Jordan Belfort on His Incredible Life, Victimhood Mentality, and the Keys to Entrepreneurial Success | Ep. 182

The Megyn Kelly Show

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4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Jordan Belfort, best-selling author, entrepreneur and the title character portrayed in "The Wolf of Wall Street," to talk about his incredible life, victimhood mentality, the keys to entrepreneurial success, what was accurate and what wasn't in the award-winning movie "The Wolf of Wall Street," growing up and getting rich, his drug use and love of money, the financial industry of today, ethical compromises, getting to know Leonardo DiCaprio, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.8	Joining me today, the one and only Wolf of Wall Street.
0:19.8	Jordan Belford.
0:20.8	In the 1980s and 90s, Jordan ran one of the most successful brokerage firms in Wall Street
0:26.4	history, also one of the craziest.
0:30.2	He lived a life of luxury with money, yachts, women and drugs, but he could not last forever.
0:37.4	Soon the FBI would catch up and catch on to a multi-million dollar pump and dumps Doc
0:43.9	Mannic manipulation scheme that would land Jordan in federal prison for 22 months.
0:50.3	He would later write a New York Times bestselling book, The Wolf of Wall Street, and soon Hollywood
0:55.6	would come knocking.
0:56.6	And A-list actors would launch a bidding war for the movie rights.
1:01.1	Leonardo DiCaprio would go on to portray Jordan in the now very famous and high-grossing
1:06.6	film.
1:07.6	It's incredible life and incredible life lessons that Jordan has gotten along the way.
1:12.1	And today he is my guest and we'll discuss it all.
1:15.6	Jordan, thank you so much for being here.
1:17.3	It was a nice pleasure.
1:18.8	Okay, so I'm all, I'm, I've saw Wolf of Wall Street when it came out in 2013 and now
1:24.2	I've read the book and have been following you on Twitter and I love your inspirational
1:29.1	messages.
1:30.1	You really have taken a lot of these life lessons to heart.
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