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What can we learn about investing from Gary's childhood gold ring story, a gentleman thief, Bonsai tree, and Charlie Munger. Gary Mishuris, CFA, is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Silver Ring Value Partners, an investment firm that seeks to apply its intrinsic value approach to safely compound capital over the long term. He also teaches the Value Investing Seminar at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. Gary received a S.B. in Computer Science and a S.B. in...

Executive Life Coach for CEOs, Investors, Pro Athletes; Author, Podcast Host I discovered Sean through a few mutual friends; I got to learn more about his work through his wonderful book that I started one evening, and I could barely put it down. It’s called **Masterpiece in Progress: A Daily Guide to a Life Well Crafted — it’s choke full of ideas, mental models, advice. It consists of 365 daily motivational passages. In one of them, Sean writes that life is full of teachers if you know...

Over the last twelve years Matthew has worked with startups, venture capital and angel investors, governments, NGOs and large corporations to create and capture value. Matthew is a Co-founder of 9others with Katie Lewis. 9others was established in 2011 and is now a global network of 5,000 entrepreneurs in 45+ cities who meet over dinner to help each other solve the challenges of business and life. To date Matthew has invested in 23 startups, most of which have been sourced from the 9others...

This a bonus episode, please enjoy, and share it with friends and family -- I read my this week's Substack post. Please find it here: https://bogumilbaranowski.substack.com/ -- feel free to sign up and follow me there as well. I mention the following Talking Billions episodes: Mary Buffett & Chloe Lin, and William Green, please find them in your podcast listening app. They are both wonderful conversations. If you are a true Warren and Charlie fan, you'll also enjoy the Dan Pecault...

Best-Selling Author, International Speaker, Top Finance Expert We have two guests today, Mary Buffett, and Chloe Lin. Mary Buffett is a best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, political and environmental activist. Chloe Lin is an international speaker, investor, and president of Buffett Online School in Japan. Ms. Buffett’s first book Buffettology, co-written with David Clark in 1997, was an immediate New York Times and Business Week best-seller. Since that time, all seven...

Todd Wenning is a professional investor and writer based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He's currently the author of the Flyover Stocks newsletter, which focuses on finding overlooked companies with economic moats that are led by thoughtful stewards of shareholder capital. Previously, Todd spent eight years on the buyside with Ensemble Capital and Johnson Investment Counsel, and three years on the sell-side with Morningstar where he led the firm's equity stewardship methodology and contributed to the...

My guest today is Matthew Turner is a British author who wrote the book The Successful Mistake: How 163 of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs transform failure and adversity into success on the back of interviewing hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, authors, investors, and thought-leaders. As well as writing his own books, Matthew ghostwrites both articles and books for other successful entrepreneurs and thought-leaders, in between spending time with his two...

Private Wealth Manager | Podcast Host | Author Frazer Rice focuses on Family Office Infrastructure, Trusts and Estates, Private Company Board and Charity, Multi-Generational Wealth & Trustee Consulting for Next Capital. Frazer has written the book Wealth, Actually: Intelligent Decision-Making for the 1% and produces the successful “Wealth Actually” Podcast. He appears on a variety of media and industry panels to discuss wealth management practice, trusts and estates, family dynamics...

Luca Dellanna is a management advisor focused on increasing revenue through better people and operations management. After a master’s degree in automotive engineering, Luca spent the first part of his career working for DuPont’s consulting unit in Frankfurt, Germany. There, he focused on managerial excellence projects in a variety of manufacturing industries all across Europe. In 2015, Luca moved back to his hometown of Turin, Italy, and opened a private consulting practice serving clients...

Victor Haghani – Missing Billionaires w/ ex-LTCM partner & Elm Wealth Founder Victor Haghani started his career in 1984 at Salomon Brothers, where he became an MD in the bond arbitrage group run by John Meriwether. Victor was a co-founding partner of LTCM. In 2011, Victor founded Elm Wealth to help clients, including his own family, manage and preserve their wealth with a thoughtful, research-based, and cost-effective approach that covers not just investment management but also broader...

Meet the Audience (30 Mins with the host 1 on 1) – Please Use This Form https://forms.gle/G3EyVBevjJAq2JHf8 Brendan has more than a decade of industry experience in investments and public finance since graduating from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and Accounting. For the last several years, Brendan has worked as a Registered Investment Advisor for Lafayette Investments. For Lafayette, Brendan manages a portion of the $800 million in...

Brian Feroldi is a financial educator, YouTuber, and author. He has been intensely interested in money, personal finance, and investing ever since he graduated from college. If you walk away with one big idea from this conversation, let it be this quote from Brian’s book: “The stock market is the greatest wealth creation machine of all time.” Brian started investing in 2004. In the beginning, he had no idea what he was doing and got his teeth kicked in. His returns improved dramatically as...

I spent last summer reading three of Daniel Crosby’s books: The Behavioral Investor, The Laws of Wealth, You Are Not That Great – today, we spend an hour discussing some of the biggest lessons from his writing, work, and research – we learn what we can do to get out of our own way, and make better investment decisions. Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations understand the intersection of mind and markets. Dr. Crosby's first book, Personal...

Hraday Jhala, a 15-year old Singapore-based investing enthusiast, author, and podcast host sits down with me, Bogumil Baranowski for a two hour conversation. Hello everyone, and thank you for tuning in. This episode is a bit different. As you might have noticed, now, and then I share here interviews that I give on other podcasts with full credit to the hosts, and with their permission. This is an interview I gave in late August 2023. The host is Hraday Jhala, a 15 year old investing...

I’ve been an avid reader of Sean’s articles for many years. Sean and his team have a very thoughtful way of presenting sometimes not so intuitive or easy investment concepts. Sean together with Todd Wenning have been regularly sharing their experience and knowledge through writing. I highly recommend checking the episode notes for links, and looking up their work and articles. Sean Stannard-Stockton is president and chief investment officer of Ensemble Capital, which he co-founded in 2004....

50th EPISODE! Every conversation with William Green is an adventure, so was today’s hour and half where we talk about everything from investing to kindness, spirituality, the pursuit of freedom, and more – His book Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life is a must read for anyone serious about investing, and everyone curious to learn from some of the greatest minds not only about getting richer, but living better lives. William is also a host of The...

As investors, we keep looking for new advantages. A better use of our brain, a great gift that we already have, might be a very intriguing path worth pursuing. My guest today has incredibly insightful advice for all of us. Lucas Miller is a cognitive neuroscientist, author, and human performance researcher, as well as the youngest faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. At Berkeley, Lucas teaches MBA students and is best known for his course called "Becoming Superhuman: The...

If you are curious to learn more about analyzing business, and picking stocks, this episode is a fascinating look behind the curtain with a seasoned hedge fund analyst, who now teaches a variety of courses on the matter. Steve is the founder of Behind the Balance Sheet (https://behindthebalancesheet.com/), the premier investment training consultancy. The company runs Forensic Accounting Courses for leading institutions like Schroders and Baillie Gifford – since the first course in June 2018,...

I don’t know any successful investors who are not curious, and I can’t think of a better person to learn from about curiosity than my today’s guest, an instant friend, Tom Morgan. Tom describes himself as a curiosity sherpa to billionaires. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, 2 children and a rabbit called Frank. Tom Morgan is a Director at Sapient Capital. He is responsible for the firm’s content. He has previously worked in Equity Sales on Wall Street at Merrill Lynch, Bank of America...

Matthew Turner is a British author who wrote his latest book, ‘Beyond The Pale’ on the back of interviewing hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, authors, investors, and thought-leaders. As well as writing his own books, Matthew ghostwrites both articles and books for other successful entrepreneurs and thought-leaders, in-between spending time with his two children. Today: We talked about Matthew's book "Beyond the Pale," including its inception, the meaning behind the title, and the...

John Maxfield – studies and writes about banking. He spent two decades studying America's best banks, the history of banking, and interviewing bank leaders. He writes a newsletter about banks, a newsletter that has been called the best newsletter on banks. I know seasoned stock investors who told me they choose to never invest in banks because they don’t understand them. We can’t avoid banks in our lives though, we don’t all have to be equity investors in banks, but most if not all of us...

Credit: Investing the Templeton Way with Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips -- please find and follow their podcast on your preferred platform. In this episode, we are joined by Bogumil Baranowski to talk about stock investing, managing generational wealth, his investment philosophy, ways to become a better investor, and how to change your environment and think differently as an investor. Bogumil is a founding partner of Sicart Associates LLC, a boutique investment firm catering to...

In my work as an investment advisor to families, I get to know not only the stock holdings in the portfolio, but also the people whose money we manage. The topic of wealth, and wealth psychology is of great interest to me, and my partners. Dr. Paul shares unique, and intimate insights. Dr. Paul Hokemeyer (Dr. Paul) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised with his older brother in the gently rolling hills of Harford County, Maryland. From an early age, Dr. Paul was confused by the world in...

My guests are: Daniel Pecaut - Chairman | Chief Investment Officer | Author & Corey Wrenn - President | CEO | Author Chairman and President of Pecaut & Company. If you are a Berkshire and Buffett fan, this episode is for you. We’ll go on a trip back in time to the early days of Buffett’s Berkshire. Both my guests have been going to Berkshire’s Annual Meetings since the 1980s, and one of my guests actually worked for Buffett, and was checking tickets, and letting attendees in at the...