James Sexton

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1,499 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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My dad was a Reagan conservative Naval Academy graduate.

My mom was like almost a Marxist.

So I never think I had a choice but to be a lawyer because I had to see both sides of every issue because they disagreed on everything politically.

But we're married for 50 plus years till my mom passed.

So they made it work.

But I remember my mom used to always say that money is only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

Hmm.

And my father didn't share that view of it.

He was a Reagan conservative and he was very into like, you know, minimizing taxation and being successful in capitalism.

And my mom was very progressive and left.

So I saw kind of both sides of things.

But I was really motivated to do something.

I didn't want to be the kind of person who spent five days a week looking forward to two.

I knew that.

And I knew I didn't want to spend 50 weeks a year looking forward to two.

You know, I just felt like there's something wrong with that.

So I... Corporate grind paradigm.

Yeah, I mean, just anything that you're doing just for the money.

Like, I didn't want the majority of my time to be spent doing something just for the money.

I wanted it to be something that...

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