The Money Mondays - The Power of Financial Literacy: What Every Family Needs to Hear w/ Troy Millings 📋 EP153

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

In this episode of Money Mondays, Dan Fleyshman sits down with entrepreneur and educator Troy Millings to talk about building businesses, smart investing, and creating generational wealth. Troy shares how he built Earn Your Leisure into a multi-million-dollar brand and breaks down lessons on financial literacy, mentorship, and making an impact through live events like Invest Fest. This episode delivers practical insights on investing, entrepreneurship, and giving back with purpose.Troy Millings is an entrepreneur, educator, and founder of Earn Your Leisure, a multi-million-dollar brand focused on financial literacy, investing, and entrepreneurship. He hosts the Market Mondays podcast and produces Invest Fest, a live event connecting investors, entrepreneurs, and creators. Troy is known for helping people build wealth, make informed financial decisions, and create lasting impact.Like this episode? Watch more like it 👇The New Definition of Wealth: Strong Body, Strong Mind, Strong Family w/ Steve Eckert 💪 : https://youtu.be/snsag2gHgp8Why Most People Never Build REAL Wealth (and How to Change That) 💵 : https://youtu.be/T1zhRFPdhzITurning Setbacks Into Millions: Tim Storey & Natasha Graziano On Making, Multiplying & Giving Money: https://youtu.be/Stbx6c5bawIBuilding a Billion-Dollar Platform Across Law, Healthcare & AI w/ Sean Callagy 💰: https://youtu.be/HEyjoJSrIgQWatch ALL Full Episodes Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6k---The Money Mondays is a business podcast here to teach you how to make money, invest money, and donate money by showcasing some of the world's most successful people and how they do the same. Hosted by serial entrepreneur Dan Fleyshman, the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history, this money podcast gives you an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the wealthiest celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes and influencers make, invest and donate money.If you want to learn more business and investing while you work to improve your financial life, you're in the right place! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@themoneymondays?sub_confirmation=1Dan Fleyshman,The Money MondaysLearn more here: https://themoneymondays.comWatch all the podcast episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6kLet’s Connect...Website: https://themoneymondays.comPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-money-mondays/id1663564091Twitter: https://twitter.com/themoneymondaysLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-money-mondays/about/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@themoneymondaysFB: https://www.facebook.com/The-Money-Mondays-110233585203220/If you want an all-in-one platform for marketing, CRM, texting, email, and booking, go to https://gohighlevel.com/fleyshman

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money Monday's podcast where we cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give it away to charity. Normally, I do these podcasts inside of an RV motorhome traveling around the country, but I'm in New York City. We should do that. We should still do it. We can do a second episode. We got the toy drives coming up at the American Dream Mall, Miami Heat Arena. We're doing one in Virginia with Alan Iverson. There's so much going on.

So I decided, why don't I stop by? We're the guys from Earn Your Leisure, EYL University, and VestFest. I'm going to go by and visit them and knock out back-to-back podcasts with some of the co-founders. So as you guys know, when we do these podcasts, they're under 40 minutes because the average workout is 45 minutes. The average commute to work is 45 minutes. This episode will be between 35 and 38 minutes for your listening pleasure. We have a 93% listen-through rate, which helps us with the podcast chart rankings. And you guys help us with the podcast chart rankings by liking.

commenting subscribing etc when you listen to these episodes it's not just for you it could be someone in your friends family and followers or it could be for someone from your past present or future when you hear these things don't just learn for yourself there might be other people that are useful to forward this podcast episode too especially this one this gentleman that we have today has been deeply immersed into the space of teaching finance stock market live events and all those things that are important to me, and he's done it at a grand scale. So, Troy Millings, if you can, give us the quick two-minute bio, swing it straight to the money. I am Troy Millings, co-founder of Earn Your Leisure, co-founder of InvestFest, EY Young University, anything that encompasses

the world of Earned Your Leisure. I've had my fingerprint on it. Started my career in education, was a teacher in the Bronx. And I tell you, if you've ever been a teacher in an inner city, you learn a lot of things about yourself, but you learn a lot of things about the world, too. and so one of those things I learned was what wasn't being taught to our youth and at the top of that was financial education to have an opportunity to teach kids throughout the summer what it meant to have money

gave them core principles of sharing, saving, spending, and investing and kids loved it so much. You know, it was like one of these things I taught for 10 months in the school district and then the six weeks that I had kids it felt so much more fulfilling and I was like I got to turn this into something so that program I tried to scale

I put it in a few schools and I was like this is what's needed. At the same time, you know, my partner, Rashad was creating his own imprint on social media, but he was my financial advisor. He was my best friend throughout high school, obviously, you know, when he went to college, but he was a financial advisor, and I was like, perfect, this is great. You can come in and co-teach with me, right? Like, you know more about finance than I do.

I know more about the educational setting. We can team up and do this thing in a classroom setting. And we did that, and we did that for like 10 summers before anybody ever heard of us. And it went really good. and like halfway through that he had this idea like yeah we should record these classroom sessions and so he would have who was our CEO now abdula he had him record he would sit there and just record the classrooms and he would post it on social media and I'm busy like teaching trying to figure out how to scale this thing and people like wait where's that program where is that how do we

get that I want my kids in that and he was like yeah we got something and that led to you know him doing shows and then one day he said look we should start a podcast and I was like okay and not because I was like I'm 100% sure that this is going to work but more so of I'm a firm believer in our brotherhood and our friendship and he believes in something and it's an idea that he like truly wants to follow through with let's go do it we've done it before we've had businesses that didn't work but that never changed our friendship and so I was like all right let's do it never came from an audio background didn't do any studying of journalism just had a passion for music had a passion for sports and had a passion for the money behind those those those

career paths and it was like you know the conversations that we usually have once we started talking we were like wait people aren't having these conversations and so we knew we had something early on and now we have you know what the world sees is earn your leisure this huge brand but it was just an idea that started in a basement of a house with an iPhone and an idea and some guys coming together saying let's change the world so we grew up thinking it's rude to talk about money And the whole concept for me with the Money Mondays, and I'm sure with your messaging and market Mondays and the way you teach with kids, we know that it's important to talk about money in households, in communities, et cetera. How can we change the narrative? What can we do or what can people that are listening do to start having this conversation so people don't think it's rude to talk about money?

It's a process that I'm learning. You know, I come from a West Indian background. And the only thing that we talked about was money was like save it, save it. In fact, I would ask my mom to borrow money. And she was like, if you was money, I would spend you. It was like this running joke we had. And I was like, that's all we're going to talk about when it came to money. And so what I've been doing is I've been leading by example in that space because, like,

I am the generation of curse breaker, right? And so I've been super intentional about making sure that my kids understand what money is and how it works. Right. So the same things I used to teach to students. I now teach to my two children, right? You can do a couple of things with it, right? You can spend it.

We know how to do that. I don't have to teach them that. Right. That is natural, right? Because they've seen, they've been around that. You can share it, which is something that we've learned, and they were part of church, right? I used to take them to church all the times. I haven't made it to my church as much as we've been traveling, but they saw that, right?

We were giving tides every Sunday, right? Then the next piece was like, okay, you can invest it, which nobody talks about, right? And I was like, oh, there's something here. And so leading by example and showing them, that I was like okay well I want them to see money and so I would have money around the house right like I when we give back and during the Christmas time or when we were giving back to our kids throughout our program I would put the money on the table and I have my kids count it I'm like each envelope is getting $200 they're like dad the sturdy kids I'm like yeah don't worry

about that each kids make sure you put $200 in every envelope and so now the thousands is like a couple thousand dollars is there it's not big money to them anymore right they've seen it right I used to say, all right, I'm going to put $10,000 in the house for a case of emergencies. Hey, go give that to Grandma so she can put it under the bed. Dad, that's $10,000. I know. I want you to give it to Grandma just in case we need it, right? We've never needed it, but they've seen that money when we're having to pay the mortgage.

I'm sitting there. He's watching me. My son's watching me very intently. He's watching me write a check. Hey, Dad, that's what you're paying every month? Yeah, you live here, right? We've got to do this, right? and so now what he's into now is he's watching me invest in the stock market right like he

owns shares of invidia he loves to tell his friends he owns shares of invidia yeah yeah yeah so yeah yeah so he has a thousand shares of invidia his sister has a thousand shares um that's part of like i had an option call that i actually exercise and gave them a thousand shares and they love talking about it but when he realized how much it was worth i watched his reaction and because we had done those things about showing him money, right? Like if you look at Nvidia shares, it's like $181. He's like, wait, I have a thousand shares. Wait a minute, carry the one.

I'm good at math. Wait, there's a comma. But it didn't excite him the same way. And it didn't feel foreign to him. And I'm like, that couldn't have been me at 11. Sure. That couldn't have been me at 18. The fact that it's a normalcy to him tells me that his ambitions are going to be bigger

because of the things that we've introduced. People always like, well, how did you introduce me? to the market. I'm like, well, I met him where he was at. At the time, he's five, six, seven years old. My daughter is 11 years old. What are they playing over there? Right? Robux. Oh, perfect. What are they watching? Disney, okay, perfect. That's a publicly traded company. Robux is about to IPO.

Hey, we can do that. Listen, here's a lesson here. You know that game that you're playing that you're asking $4.99 from every three days and $9.99 every month? We could actually own shares in that. What's that? You can own piece of the company So we'll be meeting them with that The funniest story is that As I'm teaching them financial education

I'm driving to school one day And it's like Maybe the end of March And I'm driving And like this ad comes on From like the IRS Like it's tax season right And he's like dad

I want to be the IRS I'm like What turn down to me What are you talking about? He's like I want to be the IRS I'm like Why do you want to be the IRS? I'm like, Why do you want to be the IRS?

the IRS. He's like, because they take everybody's money every year. I'm like, oh, yes. Okay, well, we can't be them, but I understand why you will want to be them. But this is now a lesson on how taxes work. So it's about meeting them with the ad leading by example, not hiding it from them, not making it taboo for them, right? Like, I feel like our parents and our, you know, adults that were older than us, especially in our community, it was taboo to talk about money because they weren't educated about money, right? almost like you don't want to talk about it because you don't know. And when you don't know, you don't feel confident talking about it.

And so they weren't confident. And that was a lesson learned in itself, right? Like, I know we can't do that because we know the repercussions of it. So on the make money side, why do you think people are held back? They get to a certain point. They make 60 grand, 70 grand, 80 grand a year, and they become complacent. What do you think holds them back from either side hustles, investing in the real estate, stock market? What holds people back from doing that next step?

Fear? Straight up. Fear. And I've watched it cripple people in my family. I've watched it crippled people in my community. But fear is only conquered by education. It always goes back to that. You know, there's this idea of what if it doesn't work, right?

But I always like to live, like, fearless, right? Like, what if it does work, right? Like, we're closer to zero than we think. You know what I mean? Like the person that I remember making $32,000 a year. I remember making $65,000 a year, right? I remember having a seven-figure year, right? That's $65,000.

Yeah, I'm closer to zeroed than I am at this level, right? And so the idea that we're caps because of our irrational feelings about situations cripples us and no we don't take chances, then we don't get educated about it. And I remember this is a true story. We had just started earning a leisure. And at the time, I had just got my teaching. salary up to $115,000 a year, right? And I know most people are like, oh, my gosh, that's a lot of money, right?

But I'm like, New York salaries are different, obviously. And I'm like, yo, this is a goal. And I wish I was like, look, you got an opportunity here to do something bigger. He was like, don't let making $100,000 a year stop you for making $100,000 a month. Like, there's opportunity here. There's no ceiling on what you can do as an entrepreneur. And I was like, hey, he's got something. I think he's right about that, right?

Like, there's something here that can't be replicated because we're doing it. We're originating it. But there's also no ceiling on what we can create. So in that point, it was like, there is no boundary on this, right? Like, why fear this? Like, this could work. So on the brand side of investing, as you're building EY university, as people can buy coaching and learning and training, et cetera, you throw live events.

Yeah. You know, something like InvestFest can cost hundreds of thousands can also cost millions of dollars to produce as you guys keep scaling it. Why not take the easy route? Just keep doing what I call one to many online

versus we're going to have 4,000 people, 10,000 people, 25,000 people show up to the city of Atlanta and spend millions of dollars to produce these live, large format events. Yeah, it's bigger than us. I always, you know, have that as my mindset. This is, invest fest is even about us, right?

Like, obviously, you know, when it was branded, it wasn't Hey earn your leisure presents it was in Vest Fest and it was very intentional about that and there's no faces to that logo because again

it's not us it's about what we wanted to create for a community that didn't have this right like we knew the things that we catered toward we knew the things that we liked right we're from the community we're from the culture we know we love entertainment we know we love music we know we love sports

but we know we love business too right and so how do we combine all those things how do we make this edutainment and it hadn't been done right when we looked at the landscape we saw people do events and we saw conferences and it was like okay those things are cool and that piece of the event is nice but if we added this piece and we got food trucks here and made it a real festival it hadn't been done and so yeah it started out with 4,000 people I mean like look how do we get better right how do we improve never resting going like all right

that was a success let's just replicate what we did how do we get better because if we get better then we can impact more people right it always goes back to those people so then it's 12,000 people. Then it's 25,000 people, which means now there's more business that's going to happen because more vendors get to come there, more people get to showcase their business,

more attendees get to go there. What happens when more attendees come? That means they're just more cross-networking. People are finding business deals. They're finding partners. They're finding capital angel investors, right? They're finding more ideas. All those things are happening

because you created something for them to come to. I talk about the speaker that, year Marcus Rozier and he had this profound thing he's like sometimes in life you have to become who you're going to be so somebody else can become what they're going to be wow and he said you know he goes into the story of how you know he never thought he'd be standing in front of 13,000 15,000 people giving speeches to help them with their lives he never thought he'd actually create a career out of that but he needed earn your leisure to create an invest fest so he could be on the stage doing exactly that. And I was like, wow, that's it. Like, that's it. We had to create something so that

thousands, if not millions of people over the course of the past seven years can become who they're going to be, whether it was from the information that they heard, whether it was from a person that they met, whether it was from a business opportunity.com presented to them, just happenstance encounter with all those things have happened because of an event that was created. why should people invest into themselves why buy the ticket get get on the airplane pay for the hotel fly to atlanta to invest fest or other events in their in their cities if they want to learn about real estate stocks etc why spend the money time and energy to go to live events yeah you know there's this idea of being in the right place at the right time like oh that i have to go to that one event

and i like to believe it's like being at the right place all the time right and so social media is great and those platforms are great but there's nothing like the real life in-person encounter right nothing can get lost in translation if we're meeting each other and so it's important to be in those rooms because again you don't know who you're going to meet you don't know who's seeing you for the first time you don't know what idea can be sparked you don't know what piece of information that you can now apply to your real life or execute on the next day that can change things for you and I mean it's kind of like what you've been saying it's like if you change one person that change is a household

which then in turn changes a community which changes pretty much an entire environment and so if that one person decides I'm going to take that step right that first step that jump off the porch moment I'm going to go there and they come back with something right we'll never know what the thing was maybe right who knows what these companies or these people will create but the idea that they did it it was forced

because they actually said, all right, I'm going. Here's what I'm coming back with. So oftentimes people want to invest into things, but they just don't know what's invested into. You got the real estate, stock market, cash line businesses, angel investing, their friends, new thing that they get pitched on. They're bombarded with pitches. They're bombarded what they see on social media.

Should I gamble? Should I? They don't know what to do because there's so many options. How can someone learn or try to decide what they're going to. should be investing their discretionary capital into? I mean, it's just because there's so many distractions, right? And there's so many people telling you that this is the way. I would say, like, specifically for me, it was like, where do I find the greatest interest?

Right. Like, and who can I get around that can help me and mentor me or I can listen to to get me through that process? So you're talking to a guy that doesn't come from finance, right? Like, you're talking to a guy who never worked on Wall Street or never worked for a financial institution but decided that, hey, I see real growth in the stock market, right? I'm going to become assessor about it. I have this thing. Like, I don't want to be good at something. I want to be great at it. And so, like, that became the thing, right? Like, I'm going to

study this, right? I want to become one of the best people that has ever done this. Like, I want to be, like, the person that people can now go to just as the educator in me. Like, if I learn it, I know I can teach it. And, like, every day I'm trying to learn so I can teach. And so it was that for me in terms of the stock market but it could have been real estate as well right if that was the thing um i've had experiences of real estate that weren't great um and it's been documented if that was the thing it would have been the same passion right who can i get around what event can go to who's the person that can mentor me or the group of people that can can help me and guide through this this process that i can now pour myself into and really dedicate to like this is the way

um so it's not either or thing it's which one do i feel can present the rest growth for me, one, but who could present a legacy building situation for my family as well? So you're at Invest Fest, you're walking through the hallway, and someone pitches you, they want you to invest into their company. What are the things that make it an automatic no for you when they pitch you? The automatic no. I think the first thing is when they tell me I need to. I feel like the I need to idea is like one of those turnoffs, right? Like I think you know especially when we have relationships with other people and how we've you know created our brand it's always like how can we help right how can we help how can this idea

help um a lot of times people are like hey you're in this position you they perceive that you have this capital i need you to do this i need you to do that and if you do this this is why this will grow and if we have you on board this is why i could help and it's like it becomes like that selfish mindset right like why do i need to do this um and so leading with with the value add of how it can help a business that we're doing or an idea that we're trying to get off the ground, I think those are the ideas that stick around a little longer and those pass through the door, right?

There's obviously levels to get to that first phone call or that meeting to discuss further, but the value adds into something that we have going on, how they can add value, is always the first barrier. Like, okay, this is something that can actually help us. Now we can have further conversations about things that they're interesting as well. So as you personally start to earn more capital, you get more and more options.

How do you decide when you know I'm good at the stock market? I think I know I understand real estate or I'm around good real estate guys. I could invest in my friend's seventh salon or seventh gym or seventh barbershop or seventh restaurant. Like how are you deciding now with all these options? I look at the growth potential. And so inside of the market, what are the things that I'm invested in? What do I really know? And so tech is one of those sectors that I'm just like hugely,

dynamic with like I'm always reading trying to figure out the next thing trying to see where the future's headed in tech and so when opportunities are presented for them I'm like what's the tech component first and foremost right in this space you know like hey if people are looking at valuations like you know that business is good next thing they're looking for is there's some AI in it right like what's the tech component right how are we going to do this because they know that you know tech helps scale business and it makes business a lot more efficient and so if you have that okay this is something we can talk about whether it is you know from an e-commerce platform or i know we've looked at uh e-vehicles right like those type of things is like oh i see a need

there i see like the future is heading that way um so definitely a tech component something that's future facing um and then good leadership too a lot of times when we get the decks um from companies we can see it then when we talk to the you know the CEO or the founder of the company it tells us a lot right like how confident are they in this how long have they been in the space have they had some bumps along the road have they had failures before have they been part of companies before have they founded things before you know you get to know the person who's actually coming up with their idea to see their history you combine it with all the other information it's like all right this sounds like a sound idea how can we be involved

someone's at one of your events where they're on one of the big social communities and they meet someone that wants to partner with them and they don't know how to structure the deal trying to figure out what to do how do I do this I've never navigated this before what would you say should they start reading certain books so they go to EYL University like what should they do to learn

before they make a partnership deal before they do a partnership I would first get counsel right I think that's the most important thing and a lot of times we just kind of overlook I know you know we've seen it's just a handshake deal and then you get years down the row and you're like

well that handshake never turned into paperwork which could be an ugly situation So I would first seat counsel from an attorney, whatever field that you're in. I would see guidance from people who've been in that field who've actually structured deals before because the worst thing you can do is be naive to say like, I know it. I think the people who go down that route usually will end up having some really harsh ramifications, if not so. But it's not easy, right? There's no school for it.

So, you know, in EYLU, our thing is like, how can we look at areas that, don't have an education and now find experts who can provide it and so that's always our goal right and if there's there's a leak it's like all right okay grants right like we were talking about grants during our episode and I'm like that's crazy we just did a whole episode on how grant writing and grant funding is an area that we don't look at but we should so there's these I won't even call pain points but they're interest points of like where we can now meet but it's partnering with anybody, I think there's certain things that you should be looking for. I always talked about people's energy, right? Like, is that, is there an energy shift there? Like, when you guys are you

talking, do they speak with confidence, right? Do they have integrity in their thought process? Those are things that before there's any paperwork, we need to check off on the box to see if this is going to be a partnership that's worthwhile. So I'll give you guys a fun theoretical story for you guys to argue about in your households or in your office. It's based on what if you just said is a partnership deal that's just off of a handshake. So let's say that Troy and I start Troy Dan Lemonade Stand. Okay, Troy Dan, Lemonade Stand. We open one here in New York City and we crush it.

We'll start doing $900 a day at Troy Dan Lemonade Stand here in New York City. We open up one in New Jersey. Second location, Troy Dan, Lemonade Stand crushing $600 a day. Third location. We're out there in Virginia, open up location. This one is $1,300 a day in gross revenue, $7 million. But Troy gets an offer from Netflix to become the president of the entire company, $40 million year, huge salary deal. He goes off and says, hey, I got to do it.

And he goes and becomes the president of Netflix. I go open, location number four, five, six, seven, 13, 19, 26 locations later, two years later, there's 26 locations of Troy Dan Lemonade stands all over the country and two of them in London. Does Troy still own 50% of the other 23 locations after he went to become the president of Netflix?

All we had was a handshake. Do we technically? I was saying yes because I'm Troy. I would love to have the other stands but there's no written agreement to say otherwise, right? Like, it's named after you? It's named after. My name is on it.

It's been licensed in my name. The idea is something that we created together. I put up the money for the other 23 locations. What happens? You weren't even there, Troy. What happens? Our hands still attached to our body. It's a fun theoretical thing that we could argue either side.

Right. I could for sure argue Troy's side. It's named after him and he was there for the first locations. I could for sure argue my side. because I just spent all my own money, time, and energy for the other 23 locations. You weren't even there. You don't even know the addresses of the other locations. Why do you own 50% of them?

We could argue both sides. All of that could be fixed by a memorandum of understanding, a scope of work, a contract. A very simple one-page agreement would make it very simple for Troy and I to know does you own 50% of the other 23 locations. If it's just a handshake, it's going to be up to the lawyers in battling for the next two or three years. You've got to sign contracts even with your mom. I say that in a funny sense. Signing contracts even with your mom means you're never going to sue your mom. Well, the concept is you and your mom might have different agreements or different concepts of what we promised, what we thought.

What Troy and I thought before he went to become the present Netflix, what did we think was going to happen? You can fix that by simply signing contracts. In your space, as you're teaching, first you were teaching children, now you're teaching adults all over the world. what is the common theme that starts when they first start to realize and they start to open up their eyes of what's actually possible? I think it's the first idea that comes across their mind is disbelief. They can't believe it's happening. It's like this is unreal. I think the next thing, and I feel like it's the natural thing, is I wish I would have known sooner.

And whether that comes with knowledge or whether it comes to money, it's always that I wish I would have known sooner because I would have made better decisions. which is part of the reason where it was like, okay, we keep seeing that theme over and over. How do you combat that? Well, if we think about it, where do kids, where do people start to learn? School.

Which is like why we were like super, super intentional. Like, all right, we've gotten to this level. Now we've got to go back to the beginning because every adult says the same thing. Man, I wish I would have learned about that in school. I wish I would have learned about money in school. Nobody ever told us about money in school

or taxes or real estate or the stock money nobody took but what if somebody did and so that was the okay well we have to go back and create curriculum to now put in schools and so we've been like hyper-focused on that as well it's like okay if it was missing that great that it was missing but that leaves somebody to now create and so the idea was like great curriculum first start in new york city the largest school district in the country get it here then get it to other school districts throughout the country. Getting EYL up in there? EY, yeah, earn as you learn, the

curriculum, so it's a financial literacy curriculum, but make it something that's mandated, right? Like we went to school and HOMEC was, we had to have a half a credit of that and we had to have a half a credit of art and we had to have a half a credit of technology, but nobody ever put financial education as a

requirement. Imagine if kids were required to have financial education and what they would do throughout their high school career, but what they would do as college students, right? How many entrepreneurs would have been created that how many more people in terms of young adulthood would choose professions that they have and how many would you know open up 401ks or 4 or 3bs how much more financially uh in depth would we be if we had it early um and so that

thought of i can't believe it number one man i wish order knew before what am i going to do now is the last piece and that's the execution right so we're big on information information education information but that can be overwhelming and it can be overload and it can feel like oh i'm getting so much i don't know what to do with any of it our thing is like the information is always going to be on us the execution has to be on you like i can't push the button to open your bank account i don't know the password i don't know what you're starting with but the information that's being provided can change what's in there now and people have to see it that way so we talked about making money we talked about investing money let's go to the charity side why do you think it's important for

brands or corporations to have some type of charity component for their customers, clients, staff, investors, partners, et cetera, to see them doing or working on some type of charity. Yeah, it was always one of our core principles. And when we started with young adults, that sharing pieces, you know, it's always the last category that we talked about because most people don't realize that it's something that should be pivotal. And we've done it in plenty of ways when, you know, when we didn't have UIL, it was, okay how can we help communities and I remember taking kids and we would go feed the homeless

and the first summer that we did that I never forget I had kids get back on the bus after doing it and they said I want to do that every week and something that clicked inside them they were like I want to do that every week how can we can't do that every week like that felt good and I was like oh this is it like this is it they're learning the foundation of sharing and how good it feels to give back to people. So the homeless population, we sat down with them and the gentlemen said, I never forget to the, we spoke about it the next day in class, they said, no one thinks they're going to be sitting in the seat, right? Like, no one thinks they're going to be here, but we're here, right? The fact that you guys have come out and decided, you know, provided a meal

for us, provided your time, right? Most people just walk past, right? You provided your time, that means a lot. Those kids felt so fulfilled. I was like, here's the foundation of it. the business, it's the same thing. It's a core principle. The more you give to the world, the more you get back from the world, right? And we never give with saying, like, what's going to be the repercussion on it or what's going to be the benefit? It's like, no, pour out into the world because naturally that's what we should do, right?

You don't know what's coming back, but you shouldn't care about what's coming back. Can you help people? Can you give impact? Can you encourage? That's always been a core principle. Businesses should do it, but individuals should do it. So there's only one question that I ask on every single episode, and I've never gotten the same answer before and I'm not going to get the same answer today all right you build earn your leisure

and all the subsidiary companies to a multi-billion dollar business but one day unfortunately Troy passes away what percentage of your net worth do you leave to those two children the two children what about the wife just like all right uh what percentage of it um this is tough 50-50 doesn't feel right to me because there's certain things that they have to learn on the journey of trying to create for their own and build their own let's say 30% 30% for each kid will have charity in there as well and I want their families to live on beyond them so we'll create something in terms of a state plan or a trust that will keep the money staying in the family for generations because the cliche term is generational wealth but I think it's sustainable wealth right like how do we keep this going for

generations to generation to generation after that because if you track the history it's like first generation second third something got fumbled how do we put the guardrails up to make sure that it's sustainable so that that would be the plan for that where can people find you on social where can they find all the companies and vents etc they can find me at earn your leisure or across all mediums uh instagram youtube anywhere that you see earn your leisure you know we we have our fingerprints on and so i'm involved there on my personal page is troy millings uh but yeah man earn your leisure man that's the brand that's what we're going with uh that's what got us here so make sure to check out. They also have the podcast called the Market Mondays. They've got the live event called

Invest Fest. There's a lot of things to dive in to the whole circle of what they've got they've been building. And I'm sure they'll be building more over the course of time. And as you guys know, this podcast is designed for you to share with your friends, family, and followers. I'm not reading much of ads. I'm designing this podcast for a 93% listen through rate so you can listen to it easily under 40 minutes and consume it and share it with your friends. It might not just be your friends currently. It might be someone a year from now that you think about. Wait a minute. What did Troy say? Let me forward him that podcast. Let me forward to her that podcast so they can learn from that as well i appreciate you guys make sure

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