Episode EP111 of the Whole Man Academy podcast features Brad Hart in an interview-format conversation about his entrepreneurial journey, experiences on Wall Street, views on money and fiat currency, the value of mastermind groups, and an anecdote about encountering Bitcoin around 2009. The tone is informal and anecdotal, with practical reflections on personal growth and wealth-building.
And we're in the middle of Los Angeles. He was driving the van and we're all hooded and handcuffed and zip tied in the back of the van.
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Level of what it should be to be a man today, I think is to have some exposure to things that stress you out. Because when they actually happen in your life's at stake, you know, they can be as bad as your mind makes them.
Whole Man Academy Brad Hart Entrepreneurship, Money impact Masterminds, which is a big one.
So I became entrepreneurial at a very young age. Money is lacking, then everybody's not going to get along. And if money is plentiful, then people will get along. I got a job on Wall Street. I worked there for a while. That led to me joining my first mastermind group. That's where things really started to take off because now all of a sudden I was surrounded by peers. And that article got shared by Tim Ferriss, who I had met previously. And it went crazy. Like 300,000 people read it. Hey, if you woke up tomorrow and had $10 million in your bank account, what would you do? And he's like, well, first I'd wonder where the rest of my fucking money went.
Yeah, we spent five grand on a night out or whatever, but the next day the guy gave us 50 grand, so who cares?
Wall street products and services that are so confusing that most people don't understand them. And I use the mentor term loosely. It's kind of what you said. It's like somebody who's got something figured out that you want to have figured out, right? Somebody has results in their life that you want in your life.
And there was people high fiving everyone. And I said to Emma's oh fucking hell, like they better not try and high five me.
All fiat currencies eventually return to their true value, which is zero. This one's got a little bit of legs left, but it's not for long. Getting rich is a boring process. If you do it right, you, you tend to value things in direct proportion to how hard you had to work for them.
What are the kind of main benefits of being involved in a mastermind?
Right, It's a group of people that come together to get clarity on and solve their biggest challenges, whatever they are, right? It could be life, could be business, could be relationships.
Because in this country, if things are going well, you shouldn't talk about it because people think you're showing off. And if things are going badly, you shouldn't talk about it because people. Like, you're. You're showing weakness.
This 2009, I'm like, what the f is bitcoin? Like, I don't. What is that? And he explained it to me like, that sounds cool. And there were 5 cents at the time.
