{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Moneywise","title":"He Made $400k/Month Before 30... Then Realized It Meant Nothing","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2076,"description":"MoneyWise is a Hampton podcast. Hampton is a private, vetted community for founders doing $3M or more in revenue. Apply at https://www.joinhampton.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=yt051126.\nFrom Minecraft maps to $400k months — but the money isn't the story.\n\nNathan May grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Ohio. His mom made $32,000 a year. He never left the state until he was 18. At 15, he was selling custom Minecraft maps to famous YouTubers and making his first $100K. He went to Wharton, joined BCG, quit, and built one of the fastest-growing newsletter agencies in the country before turning 30.\nBut the week he hit his first million dollars, his mom died. And he felt nothing.\nIn this episode, Nathan gets brutally honest about what money actually gave him — and what it didn't. We go deep on the community he's built in New York with a group of founders sharing an office, a monthly revenue leaderboard, and the kind of real talk that doesn't happen anywhere else. He calls it the Media Mafia. He says it's changed his life more than any dollar amount ever has.\nWe also get into:\nGrowing up in poverty and never leaving Ohio until 18\nHow a Minecraft addiction became his first real business\nLeaving a six-figure BCG career to bet on himself\nBuilding a $1M ARR agency in under a year with 1,000 newsletter subscribers\nHis actual net worth, his $10M target, and why he keeps almost no cash\nWhy he thinks the wealthiest people he knows are often the least happy\nTimestamps\n00:00 - Cold open\n00:58 - Introducing Nathan May\n01:23 - Small talk / how Nathan starts his day\n02:32 - The agency, the numbers, how life has changed\n03:24 - Growing up poor in Ohio — never left the state until 18\n05:35 - He originally wanted to be an actor\n06:04 - The Minecraft business: how a video game addiction made him $100K at 15\n09:05 - Wharton, Wall Street culture shock, and the path to BCG\n10:36 - What BCG actually changed about his life\n12:01 - Building the agency:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vCvB-0dtzg339Iof9Uhri-E5Cu1YvE_goNcKch75CeI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZTZj/OWRiMTI3NjI1YWUy/MWY4ZWJkOTU2YzFl/NzE0Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}