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At 26 years old, Steve Weiss was homeless in LA, sleeping in his car in a 24 Hour Fitness parking lot. He had $200 to his name. Six years later, he sold his company for over $100 million. The day the money hit his account, he was standing at the holiest place on earth and got an unexpected and tragic phone call. He says the exit gave him one less thing to worry about, but I asked if it made him happy. There's a ton of podcasts out there and resources that teach you how to be wealthy and how to make money. But there aren't that many resources that try to teach you how to handle the life changes that wealth brings. This podcast is brought to you by Hampton, a private, highly vetted community for
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CEOs, business owners, those types of people.
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Most of the people do on average around 25 million a year in revenue. And so I'm able to see tons of conversations about wealth, how to handle all the changes that come with it, how to spend, how to have all these types of conversations that typically just
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aren't happening in public.
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only spoken about behind closed doors.
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The people who come on, they're going to be radically transparent about their numbers. Sometimes they're anonymous, sometimes they're not. In today's episode, we're going to talk about whether or not a $100 million exit makes you happy. In today's episode of Moneywise is Steve Weiss. Welcome back to another episode of Money Wise.
Dan (1:23)
Thanks for joining us today. Steve Weiss, we have as a guest on the show. Thanks again, Steve, for joining us. Sounds like just got done with a workout today. How you feeling?
Steve Weiss (1:31)
Feel great. Dropped my kids off at school when did a quick workout and now I get to hang out with you, Dan. Let's do it.
Dan (1:37)
And it was chest day, which is always nice. I know there's a, there's a whole, a whole group of people that avoid leg day like it's like it's the plague. But I'm actually one of those people that goes to the gym for leg day because I'm a long distance runner. So you have to. I'm the opposite of most people. You got it. You got to force me into a chest day. But I know I'm the weird one in that sense.
