I think that's a goal for a lot of people.

They'd love to vault into the tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth.

What we've observed and I've done some research on this as well is really to get that much

money, you're not going to get there typically by just having a little bit of money, 10 grand

or 50 grand and investing it in the stock market.

The way people get that much money, you know, within a few decades of a career is with almost

no exception.

They are owners of a business.

I'm Mary Long and that's John M. Jennings, president of a wealth management firm that specializes

in serving high net worth individuals.

He's also the author of the new book, The Uncertainty Solution, How to Invest with Confidence

in the Face of the Unknown.

Earlier this month, the Dearser Woolard caught up with Jennings to discuss why one and a

million happens more often than you may think and the difficulty of investing in trends.

Quick note, this conversation was recorded on Friday, May 5th.

I love this book because you talk about uncertainty in this way that I think is really important

for people to understand and just to start off with one of the, you give mental models

throughout the book, which is really helpful.

You talk about accepting that the highly improbable happens all the time.

I don't think most of us think of the improbable as happening every day, but if we accept that,

how do you prepare your portfolio and really yourself to handle that?

Well, I'll tell you, it makes life maybe a little less fun because sometimes when we get

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