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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcasts listeners.

Welcome to this week's episode.

My name is Kirk Chisholm and I'm going to be your host today.

So today we are going to be speaking with Mesh Lekani. How you doing, Mesh? Doing well.

Thank you. Glad to have me on the show. I'm excited to have you on. I know we've been talking

for a while, and you're going to bring an interesting perspective to the show today that I really

want to share with our listeners. So maybe you can kind of start by telling us a little bit about what you're doing now.

I do a couple things, but mainly a lot of my time is spent on an education platform called Talk Money that started about in November, which is essentially a podcast.

It's a story-driven podcast on business and finance, on how could we potentially teach the general public about concepts around business and finance through stories and more relatable topics?

You know, instead of really going down a personal finance route, you're taking like

personal finance elements and talking about everything from like film and TV and content

creators, you know, multiple businesses,

like the music industry, restaurants, and then obviously more like investing type things.

You know, the feeling was just really more, there needs to be more of a broad base versus

how vertical it is right now, given that there's probably a lot of folks that are, I'm not

really interested in listening to a personal finance thing or reading another personal finance thing. So how else could we reach these people?

So let's talk a little bit about your company, the Mark II Capital, just so we can give the

listeners background. Mark two is an investment fund that I co-founded with my partner, Renick Paley.

Mark two is a fund that started out

essentially as a credit fund. So we were raising money and investing with debt to fintech

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