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What happens when you grow up alongside a billion-dollar company, lose yourself chasing money, drugs, and approval, and have to rebuild your life from scratch? That’s what happened to Alex Peycoff.
Here’s what we talk about:
- Why growing up in a soon to be billionaire status family taught Alex the wrong lessons about value and self-worth.
- How wild drug-fueled nights and empty relationships left him feeling more isolated than ever despite immense wealth.
- The life-altering moment with his daughter that redefined his understanding of success, money, and emotional presence.
- How Alex rebooted his life, built "emotional wealth," and developed a purpose beyond material success.
- Why he keeps all his money in real estate and avoids markets and crypto.
- Alex’s personal definition of emotional debt and how clearing it created the biggest transformation of his life.
- His current net worth ("north of a couple hundred million dollars") and how he manages it differently now.
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Chapters:
- Introduction to Alex Payoff's Story (00:00)
- Early Life and Family Background (01:38)
- Struggles with Wealth and Identity (04:25)
- The Wild Years: Drugs and Excess (06:17)
- Turning Point: Realizations and Reflections (13:26)
- Embracing Emotional Authenticity (19:12)
- Redefining Success and Happiness (19:34)
- Financial Freedom and Personal Crisis (20:08)
- The Car Obsession (21:48)
- Emotional Wealth vs. Emotional Debt (23:49)
- The Value of Real Estate Investments (32:20)
- Building Emotional Wealth (35:08)
- Join the Hampton Community (36:20)
- Podcast Production by Lower Street (37:05)
This podcast is a ridiculous concept: high-net-worth people reveal their personal finances.
Inspired by real conversations happening in the Hampton community. Check out Hampton: https://www.joinhampton.com/
Your Host: Harry Morton
- Founder of Lower Street, a podcast production company helping brands launch and grow top-tier podcasts.
- Co-parents a cow named Eliza.
What is Moneywise?
This is Moneywise, a podcast where hosts Sam Parr and Harry Morton are joined by high-net-worth guests to explore exclusive insights into personal finance and lifestyle tailored for other high-net-worth people, or those on their way. They'll get radically transparent about the numbers, revealing things like their burn rates, portfolios, and spending habits. This podcast was made for the Hampton community, a private, highly-vetted, peer membership community for founders and CEOs of fast-growing, tech-enabled startups. Check it out at https://joinhampton.com/.