Investing Is the Biggest Life Hack. Nothing Comes Close | Chris Camillo
episodePreviously titled “The Investing Expert: How ANYONE Can Start Investing TODAY To Unlock Financial Freedom” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 13, 2026
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Who Are the Hosts and What is This Episode About?
If you've ever struggled with money, if you've ever felt like money's been tight, or just hard to make, or you're just not sure how to invest your money, or it's just been a confusing mess ever since as long as you can remember, this episode is for you. We have the investing expert on how to create financial peace and abundance during any economic time on the show, Chris Camillo. Chris has an extraordinary ability to spot consumer trends before Wall Street does. He's turned 20,000 into 2 million in three years and later transformed 4.5 million into 35 million. During the pandemic, when everyone was freaking out and stressed out, he found opportunities to create financial freedom. And in this episode, Chris reveals his social arbitrage investing strategy that focuses on observing cultural shifts and consumer behavior changes through social media. Chris's approach doesn't require financial expertise. It's about paying attention to the world around you and connecting observations to investment opportunities.
He also dives in deep on why women are uniquely positioned to excel at observational investing, but often don't capitalize on their insights. And literally when we stopped recording and I walked back into the office from our brand new School of Greatness studios here in the Valley of Los Angeles, the women on my team said, I am signing up and I'm investing right now. Like this seems so easy to do and it makes so much sense to me now the way he's explaining it. So if you've ever thought about investing or wanting to make more money, but you felt like it's stressful, Chris makes it more effortless and he makes it easier to get started. So I think you're really going to love this. And if you're enjoying this episode, make sure to share it with a couple of friends who maybe are trying to break free financially or get to the next level. Make sure to follow the show if this is your first time. Say hi to me on social media at Lewis Howes and leave us a review of what you enjoyed most about this episode over on Apple or Spotify. Again, I'm so excited about this.
I hope you enjoyed this episode with Chris Camillo. Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guest. We have Chris Camillo in the house. Good to see you, man. Appreciate you being here. You just shared something right before we got on here where you said it's your mission to get every human in the world to be an investor.
Yeah, investor class. Investor class. Every human.
I just saw this stat on CNBC that said just this week the Dow Jones experienced its 11th 1,000 point drop in the Dow's history and four of them happening in just the last month. And also I saw on Twitter this week that the Great Depression has been trending. And for that... Should people with all of the fear or the anxiety or the stress around the stock market, tariffs, the economy, another depression, whatever might be happening, should people be investing now or should they be waiting until later when it feels more safe?
Well, that's all noise. It's always all noise. Okay. Until it's not. And when it becomes something other than noise, we have way bigger problems. That's the way to think of it. Should you be investing now? You should be investing always. I would say especially now. So even when it's scary or uncertain or it's fluctuating so much. Yeah. When it gets scary and it starts to fluctuate and you start to hear, see people Googling the great depression. This is when you make all your money, right? So this is a gift. I've been around a long time. I still feel like a kid investing, yet I can talk about the 87 crash and how I felt during the 87 crash. I was young then.
Why Should You Invest During Market Volatility and Economic Uncertainty?
But I remember it vividly in our, I'll never forget how quickly we came back from it. And, you know, same thing with, I was like deep, deep in the dot-com bubble crash. Like that was when I was coming out of college in the workforce, investing for myself aggressively and, And it was like my entire world. And that really was scary. That was like super scary.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who Are the Hosts and What is This Episode About?
0:00–3:46
2
Why Should You Invest During Market Volatility and Economic Uncertainty?
3:46–8:51
3
What Are the Risks and Realities of Starting Your Own Business Versus Investing?
8:51–17:34
4
How Can Ordinary People Leverage 'Social Arbitrage' Investing?
17:34–19:26
5
Why Is Now the Best Time for Retail Investors to Beat Wall Street?
19:26–26:50
6
How Should New Investors Manage Risk and Build Their Portfolio?
26:50–34:26
7
When Will You Make More Money From Investing Than Your Job?
34:26–38:14
8
Why Is Starting a Business the Wrong Path to Financial Freedom for Most People?
38:14–51:49
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