Jordan Belfort: ...that anyone can come back from failure

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The man known as "The Wolf of Wall Street", Jordan Belfort, has had extreme highs and lows in his life. At one time, he made over $50 million a year, but ended up serving 22 months in prison for securities fraud and money laundering. These days, he's working to help others avoid the traps he fell into. As Jordan sees it, "Success, in the absence of ethics, is failure."

Jordan also interview Jan & Laura for his podcast, The Wolf's Den. You can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWQDrsZiSQ.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.6	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.3	We've very much been looking forward to welcoming our guest Jordan Belfort to the show today.
0:21.6	It would be tough to beat Jordan's life story for its extreme highs and devastating lows.
0:27.0	He's had a lot of success at one time making over 50 million a year as the owner of the
0:31.4	Stratton-Okmont stock brokerage firm, and he's also made a lot of mistakes along the way,
0:35.8	which he openly talks about.
0:37.3	In 1999, Jordan pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money. and he's also made a lot of mistakes along the way, which he openly talks about.
0:42.3	In 1999, Jordan pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money laundering and ended up serving 22 months in prison.
0:45.4	He was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street,
0:49.6	which was based on his autobiography of the same name.
0:53.0	Jordan is a great example of someone who's reinvented himself after a fall from grace,
0:58.4	and he works to help others avoid the traps he fell into.
1:02.3	Jordan, thank you so much for joining us.
1:04.5	My pleasure.
1:05.6	Tell us about the misconceptions that you think people might have about you.
1:11.2	Okay, there's different sets of them.
1:13.5	I think on some level, I think some women think that I'm a misogynist,
1:18.8	which is the absolute opposite of what I am.
1:21.8	I mean, if there's any person that loves women and respects women, especially in the workplace,
1:27.2	it's me, and I get that from my mom
1:29.3	who was blazing the trail in the 50s when most women were in the workplace. My mom was a CPA
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