I Discovered Why 90% of People Stay Broke (It's Not What You Think)
The Table with Anthony ONeal
The Neatness Network
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Table with Anthony ONeal, we’re pulling back the curtain on the 5 money lessons I wish I had learned sooner, before the setbacks, the stress, and the scramble to catch up.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
The costly mistakes most people don’t realize they’re making
What I would’ve done differently to build wealth faster
How to course-correct, before it’s too late
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all, today I want to talk to myself. If I could sit down with my younger Anthony O'Neill's self, |
| 0:05.9 | I'm talking about within my 30s. Y'all, I am actually 41. And if I can go back and talk to myself |
| 0:13.5 | 10 years ago, I would literally grab myself by the shoulders and hit him with some hard truths like for real like listen bro listen listen |
| 0:26.4 | because the 30-year-old self was impacted by the 20-year-old self so really I would talk to my |
| 0:31.3 | literally right at that 28 to 30-year-old Anthony O'Neill version because Because I was out there buying flashy cars. I was trying to |
| 0:40.8 | impress people who didn't even care about me. I was making reckless money moves that had me |
| 0:47.3 | playing catch up for years. And can I be real with you, family? I don't want you all making the same |
| 0:54.1 | mistakes I made. So buckle up. I'm going to expose family? I don't want you all making the same mistakes I made. |
| 0:55.4 | So buckle up. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm going to expose myself. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm going to talk to me. |
| 0:59.9 | And whatever you could take from this conversation, I want you to take it. |
| 1:04.6 | And I want you to apply it to yourself because we're going to unpack some harsh but life-changing advice. |
| 1:10.9 | Here's the very first thing that this would go to my younger self. |
| 1:14.6 | Younger, I'm saying 20s, student loans. |
| 1:23.6 | You all know that I am actually I'm actually about two classes away |
| 1:27.5 | at the time of recording this video. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm two classes away from completing my executive MBA. |
| 1:32.4 | I finished my bachelor's last year at Virginia Union, |
| 1:35.1 | University, in finance and in banking. |
| 1:38.4 | My E MBA, my executive MBA will be in church management |
| 1:43.5 | where I'll be able to go inside the churches and help |
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