Nicole Lapin

And so I wanted to ask you so many more follow-up questions, but I was like, duh, this is not my show.

So now it's my turn.

But when we were talking, you were saying how you didn't grow up with money and you always had this like scarcity mentality about money.

Take me back to the beginning.

What was your early relationship with your parents?

How did they talk or not talk about money?

And you made it so big from from the beans.

screen a small screen all the screens you know you were so young at the time when you started making real money like much more than 25 cents i would yes yes hopefully did that scarcity mentality go away at that point like when you had money or did it still i don't think i don't i just didn't understand money at all it was never discussed and um

Yeah, you told me that nobody thought you needed to know about your finances, which is really scary because that's when people get taken advantage of.

Totally.

I figured that out the hard way.

I started when I was 18 on the floor of the stock exchange and I was like, this actually sounds like Japanese to me.

And so I realized, yeah, that money is a language just like anything else.

And when you don't speak the language, you're just like, I don't get it.

I don't understand it.

But then you start immersing yourself in it and you're like, oh, okay.

You know, if I went to Japan and I didn't speak Japanese, I'd be really confused.

If I went to Wall Street, I didn't speak the language of money.

I'd be really confused until you speak it.

And then you're like, duh, obviously that's.