How did you get the nickname Money Mark? Who dubbed it?

I was poor and I was in Cambridge Galt.

Like I just, I wouldn't, I was like, how do I make money? How do I make money? How do I make money? How do I make money? How do I make money? Again, my first experience was, okay, cigarettes are two bucks at the Indian reservation.

I can sell them for nine bucks at school at my first way to make money.

So I was just always wanting, how do I make money? How do I make money? You know? So I'm almost like money, Mark, money, Mark, money, Mark.

So came money mark and i didn't have any money for geez the next i was 13 i never really made any money until i was like real money and until i was 45 and i'm 48 now like i'm relatively new money so you wrote your first book yeah what made you decision to say hey i'm gonna write a book i think i'm gonna do it It was this is when I was in around Patrick, but David and stuff and a lot of personal development stuff.

And I was at a John Maxwell seminar.

Very true.

Oh, you tell me.

No. Wow.

Do you know why I know that? Because I don't have a financial advisor.

I don't have a high school diploma.

And I was a fiduciary financial advisor for a Fortune 100 company.

And everything you learn when you go to school, it's not education, it's indoctrination.

So if you send your kids to the bank and you say, save money, get good credit, that's a big problem because the banks have a system, it's called stickiness.

What is the best first step that you recommend that they begin their

Is that on Bank Swim or something like that you're talking

about? No, it's called M1 Finance.

M1 Finance is the only place that really works for this.

Okay.

And you can invest and keep investing forever.

Now, if you don't sell it, you don't pay taxes, correct? Yeah.

No capital gains.

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