In this week’s episode, Patrick Donley (@JPatrickDonley) sits down with Dickie Bush, a former BlackRock portfolio manager turned digital entrepreneur. You’ll learn the secrets to Dickie’s success in football, on Wall Street, online as a writer and content creator, and even how he lost 100 pounds after his football career at Princeton ended.
Dickie co-founded Ship30For30, a cohort-based course which has helped over 10,000 students start writing.
He’s a former professional online gamer and captain of the Princeton football team who has gone on to build a successful career on Wall Street and more recently, as a digital entrepreneur.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro.
02:43 - How video games taught him more than his Ivy League degree about business.
05:45 - What “obsession based” learning is.
07:53 - What his experience at BlackRock was like and why he left.
10:49 - When you should consider leaving a job.
11:36 - How he got started with a blog synthesizing content he was already listening to.
19:46 - What his early days on Twitter were like.
30:53 - How he made $10,000 as a ghostwriter.
36:59 - What the impetus of Ship30For30 was and how he developed the program.
40:36 - How he eliminated his scarcity mindset and improved his relationship with money.
44:18 - Why you should create a “memory dividend” fund with your money.
53:47 - Why you need to save the first $100,000 in cash before you start investing.
57:40 - Why he spent $68,000 on a mastermind group.
63:31 - How he lost 100 pounds and what nutrition system worked best.
68:04 - What keeps people from writing and a tool to generate topics to write about.
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