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The Investing Expert: How I Went From $0-$1M By 30 (Anyone Can Do THIS!) | Vivian Tu

The School of Greatness

CHAPTER

Money Talks and Life Lessons

In this chapter, they discuss the importance of talking about money and normalizing conversations about finances. They also share three important life lessons about kindness, self-worth, and living in the present moment.

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Speaker 1
So please, please
Speaker 2
talk to your friends about money. That's beautiful. I think that early you can speak about money and make it more of a common practice as just having a conversation over coffee and just relaxing. It will be less stressful in the future. Doesn't have to be an icky topic. It doesn't have to be. I love that. Vivian, this is powerful. I've got two final questions for you. This is a question I ask everyone towards the end. It's called the three truths. Hypothetical question and scenario. Imagine you get to live as long as you want. Cool. But it's your last day. So you live as long as you want in this life. But we're at the last day of your life. It can be 100 something years old. 200. Okay, but have my body deteriorated? You're still in perfect health. Okay, great. Yeah, you still look great. Okay. You're filthy rich. You've accomplished everything you want to accomplish. You've got a beautiful life, family, everything you want. It's happened. But it's the last day and you've got to take all of your work with you to the next place. So the book is gone. This interview is gone. Everything you've ever created for whatever reason it's gone. But you get to leave behind three lessons in the world. And this is all we have to remember you buy. I call it three truths. What would be that for you?
Speaker 1
Wow. Wasn't prepared for that one. That is an excellent question. I would say the first, always buy them the chicken parm. And this has to, you know, there's a little bit of an explanation behind this. I love chicken parm.
Speaker 2
It's incredible. So the first. It's amazing chicken parm here in LA. Oh, really? Amazing chicken parm,
Speaker 1
yeah. The first guy I worked for on Wall Street, my boss's boss was this super Italian guy, like just the most Italian, Italian man you've ever seen. And he told me one day he was like, they've, you know, always got to buy them the chicken parm. And I'm like, sir, I'm lactose intolerant. What are you talking about? I'm vegan. I'm like, I don't even eat cheese. But what he meant by that was every so often out of just the random kindness with heart, he would buy a bunch of chicken parms and he would dish him out to the people on our team. And then, you know, the guys on IT, the guys in the back office, the guys in the middle office, and you know, he must be selling like almost a thousand dollars on chicken parm. And he meant by like just treat people with kindness, not because, you know, you have to, but because you want to. And then when he ever had an issue, those people came running to his desk. If multiple people were having issues, they only ran to his desk because he had genuinely treated them with kindness when it didn't serve him. When it was just a random Wednesday, he would be like, oh, how's your kids like little league game going? And like took a genuine interest in people onto your point of being interesting and asking question, just being kind. I think that's really important. That's cool.
Speaker 2
Okay, that's the first one. That's a good one.
Speaker 1
I would say if you are a woman, just know yourself and know your worth. I think we compete a lot with other women because we have that scarcity mindset. And we think that another person's success is our downfall. And that, you know, if you're number one on the podcast charts, it means I'm not number one. Okay. But there's always room for more people to succeed. Like there's enough white space for all of us to get there, for all of us to have what we want and get what we need. And I think it took me a very long time to learn that. I would always be like, if that girl has XYZ, I can't have it. Like I need to do this. It was just like so unhealthy. So I think it's more of like knowing yourself, knowing your worth and not being unnecessarily competitive. I think there's a little healthy competition and everything, but don't let it be to the detriment of, you know, your mental health or like anything in your life. And then, you know, just, I think the third one is, don't kill the Golden Goose.
Speaker 2
You have that on your shoes.
Speaker 1
Oh my God, no, don't shoot. It's kind of shoes on.
Speaker 2
No, it's, it says Golden Goose. Yeah, it does. So
Speaker 1
not sponsored by the Golden Goose shoe brand, but I would like to be. The old fable is that, and I'm sure you've heard it, right? Go ahead, sir. A farmer's wife, they have this goose. And every single day this goose lays a golden egg and they're like, oh my gosh, like a little mugget of gold. They're like, this is weird. All the other geese are doing this, but like this gold is amazing. Like we now have this little pellet of gold. I wish we had more. And so every day they get a little egg of gold and they're like, well, it's not, you know, happening fast enough, we should kill the goose. And that way the inside of the goose will be entirely gold. We'll be able to get it all at once and we'll sell it. So they slaughter this goose and the inside of the goose is a regular goose body. And there is not a single piece of gold. And I think this is a bigger metaphor of like life of us always wanting the next big thing, wanting more. But like, I am a big, big, like this is a problem I have. I currently have the life that I prayed for a couple months ago. And sometimes I don't get to enjoy it. Sometimes I'm not even enjoying it. And that's sad. I think we need to not kill the golden goose, enjoy those little nuggets of gold that we get every single day. And it's okay to want to work for more and strive for more, but don't ruin a good thing just because you're always trying to like hit the next milestone. It'll come, but you could completely lose this entire journey if you don't take a second to stop them roses and stop and smell the roses. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2
beautiful. I love those are probably the most unique three truths I've heard. I like that. Before I ask the final question Vivian, I want to acknowledge you for your realness. I love this conversation. I love
Speaker 1
connecting. Well, that's
Speaker 2
too honest. I love it. I think it's amazing. So I'm excited to connect with you and to share this message and hopefully connect more and have you back on and learn more about your stuff. So I acknowledge you for sharing this in your authentic way. I think they're- Thank you. I think seeing people like you, with the history and the background you have, be as honest and real as you are is really inspiring. So I really acknowledge you for showing up authentic to you and not trying to fit in some mold of, I don't know, some type of financial expert that you might think of. So I'm really, really glad that you're doing it your way. And teaching it your way. And I think it's really inspiring. Final question. What's your definition of greatness?
Speaker 1
I would say greatness is being so in your own lane, so far ahead. You don't even know you're running a race. And I think that comes with having your own value system. Understanding your own definition of success, not being worried about what other people think and say of you, doing what you love and really striving every single day to live in a way that little you would be proud of.

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