by Louis Deas | Mar 5, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
The next time you see a snowplow or a street sweeper with a city logo on the door, ask the driver who signs the paycheck. More often than you’d think, the answer is a private company working under contract. That one question opens a door most people walk past...
by Louis Deas | Feb 12, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
The suite was on a high floor of a marble building in Westwood, with glass from floor to ceiling. I was young, my business had revenue and investors behind it, and the terms had been worked out ahead of time. I walked into that room ready to write the check. By the...
by Louis Deas | Feb 12, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
Rainbows only follow storms. That is good theology, and it happens to be good science too. When the wind blows hard, you don’t curse the wind. You strengthen the foundation. Right now a lot of people are feeling the ground move. Markets are jumpy, speculative...
by Louis Deas | Feb 6, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
Some of the smartest people I know have pulled me aside, a little embarrassed, to ask a question they felt they should already know the answer to. What exactly is a stock? I’ve heard it from a young person in my own extended family and from celebrities who...
by Louis Deas | Feb 5, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
Every morning, in every city in America, the trash has to be picked up. The streetlights have to come on, the water has to run, and somebody has to fix the roof on the public library. None of that is optional, and all of it is paid for by someone. The question I want...
by Louis Deas | Jan 29, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
Dr. Dorothy Height once told me she liked me because I was a dreamer with a shovel in my hand. I have carried that line for decades, and it sits at the center of this solo episode. People ask me all the time how I actually run my life, and the honest answer has little...
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