About this episode

This episode discusses five spending habits that wealthy individuals refuse to adopt, featuring insights from various successful founders.

We're still surprised people did this but... 50+ founders worth $10M to $4B reveal their personal finances. Here it is: https://joinhampton.com/mw-wr Why do we do this? Because if you're an aspirational person or someone who runs a business and is making money, it's incredibly challenging to figure out what to do. Information is impossible to find — and that's what we put together: the net worth reveal and why we do this podcast, Moneywise. A $3 billion founder's money advice: keep driving the Chevrolet. Here's why the richest guests all say the same five things. After 100+ episodes of Moneywise, the same five spending refusals kept showing up — from a $3B founder who's never sold a company, a guy who lost 95% of his net worth and won't buy his own socks, and Bryan Johnson, who spends $2M a year on his body and almost nothing on anything else. None of them read the research. There's 50 years of it, and they all landed in the same place anyway. This episode covers all five: first class, new cars, meaningless stuff, angel checks, and kids' comfort — plus the study behind each one (lottery winners, the MIT Celtics auction, the marshmallow test follow-up). Then Anne Mahlum, who sold…

People in this episode

Host: Hampton

Guest: Anne Mahlum

Topics covered

• wealth management
• spending habits
• financial advice
• entrepreneurship
• personal finance

Keywords

• rich people
• spending refusals
• financial advice
• entrepreneurs
• personal finance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SolidCore, Moneywise

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