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My First Million

The 2025 Milly Awards!

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Get Steph's free Digits Database with 100+ generation-defining stats: https://clickhubspot.com/stm Episode 776: Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) are joined by Steph Smith ( https://x.com/stephsmithio ) in this year’s LIVE Milly Awards.  — Show Notes: (0:00) Welcome to the 2025 Milly Awards (1:21) Best Investment of the Year (11:09) Worst Investment of the Year (20:30) Biggest Personal L (29:18) Billy of the Year (39:10) Coolest Moment of the Year (52:49) Frame-Breaking Person / Favorite Guest (1:25:38) Meme of the Year — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com  • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano //

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0:00.0

All right, so, Steph, welcome back.

0:02.6

You've been on, I don't know, a dozen times or so. You're a great friend of the pod. We wanted to do this with you. So we have categories, a bunch of categories for the year, and we're going to go rapid fire through them, and we'll do it that way. Okay, so, Steph, you've been given the categories, but we don't know what you said. Sam, I don't know what you said. this will be a surprise for all of us.

0:22.8

I wish I actually would have recapped some of the numbers, but over the last 12 months, Sean, I don't know if you've known this, but we've had something like 90 million views across everything, downloads and views. So pretty wild. That always, that always crossed, I believe, I think we're close to 2 million subscribers across YouTube, Spotify, and Apple

0:43.7

or whatever, which is bananas.

0:46.4

I mean, that number 90 million, that's a lot of, that's a lot of view time, a lot of views.

0:50.4

It's a lot.

0:51.1

And like, there's definitely like one or two shorts that got like 10 million. I think last year, I think we had last year, there was one where we told the story, maybe you told the story of Elon Musk. I think it got 30 million. So like some go really heavy, but it's been pretty crazy. So we've reached tens of millions of people in the last 12 months, which is astounding. And now we do this at the end of every year. And it's one of my

1:11.0

favorite things. We do mostly the same categories each year, but it's always so fun to go

1:16.6

through your phone and look at old photos and see what's going on from your trail in 12 months.

1:20.5

So I'm excited to do this. So category number one, the best investment that you made this year.

1:26.4

Is that right? Best investment you made this year. So, Sam, you want to kick this off? Yeah. So my, if this just says investment, it doesn't say best money investment. My best money investment is always boring because I just do S&P 500 in bonds. But my best real investment that I made was I moved to New York City. And let me tell you the story. So I was living in the suburbs. I decided to move to New York City. I moved here and I found an apartment that I loved. It was furnished amazingly. And I go to the previous tenants. I go, I want to move in this apartment. Do you guys just want to sell me all your furniture? And so I had them itemize all of their furniture and it added up to be very expensive, $80,000 or $90,000 with the stuff. I said, I'll give you 10%. They took it. So I ended up moving to the city in a furnished apartment where I get to see my in-laws four days a week. I go to my office five days a week and it's made me so happy. So that's been my best investment. It was moving to a furnished place. I sold all my cars. I don't own basically anything, and I love it.

2:34.4

Owning less stuff, moving to the city, being near your family, working in person and an office. That's actually a pretty big change over all. Huge change. It's definitely made me a lot happier. Questionable if it's an investment, but it is a huge change. I will give you that. It's an emotional investment. I'm emotionally invested in this city now. See, this is why I don't do index funds and bonds, because imagine if I'm one day on a podcast and they ask me my best investment of the year, and I can't, I have to start talking about seeing my mother-in-law. Like, that's just, that's why I don't, That's why I pick stocks, baby. That's why I do. Yeah. Like, what am I going to say? My net worth went up by 30% this year for the boring stuff.

3:03.9

Steph, what do you got? Best investment of the year. Tell me it's an actual investment and not like, Sean, I'm about to disappoint you, man.

3:04.7

Oh, my God.

3:09.5

The only time I check the S&P is to gauge my husband's mood for the day.

3:09.5

So he invests all our money. disappoint you, man. Oh my God. The only time I check the S&P is to gauge my husband's mood for the day.

3:15.2

So he invests all our money. And so I got to I got to come up with something else. My investment is also not really an investment, but it's Accutane. You guys know what Accutane is.

3:21.5

What? Yes. Yes. Is that like acne medicine?

3:25.2

What is that?

3:25.5

Yes.

3:26.1

Yes.

3:26.4

Yes.

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