Becoming an Investor - Find Fat Fish’s Codcast
Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣
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Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #8: Becoming An Investor (Part 8)
06/24/2025
Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #8: Becoming An Investor (Part 8)
Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣 —————————————————————————————— *In this episode, Cole & Jacob deep dive...* 00:00 - Why Companies' Information Is Better Than The News 3:29 - What You Can Learn From Successful People 6:24 - Ways To Reframe Negative Perception And Emotion 10:18 - Where To Find Companies To Invest In 15:43 - How Cole's Nintendo Addiction Informed His First Investment 19:17 - The Four Key Points From Cole's Dad's Cruise Ship Lectures 23:52 - Cole's Dad's Mic Drop 25:28 - Ways To Find Faith In The Future Of A Company 29:15 - How Company Leaders Can Drive Success 35:03 - Cole's Advice For Those Seeking Pattern Recognition In Investing 38:58 - Why EQ Is More Important Than IQ For Investing 43:45 - Can Everyone Pick Stocks Well? 51:35 - Why Concentrating Your Investments Is Important For Growth & Where To Focus 57:15 - Why Focus Investing In One Company Is Too Concentrated FIN 🎭 —————————————————————————————— *Find Fat Fish's Mission: "Respect To The Man In The Ice Cream Van"* 🫡🍦 We believe that 80% of the money (or more) will always belong to 20% of the people (or less), but that this should be 20 *percent* of the people, not twenty people. So we are here to crush preventable stupidity & help elevate the standard of amateur investing, one Finatic at a time: "I am smart enough to find a pick!" "I work because I want to, not because I have to." "I taught my financial advisor a lot! Then fired him." "There's no way I will outlive my money." "I am *psyched* for The Next Crash." ...These are wins we want to duplicate all around the world 🌎🎣 with amateur investors who have urgency, solvency, and gender-ambiguous balls 🎲🎲 (if that's you, momentum is everything) —————————————————————————————— Created by: Cole Hauptfuhrer 🇺🇸🦸🏻♂️ Produced, Edited & Co-hosted by: Jacob Mataiti 🇳🇿👨🏽🎓 Illustrations by: Steve Wasterval 🇺🇸👨🏻🎨 —————————————————————————————— *Caveat Emptor: Latin for "Ass-Covering"* 🍑🛡️ If you can't make your own decisions—and own your own mistakes—then stay away from stocks. And no matter what: Never risk what you need. We are investing for the long-term, not gambling for the short-term. For the full fin-ancial legalese, peruse: ——————————————————————————————
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Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #7: Becoming An Investor (Part 7) Media 🎬🎞️
06/17/2025
Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #7: Becoming An Investor (Part 7) Media 🎬🎞️
Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣 —————————————————————————————— *In this episode, Cole & Jacob deep dive...* 00:00 - Ways to Understand And Evade Media Hysterics 12:51 - Perceive And Understand Hidden Diversification/Integrity In Companies 25:30 - How Things Do (And Don't) Get Easier Investing 29:30 - How The Right People Make Hard Times Easier (And How To Get Around Them) 35:00 - Ways To Mind Your Own Business 39:09 - For If The News Is Driving You Mad And You Want To Stop 44:57 - Essentials To Remember In Volatility, And Why We're Lucky To Have It FIN 🎭 —————————————————————————————— *Find Fat Fish's Mission: "Respect To The Man In The Ice Cream Van"* 🫡🍦 We believe that 80% of the money (or more) will always belong to 20% of the people (or less), but that this should be 20 *percent* of the people, not twenty people. So we are here to crush preventable stupidity & help elevate the standard of amateur investing, one Finatic at a time: "I am smart enough to find a pick!" "I work because I want to, not because I have to." "I taught my financial advisor a lot! Then fired him." "There's no way I will outlive my money." "I am *psyched* for The Next Crash." ...These are wins we want to duplicate all around the world 🌎🎣 with amateur investors who have urgency, solvency, and gender-ambiguous balls 🎲🎲 (if that's you, momentum is everything) —————————————————————————————— Created by: Cole Hauptfuhrer 🇺🇸🦸🏻♂️ Produced, Edited & Co-hosted by: Jacob Mataiti 🇳🇿👨🏽🎓 Illustrations by: Steve Wasterval 🇺🇸👨🏻🎨 —————————————————————————————— *Caveat Emptor: Latin for "Ass-Covering"* 🍑🛡️ If you can't make your own decisions—and own your own mistakes—then stay away from stocks. And no matter what: Never risk what you need. We are investing for the long-term, not gambling for the short-term. For the full fin-ancial legalese, peruse:
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Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #6: Becoming An Investor (Part 6) | Focus 🎧🔎🧘🔍🎧
06/09/2025
Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #6: Becoming An Investor (Part 6) | Focus 🎧🔎🧘🔍🎧
Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣 —————————————————————————————— *In this episode, Cole & Jacob deep dive...* 00:00 - Why Focus Investing is NOT gambling 5:31 - Is Day Trading Gambling? 12:00 - Cole's Experience With Day Trading 17:48 - Why Day Trading Is Gambling For The Average Person 22:19 - Why Overnight Success Isn't Probable In Day Trading 25:00 - Why Day Traders And Gamblers Prefer Short Term Risks 29:03 - Why Day Trading Sounds More Exciting Than Investing 31:10 - How Trading And Investing Differ and Fear & Greed Impact both 33:32 - How Investing Trumps Day Trading 41:28 - Jacob's Venture Capitalist Client And How They Assess Risk 45:41 - The False Dichotomy Of Investing And Day Trading 48:08 - How Cole Has Helped People To Hold Their Investments 53:54 - How Cole's Ikea Posters Helped Centre His Investing Philosophy 55:58 - Why You Should Believe You Can Successfully Invest FIN 🎭 —————————————————————————————— *Find Fat Fish's Mission: "Respect To The Man In The Ice Cream Van"* 🫡🍦 We believe that 80% of the money (or more) will always belong to 20% of the people (or less), but that this should be 20 *percent* of the people, not twenty people. So we are here to crush preventable stupidity & help elevate the standard of amateur investing, one Finatic at a time: "I am smart enough to find a pick!" "I work because I want to, not because I have to." "I taught my financial advisor a lot! Then fired him." "There's no way I will outlive my money." "I am *psyched* for The Next Crash." ...These are wins we want to duplicate all around the world 🌎🎣 with amateur investors who have urgency, solvency, and gender-ambiguous balls 🎲🎲 (if that's you, momentum is everything) —————————————————————————————— Created by: Cole Hauptfuhrer 🇺🇸🦸🏻♂️ Produced, Edited & Co-hosted by: Jacob Mataiti 🇳🇿👨🏽🎓 Illustrations by: Steve Wasterval 🇺🇸👨🏻🎨
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Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #5: Becoming An Investor (Part 5) | Equity⚖️🎭🛡️
06/02/2025
Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #5: Becoming An Investor (Part 5) | Equity⚖️🎭🛡️
In this episode, Cole & Jacob deep dive... 00:00 — Why Wealth Inequality Is Bad and Where It’s Going 7:19 — Why Diversifying Your Investments Won’t Solve Wealth Inequality 10:31 — The Flaws of Financial Education 17:28 — Reasonable Goals for Amateur Investors 22:02 — Jacob’s Initial Understanding of Equity, and What It Means 23:48 — What to Do When You’re Confused With Financial Jargon 25:02 — The Importance of Moving to an Ownership Mindset 26:28 — A Couple Important Factors to Help People Overcome Odds 30:06 — Five More Important Factors 33:20 — Most Important Financial Jargon for Investing — #1 34:20 — Discerning the Importance of Stock Price vs. Market Cap 38:36 — Distinguishing Between Revenue and Profit 46:02 — Understanding Types of Assets and Liabilities 48:26 — The Importance of a Cash Shield 50:56 — Jacob’s Formative Win 54:16 — Distinguishing Between a Product, Company, and Stock 55:36 — Avoiding Fear in Gary Stevenson's (and Others') Content 58:56 — How to Get Equity With Equity FIN 🎭 —————————————————————————————— Welcome to Becoming An Investor (the first layer of Find Fat Fish's Codcast 🎙️🎶🐡)! Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣\ —————————————————————————————— *Find Fat Fish's Mission: "Respect To The Man In The Ice Cream Van"* 🫡🍦 We believe that 80% of the money (or more) will always belong to 20% of the people (or less), but that this should be 20 percent of the people, not twenty people. So we are here to crush preventable stupidity & help elevate the standard of amateur investing, one Finatic at a time: "I am smart enough to find a pick!" "I work because I want to, not because I have to." "I taught my financial advisor a lot! Then fired him." "There's no way I will outlive my money." "I am psyched for The Next Crash." ...These are wins we want to duplicate all around the world 🌎🎣 with amateur investors who have urgency, solvency, and gender-ambiguous balls 🎲🎲 (if that's you, momentum is everything) —————————————————————————————— Created by: Cole Hauptfuhrer 🇺🇸🦸🏻♂️ Produced, Edited & Co-hosted by: Jacob Mataiti 🇳🇿👨🏽🎓 Illustrations by: Steve Wasterval 🇺🇸👨🏻🎨 —————————————————————————————— *Caveat Emptor: Latin for "Ass-Covering"* 🍑🛡️ If you can't make your own decisions—and own your own mistakes—then stay away from stocks. And no matter what: Never risk what you need. We are investing for the long-term, not gambling for the short-term. For the full fin-ancial legalese, peruse: ——————————————————————————————
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Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #4: Becoming An Investor (Part 4) | Volatility📉📈🥱🎣
05/26/2025
Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #4: Becoming An Investor (Part 4) | Volatility📉📈🥱🎣
00:00 — Helping Jacob's Mum 3:18 — Volatility is not Risk 6:10 — Understanding Joey Public’s Misperception of Risk in Volatility 11:32 — How to Escape the Weeds of Volatility Media 16:20 — Why Volatility Headlines Are Worth Overlooking (Safely)… 21:09 — How Companies Are Vulnerable to Political Turbulence 24:58 — How to Evaluate a Company’s Hidden Diversification 27:03 — What Companies Don’t Die? 30:32 — Why Listening to Successful Investors Is Helpful 33:00 — How to Keep an Open Mind 36:59 — Cole’s Experience Helping People 44:56 — Why Avoiding Volatility Is Impossible 47:46 — What Find Fat Fish Helps People Do, With Respect to Volatility FIN 🎭 —————————————————————————————— Welcome to Becoming An Investor (the first layer of Find Fat Fish's Codcast 🎙️🎶🐡)! Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣\ ————————————————— Find Fat Fish's Mission: "Respect To The Man In The Ice Cream Van" 🫡🍦 We believe that 80% of the money (or more) will always belong to 20% of the people (or less), but that this should be 20 percent of the people, not twenty people. So we are here to crush preventable stupidity & help elevate the standard of amateur investing, one Finatic at a time: "I am smart enough to find a pick!" "I work because I want to, not because I have to." "I taught my financial advisor a lot! Then fired him." "There's no way I will outlive my money." "I am psyched for The Next Crash." ...These are wins we want to duplicate all around the world 🌎🎣 with amateur investors who have urgency, solvency, and gender-ambiguous balls 🎲🎲 (if that's you, momentum is everything) —————————————————————————————— Created by: Cole Hauptfuhrer 🇺🇸🦸🏻♂️ Produced, Edited & Co-hosted by: Jacob Mataiti 🇳🇿👨🏽🎓 Illustrations by: Steve Wasterval 🇺🇸👨🏻🎨 —————————————————————————————— Caveat Emptor: Latin for "Ass-Covering" 🍑🛡️ If you can't make your own decisions—and own your own mistakes—then stay away from stocks. And no matter what: Never risk what you need. We are investing for the long-term, not gambling for the short-term. For the full fin-ancial legalese, peruse: ——————————————————————————————
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Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #3: Becoming An Investor (Part 3) | Start Before You Study 📚☄️🥷🎣💸
05/25/2025
Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #3: Becoming An Investor (Part 3) | Start Before You Study 📚☄️🥷🎣💸
Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣 —————————————————————————————— 0:00 — What You Must Do To Launch Your Lifetime of Investing 2:50 — Where to Look for Information Around Investing and the Importance of Experience 7:00 — Why Cole Didn't Need to Read Investing Books to Start, and How Cole's Dad's Cruise Ship Lectures Helped Him Form His Own Strategy 10:50 — Why Peter Lynch's Work is Extremely Important, but Why Books are a Flawed Distribution Mechanism if the Goal is Sustained Action 15:00 — How Stock Newsletters Help But Don't Solve The Problem At Its Core 20:23 — How Cole's Opinions and Investing Strategy Differed From His Dad, And Why Personal Direction and Critical Thought are Imperative for Investors 28:30 — Cole's Post-Mortem On Becoming Over-Diversified, and How Winning Big by Concentrating Creates Unexpected Challenges 36:30 — Why Amateur Investing Is About Thinking For Yourself, and How To Fortify Your "Me, Inc." Muscle 43:30 — Investing's Hardest Actions (They're Doable) 44:36 — Defining Useful Leadership: "The Person That Offers People Power" 52:47 — How to Filter Information: "Uninformed Pessimism" vs "Uninformed Optimism" vs "Informed Pessimism" vs "Informed Optimism" 55:40 — How to Outsmart "Analysis Paralysis" (with targeted help from Tim Ferriss) 1:00:53 — How Cole Prepares for Volatility, Emotionally & Strategically 1:02:38 — Why Blaming "Wall Street" For Your Investing Problems Is Lazy 1:03:36 — Why Everyone Has The Brains To Be Successful At Investing, But Not Everyone Has The Gender-Ambiguous Balls 1:09:00 — How To Crush Your Skeptics With One Sentence: The Art of Informed Optimism 1:09:50 — An Uncomfortable Exercise That Will Help You Stop Financially Procrasturbating FIN 🎭 —————————————————————————————— Welcome to *Becoming An Investor* (the first layer of *Find Fat Fish's Codcast* 🎙️🎶🐡)! Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣 ————————————————— *Find Fat Fish's Mission: "Respect To The Man In The Ice Cream Van"* 🫡🍦 We believe that 80% of the money (or more) will always belong to 20% of the people (or less), but that this should be 20 percent of the people, not twenty people. So we are here to crush preventable stupidity & help elevate the standard of amateur investing, one Finatic at a time: "I am smart enough to find a pick!" "I work because I want to, not because I have to." "I taught my financial advisor a lot! Then fired him." "There's no way I will outlive my money." "I am psyched for The Next Crash." ...These are wins we want to duplicate all around the world 🌎🎣 with amateur investors who have urgency, solvency, and gender-ambiguous balls 🎲🎲 (if that's you, momentum is everything) —————————————————————————————— Created by: Cole Hauptfuhrer 🇺🇸🦸🏻♂️ Produced, Edited & Co-hosted by: Jacob Mataiti 🇳🇿👨🏽🎓 Illustrations by: Steve Wasterval 🇺🇸👨🏻🎨 —————————————————————————————— *Caveat Emptor: Latin for "Ass-Covering"* 🍑🛡️ If you can't make your own decisions—and own your own mistakes—then stay away from stocks. And no matter what: Never risk what you need. We are investing for the long-term, not gambling for the short-term. For the full fin-ancial legalese, peruse: https://findfatfish.com/caveat-emptor ——————————————————————————————
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Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #2: Becoming An Investor (Part 2) | "Investing vs Kamikazeing" 💸💥🧨
05/12/2025
Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #2: Becoming An Investor (Part 2) | "Investing vs Kamikazeing" 💸💥🧨
Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣 ————————————————— *In this episode, Cole & Jacob deep dive...* “Investing vs. Kamikaze-ing” 💸💥🧨 (Investing vs. Instant Gratification) Understanding the Impact of Your Choices — Math-Wise 😱 How to Deal With the Terror of Math 😰 (And Why It’s Important for Life) Investing vs. Getting a Mortgage (“Death Pledge”) — Smart Debt vs. Bad Debt “Bubbles” 🫧 and How They Really Work — Hysteria to Euphoria “Joey Public” Mob Mentality, Bubbles & Skin in the Game Million-Dollar Homes 🏡 vs. Investing in Companies🏢 Property Oligarchs and How They Gentrify Neighborhoods The Best Passively Growing Asset…📈 Why Isn’t Investing More Popular? Investing Wins, Haters & How Hating Gets You Nowhere Escaping Economic Slavery ⛓️💥 — Why Investing Plays a Disproportionate Role First Steps If You’re Feeling Trapped What’s Stopping You From Starting Investing? A Challenge: What’s Your Purpose? A Message for Procrastinators — And How Find Fat Fish Helps People FIN 🎭 —————————————————————————————— *Find Fat Fish's Mission: "Respect To The Man In The Ice Cream Van"* 🫡🍦 We believe that 80% of the money (or more) will always belong to 20% of the people (or less), but that this should be 20 percent of the people, not twenty people. So we are here to crush preventable stupidity & help elevate the standard of amateur investing, one Finatic at a time: "I am smart enough to find a pick!" "I work because I want to, not because I have to." "I taught my financial advisor a lot! Then fired him." "There's no way I will outlive my money." "I am psyched for The Next Crash." ...These are wins we want to duplicate all around the world 🌎🎣 with amateur investors who have urgency, solvency, and gender-ambiguous balls 🎲🎲 (if that's you, momentum is everything) —————————————————————————————— Created by: Cole Hauptfuhrer 🇺🇸🦸🏻♂️ Produced, Edited & Co-hosted by: Jacob Mataiti 🇳🇿👨🏽🎓Illustrations by: Steve Wasterval 🇺🇸👨🏻🎨 —————————————————————————————— *Caveat Emptor: Latin for "Ass-Covering"* 🍑🛡️ If you can't make your own decisions—and own your own mistakes—then stay away from stocks. And no matter what: Never risk what you need. We are investing for the long-term, not gambling for the short-term. For the full fin-ancial legalese, peruse: https://findfatfish.com/caveat-emptor ——————————————————————————————
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Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #1: Becoming An Investor (Part 1) | "Strategically-Placed Trauma" ♟️🏈🚢📈
05/05/2025
Find Fat Fish’s Codcast #1: Becoming An Investor (Part 1) | "Strategically-Placed Trauma" ♟️🏈🚢📈
Cole (a multi-decade veteran of stock picking & investing) helps Jacob (who runs a barbershop & fight club💈🥊) launch a successful lifetime of investing, as Cole's father did for him🚢🎣 —————————————————————————————— In this episode, Cole & Jacob deep dive... Wealth Creation vs Optionality Creation American🇺🇸 vs Australian🇦🇺 vs New Zealand🇳🇿 Worldviews On Investing How Cole Learnt Investing In 1 Week On A Cruise Ship The Artistic & Entrepreneurial Benefits Of "Strategically-Placed Trauma" Why It's Easier To Teach Competitive Investing Than Competitive Chess Aggressive Investing (Concentration) vs Defensive Investing (Diversification) What Amateur Investors Should Learn From "The Wolf Of Wall Street"🐺💩 How To Know If You Are Investing or Gambling "Why should people trust 'The Stock Market?'" Find Fat Fish's Proudest Outcomes (so far) Pursuing Equality Of Opportunity Worldwide, Frighteningly 🌎🎣 How to elevate Yourself, Your Family & Your Community —————————————————————————————— Find Fat Fish's Mission: "Respect To The Man In The Ice Cream Van" 🫡🍦 We believe that 80% of the money (or more) will always belong to 20% of the people (or less), but that this should be 20 percent of the people, not twenty people. So we are here to crush preventable stupidity & help elevate the standard of amateur investing, one Finatic at a time: "I am smart enough to find a pick!" "I work because I want to, not because I have to." "I taught my financial advisor a lot! Then fired him." "There's no way I will outlive my money." "I am *psyched* for The Next Crash." ...These are wins we want to duplicate all around the world 🌎🎣 with amateur investors who have urgency, solvency, and gender-ambiguous balls 🎲🎲 (if that's you, momentum is everything: ) —————————————————————————————— Created by: Cole Hauptfuhrer 🇺🇸🦸🏻♂️ Produced, Edited & Co-hosted by: Jacob Mataiti 🇳🇿👨🏽🎓 Illustrations by: Steve Wasterval 🇺🇸👨🏻🎨 —————————————————————————————— Caveat Emptor: Latin for "Ass-Covering" 🍑🛡️ If you can't make your own decisions—and own your own mistakes—then stay away from stocks. And no matter what: Never risk what you need. We are investing for the long-term, not gambling for the short-term. For the full fin-ancial legalese, peruse:
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