Extra: Funding the Future with Gooding

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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David is joined by George Khalaf, executive director of the Fool Community Foundation, for a special Weekend Extra featuring Gooding — musician, storyteller, and founder of Funding the Future. Together they explore Gooding’s mission to reach young people across America with dynamic, music-driven performances that make financial literacy not just understandable, but unforgettable. From inspiring students to pursue their dreams to equipping them with practical tools for money and investing, this conversation highlights the power of creativity, purpose, and education to change lives. Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here: ⁠⁠www.fool.com/breakfastnews⁠⁠ Order David's Rule Breaker Investing book here: ⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/⁠⁠ Host: George Khalaf, David GardnerGuest: GoodingProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.
0:10.6	Happy Saturday, Foolish friends. Welcome to a weekend extra here on Rule Breaker Investing.
0:16.7	Every so often, when something aligns beautifully with the mission of the Motley Fool, in this case of the Fool,
0:22.9	of the Fool Community Foundation, especially our growing focus on helping young people start smart,
0:28.4	start early, and start investing. I like to drop a bonus conversation into your feed, and this
0:34.2	week is one of those times. Now, if you caught Wednesday's podcast, you already
0:38.8	heard me mention this. One of the best gifts we can give the next generation is confidence with money,
0:44.5	understanding it, managing it, and eventually putting it to work as investors. And that's exactly
0:51.3	where today's guest star shines. Now, Gooding is a musician with a mission.
0:57.1	Through his organization funding the future,
0:59.4	he's been taking financial literacy straight to young people
1:02.3	in the most surprising way through live concerts, stories,
1:07.3	and practical lessons that stick.
1:09.6	He's reaching students where they are, speaking their language, giving them a head start.
1:14.3	Many of us probably wish we'd had.
1:16.5	So for this weekend extra, I'm delighted to hand things over to my friend and co-host, George Haloff,
1:22.6	who is the executive director of the Fool Community Foundation, who will really actually be leading this weekend's
1:29.3	conversation as we welcome Gooding and dive deeper into this inspiring work. George, take it away.
1:37.6	Gooding, we're so glad to have you here with us, and I want to just extend you a capital F foolish
1:43.6	welcome to this group.
1:45.9	For listeners who might not be that familiar with your work,
1:51.8	how do you describe what you do at the intersection of music and financial literacy?
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