Coming Friday to Money & Wealth with John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE

When John Hope Bryant says he only brings someone onto Money & Wealth when two plus two can equal six, eight, or ten, he means it. This Friday, he sits down with a guest who had him at hello; so much so that John opened a brokerage account on the spot, mid-interview.

Meet Jannick Malling, co-founder and co-CEO of Public.com, one of the fastest-growing multi-asset investing platforms in the country. James Bond meets the Beach Boys, John says, but don’t let the vibe fool you. This is a man who was building websites at twelve, joined a bank at seventeen, sold a company for $120 million, and built a platform where 40% of the community are women and 45% are people of color, in an industry historically dominated by the opposite.

John and Jannick get into the barrier almost nobody names: not commission fees, but the quiet belief that the market simply isn’t for you. They unpack the moment during the GameStop frenzy when Public went the opposite direction of Wall Street and why that “non-capitalist” move turned out to be the most capitalist one of all. There’s a Danish plumber, a Steve Jobs connection you won’t see coming, the late Dick Parsons, and the seven-year-old who now tracks his own portfolio because his dad finally explained what he does for a living.

And there’s an important section of the podcast about freedom that reframes the entire conversation. We get down to this truth that I want you to sit with when it drops: it was never about hitting a number. It’s the shift from someone who only earns and spends to someone who owns.

How do you take the greatest wealth creation engine in human history and actually hand it to the people it’s always left out?

Set your reminder. This one’s worth the wait.

🎧 Money & Wealth with John Hope Bryant — premiering Friday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere podcasts are heard.