I’ve tried a lot of ways to make money.

As a kid, I sold second-hand pens. I did gardening, babysitting, and mowing lawns. I worked minimum-wage jobs, dropped out of school, went pine planting, and stacked jobs while broke at uni. I joined a pyramid scheme (without realising), lost money in forex, almost joined another one — and eventually became self-employed.

In this episode, I walk through every way I’ve tried to make money, in chronological order, and share the real lessons each stage taught me — about work, systems, leverage, risk, investing, and why effort alone doesn’t always lead to security.

We talk about:

• what minimum-wage jobs actually teach you about money
• why “work harder” advice often misses the point
• how pyramid schemes and get-rich-quick ideas really hook peopl ...