Earn Your Leisure: We were never going to be let in, so we built our own room

Rashad Bilal spent twelve years as a commission-only financial advisor. Troy Millings taught phys ed. They met as extras on a movie set at 12 and 14, and started filming financial literacy in Troy's classroom to help Rashad find clients. Today Invest Fest draws 30,000 people a day in Atlanta, up from 4,400. There is a New York Times bestseller, a 10,000-member paid community and an Africa division. When the Times covered the event at 20,000 people, the story it ran was about Joe Biden. They tell Ian Schwartzman why they stopped chasing podcast rankings and built an institution instead. Timestamps 0:00 Why money conversations stayed behind closed doors 1:14 They met as extras on a movie set 2:21 Why best friends since middle school went into business 3:54 Twelve years as a commission-only financial advisor 5:09 Troy was a teacher. Rashad was the risk taker. 6:18 From a viral 50 Cent clip to a show people demanded 10:33 What the education system doesn't teach 11:47 They had no expectation of making money from it 13:08 Comments from Tokyo and Kuwait, read during class 14:27 The thing they wish had moved faster 15:45 The pressure of giving advice people act on 18:21 Invest Fest: 4,400 people to 30,000 a day 20:24 Why a 30,000-person event goes uncovered 21:53 The New York Times came and wrote about Biden 26:02 The glass ceiling, and finding an alternative 27:53 We were never trying to be the biggest podcast 30:07 How they want the legacy read 32:35 The collectible card #EarnYourLeisure #InvestFest #FinancialLiteracy #BuiltDifferent #YahooFinance == AlphaSpace by Yahoo Finance: A Professional-Grade Investment Platform Built for Everyday Investors. 👉 https://finance.yahoo.com/about/promos/gold/alphaspace?ncid=100003571

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