Ryan Holiday

And it's also challenging and exhausting in a lot of ways.

And that's one of the things I wanted to talk about in today's episode, like how we think about business and entrepreneurship in an ethical framework

And how we think about it as far as an opportunity to practice virtue.

I think the Stoics would have found business really interesting.

I mean, Zeno was a merchant, but I think they would have found our business world, our economic system really interesting.

Certainly, they wouldn't have thought it as some special sphere outside business.

of the four virtues, courage, discipline, justice, wisdom.

They thought that those virtues were designed to be applied to whatever it is that you did, whether you were a soldier or an emperor or an olive oil merchant.

That's what we're going to talk about in today's episode.

Cody Sanchez, who lives here in Austin, she's an entrepreneur and an investor.

She wrote a book actually with my same publisher called Main Street Millionaire.

And she built this really interesting career and platform around buying businesses, usually kind of like small businesses, Main Street businesses.

Not like private equity in the let's buy a big company and sell it for parts, but actually let's buy a bunch of little businesses in a town and turn them into something.

Build a portfolio of businesses that do real things for real people.

And that's what we talked about today.

We actually just go through all that.

the four virtues and how they apply.

As I said, Cody is a entrepreneur, an investor.

You've probably seen her YouTube videos, Cody Sanchez CT, maybe on TikTok, Cody underscore Sanchez, or on Instagram at Cody Sanchez.

She previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Vanguard.