maybe most people can say that about their husbands and
0:51.2	wives. But I kind of wanted to describe a little bit more, I wanted the tables turned on me.
1:00.8	So Claudia, who knows me better than some people, is going to interview me and basically talk about
1:10.9	it has stiggin and how I chose myself and why I'm really doing this podcast and why I think it
1:18.7	can help people, why I want to help people and why I think you can choose yourself too and what
1:25.1	benefits there are. That's a big list of things, Claudia. You're going to have a very big list.
1:29.3	I know pressure on me or anything. You're the biggest one. No, but you're making an outline or
1:34.4	anything or I'm totally free to interview you. But of course what I'm going to do is just listen to
1:40.8	you say yeah and then just do whatever I want. So let's just start with, there is this sentence
1:48.7	that I've heard a lot of times in your talks and you say I was going to die. This is a very,
1:56.8	it's something that I've heard you say many times and I want to know why were you going to die.
2:03.9	It sounds like you're laughing there. Like are you laughing at the thought of me dying?
2:08.4	I am laughing. I am laughing actually, yes, because I don't believe you're going to die now,
2:14.0	but I don't believe. I promise in my will I've left you all of my $2 bills.
2:20.4	You better, if I like those. If I die you can have all of them. I think I have like $3,000
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