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Edward Brady

Edward Brady

CFA and California real estate broker who spent 25 years as an SEC examiner; author of "Awaken Your Financial Star"

Aug 2, 2026

6:10
[laughs] But-
6:12
You know, I, I watched that movie Wall Street, you know, and had this fantasy of what working for the SEC would be like.
6:22
Needless, needless to say, the reality of working for the SEC is quite different than the movies.
6:29
It's...
6:29
Most of the time, what I discovered is there are a lot of good people in the industry.
6:35
It's really the exception, the bad apples that you're trying to weed out.
6:40
And over time, I came to that realization, and I stopped looking at my job as, "Oh, I'm gonna go find the fraud." No, I'm gonna find the truth, and if there's fraud, I'm gonna prove that.

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23:53
Wow
7:35
So what do I do? Ah,
7:37
yeah.
7:39
Yeah, that's the thing, you know, it, it can feel like we don't have any money.
7:43
And so you, until you really look at where's, where's your money going? Um, something that was really eye opening for me was when I, when I joined the army, I had a lot of things that I thought were necessities.
8:01
And then you're kind of thrown into things and now all of a sudden, I mean, the army provides a lot of those things that are necessities.
8:09
And you realize that all your necessities are kind of taken care of.
8:12
You got food, you got uniforms, you got a place to stay and you've got medical and now, um, but you're able to say, but I'm making less than, you know, as an enlisted person, I was making less than somebody at McDonald's.

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