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Bet and I sat down with Arusha Paris from Market Smith to talk about all things training, which are near and dear to my heart.

I feel like you had a really good time with this

conversation. Yes you were very locked in because I had a great time and when we

walked out of our talk with him we went to LA and went to investors

business daily offices and when we walked out of there you have like a peb on your step and you I feel like you

wanted to go trade. Oh yeah. Is that fair to say? So here's a little backstory on my trading career. I left the insurance company I think in

early 2010 and when I left I was delusional, I would be able to find a job in the financial services industry.

I didn't know what I wanted to do. I remember hearing terms like buy-side or sell-side and I didn't know anything.

So what I did when you don't, like most people don't know anything is I went to the library and I started to learn and so I was reading books reading newspapers watching people on stock twits and Twitter, and studying for the CFA exam.

And so I was unemployed, I guess from 2010, I guess my job was to learn, which is not really

a job, but I guess my parents

helped me a little bit with my bills because I had blown through all of the money

that I had saved so when I was in college I was home and I was a waiter and and I was doing that full time so I'd saved up a decent amount of money which allowed me to be at the insurance company for 18 months without earning literally like a single dollar.

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