He Made $400k/Month Before 30... Then Realized It Meant Nothing

About this episode

Nathan May shares his journey from poverty to building a successful agency and the realizations he had about money and happiness.

MoneyWise is a Hampton podcast. Hampton is a private, vetted community for founders doing $3M or more in revenue. Apply at https://www.joinhampton.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=yt051126. From Minecraft maps to $400k months — but the money isn't the story. Nathan May grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Ohio. His mom made $32,000 a year. He never left the state until he was 18. At 15, he was selling custom Minecraft maps to famous YouTubers and making his first $100K. He went to Wharton, joined BCG, quit, and built one of the fastest-growing newsletter agencies in the country before turning 30. But the week he hit his first million dollars, his mom died. And he felt nothing. In this episode, Nathan gets brutally honest about what money actually gave him — and what it didn't. We go deep on the community he's built in New York with a group of founders sharing an office, a monthly revenue leaderboard, and the kind of real talk that doesn't happen anywhere else. He calls it the Media Mafia. He says it's changed his life more than any dollar amount ever has. We also get into: Growing up in poverty and never leaving Ohio until 18 How a Minecraft…

People in this episode

Host: Hampton

Guest: Nathan May

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• personal finance
• community building
• mental health
• business growth

Keywords

• entrepreneur
• Minecraft
• newsletter agency
• wealth
• happiness
• community
• business success
• personal growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hampton, Wharton, BCG, Media Mafia

Places: Ohio

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