Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger

Nicole Lapin is the New York Times best-selling author of Rich Bitch, Boss Bitch, Miss Independent, and Becoming Super Woman. A summa cum laude graduate of Northwestern University’s journalism school, she became one of the youngest anchors in CNN’s history at age 21. In this episode, we discuss her parents’ rancorous divorce, her dad’s death by overdose, and the resulting financial turmoil that set her on a mission to help women have more financial literacy and empowerment in their lives and relationships.LINKS 💰Listen to Money Rehab with Nicole here💰🐶 Follow Penny Lapin here 🐶💪 Subscribe to Paul’s Substack here. 💪🔥 Follow Paul on Instagram here. 🔥

Larry Thompson is an entertainment manger in Beverly Hills, CA. In his 50+ years in Hollywood, Larry has guided the careers of over 200 stars, including Drew Barrymore, William Shatner, Cicely Tyson, Joan Rivers, Sonny & Cher, David Hasselhoff, Barry White, and Cindy Crawford. Larry grew up in Clarksdale, MS, graduated from Ole Miss law school then drove across country to chase his dream in Hollywood. As a young lawyer at Capitol Records, he helped negotiate the break-up of the Beatles then proceeded to sign each of the Fab 4 to their own solo contracts. This is just one of many incredible stories Larry shares about the talent he’s worked with, including George Harrison, Barry White, Elton John, Farrah Fawcett, and Lee Majors. We also discuss how Larry helps talent see their own potential, avoid pitfalls, and how Larry got his own act together when success and ego distracted him from what was important in life. Larry is the recipient of the Heller Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Talent Managers Association and the author of the book, SHINE: A Powerful 4-step plan to becoming a star in anything you do.💪 Subscribe to Paul’s Substack here. 💪🔥 Follow Paul on Instagram here. 🔥

A year ago, Katherine Blanford was working as a nanny by day and doing comedy at night. Last summer, she made her network television debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and is now headlining around the country and opening for David Spade. She and I discuss the experience of having "heat" and cash in her pocket for the first time. We talk about artistic envy, the work ethic needed to succeed in comedy, what she learned about wealth and careers while working as a nanny, and of course, how much she loves the Ollinger family basement. 🔥 Follow Katherine on Instagram here. 🔥💪 Subscribe to Paul’s Substack here. 💪

Hey everybody. Happy 2023! This is a short, lightly edited greeting from Paul /me about where the podcast has been in 2022 and where we're going to take it in the year to come. I am grateful for your continued support and interest. I wish you and your family a safe, prosperous, and fulfilled year.Carpe Diem!✍️ Subscribe to Paul's Substack newsletter here.✍️🔥Subscribe to us on YouTube here. 🔥📧 E-mail Paul at Paul@CrazyMoneyPodcast.com 📧 Crazy Money is produced and edited by Mike Carano. Topics addressed on Crazy Money include: Money, Happiness, Contentment, Meaning, philosophy, dreams, purpose, Success, mental health, Business, Work, Careers, Authors, Books, Values, capitalism, economics, investing, saving, spending, personal finance, charity, philanthropy, altruism, affluence, wealth, wealth management, culture, society. Status.If you haven’t found what you’re looking for in the words above, you’re probably not going to find them down here. Seriously, all the important stuff is up yonder.

The philosophical martial artist and actor, Bruce Lee is supposed to have said, “So you think, so shall you become.” On this week’s episode, we explore the power of positive expectations with David Robson, an award-winning science writer and author of the new book The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World. As you’ll hear, David makes a strong argument supporting Bruce Lee’s message: that positive expectations can meaningfully improve our lives. To be clear, this is not about the Law of Attraction. Robson bases the book on data gleaned from the scientific method. These studies provide ample evidence that our expectations can make us healthier, smarter, and significantly improve our aging prospects. (For better or worse–well, worse–the opposite is also true.)It’s important to note, as Robson and I discuss, that your expectations don’t just change your world. They also change the lives of others because our expectations of them–and theirs of us–have an impact on our respective lives. So we kind of owe it to each other to expect the best. In this chat we talk about how routine or process can help get us out of our heads before an important event. We explore the damage caused by guilt and shame, and why worrying about worrying (‘Meta Worrying’) or stressing about stress, might be the most dangerous thing we can do. Most importantly, he provides methods by which to break ourselves out of these bad habits when we find ourselves slipping into them. And that’s important because our expectations can change the world.🎧Listen on Apple Podcasts here 🎧✍️Get Paul’s Substack newsletter here.✍️🔥Subscribe to us on YouTube here. 🔥Follow David Robson:Twitter - https://bit.ly/3PEkgps (@d_a_robson)Instagram - https://bit.ly/3G7VuL8 (@davidarobson)Website - https://davidrobson.meAmazon - https://amzn.to/3PvliUC

Kristin Keffeler is the author of a new book called The Myth of the Silver Spoon: navigating family wealth and creating an impactful life. Kristin is also the founder of Illumination360 where she works with ultra high net worth families, including many worth billions of dollars. Her specialty is helping the rising generations create their own identities having grown up with extreme family wealth.In this conversation, Kristin and I talked about how her own family's affluence led her into this field; the specific doubts and fears that teen and adult inheritors of generational wealth have to deal with. We talked about the negative messages that society sends to wealthy children, about the balance rising generation members must strike owning their family name, but creating their own. We talked about how all parents—especially wealthier ones—can model financial behavior for their kids. And lastly, we discuss what the NFL Hall of Fame can teach us about the likelihood of measuring up to our wildly successful parents or grandparents.  ✍️Get Paul’s Substack newsletter here.✍️🔥Subscribe to us on YouTube here. 🔥Follow Kristin Keffeler:Website - https://illumination360.com/mythThe Myth of the Silver Spoon: The Book - https://amzn.to/3i6qFwN

Richard Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of a new book called Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It. You might ask, “Why is this topic relevant to Crazy Money, a podcast about money and happiness, work and meaning?” Because the connection between education, gainful employment and life satisfaction is massive. And on these metrics, the modern male is not doing well. Consider some of these data points: Boys are 50% more likely to fail classes in math, reading and science than girls. By High School, 2/3 of the students in the top 10% of the class ranked by GPA are girls, while about 2/3 of the students in the lowest 1/5 of the class are boys. And education matters. One in three American men with only a high school diploma (10 million men!) are now out of the labor force. They're not unemployed–they're out of the labor force. They're not even counted in the unemployment numbers. And this matters because men without education and jobs do less well as husbands and fathers and thus perpetuate the cycle for their children. Yes, especially for their sons. Perhaps worst of all, men make up 75% of those who die by deaths of despair, i.e. by suicide, or acute substance abuse. The net of it is when you lose hope in the future, you will become increasingly volatile in the present. You've probably read Richard's writing in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic or the Wall Street Journal, his previous book Dream Hoarders, which The Economist named a Book of the Year.. I'm delighted to have him back on the show.🎧Listen on Apple Podcasts here 🎧✍️Get Paul’s Substack newsletter here.✍️🔥Subscribe to us on YouTube here. 🔥Follow Richard Reeves:Twitter - https://bit.ly/3EBSXIo (@RichardvReeves)Of Boys and Men: The Book - https://a.co/d/3SnjEhQWebsite - https://richardvreeves.com

We don't think about it all the time, but BELONGINGNESS is the third most fundamental desire on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Just above safety and physiological requirements, is our need to feel safe as part of a tribe. My guest this week is Geoffrey L. Cohen, the author of Belonging: the Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides. Geoff is a professor of Psychology and Organizational studies at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In this conversation, he and I talk about what it means to belong to a place, an organization, a family or a movement; We explore how belongingness and identity are intermixed, and what implications that has for discussing politics and other beliefs with people who have differing points of view. We talk about how to design diversity training so it doesn't alienate half the room (maybe we should call it “Belongingness Training”). We also talk about what groups you'd rather not belong to, because while belongingness is important, some tribes are better than others!🎧Listen on Apple Podcasts here 🎧✍️Get Paul’s Substack newsletter here.✍️🔥Subscribe to us on YouTube here. 🔥Follow Geoff Cohen:Twitter - bit.ly/3UVv5F4Website - www.geoffreylcohen.com

Former hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry grew up working class in Glasgow, Scotland. His anxiety, detachment from money, and passionate observations of life led him to hypotheses and market positions others couldn’t see. In 2008, when the rest of the world was melting down, Hugh’s Eclectica Asset Management returned over 30%. As great as the money was, he says what drives him is a profound need to be loved. Today, Hugh develops property in St. Barths where he lives full time.In this conversation, Hugh shares anecdotes of Scottish thrift that will make you laugh, an honest description of how it feels to lose millions of other people's dollars, why closing his hedge fund felt “as if you've died in Mortal Kombat,” and why we should all be mindful of “the profound wrongness of today.” We spoke at the Stansberry Research conference in Boston in October.🎧Listen on Apple Podcasts here 🎧✍️Get Paul’s Substack newsletter here.✍️🔥Subscribe to us on YouTube here. 🔥Follow Hugh Hendry:The Acid Capitalist podcast - https://apple.co/3FX3D5vTwitter - https://bit.ly/3UKgfBgInstagram - https://bit.ly/3UDczkAWebsite - acidcap.com

Barry Meier is a former investigative reporter at The New York Times and the author of the book, Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic, which explores how the Sackler family's greed catalyzed a plague of addiction and death that has destroyed families and whole communities across the country.Between 1999 and 2000, 564,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose. In 2020, the most recent year for which statistics are available, there were over 68,000 opioid overdoses in the U.S. That's 188 per day and each one of these deaths represents a son or daughter, a brother or sister or a mother or father, who is not coming back. People died of opioid overdoses before the 1996 launch of OxyContin, but it’s clear that Oxy and Purdue Pharma’s (owned by the Sacklers) aggressive and deceptive marketing practices threw gasoline on a spark that has turned into a raging wildfire. In 2023, Netflix will launch a miniseries based on Pain Killer.In our conversation today, Barry and I discuss the Sacklers’ family legacy of ethically dubious marketing of pharmaceuticals and how they made tens of billions of dollars selling OxyContin using the same techniques, like pushing free samples, knowing that the drug was quite addictive. We discuss how and why the FDA approved claims that OxyContin was less prone to addiction in the complete absence of evidence proving that it actually was. And lastly, we discuss the extent to which OxyContin kicked off this opioid epidemic for which there is no clear way out.🎧Listen on Apple Podcasts here 🎧✍️Get Paul’s Substack newsletter here.✍️🔥Subscribe to us on YouTube here. 🔥Follow Barry Meier:barrymeier.comnytimes.com/by/barry-meierPain Killer: The Book - https://a.co/d/b9cEPHS