November 2024 Mailbag: Community Encouragement Cycle
Rule Breaker Investing
The Motley Fool
4.5 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How do you thank someone for saving your life? In this year’s Gratitude episode, Boyd Dunleavey shares his extraordinary journey from beating cancer to running marathons—and how investing in companies like Nvidia and Shopify changed his family’s future. Listener stories span the globe, from a school founder in Japan to a Fool in Bangalore with a portfolio full of 10-baggers. Along the way, David reflects on the power of community, the lessons of loss, and why gratitude is the ultimate fuel for a richer life. This is Thanksgiving, Rule Breaker-style.
Host: David Gardner
Producer: Desirée Jones
Companies mentioned: AMZN, AXON, COST, MELI, META, NFLX, NVDA, SHOP, TSLA, TTD
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| 0:00.0 | Thanksgiving, a holiday here in the U.S. this week, but actually something that's even richer |
| 0:05.9 | if you practice it every day. Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude, reflection, and connection, |
| 0:12.2 | and I'm grateful to share this episode with you. This week, we're going to explore the power |
| 0:17.5 | of kindness, the transformative magic of community. And the amazing journeys |
| 0:22.9 | you've shared with me over the years from marathon stories to life-changing investments to thank |
| 0:28.1 | you notes from around the world. This is an episode about celebrating what we have and those |
| 0:33.4 | who inspire us to be better. So let's gather at the table of gratitude together, shall we? |
| 0:40.7 | Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing. |
| 0:45.2 | It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner. |
| 0:53.1 | Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing this holiday week here in the United States of America. |
| 0:58.8 | A bunch of notes coming in from outside the U.S., even wishing me and us, happy Thanksgiving from many well-wishers worldwide. |
| 1:07.3 | Thank you each for the time that you took to send notes into our mailbag. Our email |
| 1:12.3 | address has always been. I hope we'll always be RBI at fool.com. So if you ever feel yourself |
| 1:17.8 | inspired to write in, maybe you highly agree with something. Maybe you highly disagree with something. |
| 1:22.9 | We share all kinds via the mailbag. This week's mailbag, probably because it comes after my annual |
| 1:29.3 | gratitude podcast, is about the most loving, kind mailbag I could ever imagine. And I'm just delighted |
| 1:35.0 | to share it with you. But I've taken on many different questions over the years. And I always |
| 1:39.5 | encourage beautiful questions, hard questions, important questions. That's what we feature at the end of every |
| 1:45.8 | month, as we've done for years and years now on Rule Breaker Investing. This is the final Wednesday |
| 1:50.6 | of the month, Wednesday, November 27th, it is your mailbag. Before we get started, let's look back |
| 1:57.1 | on the month that was for this podcast. There were three preceding podcasts. We kicked it off |
| 2:02.1 | with tips, tricks, and life hacks, volume 10, a long-running episodic series. As is the case for this one, |
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