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Introducing The American Capitalist Show with Rob Luna- Preview · The American Capitalist Show

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  SPEAKER_00: record inflation and the cost of living are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to paying for basic necessities americans are more pessimistic on the stock market than at any time since 2023
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  SPEAKER_01: okay so what would you do what would rob luna invest in right now
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  SPEAKER_00: rob luna joins us now rob good to see you rob luna rob luna rob luna rob luna thank you for joining the program
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  SPEAKER_02: i used to say i grew up poor like regular poor Now that I've got a son and a daughter and I look back at it as an adult, I realize it was actually a lot worse than that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was born in New Jersey in 1974.
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  SPEAKER_02: My dad left when I was about three or four years old.
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  SPEAKER_02: My mom was super strung out on drugs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right before my 10th birthday, my mom moved me out to Los Angeles.
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  SPEAKER_02: She located my dad.
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  SPEAKER_02: She disappeared after a few months.
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  SPEAKER_02: I never talked to her again for about another eight years.
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  SPEAKER_02: My dad at the time, though, had mental issues, significant financial issues.
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  SPEAKER_02: He was living in a city called Englewood, California.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was heavy gang violence, drive-by shootings.
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  SPEAKER_02: I saw friends get killed, stabbed.
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  SPEAKER_02: This was kind of the day-to-day living at that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the state of California, the largest number of gangs that we have are Hispanic gangs.
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  SPEAKER_02: I got caught up in a lot of that to try to survive.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was one time where I was actually driving and a bullet went through my back window and then feeling heat go past my ear and out the front window.
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  SPEAKER_02: Shortly after I turned 17, I was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
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  SPEAKER_02: I had nothing to do with it, but at the time, you don't rat.
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  SPEAKER_02: You don't tell who did it, because if you do, you're going to get killed.
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  SPEAKER_02: So you'd rather just take the consequences.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I was quite honestly prepared to spend the rest of my life in jail.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thankfully, I had a public defender who was able to look at the case.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was no evidence, and he was able to get me out on a misdemeanor.
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  SPEAKER_02: I
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  SPEAKER_01: doubt
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  SPEAKER_02: if any of them I think we should dismiss him.
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  SPEAKER_02: When I was released, I got back into high school, and I had a high school wrestling coach.
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  SPEAKER_02: He was able to arrange in my senior year a scholarship opportunity to go out to Arizona to a junior college and wrestle.
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  SPEAKER_02: That opened the door for me to education, which literally saved my life.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I got out of the streets, went to the Ivy League.
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  SPEAKER_02: I got three different degrees from two different countries.
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  SPEAKER_02: I started my own business when I was 27.
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  SPEAKER_02: I had to wash cars on the weekend just to be able to pay my bills, but eventually I got it.
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  SPEAKER_02: The business built to almost a billion dollars.
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  SPEAKER_02: I sold that company to a publicly traded company that I helped list on the New York Stock Exchange.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was then able to build two additional businesses valued at over eight figures.
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  SPEAKER_02: I became one of the top private wealth and business advisors in the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: Looking back, I really shouldn't be here, but by the grace of God, I am.
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  SPEAKER_02: This show is about giving you the blueprint.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's about faith, education, discipline.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's about turning your trauma into tools, your struggle into strength.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'll be sitting down with the best in the world, athletes, celebrities, investors, to peel back the layers of who they were before all that success, because that's what it's really going to take.
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  SPEAKER_02: If you came from nothing, if you've been counted out, if you made some mistakes, if you're trying to change the game for you and your family, this show is for you.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let's get to work.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is The American Capitalist.