Enlighten Millionaire Podcast 1: Meet Mark Strome

Enlighten Millionaire Podcast

Meet Mark Strome on the Enlighten Millionaire Podcast, he is an Entrepreneur and Chairman of Strome Investment Management. He has a wildly successful track record of investments and an incredible journey.
Listen in on Mark's journey and his pivotal moments, how it all started for him growing up on a farm with only $600 to achieve the American dream with hard work and resiliency. Mark shares how he grew his retirement account from 8k to 80M. Tune in to hear what money meant to him and how his perspective on money changed when he almost died twice as he shares his life lessons.
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Episode Transcript

Enlighten Millionaire Podcast 00:00

I remember you sharing with me how you took your retirement account, and you invested like 50 or 100,000. And you took it to like 80 90 million. What would you say is a key to that success?

Mark Strome 00:13

Call it intuition or whatever. But when the stars line up, I put my bed down again, I don't put 10% of my mind to it. I put all my money into it. So like for Zion all my money in Bitcoin

Enlighten Millionaire Podcast 00:26

Welcome to the enlighten Millionaire podcast with special guest, Mark Strong. Welcome to the flow show Mark, I flow. So before we get into it, mark is an amazing American entrepreneur. He's the founder chairman of Strome Investment Management, along with incredible and abundant track record of investments and philanthropists. But I like to start all the way back. Where did it all start for you, Mark?

Mark Strome 00:55

So I think my story is probably started when my grandfather went out to shoot a chicken hawk, tripped over a wire and blew up his right arm right at the shoulder. And how that affected me was, he had one son and Eugene, my father. And he expected Eugene to do everything for him because he only had one arm. So my father was tasked with working probably 18 hours a day since he was a young child on the chicken farm. And he got conditioned to basically be a complete workaholic. And lucky for me, my father, another entrepreneur decided to leave when he was 18 and start another entrepreneurial venture, which was a small dairy farm. And he was equipped with this incredible workaholic capability. And you know, in those days when you had a small farmer, basically everything so he really could do everything, you know, he could do. He built his barns, he did his plumbing, his electricity, he fixed his tractors, he put he did everything. Fortunately, or, unfortunately, for me, he only had one son, me. And you know, he only thing you really knew was to, you know, work constantly, all day long. He did teach me how to work smart, by not wasting time, but I was really had to sort of fit in his shoes of being this constant workaholic. So he was probably not consciously, but just an amazing teacher, because he did several things, you know, I got the workaholic, which is no success comes without hard work.
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