"You Can't Teach Hungry" - Billionaire Attorney REVEALS What Separates America’s Top 0.1%

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

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John Morgan shares the personal tragedy that pushed him into law, the entrepreneurial traits shared by top performers, and why childhood hustle shapes future billionaires. A powerful origin story with PBD.

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0:00.0	And before we get into all these stories, you know, for someone to go from where you were at
0:05.4	to now being, having this great success story that you have, maybe walk us through how the whole
0:09.2	thing happened.
0:09.8	How did you go from, you know, wanted to become a lawyer to a law from to where you have today?
0:15.0	Well, it started when I was a sophomore in college.
0:20.5	I got a phone call from my dad.
0:22.3	My brother Tim was a lifeguard at Disney World, been in an accident, was a quadriplegic,
0:28.8	drove in, hit his head on a thing, and I got called.
0:33.5	I went home, and that changed our lives forever.
0:36.9	During that process of his injury and his problems,
0:44.3	I got embroiled in the whole legal process. We were very poor people. Our mother had already left.
0:50.8	Our dad kind of had a drinking problem. I was the oldest, so I was kind of the
0:54.3	quarterback of it all. So I got very engaged in his injury. How are you at that time?
0:59.3	Sophomore in college, 19. So you're 19 years old. You're not thinking about being a lawyer.
1:03.8	I'm thinking about being a lawyer because I suck in science and math. So, you know, that was out.
1:09.8	Doctor was out. CPA was out. Scientist was out. Astronaut was out. So I was thinking about being a lawyer, but I didn't know what personal injury was. Who were you in high school? Like if it went to a part high. Well, who were you in high school? Were you the, were you the athlete? Were you the debate? I was the treasurer of the, I did magic at Walt Disney World in high school. I was that guy. Like Steve Martin.
1:31.5	Yeah. athlete. Were you the debate guy? I was the treasure of the, I did magic at Walt Disney
1:27.5	World in high school. I was that guy. I was like Steve Martin. Yeah, I was a magician at Walt
1:32.7	Disney World. Entertaining, personality. I was very popular in high school. I was at the cool table.
1:39.7	Makes sense. You know? And, uh, uh, so this event happens to your brother. Has my brother? He becomes a paraplegic because of the accident, quadriplegic. And then, and then the lit, then it all begins the process. Got it. Got it. And Disney was so rough on him and so tough on him. And so I got in that process. And the thing about that process, when you're on the other side of it,
2:01.7	and you're poor, and you're helpless, and you're hopeless, and you're powerless,
2:07.5	you can't imagine the frustration. And I became enraged. And as it all went down, I said to myself,
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