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Daniel O'Connor

Daniel O'Connor

Co-founder and CEO of Rare Earth Exchanges, a Salt Lake City-based media and data platform covering the global rare earth and critical minerals market, and co-host of the Rare Earth Exchanges podcast.

Aug 6, 2026

6:05
[laughs]
6:05
... quite the, quite the, quite the indictment.
6:07
Um, I, I think actually, Maria, on the last time you were on the show, you were talking about how, I think, the survey was that the only, um, worst experience in a journey was a bereavement journey.
6:18
Um, and, and then second, uh, behind that buying, buying a home.
6:23
So, um, certainly, certainly nothing to be, be proud of in that, in that regard.
6:27
I, I think ultimately the, the...
6:30
It, it's no secret the system is incredibly fragmented end to end, and, and that's not a very easy thing that can be solved overnight.

18 MINS LATER

25:01
Is there an opportunity there, or is the actual, the home buying advisor of the future Claude or Gemini or indeed, uh, Wellness's Elle?
19:48
And what are we going to do? Are we going to quiver in fear? So how do you guys address that with this book that you put out?
19:54
Everything is an opportunity.
19:56
I know it's easier said than done, and that's why we've got a whole big chapter on this, which Doug wrote so well, well before I came into the picture.
20:04
You fight the way you train.
20:06
You can't just decide, okay, I'm not going to fear.
20:09
Now, yes, it's a grace.
20:10
Everything is grace.

12 MINS LATER

32:17
Just don't expect it.
13:42
Daniel, what
13:42
do you think, brother? Amen to that.
13:44
And that's, you know, as you said, Andrew, we started with the letter to our children and Doug wrote the letter to his son.
13:49
And I wrote a letter to my daughter, first of all, because I wanted to write a letter to my daughter, but also because I wanted women to be able to pick this book up and see right in the beginning how important it is for them to know this material.
14:00
This is something that they should, um, If you're a young woman discerning marriage, this is something you should expect of anyone before you even think of saying yes to a marriage proposal.
14:13
If someone's not ready to be the spiritual and physical head, the leader, protector, and provider, all those things, then look somewhere else.
14:21
And for women who are married, of course, you're married, but this is something that you can gently and lovingly encourage your husband to do.

9 MINS LATER

23:04
That's what I would say.

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