by Louis Deas | Aug 20, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
My mother, Juanita Smith, earned about $15 an hour for much of her working life. She bought and sold seven homes, paid cash for a Mercedes, and left this earth a millionaire. She was the best financial coach I ever had. So when Operation HOPE built its first AI...
by John Bryant | Aug 18, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
African Business Legend Strive Masayiwa and John Hope Bryant YOU NEED TO KNOW MY FRIEND STRIVE MASIYIWA. This is one of those conversations. My friend Strive Masiyiwa is one of the great entrepreneurs and institution builders of our generation—and if you live in...
by Louis Deas | Aug 6, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
A brother asked me to talk about sports betting, and I’m glad he did. It used to take real effort to lose your money. You had to drive to a casino or find the numbers runner in the neighborhood. Today the casino lives in your pocket, it never closes, and it is...
by John Bryant | Aug 3, 2026 | Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant Thought Leadership, Money and Wealth Podcast
On Jannick Malling and the Future of Public Markets Companion piece to “The New Rules of Investing: AI, Capitalism & Wealth Creation” I met Jannick Malling in a green room. Neither of us knew the other. We both had handlers whose job, frankly, is to...
by Louis Deas | Jul 30, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
When young people tell me capitalism is the problem, I listen. Most of them aren’t angry at rich people. They’re angry at a system that feels rigged, one that protects insiders and asks everyone else to wait their turn. Capitalism has done a poor job of...
by Louis Deas | Jul 25, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
I could have handed this hour to a guest. I didn’t. Every so often there’s something I need to say to you myself directly, with no interpreter, no middleman. And this is one of those times. So, for this episode, I sat down alone, for a full hour, two parts, to talk...
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