Ross Mandell

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106 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard Mar 2025

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Mick Unplugged · Reinventing Ross Mandell: Success, Second Chances, and Redemption · 6 Mar 2025 podcast

And we're looking to, just so you know, produce it in the Philippines. Okay. And there's a whole variety of good reasons for that, which I don't want to take up the time, but it's a very exciting thing to be in this industry and this business. I'm very determined to build a media company, sort of like Mick Unplugged. Just killing it, bro, right?

We spoke about some good things prior to the broadcast. And I'm like so proud of you, man.

I am, like you said, you asked me how I feel and I can't even answer you really because I haven't thought about it. I'm too busy doing. I'm not so busy feeling. You know, Andrew Tate talks about these things, and he's a very controversial character, but I dig him. I dig the Tate brothers. I want to say it publicly.

You know, they're going through a lot of shit with the bullshit legal stuff that they're being brought into because they made a lot of money. He's very brash. He's very outspoken. But a lot of the things he says, I agree. Being a man means being accountable. It means being accountable. You want to be successful, you better take action. I can't stand negative people. I can't have it in my life.

You know, they even tell you, you know, a younger man is going to a cancer journey and he's going to all these different doctors and he's getting all this advice. And I'm like, the number one thing is you can't be negative. The body is a self-healing mechanism. I believe God wants good for us, I believe that. And the thing is that we can't allow negativity or doubt to creep in.

If I was feeling all so much, I might have doubt. I have made a decision, I've got some goals down, One is to build a successful media company, a successful podcast, to build an educational platform where I can truly help people get into business, build and create wealth, understand the stock market. There are specific things that I have, I'm uniquely knowledgeable about. I have literally 10%.

Tens of years of grinding and making moves and success and accomplishment and failure. You know, Patrick Mahomes will learn more from what happened last Sunday in New Orleans, right? From failing than he ever will from all his victories. Trust me, the Kansas City Chiefs learned. They got beat down, okay? They're going to reorganize and reshuffle the deck because that's what winners do.

It's not just about winning and accomplishing. It's about maintaining, okay? You know, it's a great thing. If you're not aggressive, you're never going to make money. But if you're not defensive, you're never going to keep money. These are really important nuggets of wisdom.

And if not for mentorship, you know, when I was a young man on Wall Street, I would be in the, like, call it the bullpen, right, a boardroom. I'm making $40,000 a month. And I share a computer and a desk and a secretary. I'm making $40,000, $45,000 a month. The guys in the offices are making $100,000 a month. And I couldn't figure it out. I would knock on door.

Michael Cavanaugh, I want to give you a shout out. Oppenheimer & Company, 1970. 1985, I would knock on his door and say, Michael, would you mind if I come in and just sit in the corner and listen? I want to take some notes. I promise you I won't make a sound. And he says, sure, Ross. And I used to go in and he would like put on a show, you know, he's real. He's a real guy.

And he could get on the phone and talk to a guy that he never met, maybe spoke to once before, twice, qualified him, got a lead, sent him, you know, an introductory package. And get him to commit to a $100,000 transaction. Called on the phone. There's a guy that earned $100,000 a month. He used to drive down to Wall Street from Midtown Manhattan in a convertible Rolls Royce in 1985.

You know what I'm saying? We still admire him. Rolls Royce leaves no doubt. That's what my daughter says. You know, Mercedes, everybody's got a Mercedes today. Rolls Royce, you're making a statement now, right? It's no joke. And I would sit and take notes. But forgetting the notes, I watched. I'm a very big monkey see, monkey do guy. I see Joe Rogan. I see Joe Rogan. I see Patrick Bette David.

I see Brad Lee. I see Mick Hunt. I say, if you could do it, I could do it. Maybe not as well, maybe not the same, but if I understand the game, I can do it. But if I don't attempt to understand what it is you're doing, how you're doing it, then I'm in the blind. So I would knock on doors of guys that were better than me and more than me and say, would you mind if I ask you a question?

That's how I got in the stock market. You know, it was the disco days, New York City, Studio 54, 1979, 1980, right? Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta, right? And I used to go to these clubs, Studio 54, Xenon, Magic, you know, the underground, these famous, famous places in Manhattan. I'll be 68 in March.

And we used to see guys pull up, literally at Studio 54 and West 54th Street, but it had to be 1,000 people on the street, 1,000. And there would be these velvet ropes, and everybody would be trying to get into this place. It was the most famous club in the world, hands down, right? They made movies about it and shows, you know, the Broadway show.

And there would be guys that would pull up in expensive cars, Porsche, Lamborghini, Mercedes, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, And a guy would literally come out from nowhere and they'd give him the keys and out of the car would be this, you know, one of the hottest, the most beautiful women you could see. And they would walk through the ropes.

Then when I eventually got into the place, I would see them sitting at like the best table with bottles of the best champagne. And I would go right up to them and I'd say, excuse me, who are you? I mean, how do you, why is this woman with you? I saw you pull up, you got in. I mean, what do you do?

I'm a stockbroker, I'm an investment banker, I'm a trader, I work at Goldman Sachs, I work at JP Morgan. It was all these financial guys. And so that's what led myself and my closest friends. We didn't know anything about the stock market, but we saw people that had what we wanted. So we emulated them. It's that simple. You know, I mean, it's nothing more than that.

And we didn't have cell phones in those days, computers. We didn't have social media. We didn't have Google. Right. Guy says he's in the best mind. I said, what does that mean? He went, I'm staring at his girlfriend.

I'm like, you know, if you don't mind me saying, you're not that great looking. She's stunning. How did you get this woman? You know, that's who I am. I talk, I'm very, but you know what? Most people appreciate me like that. They start laughing. And they love talking, people love talking about themselves. You know, guys used to come up to me and say, is that your wife or your nanny?

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