Episode notes
Cory McCray remembers when legally earning $12 an hour was the start of something big for him. But he had no idea that would lead to overseeing $60 billion.
Senator McCray, as I like to call him, became a Maryland state legislator in 2015 and a member of the state senate’s powerful Budget and Taxation Committee in 2019.
Most people, he says, did not know him when he was in juvenile detention and can’t imagine that version of his life. Becoming a trainee electrician was the start of what his more recent friends and colleagues see today.
He titled his new book “The Apprenticeship that Saved My Life,” and he means that literally.
Episode Guide
01:34 Cory's money origin story
03:19 "I had a mom who never gave up on her son." From juvenile detention to apprenticeship.
04:26 Building wealth by following othe ...
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