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He Left Indiana With $50—Then Built a Life Around Risk, Reinvention & the Impossible | Frank McKinney

What would you do if you left home with a $50 bill, a one-way ticket, and no clear idea of what your future would become?

Frank McKinney did exactly that.

After being asked to leave four high schools, leaving his final high school with a 1.8 GPA, and spending time in juvenile detention, Frank left Indiana for Florida at 18 with $50 and a one-way ticket.

What followed was a life built around taking risks, testing limits, creativity, business, writing, philanthropy, and endurance.

In this episode of Thought Atlas, Frank explains why he believes you sometimes have to “kill the person you were…

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