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We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

RWH030: From Poverty To Power w/ Arnold Van Den Berg

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, William Green speaks with Arnold Van Den Berg, who spent the first years of his life in hiding during the Holocaust & overcame enormous obstacles to become a renowned investor. Here, Arnold shares practical tools, techniques, & principles that helped him gain control over his mind & body so he could lift himself out of poverty & depression. His mission: to guide & empower others on their journey toward happiness, success, & prosperity.


IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

06:09 - How this conversation fulfills Arnold Van Den Berg’s decades-old dream.

09:43 - How he began his career by collecting garbage & working in a gas station. 

12:35 - How a stranger’s kindness changed him forever.

21:01 - Why Arnold grew up believing he was dumb & was going nowhere.

39:35 - What he learned from his mother’s incredible courage in Auschwitz. 

52:33 - How he fell into a deep depression & rebounded from it.

1:03:27 - How self-hypnosis enabled him to change his beliefs.

1:11:45 - What resources can teach you to harness your subconscious mind.

1:19:50 - What techniques he uses to counter negative thoughts.

1:43:43 - How he nurtures his physical health.

2:07:59 - How to become happier by helping others & giving love.

2:13:20 - How to build & sustain positive habits.

2:23:15 - What gives Arnold the greatest joy.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TIP.

0:03.0

Hi there, my guest today is Arnold Vandenberg, who's one of the most inspiring and extraordinary

0:08.0

investors I've ever met.

0:10.0

As some of you may remember, when I was trying to decide who to write about it at the very

0:13.8

end of my book, Rich Elkweiser, Happier, I decided that I really had to close the book

0:18.4

by telling Arnold's story.

0:20.5

And here's what I wrote about him when I introduced him in the epilogue of the book.

0:25.6

When I think about what constitutes a successful and abundant life, the investor who embodies

0:30.4

it best for me is Arnold Vandenberg.

0:32.5

He's not a billionaire or a genius, he doesn't own a yacht or a plane, yet there's nobody

0:37.6

in the investment world whom I admire more.

0:40.9

If I had to choose just one role model from all of the remarkable investors I've interviewed

0:45.8

over the last quarter of a century, it would be him.

0:49.0

He was dealt a terrible hand, but is defied overwhelming odds to achieve a life of prosperity

0:54.8

that goes far beyond money.

0:57.1

As I explained in the book, Arnold's life really got off to a catastrophically awful start.

1:02.4

He was born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1939, a year before the Nazis invaded

1:09.4

the Netherlands, and Arnold spent the first couple of years of his life in hiding actually

1:14.2

on the same street where Anne Frank lived.

1:17.0

And then he was hidden in an orphanage where he survived, but more or less starved during

1:22.2

a period when his parents were sent to Auschwitz.

1:25.5

Amazingly, both of his parents survived the concentration camps, but 39 members of Arnold's

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