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Manish Singh is a global investor and meditation practitioner who manages family capital across India, North America, and Western Europe while calling himself a "happy monk" and writing the blog "Mind of Manish."

3:00 - Manish's nomadic childhood across diverse Indian regions, attending 7 schools in 12 years, experiencing everything from villages without electricity to remote jungles

6:00 - How traveling from childhood taught him that "travelers belong to humanity" - seeing universal human desires across cultures

10:00 - Merchant Navy journey starting at 19, sailing globally for 6 months at a time, visiting 50+ countries across all major oceans and regions

15:00 - Metaphysical lessons from the sea: "If you love sea, sea loves you back" - respecting forces bigger than yourself

19:00 - Investment journey beginning at 16 with local magazine writing, earning $10 per article about Indian businesses

22:00 - First major break: friend's father trusted him with capital after testing his business knowledge, leading to word-of-mouth client growth

29:00 - Meditation path inspired by Buddha and Kabir, questioning why wealthy people aren't happy, defining success as happiness

42:00 - Why he continues investing: "If I manage their money and they come to my home... how do I tell them I'll not be managing your money?"

47:00 - Holding investments: "Action is enemy of investor" - partner showed if he'd been kidnapped in 2016, he'd have made more money

55:00 - Advice to 17-year-olds: "Believe in yourself, be cheerful, be honest" - society is "perfectly messy"

60:00 - Defining success as happiness: asks family annually "was I a happy person this year?"

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[Join our community at my Substack where we continue these conversations with deeper dives into the biggest lessons from each episode, plus my regular essays and behind-the-scenes thoughts: https://bogumilbaranowski.substack.com/]Lawrence Yeo is a former corporate finance professional turned writer-illustrator-philosopher who left investment banking to pursue creative storytelling full-time, creating the blog "More to That" and publishing a book, "The Inner Compass," exploring the intersection of self-understanding, money mindset, and authentic living.

This is his very first podcast interview discussing the new book!

3:00 - Lawrence shares his immigrant family's journey from middle-class comfort to poverty, revealing how parental presence created resilience despite financial hardship

6:00 - "Even though we were poor, I didn't feel poor" - the crucial distinction between circumstances and mindset in childhood poverty

9:00 - Career strategy: Using investment banking as a means to creative freedom, not an end goal - the importance of functional versus status-driven success

12:00 - The world's expectations layer onto our natural contentment, creating mental suffering amid physical comfort - a modern affliction

15:00 - Social referencing from infancy to adulthood: How we unconsciously look outward for safety cues instead of cultivating internal compass

18:00 - Distinguishing between knowledge (taught information) and understanding (gained through experience) - wisdom requires living it yourself

21:00 - Religious texts as compounded knowledge parallel: Our oldest personal stories shape us most through conditioning

24:00 - External success vs. inner turmoil: The asymmetry of attention - 0.1% validation moments vs. 99.9% daily reality

27:00 - Choosing your playing field: Why Lawrence quit music after realizing he didn't want to become like successful musicians in that space

30:00 - The invisible wealth test: Would you climb the mountain if you couldn't tell anyone you reached the top?

33:00 - Fork in the road framework: How repetition changes our relationship with certainty vs. curiosity over time

36:00 - Intuition as the gap between rationality's limits and life's biggest decisions (where you live, what you work on, who you're with)

39:00 - Inner compass metaphor: True North (intuition) held steady by the magnet of self-understanding against winds of conditioning

42:00 - Mastery vs. status: Committing to improvement for its own sake while accepting external inspiration from people whose character you admire

45:00 - The 100-hour blog post test: How Lawrence stress-tested his writing passion by removing all external validation

48:00 - Life as single-player game with multiplayer meaning.

51:00 - The paradox of meaningful relationships.

54:00 - Envy's anatomy.

60:00 - Success redefined.

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Jamie Yuenger is the founder and CEO of StoryKeep, a pioneering company that helps affluent families preserve their legacies through documentary filmmaking and storytelling, transforming how multi-generational wealthy families connect with their heritage and values.

EPISODE NOTES

3:00 - Jamie's childhood revelation: Learning at age 9 that her father wasn't her biological dad, creating a lifelong fascination with family identity and secrets

6:00 - The basement moment: Meeting her biological grandmother at 18 and seeing ancestral artifacts from Scandinavia, sparking her understanding of generational connection

9:00 - Career pivot: From WNYC producer to family storytelling after being hired to interview a friend's father-in-law, discovering her life's calling

12:00 - Wealthy family education: Reading "Strangers in Paradise" and attending conferences to understand multi-generational family dynamics

15:00 - The real work: Stories as emotional infrastructure for family resilience, not just nostalgia or keepsakes

18:00 - Japanese internment example: How families initially resist difficult stories but ultimately embrace them as cornerstones of resilience

21:00 - Immigration's universal impact: Personal experience moving to Netherlands illuminating the hero's journey embedded in client stories

24:00 - Beyond founder stories: Importance of documenting multiple generations, especially women's contributions often left out

27:00 - Discovery process: 4-6 week phase determining real goals before production begins

30:00 - The screening moment: 80+ family members in a real theater experiencing their story together

35:00 - 100-year perspective: How one family dinner can contain living memory spanning centuries

38:00 - Personal prejudice confrontation: Overcoming working-class assumptions about wealthy people through actual relationships

45:00 - Trust building: The power of listening well and holding space rather than talking

50:00 - Global families: Using media to connect dispersed families across continents

55:00 - Legacy as ambassador: Etymology reveals legacy originally meant envoy to the future

59:00 - Success redefined: Focusing on a good life rather than traditional success metrics

Podcast Program – Disclosure Statement

Blue Infinitas Capital, LLC is a registered investment adviser and the opinions expressed by the Firm’s employees and podcast guests on this show are their own and do not reflect the opinions of Blue Infinitas Capital, LLC. All statements and opinions expressed are based upon information considered reliable although it should not be relied upon as such. Any statements or opinions are subject to change without notice.

Information presented is for educational purposes only and does not intend to make an offer or solicitation for the sale or purchase of any specific securities, investments, or investment strategies. Investments involve risk and unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed.

Information expressed does not take into account your specific situation or objectives, and is not intended as recommendations appropriate for any individual. Listeners are encouraged to seek advice from a qualified tax, legal, or investment adviser to determine whether any information presented may be suitable for their specific situation. Past performance is not indicative of future performance.