Telling Their Stories, Vol. 6: Sports, Family & Finance

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

You know Bill Barker’s and Robert Brokamp’s investment advice from years of contributions to our podcasts and services. But did you know where and how they started? Sports, family, and finance keep popping back up in their life stories expressed in 10 sentences, in the stock graphs of their lives, and in the three key moments that have made these admirable men the Foolish investors that they are.

Host: David Gardner
Guests: Bill Barker (3:11), Robert Brokamp (42:26)
Producer: Desiree Jones

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0:00.0	Who lives? Who tells your story? Runs that poignant lyric from the American hit musical
0:08.0	Hamilton. Well, storytelling has been at the heart of this podcast for many of the 450 weeks and counting we've shared together.
0:16.7	But it didn't occur to me until a few years ago to start a new episodic series that features
0:21.9	some of your favorite Motley Fool personalities telling their story.
0:26.2	Because regardless of who lives, who dies, and the truth is we all do, the unanswered question is, who tells your story?
0:35.0	And so I thought, why not have them do so?
0:38.0	Why not have you do so this week, Bill Barker, Robert Brokeamp, where'd you come from? If you had to tell your story in just 10 sentences, how would you tell it? And what does the stock graph of your life look like? And what were the three key moments that made you into the investor you are today?
1:00.0	Telling their stories, volume 6 kicks off right here, right now, only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:08.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
1:15.0	Okay, welcome back and if you missed that espresso shot of optimism that Bill Burke uncorked on this podcast last week, go back and
1:27.4	listen to it or share it with a glass half empty friend, at least recognizing the serious and real health benefits to being more
1:35.8	optimistic etc. As I said last week that episode is timeless it's going to be a
1:41.4	great one to bookmark and go back to any time you or
1:45.1	someone you know needs a pep talk. Thank you again to the optimism
1:49.8	institutes Bill Burke for suffering fools gladly last week. And now without further
1:55.3	ado this week the sixth in our episodic series telling their stories. Let me
2:01.7	remind you how this works. Telling their stories features Let me remind you how this works.
2:03.0	Telling their stories features the life stories of some of our favorite investors, long-time
2:07.2	motley fool personalities.
2:08.8	The storytelling has three building blocks.
2:11.2	The first, the story of your life in 10 sentences. Have you ever done
2:16.4	that, dear listener? It's available to all. Try it sometime. Well, two people who have definitely
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