Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.

And I'm Laura Owens.

We've very much been looking forward to welcoming our guests Jordan Belfort to the show today.

It would be tough to beat Jordan's life story for its extreme highs and devastating lows.

He's had a lot of success at one time making over 50 million a year as the owner of the

Stratton-Okmont stock brokerage firm, and he's also made a lot of mistakes along the way,

which he openly talks about.

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.

In 1999, Jordan pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money laundering and ended up serving 22 months in prison.

He was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street,

which was based on his autobiography of the same name.

Jordan is a great example of someone who's reinvented

himself after a fall from grace, and he works to help others avoid the traps he fell into.

Jordan, thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Tell us about the misconceptions that

you think people might have about you.

Okay, there's different sets of them.

I think on some level, I think some women think that I'm a misogynist,

which is the absolute opposite of what I am. I mean, if there's any person that loves women and respects women, especially in the workplace,

it's me, and I get that from my mom

who was blazing the trail in the 50s when most women weren't in the workplace. My mom was a CPA

working in Manhattan back at the mad men days. And wow, if one pegged of what I saw on that TV

show was true of the 50s, my mom was one brave lady, but she's brilliant, and then she became

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