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The School of GreatnessMay 13, 2026

The Real Reason You're Broke (It Has Nothing to Do With Lattes) | Mrs. Dow Jones

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I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

I remember I was in like, I can't remember if I was like 18 or 20 grand in debt, but it was somewhere around there. And I read, I will teach you to b…

Future Rich Person

Haley Sachs

The book discusses new rules for building wealth and offers great stories and lessons for people struggling financially.

Warren Buffett's Ground Rules

For me, the first book for me was Warren Buffett's ground rules. And it's like all of these shareholder letters of Warren Buffett to Berkshire Hathaw…

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Financial educator and author Haley Sacks, known as Mrs. Dow Jones and called the financial guru millennials listen to by The Wall Street Journal, joins Lewis Howes to discuss her book Future Rich Person: The New Rules for Building Wealth. This episode covers Sacks' three rules for building wealth (money mindset, action money, and securing the bag), her IBIZA money mindset program (Identify, Blame, Interrupt, Z, Action), the concept of learned financial helplessness, value-based spending, frictionless finance, compound interest and index fund investing, and the psychology behind why people look rich instead of building real wealth.

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I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

I remember I was in like, I can't remember if I was like 18 or 20 grand in debt, but it was somewhere around there. A…

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Future Rich Person

Haley Sachs

The book discusses new rules for building wealth and offers great stories and lessons for people struggling financial…

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Warren Buffett's Ground Rules

For me, the first book for me was Warren Buffett's ground rules. And it's like all of these shareholder letters of Wa…

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rich kids

There's a whole chapter in the book about rich kids. I think that it's such a gift to give your kids this financial s…

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Abiza

In the book, I have my five-step money mindset program called Abiza, which unfortunately it doesn't mean that I give…

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I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

“I remember I was in like, I can't remember if I was like 18 or 20 grand in debt, but it was somewhere around there. And I read, I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi.”

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Future Rich Person

Haley Sachs

“The book discusses new rules for building wealth and offers great stories and lessons for people struggling financially.”

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Warren Buffett's Ground Rules

“For me, the first book for me was Warren Buffett's ground rules. And it's like all of these shareholder letters of Warren Buffett to Berkshire Hathaway.”

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rich kids

“There's a whole chapter in the book about rich kids. I think that it's such a gift to give your kids this financial stability and it's such a leg up.”

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Abiza

“In the book, I have my five-step money mindset program called Abiza, which unfortunately it doesn't mean that I give you a ticket to Spain.”

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The book discusses new rules for building wealth and offers great stories and lessons for people struggling financially.

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