Welcome to the good money, good hands, good work podcast, where we believe money is not bad and good people should have more of it.

Good money in the hands of good people gets good work done. I'm your host, Derek Kinney. If you've watched the hit TV show Shark Tank,

it may seem like one big deal with the shark is all it takes to make someone an overnight success.

But as you'll hear from my guest, successful entrepreneur and one of those sharks making those big

deals, Damon John says overnight success takes about 15 years. In our conversation

together, Damon shares lessons he's learned through his own successes and failures. Why he says

whether you're making $30,000 a year or $30 million, your financial intelligence is what matters.

And if you're thinking about starting your own business or you want to grow the business you have 30 million, your financial intelligence is what matters.

And if you're thinking about starting your own business or you want to grow the business you have now, he says to be selfish in a good way.

I think you'll enjoy my conversation with Damon John.

Damon, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

Well, Damon, let's get right into it.

Talk about lessons you

learned growing up and what was your perception of money? You know, my perception of money was

is hard to obtain. You know, growing up as somebody of color, it was, you just couldn't imagine how massive wealth was built.

It was generational wealth that, you know, being African American, we didn't have the luxury of having.

And you were either, you know, somebody who was wealthy and you weren't black, or if you were,

you were somebody who had something to do with sports or music, and, uh, that's pretty much it.

And I never thought that I would be able to make anything, meaning of significance. I mean,

hopefully I would be able to, you know, have the American dream one day be able to own a home

but worked hard enough, but it was, that was the top of the ladder of where I would make it.

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