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From Mowing Lawns to Madison Square: The Grind to Pro | Andre Berto 🥊 E123
Mon, 26 May 2025
Before the lights and fame, Andre Berto was mowing lawns to chase his boxing dream. No social media. No big promoter. Just grit. In this episode of Money Mondays, Berto breaks down what it really takes to go from the streets to the spotlight — mentally, physically, and strategically.---Andre Berto is a Haitian-American former professional boxer and two-time welterweight world champion. Known for his explosive speed, power, and resilience in the ring, Berto held the WBC and IBF welterweight titles and fought some of the biggest names in boxing, including Floyd Mayweather Jr., Victor Ortiz, and Shawn Porter. Beyond the ring, he's respected for his work ethic, comeback stories, and raw honesty about the mental and physical grind of the fight game.---Like this episode? Watch more like it 👇UFC Michael Chandler & CEO Wes Watson Talk MONEY: https://youtu.be/e2J-QZU3cQENFL Player Turned Real Estate Investor & CEO of RepeatMD w/ Larry English & Phil Sitter: https://youtu.be/Gk07Zz56MFgWhy Most Men Are Losing The Battle of Life w/ Garrett White: https://youtu.be/V57TeomhR1YHow We Went From a Beat-Up Van to 200+ Franchises w/ Nick Friedman & Vince Ricci: https://youtu.be/cOF0BpMujVsWatch ALL Full Episodes Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6k---The Money Mondays is a business podcast here to teach you how to make money, invest money, and donate money by showcasing some of the world's most successful people and how they do the same. Hosted by serial entrepreneur Dan Fleyshman, the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history, this money podcast gives you an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the wealthiest celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes and influencers make, invest and donate money.If you want to learn more business and investing while you work to improve your financial life, you're in the right place! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@themoneymondays?sub_confirmation=1Dan Fleyshman,The Money MondaysLearn more here: https://themoneymondays.comWatch all the podcast episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6kLet’s Connect...Website: https://themoneymondays.comPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-money-mondays/id1663564091Twitter: https://twitter.com/themoneymondaysLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-money-mondays/about/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@themoneymondaysFB: https://www.facebook.com/The-Money-Mondays-110233585203220/
Chapter 1: Who is Andre Berto?
How y'all's going on? It's your boy Andre Berto. We are here in the building. A 2004 Olympian. Two-time boxing world champion. And I've been smacking people for a very long time. That's pretty much about it. You boxing from a kid? Yes, yes, yes. I was a troubled kid growing up, man. You know, my parents, they were immigrant parents from Haiti. So they were working all the time.
So they just gave us a lot of of time to be outside and get in trouble. And for some reason, somehow, I was just a very aggressive kid. You know what I'm saying? Very aggressive kid, and I just didn't take any type of shit at all. So I used to put my hands on a lot of kids growing up.
And it got to a point, man, it got to a point my teachers, I used to call my parents all the time like this, you got to do something.
Did it again.
Yeah, man, you got to do something with this kid, man. He has a lot of energy. He has a lot of shit to him. You guys need to take him somewhere progressive so he can let a lot of his energy out. My dad, you know, he was an MMA fighter. So, you know, so he trained in a lot of different, you know what I mean, spaces and disciplines. And he just started taking me to the boxing gym with him, man.
Ever since then, man, just fell in love with him.
So on the make money side of the podcast, at what point can a boxer make money? Because the first one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight years, it's kind of hard to make money, right? You're just living off of sponsor money. But boxing is expensive. You've got to get trainers and coaches and food and supplements and gym time. There's a lot of money that goes into it. How do you make money?
Me, myself, I was a little bit fortunate. As a professional, I'm not going to say fortunate because I put in a lot of work, right? You know, just coming from the amateurs, you know, I went to the Olympics in 2004, so I was turning pro. I had a lot of eyes on them, a lot of big promoters, a lot of big managers.
You know, but a lot of kids, man, they're not as fortunate, and they want to turn pro, and they want to box just in general. You know, so as an amateur, I had to do, like I said, I had to work. I had to, you know, because I was more in yards. We had car washes. We did everything we could just to get a dollar just to move around and go to these local tournaments just to be known, just to be heard.
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Chapter 2: What challenges do boxers face in earning money?
So on the charity side, why do you think it's important that athletes have some type of charity component for their communities or for their life?
You know, I really think, you know, when it comes down to it and, you know, like the whole sports aspect and the fact that Now you've been chosen, you've been blessed to be part of the small percentage of people, the small percentage of people to compete at such a high level and to be looked at and admired at such a high level. Me, myself, I don't believe that all of that is just for you.
I believe that you've been exalted to a point to give and spread to everybody else as well. You know what I mean? I think you need to be able to find something that's a little bit greater than yourself to really motivate you and to put those good jujus out to the world as well. God has blessed you to be at a really... I mean, at an amazing point in your life, you should always give.
You should always give. That's the way I've always looked at it.
There's one question that I ask on every single episode, and I've never gotten the same answer before.
What's that?
Andre Berto, you end up making a billion dollars. Billy! On that next company. Supplement company, a chain of gyms. All these investments start to happen. Billion dollars. But unfortunately, at some point, you pass away. What percentage of the billion dollars do you leave to those three kids? I ain't going to leave nothing. I work too hard.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm rich.
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