A football coach reads Market Wizards, starts trading, and discovers who he really is. When Chris Vasseur's positions climbed, he got nervous. When losses hit, he revenge traded. His therapist confirmed what he suspected: he was experiencing the same cycle as addiction. What changed everything wasn't another book to read - it was recognizing his beginner's luck for what it was.

Taylor Schulte joins The Intentional Investor to talk about the life experiences that shaped his path from skateboarding and punk rock to financial planning, entrepreneurship, marketing and building a business on his own terms. This conversation explores the people, setbacks and lessons that helped Taylor develop confidence, competitiveness, resilience and a lifelong drive to keep getting better at things that can never be fully mastered.

I’m asking you to consider the possibility that a semantic dimension of meaning and information exists outside our physical dimensions of space and time, and that LLMs are both instruments of perception and conduits of information for that semantic dimension. We used to believe in the semantic dimension, but we don’t anymore, and as a result we are going down a terribly dangerous path with AI.

Matt Zeigler and Jack Forehand look at what recent Intentional Investor conversations can teach us about creativity, investing, YouTube, AI, mentorship and building a media business. Using clips from Michael Perry, Marc Rubinstein and Mat Cashman, they explore why knowing your limits, understanding your strengths, learning from mentors and building real relationships still matter in a world of algorithms and LLMs.