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Rule Breaker Investing

Three Fools Vol. 2, with Bill Burke & Mahan Tavakoli

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.4959 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you bring together three storytellers, three themes, and a podcast devoted to making you smarter, happier, and richer? You get Three Fools, our continuing episodic series! This time ’round, David is joined by superstar guests Bill Burke and Mahan Tavakoli as they each share three stories—one to educate, one to amuse, and one to enrich. From investing lessons that last a lifetime to laugh-out-loud anecdotes and heartwarming life insights, these nine stories are packed with inspiration and practical takeaways.Host: David GardnerGuests: Bill Burke, Mahan TavakoliProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What happens when you bring together three storytellers, three themes, and a podcast devoted to making you smarter, happier, and richer?

0:09.3

You get three fools!

0:10.8

It's my continuing episodic series in this time round.

0:13.9

I'm joined by two much-admired friends and past guests on this podcast, Optimism Institute founder Bill Burke and CEO coach and AI expert Mahan Tavakoli,

0:25.1

and they're here with me to tell stories, each of us with one to educate, one to amuse, and one to enrich.

0:34.7

Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.

0:39.2

It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.

0:48.0

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. Thanks for joining with us in the middle of April.

0:53.2

Oh my gosh, in Washington, D.C. It was freezing this

0:56.7

morning. I thought that only happened, I don't know, in December or February, maybe March, but it's late

1:01.7

April. Before we get started, I want to mention next week is, of course, our mailbag. So drop me a note,

1:08.1

RBI at fool.com is our email address. You can tweet us out on TwitterX

1:12.7

at RBI podcast. Let me know what you've thought of the podcast this month, specifically

1:18.1

listen in this week around our campfire. Join us. And who moved you? Who educated, amused, and

1:24.3

enriched you? I hope all three of us, but we always love hearing your

1:27.6

thoughts. I learned so much from your reactions to this podcast. It's why we do a mailbag at the end of

1:33.6

every month. And next week is that. Our April 2026 mailbag, if you want to be featured, you want to be

1:39.6

a star, you want to be up in lights. RBI at fool.com is the address.

1:44.9

All right, let me introduce my two guests and then we'll get started.

1:48.2

Bill Burke founded the Optimism Institute in 2022 after an extensive media and sports career

1:54.2

as an executive, writer, and producer.

1:57.0

Bill served as CEO of the Weather Channel companies.

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