GoBundance Special: Craig Valentine and Morgan Housel

This GoBundance special features two segments with two inspirational guests. First, motivational speaker Craig Valentine outlines how to influence an audience through the power of storytelling. After that, financial columnist Morgan Housel explains how to get—and stay—rich. Other episode highlights include Craig’s coaching journey with former Real Estate Rockstars host Pat Hiban and Morgan’s explanation of the real drivers behind major economic shifts.

Listen to today’s show and learn:

Stay Ready with Craig Valentine

How Craig became Pat Hiban’s coach [1:46]
Giving powerful public speeches on Zoom [2:26]
How to influence your audience [3:20]
Craig’s World Championship of Public Speaking win [4:22]
The power of storytelling and foundational phrases [5:52]
Where to get Craig’s public speaking tips for FREE [9:13]

The Psychology of Money with Morgan Housel

About Morgan Housel [13:00]
The difference between getting rich and staying rich [14:29]
Covid-19’s impact on real estate [17:11]
What really moves the economic needle [20:06]
Why diversification is vital for investors and business owners [21:41]
What’s next for Morgan [22:39]
Where to find more from Morgan [23:33]

Craig Valentine

Craig Valentine, MBA, an award-winning speaker, and trainer, has traveled the world helping thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations reap the profitable rewards that come from presenting with impact and persuading with ease.

As a motivational speaker, he has spoken in the United States, Taiwan, Canada, Jamaica, Qatar (Doha), England, Bahamas, Hong Kong, China, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, and Australia giving as many as 160 presentations per year. He is the 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking for Toastmasters International.

Craig is also the Co-Founder of the World Class Speaking program, which helps up-and-coming speakers and speech coaches turn their presentations and programs into huge profits. Craig is the author of the groundbreaking book, The Nuts and Bolts of Public Speaking, Co-Author of the books, World Class Speaking and World Class Speaking In Action, and contributing author for the books Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines, Success Secrets of the Social Media Marketing Superstars, and Guerrilla Marketing Remix.

Craig has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel is an award-winning expert on behavioral finance and investment history. Using insights from psychology, history, neurology, and sociology, he walks audiences through the cognitive biases that cause investors to become their own worst enemies and explains how understanding your own behavior can be the key to reaching your financial goals. Housel’s presentations combine storytelling with the latest research to discuss the current state of financial markets, the investment industry, and personal finance.

Housel is a partner at the Collaborative Fund, a venture capital firm backing young companies that are moving the world forward. Previously, he was a columnist at The Wall Street Journal and The Motley Fool. He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of a Sidney Award for “outstanding investigative journalism in service of the common good,” and his writing was selected by the Columbia Journalism Review to be included in its Best Business Writing 2012 anthology.

Housel is also an author of three books, including Everyone Believes It; Most Will Be Wrong and 50 Years in the Making: The Great Recession and Its Aftermath. His latest, The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness, offers 19 short stories that explore the strange ways people think about money and how we can learn to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.

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