🚨 INVEST WITH COREY EXPOSED! 🚩 Is ‪@investwithcorey‬ a LIAR?🚨

Summary

Wealth and Health Podcast Episode: 🚨 INVEST WITH COREY EXPOSED! 🚩 Is ‪@investwithcorey‬ a LIAR?🚨
Host: David Jaffee
Date: May 2, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this episode, host David Jaffee conducts a thorough critical analysis of Corey ("Invest with Corey")'s personal and financial journey as presented in a testimonial-style video. Jaffee systematically examines Corey's narrative—from divorce, hardship, and bankruptcy to alleged trading successes and teaching ambitions—highlighting inconsistencies and questioning the credibility of Corey's story. Throughout, Jaffee uses a skeptical lens, urging listeners to beware of manipulated "hero's journey" marketing in the financial influencer space.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Corey's Backstory and Divorce Claims

• Corey describes his difficult divorce and custody battle, painting himself as the victim and emphasizing personal and financial turmoil.
  • Notable Claim: He says he bought a house in 2019 with family help and moved to improve his situation with his children (01:00–01:48).
• Jaffee's Response:
  • Questions the credibility of the house purchase:

    “...in 2019 he was arrested also with the civil case. It shows that he stopped paying rent in 2020. If he purchased a home in 2019, then why would he be sued for not paying rent?...” (01:22)

  • Suggests a pattern of self-victimization in Corey's story:

    “It’s weird that he’s making himself out to be the victim… I bet you...it probably would not paint her out to be some sort of monster...” (03:13)

2. The Impact of the Pandemic

• Corey: Claims COVID-19 devastated his event-based business, forcing him to refund clients and leaving him bankrupt, with two children to support (03:45–05:09).
  • Notable Emotional Moment:

    “It was really bad. Like, really bad...11 years of everything that I’ve worked hard for gone. Like, gone. Like, I had nothing.” (04:40)

• Jaffee's Analysis:
  • Points out an inconsistency regarding refunds:

    “That’s a little bit strange considering that he was sued for keeping the money. I’m not really sure. There’s some type of disconnect there where he’s claiming that he refunded everything, but then he was sued for not refunding.” (04:56)

  • Highlights Corey's use of the “hero’s journey” narrative to connect emotionally with the audience:

    “He’s walking me through the hero’s journey where he always had a ton of potential…but then he persevered...” (05:21)

3. The Alleged Trading Turnaround

• Corey: Describes rediscovering an $85,000 Amazon investment he claims to have forgotten, then rapidly growing his trading account through options strategies (06:35–12:52).
  • “Miracle” Moment:

    “When I logged in my portfolio, I felt like it was a mirac[le]. Like, my hands were shaking. I literally could not believe what I saw...$85,000 in my Amazon position...” (06:47)

  • Talks about discovering selling puts and covered calls, learning the market, and building his account up to $300,000 and beyond (09:04–12:52).
• Jaffee's Critique:
  • Questions the plausibility of Corey's ignorance of his brokerage account:

    “It’s weird that he says this because his bio for his wedding photography business indicates that he went to Full Sail University. And there’s no mention there that he studied finance at all.” (06:35) “For him to say that he hadn’t logged into his brokerage account for years doesn’t make sense...If he didn’t ...produce all the bank statements...then they would be subpoenaed.” (07:37)

  • Skeptical about the size and success of the claimed portfolio:

    “I would say the probability of that actually being true is maybe 10 or 20%. Obviously, I don’t know unless we subpoena his trading statements, but my gut feeling is that it’s not accurate.” (13:02)

  • Warns about aggressive put-selling as a dangerous strategy:

    “Selling very aggressive put options is very dangerous...you can get forced into a margin call...” (11:22)

4. Pivot to Teaching and Sales Messaging

• Corey: Presents his trading success as a result of discipline and learning, culminating in a desire to help others—especially those going through tough circumstances as he did (13:14–15:47).
  • Inspirational Appeal:

    “If I can do this, you can do it too. ...I really wanted to help people. There's so many people that struggle...” (14:07–14:09)

  • Emphasizes giving back, mentorship, and charity, but interlaces with persistent calls to action:

    “Give me your thousands of dollars and I want to share those with you guys. Give me your money and I'll share it with you to a degree.” (15:11–15:15)

• Jaffee's Commentary:
  • Identifies the narrative as a common marketing tactic designed to gain trust and encourage financial commitment from the audience:

    “What a lot of these guys do is they manufacture a backstory and fill it in with half-truths so that it’s the most marketable and compelling backstory...that way they can gain your trust and separate you from your money.” (16:24)

  • Predicts the “closing pitch” structure of influencer sales stories well before Corey delivers it, highlighting the formulaic approach:

    “...my gut feeling is that he’s going to flip it and make it seem like he’s doing you a favor by teaching you everything that he knows.” (12:16) “I nailed it and I called it. Let’s see what he says here.” (13:58)

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Memorable Quotes

• Corey on personal loss and perseverance:

  “It was really bad. Like, really bad...11 years of everything that I’ve worked hard for gone. Like, gone. Like, I had nothing.” (04:40)

• Jaffee, highlighting skepticism:

  “So he’s walking me through the hero’s journey...but unfortunately I don’t believe that much of it is actually true. Look at that acting, look at that.” (05:21)

• Corey on his supposed trading epiphany:

  “When I logged in my portfolio, I felt like it was a mirac[le]. Like, my hands were shaking. I literally could not believe what I saw...$85,000 in my Amazon position...” (06:47)

• Jaffee on influencer marketing strategy:

  “What a lot of these guys do is they manufacture a backstory and fill it in with half-truths so that it’s the most marketable and compelling backstory...” (16:24)

• Corey’s sales pitch crescendos:

  “If I can do this, you can do it too.” (14:07)
  “Give me your thousands of dollars and I want to share those with you guys. Give me your money and I'll share it with you to a degree.” (15:11–15:15)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 01:00–01:48 – Corey recounts divorce and house purchase
• 03:45–05:09 – Business collapse during COVID-19, emotional lows
• 06:35–07:37 – Discovery of Amazon investment, narrative inconsistencies
• 09:04–12:52 – Rapid trading account growth, strategy claims
• 13:14–15:47 – The pivot: “helping others,” sales messaging, and calls to action
• 16:24 – Jaffee’s concluding warning on the dangers of narrative marketing in finance

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Tone and Delivery

• David Jaffee: Analytical, skeptical, often sardonic; provides ongoing fact-checking, contextual research, and commentary; transparent in his bias against unverified financial “gurus.”
• Corey: Emotional, self-effacing, motivational; repeatedly positions himself as a relatable victim-turned-success whose methods can ostensibly help anyone.

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Final Insights

Jaffee’s episode is a case study in media literacy for finance audiences. He demonstrates how emotionally charged stories are used to market trading programs, urging listeners to demand verifiable proof before buying into rags-to-riches influencer narratives.

Corey’s story—regardless of its truth—follows a familiar template designed to inspire trust and attract business. Jaffee’s message: don’t be swayed by the emotional arc; instead, look for real evidence behind the claims.

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Useful for listeners:
This summary provides the full arc and intent of both host and subject, distills major arguments, and equips potential trading-education consumers with the listening skills to separate substance from story.

Transcript

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[David Jaffe]

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[Corey]

Off my two boys on my 5050 custody and I decided you know what, I'm going to take the plunge. I'm going to use all my money from my business. And so my dad and my family also helped me buy a House in 2019 and I was able to move into a much bigger house. It was a lot better than where I was living too close to my ex wife anyway. She was spying on me driving by the house. It was crazy. And my business was While I have.

[David Jaffe]

No way of verifying this unless I depose his ex wife in litigation and and file a FOIA request, my gut feeling here is that he's not telling the truth because in 2019 he was arrested also with the civil case. It shows that he stopped paying rent in 2020. If he purchased a home in 2019, then why would he be sued for not paying rent? He wouldn't be a tenant. He would be living in the house that he purchased.

[Corey]

Rapid rate. It was like 100%. The marriage started getting really bad and six months basically passed me in the blink of an eye. We're already into Christmas of 2017. My marriage was completely det deteriorated. And then when we had our second child, things started going downhill really fast. Like the marriage was completely eroding a rapid rate. It was like 100 worse every single day. She was getting violent. It was getting really bad. I had to get my children out of the house. That's not for this video. But I want you guys to understand how bad it was getting. And so we had all kinds of problems. Ended up filing for divorce, got my own house somewhere else. We moved and I'm fighting her on custody. She is just getting drunk all the time. Things are really bad. So my business was suffering but 20 I felt a little bit of a break. New house that was all mine. And my kids got to come over to my house away from all the nightmare, and I had a pool and we could go swimming and things were better. I was working endlessly on the business and trying to expand it while going to school, managing time with my children. Things were really stressful, but they were better. So the stress was fine. Fast forward to the end of the year. November, December. I got my divorce decree. It was finalized. The divorce was done. I got pretty much everything I wanted. I did well with the divorce, got 50, 50 custody, and she wasn't able to take any more of my assets. I was able to just stop all of that nonsense and move on. It was a win win for me at the time. Anything that I lost, I cut ties with and moved on. I wanted peace. That's all I wanted was peace.

[David Jaffe]

It's weird that he's making himself out to be the victim in this situation, because I bet you if I filed a FOIA request for the divorce proceedings, it probably would not paint her out to be some sort of monster who gets drunk all the time and who.

[Corey]

Gets violent years or two and a half years. Things will.

[David Jaffe]

So here, what he's going to do is describe Covid and also make himself out to be a victim. He's also going to make an emotional plea to the audience. So that way he seems more empathetic and human and people can really relate to his situation.

[Corey]

And then fast forward a month later. I had lost 30% of my contracts for the year. I lost like 35 grand in a month. And then COVID 19. And it's really heartbreaking because I spent from 2009 until 2019 in this business business. It was my baby. Besides my children. It was my baby. And I lost literally every dollar I had made in a year and a half, was gone in three weeks. Social distancing literally beheaded my business. I lost it all. I've got two boys. I just went through a divorce. I spent $150,000 on a divorce. I bought a new house, and now my business is done. I have absolutely nothing. Like, I don't know what to do. My two boys are counting on me. Like, this is very upsetting. Like, it was just. It was really bad. Like, really bad.

[David Jaffe]

Like, it's okay, Corey. I believe in you. You can do it. You can do it, Corey.

[Corey]

Just. I need a minute. 11 years of everything that I've worked hard for gone. Like, gone. Like, I had nothing. I had to refund all the contracts because you can't keep their money. I had to refund Everything and pretty much cancel the whole year. So in a matter of three weeks.

[David Jaffe]

That's a little bit strange considering that he was sued for keeping the money. I'm not really sure. There's some type of disconnect there where he's claiming that he refunded everything, but then he was sued for not refunding.

[Corey]

Everything in the pandemic in April and May. This was two months later. I was pretty much bankrupt. At rock bottom. I went from a hero to my kids to zero. And it's not a good feeling.

[David Jaffe]

So he's walking me through the hero's journey where he always had a ton of potential. And then he was a victim to circumstances and bad things happened to him. But then he persevered and became the person in front of you right now. Invest with Corey. It's a great story, but unfortunately I don't believe that much of it is actually true. Look at that acting, look at that.

[Corey]

Heartbreaking to go about this, but I. I want to understand what I went through. This wasn't easy for me. It was really rough. I told my brother that in April of 20. So at this point in time I accepted the fact that I was defeated. There was nothing left for me and there's no way to recoup my business. None of this. It was just a lost cause. So my brother and I were talking in July of 2020. At this point I was pretty much bankrupt. I only had a few thousand dollars left. He had said, hey, you buy a couple hundred shares of square. You told me about that and you said that Amazon was like $48 a share and they went up a little bit since then. Maybe you should just cash out your 26,000 or $27,000 from Amazon and just use that to live for a few months and then just leave squ. Ride it out and see what happens. I told him, you know, you're right, I'm going to have no choice. And so I logged in my brokerage account and I could not believe what I saw. I wasn't following the stock market. I was in college of finance studying psychology.

[David Jaffe]

It's weird that he says this because his bio for his wedding photography business indicates that he went to Full Sail University. And there's no mention there that he studied finance at all.

[Corey]

The divorce and my kids. I wasn't paying attention to portfolio. As exciting as 500 shares is 13,000 or 26,000. I'm talking about my life here. My ex wife, my children, my business of 11 years down the drain. A six figure job gone. My whole life in the toilet, rock bottom. I didn't give a crap about 13 grand or even 30 grand. It wasn't a thought in my mind. Like, that's not going to solve my problems. It's not going to make my marriage better. It's not going to make my divorce easier. It's not going to do anything. So I never really checked it or cared about it. I really didn't care about the portfolio or check it to. My brother brought it up, but it was like a miracle. Like, I don't want to get religious, but I just believe it was a good sign and like a new beginning for me. When I logged in my portfolio, I felt like it was a mirac. Like, my hands were shaking. I literally could not believe what I saw in the portfolio. It was $85,000 in my Amazon position. I was like, there's no way. Something's got to be wrong.

[David Jaffe]

Like, so something's definitely fishy here because if he went through a contentious divorce, hiding assets can land you in jail. You can be found in contempt of court. For him to say that he hadn't logged into his brokerage account for years doesn't make sense. If he didn't voluntarily produce all the bank statements and brokerage accounts to the court, then they would be subpoenaed. I would say the probability that he's telling the truth here at around 1 or 2%. Maybe he hid the assets from the court, but that's incredibly risky because that could land you in jail if the judge finds you in contempt of court.

[Corey]

Wait, what? I didn't understand this because I wasn't following the market like an activist is going to last. I didn't think twice. I sold it. Now, you got to remember, I had 200 shares of Square that cost me just under five grand. And so I held on to that. I did not sell that. I had $85,000. So I took my brother up on his offer. I sold $30,000. With my equipment, it is a little bit less. Was like 28,000 change. Paid all my bills for six months and said, you know what? I feel like God gave me a second chance here. For the first time my life, I felt like something went my way. It was the happiest moment I had since the birth of my two children. I realized I had done something right. Something worked for me. 0 to 85 grand. After everything I had been through for that particular moment, I. Freedom. I don't know what to say.

[David Jaffe]

If $85,000 represented freedom, why was he sued for not paying rent. Something there doesn't seem right.

[Corey]

And I'm going to study the stock market. I'm going to trade with this $85,000. I'm going to learn how to be profitable. I started trading with $85,000 and lost two or three grand real quick. I said, this is not going to happen. So I started studying real hard week in and week out and found a strategy that started working, selling puts, selling covered calls. And I said, you know what? I'm going to go to school, I'm going to trade, and all I'm going to do is trade. School children, school children. Fast forward to February 2021, and my Square or Block 200 shares are priced at $282 a share. I'm watching this like a hawk because I could not believe how much money I've made in Square. And I left some profit on the table of Amazon, but I wasn't worried about that at this point. I had six months of active trading every day and I was over a year in college. It was in my second year of my degree. So I really understood the market a lot better than I originally did before. And so I was watching and square started to come down. It ended up coming way down. 250. So I got out $4,700 investment, cashed out for over $50,000. I got in to Square.

[David Jaffe]

So you guys can see that now he's going through the arc of the hero's journey where before he was treated unfairly, nothing broke right for him. But now he's finally realizing his full potential. He hit a home run with Amazon, he hit a home run with Square, and now he's going to finally fulfill his potential.

[Corey]

I got in to square at 23.80. Like we'll say 24. And I got out right at $252 a share. I think it was like 252 and 30 cents or something like that. Yeah, just say 252, 4700 to 50,000. Now, from July of 2020 until February of 2021, where I started to learn trading and learn the strategies that worked. I made over $45,000 on the $85,000 trading. So with Square or block being sold, it was square at the time. When I sold Square with the money I made trading on the $85,000 from Amazon, my account had like over $170,000. So at this point, I'm good. I didn't have a bill due for three more months. I got $170,000. So what I did was I started selling covered calls, building my strategy, selling puts to get in. What really did it for me was selling aggressive puts and buying Kohl's, which I really don't do a lot of the time. But I got really aggressive with Tesla and Amazon.

[David Jaffe]

And selling very aggressive put options is very dangerous. Because if you look at over the past six months, there have been two instances, I believe, August 5th of 2024 and also December 18th, if you have a large volatility expansion event, you can get forced into a margin call where you're going to have to liquidate your entire portfolio.

[Corey]

Some pretty decent money. I was able to get like a 40% portfolio return by the end of the year. I was well into $300,000 a year later. So that's how I made my money. And I just decided at the end of 2021, after I broke over a quarter million dollars, there was going to be no more buying strategies. Really. I was just going to sell. And with the inflation of the 2021 economy, I was really able to buckle down and really make some decent profits. It paid for school, it started paying the mortgage, and I was able to buy a new truck, pay it off.

[David Jaffe]

And again, here he's progressing up through the hero's journey, where now everything is breaking right for him. And I haven't seen this video, but my gut feeling is that later on he's going to say something like, hey, if I can do this, then everybody else who's struggling can also do this. They need to be empowered and I can be the one who teaches them because I really care for all of my viewers. Maybe he doesn't say that, maybe I'm completely wrong, but my gut feeling is that he's going to flip it and make it seem like he's doing you a favor by teaching you everything that he knows. The market in 2022 was very, very bad.

[Corey]

So fast forward to summer 2022, and I was able to take my $170,000 portfolio and turn it into $300,000. And this is even after paying all my bills.

[David Jaffe]

I would say the probability of that actually being true is maybe 10 or 20%. Obviously, I don't know unless we subpoena his trading statements, but my gut feeling is that it's not accurate.

[Corey]

And so my brother were having a conversation about how life is really weird by putting $13,000 in Amazon in a couple years.

[David Jaffe]

Well, I guess the best thing that you did was hide those assets from.

[Corey]

The judge later Putting just $4,000 into square saved my whole life. $18,000 over a two year period saved me, completely saved me. Trading saved my life. It changed my life and it saved it for me and my children, everything. And I thank my brother for all of his support, my dad for support, my very strong family. Fast forward another year. I graduated, I was making consistent profits. I thought about all the struggles I went through. My friend went through a divorce, my brother went through a divorce, believe it or not. And I said, you know what, this isn't right. I want to help people. You know my portfolio, I told you.

[David Jaffe]

I nailed it and I called it. Let's see what he says here.

[Corey]

It was like I had grown it from 170 to 300 to 500. I'm approaching and if I can do.

[David Jaffe]

This, you can do it too.

[Corey]

Like seven figures pretty quickly. I really wanted to help people. There's so many people that struggle. When I graduated and got my degree, I decided, you know what, there's a lot of businesses that I saw that sunk because of the pandemic. And not only that, a lot of friends of mine got divorced, people that I knew got divorced. My brother got divorced. And it was really sad. And so I decided, you know what, I graduated, got my degree, I'm profitable. Not only do I want to help by giving money to charity and veterans association, but I wanted to help other people in my situation that maybe you guys caught a divorce. I'm going to help you. You have kids and you want financial freedom to help you give your money.

[David Jaffe]

In a car so I can help.

[Corey]

You like a failure and maybe rock bottom. So I'm enrolled in my first year of law school and I'm in 1L law studying, you know, money's oh well and good money is, is great. It helps you stabilize your life, it gives you the things that you want. But there's more to life than just money. I realized that was success, that it was the journey that I'll never. The journey, the hero's journey, my kids, the divorce, the ups and the down, the connection that I have with you guys teaching.

[David Jaffe]

I love you guys.

[Corey]

Just give me your money. Things I want to do and I.

[David Jaffe]

Will love you more.

[Corey]

More like helping other people does. So I want to help people. Money is giving me, give me your money. And I would love more which is teach and connect with others and be a great dad, get my church doctorate, become a lawyer, which was my mom's dream, that she such a good person, so good means more to me than the money. I've learned a lot. And it's taught me a lot of humility. I'm not anything special. I'm a nobody. I'm nobody. Relate to you guys my legacy. Give me your money and you might be rich Action. And how I help other people, how I help you, how I help everyone. Watching my children and how I treat others. That's what's most important. The money just gave me financial freedom. Give me your thousands of dollars and I want to share those with you guys. Give me your money and I'll share it with you to a degree. But I did it because I wanted you to guys to understand how I went from zero. It was pretty much how you can do it too. From Amazon and Square and letting it sit down and how I hid those ass from the job. The pandemic's gift to me. So when the pandemic crushed my business, it burst me a whole new life and gave me a whole new dream. And it made me a better person.

[David Jaffe]

What a lot of these guys do is they manufacture a backstory and fill it in with half truths so that it's the most marketable and compelling backstory that they can use to gain the trust of their audience. You see a lot of people do this. They walk you through a hero's journey where I had a crazy ex wife and she made my life hell. And then the pandemic happened. They make themselves out to be an innocent victim, almost like a character in a movie. And then they sell that to you, making it as compelling as possible. That way they can gain your trust and separate you from your money. Visit beststockstrategy.com and submit your email address to receive invaluable free training. Please give this podcast a positive reading and review. If you have any questions, visit beststock strategy.com and send me a message.

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